=“O,” pseud.= See Yellow war.
=O., E. G.= Egomet. *$1.25. Lane.
A collection of fifty-three essays which “are simply the book-talk of
a book-lover, that and nothing more.” In them E. G. O. frankly states
his likes and dislikes, but allows his readers to agree or disagree
with him, just as they choose.
“They have the double merit of being sincere in themselves and of
being simply and naturally set down.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 79. Ja. 14. 320w.
“The author makes no attempt to be profound, but he succeeds in
interesting even where he does not carry conviction with the statement
of his opinions. He is delightfully frank, and does not hesitate to
put forth various literary heresies.”
+ =Boston Evening Transcript.= :7. F. 10, ‘05. 120w.
“His manifest sincerity in all his literary judgments, and his
abounding enthusiasm for a wide range of good books make his chapters
delightful reading.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 156. Mr. 1, ‘05. 480w.
=Oates, William C.= War between the Union and the Confederacy, and its
lost opportunities. *$3. Neale.
“This is chiefly of interest to military students of the Civil war as
a criticism of the action of President Davis of the Confederacy, the
Confederate congress, and Confederate general officers in the field,
with the object of showing that under other management the South might
have won.”—Outlook.
“Rambling and careless in style, frequently in error as to events,
sometimes grotesque in opinions and occasionally prejudiced against
individuals. In one sense is worthless and in another is of the
highest importance as a revelation of men.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 264. S. 28, ‘05. 2710w.
“Much matter which the future historian will be glad of. The General
himself speaks frankly as a partisan.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 530w.
=Outlook.= 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 60w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Hernando Cortés, conqueror of Mexico. **$1.
Harper.
“Despite its title. Mr. Ober’s book comes under the category of
history rather than biography, for by far the greater portion is
devoted to the three years’ campaigning which ended in the Spanish
conquest of Mexico.... It may be commended to those desirous of
obtaining a brief, readable account of the conquest and an impartial
idea of the leading figure therein. An especially interesting feature
is the identification by its author (who has traveled widely in
Latin-American countries) of scenes and relics associated with the New
World exploits of Cortés.”—Outlook.
* “Readable it certainly is, to one who is not fastidious regarding
the historical accuracy of the book he is reading.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 313. N. 16, ‘05. 220w.
* “However the telling is well enough, and the facts seem sufficient
for the purpose in hand. Except for that purpose the book strikes one
as distinctly superfluous.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 785. N. 18, ‘05. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 120w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Our West Indian neighbors. **$2.50; ¾ lev.
**$5. Pott.
The author, who has visited and studied the islands in 1879-1880, who
was commissioner to the world’s fair of 1891 from the West Indies, and
who has furthered his knowledge of them in late years, gives an
account of the islands of the Caribbean sea, “America’s
Mediterranean,” their picturesque features, fascinating history, and
attractions for the traveler, nature-lover, and pleasure-seeker.
“Many quaint and little known facts are recorded, but the total result
is very unsatisfactory. The account is rambling and superficial.”
— =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 134. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
“A timely and good account of the islands of the Caribbean sea.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 191. F. ‘05. 90w.
“One of the most complete and authoritative of recent books.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 100w.
=Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson.= Abraham Lincoln. **$1.25. Jacobs.
A full account in compact form of the development of a great man and
the circumstances which favored this development. The chief battles
which mark the course of the Civil war are treated rather summarily.
The book deals essentially with the man, his motives, and personality,
and the nation’s struggle forms an impressionistic back-ground.
“This double sectionalism and these standards of elegance are fatal to
the usefulness of a book which does not pretend to a ‘vast amount of
research into sources not before used,’ and which presents few new
ideas. Nor is the execution faultless.” Carl Russell Fish.
+ — — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 901. Jl. ‘05. 630w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 188. F. ‘05. 30w.
“The author has produced a well-balanced, readable, compact book, that
gives the important facts of Lincoln’s life. He has brought to his
work historical training and a practised hand.”
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 95. F. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“Dr. Oberholtzer writes clearly and forcibly for the most part, but
with an occasional verbal arrangement that makes his meaning hard to
understand. The ‘Bibliography’ of this volume is remarkable for its
inadequacy. Dr. Oberholtzer’s predilection is for such memoirs as
serve the more sordid and vulgarizing conception of Lincoln’s
character.”
— — + =Nation.= 80: 17. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1090w.
“No man, whichever his side of the fence can fail to find much
pleasure and satisfaction in contemplating Mr. Lincoln in the angle of
view in which Mr. Oberholtzer has chosen to look at him. The author
manages as a rule to be astonishingly fair to both sides and to get,
in most cases, very close to the truth. There are lapses of course.
Times, too, when in his eagerness to make bold generalizations the
author misses things he should have considered.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 36. Ja. 21, ‘05. 640w.
* =O’Brien, William.= Recollections. **$3.50. Macmillan.
“William O’Brien, the energetic Irish member of the British
Parliament ... reveals a most interesting and complex personality in
this work. Many of this vigorous fighter’s recollections concern the
fierce, endless warfare over Ireland’s rights and wrongs. But he was a
poet in his youth. He has strong sympathies with the Gaelic revival,
he was an ardent theatregoer in his young manhood, and is still, it
seems, in the intervals when the Irish contingent in the House of
Commons is not active, a dreamer of brave dreams.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Mr. O’Brien writes as a rule in scholarly fashion; but there are
some passages which fail conspicuously when so considered.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 795. D. 9 690w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
* “Although written from a standpoint differing somewhat from that of
Mr. McCarthy’s reminiscences, they recall the latter, not simply in
subject matter, but in tone and treatment. They are pervaded by the
same geniality, quiet dignity, pathos, tenderness, humor, and
unfailing optimism.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ‘05. 300w.
=O’Connor, Mary Hamilton.= Vanishing Swede. $1.25. Cooke.
“The story has to do with the discovery of a long-lost silver mine,
the ‘Vanishing Swede,’ the finding of which was preceded by many
adventures, hairbreadth escapes from death by the wild beasts of the
forests, and leads up to the happiness of the young brother and
sister, who are the principal characters in the story, and of another
couple. The mysterious character is the Leather hermit, who turns out
to be the man who had discovered the silver mine.”—N. Y. Times.
“The humor of the ‘Vanishing Swede’ is of the primitive sort that
springs only from youth and health; it is not humor, indeed, so much
as animal spirits.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 150w.
“Interesting story of pluck and adventure in the forests of Oregon.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 299. My 6, ‘05. 150w.
=Oertel, Philipp Friedrich Wilhelm (W. D. Von Horn, pseud.).= Maria
Theresa; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
“Masculinity of intellect, together with a strength and wisdom, a
firmness yet kindliness of disposition which but few men have
manifested” are gifts which enabled Maria Theresa to take her place
among the famous queens of the world. How she benefited her realm by
strengthening its laws and bringing about wise reforms is sketched in
a manner to interest young readers. The volume belongs to “Life
stories for young people.”
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Smoke-eaters. $1.50. Century.
Thru his experience on a New York newspaper, the author learned to
know and admire the men of the fire department, and in the
“Smoke-eaters” he has written an epic of the city firemen, a story of
danger and excitement. He follows the fortunes of a certain
hook-and-ladder crew and thru the smoke and flame their actual
characters reveal themselves, real and elemental. Captain Meaghan, who
earns his pension by thirty-five years of gallant service, Lieutenant
Gallagher, who wins a reputation and his chief’s adopted daughter, and
Sergeant Pim, whose grim humor relieves many a tense moment, are as
vivid as their flaming background.
“They are told with extraordinary simplicity, with no glow of rhetoric
or splash of color, but they carry complete conviction.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 90w.
“At last the American fireman has had something like justice done him
in our literature.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 293. Je. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“This is a good book for boys, altho not designed especially for young
readers. It contains much healthful excitement, a mass of information,
and many lessons in manliness, but no false bravado.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 224. Ag. 12. ‘05. 820w.
“It is not too much to say that he has written the epic of the New
York firemen, and not only are they the best sort of stories about
firemen, but some of them would stand as models of all that any short
stories should be—so compact, so restrained, and yet possessed of a
vigor and force that keep expectation keyed to the highest tension.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 770w.
“The stories are full of action, fine character-drawing, and humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 60w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 592. O. ‘05. 210w.
=Okakura-Kakuzo.= Awakening of Japan. *$1.20. Century.
Assuming that the West has as much to unlearn about the East as the
East has to learn about the West, the author frames his evolutionary
study for general enlightenment. He answers the question “From what
sources are drawn the intellectual and moral qualities which have
enabled the present generation of statesmen, citizens, soldiers and
sailors, under an able emperor, to enter suddenly, as a first class
liberal power, into the company of nations?” The sketch touches the
conditioning factors of Japanese development from the period of
isolation during the dark Night of Asia, to the present period which
the author characterizes as the “dusk of humanity.” He shows Japan in
her chrysalis state when the shogunate exercised the powers of
government, in her rallying state when the power of the shoguns was
overthrown, and in her state of a developing national conscience which
made ready the way for Commodore Perry and the western aid in the
restoration. The author’s virility, enthusiasm and conscience are
stamped upon every page.
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 176. F. 25, ‘05. 290w.
“He is a poet, a philosopher and a historian, and he possesses in no
small degree an intimate knowledge of Occidental history and the trend
of our civilization, while his knowledge of our language enables him
to write of The awakening of Japan with the skill of a master of
English. For these reasons this work is a volume that no Occidental
student of the Orient can afford to slight.”
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 100. Ja. ‘05. 4950w.
“With Mr. Kakuzo’s views on the older civilization of Japan we
entirely disagree. Even his chronology is wrong by a thousand years.”
— + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 396. Ap. 1. 870w.
“The present work is simpler and more concrete than ‘The ideals of the
East;’ in its purely literary qualities it would do credit to an
author writing his own tongue. Now that Lafcadio Hearn is dead, Mr.
Okakura may be regarded as the foremost interpreter of his people to
the western world; an interpreter not less subtle, and obviously more
authoritative.” R. B.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 282. Mr. ‘05. 530w.
“‘The awakening of Japan’ is marked by the same epigrammatic style and
forceful utterance that characterize ‘The ideals of the East.’”
Frederick W. Gookin.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 40. Ja. 16, ‘05. 810w.
“It is a story of the new Nippon after the brilliant and unscholarly
fashion of Carlyle.” Adachi Kinnosuké.
+ =Ind.= 59: 388. Ag. 17, ‘05. 500w.
“One of the best volumes, in brief compass, on Japanese historical
development, and answering the question, What has enabled the Japanese
people to escape the fate of the other Asiatic nations when in contact
with the West? is ‘The awakening of Japan.’ He writes in English with
a broad culture.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 124. Ja. ‘05. 170w.
“No more fascinating book on Japan, or one bearing more distinctly the
character of a multum in parvo, has been produced than this.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 619. Ap. 29, ‘05. 280w.
=Okakura-Yoshisaburo.= Japanese spirit; with an introd. by George
Meredith. **$1. Pott.
“The volume consists of reproductions of lectures delivered by Mr.
Okakura at the University of London. The essays take up and discuss
most of the peculiarly characteristic national traits of the Japanese
people.”—R. of Rs.
=Acad.= 68: 599. Je. 3, ‘05. 420w.
“They are illuminating and instructive, but lack the literary quality
of the two books by the author’s brother.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 380. O. ‘05. 60w.
“This book is not so strong or original as ‘The awakening of Japan,’
but it seems to do more justice to the work and influence of Buddhism
as the mother and nurse of Japanese civilization.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 63. Ag. 1, ‘05. 600w.
“His little volume has the distinctive characteristics of breadth,
lucidity, and felicity of expression which gained for the ‘Ideals’
such a wide and appreciative audience in this country.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 150w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 408. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“To philosophic capacity he adds those of criticism and of logical
arrangement of his materials, all of which combined have enabled him
to produce a clear, succinct and well-expressed essay on his subject.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 151. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1050w.
“Really valuable analysis.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 915. Je. 24, ‘05. 2450w.
=Okey, Thomas.= Story of Venice. $2. Macmillan.
