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=Packard, Winthrop.=^{[8]} Wild pastures. **$1.20. Small.
9–16426.
A New England pasture is the haunt in which the author gains the nature impressions set down in these eleven essays. In the first he watches the “June morning miracle” of the coming of the dawn; then come the following chapters: Stalking the wild grape; The frog rendezvous; A butterfly chase; Down stream; Brook magic; In the Ponkapoag bogs; Some butterfly friends; The resting time of the birds; The pond at low tide; How the rain came.
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“Worthy to stand beside the work of Burroughs, Torrey and Dallas Lore Sharp.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 47. O. ’09. ✠
“The book is satisfactory for not attempting too much, and accomplishing what it attempts delicately and well.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 76. Ag. 1, ’09. 230w.
“His eyes see much, as do the eyes of all who love nature; and he describes well.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 372. Ag. 12, ’09. 60w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.=^{[11]} John Marvel, assistant. †$1.50. Scribner.
9–28122.
“Mr. Thomas Nelson Page is not afraid of the melodrama, and he not only introduces this element generously but uses it effectively. He tells the story of a young Southerner who wastes his time and his early fortune at the university, speculates, gets heavily in debt, is jilted, goes west, opens an office as a lawyer in a rushing manufacturing town, promptly begins a new romance of the heart, and gets into serious complications with the politics and commercial element of the town. There is a strike involving various exciting incidents and a happy ‘dénouement.’ The story is told with spirit, and is the best that Mr. Page has written of late years.”—Outlook.
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“Mr. Page rather subordinates the story of the discussion of corrupt civic conditions, and some of the characters are types, not persons.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 134. D. ’09. ✠
“A thoroughly readable novel, albeit one that exhibits several loose ends, and is rather disjointed in construction.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 386. N. 16, ’09. 300w.
“Except that the unity of the story is somewhat destroyed by constant shifting from the first to the third person, the novel commands our attention and approval.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 966. N. 27, ’09. 160w.
“This story is written in that florid and ingenious style which yet survives in Dixie. The multiplicity of minor characters and scenes gives an effect—kaleidoscopic, perhaps, rather than panoramic, but certainly a vivid presentation—of various aspects, social, moral, and political, of current American life.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 541. D. 2, ’09. 350w.
“An interesting and straightforward story. A good deal of Mr. Page’s material is somewhat unconvincing and the story frequently has a tinge of conventional melodrama, but the scenes of the strike are effectively presented, and the novel has plenty of action to hold the reader’s interest.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 636. O. 23, ’09. 420w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 650. O. 23, ’09. 70w. + =Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 120w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Robert E. Lee: the Southerner. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–30716.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Interesting as a eulogistic study from the southern viewpoint, but almost negligible as a biography.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 47. F. ’09.
“With the best of intentions he has written a biography of General Lee that would be admirable if it might be judged by the canons of fiction.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 18. Ja. 7, ’09. 1100w.
“Mr. Page, writing with enthusiasm, writes also with spirit, and he has spared no pains to make his story what it should be. Unfortunately he has not much of the judicial temper.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 467. Mr. 20, ’09. 200w.
=Paget, Stephen.=^{[5]} Faith and works of Christian science; by the writer of “Confessio medici.” *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–10964.
The author of “Confessio medici” sets forth what he calls the fallacies of Christian science and shows that it is passing from consolidation to disintegration. The “unreality” theories which Christian scientists hold concerning matter, pain and disease he combats, often quoting and attempting to confound passages from “Science and health.” He discusses Mrs. Eddy, gives cases of healing and cases of failures to heal, and finally argues that common-sense and Christian science are incompatible.
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=Am. J. Theol.= 13: 499. Jl. ’09. 100w. =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 178. Je. ’09.
“The author is no dogmatist. This aspect of mind renders the book all the more convincing, and we feel sure that it may fill a useful place in refuting the pretensions of Christian ‘scientists.’” R. T. H.
+ =Nature.= 81: 513. O. 28, ’09. 530w. + =Outlook.= 93: 645. N. 20, ’09. 290w.
“He is not free from the besetting sin of controversialists, the sin of pressing his case too hard. His examination of the faith of Christian science might well have been softened and compressed; there is too much repetition, explanation, and exposure of the nonsense which it propounds as philosophy; it would have been more effective if the quotations had been longer and the comments shorter.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 514. N. 6, ’09. 240w.
=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.=^{[11]} Ships and sailors of old Salem: the record of a brilliant era of American achievement. *$3.50. McClurg.
9–16435.
From log books, sea journals, and other hitherto unpublished manuscripts have been gathered narratives of the first American voyages to Japan, India, the Philippines, Guam, Cape of Good Hope, Sumatra, Arabia and the South Seas. Between the years from the revolution to the war of 1812 the port of Salem was the most important seat of maritime enterprise in the new world; for here were the headquarters of a race of sailors who fostered the spirit of American commerce in its adventurous aspect. It is of these sailors and their achievements that the author writes.
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“The maritime story of Salem is an epic, and one of the most interesting in American history; for Mr. Paine’s volume is not alone a study in Salem records, it is a valuable contribution to the national history. There are few more engaging books for a winter evening around the fire than this record of ‘the brave days of old.’” G: P. Upton.
+ =Dial.= 47: 451. D. 1, ’09. 1250w.
“Mr. Paine has extracted enough chronicles, narratives, descriptions, and statistics to fill a large volume, every page of which is alive with interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 718. N. 20, ’09. 830w.
“The book is a worthy memorial of bold and hardy seamen and of a great foreign commerce no longer carried on in American bottoms.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 600. N. 13, ’09. 140w.
=Palgrave, Francis Turner.=^{[9]} Golden treasury, selected from the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language and arranged with notes. $1.50. Macmillan.
A new one volume edition of Professor Palgrave’s “Golden treasury.” For the convenience of readers it is published in handy pocket form.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 147. D. ’09.
“The notes, a little cloying in style, display a good deal of knowledge and taste which was uncommon in former years, and now—partly, perhaps, through Palgrave’s efforts—seem like the endorsement of recognized reputations.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 69. Jl. 17. 160w.
“It is the best selection of lyrics that we have despite the fact that the editor’s judgment did not in the second series display the unerring quality that was exemplified in the first.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 290. O. 16, ’09. 50w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 542. O. 2, ’09. 50w. + =Nation.= 89: 282. S. 23, ’09. 100w.
=Palmer, Abram Smythe.= Ideal of a gentleman; or, A mirror for gentle folks; a portrayal in literature from the earliest times. **$1.50. Dutton.
“As the editor says, his anthology has become something like a ‘cyclopaedia of gentlehood,’ ranging over ‘a field of flowers so wide and extensive that it includes at one extreme the Egyptian moralist, Ptah-hotep, B. C. 3300, and at the other Mr. William Watson.’ The book is divided into sections devoted to various aspects of the subject—such as ‘The herald’s gentleman,’ ‘Wealth and work,’ ‘Manners and good breeding,’ ‘The poet’s gentleman,’—and each receives abundant illustration in the extracts which Dr. Palmer has gathered together.”—Spec.
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“No better book of extracts can be imagined on the subject, and even the most miscellaneous of readers can hardly fail to find amongst its sources something new to him.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 818. D. 26. 200w.
“It is a sort of book that, while rather appalling in its entirety, is very pleasant to dip into at odd moments. And if the masculine rising generation could be induced to read a little of it every day it would doubtless have a desirable effect upon their manners and characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 802. D. 26, ’08. 200w.
“It is well worth looking into, if only for the amusement which it provides.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 630. O. 24, ’08. 1300w.
=Palmer, George Herbert, and Palmer, Alice Freeman.= The teacher: essays and addresses on education. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–32424.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 19. Ja. ’09.
“The entire volume has a breadth of view and of interest and a charm of style such as few books on education possess.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 22. Ja. 1, ’09. 350w. + =Lit. D.= 37: 986. D. 26, ’08. 50w.
“If Mr. Palmer’s ideas, however true and helpful, are not remarkably original or profound, they borrow some distinction from the medium through which they are put forth, a style of limpidity, suavity, and familiar elegance.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 630. D. 24, ’08. 650w.
“Illuminating volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 381. F. 20, ’09. 280w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 511. Ap. ’09. 60w.
“After having for years sent students and teachers to various magazine and pamphlet sources to work upon articles by Professor Palmer, the substance of which no one else has afforded us, we now have brought together those of his educational writings ‘which may have some claim to permanent interest.’” F. A. Manny.
+ =School R.= 17: 278. Ap. ’09. 550w.
=Parabellum, pseud.= Banzai! †$1.50. Baker.
9–965.
A story which grows “out of the looting of Japanese shops in San Francisco in 1907, and the voyage around the world made by the American fleet in 1908. It begins with a series of mysterious and totally unexpected attacks on Manila, on San Francisco, and other points along the Pacific coast, and ends with a great battle fought between the Japanese and American armies among the Blue mountains of Oregon.”—Bookm.
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“While somewhat crude in literary expression and lacking in unity of treatment, it has considerable dash and vividness and holds one’s attention to the close.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 55. F. ’09. ✠
“Viewed apart from its political significance it will be found an exceedingly entertaining and spirited narrative that is second to none treating of the imaginary war of the future that has appeared since the late Frank R. Stockton published ‘The great war syndicate.’ But it is not easy to look at it purely as a work of fiction.” Beverly Stark.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 599. F. ’09. 1000w.
“It lacks unity, while the introduction of a new set of characters in nearly every chapter is confusing. The bringing about of more amicable relations between the two nations will hardly be accomplished by literature of this kind.”
− =Lit. D.= 38: 729. Ap. 24, ’09. 300w.
“The translator has done his work smoothly, but without quite ridding the text of a foreign flavor.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 90. Ja. 28, ’09. 90w.
“The vision is quite vivid. So much so that even though you are not given to alarmist views on the so-called Yellow Peril, you may find yourself momentarily, at least, caught by the spell.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 81. F. 13, ’09. 1900w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.
=Parker, Edward Harper.= Ancient China simplified. *$3. Dutton.
9–8736.
The author “has simplified ancient China and pictured the important phases of its life in a most satisfactory fashion. From his book it is possible to obtain fairly clear conceptions of China’s civilization, government, social customs, literary attainments, and religious conditions as far back as 872 years before Christ, and in these days, when China is of so much importance in the commercial and political worlds, no intelligent person can feel indifferent as to the past.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 39. Ja. 9. 900w.
“We fear we have not found that the book fulfils the claim made by its title; but we gratefully acknowledge that, whatever the form of the work may leave to be desired, we have never seen collected together under one cover so much valuable information concerning the China of the past.” T. L. Bullock.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 107. Ja. ’09. 1700w.
“The present historian has unfortunately divested his story of about all the human touches which even the ancient sources contain, which is too bad.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 324. F. 11, ’09. 220w.
“Though as a whole the book will appeal only to the special student, there is much of general interest in it.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 252. Mr. 11, ’09. 420w.
“An instructive and very interesting book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 19. Ja. 9, ’09. 420w.
“The arrangement of the work is admirable, the chapters are brief, distinctly Chinese names are introduced gradually, and repetition is skillfully used as an aid to memory.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 976. D. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Parker, Eric.= Highways and byways in Surrey. (Highways and byways ser.) $2. Macmillan.
8–37734.
Personal impressions unite with guide book material to produce a volume valuable for its descriptions of natural beauties, historic interests, and special plants and animals whose habitats are in these parts.
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“Decidedly one of the best in this excellent series. Wherever you dip into Mr. Parker’s book you will find information pleasantly retailed, and we cannot discover that he misses much. He does not, however, seem to know the beautiful village of Felday.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 158. F. 6. 750w.
“There is scarcely a note in English life which is not struck by Mr. Parker in his entertaining pages.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 539. Mr. 11, ’09. 370w.
“His record has all the leisureliness and lightness of the free pedestrian. Altogether it is delightful reading of its kind.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 574. D. 10, ’08. 280w.
“The sketches make it possible to appreciate the beauty of the highways and byways in Surrey without visiting them.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 158. D. 10, ’08. 120w.
“It would be a real service if such books as this were to set out half a dozen footpath plans of such districts, where the traveller, if he do but know how, may walk for days and scarcely set his foot upon the turnpike. Both the illustrator and the author give us so much to be grateful for that one would only mention the desire for a more definite sense of county character as a counsel of perfection.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 80. Ja. 16, ’09. 1200w.
“A very charming book both to dip into and to read. The secret of that charm is largely to be found in the fact that the author has had a just understanding of the limits of his work, and, aiming neither too high nor too low, has exactly hit the mark.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 21. Ja. 2, ’09. 1400w.
=Parker, George Augustus.=^{[8]} Out of the depths. $1.25. Reid pub.
8–34599.
By a curious coincidence here is a story of the same title as a recent one by George R. Varney. The latter refuted the claims of Christian science while this novel by Mr. Parker follows a young man’s restoration to health thru Christian science treatment.
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“The story is fairly well written, but is incomparably inferior as literature and as romance to ‘Paul Anthony, Christian,’ which, in our judgment, is the best Christian science novel that has appeared. Quite beyond the author’s limitations as a writer of fiction, this volume contains elements of weakness for propaganda purposes that will make it, we think, of doubtful value.”
− + =Arena.= 41: 606. Ag. ’09. 480w.
“It is good enough as propagandism, but as fiction it is clumsy and futile in construction, uninteresting in its story, dull and stilted in style, and without merit in its depiction of character.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 128. Mr. 6, ’09. 100w.
=Parker, George F.=^{[10]} Recollections of Grover Cleveland. **$3. Century.
9–26972.
A biography of a thoroly personal character which is sympathetic and also exact. It begins with the boyhood days of Cleveland, passes in review his early struggles in Buffalo that shaped his democratic tendencies, deals with his long political service, and covers the closing days of his life at Princeton; it also includes an estimation of his place in history, and an appreciation of his achievements and character.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 123. D. ’09.
“His book is judiciously and temperately written. It does not degenerate into mere eulogy. Nevertheless, it lacks a sense of proportion and does not bring a strong light to bear upon any particular phase of Mr. Cleveland’s character.” H. T. Peck.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 391. D. ’09. 700w.
“Mr. Parker’s book is not intended as a formal biography, but it answers every purpose of a biography from the political side, and it presents the real Grover Cleveland with great skill.” C. H. Cooper.
+ =Dial.= 47: 382. N. 16, ’09. 1200w.
“This is the man whose life Mr. Parker traces, in a somewhat haphazard order at times, but lucidly and with knowledge of his subject. He is no Boswell, to ride roughshod over the sensibilities of the living.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1315. D. 9, ’09. 1050w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 686. O. 23, ’09. 200w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 1078. D. 11, ’09. 150w.
“Although thoroughly reminiscential, the book is not light and gossipy, or of a newspaper or magazine flavor, but a careful presentment of a great public character as seen by his intimates. The tone and attitude throughout is admiring, respectful, almost reverential; and possibly the book is open to criticism on the score of not being sufficiently critical.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 458. N. 11, ’09. 3200w.
“It is a revealing document which shows us a real man, idealized somewhat, but generally quite convincing, whose aims, ambitions, motives, habits of mind, mental calibre, methods of thought, moral standards, and personal life are plainly exhibited.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 605. O. 16, ’09. 1400w. + =Outlook.= 93: 805. D. 11, ’09. 1500w.
“Easily the most important volume of biography among the publications of the autumn season.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 636. N. ’09. 190w. =Spec.= 103: 797. N. 13, ’09. 380w.
=Parker, Sir Gilbert.=^{[10]} Northern lights. †$1.50. Harper.
9–24321.
Fearlessly does the author handle a series of strong situations in this his recent book of seventeen short stories. They are tales of Canadian life, and fall into two groups: the first five are reminiscent of “border days and deeds,” “of days,” the author says, “before the great railway was built which changed a waste into a fertile field of civilization”; the remaining stories “cover the period passed since the Royal Northwest mounted police and the Pullman car first startled the pioneer, and sent him into the land of the farther north or drew him into the quiet circle of civic routine and humdrum occupation.”
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“Virile and dramatic and have a decided charm; excellent for reading aloud.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 92. N. ’09. ✠
“Scarcely more than four [of the stories] show enough invention to be called successful, though the dialogue in them is vivacious and true to type.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 423. O. 9. 240w.
“The be-all and the end-all of these tales does not lie in their chronicle of suffering and tragedy and brutal impulses, but rather in the unexpected gleams of kindness and mercy and human kinship that suddenly, in almost every one of the stories, diffuses a glow of tenderness that well justifies the symbolic title of ‘Northern lights.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 281. N. ’09. 160w.
