=Oman, John Campbell.= Brahmans, theists, and Muslims of India.
*$3.50. Jacobs.
8–436.
Studies of goddess-worship in Bengal, caste, Brahmanism and social
reform, with descriptive sketches of curious festivals, ceremonies and
fakirs.
* * * * *
“An excellent book on the practice of religion as distinguished from
the doctrines or philosophies. Useful in connection with so called
accounts of religion which are purely idealistic.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 200. Je. ’08.
“A special master-key to the problems of Indian life and thought.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 259. S. 7. 2750w.
“The work contains a great deal that is full of human interest, but
its value had been much enhanced by greater compression and more
reflection of a suggestive sort upon the phenomena presented.” James
Lindsay.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 138. O. ’08. 340w.
“Mr Oman’s evidence is all the more valuable and convincing in that he
approaches the speculative realms of Hindu thought with broad-minded
tolerance and sympathy, whilst he is too sound a student to ignore or
to minimize the more repellent aspects of Hinduism.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 276. S. 13, ’07. 1700w.
“The many pages devoted to subjects already treated by the other
writers, such as caste and the history of Hindu theism, are not of
great worth, and give the impression of having been taken in great
measure from previous authors. On the other hand, Mr. Oman’s own
observations and studies from life in India, his descriptions of the
Holi festival and the Mohammedan fakirs deserve a permanent form.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja, 30, ’08. 150w.
“He has evidently written con amore, and with wide and diverse
knowledge, and his pages give to the reader a singular feeling of
being in touch with at least some of the actualities of this alien and
mysterious life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 60w.
* =Onken, William Henry, and Baker, Joseph Black.= Harper’s how to
understand electrical work; a simple explanation of electric light,
heat, power and traction in daily life; with a dictionary of electrical
terms prepared by Joseph H. Adams. $1.75. Harper.
8–33039.
A book which answers for boys and girls the questions how and why
machinery moves when the force behind it is electricity. It is the
story of the every day uses of electricity indicating the universality
of its application. The author shows how electricity is made; how it
is used for light, heat, power and traction; in the home, on the farm,
in hospitals, on steamships, in mines, in the manufacture of steel;
for protection, as a destroyer, and for the transmission of
intelligence.
* * * * *
“Here is a book that makes the sharp and proper divisions as to
methods and apparatus, and tells with precision just what is involved
in lighting as distinguished from traction, in telegraphy as different
from telephony. Our own opinion is that it will find a large
circulation on account of the boldness with which it gives engineering
data and diagrams.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1252. D. 5, ’08. 400w.
“It is a deep book for a boy ... but one that will stimulate his mind
if he be mechanically inclined.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 694. D. 17, ’08. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= The avenger. †$1.50. Little.
8–13951.
A mystery story with a profusion of ingredients ranging from political
intrigue to private revenge. The book differs from other of Mr.
Oppenheim’s stories in that the man who takes life, the avenger, is a
most reputable citizen of London, who can’t understand why, if on the
battlefield one is held blameless while taking brave men’s lives, a
man who rids society of lives that breed corruption should be
condemned. He has the courage of his conviction and rids the world of
three decadents, consoling himself with the belief that it is a moral
act.
* * * * *
“Amongst the makers of sensational fiction Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim
ranks as a past-master.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 42. O. 19, ’07. 250w.
“An absurd, wholly improbable, yet readable tale.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“There is not a dull page in the volume and many of the scenes are
highly dramatic.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 120w.
“Considered as an invention merely, the story is neat and effective.”
W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“Unlike most detective stories his plots are not mechanical and his
people not marionettes.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“The avenger’s folk are nicely alive—all who are not killed. Its
manner places it in the class of novels of comfortable
manslaughter—smooth-running, readable, pleasantly puzzling.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“Altogether it is a lively, thrilling, and captivating story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Altogether a rattling good story of its sort.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 360w.
“Is notable for its cleverness in placing before the readers a murder
problem apparently simple but really all but insoluble.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
“Entertaining romance.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 623. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Great secret. †$1.50. Little.
7–40278.
A story of intrigue woven about an international conspiracy hatched by
Germany and involving Great Britain. The outwitting of the band of
German conspirators in London is a clever piece of interference,
conducted by one Lord Leslie Wendover alias Leslie Guest, aided by a
renowned English cricket player, and a charming American girl.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08.