A volume in the “Mediaeval towns” series. The history of Venice as an
independent state, covering a period of more than a thousand years,
and including an account of Venetian art. The second part of the
volume describes the Venice of to-day, dividing it into twenty
sections and making the description a practical one for the use of
travellers. There are illustrations by Nelly Erickson.
“Will be acceptable both to travellers and students.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 271. Mr. 18, ‘05. 330w.
“This little work is a model of clear and concise narrative. The
author knows how to make the most of his subject and tells his tale in
a very attractive way.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 192. Je. 16, ‘05. 850w.
“The story is told compactly, but with sufficient fullness.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 130w.
“Such a book is a boon to many men, who will find it concise but not
perfunctory, learned but never dull.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 320w.
“He has had no easy task in compressing into the limits of even the
larger volumes of this series so great a mass of material; and he has
performed it with skill and success.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 333. Mr. 4, ‘05. 330w.
=Older, Mrs. Fremont.= Giants. †$1.50. Appleton.
“One giant is an oil trust magnate; the other a young man who opposes
him. Scenes are laid in ‘Oilville,’ California, and New York, where
the young man has carried a reform campaign and become district
attorney. The book falls in with a popular tone of antagonism to
trusts as throttling competition.”—Outlook.
* “The whole narration is pitched in the highest key of
sensationalism, and the figures that take part in it have but slight
resemblance to real human beings.” Wm. M. Payne.
— =Dial.= 39: 308. N. 16, ‘05. 370w.
“Some readers will consider it rabid, sensational trash; others a blow
on the right side.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 60w.
=Olmsted, Frederick Law.= A journey in the seaboard slave states. 2v.
*$5. Putnam.
A series of letters written for the New York Times during a three
months’ trip in 1852-3. These letters were revised and published in
1856, and are now issued again in a two-volume edition. They contain
an account of the author’s impressions of the southern people, black
and white, of their institutions, and their social, political, and
industrial economy.
“They are like faithful daguerreotypes of the worst features of
southern civilization. The author’s spirit was so fiercely prejudiced
against the South....”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 382. F. 16, ‘05. 1150w.
“Occasionally one finds evidence of partisan feeling, but in the main
the story reads well, giving a distinct impression of a fair-minded
observer anxious to see just how things are, and equally anxious to
make a record of actual conditions.” Francis W. Shepardson.
+ + — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 610. S. ‘05. 520w.
=Oman, Charles (William) Chadwick.= Seven Roman statesmen of the later
Republic. *$1.60. Longmans.
“The seven statesmen are the two Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, the younger
Cato, Pompey, and Caesar. Their lives ... completely cover the last
century of Rome’s ancien régime; or, more precisely, they cover the
course of the Roman revolution.... Each of Mr. Oman’s seven statesmen,
with the exception of Cato, ... represented the monarchial principle,
each more distinctly than his predecessor. Thus the true meaning of
the whole process, ... may be brought out by concentrating attention
upon the personal element.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Although the cardinal facts of the story are common property and
allow of no radically new explanation, yet they are invested with new
interest by Mr. Oman’s literary skill, his graphic and often
colloquial style, his genial and pungent wit—as of the Oxford
common-room, his thoroughly individual appreciation of each of the
leading figures, and his presentation of the whole movement in modern
and realistic terms.” Henry A. Sill.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 622. Ap. ‘05. 1800w.
One hundred best American poems, selected by John R. Howard. 35c.
Crowell.
These poems are selected from the works of sixty-four American poets.
All living authors have been excluded and the editor does not claim
that he has chosen the one hundred best poems, but one hundred from
among the best. The selections are given in chronological order,
beginning with Philip Freneau (1752-1832) and closing with Richard
Hovey, who died in 1900. An index of authors and another of first
lines gives easy access to any poem.
* — =Nation.= 81: 484. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.
* “The selection, as a whole, is very satisfactory.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 340w.
* “One may quarrel with some of the selections ... but it can hardly
be said that they do not all deserve praise and preservation.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 732. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
Opal. $1.25. Houghton.
An unusual story of a living opal, a woman of wondrous beauty, who
feels “everything a little, but nothing much,” and who is a clever
reflection of each personality with whom she comes in contact, “a
thousand women in one.” Then there is the “one woman in a thousand,”
strong and homely, whose “character and features are at constant
warfare.” And there is the man in whom lay the possibilities which
might make of him either “a leader of men or a follower of women.”
This is the important material. Boston and the other characters are
mere background. The real woman loves the man, but gives him the opal
because she fancies it will make him happy. It is the usual story of
the unlucky stone which brings misfortune to the donor and possessor;
and the iridescent girl, with no more evil intent than the gem itself,
wrecks the lives of all who come in intimate contact with her. In the
end, when what she has done is legally undone, the finer qualities of
the real woman’s character keep her from her heart’s desire.
* “Written with such marked individuality of style.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 270. My. ‘05. 320w.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 140w.
“The argument is unusual, and it is strikingly presented. It seems,
however, to be a theme too extensive for treatment so brief, and there
are other evidences, slight but convincing, of lack of craftsmanship.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1. ‘05. 200w.
“Such a flat, foolish and unconvincing creature has, therefore, no
reason for existence, at least not in a novel.”
— =Ind.= 58: 1009. My. 4, ‘05. 200w.
“Of unusual interest and originality. The women are admirably drawn,
both of them, but the character of ‘the opal’ is a bit of portraiture
quite unique.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4. ‘05. 380w.
“Most of the story is made up of conversation, which is entertaining.
The action is rapid.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“The development of the story is skilfully managed, the conversations
as a rule are very entertaining, and the whole book has the touch of a
bright, keen, thoroughly trained woman, not by nature a novelist, but
able to turn her hand to the writing of fiction with unusual
adroitness both of judgment and skill.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 707. Mr. 18, ‘05. 120w.
“Is unusually witty and readable.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 110w.
“The treatment meets the theme but half way. It ought to be a
masterpiece and it is not.”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 243. Jl. ‘05. 200w.
=Oppenheim, E. Phillips.= Master mummer. †$1.50. Little.
A plotting archduchess hides her orphaned niece, direct heir to the
family’s millions, away in a convent, and substitutes her own
daughter’s claim to the fortune. By merest chance a young author
living a struggling bohemian life becomes the protector of the
unfortunate girl as she emerges into the world for a brief moment. His
efforts are strongly seconded by the “master mummer” a great actor,
who had loved the girl’s mother. Together they foil every attempt of
the arch-plotters, and bring about well-merited happiness.
“It has an ingenious plot, and a steady stream of romantic and
dramatic incident; he writes well, too, without exaggeration, and with
pretty touches of sentiment. In construction, management, style, and
variety of incident, we can recommend ‘The master mummer’ as one of
the best stories of its kind that has appeared for some time.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 420. Ap. 15, ‘05. 200w.
“The book has the exciting and the dramatic elements that will render
it popular with a large class of readers who are less critical about
the form, presentation and probability of a tale than they are about
its absorbing interest.”
+ — =Arena.= 34: 217. Ag. ‘05. 840w.
— + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 492. Ap. 15. 240w.
“Not that there is anything extraordinary or remarkable or great or
strong or wise or literary about it—it’s just a good story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 470w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“The story is frank melodrama, but is readable in its own particular
line.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 754. My. 20, ‘05. 180w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Mysterious Mr. Sabin. $1.50. Little.
Mr. Oppenheim’s former books, “A prince of sinners,” and “Anna, the
adventuress,” as well as the present story, make an incognito
personage the central figure. The mystery in each case is the sort to
be dealt with non-professionally. The mysterious Mr. Sabin is an
unscrupulous French royalist who aids the German government in a
conspiracy of war against England. His part in the plot is that of
securing valuable papers recording the coast defenses of England, for
which services he demands Germany’s conquest of France, and the
restoration of the monarchy in the person of Prince Henri and his
cousin, Helene of Bourbon. The coveted papers are the guarded
possession of an English admiral “partly crazed by the tragic
destruction of the Victoria, but still so profoundly wise on naval
matters and coast defenses that the spies of rival empires lay siege
to a study in which he works at plans to save his country.” Princess
Helene figures in a pretty romance which in spite of threatening
intrigue keeps free from politics and diplomatic complications.
“It is one of the most clever mystery tales of recent years, abounding
in highly dramatic situations, with a strong and well-sustained love
interest. In the present story there are many situations and
happenings that are highly improbable, and in some instances
practically impossible. Barring this grave fault, however, the story
is almost all that the lover of romantic fiction could desire.”
+ + — =Arena.= 33: 564. My. ‘05. 520w.
“We have the impression that the tale is, in fact, not a new one;
however, it is not bad of its kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 102. F. 18, ‘05. 480w.
“The book has more thrills and less probability to the square inch of
text than can be found anywhere outside the pages of a dime novel.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 256. F. 18, ‘05. 280w.
“Skilful in plot.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 619. Ap. ‘05. 500w.
“It is all glaringly impossible, yet not without power or real
fascination.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 757. Je. ‘05. 110w.
=Oppenheim, Lassa.= International law. *$6.50. Longmans.
This, the first of a two-volume treatise, deals with international law
in time of peace. An introduction discussing the foundation and
development of the law of nations is followed by four parts: States as
subjects of the laws of nations; State territory, the open sea, and
individuals as the objects of the laws of nations; Diplomatic envoys,
and the like, as agents of states in their international relations;
and International transactions. The work aims to be an elementary
text.
“Taken all in all, Mr. Oppenheim has given us the best treatment of
the Law of Peace that we have as yet had.” Leo S. Rowe.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 610. S. ‘05. 280w.
“The merit of the volume is that it presents a fair, well-balanced
summary of accepted results, and that it puts the reader in touch with
the best modern literature of the subject.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 158. My. 19, ‘05. 450w.
=Orcutt, William Dana.= Flower of destiny: an episode of the second
empire; with il. by Charlotte Weber. †$1.25. McClurg.
A charmingly told story of the romance of Napoleon III. and Mlle.
Eugénie de Montijo which ends with the crown of violets in the forest
of Compiégne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 293. Je. 1, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 295. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.
“Altogether makes a pretty little gift to carry with one on a summer
vacation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.
“A pretty romance.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 30w.
“But great names of themselves do not make a story, and in ‘The flower
of destiny’ we have little else to look to.”
— =Reader.= 6: 478. S. ‘05. 110w.
=Orczy, Baroness.= Scarlet pimpernel. †$1.50. Putnam.
“The Scarlet pimpernel is the leader of a little band of titled young
Englishmen who make it their business—and pleasure—during the reign of
terror to assist condemned or suspected emigrés to escape to England.
An interesting complication arises when the young Frenchwoman married
to the lazy, careless English lord finds that in putting the French
agent on the trail of the scarlet pimpernel to save her brother’s life
she has in reality condemned her husband to death. Of course, he
doesn’t die, and of course they all, or most of all, lived happily
ever after.”—Pub. Opin.
“A thrilling story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 671. O. 14, ‘05. 300w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 506. O. 14, ‘05. 200w.
* “A melodramatic but picturesque and well told tale.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 315. S. 2, ‘05. 80w.
=Osborn, Frank C.= Osborn’s tables of moments of inertia and squares of
radii gyration, to which have been added tables of the working strengths
of steel columns, the working strengths of timber beams and columns,
standard loads and unit stresses and constants for determining stresses
in swing bridges. $3. Osborn eng. co., Cleveland, O.
A thoroly modernized edition based upon the work of fifteen years ago.
“Though it does not meet all the needs of the structural designer in
its specific field, it promises to be a useful desk companion and to
regain much of its former prestige.”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 638. Je. 15, ‘05. 440w.
=Osborn, Hartwell, and others.= Trials and triumphs: the record of the
Fifty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry. *$2.50. McClurg.
“The Fifty-fifth Ohio was recruited in Huron county (of which Norwalk
is the county-seat), after the reverses at Bull Run had stirred the
North to greater efforts; it had its full share of the campaigns in
Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia, and of the terrible work at
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. This is related with clearness and
graphic power by Captain Osborn; and, besides the narrative, the book
is unusually complete in regimental statistics, sketches of officers
and citizens, and personal notes and recollections of soldiers.
Photographs, both ‘wartime’ and modern, have been reproduced in
profusion.”—Dial.