“Tales that are vigorous and strong and written in the manner the author had before his knighthood sweated so much of the pigment out of his life-colored words.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1262. D. 2, ’09. 370w.
“It seems pretty clear that Sir Gilbert has been persuaded to exhume these specimens of his early work for commercial reasons. The stories are not dull, they are as good as the ordinary specimens of their ‘genre.’”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 488. N. 18, ’09. 310w.
“Contains very little that can add to the reputation of Sir Gilbert Parker. The material is such that a very poor story teller may not quite spoil it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 607. O. 16, ’09. 300w.
“A better or stronger volume of short stories has not been published for a long time.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 317. O. 9, ’09. 160w.
“The most interesting feature of these stories, from a literary point of view, is the easy sureness and truth of their outlines. There is not a finished picture among them, but there is not a sketch that does not afford a finely finished picture.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 445. O. 9, ’09. 800w.
“A collection of stories, told with Sir Gilbert Parker’s wonted power.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 610. O. 16, ’09. 30w.
=Parker, Lottie Blair.=^{[6]} Homespun: a story of some New England folk. †$1.50. Holt.
9–14824.
With a New England village for a setting the author portrays intimately several distinct types of its inhabitants. There are two brothers between whom exists a feud over the line which divides their respective farms; there is a meek and long suffering sister who knuckles down to the abuse put upon her by the wife of one of the brothers; there is the wife herself who sends her boy, the idol of her heart, to medical college and sees him turned out a trickster; there is the patient manly fellow who achieves self-made distinction; there is the village justice who fully lives up to his calling; and there is the fine-spirited heroine besides other clearly drawn and true-to-life characters.
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“An engaging story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 56. O. ’09.
“The story is pleasantly sentimental and entertaining throughout.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 183. S. 16, ’09. 160w.
“A story which, with all its crudeness, has its engaging features.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 212. S. 2, ’09. 380w.
“It is a fine study of rustic life, full of Yankee humor. The characters are well drawn and easily recognized as products of the soil. And in the development of the plot, the author has shown skill in working out her story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“By the author of the successful plays ‘Way down East’ and ‘Under Southern skies,’ and presumably that is why it has been published, for there is no other discoverable reason apparent as you read it.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 492. Ag. 14, ’09. 300w.
=Parkin, George Robert.=^{[5]} Sir John A. Macdonald. (Makers of Canada.) Morang & co., Toronto.
8–6972.
Throws less light upon private life than upon “the dominant part that was played in the creation and building up of the young Dominion.” (Nation.) The author’s “business is with the larger issues, the wider atmosphere, in which the statesman moved who, more than any one else, embodied the spirit and purpose of the Canadian people.” (Ath.)
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“An admirable proportion is maintained in the treatment of the different periods. The manner and style of the volume are worthy of its subject.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 524. My. 1. 880w.
“Of the twenty-odd volumes so far issued in the ‘Makers of Canada’ series, this life of Macdonald stands easily among the best. Dr. Parkin has avoided many of the faults of earlier volumes, and has given us a thoroughly sane, reasonably impartial, and very readable biography of the Canadian statesman.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 447. My. 14, ’08. 1400w.
“There is, of course, in this volume much that an English reader will find it difficult to appreciate. There are some things which he will hardly understand.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: sup. 492. O. 2, ’09. 290w.
=Parkinson, Edward Kneeland.=^{[9]} Guide to the country home. *$1. Outing pub.
9–28785.
A practical discussion of such subjects relating to the country home as the choice of a location, winter planning, tools, stock and its treatment, crops, and how to plant them, the orchard, the market garden, the kitchen garden, bees, trees, lawns and shrubbery, and the harvest.
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“It gives distinctly practical advice on a great variety of important items.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 592. O. 9, ’09. 150w.
=Parmelee, Maurice.= Principles of anthropology and sociology in their relations to criminal procedure. (Citizens lib. of economics, politics, and sociology.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–22622.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“The argument is too clear and convincing to be ignored and it will make its appeal to all lawyers who have any insight whatever into the modern requirements in respect to the treatment of criminals.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 548. Ja. ’09. 180w.
“The discussion is solid, the author’s viewpoint usually sane. Unfortunately there is no index. Mr. Parmelee is to be congratulated for having covered so large a field in a manner so satisfactory.” Carl Kelsey.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 215. Ja. ’09. 580w.
“All of this manifestation of deficiency in philosophy, psychology and the fundamental principles of science is very unfortunate, because it discounts what the author says in regard to some practical problems in criminology. Among those well worthy the careful attention of those in authority are his discussions of individualization of punishment, the criminal law, and his criticism of the jury system.” F. W. Collier.
+ − =Arena.= 41: 394. Mr. ’09. 780w.
“In his suggestions for the reform of criminal procedure Mr. Parmelee has put his finger on most of the weak points of the present system. He has perhaps passed over with too slight emphasis two of its most conspicuous shortcomings, the abuse of appeals and the exaggerated part played by the lawyer in criminal trials in America.” U. G. Weatherly.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 344. D. ’08. 520w.
“This work will be particularly welcome to the student of comparative criminal procedure.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 178. Mr. ’09. 220w.
“Space does not permit of pointing to a few minor inaccuracies in Mr. Parmelee’s text. The book is certainly one of the most important contributions to the subject which has ever appeared in English, and we know of no other work which has so carefully gone over the whole field in review. It is commended to the careful attention alike of lawyer, social worker, legislator, teacher and intelligent layman.” F. M. McLean.
+ + − =Survey.= 23: 97. O. 16. ’09. 1700w.
“The volume is an exceedingly interesting and accurate summary of the results of the studies of European criminologists and of existing systems of procedure. Such works are needed.” Mason Trowbridge.
+ =Yale R.= 17: 457. F. ’09. 430w.
=Parr, Harriet (Holme Lee, pseud.).= Legends from fairyland. †$1.50. Lippincott.
W9–177.
“Contains many real, old-fashioned legends from fairyland. The history of Prince Glee and Princess Trill, the cruel persecutions of Aunt Spite, and the adventures of other dwellers in fairyland are told for children, with the accompanying necessities of moral lessons. The pictures and many decorative devices are by R. L. and H. J. Knowles, who have resorted to the unusual expedient of giving an exhaustive table of contents, assigning each tiny drawing to one or other of the two artists.”—Outlook.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 110w. =Outlook.= 91: 108. Ja. 16, ’09. 80w.
=Parrish, Randall.=^{[11]} My lady of the South: a story of the civil war. †$1.50. McClurg.
9–26140.
Although this is a war-time story the interest centers about the Southern home of old Judge Dunn with its mysterious passages and sliding fire place, while the bitter feud between two old families is the cause of much dramatic complication. There are strange murders, always done in the dark, and the terrible face of a crazed woman which appears and disappears. Thru it all runs the thread of romance until the gallant Northern officer, having shown himself both brave and honorable, wins my lady of the South.
=Parry, Sir Charles Hubert H.=^{[12]} Johann Sebastian Bach. **$3.50. Putnam.
9–30624.
“Bach’s temperament and character, his deep religious feeling, all his impulses and energies, went to the creation of music, the development of its powers of expression, the discovery of its possibilities, so far as they could be realized in his day, and in all this Sir Hubert is his biographer, indeed. Thus does he lead us to see the man as well as the musician, and his analysis of the period that prepared his coming, that called for it, is a model of exposition.”—Ind.
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“Is first of all, and most of the time, a book for musicians, to be recommended to scholarly conductors, who will find in it a rich fund of helpful suggestion. The book has also the distinction of its author’s wider culture, his wider outlook on the life of art.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1141. N. 18, ’09. 290w.
“Dr. Parry’s own researches into the history of music and musical personalities have made him pre-eminently the person to write the life story of such a great personality.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 757. D. ’09. 130w.
=Parsons, Mrs. Florence Mary (Mrs. Clement Parsons).=^{[12]} Incomparable Siddons. **$3.50. Putnam.
A work that “throws all the known traits, professional and private, of Mrs. Siddons, into bold relief, and so recreates, as it were, an extinct personality. This constitutes its salient merit and charm. It recalls the almost unanimous testimony of credible eye-witnesses to the regal beauty, the matchless grace and dignity, the melting pathos, and the majestic passion of this queen of the tragic stage.”—Nation.
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“Mrs. Clement Parsons has got together a great amount of entertaining matter relating to the English stage of a century and more ago, the histrionically gifted Kemble family, and the brightly shining light of that family, Mrs. Sarah Kemble Siddons. The lack of any recent and detailed work on her chosen subject makes her book timely and acceptable.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 512. D. 16, ’09. 250w.
“This latest work by Mrs. Parsons exhibits all the characteristics that distinguished her ‘Garrick and his circle.’ The book will not only prove a boon to the ordinary reader, but a valuable aid to the more deliberate student of theatrical affairs. It is a full and good book which no student of theatrical literature can afford to neglect.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 579. D. 9, ’09. 1050w.
“Mrs. Clement Parsons’ biography is painstaking, and, as far as we have tested it, accurate, and may be commended to those who wish to know more of the woman who ruled the English stage for thirty years.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 665. N. 27. ’09. 900w.
=Parsons, Frank.=^{[6]} Choosing a vocation. *$1. Houghton.
9–14718.
A study of the problems involved in the choice of a vocation solved in a careful, scientific way with emphasis upon one’s “aptitudes, abilities, ambitions, resources and limitations and the relations of these elements to the conditions of success in different industries.” The three general headings of the treatment are: The personal investigation; The industrial investigation; The organization and the work. The second part contains an elaborate scheme for personal record and self-analysis.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 178. Je. ’09. ✠
“To educators and others who share the responsibility of directing young persons to select a profession or trade the book will amply repay study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 90: 114. O. ’09. 350w.
“The book is well worthy the careful reading and thoughtful consideration of every man and woman who has to face the choice of workers in any field of life or upon whom devolves the duty and privilege of assisting anyone to choose a vocation.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 35. O. 14, ’09. 400w. + =Ind.= 67: 257. Jl. 29, ’09. 160w.
“It will be found useful to parents as well as to their children and indeed to all whose privilege and responsibility it is to direct the lives and prescribe the careers of the coming men and women of the country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 542. O. 2. ’09. 100w.
“A very important portion of Prof. Parsons’s book is that in which he illustrates his methods by citing sample cases. These citations are both interesting and instructive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 400. Je. 26, ’09. 500w.
=Partridge, Anthony.= The distributors. †$1.50. McClure.
8–28064.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“A strange, clever, impossible sort of story with a curiously warped sense of right and wrong.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 588. F. ’09. 410w.
“There are numerous thrills in the fantastic romance, and much sprightliness of dialogue.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 85. F. 1, ’09. 230w.
“Mr. Anthony Partridge’s story is as startling as it is dangerously suggestive. The idle rich should avoid it as offering a peculiar temptation to them in particular.”
− =Ind.= 66: 487. Mr. 4, ’09. 260w.
=Partridge, Anthony.=^{[6]} Kingdom of earth. †$1.50. Little.
9–13542.
A story of love and revolution involving an American college woman educated at Wellesley, and a European crown prince, who permitting a profligate foster brother to scamper about Paris incognito, and to be taken for himself, was hated by the ruler, his uncle, no less than by the people of the kingdom. He started a socialist campaign, placed before the people ideas of democracy, helped them to establish a republic, all unknown and unappreciated until he had very nearly lost his life at the hands of the mob.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 28. S. ’09.
“A book that will hold the attention of the class of readers who are endowed with a love of the spectacular, and do not bind their favorite author to a strict account regarding the unities or the probabilities.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 89: 824. S. ’09. 200w.
Reviewed by W: M. Payne.
=Dial.= 47: 47. Jl. 16, ’09. 270w.
“Mr. Partridge’s central idea is a novel one and he has worked it out skillfully, leading the reader on from chapter to chapter with new complications and mysteries and perils and adventures growing more and more exciting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 355. Je. 5, ’09. 380w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
=Patmore, K. A.=^{[11]} Court of Louis XIII. **$3.50. Brentano’s.
A sketch that shows the power of Richelieu as contrasted with the loutishness and degeneracy of the king. “The book is more an endeavor to give us the atmosphere and color of the time and court than a collection of facts and dates. These are by no means lacking, but it is not they that keep the reader eagerly turning the pages.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Mrs. Patmore evidently takes great interest in her subject, and has studied all the best sources with care; so that her book has freshness and an air of accurate presentment.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 353. S. 25. 1500w.
“It is a picturesque and engaging account of this reign within a reign.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14; 634. O. 23, ’09. 210w.
“We may say at once that the author of this book does not always show the discretion which the subject imperatively demands. The book, however, has great merits. No pains have been spared in making it complete; the men and women of the time are lifelike as they are made to move before us; we carry away with us a vivid picture of the time.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 464. S. 25, ’09. 400w.
=Paton, Lewis Bayles.=^{[5]} Critical and exegetical commentary on the book of Esther. (The international critical commentary.) **$2.25. Scribner.
8–30156.
“Contains—excluding the indices—306 pages, 118 of which are devoted to introductory matters, the rest to the detailed comments.... The detailed comments are sane, cautious, and complete, meeting the needs of the student who desires an adequate knowledge of the narrative of Esther.... The introductory material is discussed under five general heads. Under the first the author indicates the various positions assigned to Esther in Hebrew and Greek manuscripts, and in printed editions of the Old Testament. The text as found in different Hebrew and Greek recensions is treated at length in the succeeding section.... The remaining three sections deal with questions of higher criticism, canonicity, and the history of interpretation from the earliest times to the year 1908.”—Bib. World.
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“The commentary places within the reach of every English reader a sane, competent, and scholarly guide to the best that is known concerning the book of which it treats, and ought to find a place in the library of every student of the Bible.” G: A. Barton.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 286. Ap. ’09. 720w.
“Characterized by scholarship and sanity; it is indispensable to the close student of this biblical romance.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 438. D. ’08. 20w.
“The reader may hesitate at times to follow Professor Paton all the way, but no one who desires to understand the Book of Esther can afford to disregard this volume, for undoubtedly it is without equal in the English language, and in many respects it is superior to commentaries in other languages.” F: C. Eiselen.
+ + − =Bib. World.= 33: 131. F. ’09. 1200w.
=Paton, Lewis Bayles.=^{[9]} Recent Christian progress: studies in Christian thought and work during the last seventy-five years. *$3. Macmillan.
9–22199.
Studies prepared by professors and alumni of Hartford theological seminary in celebration of its seventy-fifth anniversary. May 24–26, 1909. They are grouped under preliminary studies, Old Testament, New Testament, church history, systematic theology, the modern churches, church work, allied agencies, home missions, and foreign missions.
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“Some of the essays are necessarily fragmentary contributions to the subjects, but the volume is valuable as indicating to the student where to look for further information, as showing drifts and as illustrating the productive scholarship of Hartford seminary.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 82. N. ’09. =Bib. World.= 34: 431. D. ’09. 60w.
“As the essays cover the whole theological and religious field there is something for all tastes, and we commend it as a comprehensive sort of encyclopedia, in which the reader can trust his informants.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 828. O. 7, ’09. 150w. + =Nation.= 89: 491. N. 18, ’09. 90w.
=Patten, Simon Nelson.=^{[6]} Product and climax. (Art of life ser.) *50c. Huebsch.
9–15869.
A little book of definite sociological interest to the settlement worker. It is a study of the laborer’s social unrest in which the lecturer finds wanting a proper balance between action and toil, resulting in the product, and reaction in enjoyment and recreation—the climax of satisfaction. The causes of unrest are analyzed and a cure is suggested which will bring about the right relation between work and play.
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“The new basis [of civilization] apart, Prof. Patten has some very valuable and striking ideas.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 462. Jl. 31, ’09. 550w. =Survey.= 22: 344. Je. 5, ’09. 500w. (Quoted paragraphs from the book.)
=Patterson, John Henry.=^{[12]} In the grip of the nyika; further adventures in British East Africa. $2. Macmillan.
9–30334.
A “plain account” of the trials and adventures that befell the author on two expeditions thru the nyika, or wilderness, in British East Africa. Alternately at the mercy of wild men and wild beasts, the author’s narrative reflects the strain put upon a mind tense with alertness. The illustrations are from the author’s own photographs.
=Patterson, Rev. M. W.=^{[12]} History of the Church of England. *$2. Longmans.
A work of moderate size whose point of view is that of a strong churchman agreeing with the leaders of the Oxford movement that “the church is a substantive body, independent of the state, with rights, privileges, and title-deeds of its own.” The author does not minimize the effects of the reformation altho he believes that its course was marred by evils. The work is a history written in the light of modern understanding.