“An exceptionally able story of the kind.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 180w.
“It is not likely that ‘The great secret’ will be distinguished for
merit above its fellow; but it may achieve a mild distinction in this
country because its author has allowed himself to indulge in gentle
sarcasm at the expense of the American woman. This is not one of those
mystery stories which offer a real challenge to the reader’s
analytical faculty. The truth is that Mr. Oppenheim, entertaining as
he may sometimes be, is sadly superficial.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 61. Mr. ’08. 1000w.
“Although one cannot cease to protest against the utter improbability
of the general plot and many situations of this story, nevertheless
curiosity is aroused from the first and carries us along to the
finish.”
− =Cath. World.= 87: 262. My. ’08. 100w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 150w.
“There is no permanence and vitality in the plot to give it more than
an ephemeral existence.”
− =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Phillips Oppenheim leaves us with a headache. He is so amazingly
strenuous, and his characters pass through such terrible experiences
in rapid succession that our nerves are shattered before we get to the
end of the volume.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 562. My. 4, ’07. 120w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Long arm of Mannister. †$1.50. Little.
8–23549.
A man who had been the victim of the dark plotting of eight
conspirators takes his revenge upon each in turn. The punishment is
administered single-handed, and for variety, ingenuity, boldness and
thoroness can scarcely find its parallel in fiction.
* * * * *
“The story is better written than some of Mr. Oppenheim’s recent
thrilling romances and will hold the reader’s interest from start to
finish.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 483. N. ’08. 170w.
“Mr. Mannister’s methods are too simple to greatly absorb a generation
of readers that has known Sherlock Holmes.”
− =Cath. World.= 88: 408. D. ’08. 70w.
“Here Mr. Phillips undertakes to show, in a thrilling succession of
anecdotes, that the way of the transgressor is much harder than the
Biblical aphorist dreamed it. He has succeeded remarkably.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“This may not be Mr. Oppenheim’s best work, but the narrative is
compact, lively, and exciting—a diverting companion in an idle hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 320w.
* =Orczy, Emmuska, baroness.= Elusive pimpernel. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–33437.
“A sequel to ‘Scarlet pimpernel,’ in which intrigue, romance, and love
go hand in hand along a path of real historical limitations and
extent. It is a new story, a new telling of certain episodes of the
French revolution, in which are continued the career of the Scarlet
pimpernel, that daring and mysterious young English soldier of
fortune, and the intrigues of the terrible yet fascinating French
agent, Chauvelin.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“If the reader can accept the improbabilities, he will find the story
entertaining.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 504. O. 24. 120w.
“The story ... is told with a rush of incident and with not a little
imaginative power.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“The interest is wrought up to the very highest pitch. Nor is the tale
a mere succession of startling incidents, made to look natural, and
very cleverly joined together.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 680. O. 31, ’08. 230w.
=Orczy, Emmuska, baroness.= In Mary’s reign. (English title, The
tangled skein.) 75c. Cupples & L.
8–14959.
“This is a sentimental tale of the days of Mary Tudor, with a fairly
ingenious plot. There is an innocent maiden, a very good English lord,
a double, and two very wicked Spanish diplomatists who speak with a
scarcely veiled sneer and contrive most diabolical plots.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“The style is of the most jerky and suburban type. The characters,
moreover, are entirely melodramatic.”
− =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“The romance is of the machine-made order, nor does it give any
adequate picture of the times. Its popular merit will probably be that
it has dramatic moments.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 200w.
=Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 86: 288. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 30w.
“There is none of the vigour shown in the ‘Scarlet pimpernel.’”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 818. Je. 29, ’07. 170w.
=Orgain, Kate Alma.= Southern authors in poetry and prose. *$2.
Neale.
8–23871.
A collection of biographical and critical essays, with selections from
the writers. Among the groups of twenty-six men and women briefly
sketched are Sidney Lanier, Augusta J. Evans, William Gilmore Simms,
John Esten Cooke, Joel Chandler Harris, Elizabeth Whitfield Bellamy,
George Washington Cable, Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Nelson Page.
=Osborn, Henry Fairfield.= Evolution of mammalian molar teeth, to
and from the triangular type. *$2. Macmillan.
The first volume in a series of six Biological studies and addresses.
“The purpose of the book is the collection of the writings of the
author on this question and the extension of them by other
observations and illustrations in support of the tritubercular
theory.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Nation.= 86: 243. Mr. 12, ’08. 150w.