“The work is in every way a real contribution to the literature of the
great struggle.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 157. Mr. 1, ‘05. 210w.
“Its record presents a good picture of the most stirring events of the
war. East and West.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 112. F. 9. ‘05. 390w.
“It is a book of incomparable interest to the veterans of the old
command, of considerable value to historians, and not without interest
also for the general reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 467. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1200w.
* =Osbourne, Lloyd.= Baby Bullet, the bubble of destiny. †$1.50.
Appleton.
“Baby Bullet is a motor car, a fifteenth hand ‘crock’ of early French
design, joyfully presented to two American ladies, a girl and a
schoolmarm, who are discovered by the roadside wearily enjoying a
tramp in England. The donor ... runs away lest his gift should be
thrust back upon him. Baby is in a state of sulks, and the two
Americans climb into her, and hire a carter to tow them behind a
furniture van. At cross-roads they meet another car, a gigantic and
glorious machine, with the power of sixty horses, unfortunately
unavailable because her mécanicien has forgotten the gasolene.... The
American owner of the big car borrows petrol from the American owners
of the little, and tows them in exchange. The result is a week of wild
romance and a thoroughly amusing book.”—Acad.
* “The light dexterous writing of the book pleases us like clever
juggling.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1231. N. 25, ‘05. 360w.
* “The narrative is ingeniously contrived and ought to appeal to a
large public.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 60w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 380. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
* “The story abounds in slang and is neither exciting nor amusing.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 689. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.
* “The narrative moves at a speed suitable to the subject, and the
pitch of high-spirited comedy is never lowered.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 985. D. 9, ‘05. 200w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Motormaniacs. †75c. Bobbs.
This little pocket-book contains four short love stories, in each of
which an automobile is chief matchmaker. In the “Motormaniacs,” a
break down brings the right man into the story opportunely, and in
“The great bubble syndicate,” “Coal oil Johnny” and “Jones,” a
Fearless, a Despereaux, and a Porchar-Mufflin car play important
roles.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 210w.
“Lively, ingenious, and amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 4w.
=Osgood, Herbert Levi.= American colonies in the 17th century. 2v. **$5.
Macmillan.
“The first [volume] is given over to the abortive experiments of
Gilbert and Raleigh in founding settlements in the New world, to the
first proprietary province, Virginia, and to the corporate colonies of
New England; the second, to the later proprietary provinces and to a
systematic survey of the colonies as a whole, at the close of the
period under discussion.”—Outlook.
“In the main, however, the difficulties of the book are of a kind
almost inevitable from the nature of the topic chosen, and the serious
reader will find it not only instructive, but full of interest. For
the student of our institutional beginnings, Professor Osgood has
provided one of the few treatises which are really indispensable.”
Evarts B. Greene.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 149. Ja. ‘05. 1530w.
“Method of presentation and clarity of statement are other
commendatory traits.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 754. Mr. 25, ‘05. 2380w.
=O’Shea, Michael Vincent.= Education as adjustment: educational theory
viewed in the light of contemporary thought. *$1.50. Longmans.
“This new work, which is centered around the idea of adjustment, is
divided into three parts. In Part I. the present status of education
as a science is faithfully described.... The last chapter of Part I.
treats of the data for a science of education, discussing the
respective values of the various classes of facts contributed by the
study of biographies, autobiographies, and the survival of the fittest
in education, as well as by the experimentation and research advocated
by sane leaders in the child-study movement. Especially valuable is
the section which explains the evolutionary point of view.... Part II.
examines the meaning and aim of education.... Chapters VI., VII., and
VIII. of Part II. deal respectively with the implications of
adjustment as the end in education, with adjustment as affected by
social organization, and with the general effect of adjustment upon
teaching.... The method of obtaining adjustment is treated in Part
III.... Chapters XIII. and XIV. are devoted to the doctrine of formal
discipline.”—Educ. R.
“Looked at as a whole, ‘Education as adjustment’ does not reveal
marked originality; but it is a luminous and vigorous presentation of
the best educational thought of the present day. It is, furthermore,
refreshing in that it betrays neither superficiality nor dogmatism.
His work, tho written in untechnical, popular language, is,
nevertheless, neither inane nor inaccurate. It is worthy of occupying
a valued place among the text-books used in normal schools and college
schools of education.” W. S. Sutton.
+ + + =Educ. R.= 29: 191. F. ‘05. 1610w.
=Osler, William.= Aequanimitas, and other addresses to medical students,
nurses, practitioners. *$2. Blakiston.
A collection of 18 addresses and essays all pertaining to medicine.
The title gives the keynote to the volume, the successful nurse or
doctor must be imperturbable. Dr. Osler gives a review of medical
science in the nineteenth century, and his thoughts on education,
investigation, ethics, religion, and the conduct of life. He gives
advice to young physicians, suggestions as to their relations to both
patients and nurses, and tells them that the master-word of progress
is “Work.”
“Dr. Osler’s extensive sympathy, his elevation of thought, his
insistence on worthy ideals, his wide reading are all strikingly
exhibited in the volume before us.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 546. Jl. ‘05. 1060w.
“The style of Dr. Osler is most felicitous; and those who think they
care but little for the professional aspect of this volume, will be
charmed by its graceful expressions, its acute suggestions, its
thorough good sense.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 193. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1600w.
=Osler, William.= Science and immortality. **85c. Houghton.
The frankly agnostic spirit of modern “intellectuals” dealt with in
this volume is best summed up by quotations from the text itself:
“Though his philosophy find nothing to support it, ... the scientific
student should be ready to acknowledge the value of a belief in the
hereafter as an asset in human life.... He cannot be dogmatic and deny
the possibility of a future state, ... he will ask to be left,
reserving his judgment, but still inquiring.... Science is organized
knowledge, and knowledge is of things we see. Now the things that are
seen are temporal: of the things that are unseen science knows
nothing, and has at present no means of knowing anything.”
“The simple and charming style of the writer, as well as his apt
quotations from the masters, makes this book a delight to read.”
+ — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 400. Ap. ‘05. 200w.
Reviewed by E. T. B.
+ =Atlan.= 95: 138. Ja. ‘05. 320w.
Reviewed by H. B. Alexander.
=Bookm.= 21: 521. Jl. ‘05. 960w.
“The importance of this little book is quite out of proportion to its
size. He writes with evident honesty. It is a crystallized statement
of much that had been in solution, as it were, heretofore; it makes us
know where the majority of modern scientists stand with regard to the
only matters that they themselves consider more important than science
itself.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 816. Mr. ‘05. 1450w.
“The argument is not of the strenuous sort; the words flow gently and
naturally, as they expose the mellowed thought of a mature and
reverent mind.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 38: 87. F. 1, ‘05. 380w.
“The brief pages of this lecture are of delightful literary charm and
of great interest as indicating the trend of present thought on the
subject of the future life.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1072. My. 11, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Reader.= 5: 786. My. ‘05. 210w.
=Osterhout, Winthrop John Van Leuven.= Experiments with plants; with a
preface by L. H. Bailey. *$1.25. Macmillan.
In this convenient handbook “Professor Osterhout of the University of
California has given us hints for the experimental study of
living-plants by means of the very simplest apparatus ... and suggests
innumerable contrivances which are to be made off-hand in any house,
and with which the plant can be severely cross-examined.... It is one
of the most helpful laboratory handbooks, and it deserves wide
employment in all classes of plant-laboratories.” (Nation.)
“On the whole we may commend it as one of the very best of its class,
and in some respects in advance of any similar book known to us. An
excellent index adds to its value.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 84. Jl. 15. 500w.
“The book on the whole will be most valuable for teachers of botany in
high schools.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 270. Ag. 3, ‘05. 110w.
“The text is, for the greater part, extremely clear and interesting,
and needed only rather better illustrations to come into the very
first rank of attractive text-books.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 414. My. 25, ‘05. 240w.
“In spite of some faults, the book will be found of value to anyone
compelled to give a course of physiological botany under conditions
which preclude the use of ordinary laboratory fittings.”
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 364. Ag. 17, ‘05. 460w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 538. Ag. 19, ‘05. 230w.
=Ottley, Rev. Robert Lawrence.= Religion of Israel: a historical sketch.
*$1. Macmillan.
“The main strength of Canon Ottley’s contribution to the now
voluminous literature on the subject lies in his able and earnest
effort to harmonize modern theory with church tradition.... The
chapters ... likely to be read with some special eagerness are those
on ‘The primitive religion of the Semites,’ ‘The contact of Judaism
with Hellenism,’ and ‘The final stage in pre-Christian Judaism.’”—Ath.
“Those belonging to the author’s school of thought—and their number is
very considerable—will, however, maintain that the good points of the
book far outweigh its drawbacks. We are ourselves able to commend it
as an earnest and serious contribution to a perplexing and deeply
interesting problem.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 239. Ag. 19. 430w.
“There is no work in English which tells in such brief compass the
story of Israel’s faith from Moses to the Pharisees with such
painstaking loyalty to establish fact.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 876. O. 12, ‘05. 310w.
* “A compact, semi-popular account of the development of Hebrew
religion, as understood by a cautious and moderate critic.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
“It is well drawn and puts much into a small volume in clear as well
as concise form.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 886. Ag. 5, ‘05. 130w.
“The compiling is well done, and for a popular sketch of Old Testament
theology we do not know of anything better.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 150w.
“His exposition is in fact an admirable specimen of the higher
criticism, exercised with discretion by one who is neither fettered by
traditional beliefs, nor bent, as some of the critical school seem to
be, on breaking with them altogether. We are not always in agreement
with the conclusions reached.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 900. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.
=Ottman, Rev. Ford C.= Unfolding of the ages in the Revelation of John.
**$2. Baker.
Written in an expository style, conciliatory rather than
controversial, this work upon Revelation throws a new light upon the
symbolism of the book. The author accepts and advocates the theory
that “everything from the fourth chapter to the end of the book is
still future and will follow the removal of the church from the earth
at the appearing of our Lord.”
— =Outlook.= 80: 395. Je. 10, ‘05. 310w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 130w.
* Our best society. †$1.50. Putnam.
“This story narrates the adventures among the rich, vain, and
reasonably well-cultivated of New York of a young writer and his nice
wife, and contains vivid and veracious pictures of the dinner party,
the coaching party, the theatre party, and many other ‘social
functions,’ glimpses of literary, artistic, and dramatic ‘sets,’ with
a study of the manners of a mannerless age, and a hint or two of its
morals.”—N. Y. Times.
* “This is not a great novel, nor even a good one, but it counts
because the author has caught the real levity of mannerism in that
filmy world.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1151. N. 16, ‘05. 110w.
* “Another book in which the comedy of contemporary American society
is adroitly set forth and in a unhackneyed way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 656. O. 7, ‘05. 180w.
* “A certain skill and comprehension of the situation is evidently
possessed by the anonymous author.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 100w.
Our holidays; their meaning and spirit. *65c. Century.
This group of stories belongs to the “Historical stories” retold from
St. Nicholas. Beginning with All-hallow-eve, each holiday is taken up
in turn, with both its historical and present day significance
emphasized.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 60w.
* =Outram, James.= In the heart of the Canadian Rockies. **$3.
Macmillan.
“Mr. Outram has the remarkable record of nineteen ‘first ascents’ of
peaks among the Canadian Rockies, including the highest mountain in
Canada yet conquered by the mountaineer. He describes his experiences
among these majestic peaks with the enthusiasm that might be expected
of so experienced a mountain-climber.”—Outlook.
* “Mr. Outram certainly has had some unusual adventures amid the
Selkirks and Rockies, which he described with animation and a genuine
command of professional terminology.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 485. D. 14, ‘05. 550w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 753. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 941. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.
=Overton, Gwendolen.= Captains of the world. †$1.50. Macmillan.
The relations of labor and capital form the basis of this story in
which appear “The young mechanic who becomes a leader of
trades-unions; the lovely daughter of the plutocrat mill-owner, who
cannot marry the Italian prince and fortune-hunter because the
remembrance of the mechanic haunts her; the contrasted pictures of
boundless wealth and the misery of the poor strikers and their
families on the brink of starvation.” (Critic.)