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“The Rev. M. W. Patterson makes no claim of original research, yet it is an uncommonly good summary. The author’s point of view is that of a moderate Anglican, and the treatment is characterized throughout by fairness and self-restraint. The eighteenth century fares very badly. Taken as a whole, however, the book is one of the best, as it is one of the most readable, of the many brief histories of the English church.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 519. N. 25, ’09. 230w.
“The work is well thought out and proportioned, as far as it goes. We could wish that the manner were always worthy of the matter.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 788. Je. 19, ’09. 600w.
“Generally he steers with success the middle course, and may be relied upon for impartial judgment and a reasonable estimate of doubtful personalities and causes.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 136. Jl. 24, ’09. 670w.
=Pauer, Ernst.= Musical forms. (Music students’ lib.) 75c. Ditson.
Gives a clear explanation of the various forms used in vocal and instrumental music such as anthem, mass, oratorio, passion music, chorale, aria, chorus, cantata, song, ballad, madrigal, opera, prelude, toccata, invention, fugue, symphony, sonata, quartet, caprice, fantasia, and dance forms, classical and modern.
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+ =Nation.= 88: 96. Ja. 28, ’09. 140w.
=Paul-Dubois, Louis F. A.= Contemporary Ireland; ed. by T. M. Kettle. **$2. Baker.
9–2601.
“Represents an attempt of a mind, at once scientific and imaginative, to see Ireland steadily and to see it whole.” The author “begins his work with an historical introduction, filling about ninety pages, in which he gives a remarkably lucid and sympathetic outline of the history of Ireland as diverted from normal channels, first by the Viking invasion and then by English conquests and government.... He then proceeds to a study of political and social conditions, material decadence, and the possibilities of a regeneration of Ireland. In conclusion he asserts that Ireland has now reached a turning-point in her history, and that her future, whether it shall be one of decay or of regeneration, ‘depends upon the direction she takes and the effort she puts forth.’” (Lit. D.)
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“A scholarly sympathetic study of Irish history and conditions.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 107. Ap. ’09.
“His book is thus valuable as a compendium, an encyclopædic reference ready for the student seeking the original sources of Irish history. What one deplores is that the journalistic plan of the book works ill to its most vital topic—the regenerative influences now in progress in Ireland.” Ellen FitzGerald.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 80. F. 1, ’09. 1800w.
“Mr. Kettle praises this introduction warmly, and most readers will share in his enthusiasm.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 986. D. 26, ’08. 600w. =Nation.= 88: 384. Ap. 15, ’09. 100w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 8. Ja. 2, ’09. 600w.
“We cannot quite accept the translator’s very high estimate of its value, for it shows little insight into the social conditions of modern Ireland. But as a political study it was well worth translation, and it has been very well rendered.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 142. Ja. 30, ’09. 1500w.
=Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph.=^{[7]} History of the “George” worn on the scaffold by Charles I. $2.50. Longmans.
A narrative based upon the author’s theory concerning the disposition of “George”—the medallion of the Order of the garter—which Charles I wore at the time of his execution. History states that the exiled Stuarts had it. “But for certain ingenious and, in the main, convincing reasons Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey concludes that this was not the ‘George’ which Charles wore, but that the latter passed to one of the king’s guards, Colonel Thomlinson, thence to the Parliamentary commissioners, was bought from them by one Widmore, probably acting for Thomlinson, was returned to Charles II by Thomlinson’s sister, and is now in Windsor castle.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“Few who pick up the attractive little book which embodies this excursion into history and antiquarianism are likely to lay it down unread. The essay it contains is at once a very pretty piece of historical method and, to one interested in such things, an interesting story.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 851. Jl. ’09. 320w. + =Ath.= 1909, 2: 132. Jl. 31. 750w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 240w.
=Payot, Jules.=^{[12]} Education of the will; tr. from the French by Smith Ely Jelliffe. **$1.50. Funk.
9–29208.
A French work that has run thru twenty-seven editions since 1893. Under the heading “Theoretical section” the author presents in a preliminary discussion the evils to be overcome, the aim to pursue and false theories of the education of the will; next, he devotes a section to the psychology of the will; and third, treats the internal measures; under the heading, “Practical section,” are two divisions treating respectively, private meditations—the enemies to combat—and the sources of our environment. His work combines scientific authority and practical common sense.
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“It is a necessary work for up-to-date teachers and physicians. It will also interest the intelligent public in general.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1078. D. 11, ’09. 40w.
=Peabody, Cecil Hobart, and Miller, Edward Furber.= Steam-boilers. 2d ed., rev. and enl. $4. Wiley.
8–31132.
For this second edition each chapter has been rewritten and brought down to date. A chapter on superheaters has been added. The following subjects are treated: Types of boilers; Superheaters; Fuel and combustion; Corrosion and incrustation; Settings, furnaces and chimneys; Power of boilers; Staying and other details; Strength of boilers; Boiler accessories; Shop practice; Testing boilers; Boiler design.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 122. Ap. ’09.
“While written primarily for the use of students, it will be found valuable as a guide to approved practice by engineers interested in steam-power production.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 56. Ja. ’09. 200w.
“A fault shared by many books on technical subjects, is found in parts of this book, in that specific directions and statements are set forth as of general application, which in reality apply only in special cases. Their book is carefully written, and the few points open to criticism do not affect the value of the book to any serious extent.” C. C. Thomas.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 16. F. 18, ’09. 1200w. + =Engin. Rec.= 59: 111. Ja. 23, ’09. 300w.
=Peabody, Josephine Preston (Mrs. Lionel S. Marks).=^{[12]} Piper. **$1.10. Houghton.
9–29824.
A poetic drama based upon the old legend of the “Pied piper” but enriched and spiritualized by modern thought and symbolism. The piper, true to the legend, lures the children away, but only to a cave where he holds simple court and provides rare entertainment for them. He is an idealist whose sole mission is that of releasing from bondage; when the daughter of the mayor of Hamlin is to be sacrificed as a nun to an outraged Heaven, his magic pipe rescues her for her lover; when the grief of the stricken mother of a child whom he lured away becomes an illumination to him of the unconquerable mother love, he yields his scheme of vengeance and leads the children home, and fares forth on the high-road to pipe elsewhere.
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“This is a little poetic play of uncommon quality, having distinct literary and dramatic value.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 606. D. 16, ’09. 500w.
“It yields abundant pleasure to the reader, but it bears every evidence of having been written for the stage, and on the stage its full beauty would be made manifest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 760. D. 4, ’09. 850w.
“A play of fresh feeling and of original conception and charm of manner.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 651. N. 27, ’09. 100w.
=Peake, Arthur Samuel.=^{[12]} Christianity: its nature and its truth. **$1.25. Crowell.
“Dr. Arthur S. Peake, D. D., of the University of Manchester, takes up, in his book, ‘Christianity, its nature and its truth,’ the questions that seem to be characteristic of the times, and attempts to distinguish what is transient from what is permanent in Christian doctrine. Some readers will feel that the author is too easily satisfied with the answers he finds; but many will have clearer ideas as a consequence of their reading.”—Outlook.
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“His point of view is essentially orthodox, notwithstanding his wide departure from traditional methods of interpretation.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 288. O. ’09. 70w.
“His results are distinctly conservative, but conservatism does not mean with him either a lack of scholarship or a lack of sympathy with present thought.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 722. N. 20, ’09. 150w.
“Dr. Peake has the uncommon gift of seeing clearly and putting strongly the arguments which he undertakes to answer. His frankness and freedom from dogmatism will win many whom the forceful assertions and formal reasoning of others have failed to persuade.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 832. D. 11, ’09. 170w.
=Peck, Ellen Mary H. (Mrs. James Sidney Peck).= Travels in the Far East. *$3. Mrs. James S. Peck, 5 Waverley pl., Milwaukee, Wis.
9–5984.
The record of a nine months’ tour around the world including Egypt, Northern India, Burma, Southern India, Ceylon, Malay peninsula, Java, Siam, Southern China, Japan, Northern China, Manchuria and Korea. The work is a succession of word pictures, supplemented generously by reproduced photographs, abounding in description of places and people, institutions and industries, customs and manners, with here and there bits of history and traditional lore. Mrs. Peck’s book is of value to the travel student because of the record’s manifest fidelity to facts.
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“Presents in a pleasing manner a series of interesting first impressions.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 430. S. ’09. 100w.
“The reader will not find an excess of detail nor a burden of historical facts, but he will find enough of both to appreciate Mrs. Peck’s progress.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 46: 366. Je. 1, ’09. 220w.
“The great attraction of the work is its wealth of beautiful and well-chosen illustrations.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 384. Ap. 15, ’09. 200w.
=Peck, Harry Thurston.=^{[7]} Studies in several literatures. **$1.20. Dodd.
9–13530.
Contains twelve essays covering a range of books and authors from Homer to Conan Doyle. Contents: The Odyssey; Alciphron; Milton; The lyrics of Tennyson; Longfellow; Poe as a story-writer; Hawthorne and “The scarlet letter”; Emerson; Thackeray and “Vanity fair”; Anthony Trollope; Émile Zola; Tolstoi’s “Anna Karénina”; Alphonse Daudet’s masterpiece “Sapho”; The detective story; The psychology of the printed page.
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“Offer little that is original or suggestive in the way of interpretation but are entertaining reading for those who enjoy the author’s breezy and confident style.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 48. O. ’09.
“When you agree with him, he is delightfully informing, intelligent, perspicuous; when he runs counter to your own likes and dislikes he is unaccountably perverse, even irritating. Then he becomes dogmatic and opinionated.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 529. Jl. ’09. 920w.
“If we may judge from these ‘studies,’ Professor Peck is not a student in the ordinary sense; he is one who picks up commonplaces about people and things, and expresses them in a smart and chirpy style which furnishes his readers a moderate degree of entertainment.”
− =Dial.= 47: 74. Ag. 1, ’09. 300w.
“The essays are all readable, being light, anecdotic, and allusive. What will prove to be newest to the ordinary reader, for whom they are undoubtedly intended, is the treatment of Greek and Roman novelists.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 354. S. 4, ’09. 170w.
“They are of some little value to students of the authors mentioned, but to people who have the habit of thinking for themselves they are unsatisfactory.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 429. Jl. 10, ’09. 350w.
=Peixotto, Ernest Clifford.=^{[11]} Through the French provinces. **$2.50. Scribner.
9–27597.
“We thought ourselves perfectly familiar with the beauties and picturesqueness of the French chateaux, did we not? Well, Mr. Peixotto has rediscovered others, famous once, forgotten now—Vaux-le-Vicomte, Courances, and Fleury-en-Bière—all three of them easily reached, in the neighborhood of Fontainebleau. Here is a suggestion capable of infinite expansion, but there are others in this book, which is one long invitation, extended with contagious enthusiasm, to go wandering by autoboat and autocar, around Paris.”—Ind.
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“The ‘rôle’ of author-illustrator is a difficult one, too often played badly; but Mr. Ernest Peixotto is competent for it, as he proves anew by his skilful conduct of his readers.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 461. D. 1, ’09. 250w.
“Mr. Peixotto does not forget, in his enthusiasm, to be practical in his rôle as guide. His drawings are a delight, of course.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1042. N. ’09. 150w.
“Were not this record of travel reenforced by very charming sketches it would be more or less unimportant. The style is fluent; but the drawings are a sufficient justification. Here Mr. Peixotto is individual and charming and his book will be valued for these graphic representations of a land of romance.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 786. N. 6, ’09. 270w.
“Mr. Peixotto has a fluent style and his pictures are at once graphic, individual, and charming.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1079. D. 11, ’09. 120w.
“Mr. Peixotto’s pen-drawings are vibrant as always, carry a discreet elimination very far, and gain thereby in picturesqueness and essential truthfuless to effect.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 569. D. 9, ’09. 110w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 760. D. ’09. 40w.
=Pelzer, Louis.=^{[7]} Augustus Caesar Dodge. $2. State historical society, Iowa City, Ia.
9–4597.
Belongs to the “Iowa biographical series.” “There is not much to be said about Augustus Caesar Dodge as a national figure. He was essentially a commonplace man, possessing neither originality nor marked political talent. But as the representative of the territory and state of Iowa, he is not uninteresting.... Mr. Pelzer records the political revolution of 1854 which broke the Democratic ascendency in Iowa and prevented the re-election of Dodge to the Senate; but he has given no adequate explanation of the revulsion of popular sentiment in a constituency which has hitherto been staunchly Democratic.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“Within the somewhat narrow limits of his task, Mr. Pelzer exhibits great industry.” Allen Johnson.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 857. Jl. ’09. 300w.
“The State historical society of Iowa is performing a distinct service in publishing this series of biographies.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 723. My. ’09. 60w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Show girl.^{[7]} †$1. Winston.
9–16437.
A story set in the Latin quarter of Paris “which tells in letters the story of an idle Englishman’s love for a Parisian dancer, virtuous amid doubtful associates, and of mysterious parentage. A hypocritical clergyman’s hunger for income at the hero’s expense provides some cheap amusement; and an impulsive Irishman is an attractive figure.” (Ath.)
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“The melodramatic part of the tale, which includes a murder, is only moderately interesting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 526. My. 1. 60w.
“It has plenty of plot, young, healthful sentiment, and is told in the form of letters, a rather unnecessary form, one would think, were it not handled with considerable cleverness.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 40. Jl. 1, ’09. 40w.
“His tale is squarely addressed to the audience which loves to hear of students’ balls, cocottes, grisettes, and the Moulin rouge.”
− =Nation.= 89: 122. Ag. 5, ’09. 250w.
“Mr. Pemberton has the knack of inventing incidents and adventures which amuse and please. He has chosen one of the most lively themes for the exercise of his gifts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 130w.
“The manner in which the story is told is fresh and entertaining, while its varied array of incidents is well spiced with mystery, danger, and desperate wickedness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 420. Jl. 3, ’09. 330w.
=Pendred, Vaughan.= Railway locomotive. *$2. Van Nostrand.
9–7591.
“The book is distinctly a descriptive review of the locomotive engine as a working machine, and shows the relations of its design and construction to the conditions under which it works. It presents the general principles embodied in the engine, together with some of the special features of its construction.... The author omits all matters of history and also the development of various types, but discusses the locomotive engine from three points of view: (1) as a vehicle; (2) as a steam generator; (3) as a steam engine.”—Engin. N.
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“This book does not consist of mere dry bones of technical terms, but possesses great interest. It is, on the whole, well and clearly written, though the author seems to have forgotten to tell us how the return motion of the papercylinder on the indicator is obtained.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 589. My. 15. 520w. + =Engin. D.= 5: 171. F. ’09. 250w.
“The book is written in an interesting manner, and is very far from being a dry ‘treatise.’ It certainly gives to the engineering reader and the student a better general idea of the locomotive and its work than is given in many a book of greater pretensions.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 7. Ja. 14, ’09. 1100w.
“If it is the intention of our author to describe the locomotive as it is for the benefit of engineers not of the locomotive variety, then he is to be congratulated upon having produced an interesting and useful volume, and one likely to fulfil the object he has in view. Locomotive engineers will do well to find a place for it in their libraries.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 305. Ja. 14, ’09. 930w.
=Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell).=^{[12]} French cathedrals, monasteries and abbeys and sacred sites of France. **$5. Century.
9–29391.
A beautiful book in which the French cathedral and associated structures are set forth in some four hundred pages of text accompanied by one hundred and eighty-three reproduced drawings and sketches by Joseph Pennell. The architectural route has been covered leisurely during the past quarter century, which, beginning in the cities of Provence, was continued to other centers of the Romanesque in France—to cities in Aquitane, the far north, Auvergne and Languedoc. Then followed the journeys to the Gothic churches—from Albi to Paris, from Bourges to Beauvais, from Chartres and Le Mans to Laon and Rheims, from Amiens to Rouen.
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“Less useful for reference or club work than Perkins’ ‘French cathedrals and chateaux’ or Wilson’s ‘Cathedrals of France.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 123. D. ’09.
“Rarely does one find such fascinating pages on architecture. Tenderness with discrimination, enthusiasm with understanding—these are in every line, in every stroke of it.” Algernon Tassin.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 349. D. ’09. 520w. + =Dial.= 47: 459. D. 1, ’09. 600w.
“It must be read to be appreciated and he who does so will be well repaid.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1079. D. 11, ’09. 220w.
“The total impression one carries away from the reading of her handsomely got-up book is of enthusiasm for beautiful and venerable places and monuments.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 569. D. 9, ’09. 400w.
“Mr. Pennell has done imperishable work in this great and beautiful volume on the French cathedrals.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 842. D. ’09. 140w.