“The author has succeeded in placing trituberculism on a much more
secure and unassailable basis than it ever previously occupied.” R. L.
+ =Nature.= 77: 435. Mr. 12, ’08. 800w.
“The whole book gives evidence of the most painstaking work. Perhaps
its most delightful feature is the judicial fairness and frankness
with which the whole evidence is reviewed and discussed.” R: S. Lull.
+ =Science=, n.s. 27: 341. F. 28, ’08. 1200w.
=Osborne, Charles Francis=, ed. Historic houses and their gardens:
palaces, castles, country places and gardens of the old and new
worlds described by several writers, illustrated with plans and
photographs; with introd. by Frank Miles Day. $6. Winston.
8–22109.
A beautiful volume of folio size, with heavy glazed paper, large type,
and numerous finely reproduced illustrations. The text includes thirty
chapters, each of which is devoted to the description of some historic
house and its garden. An introduction states some of the fundamental
principles that ought to govern the relation of houses and their
gardens. A wide range of selection is offered including houses in
England, Spain, Italy, Austria, Japan, India, France, Mexico, and the
United States.
* * * * *
“The book will bring travellers’ joy, whether reminiscent or
imaginary, to those who turn its pages.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 413. D. 1, ’08. 400w.
“There are thus scattered through the volume many welcome suggestions;
and the appreciative reader may find in this rather bewildering
abundance material for deductions which a work of narrower scope would
not afford.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 272. S. 17, ’08. 350w.
“A very beautiful and instructive illustrated volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 526. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
“In the main the book is harmonious in style and method, and in every
case the reader receives pleasurable impressions of the beauty of the
places and agreeably rendered information as to their association and
history.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Osgood, Elliott I.= Breaking down Chinese walls, from a doctor’s
view-point. **$1. Revell.
8–5266.
A clear exposition of Chinese conditions and the place which medical
missionary work has assumed in the Christianizing of China. “The
author has shown that the missionary ‘must demonstrate by living
illustrations the superiority of Christianity over heathen systems’;
that dispensaries, hospitals and schools have been opened to prove the
advantages of a Christian civilization; and that the home-life of the
missionary is as effective an agency in regeneration as the pulpit and
the hospital.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 717. My. ’08. 220w.
“A convincing and distinctly illuminating account of experiences in
China.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 100w.
“The fervent religious note throughout the book is so deep and earnest
and heartfelt that it must command respect even from those who have no
sympathy with the evangelical movements.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08 150w.
“Is interesting reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 312. Je. 6, ’08. 280w.
=* O’Shea, Michael Vincent.= Linguistic development and education.
*$1.25. Macmillan.
7–36885.
“Part 1 treats of the ‘Non-reflective processes in linguistic
development’ and includes chapters on prelinguistic expression, early
reaction upon conventional language, parts of speech in early
linguistic activity, inflection and word order, and development of
meaning for verbal symbols. Part 2 on ‘Reflective processes in
linguistic development’ treats of acquisition of word ideas in
reading, acquisition of graphic words, development of meaning for word
ideas in reading, development of efficiency in oral expression,
processes in graphic expression, and development of efficiency in
graphic composition, and acquisition of a foreign tongue. Each chapter
is followed by a summary and at the close of the book is a very good
bibliography and index.”—School R.
* * * * *
“With the exception of several chapters, the book will be read chiefly
by specialists. The style, however, is forceful and agreeably simple.”
G: B. Mangold.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 457. S. ’08. 300w.
“The volume occupies a field of its own and is of value to those
interested in child-study. It has also some worth as suggesting the
probable origin of language and as farther suggesting proper methods
of education.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 474. N. ’08. 130w.
“It is not unfair, perhaps, to say that the chief value of the book
lies in the organization of material scattered about in special
articles and separate treatises, so as to present a comprehensive view
of the whole process of linguistic development, rather than in the new
facts reported, or new theories propounded. To have made this body of
opinions accessible in the form of an outline of theory is to have
performed a worthy service to education.” W. B. O.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 53. S. ’08. 400w.
“Of the three books that Professor O’Shea has written, this will
probably be of the most permanent value. It has more of the merits and
fewer of the defects of the other books and treats of a definite
subject with such completeness that it is not likely to be soon
displaced by any other book.” E. A. Kirkpatrick.