“There is nothing in this book that can be called original in matter
or effective in manner.”
— =Critic.= 46: 94. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
“This underworld of labor among the iron furnaces, this moneyed
aristocracy, so resentful of its origin, so tenacious of its position,
are etched in with keenness and delicacy. Such books as this, with
their sympathetic comprehension, absence of rancor or partisan bias,
make for a better understanding and ultimate peace.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 624. Ap. ‘05. 520w.
* =Oxley, James MacDonald.= Family on wheels; adapted from the French by
J. M. Oxley. †75c. Crowell.
Four interesting French children left orphans, with a mountebank’s
wagon, an old horse, a trick dog and a remarkably clever elephant as
their sole possessions, bravely continue the business of their father,
and give little performances in one little provincial town after
another to earn a scant living. They meet with many adventures and
suffer many hardships, but in the end the happiness of all seems
assured. The children are plucky little things thruout, the dog and
the elephant are heroic, and the hearts of both young and old readers
will go out to them all.
* “An odd and attractive story.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 90w.
* “A readable story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
* “A story, tender, humorous, pathetic, carrying the charm of the
French from which it is adapted, and appealing to any child or adult
interested in animals.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 60w.
P
=Page, Curtis Hidden=, ed. British poets of the nineteenth century. $2.
Sanborn.
Selections from Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats,
Landor, Tennyson, the Brownings, Clough, Arnold, Rossetti, Morris, and
Swinburne. There are also classified “reference lists” indicating for
each poet the various editions of his works, and all biographies and
important essays.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 100w.
“The selections are very full and for the most part complete poems.
They are designed to give the best of each poet’s work and to give
some representation of each important period and class of his work.
Selected such poems as would be prescribed for a college student.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 11. Ja. 7, ‘05. 330w.
* =Page, Curtis Hidden,= ed. Chief American poets: selected poems by
Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Whitman, and
Lanier. *$1.75. Houghton.
“This volume, Mr. Page tells us, is in no sense an anthology ... it
‘attempts to give, for each one of the authors included, all the
material needed to show his development and achievement, and to give a
first knowledge of him as man and poet.’ The selection therefore, has
been made very full, and includes many poems of considerable
length.... The poems of each author are arranged in chronological
order and dated. Brief biographical sketches present a summary of each
author’s life, and there are notes and reference lists.”—Outlook.
* “A book to be heartily commended for small home libraries.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 150w.
* “The whole work done with thorough intelligence and good taste.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ‘05. 120w.
=Page, Curtis Hidden=, ed. =See Rabelais, Francois.=
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Negro: the southerner’s problem. **$1.25.
Scribner.
“Mr. Page believes that there are only two possible ways to solve the
negro question in the South—either the negro must be removed, or he
must be elevated. Granted that the former method is out of the
question, it only remains to improve him by education.... The old idea
of educating the negro just as a white man is educated ... has been
found to be fallacious. The kind of education that Mr. Page advocates
for the negro is, in brief, just the kind that is given by such
institutions as Tuskegee and Hampton.”—R. of Rs.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 343. Mr. ‘05. 240w.
“A book the central interest of which is psychological rather than
scientific.” W. E. Burghardt Du Bois.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 315. My. 1, ‘03. 1850w.
“The book shows neither depth of thought nor thoroughness of research,
but is chiefly notable as the portrayal of the well-known views of the
less liberal leaders of the South with high authority and great
literary skill.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 556. Mr. 9, ‘05. 860w.
“We do not doubt his wish to deal candidly with his subject, but we
are forced to the conclusion that he lacks the unbiased mind which
would enable him to do so. His statements are too sweeping, and are
not supported in all cases by the actual facts, as has, we believe,
been shown.” Isabel Eaton.
— =Int. J. Ethics.= 15 :518. Jl. ‘05. 2130w.
“Mr. Page’s book is honest, kindly, and, barring a few extravagances,
moderate.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 280. O. 5, ‘05. 1320w.
“A temperate discussion of the race question from a southerner’s point
of view.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
=Paget, Violet.= See =Lee, Vernon, pseud.=
* =Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Little garden calendar for boys and girls.
$1. Altemus.
“A chatty and truthful account of many of the most interesting phases
of plant-life. The subject of dispersal and its advantages, of
movements, and of pollination and the like, are briefly and
well-treated. The account of the servants which work for the flower is
admirably presented.” (Nation.) “The book is arranged according to the
calendar, and the illustrations are from photographs especially made
for each chapter.” (Critic.)
* + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 40w.
* =Dial.= 39: 46. Jl. 16, ‘05. 40w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 190w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Thomas Nast. $5. Macmillan.
This account of the life and times of “The father of the American
cartoon,” illustrated with hundreds of his drawings, is virtually a
political history of our country during the Civil war, and for twenty
years after.
“It is a story full of striking incident and human interest, skilfully
unrolling the picturesque career of a genius who had within him the
potentialities of an American Hogarth.” Chas. H. Levermore.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 907. Jl. ‘05. 740w.
“In this life of Nast, Mr. Paine has evinced excellent judgment and
wise discrimination; yet the work is characterized by that genuine
sympathy that is one of the requisites of a good biography. It is a
valuable work.”
+ + =Arena.= 33: 335. Mr. ‘05. 850w.
“Mr. Paine’s book is an exceptionally good piece of work. He has not
attempted a minute personal biography; he has given a series of
striking pictures, which enable one to look over Nast’s shoulder, so
to speak, and to study at close range some of the most stirring
periods in the history of the nation and of New York city.” A. B.
Maurice.
+ =Bookm.= 20: 458. Ja. ‘05. 2850w.
“Paine has told of his life and described his struggles in a manner
worthy of the subject.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
“It covers the artist’s life in a thorough and interesting way, and is
adequately illustrated.” Ingram A. Pyle.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 318. My. 1, ‘05. 1930w.
“The author is an enthusiast, and must be followed in the light of his
enthusiasm. In narrating the history of the caricaturist, he follows
that of his own times, and in this way has made, for anyone who
desires to understand the United States from 1860 to 1896, not only a
very entertaining, but a very useful volume.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 141. F. 16, ‘05. 810w.
“There is more history than biography in the attractive volume.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 248. F. ‘05. 130w.
=Palmer, A. Emerson.= New York public school. *$1. Macmillan.
A history of free education in the city of New York, authorized by the
board of education and written by its secretary. The book celebrates
the centenary of the founding of the New York free school system and
the proceeds are to go to the public school teachers’ retirement fund.
The history of the free school society and of the public school
society which succeeded it in 1826 are given, also an account of other
schools, all of which were finally merged into the existing system.
The story of the establishment and success of school libraries is told
in detail. There are portraits, illustrations, and an introduction by
Seth Low.
“The book meets a distinct need.” Henry Davidson Sheldon.
+ =Dial.= 38: 270. Ap. 16, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 148. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1730w. (Abstract of
contents.)
=R. of Rs.= 31: 511. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
=Palmer, Frederick.= With Kuroki in Manchuria. **$1.50. Scribner.
The author, a newspaper correspondent of experience in Eastern
campaigns, writes an account of his five months in the field. The book
is dedicated to the Japanese infantry and their skill and readiness,
and contrasted with the Russian war methods. The volume is illustrated
by numerous photographs.
“His entire book is vividly written, and will be found as informing as
it is interesting in its accounts of the actual fighting.” W. Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 9. Ja. 1, ‘05. 460w.
“It is fascinating, this collection of field letters. This truthful
and vivid portrayal is delightful.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 14. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1630w.
=Palmer, William T.= English lakes. *$6. Macmillan.
Fifteen English lakes “ranging from the lordly Windermere and
Ullswater, ten and a half and nine miles long, respectively, to
Loweswater and Rydalmere, which hardly exceed the larger tarns in
area” are reproduced here. The seventy-five illustrations in color
produce a panorama effect which is heightened by the descriptive
matter of the text.
* + =Acad.= 68: 911. S. 2, ‘05. 170w.
“Mr. Palmer has written with taste and with commendable reserve in
distinguishing between poetic feeling and sentimentalism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 150w.
* “One finds a good deal of pleasure of a certain kind in turning over
his pages, if also some irritation.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 1260w.
=Paret, Jahlal Parmly.= Lawn tennis. **$2. Macmillan.
This article, by the foremost American authority on the game, contains
a history of tennis itself and of the leading players here and abroad.
It gives technical instruction, from the first rudiments to the most
advanced theories, and treats of the care of courts and management of
tournaments. There is a chapter on lacrosse by William H. Madden. The
volume is copiously illustrated.
“This is one of the best-written and most scientific treatises on
lawn-tennis that we have yet had, and forms a suitable companion to
similar works by Mr. Eustace Miles, Mr. H. W. Wilberforce, and Mr. W.
Baddeley.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 272. Ag. 26. 1050w.
“Will be valuable to every player of the game.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1253. Je. 1, ‘05. 30w.
“A treatise which will be heartily welcomed by all lovers of this
healthy game.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 436. Mr. 9, ‘05. 280w.
“Knows the conditions of play in this country and abroad equally well.
While Mr. Paret’s statement that lawn tennis may be taught nearly as
well by written instruction as by personal direction may be seriously
questioned, his remarks on the strategy of the game and the physical
training for big matches are full of common sense and instruction that
apply equally well to other forms of exercise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 1110w. (Survey of contents.)
“Mr. Paret who is an authority on tennis, treats of the past, present,
and future of the sport.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 255. F. ‘05. 70w.
* =Parker, Edward Harper.= China and religion. **$3.50. Dutton.
“This history of religion in China has the merit of being
both critical and impartial.... The story of the imported
religions—Christianity in various forms, Buddhism, Mohammedanism,
Judaism—is sketched in successive chapters, and lastly Shintoism ...
which the Japanese are now endeavoring to introduce.... Towards
missionaries, of whom Americans now constitute the majority if only
Protestants are counted, Professor Parker’s attitude is both
respectful and critical, but full value is assigned to their medical,
charitable, and educational work.”—Outlook.
* “Prof. Parker’s book is a storehouse of learning; it is free from
bigotry, and contains a fair and honest statement of what the
relations of the Chinese have been and are towards foreign religions.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 603. N. 4, 920w.
* “As the fruit of scholarly research pursued in a sympathetic spirit,
this history, most timely for the present interest in the now
beginning renaissance of China, should command the attention of those
who would understand the past which it builds upon.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.
=Parmele, Mary Platt.= Short history of Russia. *$1. Scribner.
A new edition of this history of a great power which brings the
account down to June, 1904 and the siege of Port Arthur. It contains a
good index and a list of the princes of Russia from Rurik to Nicholas
II.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
* =Parrish, Randall.= Historic Illinois: the romance of the earlier
days. **$2. McClurg.
Mr. Parrish’s hope has been to provide a readable, interesting history
of Illinois, emphasizing the picturesque phases that would appeal to
the reader in a popular sense. He has related the adventures of such
men as La Salle, Henri de Tonty and George Rogers Clarke, depicted the
struggles with the Indians, traced the history of old landmarks, and
brought his narrative down to the coming of the railroad, concluding
with a chapter on “Historic spots as they appear to-day.”
=Parrish, Randall.= Sword of the old frontier: a tale of Fort Chartres
and Detroit. †$1.50. McClurg.
A “plain account of sundry adventures befalling Chevalier Raoul de
Coubert, one time captain in the Hussars of Languedoc, during the year
1763,” in which he gallantly draws his sword for France and his
English lady-love in the stirring times of Pontiac’s conspiracy.
Meeting with treachery from both white men and red, he takes desperate
chances, escapes from his enemies and wins honor, wealth, and love.
* + =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 20w.
=Parsons, Ellen C.= Christus liberator. **30c. Macmillan.
There have been four preceding volumes in this missionary text book
series. “In this course an Introduction to the Study of Missions and
Outline Studies of India, China and Japan have already been issued and
studied.” This volume is an outline study of Africa. “Sir Harry
Johnston furnishes an introductory sketch of the geography, races, and
history of the Dark Continent, while the body of the book is devoted
to an account of the rise and progress of Protestant missions in the
several countries.”
“Concise, well written and readable book.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 875. O. 12, ‘05. 450w.