“Among the elegantly printed and illustrated descriptive volumes of travel in modern and medieval France probably the most noteworthy is this one.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 759. D. ’09. 110w.
=Pennell, T. L.=^{[5]} Among the wild tribes of the Afghan frontier: a record of sixteen years’ close intercourse with the natives of the Indian marches; with an introd. by Field-Marshal Earl Roberts. *$3.50. Lippincott.
9–15078.
The story of sixteen years spent as medical missionary and mendicant pilgrim among the wild tribes in the Northwest frontier of India. The account is interestingly informing in point of the domestic, social and religious aspects of the lives of natives, and it also affords food for the appetite keen for daring adventure.
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“Not only a very readable volume but a significant commentary on the value of medical missions as a civilizing agency.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 178. Je. ’09.
“Dr. Pennell’s modest narrative shows the infinite amount of good that can be done by a Christian medical missionary on the northern frontier of India.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 322. S. 18. 1000w.
“This readable and instructive work deserves a place with other books on Afghanistan, notably those by Paget and Mason, Holdich, Oliver, Warburton, Elsmie, and Hamilton; and it will bear comparison with any of those named.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 46: 366. Je. 1, ’09. 300w.
“The work is of exceptional interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 730. Ap. 24, ’09. 450w.
“This is the record of a singularly interesting and humanizing work among a remarkable people. An enlightening work which we can confidently recommend to all students of the problems which India presents not to the English only, but to the whole civilized world.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 541. My. 27, ’09. 680w.
“Of the contradictions in character, the crimes, and the virtues of the wild tribes on the Indian frontier Dr. Pennell writes with a wealth of anecdote which transforms the volume into a series of human documents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 189. Ap. 3, ’09. 100w.
“The whole book is interesting in the highest degree.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 61. Je. 10, ’09. 400w.
=Peple, Edward Henry.= Mallet’s masterpiece. **75c. Moffat.
8–33156.
“A story that centers around a carving of the Venus de Melos. Art and romance go hand in hand in the story, which is told with much skill and dramatic power.”—Ind.
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Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1459. D. 17, ’08. 30w. + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
=Perkins, Clara Crawford.=^{[5]} Builders of Spain. 2v. **$5. Holt.
9–12029.
A two volume record of Spanish civilization which considers first Spain’s native stock and then the alien peoples—the Romans, the Visigoths, the Arabs and Moors, and the Christian kings—with the cultures introduced by them into the peninsula. An interesting part of the work is the study of some fifteen cities which have been chosen for the distinct development which they represent. The volumes are handsomely illustrated.
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+ =Ind.= 66: 1242. Je. 3, ’09. 60w. =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 26. N. ’09. 40w.
“A valuable contribution to the study of things Spanish.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 354. S. 4, ’09. 180w.
“It is as ill-arranged and ill-proportioned in its main features as it is untrustworthy in detail.”
− =Nation.= 89: 58. Jl. 15, ’09. 470w.
“It is an admirable rewriting of old things.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 463. Jl. 31, ’09. 700w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 764. Je. ’09. 120w.
=Perkins, Jane Gray.=^{[12]} Life of the Honourable Mrs. Norton. **$3.50. Holt.
A biography whose aim is to render justice to a personage whose reputation as a poetess and a writer is of less importance than her influence “not only on the men and manners but the very laws of her time.” It is in the spirit, then, of sympathetic treatment and fair judgment that the sketch is written, and it throws interesting side lights on the social and literary conditions of England during the first fifty years of the nineteenth century.
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“We cannot help thinking that Miss Perkins might have indicated more clearly than she has what is new in her pages, and what old. The book is also rather destitute of arrangement; and letters are inserted out of their chronological order. Still, Miss Perkins has obviously spent much pains over her presentment of a beautiful, unhappy, and courageous woman, nor is it her fault that Mrs. Norton eludes us to a considerable extent.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 2: 656: N. 27. 450w.
“The generous space allowed her to tell her own story in the form of intimate letters is a striking and admirable feature of the book.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 513. D. 16, ’09. 230w.
“Jane Gray Perkins has done her work well.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1079. D. 11, ’09. 190w.
=Perrier, Joseph Louis.=^{[8]} Revival of scholastic philosophy in the nineteenth century. *$1.75. Macmillan.
9–10966.
“Traces the story of an important movement in modern thought. The movement is nothing less than the revival under unfriendly conditions of that scholastic philosophy which held the western world so long in its grip. In revolting against scholasticism, Europe threw away the good as well as the evil in that famous system. It is very interesting to find in Dr. Perrier’s pages how the many elements of scholasticism that had permanent value are yet able to reassert themselves in important ways.”—Educ. R.
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“Altogether the book is remarkable, not alone as a tribute to the space which scholasticism occupies in the mind of the learned world today, but also as a piece of scholarly research and erudition.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 678. Ag. ’09. 480w.
“Students of philosophy will not overlook this book.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 96. Je. ’09. 80w.
=Perrin, Alice.= Idolatry [Anglo-Indian novel]. †$1.50. Duffield.
9–7826.
A story portraying two types of North-West Indian missionaries and the young stepdaughter of one of them who, reared in England by a worldly grandmother, finding herself penniless goes to India with the avowed intention of winning back a rejected suitor, an army officer who had come into a fortune. The main story interest centers in her awakening through the selfless example of the young missionary who forms the second of the afore-mentioned types.
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“The sketch given of the heroine’s stepfather’s domestic and official life is masterly. The glimpses of native life and points of view are interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 250. F. 27. 140w.
“There is a tendency in the book toward exaggeration, verging upon religious sentimentality, yet, taken as a whole, it is a careful piece of work that succeeds in holding the reader’s interest.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 645. Ag. ’09. 350w.
“‘Idolatry’ shows clever workmanship, good style, insight into human nature, and some capacity in its portrayal, and considerable knowledge, at least of the surface, of life in India.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 140w.
“Each set of English people in the little foreign colony is admirably indicated.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 814. Ap. 10, ’09. 200w.
“Mrs. Perrin’s Indian stories are always interesting and ‘Idolatry’ is no exception to the rule.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 504. Mr. 27, ’09. 100w.
=Perry, Ralph Barton.=^{[10]} Moral economy. **$1.25. Scribner.
9–16464.
The author turns from traditional controversies and the technicalities of creeds and dogmas, and examines the live, present-day aspects of goodness, duty, virtue, progress, culture and religion.
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“What the student really ought to get from the study of ethics is a clear and firm conviction that the basis of morality is rational and certain, not dogmatic and arbitrary, and that it is so simple as to be easily grasped by any man of responsible mind. Professor Perry, in this little book, succeeded in putting ethics on such a basis.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 761. S. 30, ’09. 400w.
“Professor Perry’s little book is notably out of proportion to its size and pretensions. It is the most recent expression of the new spirit in ethics, which aims to get away from historic concepts and controversies back to the facts themselves of the moral life.” Norman Wilde.
+ =J. Philos.= 6: 608. O. 28, ’09. 1450w.
“Professor Perry’s volume has the value and the limitations that belong to the work of those moralists who conceive the problems of conduct to be much like problems in mathematics. Whatever be said of the technical ethical reasonings of the book, its pervasive moral temper has a wholesomeness and balance and a freedom from the prevalent itch after paradox which make the volume eminently profitable reading for a perplexed and over-sophisicated age.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 545. D. 2, ’09. 430w.
“He says nothing that is entirely untrue; therefore necessarily he says much that is true, but somehow he misses the living, inspired word that makes truth. He who calls interest the source of goodness has been inconsistent by purposely writing a dull book.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 477. Ag. 7, ’09. 330w.
=Peters, Madison Clinton.= Abraham Lincoln’s religion. 75c. Badger, R: G.
9–3055.
A eulogistic chapter on “Lincoln the man” is followed by two chapters answering respectively the questions “Was Abraham Lincoln a Christian” and “Why did Lincoln never join the church?”
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=Nation.= 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 400w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 60w.
“A highly interesting treatise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 226. Ap. 10, ’09. 10w.
=Petit-Dutaillis, Charles Edmond.= Studies and notes supplementary to Stubbs’s Constitutional history down to the Great charter; tr. by W. E. Rhodes. (University of Manchester. Publications. Hist. ser., no. 7.) *$1.50. Oxford.
8–34171.
“There are twelve studies and notes, varying in length from twenty-eight pages to two pages. In the first seven (pp. 1–66), the author confessedly does little but sum up the work of others showing however the shrewd discrimination and sound judgment of the experienced researcher. The three most extensive of these treat the origin of the manor, the origin of the Exchequer, and the tenurial system.... The last five studies ... are upon the origin of English towns, twelfth century London, the two trials of King John, the ‘Unknown charter,’ and Magna Carta.”—Am. Hist. R.
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“These supplementary studies impress one as a discreet and learned attempt to safeguard a public, which is likely to learn all that it will know of a great subject from a single book, against the shortcomings of that book.” A. B. White.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 563. Ap. ’09. 700w.
“The volume will virtually be indispensable to teachers and students of history. So careful is the author, and so thorough his knowledge, that there is hardly a criticism to make. But he seems to be unacquainted with Prof. Adams’s studies, on ‘The origin of the English constitution.’ And in dealing with the difficult problem of the Cinque Ports confederation, the writer seems to be under a misapprehension.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 566. N. 7. 870w.
“M. Petit-Dutaillis’ survey of recent criticism on a series of problems in early constitutional history will be found invaluable by students. We need not always accept his conclusions, which perhaps too generally favour the last opinion; but his statement of the case in each disputed question is precise and impartial, the breadth of his reading is remarkably extensive, and the references in the footnotes furnish a most useful index to the detailed literature of the subject. The translation by Mr. W. E. Rhodes is well done, and it has been revised by the highly competent hand of Professor James Tait.” C.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 185. Ja. ’09. 200w.
“A careful and accurate English translation.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 17. Jl. 1, ’09. 550w.
=Petre, Francis Loraine.= Napoleon and the Archduke Charles: a history of the Franco-Austrian campaign in the valley of the Danube in 1809. **$4. Lane.
8–31672.
A narrative covering the essential points of a campaign which the author claims has “received too scant notice,” and which “has been a good deal misunderstood.” Contrasted with the events that marked the beginning of Napoleon’s military decline are the brilliant achievements of the Archduke Charles who is seen at his best in the campaign.
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“We hope our criticisms will not deter the author from pursuing his detailed studies of Napoleon’s campaigns, or give the impression that we underrate his diligence or capacity. But it is a pity, when a writer displays both qualities, if he fails to do justice to them through getting his information at second hand, or obscures them by omission of dates and a generally confused scheme of narrative.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 753. D. 12. 1700w. =Dial.= 46: 266. Ap. 16, ’09. 400w.
“Is of particular interest because it illustrates the beginning of the decline of Napoleon’s military genius.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1177. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“Though serviceable to the general reader, will not fully meet the needs of the student who would use it as an introduction to a more detailed investigation of the subject; for it contains no bibliography; the footnotes are incomplete, and often lacking entirely. Clearly, the book is not from the pen of a critically trained historian, but it is so much better than anything we previously possessed in English that we should feel grateful for it.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 227. Mr. 4, ’09. 1050w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 576. O. 17, ’08. 300w.
=Petrie, Graham.= Tunis, Kairouan and Carthage, described and illustrated by Graham Petrie. *$4.80. Doubleday.
9–6021.
The towns of North Africa pictured and described furnish pleasant material for the stay-at-home traveler who has the oriental temperament. The author pictures mosques, thorofares, byways, cafés, markets and bazaars of the Moslem cities of vanished greatness, and describes customs, manners, occupations and the superstitions of men, who “still wear amulets against the evil eye.” The volume deals less with historical ruins than with the picturesque life of to-day.
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“We have little but admiration for Mr. Petrie’s painting, but we do not see the use of a great deal of his letterpress.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 132. Jl. 31. 750w.
“His heavy volume is not a welcome addition to the literature of Barbary. Lacking imagination and observation, he ekes out his work with endless extracts from musty chroniclers, neither apposite nor entertaining. When he trusts to his own inspiration, he sinks to the level of a fifth-rate guide-book. Nor is his English much better than his French or his Arabic. As for his illustrations, the less said the better. Though very numerous, they all contrive to resemble one another.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 276. F. 27, ’09. 820w.
“Indeed, his whole book, with its fine reproductions of scenery and architecture, is most attractive.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 157. Ja. 30, ’09. 240w.
=Pettigrew, James Bell.=^{[10]} Design in nature. *$16. Longmans.
9–13058.
Three volumes that trace the “design, order and purposes in the inorganic, and organic kingdom, especially the latter.” “In the first volume the relations and so-called resemblances between the two systems are discussed, and the various theories of the universe examined. The second volume is devoted to the circulatory, nervous, and other systems of animals, spiral formations in plants and animals, and a review of theories of the origin of species, heredity, and the question of spontaneous generation. The third volume deals with animal locomotion, extinct plants and animals, and the origin and career of man.” (Ath.)
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“Although his opinions are not in agreement with the general trend of scientific thought of the day ... yet the book has some value for the student. His volumes are accurate and up-to-date, and of use as a work of reference, their value being enhanced by the illustrations.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 2: 269. S. 4. 1050w.
“Seriously, it is a matter for sincere thankfulness that the time is forever past when such a book as this can exert any significant influence on the thought or action of men.” Raymond Pearl.
− =Dial.= 47: 230. O. 1, ’09. 800w.
“We can only advise the reader to regard ‘Design in nature’ as a memorial volume of the late Prof. Pettigrew, and not to attach too great scientific value to statements and conclusions which the author might have expunged or modified had he lived to complete his task. Any reader, whether scientific or otherwise, who will study the book will, unless he has already specialized in anatomy, derive great benefit from the information which he will acquire on this particular branch of science.”
− + =Nature.= 80: 151. Ap. 8, ’09. 1100w.
=Peyton, John Howe.=^{[7]} American transportation problem. 50c. Courier-Journal ptg.
9–3395.
A controversial study of American transportation conditions made “with a view to ascertaining what policy America should adopt in order to effectively meet existing conditions and be prepared to continue to lead the nations in the march of progress and civilization.”
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“The book is the most violent arraignment of inland waterways thus far written, but it is written in such a jocular tone that it will perhaps never exert much influence.” G. G. Huebner.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 624. N. ’09. 250w.
“In spite of intemperate language, discourteous treatment of opponents, and an all-pervading spirit of omniscience, the arguments which attempt to show the technical weaknesses of engineering plans for waterway improvement, the figures of cost, the demonstrations of a lack of traffic demand, and of the improbability of traffic development, should give us pause, and should put a barrier in the path of those who would recklessly impound the government credit to the extent of $500,000,000.” F. H. D.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 2: 39. Ap. ’09. 200w.
“Admitting deficiency in economic analysis, woeful lack of scientific bibliography, and much ‘non-sequitur’ in logic, it still remains true that the student desiring thoroughly to sift this matter will find much of interest in Mr. Peyton’s book.” L. C. Marshall.
− + =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 377. Je. ’09. 280w.
=Phelan, Raymond Vincent.= Financial history of Wisconsin. pa. 50c. Univ. of Wis.
8–13959.
“After a brief historical chapter, sketching the creation of the state of Wisconsin and the adjustment of its boundaries, the author outlines the financial provisions of the state constitution which was adopted at a time when adjacent states were suffering from the evils of speculation. It contains cautious restrictions on state indebtedness and provisions for ‘uniformity of taxation.’” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “The treatment is historical and descriptive and without any effort to prove a theory or advocate any reform.” (Econ. Bull.)
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=Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 201. Ja. ’09. 220w.
“It is a very thorough piece of work based on original documents.” C. C. P.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 325. D. ’08. 350w. =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 20. F. 18, ’09. 160w.
=Phelps, Edith M.=, comp.^{[12]} Selected articles on the income tax; with special reference to graduation and exemption. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1. Wilson, H. W.
Uniform with the “Debaters’ handbook series.” Many of the references examined were out of date or too technical for the purposes of this book, and these have been omitted, rendering the bibliography, it is believed, of more practical service to the reader than if all references had been included. Owing to the fact that several phases of the subject are covered, the magazine articles have not been grouped as affirmative or negative; instead, an annotation is given for each article, indicating its character.
=Phelps, Edith M.=, comp.^{[12]} Selected articles on the initiative and referendum. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1. Wilson, H. W.
W9–305.
A volume in the “Debaters’ handbook series” in which articles or parts of articles bearing upon the subject have been gathered together from books, magazines and pamphlets, and have been printed for the benefit of students, club members and general readers whose town libraries can not furnish them with material necessary for debating purposes.