+ =School R.= 16: 624. N. ’08. 620w.
=Osler, William.= Alabama student, and other biographical essays.
**$2. Oxford.
“The topics of these essays are all biographical, among the subjects
being John Keats, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Locke, Sir Thomas Brown,
Harvey, William Pepper and Alfred Stillé. The Alabama student who
supplies the subject for the main title was Dr. John Bassett of
Huntsville, a devoted physician and student in medicine of the early
half of the last century.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“The history of medicine appeals most to the best educated in the
profession, but in the hands of a writer like Prof. Osler it is in
itself an education.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 442. O. 10. 440w.
“Dr. Osier gives not only the conventional facts in a man’s life, but
has added much by way of personal comment that is distinctive in
itself and frequently charming.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 602. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
“In many respects the gem is the last essay of all, the Harveian
oration of 1906.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 555. D. 3, ’08. 870w.
“Earnest, candid, not lacking in humor, lucid and virile, not
infrequently adorned by the allusions of a scholar who is too wise to
be a pedant, Dr. Osler’s observations are always interesting and
frequently brilliant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 636. O. 31, ’08. 1600w.
“They are marked by good sense and discrimination, graced with a
pleasant style, and ballasted with the results of enthusiastic
research. Primarily they were intended for doctors, but we hope that
their publication in this form will give them the much wider audience
which they deserve.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 503. O. 3, ’08. 1750w.
=Ostrovsky, Alexander Nicolaievich.= The storm; tr. by Constance
Garnett. *$1. Luce, J: W.
The scene of this drama is laid in a small provincial town on the
upper Volga. A sharp-tongued mother, a weak-willed son, and a
sweet-tempered daughter-in-law are the principal characters. The
tyranny of the mother drives the son’s wife to reckless relations with
a merchant’s son. Between the girl’s pangs of conscience and her
uncontrollable fear of thunder, she is moved, during a terrifying
storm, to make confession, and later, in a fit of remorse, drowns
herself.
* * * * *
“It is a play that would make practically no appeal to any English
speaking audience, but the development of character and action, if it
may really be called that in the sense in which the word is used on
our stage, will prove interesting to the reader. And the book should
find a place in the library of every student of the drama.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 295. My. 23, ’08. 480w.
=Owen, Charles Henry.= Justice of the Mexican war: a review of the
causes and results of the war, with a view to distinguishing
evidence from opinion and inference. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–22535.
Maintaining that those who declare the Mexican war unjust base their
charges mainly on opinion and inference, that to avoid intricacies and
contradictions they followed the line of least resistance and
attributed it all to slavery cabal, the author concerns himself with
the causes as they are conceived to arise from the Monroe doctrine.
Aside from being a justification of the war the discussion is a
criticism of the methods of some noted historians.
* * * * *
“There is room for a book which shall bear the title of this one, but
it must be written by a student familiar with the westward movement
and able to discriminate between sources of information and opinions
of irresponsible journalistic historians.”
− =Ind.= 65: 789. O. 1, ’08. 340w.
=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“The book is well worth reading as a patriotic defense of our
government and its armies.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 461. Ag. 22, ’08. 630w.
“We must dismiss his book as inconclusive.”
* * * * *
− + =Outlook.= 90: 315. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 80w.
P
=Packh, Baroness M. de.= Twenty years in Siberia, and Leaves from my
Russian diary. $1.25. Guarantee pub.
8–2942.
A human document describing the humiliation and suffering of
undeserved exile in Siberia during twenty years, and the later
exultation over the execution of plotted vengeance. The diary reflects
upon the thraldom which Russia suffers in the throes of traditional
inhumanity.
* * * * *
“A good deal of knowledge of the Russian people marks the book. It is
sadly marred by an unbridled use of adjectives and exclamations.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
=Pagani, Rev. G. B.= Life of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati; tr. from the
Italian. *$3. Dutton.
The biography of a man much persecuted by orthodox thinkers. Rosmini
believed “that there was one absolute, indivisible, eternal, immutable
Truth, which remained unaffected by the stupendous March of the
Intellect of Man.” “The man Rosmini, with his wonderful gifts of grace
and mind, is admirably portrayed; and the events of his life, both
those of a public and those of a more personal or domestic character
are related in that happy measure which is the mean between dry
baldness and prolixity of detail.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“We can heartily commend the translation of Father Pagani’s curiously
naïve but devout and interesting life.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 184. N. 30, ’07. 1150w.