“It is necessarily cursory, but it is certainly comprehensive. The
good example of the book remains even when the English student has
noted such occasional lapses.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 325. O. 6, ‘05. 410w.
“A useful handbook, containing much information in a compact and
readable form.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 219. S. 14, ‘05. 130w.
“We recommend these volumes as especially valuable for the members of
Christian Endeavor societies, and for pastoral use by ministers
endeavoring to awaken in their churches an intelligent interest in
Christian missions.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 789. Jl. 22, ‘05. 220w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 435. S. 23, ‘05. 220w.
=Paston, George, pseud.= See =Symonds, E. M.=
=Pattee, Fred Lewis.= House of the black ring. $1.50. Holt.
A story centred around a mysterious log cabin in a valley among the
Seven mountains. The valley is owned by a tyrant squire and farmed by
sturdy Pennsylvania Dutchmen. The squire’s daughter, the first to
thwart her father’s will, falls in love with the son of a new-comer to
the valley, whose business enterprise threatens the squire’s
undisputed sway. There is hard feeling, and there is murder, but all
is made clear by the discovery of a cave under the cabin, and in the
happiness of the squire’s daughter the traditional curse of “the house
of the black ring” is lifted.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 600. Ag. ‘05. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 251. Ap. 15, ‘05. 210w.
“It is not from the literary side an artistic book, but it at least
may be described as both readable and amusing.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 90w.
=Patterson, Charles Brodie.= Measure of a man. $1.20. Funk.
An optimistic message of good will to all men, basing its cheer upon
the supposition that in the great economy of the universe nothing is
lost. Mr. Patterson discusses, in part 1, the “natural,” the
“rational,” the “psychic,” and the “spiritual” man. In part II, he
considers the Son of man “as man,” “as idealist,” “as teacher,” and
“as healer,” in the last division giving the philosophy and therapy of
mental healing.
“It may be said to represent his ripest thought and to epitomize in a
remarkably clear and comprehensible manner the philosophy, ethics and
therapy contained in his preceding books.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 108. Jl. ‘05. 1320w.
=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50.
Macmillan.
This is a political history of England and its relations with the rest
of the world, beginning with the last Whig government of 1846. Volumes
1 and 2 bring the story down to the death of Lord Palmerston, Oct. 18,
1865. Volume 3 deals with the eleven years following, covering
important administrations of Gladstone and Disraeli, and closing on
the eve of the crisis in the East, 1876.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 463. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1240w. (Review of Vol. III.)
“It is clear, vigorous, and direct. Its movement is rapid, its
interest seldom lags. It is preëminently readable, and, as a natural
corollary, highly entertaining. His opinions and especially his
estimates of character are often improbable, not infrequently absurd.
This, as has been said, will probably remain the most serious
criticism of a book in most other ways excellent. Such work as that of
Mr. Paul may not be judged by the standards of final and definitive
statement.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 430. Ja. ‘05. 1810w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“On the whole, matters become of importance to the author when they
rise above the political horizon, and too often not till then. Mr.
Paul’s vigor seems unimpaired thus far ... his courage seems tempered
somewhat more by discretion, and his politics diluted with somewhat
more of those matters which find little place in Parliamentary debate
or Times editorial.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 161. O. ‘05. 860w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Though written with the ability and impartiality of its predecessors,
it is not so well proportioned.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 10. Jl. 1. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)
“There is no reason to suppose that Mr. Paul could not have done
better work, had he chosen.” Edward Fuller.
— — =Bookm.= 21: 608. Ag. ‘05. 840w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Here, much more than in the earlier volumes, he offers valuable
characterizations of activities and of men not wholly concerned with
the purely political field.” E. D. Adams.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 90. Ag. 16, ‘05. 890w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Generally speaking, he has impartiality and insight, and his survey
of a group of historic facts, more especially of a social or religious
movement, is often just and penetrating.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 39. Jl. 6, ‘05. 680w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
“A most charming style. His book is exceedingly good reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 291. My. 6, ‘05. 900w. (Review of v. 3.)
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 883. D. 9, ‘05. 290w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The third volume now at hand, exhibits the characteristics of its
predecessors. The charmingly incisive, direct, easy, and epigrammatic
style, the vivid informativeness, the detachment, the liberality of
judgment which distinguished them are apparent. The treatment, too,
remains the same, with all its virtues and its defects.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 880. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1980w. (Review of v. 3.)
“On the whole, it is an invaluable political history of the past sixty
years.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 509. O. ‘05. 120w. (Review of v. 3.)
“We do not know where else to find so good a narrative of domestic
politics from 1865 to 1876. If it is rarely deep, it is never dull; if
it is occasionally bitter, it is almost always impartial.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 674. My. 6, ‘05. 1630w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Payne, William Morton,= ed. American literary criticism. See Wampum
library of American literature. v. 2.
Peace congress. Official report of the thirteenth universal peace
congress, held at Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A., Oct. 3 to 8, 1904;
reported by W: edited by the secretary of the congress. pa. n.p. Peace
congress committee (B. F. Trueblood, sec’y), Boston.
A stenographic report of the proceedings of the Universal peace
congress, Oct. 3-8, 1904, including the addresses given in Boston and
a brief résumé of the numerous successful and influential meetings
held after its close in several cities. An account of the preceding
peace congresses, not only of those held in the modern series
beginning 1889, but also of the remarkable series of conferences held
from 1843 to 1853 is prefixed.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 160. Mr. 11, ‘05. 100w.
=Peake, Elmore Elliott.= House of Hawley. †$1.50. Appleton.
The story of a family in southern Illinois which had remained true to
the Union, but was southern in all its traditions. The heroine has to
contend against the whole connection and their prejudices in order to
marry a young Republican lawyer. Her grandfather, Major Elias, head of
the family, his quiet wife, and their lazy son are lifelike, their
southern ways are well pictured; and descriptions of such things as a
chase with blood hounds after a negro house-breaker, a negro barn
dance, and an electioneering expedition with Chicago politicians, add
greatly to the interest and the atmosphere of the book.
“A careful picture of average life in a small town in southern
Illinois, drawn with a loving accuracy of minor detail, and pleasantly
aglow with local color, both physical and social. A skillful touch.
There is a wholesome womanliness about Mr. Peake’s heroines that makes
them seem very convincing. Most of the men, however, impress one as
rather poor specimens of humanity.”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 181. Ap. ‘05. 410w.
“The book fails of greatness because the plot is too slight and does
not trouble the deep places that exist in the life of every town,
however isolated; nor does it ruffle the soul of the reader.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 392. Ag. 17, ‘05. 250w.
“The interest of the book lies not in the story, but in descriptive
passages. The story, if it shows no particular art or invention, it
remains true that it is about the sort of thing which would have been
likely to happen in the place where the author has chosen to plant
it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 141. Mr. 4, ‘05. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 503. F. 25, ‘05. 110w.
=Pease, Edward R.= Case for municipal drink trade. P. S. King & son.
“The argument for the municipalization of the liquor traffic is here
set forth as follows: The system of licensing does not stand the tests
of efficiency, consequently some drastic reform is called for; high
license is incomplete and politically impracticable; local veto is
wrong in principle and likely to be futile in practice;
municipalization is the only other method suggested.”—J. Pol. Econ.
Reviewed by I. W. Howerth.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 137. D. ‘04. 140w. (States argument of
book.)
=Pease, George William.= Outline of a Bible-school curriculum. *$1.50.
Univ. of Chicago press.
“Those who are interested in raising the standard of biblical
instruction in this country will find ... many valuable suggestions.
In this book there are outlines for reading and study courses for the
kindergarten and primary grades, as well as for the junior,
intermediate and senior departments.”—R. of Rs.
“The most exhaustive study of this subject that has yet appeared.
Predominantly from the psychological point of view, but with careful
study also of the biblical side.”
+ + + =Bib. World.= 25: 160. F. ‘05. 30w.
“This book will prove of great practical service to many Sunday-school
teachers because it is specific, and should be suggestive to students
of religious education because of its scope and detail. It is too
timely not to be read now.” Richard Morse Hodge.
+ + =Bib. World.= 25: 376. My. ‘05. 880w.
“Any one desirous of pursuing independent lessons with a class of any
grade would find help in these outlines.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 70w.
“Its value lies rather in its application of an intelligent
educational philosophy to a concrete and apparently practical scheme.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 144. Ja. 14, ‘05. 340w.
“The book is fully in line with the principles and methods advocated
by the Religious education association.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 80w.
“The minute topical references will be of great help to any serious
Sunday school teacher.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 653. O. ‘05. 60w.
* =Peck, Ellen Brainerd.= Songs by the sedges. $1. Badger, R: G.
A little volume of verse which sings of old-fashioned gardens and
fields, of rosemary and bitter-sweet, and of the minuet and the
spinet. There is a time-long-ago atmosphere to many of the poems.
=Peck, Harry Thurston.= William Hickling Prescott. **75c. Macmillan.
This study of Prescott gives an account of the historian’s life and
personality and a criticism of his works. An opening chapter treats of
“The New England historians,” then follow biographical chapters based
largely upon the letters and memoranda contained in Ticknor’s “Life of
Prescott,” and a discussion of Prescott’s work and its merits.
“A volume seemingly of no distinctive merit.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 935. Jl. ‘05. 50w.
“With the exception of his introductory chapter, Professor Peck has
produced, it seems to me, an excellent biographical and critical
account of ... the accomplished author of ‘The conquest of Mexico.’
Here and there a careless sentence may be found as well as a trivial
error or two.” W. P. Trent.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 382. Je. ‘05. 1260w.
“It is of real interest for its discussion of the historical accuracy
and permanent value of his works.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 90w.
“Professor Peck writes of Prescott pleasantly and in his usual popular
vein.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1128. My. 18, ‘05. 130w.
“His view of Prescott strictly as a writer ... is concise, clear, and
judicious. The introductory chapter, on the literary history of the
country, is to say the least, eccentric.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 489. Je. 15, ‘05. 450w.
“For the most part his narrative is plain pedestrian ‘copy’ quite
lacking in the distinction which the author praises in the historian,
equally lacking in ‘fire’ and the ‘intimate touch.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 322. My. 20, ‘05. 1420w.
“Now and again Dr Peck allows an excess of enthusiasm to overpower his
judgment, but, as a rule, he is discriminating.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 248. My. 27, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 150w.
=Peck, Theodora.= Hester of the Grants: a romance of Old Bennington.
†$1.50. Fox.
Revolutionary times in the Green mountain state when it was a part of
the so-called Hampshire Grants furnish the setting of this story whose
incidents center mainly about Bennington. A real flesh and blood girl
patriot, quite as daring as the usual historical novel heroine but a
bit more winsome is the leading spirit, while a turn coat father, two
despicable soldier lovers and one gallant one, General Stark, and
Ethan and Ira Allen figure prominently.
“A panorama of the times which deserves careful reading and much
commendation.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 160w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 60w.
“We are persuaded that she has it in her to write a book well worth
the reading, which, despite its merits, ‘Hester of the Grants’ is
not.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 300w.
“On the whole is a very good story of its kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 90w.
“The author has opened one of the most dramatic pages in American
history, and adorned it with a picture worthy of the text.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 359. Ag. ‘05. 310w.
=Peckham, George Williams, and Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford.= Wasps,
social and solitary; with an introd. by John Burroughs. **$1.50.
Houghton.
Mr. Peckham and his wife have made a close study of the lives, habits,
intelligence, and individuality of wasps, and they tell about their
investigations in a way that is none the less instructive because it
is interesting.
“The book has good and vivid illustrations, but it would have been
better if the actual size of the insects had been indicated in every
case.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 743. Jl. 15, ‘05. 310w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 150. Jl. 29. 720w.
“There is ‘a hidden wealth of thought and of austerity’ which makes
the book a worthy contribution to science and a monument of patient
and skillful research in a difficult field.” E. T. Brewster.
+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 687. N. ‘05. 600w.
“While exceedingly pleasant reading, the book is in no sense ‘written
down’ to its audience, nor popularized in the sense of being diluted
to superficiality.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 170w.