=Philip, Alexander J.= Dickens dictionary: the characters and scenes of the novels and miscellaneous works alphabetically arranged. *$3. Dutton.
9–16959.
Provides an alphabetical index of characters and scenes that appear in Dickens’s novels and miscellaneous writings. His letters and “Child’s history of England” are not included.
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“Mr. Philip’s attempt is in itself praiseworthy, for an adequate book of reference on the subject is needed; but the present work is of little value, and many of its shortcomings might with reasonable care have been avoided.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 458. Ap. 17. 850w. =Dial.= 46: 233. Ap. 1, ’09. 80w.
“The compiler himself laments the difficulty of separating the characters and places dealt with by the novelist from merely casual allusions. Barring this defect, the dictionary is admirably wrought.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 579. Je. 10, ’09. 150w.
“The design of this ‘Dickens dictionary’ is better than the execution. The mechanical errors that disfigure the book are trivial compared with Mr. Philips’s own inaccuracies. He has a synopsis of the various works, quite dull and useless, for the plots as he gives them are all incoherent. Mr. Philips is at his worst, however, as a critic. He lacks not only judgment and discretion, but the ability to express his thoughts.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 162. Mr. 20, ’09. 850w.
“His book is a very painstaking guide to and interpretation of the characters and references in Dickens’ works.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 438. Ap. 3, ’09. 100w. =Spec.= 102: 506. Mr. 27, ’09. 120w.
=Philip, James C.=^{[12]} Romance of modern chemistry. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“A description in non-technical language of the diverse and wonderful ways in which chemical forces are at work, and of their manifold application in modern life.” “The volume shows how dependent we are on the chemist for almost every creature comfort we enjoy, from our clothes and our food to our means of locomotion on or in three of the ‘elements’ known to the ancient philosophers quoted by Mr. Philip.” (Ath.)
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“The series to which this excellent book belongs is intended, no doubt, for boys and girls, but it deserves a better fate than banishment to the junior library, though its somewhat gaudy binding makes it seem out of place on grown-up shelves.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 498. O. 23. 300w. =Nation.= 89: 598. D. 16, ’09. 50w.
“Altogether Dr. Philips goes over most of the more striking discoveries of chemistry in a way to tempt the lay reader and intelligent lads to further study of the science.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 764. D. 4, ’09. 250w.
“The author seems to feel that to make his book interesting to the general reader he must occasionally try to be flippant and sprightly by using slangy colloquialisms. He has an interesting story to tell and he tells it in a vivid, interesting way. The book is so good that it is a pity it should be marred by these blemishes, and if the author would cut them out in his next edition his book and its readers would be gainers.” E: Renouf.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 30: 886. D. 17, ’09. 200w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Fashionable adventures of Joshua Craig: a novel. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–2260.
An interesting portrayal of the bull-in-a-china-shop methods of a young westerner, uncouth and unconventional, who roars thru his paces in Washington social and political life. Abrupt, determined, noisy, invincible, by sheer force of physical strength and will he wins the office he wants and the woman too—a dainty aristocrat to whom his coarseness is nauseatingly revolting.
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“If Mr. Phillips’s aim was to present a new and particularly objectionable type of all-round cad, the book must be regarded as an unqualified success. If he intended offering a half apology for his cad; if he wished to reconcile the reader to the marriage of Craig and Margaret Severence, or had himself the slightest belief in a possible happy result of that marriage, he has just as certainly failed.” Firmin Dredd.
− =Bookm.= 29: 95. Mr. ’09. 410w.
“The straining for sensational effect and the determination of the author to be startling at any cost are so obvious that the total result is repellent, and this quite apart from the commonness of the style and the unredeemed vulgarity of the treatment. Considering the story as an extravaganza, it is rather good fun to follow the progress of the forceful Josh.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 46: 264. Ap. 16, ’09. 250w.
“It is a pretty problem, and if Mr. Phillips had put it less crudely and splashily, his audience would, no doubt, be more likely to dismiss it as a very old one.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 225. Mr. 4, ’09. 620w.
“The author’s view of American society in this book is unrelenting. There is little relief of sentiment and good humor. There is more of verisimilitude in a single chapter of Leonard Merrick or Locke than in his whole book.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 59. Ja. 30, ’09. 780w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 378. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.
“The book has its faults, but dullness is not one of them.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 533. Mr. 6, ’09. 220w.
“The story is more vigorous than entertaining.”
− =R. of Rs.= 39: 762. Je. ’09. 70w.
=Phillips, David Graham.=^{[9]} Hungry heart: a novel. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–22750.
A story of married life in which the neglected wife of a chemist is beguiled into thinking that the love of a young Philadelphian can stanch her domestic grief. The husband discovers the true state of affairs, magnanimously frees her only to learn that her amour has wed another woman. The curtain rings down upon forgiveness and reconciliation.
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“Unfortunately, Mr. Phillips, who can write verbosely and expound a thesis with a good deal of vehemence, cannot shape consistent characters, and cannot avoid the pitfalls of vulgarity and sensationalism. He keeps our sympathies constantly shifting.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 47: 386. N. 16, ’09. 270w.
“If he had not worked at his solution with what may be almost praised as a courageous disregard for decency and virtue, the book might be called a moral masterpiece in fiction.”
− − + =Ind.= 67: 758. S. 30, ’09. 1300w.
“It is a book one would hardly care to read aloud in the family circle. The novel is not convincing and the cynical tendency it exhibits in railing at human nature and existing conditions is not uplifting.”
− =Lit. D.= 39: 444. S. 18, ’09. 300w.
“‘The hungry heart’ is a vigorous tract.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 196. Ag. 26, ’09. 650w.
“It is not the theme which is in itself repellent; it is the lack of artistic balance, the insistence on details which have no value, moral or artistic, to the working out of the story, and that fixed idea which is becoming an unpleasantly prominent feature in Mr. Phillips’s work which render the book unattractive. He is mistaken in his method of presenting his ideas, which are often well worth while.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 511. Ag. 28, ’09. 570w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 633. O. 23, ’09. 130w.
=Phillips, Henry Wallace.= Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–30248.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Well told and pleasingly illustrated. Too expensive for its length.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 26. Ja. ’09.
“He has introduced at times profanity, rough sayings and descriptive phrases that he who would depict the characters described with photographic accuracy must employ otherwise the book is very charming. it is a sweet tale of human service and love that faileth not.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 482. N. ’08. 250w.
“The story develops with a good deal of excitement and some humor, and comes to a satisfactory conclusion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 3. Ja. 2, ’09. 120w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.=^{[12]} The haven. †$1.50. Lane.
9–27991.
“Mr. Phillpotts has set his newest story in the fishing harbour of Brixham, within the blue arc of Torbay.... John Major, the owner of the Jack and Lydia, ‘a fine dandy-rigged trawler,’ is a character admirably conceived and executed, worthy to be placed beside the portraits of the ‘Three brothers.’... The chief theme of the book is the revolt of John Major’s son against following the sea, and his ultimate surrender. We leave him, his father, and his son sailing for the fishing grounds in company on the Jack and Lydia. One of the most interesting features in the story is the vivid account of trawling on the ‘Scruff.’ Under Mr. Phillpotts’s cunning hands this description becomes more interesting than many a narrative of action.”—Ath.
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“Mr. Phillpotts knows his seafarers as intimately as he does the moormen and farmers of Devon, and he is able to interest us from the outset in the lives and fortunes of the Majors and their connexions and friends and acquaintances.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 521. O. 30. 250w.
“‘The haven’ suffers from a diffusion of interest—a shifting of emphasis, which, somehow, leaves the reader cold, yet with the consciousness that a drama of unusual pathos has been opened out to him. In description, Mr. Phillpotts is a consummate artist; he paints the sea in its myriad phases, and pictures the fisherman’s life of simple heroism with grace and power. But there is no ‘grip’ to the book; it ends without seeming to be finished.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 740. N. 27, ’09. 450w.
“It covers an entire generation, and in its quiet and unhurried, undirected presentation of progressive existence its hold on the reader will be found. That hold is unexacting, there is, most commendably, no effort made to heighten it, and it depends throughout on a sheer simplicity and directness which never attains the highest narrative quality, and even when it moves us most is plainly but a paraphrase, and often a somewhat distant one, of actuality.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 668. N. 27, ’09. 620w.
“There is a crowd, but not too large, of vividly drawn characters, and the effect of the whole is distinctly impressive.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 851. N. 20, ’09. 30w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Three brothers. $1.50. Macmillan.
9–2043.
Once more a Dartmoor setting, once more the intimate handling of the life incidents that fill up the gaps between the great joys and sorrows of life. Three brothers, Vivian, Humphrey and Nathan Baskerville, well on in years, are neighbors on the moor, yet strangely separated in ideals and temperament. Vivian, generous, and self-opinionated, embodies the spirit of hard work; Nathan, volatile and swift-minded practices trickery without discovery; Humphrey, the greatest soul among them, personifies doubt. Humphrey’s development is the great work of the author. Sorrow and disaster serve to teach him the way of peace. He learns that “to see a poor soul happy is better far than to see ’em gratified.” The children of the brothers, their love-making and love-tragedies, the village folk, their philosophy and gossip, and the vicar and the parish clerk are all portrayed with photographic definition.
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“Strong, faithful study of peasant life in Dartmoor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 92. Mr. ’09. ✠
“It is a considerable feat, that this, his latest novel of the district, should be in some ways more interesting than any of its predecessors.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 460. Ap. 17. 200w.
“It is a kindly picture of life in its physical aspects, and in certain ethical aspects as well, done with a large stroke, by means of a generous brush which is not sparing of color.”
+ =Atlan.= 103: 704. My. ’09. 950w.
“While no greater than its immediate predecessor, ‘The three brothers,’ is a worthy companion to Mr. Phillpotts’s best work. It is a book one likes to linger over and think of afterward.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 94. Mr. ’09. 780w.
“In the treatment of a theme like this, Mr. Phillpotts’s sincere method is at its best.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 282. Mr. 18, ’09. 350w.
“In it are new ideas, new aspects, and, in fact, an indication of some change in the approach to the vital things of life. Unfortunately, there is also a loss of artistic power.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 600w.
“The book is full of humorous epigrams from the mouths of the Devon rustics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 378. Je. 12, ’09. 130w.
“The story opens with a sweet, wholesome pastoral, compounded of youthful desire, filial faith, and sound common sense. From this level there is never a descent, even at moments of perplexity in the presence of sin, open or hidden.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 532. Mr. 6, ’09. 730w.
“It is less sombre than most of its predecessors. Its comedy episodes are better managed, more worth while for their own sake; and it actually has a happy ending for the persons in whom we are chiefly interested.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 6: 494. Jl. ’09. 300w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 762. Je. ’09. 60w.
=Pick, Bernhard.=^{[12]} Apocryphal acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas. $1.25. Open ct.
9–26819.
A compact work on the apocryphal legends of the Apostles that is based largely on Lipsius’ work of some 1800 pages. Altho originally the apocryphal writings aimed to supply a popular kind of religious reading in the shape of tracts set forth by the Gnostic propaganda, they have also succeeded in giving to modern times valuable descriptions of second and third century divine service in the houses.
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“The work will give English readers an interesting glimpse of popular Christianity in the late second and early third centuries.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 430. D. ’09. 70w.
=Pick, Bernhard=, comp. Hymns and poetry of the Eastern church; collected and chronologically arranged by Bernhard Pick. *$1. Meth. bk.
8–6991.
“This collection does not profess to be more than a compilation from sources ‘accessible in the English language’ of five early and eight later anonymous compositions and eighty-seven others, the authors of which are known or which are attributed to some known author of the early Greek or Syrian church.” (Am. J. Theol.) “After a brief biographical sketch of each author, such as one might gather from Julian or Schaff, a translation, in some cases several versions, of the better-known poems is supplied. The renderings are from various writers, those of John Mason Neale being of course of greatest merit. The arrangement is chronological.” (Nation.)
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+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 152. Ja. ’09. 170w.
“Mr. Pick has done good service in making this compilation; and, in his notes and introductions, he has given due credit to other students of Eastern hymnology.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 705. Ap. 1, ’09. 450w.
“The volume furnishes convenient information concerning the hymns of Greek origin commonly found in hymn books and religious writings.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 466. My. 21, ’08. 130w.
=Pickett, William Passmore.=^{[7]} Negro problem: Abraham Lincoln’s solution. **$2.50. Putnam.
9–15773.
“Rather more than half [of this book] is taken up with a preliminary survey of the condition of the negro in the United States.... For most of the numerous ‘solutions’ thus far proposed, including that of industrial education, Mr. Pickett has but little respect, since, to his thinking, their main premises are erroneous. The remedy which he extracts from Lincoln’s writings, and to the exposition and defence of which he consecrates more than two hundred and fifty solid pages, is colonization, preferably in South or Central America, San Domingo, or Africa, at the expense and under the protection of the United States.”—Nation.
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“The author’s tone is balanced, his attitude very fair. His statements are generally accurate, though lack of personal observation leads him into some errors of judgment.” Carl Kelsey.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 625. N. ’09. 360w.
“That Mr. Pickett is an earnest, dispassionate student of the problem and that he makes an effective plea for his case is sufficiently clear. If his argument falls short of being convincing, the fault lies mainly in the character of the chief proposition advanced.” U. G. Weatherly.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 391. D. ’09. 630w.
“When a writer has thoroughly convinced himself, that the deportation of some ten millions of persons, at a cost to the nation of several hundred millions of dollars ... is within the bounds of practicability, argument ‘contra’ is obviously useless.”
− =Nation.= 88: 604. Je. 17, ’09. 300w.
“Mr. Pickett would have us think that the grand scheme he presents for ridding the country of its radical troubles is fully in accord with the views Lincoln entertained and frequently expressed in his addresses and conversation, but with all possible consideration for Mr. Pickett, we are quite unable to come to his way of thinking.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 365. Je. 12, ’09. 770w. =Spec.= 103: 611. O. 16, ’09. 310w.
=Picton, James Allanson.=^{[10]} Man and the Bible: a review of the place of the Bible in human history. **$2. Holt.
“Concerned not with the questions of the various versions and manuscripts about which so many books have been written, but with the far more interesting question of the attitude toward the Scriptures that has characterized the successive ages of the church’s history.”—Bib. World.
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“The author, while indulging in a considerable amount of desultory talk, is very determined in his attack on the Bible as ‘the revealed word of God.’ It is impossible to follow Mr. Picton in all his arguments or assertions, but that he is not free from prejudice may be seen from his treatment of St. Francis.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 2: 293. S. 11. 680w.
“An admirable book.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 142. Ag. ’09. 50w.
“His point of view is frankly and severely critical. In his discussion he has in mind the bearing of all modern science upon the subject. Before the age of printing the influence of the Bible was so indirect and so slight that ‘a superficial observer might have regarded it as negligible.’ In this part of his work the author is sketchy, considers his real subject indirectly, discusses some irrelevant material, and is unsatisfactory. The book in this respect is disappointing. It is impossible to get from it any clear understanding of the conception of the Bible which prevailed through the centuries.” J. W. Bailey.
+ − =Bib. World.= 34: 357. N. ’09. 800w.
=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= New boy. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23550.
Another story of St. Timothy’s school in which the author “adheres with almost mathematical precision to all the ethical requirements, to the athletic demands, to the conventional bully and self-sacrificing hero, of a hundred stories of like character.” (Ind.)
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“Not quite equal to ‘Harding of St. Timothy’s.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 311. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 60w.
“The tale is told sincerely, but with ever recurrent monotony.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1476. D. 17, ’08. 100w.
=Piercy, Rev. William Coleman=, ed. Murray’s illustrated Bible dictionary. *$5. Dutton.
9–13277.
Many eminent scholars have contributed the text for the volume which “is not only a dictionary of persons, names, things, and customs mentioned in the Bible each with copious references to the Bible and cross-references to other articles, but it contains also many articles on spiritual things, on ideas and on doctrines.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The dictionary is profusely illustrated, a circumstance which is sure to add materially to the interest with which the volume will be received by many. One could wish that the bibliographies at the end of the articles were uniformly satisfactory.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 565. N. 7. 1900w.
“The chief purpose is to supply a volume confessedly conservative in its theology, not simply more conservative than Cheyne’s, but also than Hastings’s. In this the editor has succeeded.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 264. F. 4, ’09. 300w.
“The space allotted to important subjects is altogether too meagre. The point of view is decidedly conservative, and scant courtesy is allowed to critical opinions now generally received.”
− =Nation.= 88: 223. Mr. 4, ’09. 70w.