“For all the interest of Rosmini’s personality, Father Pagani has
succeeded in writing a dull book.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 340w.
“The task is one that called for no common measure of tact, prudence,
and evangelical courage. All these qualities, as well as high literary
talent, are evinced in this life.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 553. Jl. ’08. 750w.
“The book, whatever its defects, has much that is valuable and
instructive about it.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 330w.
=Page, James Madison, and Haley, M. J.= True story of Andersonville
prison: a defense of Major Henry Wirz. *$2. Neale.
8–9498.
Written in the interest of truth and fair play this narrative aims to
reduce friction between the North and the South, especially that
caused by the exaggerated and often unjust reports of Major Wirz’s
cruelty and inhumanity to the Union prisoners.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 755. Je. ’08. 200w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Old Dominion: her making and her manners.
**$1.50. Scribner.
8–7373.
Twelve essays are included in this volume, taking up different phases
and characteristics in the life of Virginia since its foundation,
showing how great a part in the nation’s development is justly due to
the heroic deeds and sublime fortitude and endeavor of the men of the
Old Dominion. They are as follows: The beginning of America;
Jamestown, the birthplace of the American people; Colonial life; The
revolutionary movement; Thomas Jefferson and the University of
Virginia; The southern people during reconstruction; The Old Dominion
since the war; An old neighborhood in Virginia, and An old Virginia
Sunday.
* * * * *
“A note which runs through all Mr. Page has ever written is evident
here also: the judgment and the language are too frequently those of
one who supposes character to be absolutely determined by status. All
heroic characters are gentlemen; the villains are outside the charmed
circle. This is not life; it is not even ante-bellum Virginia life.”
W: E. Dodd.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 182. O. ’08. 500w.
“Offers valuable material to the historical student and delightful
essays to the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 201. Je. ’08.
“This volume has the usual literary charm of Mr. Page’s writings.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 627. N. ’08. 100w.
“The book is a good example of the service a practiced writer may
perform in re-casting the work of scientific historians for the
benefit of average readers.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 382. Je. 16, ’08. 260w.
“The chapters on personal reminiscence ... show Mr. Page’s attractive
personal touch, and are worth reading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 210. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Page constantly relates his narrative to larger events and keeps
a moving background of world history insofar as it has connection with
his subject. And if sometimes in his account of affairs in the Old
Dominion he sees with a magnifying eye, the fault can be pardoned as
only the manifestation of a loyal son’s loving pride in his native
state.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 294. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Written with all the usual charm of Mr. Page’s style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
“One of the most interesting histories of exploration and colonial
times.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 508. Ap. ’08. 100w.
* =Page, Thomas Nelson.= Robert E. Lee: the Southerner. **$1.25.
Scribner.
8–30716.
“Mr. Page’s book is not merely a biography of General Lee, altho it is
a narrative of the career of the hero from two points of view—the man
and the soldier. The biographical feature of the work, however, is
secondary to what was evidently the author’s main purpose in
writing—an analysis of General Lee’s military genius. Incidentally the
author furnishes a succinct account of the battles fought in the Union
war, finally leading up to a comparative estimate of the claims to
military greatness made by the two contending generals in that
war—Grant and Lee.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
“It will delight Southern men, but in the North there will be sharp
criticism of it, in which it will be contended that the pride of a
Virginian in one of the noblest sons of Virginia has guided Mr. Page
in the making of his book, so that he has written unqualified eulogy
rather than cold, impartial history.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
* =Page, Thomas Nelson.= Tommie Trot’s visit to Santa Claus. †$1.
Scribner.
8–35741.
The story of an indulged little boy who meets a street boy with a dog
and a sled and starts on a trip with him to the north pole, the home
of Santa Claus. Their adventures are wholesome and entertaining.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 25: 384. D. ’08. 100w.
“Wholly devoid of novelty or originality.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 65: 1472. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
“The events are too evidently constructed in a conventional manner to
disguise the stilted moral of the rich little boy and the poor little
boy.”
− =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The story is an exciting one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
“It lacks vital interest.”
− =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 80w.
=Paget, Stephen.= Confessio medici. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–5617.