“The book is written so untechnically that a reader who does not know
a wasp from a bee can understand and enjoy it.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 387. Je. 1, ‘05. 590w.
“The charm of the book is in the directness with which the story is
told, and in the obvious sympathy manifested by the authors with the
struggles and aims of the active little nest-makers. While the book is
engagingly written, it is also scientifically accurate.”
+ + + =Nation= 80: 444. Je. 1, ‘05. 680w.
“Important work on the manners and customs of North American wasps.”
W. F. K.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 395. Ag. 24, ‘05. 160w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 219. Ap. 8, ‘05. 840w. (Abstract of book.)
“An outdoor book as entertaining as it is instructive.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05. 140w.
“This book reminds one of Fabre’s work. It is not so well written, but
its information is quite as curious and close as Fabre’s, and we
should say as trustworthy.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. O. 14, ‘05. 150w.
“There is much detail which, however valuable in itself from the
scientific point of view, overwhelms the ‘general reader.’ This
individual may be forgiven for wishing that the authors would
sometimes give him more generalization or summaries of their
observations.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 697. N. 4, ‘05. 310w.
=Peel, George.= Friends of England. *$3.50. Dutton.
Mr. Peel establishes, elucidates, and illustrates two large
propositions in this companion volume to his “Enemies of England”:
first, that England built up her empire beyond the seas thru the
necessity of defence, and not by accident nor by deliberate motives of
expansion; second, the same European pressure from without is the
chief cause of the maintenance of the empire.
“Mr. Peel is no pedant, no formalist, no Dryasdust. Intensely
interested in his subject, he writes of it with animation; eager to
convince, though not with the sophist’s eagerness, he is precise
whether right or wrong and at all times clear.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 270. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1420w.
“The subjects with which Mr. Peel deals are of the deepest interest,
and he shows wide reading on every page.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 335. Mr. 18. 660w.
“There is enough truth and enough originality in his interpretation of
the Empire to have made his book an extraordinary one, if only he had
not allowed this enthusiasm to get the better of his judgment. It
brings out a phase of imperial politics too much neglected by past
writers.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 88. Ag. 16, ‘05. 1930w.
“The whole book is worth reading as a sober and well-informed
discussion of the great questions of world politics with which it
deals.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 328. My. 20, ‘05. 670w.
“A well-written work, Mr. Peel’s book is of value as developing a
theory which, if acceptable only with obvious limitations, will assist
to a clearer appreciation of some broad historical movements than has
generally obtained.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 275. S. 30, ‘05. 1930w.
“The tale told is fragmentary and unconvincing, and has been better
told before.”
— — + =Sat. R.= 100: 21. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1510w.
“Mr. Peel has the sense of organic movement without which history is
merely a dull chronicle of accidents; and he has also the gift of wide
perspective. Our only criticism is that in his endeavour to be
perfectly clear he sometimes is a little prolix, and that now and then
he is carried by rhetoric into a slight overstatement. The matter is
on the whole admirably arranged and attractively presented.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 439. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1780w.
=Peet, Louis Harman.= Trees and shrubs of Central park. $2. Manhattan
press.
Mr. Peet says: “The purpose of this book is to put within the reach of
the non-technical city nature lover a handy means of identifying trees
and shrubs which he meets in his park rambles.” On sixteen maps
covering the park, two thousand trees and shrubs have been plotted; a
table accompanying the maps gives both the common and botanical names.
There is also an index to the common names, wherein the number of the
page, chapter, map and location is placed for quick reference.
* + + =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 90w.
=Nation.= 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“We cannot too much commend the fullness and accuracy of the lists
which Mr. Peet here gives us.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 381. My. 11, ‘05. 430w.
“It is not only a description of the trees, but is a real guide and
companion, pointing out that which it describes in a manner that is
wholly comprehensible to the reader. The text is lucid and readable.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 212. Ap. 8, ‘05. 420w.
* “In every particular it is a handy and useful little volume.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 80w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Hundred days. †$1.50. Appleton.
Napoleon’s hundred days between Elba and Waterloo form the setting of
this historical novel which exploits the adventures of a young
Englishman and a French maid in the secret service of Napoleon. “Mr.
Pemberton has borrowed the very lady who appears in Mr. Bernard Shaw’s
‘Man of destiny’—Mr. Shaw himself borrowed the lady from more or less
authentic history—and provided her with adventures enough to fill the
usual number of pages which, outwardly, at least, constitute a novel.”
(N. Y. Times.)
“It is a stirring tale, and the characterization is skillful.
Occasionally the author’s style fails him.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 432. S. 30. 290w.
“The story offers the conventional blend of fact and romantic fiction,
is narrated in somewhat indistinct fashion, and proves but moderately
exciting.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 621. S. 23, ‘05. 250w.
“The story is stirring and the tale is picturesquely told; the plot is
hackneyed.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 60w.
=Pepys, Sir William Weller.= Later Pepys; ed. with introd., by Alice C.
C. Gaussen. 2v. *$7.50. Lane.
“The letters included in these two handsomely bound and finely
illustrated volumes have been selected from the correspondence of Sir
William Pepys between the years 1758 and 1825. Sir William Pepys was a
descendant of the elder branch of the family to which Samuel Pepys
belonged, and was generally well-known in the latter part of the
eighteenth century as a friend, and in some cases the intimate, of
distinguished literary characters of the period. His letters are
therefore primarily of literary interest, very little reference being
made in them to ordinary political or social conditions of the times,
even the stirring events of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
receiving but scant notice.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The only direct historical interest is in the occasional references
to contemporary historical writers and criticisms upon them. They
frequently do present some striking incident, or some intimate
characterization of figures in the field of contemporaneous
literature. In this connection alone are they valuable for the student
of history.” E. D. Adams.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 688. Ap. ‘05. 210w.
“Sir William’s letters, though sometimes dull and prosy, often catch
something of the vivacity of his correspondents, and those to his son
in school and college are delightful.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 150w.
=Perkin, Frederick Mollwo.= Practical methods of electrochemistry.
*$1.60. Longmans.
“After a general account of electrical magnitudes and units, measuring
instruments, and electrolytic apparatus, the author gives practical
instructions for electrochemical analysis.... The last and longest
section of the book deals with preparative electrochemistry.... The
references to original papers are numerous, and a convenient table of
five-figure logarithms, with instructions for its use, is contained in
an appendix.”—Nature.
“The practical instructions are on the whole adequate and accurate, so
that the student could acquire with little assistance a sufficient
acquaintance with the working methods of electrochemistry. Whilst the
book is satisfactory in this the most important feature, it shows in
other respects many signs of hasty composition, which greatly detract
from its value.”
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 5. My. 4, ‘05. 530w.
=Perrin, Raymond St. James.= Evolution of knowledge. *$1.50. Baker.
In his review of philosophy the author compares the chief systems of
ancient and modern thought, “the object being to measure the approach
of each system to the goal of philosophy which is the demonstration of
the unity of all things ... to demonstrate the fact that knowledge can
be unified by co-ordinating the sciences.” Pt. I. deals with the
pre-evolution period of Greece, England, Scotland, Germany and France;
pt. II. discusses the evolutionary philosophy of Spencer and Lewes.
The keynote of the treatment is that religious devotion and
intelligence must develop together.
=Ath.= 1905, 2: 269. Ag. 26. 80w.
=Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 140w.
“In the demonstration of his thesis the author enters such a labyrinth
of the metaphysical and mystical that we altogether refuse his lead.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 160w.
* “Interesting, if not quite fascinating.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 697. N. 4, ‘05. 320w.
=Perris, George Herbert.= Russia in revolution. **$3. Brentano’s.
“Mr. Perris’s volume on ‘Russia in revolution’ is a sketch of the
Russian revolutionary movement from about 1870 down to the present
time. It consists chiefly of a series of short biographies of the
principal leaders of the Liberal movement, together with a few
chapters on the Russian government, and on the financial and economic
conditions of the country.... The subject, however, is an interesting
one, and the personal sketches and life stories of Stepniak,
Volkhovsky, Dr. Soskice, Mark Broido, Mme. Kovalsky, and numbers of
other revolutionists, often recounted in their own words, are
significant and thrilling.”—Lond. Times.
“Is lively and interesting, but somewhat open to the charge that he
fails to name a good many of his sources and some of his equally
interesting rivals. Mr. Perris takes pains and knows his subject.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 590. My. 13. 180w.
“It cannot be said that the author has anything very new to tell us,
and most of his information has been obtained at second-hand. He sees
Russia only from the point of view of the extremists.”
— + =Lond. Times.= 4: 176. Je. 9, ‘05. 520w.
“These quotations will serve to show M. Perris’s sincere effort to be
fair and impartial, but the same paragraph furnishes two other
quotations which equally well illustrate his defective vision in
consequence of his prejudice against nearly everything in Russia in
its present form.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 504. Je. 22, ‘05. 1740w.
“The chief value of this book, however, lies in the personal (and
frequently pitiful) records and brief autobiographies of the martyrs
in the cause of Russian political liberty, and also in the
miscellaneous data on topics which are not contained in Russian
government reports.” Wolf von Schierbrand.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 386. Je. 17, ‘05. 940w.
“No doubt the book is put together in an easy, entertaining fashion.
Although from a non-revolutionary standpoint most of its deductions
are untenable, the chapters touching upon the economic and political
condition of the country are not without value and interest.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 121. Jl. 22, ‘05. 520w.
“In arrangement it is not free from defects, particularly from a
tendency to retraverse the same or similar ground; but this drawback
is connected with what is perhaps Mr. Perris’s most distinctive claim
on the attention of his readers,—his extensive and intimate
acquaintance with Russian revolutionists, over a long period.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 321. S. 2, ‘05. 1880w.
=Perry, Bliss.= Amateur spirit. **$1.25. Houghton.
Six essays in which the author commends “combining the professional’s
skill with the zest and enthusiasm of the amateur.” There are two
chapters on the college professor, and one entitled “Hawthorne at
North Adams.”
“There is a flavour of this conscious condescension in these essays,
and it takes away from the charm which they possess in spite of it,
charm both of phrase and anecdote. The ideas are not very subtle; nor
have they any marked freshness; but to the main idea we heartily
respond. Mr. Perry is not precise enough; he does not know that
different things in life should be approached in a different spirit.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 332. Mr. 25, ‘05. 670w.
“In spite of what we have just said, the quality of the best of the
contemporary American essayists is rare; and outside Mr. Howells and
Mr. Alden we know no one who possesses greater gifts of taste and
style than Mr. Bliss Perry.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 558. My. 6. 720w.
* “No one wants to hear the crack of a whip in these leisurely papers,
but there might be a little more mental activity without any sign of
the strain.” F. M. Colby.
+ — =Bookm.= 20: 473. Ja. ‘05. 880w.
“To apply to him words of his own, he is one of the ‘speculative,
amused, undeluded children of this world.’ Sanity, balance,
kindliness, unite with insight and imagination to give his pages their
peculiar charm.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 93. F. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“The curious thing about Mr. Perry’s plea for The amateur spirit is
that it should seem to slight so glaringly the virtue of the mean.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 383. F. 16, ‘05. 200w.
“All the six essays in the volume have some reference to the working
of the amateur spirit in the world.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 138. F. 16, ‘05. 940w. (Survey of contents.)
“The six essays in this volume are very pleasing examples of what
American writers can do in this branch of literature.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 925. Je. 24, ‘05. 290w.
=Peters, John Punnett.= Early Hebrew story: its historical background.
**$1.25. Putnam.
“The substance of the book was delivered as lectures on the Bond
foundation at Bangor theological seminary in November, 1903.... In
chap. 1, ‘Introductory: literary and archæological,’ the author gives
a simple, yet clear, sketch of his conception of the literary origin
of the early books of the Bible, and a general view of the history of
Palestine before the Israelitish occupation.... In chap. 2, ‘The
formation of Israel: The origin of the twelve tribes,’ the view that a
group of Aramean tribes settled among and absorbed tribes already
resident in Canaan is worked out with considerable detail. In chap. 3,
‘The patriarchs and the shrines of Israel,’ it is pointed out that the
stories of the patriarchs cluster about certain shrines.... In chap.