“Is so much wider in scope than its title signifies that it is a veritable treasure house of knowledge, not only of Biblical matters in themselves, but of the manners, customs, and history of all the eastern nations that in any wise influenced or were connected with the Hebrews.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 3. Ja. 2, ’09. 240w.
“In matters of Biblical criticism a strong aversion is often shown to the present consensus of the majority of critical scholars. On the other hand, there is a perceptible shifting to modern views. Of sectarian bias no evidence appears.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 149. Ja. 23, ’09. 200w.
“The critical articles ... are of very unequal merit.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 374. Mr. 20, ’09. 730w.
“This volume may be described as a manifesto of the conservative party in the church. When we have put the controverted matters aside, there remains a vast mass of information which has been carefully brought together and lucidly expressed.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 842. N. 21, ’08. 400w.
=Pigou, Arthur Cecil.= Problem of theism, and other essays. *$1. Macmillan.
9–6580.
Seven essays as follows: The general nature of reality; The problem of theism; Free will; The problem of good; The ethics of the gospels; The ethics of Nietzsche; The optimism of Browning and Meredith.
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“We fear ‘the general reader’ will not carry much away in the form of positive conclusions, even when he has derived full advantage from the careful and always interesting style in which the book is written.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 251. F. 27. 680w.
“At present not a few votaries of philosophy are wending their way towards realism. Professor Pigou’s first essay is an interesting illustration of this tendency. And to the present writer it is gratifying to meet Professor Pigou on the road to critical realism.” A. Wolf.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 454. Ja. ’09. 2150w.
“Disciples of the late Professor Henry Sidgwick will be pleased with this little volume. Professor Pigou is one of them, and the same careful analysis and critical judgment that distinguished Sidgwick is noticeable in his disciple’s work.” D. Phillips.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 510. Jl. ’09. 800w.
“Mr. Pigou’s essays are deeply interesting, yet there is about them an element of disappointment. He asks questions of vital moment; he begins to argue about them as though he were working up to an optimistic conclusion; he raises his reader’s hopes. At last, however, he comes to no conclusion at all, and the reader perceives that, after a long, delightful, and at times strenuous excursion among the intricacies of the subject, he and his author have come back to where they began.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 382. Mr. 6, ’09. 380w.
=Pike, Oliver G.=^{[7]} Behind the veil in birdland. *10s. 6d. Religious tract society, London.
A book for the nature lover that “consists of some exceedingly good photographs and rather slender letterpress.” (Spec.) “The illustrations are mounted on brown paper and show us many of the denizens of wood and field in their haunts, some familiar enough by name at all events if not by sight, such as the fox and the badger, the squirrel, the thrush and the kite, while others as the Fulmar petrel, Richardson’s skua, the puffin, the white-tailed eagle, and the chough, are year by year becoming fewer in number and more shy of man.” (Int. Studio.)
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“The letterpress is rather trivial, though a few interesting items may be here and there gleaned.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 649. My. 29. 250w.
“Entertaining book.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 337. Je. ’09. 150w.
“Mr. Pike in this rather pretentious volume has given some very excellent photographs, but the ‘Nature secrets revealed by pen and camera’ which he promises in his title-page are conspicuous by their absence.” W. P. P.
− + =Nature.= 81: 67. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
“It is a handsome but unwieldy volume.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 861. My. 29, ’09. 100w.
=Pirie, P.= Kashmir: the land of streams and solitudes. **$5. Lane.
9–8389.
A volume in which descriptions and pictures combine to reveal the life and scenery of Kashmir.
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“As might be expected, both the writing and the drawing vary in excellence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 768. D. 12. 250w. + =Int. Studio.= 36: 338. F. ’09. 400w.
“Miss P. Pirie has contributed some gracefully written descriptions of the country and some instructive observations upon the manners and customs of the people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 100w.
“The book is neither very good nor very bad.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 49. Ja. 9, ’09. 80w.
“A most fascinating book.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 157. Ja. 30, ’09. 180w.
=Pirsson, Louis Valentine.= Rocks and rock minerals. *$2.50. Wiley.
8–19075.
A compact treatise on elementary petrology in which the subject is dealt with entirely from a megascopic standpoint. Part 1, Introduction and general considerations; Part 2, Rock minerals; Part 3, The rocks.
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“Concise, practical treatise.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 294. D. ’08.
“The book is, of course, not adapted to the needs of the geologist and petrographer, but to those of engineering and general students whose knowledge of the subject need not be profound. His discussions of the difficult subjects of metamorphism, differentiation, etc., are remarkably well adapted in their simplicity and clearness to the place they occupy. As is to be expected, they reflect chiefly the views of the German school of petrographers.” A. N. W.
+ − =J. Geol.= 17: 93. Ja. ’09. 700w.
“Is the most advanced of the manuals of petrology without the microscope, but it may be recommended even to students who can use that instrument, owing to its clear statement of the principles of petrogenesis and of the mode of occurrence of the sedimentary and igneous rocks.”
+ =Nature.= 81: 242. Ag. 26, ’09. 310w.
“The arrangement of the material in the various chapters is admirable throughout, while discussions, descriptions and statements in general are accurate, clear, concise, yet sufficiently complete, and are written in a style which is attractive and easy to read.” C. H. Warren.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 374. S. 18, ’08. 960w.
=Pisan, Christine de.= Book of the Duke of true lovers; introd. by Alice Kemp-Welch. (New medieval lib.) *$2. Duffield.
9–14149.
Supposedly the love story of Jean, Duc de Bourbon, and Marie, Duchess de Berry, which tells us that the ducal lover, harassed by mischief-makers, and unable to bear the pain of separation in his own country which her position and his own gallantry alike demanded, departs with the army for an expedition in Spain.
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 601. My. 16. 220w. + =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 60w. + =Nation.= 88: 359. Ap. 8, ’09. 370w.
“A very useful introduction is contributed by the translator.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 70w.
=Plehn, Carl Copping.=^{[11]} Introduction to public finance. 3d ed. *$1.75. Macmillan.
9–26310.
A third edition, completely revised and enlarged, in which the statistics and other illustrative data have been brought down to date, and discussions have been introduced of some of the more important of the fiscal questions which have come into prominence since the first edition was published.
=Plunket, Emmeline M.=^{[8]} Judgment of Paris and some other legends astronomically considered. *7s. 6d. Murray, John, London.
A work in which Miss Plunket offers a scientific origin for a large number of ancient Greek myths. “It is in effect an attempt to explain the chief divinities and heroes associated with the Trojan war as personifications not so much of the sun and its more obvious phenomena but of more recondite astronomical events, and in particular to connect them with certain peculiarities of the system of time measurement employed in the early civilisations of Western Asia.” (Sat. R.)
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“No classical or astronomical scholar can fail to find the volume interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 589. My. 15. 700w.
“The author makes suggestions which will compel the most sceptical critic to read her work with attention and respect, even though he may differ ‘toto caelo’ from its main contentions.” H. R. Hall.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 335. Ja. 21, ’09. 630w.
“Even if we grant the fundamental theory we still find the subsequent speculations wholly unconvincing.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: 112. Jl. 24, ’09. 900w. =Spec.= 101: 1003. D. 12, ’08. 180w.
=Podmore, Frank.=^{[9]} Mesmerism and Christian science. **$1.50. Jacobs.
W9–289.
A work for the psychologist, student of psychical research and student of religious phenomena, that traces the various phases of healing from Mesmer, who looked upon the art as wholly material, to Mrs. Eddy who teaches its spiritual basis and connects it with religion.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 124. D. ’09.
“Displaying a wide knowledge of his subject, the author has stated his conclusions impartially and convincingly, and any one who desires a clear bird’s-eye view of this disputed question can not do better than consult the book under review.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 967. N. 27, ’09. 280w. =Outlook.= 93: 645. N. 20, ’09. 70w.
“It is not the least merit of Mr. Podmore’s excellent book that he has pruned his material into perfectly manageable proportions. The power of the mind over the body and the reality of what is called ‘suggestion’ are very important matters. We cannot name any work which is more likely to set the public right than this book by Mr. Podmore. He accepts the minimum of what is likely to be true, and in the circumstances that is an advantage.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 421. S. 18, ’09. 1450w.
=Poe, Edgar Allan.= Complete poems; with a critical study by Charles F. Richardson. lea. $3. Putnam.
A complete edition of Poe conspicuous for its critical editorial material, illustrations, and typographical excellencies.
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“The simple, sensuous, mystical, yet picturesque, quality of Poe’s verse, its elegant aloofness, contrasted with its human thrill, are all suggested in the photogravures.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 100w.
“We cannot agree with Professor Richardson when he maintains that ‘Poe is the American world author.’”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 745. N. 7, ’08. 100w.
=Poe, Edgar Allan.= Last letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman; ed. by James A. Harrison. In Commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of Poe’s birth, January 19, 1909; pub. under the auspices of the University of Virginia. **$2.50. Putnam.
9–4554.
“It is to be regretted that these letters are so fragmentary, but enough remains to show that a very real attachment certainly existed between Poe and Mrs. Whitman, altho it never culminated in marriage.... As to the literary character of this correspondence, it represents the outpourings of a poet. Wildly extravagant expressions of endearment are mingled with gloomy forebodings and morbid self-distrust.” (Lit. D.) The volume also contains reprints of the request for the banns of marriage between Poe and Mrs. Whitman and a contract made in view of the marriage transferring certain bank stocks.
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“It is difficult to share Professor Harrison’s enthusiasm for these letters.” W. B. Blake.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 119. S. 1, ’09. 370w.
“It is a characteristic memorial and as such forms an appropriate contribution to the literature of the Poe centenary.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 562. Ap. 3, ’09. 300w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 132. Mr. 6, ’09. 100w.
=Poe, Edgar Allan.= Tales; centenary ed. *$2.50. Duffield.
8–31689.
Includes the following seven of Poe’s most weird tales: The fall of the house of Usher; The masque of the red death; The pit and the pendulum; The black cat; The facts in the case of M. Valdemar; The gold-bug; and The murders in the Rue Morgue. A particularly suggestive illustration in color has been prepared for each story by E. L. Blumenschein.
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+ =Dial.= 45: 465. D. 16, ’08. 130w.
“The spirit of the tales as written by Poe has been caught by the artist, who accents the grewsome and the weird.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1463. D. 17, ’08. 40w. + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 230w. + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 750. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
“The volume is extremely attractive.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 108. Ja. 16, ’09. 130w.
=Poincaré, Lucien.=^{[9]} Electricity, present and future; tr. by Jasper Kemmis. *7s. 6d. Sisley’s, London.
9–31014.
“The first part of the book is occupied with theoretical matters, the main outlines of the theory of magnetism and of induction being clearly expounded. Then follow two chapters on generating machines and motors, a fairly long chapter on the transmission of energy, and finally two short chapters on electro-chemistry and electric lighting.”—Nature.
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“On the theoretical side of all these matters M. Poincaré, of course speaks with authority, and his explanation of the subjects of which he treats is both clear and good. Yet it seems to us that the book fails somewhat in not being sufficiently detailed for the technician, while for the general reader, who merely wishes to pick up an acquaintance with such matters at an easy cost, it is too technical.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 158. Ag. 7. 190w.
“We think the whole book, excellent though it is in many respects, would be greatly improved by simplification and a frank abandonment of the philosophic aims which have helped to inspire it and which have given rise, we think, to such defects as it possesses. Never was an index more curiously compiled since someone wrote, ‘Mill, on liberty: do., on the Floss’ in a book catalogue.” Maurice Solomon.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 482. F. 25, ’09. 800w.
“M. Poincairé’s omniscience, however, breaks down sadly in several scientific points, where there are bad mistakes as to facts. But these blunders are as nothing to the wild freaks of the translator who has muddled and mangled M. Poincairé’s text.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 796. D. 26, ’08. 920w.
=Pollard, A. F.=, ed.^{[8]} British empire, past, present and future. *5s. League of the empire, London.
In the interests of imperial unity Mr. Pollard offers this informing exposition of the facts about the past, present and future of Great Britain. “Mr. Pollard’s book is mainly history, though he devotes a good many pages to the needs of the future.” (Sat. R.)
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“This volume, which claims to have a primarily educational purpose, seems to be very thoroughly done, and the spirit maintained throughout is calm and fair.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 125. Jl. ’09. 140w.
“An admirable guide for schools and popular purposes.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 22. Jl. 3, ’09. 100w.
=Poole, Cecil Percy.=^{[6]} Gas engine. *$1. Hill pub. co.
9–8824.
Not a complete treatise on the gas engine, but a text that presents “the principles governing the salient features of gas-engine construction and operation in as simple a manner as possible.” “The subjects dealt with are the methods of operation of four-cycle and two-cycle engines, empirical calculations of pressures and temperatures, water jacketing, valves and valve gears, ignition, carburetters and vaporizers, governing, care and management of engines, and finally some power and efficiency calculations.” (Engin. N.)
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“Jones’ ‘Gas engine’ is preferable for the student, being more complete, but this text may be sufficient in libraries where the demand is for rudimentary information.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 21. S. ’09.
“Apart from this table mania the book is practical, useful and concise. In many places it is too concise, and in no place is it in any way comprehensive. On the whole the book can be recommended to those who, having some knowledge of the steam engine, desire to know how the ordinary gas engine works.” L. S. Marks.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 9. My. 13, ’09. 460w.
“The impression of the book as a whole is that the author has tried to cover too much ground in 100 pages. The book seems rather unbalanced.”
− + =Engin. Rec.= 59: 588. My. 1, ’09. 320w.
=Porritt, Edward.=^{[7]} Sixty years of protection in Canada. 1846–1907. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–10472.
A polemical presentation of the thesis that “protection to home industries is today more firmly entrenched in Canada than in any other country in the Anglo-Saxon world.”
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“Not merely a full and vigorous statement of his position, but it contains a great mass of well arranged and well digested statements of fact. Mr. Porritt’s sketch of the rise of the national policy is extremely interesting and valuable. He has followed it through the available sources with great industry.” James Mavor.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 333. Je. ’09. 1500w.
“We cannot doubt Mr. Porritt’s sincerity. We can only extend to him our sympathy in his strange hallucination.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 668. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Porritt tells the most instructive, if scarcely edifying, story. We cannot follow its course, but we commend it to the attention of our readers.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 192. F. 1, ’08. 220w.
=Porter, Gene Stratton (Mrs. Charles Darwin Porter).=^{[12]} Birds of the Bible. *$2. West Meth. bk.
9–29323.
An unusual bird book in which the author in two chapters on “The time” and “The place,” respectively, furnishes a historical and geographical setting for her study of what “Moses recorded in history, what Solomon said in his wisdom, what David sang in ecstasy and what Job cried out in his agony.” Her chapters are, beginning with the third: The birds of the poets; The birds of “Abomination”; The dove; The eagle; The sparrow; The ostrich; The cock and hen; The hawk; The quail and partridge; The bittern; The swallow; The peacock; The stork; The raven; The pelican; The pigeon; The crane; The owls. Heavy plate paper, numerous fine illustrations and an imitation of wood binding contribute to the attractiveness of the volume.
=Porter, Gene Stratton (Mrs. Charles Darwin Porter).=^{[8]} Girl of the Limberlost. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–35787.
A successor to “Freckles” that cannot be recommended too highly. It traces the struggle of a young girl for an education against the odds put up by a grim, sour mother. The Limberlost swamp in which the girl fearlessly hunts rare moths, thru the sale of which to earn her way thru high school, enters into the woof and fiber of the story. It seems symbolic of the mire and loneliness, of the cocoon state from which by heroic endeavor she emerges a wonderful creature of spiritual lights and colors. The regeneration and rejuvenation of the mother and a charming romance leave nothing of story unity to be desired.
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“Recommended for older girls.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 57. O. ’09. ✠
“It is a good story for young girls.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 501. Ag. 21, ’09. 130w.
=Porter, Sarah Harvey.= Life and times of Anne Royall. *$1.50. Torch press.
8–37342.
A review of the life and times of a pioneer woman journalist. Widowed at forty-three she found herself deprived of her husband’s property and, thrown upon her own resources, turned to writing as a means of livelihood. “Mrs. Royall was known throughout the country for about forty years, during which she figured as traveler, author, editor, and agitator, and if we were to accept what we regard as the unjust estimate put upon her by some of her contemporaries we should add that she also figured as a beggar, blackmailer, and common scold. She lived from 1769 to 1854, and was a worker almost to the end of her life; it was only four months prior to her death that she issued in Washington the final number of her paper known as ‘The huntress.’” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Miss Porter has followed Mrs. Royall’s erratic course with commendable thoroughness. She has taken a fair view of Mrs. Royall’s characteristics, but she has exaggerated her importance.” G. H.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 622. Ap. ’09. 450w.