The modesty of the author’s attitude is expressed in the statement, “I
only want to confess what I have learned, so far as I have come, from
my life, so far as it has gone.” The book may be regarded as a
physician’s classic, and is made up of the mild, reflective
observations of a physician who has lived and seen and believed.
* * * * *
“Full of a warm-hearted kindliness and a quiet humour that appeal
directly to all who take an interest in suffering humanity.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 293. Mr. 7. 650w.
“It is written in many moods, sentimental, practical, reflective and
pugnacious, and in a style that is brisk, sententious, a little too
emphatic, but always readable.” C. M. F.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 596. Ag. ’08. 1400w.
“Every page of the book ... is good reading, whether the reader be
doctor or patient, or neither. The writer’s style will delight the
connoisseur.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 213. Ap. 1, ’08. 470w.
“It is agreeably free from technicalities, and it takes Stevenson’s
view of the calling.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 45. Jl. 2, ’08. 370w.
“A pleasant book.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 200w.
“We wish that every student of medicine during his student days would
read, mark, learn and inwardly digest their practical wisdom and happy
maxims, and many a practitioner whose finer feelings have perhaps
become blunted by too close contact with a stringent life would rise
up the better from their perusal.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 54. My. 21, ’08. 120w.
“A capital book, none the worse, but all the better, for being written
about the profession which ought to be, to him, the most interesting
subject in the world. The book is a flower of ‘culture.’ This author’s
style is so good that on almost every page it will remind the reader,
in some turn or phrase, of Stevenson.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 115. F. 29, ’68. 1220w.
“It remains only to say as emphatically as possible that every one who
knows the intellectual refreshment of clear, unconventional thought
expressed with insight and wit will give this anonymous writer a
cordial welcome.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 610. Mr. 14, ’08. 550w.
“Sometimes he writes as though he feared lest his work should smell
too much of the lamp, and he throws in a few grains of jauntiness to
show that no one could possibly hate elaboration or self-consciousness
more than he; but he throws them in apologetically. At other times he
is all jauntiness with no apology.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 19. Jl. 4, ’08. 1700w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Tent dwellers. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–29352.
The story of a camping experience in the wilderness of Nova Scotia.
The moving spirit of the company is a “cave-, a cliff- and a
tree-dweller in his soul and the gods of his ancestors were not to be
gainsaid.” The greater wilderness that welcomes, teaches and takes one
to its heart is the wilderness portrayed here.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 293. D. ’08. ✠
“This is the rarest of things, a book of outdoor life written simply,
swiftly, and honestly.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 380w.
“The author relates the story of their trip with a liveliness, a sense
of humor, a notable faculty for humorous narrative, and an ability to
put into words—and not too many words either—the fascination of the
wilderness that give his book an unusual quality. Enjoying its savor
so much one deplores all the more Mr. Paine’s sad habit of using
singular verbs with plural subjects.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 300w.
=Paine, John Knowles.= History of music to the death of Schubert.
*$2.40. Ginn.
7–35630.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Scholarly and conservative in treatment, well proportioned and
arranged, especially valuable for estimates of the great classics.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 81. Mr. ’08.
“The editor might by means of foot-notes have brought the book as much
as possible up to date.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 549. My. 2. 400w.
“Though in a sense unfinished, the work is no mere torso. It is a
dignified, lucid, and sympathetic account of the great steps in the
development of the art, from the earliest music of the Greeks and
Romans down to 1828, the year of Schubert’s death. Professor Howard’s
task as editor has been carried out with discrimination and loving
care.” J. R. Smith.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 100. F. 16, ’08. 430w.
“It is a genuine pleasure to have his lectures on the history of music
in form for reading and use as a text-book. They may be unreservedly
commended whether one is disposed to lay stress on breadth of view,
splendid scholarship, or agreeable treatment.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“Of high excellence, as far as it goes, thoroly sane, careful and
judicious in spirit.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 80w.
“Professor Howard ... has done his editorial work conscientiously.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 87. Ja. 23, ’08. 500w.
“His work is well proportioned and well arranged in detail.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 865. D. 28, ’07. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 80w.
* =Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Stroke oar. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–33155.
A college story which turns on the rivalry between the captain and the
stroke oar of a Yale crew. At a critical moment the stroke oar is
kidnapped and carried thousands of miles away. His adventures while
attempting to get back to New Haven in time for the Yale-Harvard race,
insure only a suggestion of the thrills to be experienced in the race
itself with the stroke oar back to win the day.