4, ‘Survivals—legendary and mythical.’ Dr. Peters gathers together a
considerable residuum of material, which remains after one has
subtracted from the patriarchal stories the elements representing
tribal movements and sanctuary traditions, and in which survivals of
myths or legends are probably to be found. Chap. 5, ‘Cosmogony and
primeval history,’ deals with Gen., chaps. 1-11, which is analyzed
into its various elements.... Chap. 6, ‘The moral value of early
Hebrew story,’ forms a fitting climax to the whole.”—Bib. World.
“The book is written for the ordinary reader of the Bible, is
unencumbered by erudite notes, is written in a clear and attractive
style, and can be strongly recommended to the untechnical reader, who
desires to learn how critical study affects the early books of the
Bible. The book throughout bears evidence of wide reading. The marvel
is that in such a work, where evidence is often scanty and much has to
be supplied from analogies often remote, one finds so little from
which to dissent. The work merits high praise and deserves a wide
recognition.” George A. Barton.
+ + =Bib. World.= 25: 313. Ap. ‘05. 790w.
“The book is uncommonly readable.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
“We can very heartily recommend the book. It is thoroughly readable,
pre-eminently scholarly and entirely trustworthy; it is replete with
valuable archæological knowledge; it has all the marks of an
accomplished exegete, and its conclusions are in harmony with those of
many able scholars of the present day.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 841. Ap. 13, ‘05. 760w.
* “Wealth of archaeological information lends special value to Dr.
Peters’ scholarly ‘Early Hebrew story.’”
+ =Ind.= 50: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
* =Peters, Madison Clinton.= Jews in America: a short story of their
part in the building of the republic; commemorating the 250th
anniversary of their settlement. $1. Winston.
The author has prepared this volume for popular use and states in his
preface: “It is a book of facts rather than opinions.... The book is
written with the hope that it may modify the views which the Gentile
world holds with regard to the position of the Jew, and the author’s
fervent prayer is that its facts may lead Christians to grant to the
possession of the Jew the mental, moral, social and spiritual
qualifications which history affirms.” To this end he has set forth
facts culled from various sources showing the part which the Jew
played in the discovery of America, in pre-revolutionary settlements,
in the wars of the republic, American politics, finance, arts and
sciences. There are also chapters upon The number of Jews in the
United States, Characteristics of the Jews, and Anti-Semitism in
America. The volume is illustrated with photographs of Jews prominent
in various professions.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 762. N. 11, ‘05. 330w.
* =Peters, Madison Clinton.= Will the coming man marry? and other
studies on the problem of home and marriage. $1. Winston.
Under such titles as: How to be happy though married; Why so many
divorces? The ideal wife; The duties of a husband; Money and
matrimony; The culture of the child; The home and the higher education
of women; Woman’s rights; and Good mothers the makers of great
nations, Dr. Peters emphasizes the serious side of matrimony, gives
good advice to both husband and wife, and discusses education,
deplores modern extravagance, and makes many suggestions, which, if
followed, will help to make daily life easier and more worth while to
both the married and the unmarried.
=Peterson, Maude Gridley.= How to know wild fruits: a guide to plants
when not in flower, by means of fruit and leaf; il. by Mary Elizabeth
Herbert. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“We have examined every one of the 80 woodcuts in this volume, and
must pronounce them correct and helpful ... while descriptions of
three hundred fruit-bearing plants are careful and scientific enough,
and a key will send the botanist to the order and species, the plants
are arranged for the use of the casual student by the color of their
fruits.”—Ind.
* “This study opens to amateurs a new and comparatively unfamiliar
field and one in which the writers of botanical handbooks have
heretofore made few contributions.”
+ =Country Cal.= 1: 492. S. ‘05. 70w.
“It meets a want, and we are glad to recommend it as a useful guide.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1256. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“As a help to the beginner and a means of stimulating observation it
may be commended. It is well got up, remarkably free from misprints,
appropriately illustrated, and provided with an index of vernacular
names and one of the Latin designations of the plants described.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 428. Ag. 31, ‘05. 450w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 370. Je. 10, ‘05. 220w.
=Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 20w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
=Spec.= 94: 948. Je. 24, ‘05. 120w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= History of Egypt from the XIXth to
the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.
“This is not a work on manners and customs or religion, but is purely
history, very largely original and representing the author’s own
researches and conclusions.... The period covered in this volume
extends from the beginning of the nineteenth dynasty, about 1300 B.
C., the most brilliant period in Egyptian history, to 342 B. C., when
the last native king of the thirtieth dynasty lost the throne, and the
rule passed over to the Persian Ochus. This period is illustrated by
161 pictures of monuments, mainly halftones, with all the known
cartouches.... When we remember that the period treated covers the
entire relation of Israel to Egypt, from Abraham to Jeremiah, the
value of the volume to biblical students is obvious.”—Ind.
“His English is still slipshod. The lists of the monuments of every
king, with provenance and abiding place, that he gives will be
extremely useful to students; and for the care and pains that he has
bestowed on their compilation all Egyptologists should be grateful.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 434. S. 30. 760w.
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 933. O. 19, ‘05. 220w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 654. O. 7, ‘05. 720w.
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 334. O. 7, ‘05. 120w.
“We may not always assent to his conclusions and combinations, but the
archæological facts on which they are founded are stated without
omission or bias, and the conclusions themselves are often brilliant,
usually ingenious and always stimulating.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 343. S. 9, ‘05. 1100w.
=Pettit, Henry.= Twentieth-century idealist. †$1.50. Grafton press.
“The heroine, who ‘loves and seeks the truth for its own sake,’ is a
young and charming girl. She has her own ideas of the ‘true’ faith,
and tells them to those who argue with her. Adele Cultus, her parents,
and her friend, join two gentlemen in a trip to the Orient. Paul
Warder falls in love with the heroine. Together they visit the many
interesting places, and finally come to understand each other very
well.”—N. Y. Times.
“This novel ... is probably an attempt to write biography in the form
of fiction. It is an introspective, retrospective, meditative,
idealistic tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 317. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.
=Peyton, William Wynne.= Three greatest forces in the world, and the
making of Western civilization, pt. I, The incarnation. *$1.40.
Macmillan.
“This trinity of forces is constituted, says the author, by the
Incarnation, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection.... In the present
volume, limited to the first of the triad, he insists at length on the
extension of virgin generation from the lower creation, as in bees, to
the higher creation, as in the virgin birth of Christ.”—Outlook.
“While the author is a man of considerable originality and
independence of thought he is too much lacking in critical judgment
and too fond of large sounding generalities to make his work of
value.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 152. Jl. 20, ‘05. 80w.
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 346. Je. 3, ‘05. 160w.
=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Early Christian conception of Christ; its
significance and value in the history of religion. *$1.25. Putnam.
“An expansion of a lecture delivered by the author before the
International theological congress at Amsterdam, in September,
1903.... The book has been divided into five chapters—‘Christ as son
of God,’ ‘Christ as conqueror of Satan,’ ‘Christ as a wonder-worker,’
‘Christ as the conqueror of death and the life-giver,’ ‘Christ as the
king of kings and lord of lords.’”—N. Y. Times.
* =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 773. O. ‘05. 620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 182. Mr. 25, ‘05. 320w.
=Spec.= 94: 750. My. 20, ‘05. 410w.
* =Phelps, Albert.= Louisiana; a record of expansion. **$1.10. Houghton.
“It has been Mr. Phelps’s effort in this latest addition to the
‘American commonwealths’ series to give a broad survey setting forth
Louisiana and its place in the development of the United States.”
(Outlook). “The fortunes of Louisiana under French and Spanish rule
are described in the first half of the volume, and its history as part
of the United States forms the second half of the volume.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* “While the specialist may not find much that is new in this work, it
has for the general reader the advantage of being based upon the
sources, and is not a mere compilation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 760. N. 11, ‘05. 350w.
* “From the narrative standpoint little fault is to be found, the
style being graceful and flowing and the interest unfailingly
sustained.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 170w.
=Phelps, Charles Edward Davis.= Accolade. †$1.50. Lippincott.
In this story of the fourteenth century “the hero, son of a worthy
Englishman, being kidnapped into France by a ship’s captain, betakes
himself to Italy, wins a knighthood through gallantry, and returns to
his native England with wealth and honor just in time to prevent his
sweetheart from entering a convent for lack of him. The poets are
reverenced in the persons of Chaucer and Petrarch, and it is from a
careful study of the writings of the former that the rather difficult
and multifarious dialects of Mr. Phelps’s book are constructed.... The
rudeness of the England of the period and the refinement of Italy
serve as foils, each for the other, and the whole tale is in the
nature of a treasure house for the student of customs.” (Dial.)
“The book shows the most careful study and great painstaking, and
abounds in varied adventure.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 160w.
“It cannot be said that the mantle of the old storyteller has
descended upon the modern.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 320w.
“At times the Chaucerian English in the sprightly conversations daunts
even the conqueror of polyglot dialect, but the real interest of the
tale carries him safely through to the satisfactory final scenes.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 137. My. 13, ‘05. 90w.
* =Philippi, Adolf.= Florence; tr. from the German by P. G. Konody.
*$1.50. Scribner.
“In commendably brief space the author gives us a comprehensive survey
of Florentine history, the part played by all its leading citizens
both in politics, literature, and art, the origin of all its important
buildings, with extensive architectural notes about them and excellent
illustrations of its churches, palaces, groups of sculpture,
altar-pieces, frescoes, and noteworthy details.” (Nation.) There are
170 illustrations. The lives of the Florentine painters and
descriptions of their principal works are also given making the volume
a good supplementary guide book for the artistic traveler.
* “The book suffers from being crudely translated from the German.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 430. N. 23, ‘05. 510w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 130w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 30w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Deluge. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The hero of Mr. Graham’s story is as intrepid in love as in battling
against Wall street magnates. Simply stated, he is a man who won’t be
downed,—in the world of finance when a power rises against him he
hunts for a tiger to fight the bull, and in the battle with giants,
makes his escape; as for his romance, he quietly determines to marry a
girl in a social world above him, carries his point, and then proceeds
to win her love.
* “As usual, he has written a readable story, but its extravagance
deprives it of any claim to be taken seriously.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.
“If the author, as one must infer, intended that we should admire
Blacklock, he is likely to be disappointed.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 260w.
* — =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05, 60w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Plum tree. $1.50. Bobbs.
A story of the tree of political plums. A young country lawyer is
driven by poverty to accept an assemblyman’s salary from the hands of
a “boss,” and when his conscience forces him to vote against a bad
bill he is thrown out of office. He becomes a reform county
prosecutor, but fails in re-election and accepts a position as lawyer
for the power company which he had been actively fighting. He makes a
rich but loveless marriage, becomes a United States senator, and in
the end, looking back upon the seething furnace of corruption thru
which he has passed, finds comfort in the love of the girl he had
renounced in his days of poverty.
“It is in our judgment far and away the most important novel of recent
years, because it unmasks present political conditions in a manner so
graphic, so convincing and so compelling that it cannot fail to arouse
the thoughtful to the deadly peril which confronts our people.”
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 663. Je. ‘05. 6180w.
“This novel is definitely better than its predecessors, even though
its author has not even yet progressed very far in the art of
portraying women.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 760w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 676. Ap. 29, ‘05. 320w.
* =Phillips, David Graham.= Reign of gilt. **$1. Pott.
“This work consists of a series of brilliant essays dealing with the
overshadowing questions of the hour—Plutocracy and Democracy. The
first half of the volume deals with plutocracy.... Such subjects as
Plutocracy at home, Youth among the money-maniacs, Caste-compellers,
Pauper-making, The made-over White house, and Europe laughs, are
discussed.... The second half of the volume is entitled ‘Democracy.’
In this division Mr. Phillips considers such subjects as The compeller
of equality, Democracy’s dynamo, A nation of dreamers, Not generosity,
but justice, The inevitable ideal, Our allies from abroad, The real
American woman, and The man of to-day and to-morrow.”—Arena.
* “Therefore, we say that he who loves the republic should buy, read
and circulate ‘The reign of gilt.’ The more such books are circulated,
the more certainly and swiftly will come the democratic reaction for
which we are all striving.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 661. D. ‘05. 1610w.