“A sympathetic and, from the nature of the subject, often amusing biography of an exceedingly quaint, racy and vigorous personality.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 82. N. ’09. + =Ind.= 66: 869. Ap. 22, ’09. 170w.
“The thorough and scholarly way in which the author has handled the mass of material at her command is distinctly worthy of notice.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 766. My. 1, ’09. 470w.
“Excellent story of her life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 179. Mr. 27, ’09. 960w.
“Miss Porter has proved herself an able and sympathetic biographer of this delightfully human and interesting woman.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 561. O. ’09. 300w.
“Miss Porter’s work is valuable as a contribution to historical detail, and it is written with a vivacity and conviction that would have won the approval of Mrs. Royall herself.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 863. Ap. 17, ’09. 340w. =Spec.= 102: 620. Ap. 17, ’09. 170w.
=Post, Emily (Mrs. Edwyn Main Post).=^{[11]} Title market. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–25632.
A story that “shows, in a way that holds the interest, certain aspects of international marriages which, if not actually new, afford, at least, some unfamiliar variation of a familiar theme; it takes us to Italy, and gives us numerous pleasant pictures of the sunshine and laughter and the glamour of Rome; and it has, besides, an ingenious plot in which an unscrupulous nobleman intrigues to gain the hand of an American heiress, and incidentally breaks the laws of Italy by smuggling out of the country a priceless Madonna of Raphael to the end that an enemy who stands between him and the girl he wants may be charged with the crime and imprisoned.”—Bookm.
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“Like Mrs. Burnett’s ‘The shuttle,’ the story is somewhat melodramatic, but as an exposition of the philosophy of international marriages shows both sides of the shield much more fairly.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 92. N. ’09.
“The author seems desirous of saving time, economising space; she eliminates description and detail over and over at times when detail and description would add substantially to the story’s strength and interest. Nevertheless, ‘The title market’ is one of the books of the current month that can be recommended with the pleasant assurance that people will come back to you afterward and tell you how much they liked it.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 67. S. ’09. 400w.
Reviewed by A. Schade van Westrum.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 341. D. ’09. 240w.
“In spite of its happy moments, we close the book with a general sense of one superfluous volume the more.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 461. N. 11, ’09. 220w.
“The book is by no means of sustained excellence, and there is a curious flavor of the amateur to it, considering Mrs. Post’s more than slight apprenticeship to the trade of writing, but it has good stuff in it. The book is an advance on Mrs. Post’s previous work, and also a promise of better things to come.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 723. N. 20, ’09. 360w.
“Emily Post treats an old theme flattering to our national pride with some freshness. The story flows smoothly until the American heiress returns to her American lover, but the closing scenes are rather too well arranged to be convincing.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 559. N. 6, ’09. 50w.
=Potter, Mary Knight.= How Richard won out. †75c. Wilde.
8–32394.
The story of how a lame boy, fatherless and motherless, makes good in the eyes of two aunts who discountenanced the father’s marriage.
=Potter, Mary Knight.=^{[11]} Richard in camp. †75c. Wilde.
9–25971.
Richard and his cousin Rosamond spend part of a summer vacation in the Adirondacks. The opening of school brings their happy out-door life to an end. Later, at the Christmas holiday time, Richard returns to the woods for a week in a winter camp.
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“A wholesome boys’ book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 805. D. 18, ’09. 20w.
=Potter, Thomas.= Concrete: its uses in building, from foundations to finish. 3d ed. rev. and enl. *$3. Van Nostrand.
9–9634.
“To those concrete engineers, and there are many in this country, who think that concrete as a building material was not used extensively until the last decade, this book should be commended. Its first edition was published in 1877 and many of the processes and systems described in the latest edition are retained from that time. In addition the history of the use of the material in ancient times and more particularly in England the middle of the last century is very complete.”—Engin. N.
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“It should have considerable value for the small builder of straight concrete work. There is an attempt to enter somewhat into the matter of the theory of concrete mixing and designing and a slight reference to reinforced concrete, but this portion is quite evidently out of the author’s scope and of very little value.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 4. Ja. 14, ’09. 200w.
“Could all recent designers have been acquainted with the history recorded in this book, it is certain that fewer mistakes would have marred our records of the last few years. Deserves a place beside Sabine’s ‘Cement and concrete.’”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 111. Ja. 23, ’09. 550w.
“Mr. Potter’s pages promise to be invaluable not only to builders and architects, but to landowners, on whose estates so much work, from cattle-troughs to cottages, can often be carried out to advantage in concrete.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 154. Ja. 30, ’09. 620w.
=Poulton, Edward Bagnall.= Essays on evolution, 1889–1907. *$4. Oxford.
8–35865.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 83. Mr. ’09.
“The present collection of essays will be of interest alike to the general reader and to the special student of evolutionary problems.” F. B. Sumner.
+ − =J. Philos.= 6: 185. Ap. 1, ’09. 2540w.
“The essays form a powerful reinforcement of what is properly and distinctively called the Darwinian theory of evolution, and should tend to reassure those weaker brethren who have allowed themselves to be persuaded or terrified into losing confidence in the work of the two great founders of rational evolutionary doctrine.” F. A. D.
+ =Nature.= 79: 302. Ja. 14, ’09. 980w.
“Professor Poulton’s book is one that may be commended to the general reader as well as to his colleagues. His exposition is lucid, and his method truly philosophical, for everywhere he tries to see the part in the light of the whole.” E. H. Hollands.
+ =Philos. R.= 18: 449. Jl. ’09. 1500w.
“If any points may be selected for special mention from a treatise whose general excellence is so high, they are the evidence advanced tending to place the Mullerian theory of common warning coloration on a firmer basis, and the extension of its applicability to a greater number of cases at the expense of the Batesian theory of mimicry.” J. P. McM.
+ =Science=, n.s. 29: 109. Ja. 15, ’09. 1300w.
=Powell, Addison M.=^{[8]} Echoes from the frontier. **$1. Wessels.
9–19058.
A slight volume of frontier verse dedicated to “those who hearken to the ‘wild’s calling.’” Such themes inspire the verse as an Alaska river, Alaska mountains, the sheep hunter, the white silence, the California hills, the mule train packer, etc.
=Powell, Addison Monroe.=^{[12]} Trailing and camping in Alaska. **$2. Wessels.
9–30411.
A narrative that has grown out of a scout and trail-maker’s ten years spent in exploring, hunting and prospecting in Alaska. The author “sees everything and sees well” in this northern wonderland where latent possibilities are nursed into being by strong men with large hopes, initiative and courage. It is an informing description of the country and of the life of its pioneers.
=Powell, Lyman Pierson.=^{[5]} Emmanuel movement in a New England town: a systematic account of experiments and reflections designed to determine the proper relationship between the minister and the doctor in the light of modern needs. **$1.25. Putnam.
9–35440.
A brief, popular statement of the scope, principles and clinical experiments of the Emmanuel movement as conducted by Mr. Powell in Northampton, Mass.
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Reviewed by J. L. Gillin.
=Am. J. Soc.= 15: 267. S. ’09. 220w.
“More easily understood by the average reader than Worcester’s ‘Religion and medicine’ and useful as a supplement, but in no way supersedes it.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 108. Ap. ’09. =Outlook.= 93: 645. N. 20, ’09. 90w.
“Throughout the book there is a notable absence of the exaggeration and straining for effect which so often accompany the propaganda of any new cult. Mr. Powell’s conservatism makes his conclusions the more convincing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 582. My. ’09. 1050w. =Spec.= 103: sup. 493. O. 2, ’09. 140w.
=Powell, Lyman Pierson.=^{[12]} Heavenly heretics. **$1.25. Putnam.
9–29856.
Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, William Ellery Channing, Horace Bushnell and Phillips Brooks are the “heavenly heretics” treated here. The author calls in the testimony of contemporary listeners, analyzes specific sermons, and thru the gateway of analysis leads on to each man’s general philosophy of life and states the salient facts and illustrative incidents that have helped each to influence the religious life of his contemporaries.
=Pownall, Charles A. W.= Thomas Pownall, M. P., F. R. S., governor of Massachusetts Bay, author of The letters of Junius: with a supplement comparing the colonies of Kings George III and Edward VII. *$5. Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, London; for sale by W: Abbott.
9–9266.
A sketch of the life and times of a man who “played an important, but almost forgotten, part in America during the seven years’ war and in the Parliamentary battles against Bute and Grafton and North.... To most readers the heart of the work will be in the two chapters which elaborate an old argument to prove that Pownall wrote the ‘Letters of Junius.’”—Nation.
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“There was room for a brief biography of Governor Pownall. But it is to be feared that Mr. Charles Pownall has to a large extent defeated his own end by developing the career of his kinsman to the prodigious length of some 460 pages. Mr. Charles Pownall boldly describes his kinsman as ‘author of “The letters of Junius,”’ his theory being that Francis wrote them at Pownall’s dictation. The theory seems to us to break down absolutely in the important matter of style.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 283. Mr. 6. 1000w.
“It is unfortunate that the author shows little skill in the art of narration, and allows himself to wander off into long disquisitions on colonial history and allied topics, which detract seriously from the value of his book.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 331. My. 16, ’09. 250w.
“Mr. Pownall has written the life of an interesting and important figure, and has given a new impetus to an old controversy.” W. L. Grant.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 375. Ap. ’09. 1300w.
“It must be added that Mr. Pownall shows no special skill in the art of narration, and that he swells his book to an uncomfortable size by entirely unnecessary excursions into American history.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 306. Mr. 25, ’09. 2450w.
=Pratt, Edwin A.=^{[5]} Railways and nationalization. 2s. 6d. King, P. S., & son, London.
“Mr. Pratt writes in support of the thesis that nationalization of railways, under any of its forms, ‘is unnecessary, undesirable and impracticable as regards any applications thereof to the United Kingdom,’ whatever defense of the principle may be urged in other countries with other economic and political conditions. This said, enough said. The topics treated are inevitable: state railway finance; state vs. private management; effects upon politics and upon labor; probable terms of acquisition; comparison of English and continental rates, services, and conditions of traffic; what English railways have done; their present situation; how other countries have been led to adopt state ownership—all treated from the point of view that out of the nationalization Nazareth nothing good can come; at least not for England.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“The main interest of the book for Americans lies in its lucid exposition of British traffic conditions and grievances, and the proposed remedies for the latter.” V: S. Clark.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 40. Ap. ’09. 240w.
“As a piece of economic journalism, dealing with a current problem and intended to influence the popular mind, the book has merit. It is timely; it furnishes recent data.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 237. Ap. ’09. 180w.
“He has done for this subject what Prof. Meyer did for the subject of municipal ownership of public utilities. It is not a treatise, nor a consideration of principles, but frankly is a brief held for the opposition. This is both its strength and weakness.” E: A. Bradford.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 572. O. 17, ’08. 1300w.
=Pratt, James Bissett.= What is pragmatism? *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–5136.
Six lectures somewhat recast by the author since delivering them at the Glenmore summer school. They form a popular and informal presentation of pragmatism (not presupposing any prior knowledge on the subject) for those who find themselves unable to accept the pragmatic view. The chapters are: Meaning and method in pragmatism, The ambiguity of truth, The pragmatic view of the truth relation, Pragmatism and knowledge, Pragmatism and religion, The “practical” point of view, Index.
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“Among the anti-pragmatists Professor Pratt is known as one of the clearest and cleverest writers. On the whole the present volume supports and enhances this reputation. Professor Pratt’s style is delightfully free and easy, and some readers, especially the pragmatic ones, may find that this applies also to some of his criticisms.” A. W. Moore.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 477. Jl. ’09. 770w.
“Clear; forcible and mainly to the point. Not as interesting as James’ ‘Pragmatism,’ but should be read by those wishing to ‘hear the other side.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 108. Ap. ’09. =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 610. N. ’09. 170w.
“The book contains a number of shrewd critical observations and its style is enjoyable.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 202. S. ’09. 60w.
“Mr. Pratt ably refutes all the arguments of the pragmatists which he examines. What he does not do, but which he might have done, is to make us realize that they are practically the same argument all the time.” A. Schinz.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 20: 117. O. ’09. 1500w.
“Professor Pratt’s book is a most welcome and timely contribution to the discussion of pragmatism. It is an excellent summary of the current arguments against pragmatism, written in a very attractive style. On a few fundamental questions, Professor Pratt’s discussion seems to me to fail in being convincing.” H. T. Woolley.
+ − =J. Philos.= 6: 300. My. 27, ’09. 1650w.
Reviewed by P. E. M.
=Nation.= 88: 456. My. 6, ’09. 280w.
“This critique, lucid, keen, kindly, and ingratiating itself by its bright and genial style, deserves to be read as widely as the three or four volumes by distinguished but discordant pragmatists which thus far have exclusively occupied whatever of public attention has been attracted to their showy philosophy.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 818. Ap. 10, ’09. 250w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 512. Ap. ’09. 80w.
=Pratt, Lucy.=^{[6]} Ezekiel. †$1. Doubleday.
9–14825.
A wondrous wise little negro boy is the chief figure among the group of Hampton institute children who work and play thru these pages. His progress and setbacks on the road to wisdom are representative and intensely human. His stories, wonderful to the ears of his companions, reveal the negro’s spirit of make-believe, his superstition and love of rhythm.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 28. S. ’09. ✠
“A reserve and control, a withholding of comment, letting the child in word and deed betray his own imaginative, sensitive personality, show great artistic skill, while the human sympathy underlying the artistic appreciation gives a large quality to the work.”
+ =Atlan.= 104: 683. N. ’09. 80w.
“Feminine sentiment can do no more for the pickaninny than it has done in Lucy Pratt’s ‘Ezekiel.’”
+ =Nation.= 89: 206. S. 2, ’09. 210w.
“One may feel at times that she rather overemphasizes a didactic note in her effort to gain sympathy for the negro race at large. The book is thoroughly delightful and fresh, and the reader who does not welcome Ezekiel into the gallery of children in literature must be hard hearted, indeed.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 420. Jl. 3, ’09. 200w.
=Prelini, Charles.= Graphical determination of earth slopes, retaining walls and dams. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–28615.
Consists mainly of graphical methods of solving problems concerning the slopes of earth embankments, the lateral pressure of earth against a wall, and the thickness of retaining walls and dams. Graphical methods of Culmann, Rebhann, Weyrauch, Blanc and others have been used; the course of the discussion is similar to that followed by Professor Senesi of Italy.
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“The text should commend itself to the attention of instructors.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 665. D. ’08. 200w.
“The proof reading has been hastily done, as is evident by the discrepancies between cuts and text and by the corrections required in following the derivation of the formulas.” C: L. Crandall.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 693. D. 17, ’08. 640w.
“The short chapter on dams is probably likely to be of least use outside the classroom, while that on earth slopes is well above the average in general interest.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 594. N. 21, ’08. 130w.
“The book should prove especially useful to civil engineering students during their final college year.” T. H. B.
+ =Nature.= 81: 393. S. 30, ’09. 500w.
=Preuss, Arthur=, ed. Study in American freemasonry. *$1.50. Herder.
8–29606.
A study based upon Pike’s “Morals and dogma of the ancient and accepted Scottish rite,” Mackey’s “Masonic ritualist,” “The encyclopaedia of freemasonry,” and other American masonic and standard works. The author “seeks to show that freemasonry is by no means the harmless social and benevolent organization it appears to be, but rather an insidious and dangerous enemy of true faith and upright morals.” (Nation.)
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“A more liberal exercise of compression, pruning, and elimination would have made the book more compact and, therefore, more readable. Dr. Preuss seems to weaken his case now and again by unduly pressing some inference based upon some passing remark from a masonic source.”
− =Cath. World.= 88: 108. O. ’08. 1050w.
“Mr. Preuss takes his antagonist somewhat too seriously.”
− =Nation.= 88: 63. Ja. 21, ’09. 140w.
=Preyer, David C.= Art of the Netherland galleries. (Art galleries of Europe ser.) *$2. Page.
8–30912.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Is more than a mere guide to the collections of paintings in Holland.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 254. My. ’09. 80w. =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 23. N. ’09. 50w.
“A mildly entertaining book by an author with no charm of well-formed literary style, with apparently no profound convictions, no original philosophy of art and life, but with an equipment of generally sound ideas as to the relative standing of the Dutch painters, and with an indubitable fund of information on various aspects of his subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 638. D. 24, ’08. 370w.