* “It is a most vital subject, and one upon which Mr. Phillips speaks
earnestly and with an iteration almost Rooseveltian.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Social secretary. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The delightful story of the daughter of an old Washington family, who
undertakes to carry a western senator’s wife to the top of the
official-social wave, and succeeds. Incidentally she is rewarded for
her service by a large salary and—something more. The various types of
people found in the struggle for social and political supremacy at the
national capital are well and amusingly drawn.
* “It is not up to the level Mr. Phillips has maintained in his latest
works.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 664. D. ‘05. 740w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1482. D. 21, ‘05. 160w.
“Mr. Phillips’s airy tale is a fascinating one, and, perhaps, if one
looks closely, he may find beneath the daintily flavored meringue some
food for thought.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 270w.
* “Besides the froth there is some really admirable character drawing
in the story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.
“The story is distinctly clever and humorous.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ‘05. 150w.
=Phillips, E. C.= See =Looker, Mrs. Horace B.=
=Phillips, Henry Wallace.= Plain Mary Smith: a romance of Red Saunders.
†$1.50. Century.
Red Saunders’ first appearance as the principal figure in a long story
will delight readers who have known his sturdy traits and original
humor in short story fiction. Not being able to stand up under the
indignities heaped upon him by a father who “felt some scornful toward
the Almighty for such a weak and frivolous institution as Heaven,” the
lad when eighteen runs away to sea; and on board the Matilda bound for
Panama, he meets Plain Mary Smith—plain only in name. How he enters
into her romance only as the champion of the real lover, and how he
fights Panamans at the close of a lively revolution with quart cans of
tomatoes are phases of a humorously interesting tale.
“Adventures follow one another swiftly, and Red Saunders relates them
all with wit and vigorous bad grammar.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 90w.
“In the relation of the narrative there is much of the humorous
whimsicality of subject and style which has distinguished Mr.
Phillips’s shorter stories. Yet there is also a regrettable thinness.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 250w.
=Phillips, Stephen.= Sin of David. **$1.25. Macmillan.
This three act drama, is not biblical, altho it is founded on an
action analogous to that of David to Uriah, the Hittite. The play
opens in the army of Cromwell and proceeds during the course of the
English civil war. It is the story of the love of Sir Hubert Lisle for
the wife of a Puritan captain, the crime which made their marriage
possible, and their punishment.
“It is, however, creditable accomplishment, and up to the level of Mr.
Phillips’s previous work.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 155. F. 4. 840w.
“‘The sin of David’ is even cleverer than ‘Herod’ and ‘Ulysses’ in its
superficial dramatic quality, its superficial poetry. But the true
dramatic fire is not in it.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ + — =Atlan.= 96: 422. S. ‘05. 140w.
“To one who has read all four plays of Mr. Phillips it appears
unhappily evident that The sin of David is inferior in movement to
Ulysses, even as this must rank below Herod, nor is it equal in pathos
to Paolo and Francesca. There are passages in the play which would
drag in presentation.” Louis H. Gray.
+ + — =Bookm.= 20: 554. F. ‘05. 970w.
“Has the fine literary qualities we associate with the name of the
author. But as an acting play it can have at best a success of esteem,
for while there are some strong and moving scenes in it, the general
air is of the closet rather than the stage.” J. B. G.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 91. Ja. ‘05. 710w.
“The verse is dignified and filled with a haunting melodious charm.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 47. Ja. 16, ‘05. 440w.
* + — =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 110w.
“A play better calculated to ‘place’ him critically than any of its
predecessors. The chief impression made by it is that it is the
product of a moderate poetic faculty guided by an industrious and
self-poised intelligence.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 72. Ja. 26, ‘05. 590w.
“As a play it ranks lowest in the four plays Mr. Phillips has written;
this position it maintains as a poem. The work is deftly knitted
together; it has beauty of form, if not many beauties of line; but it
has no great situations.”
+ — =Reader.= 5: 382. F. ‘05. 560w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 40w.
=Phillips, Thomas W.= Church of Christ, by a layman. *$1. Funk.
This volume is the result of a layman’s investigation of religious
truth from heathen, Jewish and Christian standpoints. Under two
general divisions, The history of pardon, and Evidence of pardon and
the church as an organization, it makes a plea for unity, sets forth
the original phases of Christianity, reviews all cases of pardon in
the New Testament, and compares Jesus with other religious teachers.
* “The author sketches the history of Christianity with all the
assurance of ignorance and then with equal assurance expounds his own
theological views.”
— =Acad.= 68: 1259. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 512. O. ‘05. 80w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= The farm of the dagger. $1.50. Dodd.
A story of a family feud in Dartmoor, early in the nineteenth century.
The hero is an English gentleman, and a captured American plays an
important role in the exciting tale, which ends in the sacrifice of
the parents and the happy union of the lovers.
Reviewed by W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Knock at a venture. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Sketches of Dartmoor men and women told largely in dialect. There is
grim humor and homely tragedy, there are three cornered love affairs
and affairs with more corners, there are old men and young, but all
are real. The stories include, The mound by the way, The crossways;
Corban; A pickaxe and a spade; and Benjamin’s mess.
=Acad.= 68: 906. S. 2, ‘05. 310w.
“Mr. Phillpotts writes always picturesquely, and often with surprising
vividness.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 368. S. 16. 370w.
“Written in a light vein for the most part, yet laden also with a
certain quaint and primitive philosophy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 234. N. ‘05. 470w.
“He knows his people and presents them to us with truth and vigour.
There are no false notes. The last touch is wanting, the spell that
can send a glow of life and beauty over every page; and they remain
readable stories, lively and convincing, but not very new.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 400w.
“Dartmoor sketches in sombre shades, and excellent of their kind.
There is a suggestion of Hardy, too, without Mr. Hardy’s later
morbidness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 606. S. 16, ‘05. 510w.
“Taken as a whole, the volume leaves a delightful impression of quaint
character, soft dialect, and exuberant but not grotesque fancy.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 110w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 477. O. 7, ‘05. 200w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Secret woman. $1.50. Macmillan.
This is another story of Dartmoor, and the Dartmoor peasants the
author knows so well. After twenty years of married life, Anthony
Redvers, the father of the two grown sons, finds relief from the
temperamental coldness of his wife, in an intrigue with an unknown
woman. The discovery, the revenge of the wife and the beautiful
devotion of the younger son fill out the plot.
“It is a remarkable novel, a living, breathing piece of work.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 83. Ja. 28, ‘05. 260w.
“Is constructed on what is almost a Sophoclean scale. Mr. Phillpotts
moves simply among primitive emotions, and moves with great natural
insight. He has psychological subtlety, and he has great tenderness.
He has a sense of the dramatic which materially assists him. Too much
praise cannot be given to the author for his handling of this big
theme. The characterization is always good, and sometimes more than
good.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 105. Ja. 28, 610w.
+ — =Cath. World.= 81: 550. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
“Those who care to read literature and not mere books will find what
they want in this great novel.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 378. Ap. ‘05. 830w.
“A study that rivals ‘The scarlet letter’ in earnestness and
psychological penetration.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 280w.
“The psychology of a weak man and a strong woman is etched with the
hand of a master.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 559. Mr. 9, ‘05. 290w.
* “‘The secret woman’ is a great story of the wrong kind.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Phillpotts’s strongest story. A tragedy as grim and inexorable as
any ever told by ancient Greek. He knows his Devon peasants, and it is
with humility that we enter one or two protests against his portrayal.
One may wish the theme less painful, our keen joy in the perfection of
literary workmanship less marred by the continual constriction of
heart to which the author compels us. It is not only its author’s
masterpiece, but it is far in advance of anything he has yet
written—and that is to give it higher praise than almost any other
comparison with contemporary fiction could afford.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 83. F. 11, ‘05. 700w.
“A book of unusual power and passion—by far the best work in fiction
that Mr. Phillpotts has put forth within the past two or three years.
There are at least four characters in this book that are original in
conception, carefully consistent throughout, and subtle in their
psychological development. Altogether the situation is as strange as
it is compelling in its force, and it is handled with skill and vigor.
In all, this is a grim but forceful romance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 350. F. 4, ‘05. 240w.
“It is a story of terrible frankness, dealing without evasion with the
elemental forces of the human tragedy, but without morbid interest or
curiosity, and binding the penalty to the sin.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 100w.
“Assuredly the best novel of Mr. Eden Phillpotts.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 756. Je. ‘05. 230w.
“His themes are simple, but they are far too heavily orchestrated.
Thus his style, though marked by fine descriptive passages, threatens
to become laboured and ornate, and is occasionally disfigured by
recondite epithets and literary preciosities. He seems to us to err by
the artificial and deliberate invention of incidents designed to
enhance the tragic quality of the narrative, by a piling up of the
agony which defeats its own aim, and suggests the element of
gratuitousness where all should march inevitably to the crowning
catastrophe.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 331. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1130w.
=Picard, George H.= Bishop’s niece, †$1.25. Turner, H. B.
“Although the comic element is the last that one expects in a story of
‘mixed marriages,’ that is to say of matrimonial alliances between
Catholic and Protestant, it is really very droll, thanks to the demure
eccentricity of his pacific Lordship, the Bishop of Isle Madame, and
the contrasted orthodoxy of his brother, a domineering layman.”—N. Y.
Times.
“A neat piece of literary workmanship.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 301. My. 6, ‘05. 90w.
“The little story shows ingenuity, a quaint humor, and some pretty
fancies.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 379. Je. 10, ‘05. 260w.
“Is a well-balanced little conceit with delicate and simple humor.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w.
=Pidgin, Charles Felton.= Little Burr: the Warwick of America. $1.50.
Robinson-Luce.
A book which deals with the youth of Aaron Burr, and his career in the
Revolutionary war. It tells of his marriage, chronicles the birth of
his daughter Theodosia, and thruout contradicts all accepted ideas of
his character by presenting him as a noble gentleman, true to his
ideals and the victim of unmerited social and political ostracism.
“Is not very coherent as fiction.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 261. Ap. 22, ‘05. 480w.
=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Ancient grudge. †$1.50. Houghton.
“‘The ancient grudge’ is the irksome sense of obligation felt by one
young man to another who has saved his life as a boy, and in the main
the novel is a study of the divergent temperaments of these two men.
They are students at Harvard together, live in the same town, love the
same girl, and in the end the mercurial, sanguine, visionary Stewart
dies heroically and dramatically, while the heroism of Keith (who as a
boy has saved his friend’s life) takes the form of steady persistence
and strength of mind and purpose. To some extent the story deals with
labor questions, but, while it presents some phases of the problem in
an interesting way, it does not go very deeply into the
subject.”—Outlook.
“In thus making a ‘problem novel’ out of what had better have remained
a story of private interest, Mr. Pier proves rather disappointing.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 309. N. 16, ‘05. 200w.
“It is wholesome in tone, high in its ideals. The author has made a
decided advance in his art since the publication of ‘The triumph,’
handling his material more firmly, and making a stronger human
appeal.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 660w.
“Few, if any, novels of the season show more thoughtful and solid work
in character-study than this book, which is, moreover distinctly well
written. The weakest point is construction.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 170w.
=Pigou, Arthur Cecil.= Principles and methods of industrial peace.
*$1.10. Macmillan.
“In this work the author considers the question of not what have
arbitration and conciliation done, but rather what ought they to do,
and how they ought to do it.” (R. of Rs.) “The first part of the book
is historical and descriptive; the second treats of ‘The principles of
industrial peace.’ The table of contents contains a summary of the
book, and in appendices problems of wages and industry are treated of
diametrically.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The book would have provided easier reading and commanded more
attention if Mr. Pigou had been more willing to ‘take sides.’”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 705. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 339. My. 27, ‘05. 150w.
“His spirit appears to us throughout fair, his understanding and
appreciation of the point of view of both parties to the industrial
conflict remarkable, and his advice generally to be both based on
sound principles and practical of application.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 133. S. 16, ‘05. 440w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘05. 80w.
“Our one criticism of the book is that the author hesitates a little
between two different intentions. Some of the preliminaries would be
in place in a large organon, but in a popular handbook they read like
platitudes, and might well be taken for granted.”