“A part of the liveliness of tone is due to the author’s marked predilections and readiness to indulge his enthusiasms, thereby communicating to the reader something of his own feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 577. O. 17, ’08. 1100w.
=Prichard, Harold Arthur.=^{[11]} Kant’s theory of knowledge. *$2.15. Oxford.
9–24195.
“This book is an attempt to think out the nature and tenability of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism, an attempt animated by the conviction that even the elucidation of Kant’s meaning, apart from any criticism, is impossible without a discussion on their own merits of the main issues which he raises.”
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“Mr. Prichard’s volume is more of a rarity as a vigorous manifesto in favor of this new realism than as an addition to that multitude, which no librarian can number, of books about Kant’s philosophy. Yet, though Mr. Prichard is evidently more interested in realism than in Kant, his book, within the limits chosen, has some singular merits, even as a commentary on the ‘Kritik’; and in certain ways it should be more serviceable to students of that obscure classic than any existing English writing.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 213. S. 2, ’09. 750w.
“Throughout the book the author’s analysis and his criticism seem to me almost always correct, excellent, and helpful, yet, though some of the chapters certainly should have been published as articles. I cannot help asking, why they all were published as a book? It is hardly a book for a student beginning Kant. Finally, as an attack on idealism and as a defense of realism, the book loses much of its force by keeping so closely to the letter of Kant’s critique instead of dealing with his main problems apart from their artificial setting.” W. T. Marvin.
+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 653. N. ’09. 2550w.
=Priest, George Madison.=^{[12]} Brief history of German literature; based on Gotthold Klee’s “Grundzüge der deutschen literaturgeschichte.” **$1.50. Scribner.
9–28542.
A study of German literature from the earliest times down to the present day which is essentially the embodiment of “an attempt to reproduce Professor Klee’s manual for the benefit of English readers.” At the same time the author has aimed to prepare a book suited to the needs of the English reader rather than to offer a faithful translation of the German work.
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“A model of comprehensiveness for its size.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1137. N. 18, ’09. 100w.
=Prince, Morton=, ed.^{[5]} My life as a dissociated personality, by B. C. A.; with an introd. by Morton Prince. *50c. Badger, R. G.
9–5248.
Contains (1) an account of the different phases of multiple personality as they appeared to the subject after restoration to health, and (2) an account of co-conscious life written by the same subject in one of her states of dissociated personality.
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=Dial.= 46: 333. My. 16, ’09. 80w.
=Prindle, Edwin Jay.= Patents as a factor in manufacturing. (Works management lib.) $2. Eng. mag.
8–31843.
“The author of this volume disclaims any intention of making the inventor or the manufacturer his own patent attorney. His book, therefore, omits any consideration of the fine legal technicalities of patent law, but instead takes up the broader subjects with which every manufacturer or engineer having to do with patents ought to be reasonably familiar.... Of the seven chapters of the book, Chap. 4, relative to infringements, and Chap. 6, on the patent relations of employer and employee, are particularly worthy of commendation for their usefulness to engineers.”—Engin. N.
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“Every chapter is of interest, and the book as a whole can be most highly commended.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 174. F. ’09. 250w.
“We do not recall anywhere so systematic and complete a presentation of patent law for the layman in small compass as is here given. The book as a whole is a meritorious and useful one.” C. G. Barth.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 691. D. 17, ’08. 120w.
“For the general reader the book is instructive and entertaining as well as authoritative. For the young engineer it is much in a nutshell and he should read it many times until its contents are absorbed.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 707. D. 19, ’08. 320w.
“Should be of value to the public which it addresses.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 492. Ag. 14, ’09. 100w.
=Prout, Ebenezer.= Instrumentation. (Music students’ lib.) 75c. Ditson.
Prepared for students who wish to gain a knowledge of the proper blending of orchestral instruments, their compass and capabilities, and everything connected with this branch of musical art. “Instead of commencing with a catalogue of all the instruments used in the modern orchestra ... it has been thought better to begin with an orchestra of strings alone, and to teach first how they are to be used. The various wind instruments are then added by degrees to the strings, until at length the full orchestra is reached. The subjects of balance of tone and contrast are then treated; next the instrumentation of vocal music, and of concertos, and other instrumental solos; and a few general principles conclude the volume.” (Preface.) Numerous examples are given from the works of the masters.
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“Is particularly timely now.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 72. Ja. 21, ’09. 400w.
“The book is an excellent one to set on the music-shelf for reference beside Krehbiel’s ‘How to listen to music.’”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 266. Ag. ’09. 160w.
=Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice (Mrs. Roger Atkinson Pryor).=^{[11]} My day: reminiscences of a long life. *$2.25. Macmillan.
9–28141.
Over seventy years are traversed in this sketch that leans more to the personal aspects of history than to autobiography. From her early days in Virginia to the exciting days before and during the war, and on to a rebel’s struggle in starting life anew in the North after the war had ended and had left him with nothing but a ragged uniform, a sword, a wife and seven children. The sketch fixes some of the emotions and some of the vital experiences that entered woof and fiber into the structure of a past generation.
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“One welcomes with enthusiasm so delightful, graphic and interesting a record of days that are past, and whose memory is well worth preserving, as Mrs. Roger A. Pryor’s ‘My day: reminiscences of a long life’ proves to be.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1139. N. 18, ’09. 210w.
“The only deficiency in a work which must be widely read and much referred to is the absence of an index.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 1080. D. 11, ’09. 200w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 657. O. 23, ’09. 40w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 754. D. ’09. 130w.
=Pumpelly, Raphael=, ed. Explorations in Turkestan, expedition of 1904; prehistoric civilizations of Anau, origins, growth, and influence of environment. (Carnegie institution of Washington, Publication no. 73.) $10. Carnegie inst.
9–2519.
The results of a study of prehistoric man based upon the remains that can be found in the central plateau of Asia. The volumes deal chiefly with the exploration of two mounds near the city of Anau, about half way between the Caspian and the City of Merv.
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“These volumes with their wealth of illustrations are a worthy counterpart to the magnificent series of volumes on Susiana edited by DeMorgan.”
+ + =Ind.= 66: 424. F. 25, ’09. 670w.
“These volumes are very interesting in many ways. They are monumental contributions to a subject of great importance in the history of a section of mankind, and quite worthy of the institution whose imprint they bear.” C: R. Gillett.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 194. Ap. 3, ’09. 900w.
=Punch, London.= Poems from Punch; ed. by Francis C. Burnand. 40c. Caldwell.
8–26006.
“This collection of Poems from ‘Punch’ has been drawn almost entirely from verses published in that periodical during the first twenty-five years of its existence (1841–65), years which bridge the gulf between the latest work of Hood and the earliest contributions of Sir Francis Burnand himself.”—Spec.
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“As a whole the volume is scarcely exhilarating, and Sir Francis Burnand’s introduction might well have comprised matter more definite and of wider interest.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 816. D. 26. 200w. + =Dial.= 45: 464. D. 16, ’08. 70w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1466. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
“For the serious poems in ‘Punch’ little can be said when they are twenty or sixty years old.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 144. Ja. 30, ’09. 120w.
“The poems vary greatly both in quality and in subject-matter.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 304. F. 20, ’09. 780w.
=Purvis, J. B.=^{[9]} Through Uganda to Mount Elgon. $1.50. Am. Tract.
Conducts readers thru nearly the whole of the East African Empire, and gives glimpses of countries and peoples. It includes an informing presentation of problems of race and color, civil and military questions, and commercial and missionary enterprises.
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“We have no hesitation in saying that his book has permanent value. The later chapters (xii-xvi) will be found most interesting by the anthropologist.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 93. Jl. 24. 440w.
“Mr. Purvis went beyond the now almost beaten track, and his book should be read by all interested in mission work.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 203. Ag. 14, ’09. 160w.
“Mr. Purvis has much to say about various matters in Uganda, principles and details of administration, &c. We prefer to give no opinion on these matters, but we certainly think that what he says is worth considering.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 316. Ag. 28, ’09. 500w.
=Putnam, Bertha Haven.=^{[5]} Enforcement of the statutes of labourers, during the first decade after the black death, 1349–1359. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law. v. 32.) *$4.50. Longmans.
8–32654.
“Miss Putnam has endeavored to answer two questions much disputed among students of English economic and social history: first, were the provisions of the statute of laborers legitimate, and secondly, were they effective?... The essay rests upon a remarkably fine basis of documentary material obtained after long search in the Public record office, London, and here printed in part in an appendix of documents occupying 463 pages, or twice the number of the thesis itself.”—Nation.
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“The interest of the book is sustained by a persuasive literary style and by a workmanship which is admirable in several respects.” J. F. Baldwin.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 799. Jl. ’09. 620w.
“A very scholarly study of administration.” R. V. Phelan.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 27. Ap. ’09. 1200w. =Ind.= 66: 1298. Je. 10, ’09. 280w.
“Quite apart from her main purpose of showing the operation of the system set up to enforce the statute of laborers she has accomplished an exceedingly useful result in calling attention to sources misplaced or unknown and of orienting the entire mass of material necessary for a further investigation of the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 520. N. 26, ’08. 450w. =Spec.= 103: sup. 715. N. 6, ’09. 120w.
=Putnam, George Rockwell.= Nautical charts. $2. Wiley.
8–28865.
A series of lectures delivered at Columbia university. Includes an account of nautical surveying and chart-making, historical notes, and explanation of the use of charts. “The book is written in non-technical language to as great an extent as is feasible. The general reader will find it clear and concise.” (Science.)
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“Bears the characteristics of a semi-popular work. But it is clear and instructive as far as it goes, and the fact that it leaves the wish that the author had taken time to go more into detail may be due to his success in engaging the reader’s interest. That the book deserved to be written is further grounded in the fact that there exists no general writing on nautical charts.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 31. Mr. 18, ’09. 200w.
“Unnecessary alike to the hydrographer and the sailor, this little book may yet prove attractive to the curious in maritime matters.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 659. D. 31, ’08. 120w.
“A valuable addition to books dealing with hydrographical surveying.” H. C. Lockyer.
+ =Nature.= 79: 365. Ja. 28, ’09. 100w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 352. Je. 5, ’09. 250w.
“For mariners, yachtsmen, surveyors and shippers it is of special interest. The expert in the lines treated will find it valuable in furnishing a good general view of the subject by any expert. The book is up to date, is written in an interesting manner, and yet is especially to be commended for laying emphasis upon matters which are really important to the users of charts, rather than the matters which are merely interesting.” J. F. H.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 28: 766. N. 27, ’08. 860w.
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=Querido, Israel.=^{[11]} Toil of men. **$1.35. Putnam.
The wretched, sordid life of some Holland slaves of toil is portrayed in this story. Whether it be the sodden, passion-seized man or woman, or the creature whom grim toil has plunged into stupor, the author reproduces the type with marvelous realism. There is no progress, no development in the story; it ends where it began. It is a cross section of actual life, among the very animals of human society, sharply scrutinized and clearly analyzed. It contains a description of a thief’s passion for stealing that has no parallel. The book suggests Zola and Gorky.
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“Able translation. In striking contrast with the deplorable human element is the beauty of the setting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 493. O. 23. 170w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 652. O. 23, ’09. 40w.
“Much that must seem coarse appears in the tale. It is grim, but never uninteresting, and some of the descriptions of nature in varying moods are beautifully written.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 729. N. 20, ’09. 380w.
=Quick, Herbert.=^{[12]} American inland waterways. **$3.50. Putnam.
9–31048.
“The present work is not only a description of places, but a work on commerce and transportation. Among the eighty fine illustrations most represent harbors, docks, levees, and elevators. The writer, in fact, may be said to hold a brief for the waterways as means of transportation, as against, or rather supplementary to, the railways. He suggests a plan for a system of water communication coextensive with the continent and he states, with many arguments in support of his thesis, the country’s ‘bitter need for better transportation facilities’ as likely best to be met by ‘a more complete use of our inland waterways as a complementary system of free highways to carry the tonnage which in good times the railways can not bear.’”—Lit. D.
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=Lit. D.= 39: 1080. D. 11, ’09. 210w.
“Mr. Quick’s text is of the sort which stirs the blood of Americans with either imagination or patriotism, and makes a hardly less convincing appeal to that class—neither small nor uninfluential—which is moved most by thrills of the pocket nerve.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 763. D. 4, ’09. 770w.
=Quick, Herbert.=^{[10]} Virginia of the air lanes. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–26671.
Miss Virginia Suarez, cruising above the Gulf of Mexico in her uncle’s aërostat, the Roc, steps into a helicopter while its inventor is explaining the mechanism. Unintentionally she touches the wrong lever, the intricate machinery is started in motion, the helicopter rises from the deck, and before the startled bystanders can prevent, the little car with its one occupant shoots off into space. So this exciting tale of adventure in mid air begins. Succeeding chapters tell of Virginia’s rescue by Theodore Carson, of the perfection of his own invention, the aëronef, of his fight with the girl’s uncle for the monopoly of the skies, and of the final happiness of the young people. The time of the story is, naturally, some few years hence.
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“The author enables you to interpolate several bright, irresponsible hours into the drab calendar of your days.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 719. N. 20, ’09. 500w.
=Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas.=^{[9]} True Tilda. †$1.50. Scribner.
9–35790.
A youthful heroine with nine years to her credit pursues her shrewd, energetic way thru the pages of this story. Tilda is a circus girl and when the story opens is lying in a hospital ward impatiently biding the healing of a bruised thigh-bone. With true sleuth cleverness she pieces together the incoherent sentences murmured by a dying woman near her, takes advantage of a half hour granted for an airing and slips away, steals a wronged child from a prison orphanage, and with the aid of coal-stokers, show-people, bargemen, a “Pooh-bah” of the wharf, and a determined lady bountiful conducts the child to his home and brings justice upon the head of a depraved orphanage superintendent.
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“A story with much originality, an abundance of strong human interest, and full of the charm of the unexpected and unusual.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 54. O. ’09. ✠
“The touch of the poet is felt throughout the book, and the description of some of the waterways over which the children travel would alone make it worth reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 357. S. 25. 220w.
“Although a book about children, it is distinctly designed for their elders to read, and is one of the happiest of the author’s whimsical inventions. So much humor, entertaining adventure, and unconventional life is not often packed within a single pair of covers.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 237. O. 1, ’09. 250w.
“Is not at his best in ‘True Tilda.’”
− =Ind.= 67: 550. S. 2, ’09. 160w.
“The plot is simply all that it needs to be. The unlucky thing is the sketchiness and inclusiveness of the persons. ‘Q’-land is peopled with creatures of paper and ink as well as of flesh and blood; a large number, more particularly, of figures bearing the mark of ‘Boz.’ It is not so much that ‘Q,’ like De Morgan, thinks in terms of the middle-Victorian novelist, as that his brain seems to be persistently haunted by the spooks of Gadshill.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 329. O. 7, ’09. 450w.
“There is something of a treat in store, so long as [the readers] will only leave the thing they call their critical sense behind them.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 386. S. 25, ’09. 1000w.
“A very delightful and genial book and the best tribute that we can pay to its many merits is to say that it suffers from its brevity.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 650. O. 23, ’09. 1250w.
=Quinn, Daniel.= Helladian vistas. $1.50. Daniel Quinn, Yellow Springs, O.
8–30697.
“In effect this is rather a book of travel, a sort of personally-conducted tour. We are taken to the Acropolis of Athens, to an Athenian cemetery, to the regions about Mycenae, and to the vale of Tempe. We are also shown the Olympic games, and, so far as may be, the mystic rites of Elevsis are unfolded to us. But it is to those places to which our classical studies less often lead us that our author oftenest conducts us—to ‘The land of the Klephts,’ to ‘Mega Spelaeon or the Monastery of the great cave,’ to ‘The Phaeaks’ island,’ to Zakynthos (‘The flower of the East’), and to other localities, among which Arkadia and Mesolonghion are not to be forgotten. History, ancient, medieval and modern, mingles with the description of natural scenery and characterizations of the people.”—Am. Hist. R.
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“The ‘tone’ is a delightful one and even those who are not classical students will find the book full of interest.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 375. Ja. ’09. 250w.
“Is very entertaining reading.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 693. F. ’09. 130w.
“Neither grace nor fashion in the narrative ... neither thoroughness nor learning. A due regard for the quick and the dead should have allowed these brief and breathless essays to remain in the holy sleep of the magazines where they first appeared.” J. G. Winter.
− =Class. J.= 4: 336. My. ’09. 130w.
“Some of the essays are very readable.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ =Class. Philol.= 4: 335. Jl. ’09. 130w.
“We may prophesy that when this book once gets into circulation it will receive high praise.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 868. Ap. 22, ’09. 460w.