=Pais, Ettore.= Ancient Italy: historical and geographical
investigations in Central Italy, Magna Graecia, Sicily and
Sardinia; tr. from the Italian by C. Densmore Curtis. *$5. Univ.
of Chicago press.
8–5246.
A series of articles which has resulted from an exhaustive study of
the ancient history of the Italian tribes. The review embraces the
relations of these peoples with the surrounding nations and throws
light on the history of Greece.
* * * * *
“In these papers we must recognize that there is a large amount of
constructive work of a high order; it is the more to be regretted that
many of the conclusions seem at best but probabilities.” C. H. Moore.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 95. O. ’08. 800w.
=Class. J.= 3: 208. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Notwithstanding some inconsistencies and an occasional mistake, the
work certainly adds new interest as well as fresh knowledge to early
Italian and Sicilian history.” G: W. Botsford.
+ − =Class. Philol.= 3: 451. O. ’08. 840w.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 263. Jl. 30, ’08. 440w.
“Minor criticisms should not detract from the sincere appreciation of
the profound knowledge and the intellectual keenness of the author.
The translator has been faithful; but he has left an excessive number
of misprints; and still more unfortunately, his English is defective
in grammar as well as in general smoothness and lucidity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 493. My. 28, ’08. 700w.
“A work of remarkable scholarship. Is for students only, for it is
written without a trace of vivifying imagination or of attractiveness
in style.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
=Outlook.= 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 40w.
=Palmedo, D. Petri-.= How to use slide rules. 50c. Kolesch & co.
8–12802.
A labor-saving device designed for the engineer. It describes the
construction and the uses to which the slide rule may be put.
* * * * *
“The author’s style is clear and his expositions will be easily
understood.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 150w.
“The little book noted above is more compact than the usual treatise,
but otherwise is like many others in its contents.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 439. Ap. 16, ’08. 130w.
“An unusually satisfactory little book.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 390. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Palmer, Frederick.= The big fellow. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–25371.
The portrayal of a splendid type of American. The story shows many
parallels with incidents in the career of Mr. Taft. “The big fellow is
a genial, indefatigable, big-hearted, clear-headed giant. He begins
his career on leaving college by working in a pick-and-shovel gang,
becomes a lawyer and a judge, and is finally made governor of one of
the islands in our Far Eastern possessions. His experiences there
illustrate the difficulties of the task we undertook when we accepted
the Philippines, and the spirit of unselfishness in which on the whole
that task has been carried out.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The narrative is wholesome and interesting though crude in places.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Palmer’s envisagement of the whole problem is essentially
superficial, and his mouthings about duty and destiny will ring hollow
to readers who have followed with anything like close attention the
history of our unfortunate experiment on imperialism.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45. 455. D. 16, ’08. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 420w.
“A novel, yea, even a love story, whose chief interest—and it is
exceptionally interesting—does not lie in its story and not at all in
its love element. It is well worth reading by anyone who wants to get
inside knowledge of our problems in the Pacific.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 496. S. 12, ’08. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“The tale is first of all a readable, entertaining story; secondarily
a kind of defense of what Mr. Bryan calls imperialism.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 170w.
=Palmer, George Herbert.= Life of Alice Freeman Palmer. **$1.50.
Houghton.
8–12560.
This biography becomes at once a work of love, a portrait of a notable
woman, and a historical sketch of leadership in college
reconstruction. Professor Palmer writes intimately of his wife’s life,
work and character, especially emphasizing the years during which she
occupied the president’s chair at Wellesley. Simplicity and
indefinable charm of manner characterized a woman whose life testified
to essential womanhood’s fundamental and intuitional philosophy.
* * * * *
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 202. Je. ’08. ✠
“It is, however, not so much the record of and finish that combine to
make it almost an ideal book of its kind.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 372. Je. 16, ’08. 2000w.
+ + =Ind.= 65: 611. S. 10, ’08. 600w.
“The inspiration her memory gave is present and potent on every page.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 28. Jl. 4, ’08. 700w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 124. Jl. 25, ’08. 1400w.
“It may well be doubted if any man ever before wrote for the general
public so charming and acceptable a book about his own wife.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 180w.
“The tone of panegyric, however legitimate, becomes cloying in a short
time. The important question raised, and perhaps solved, by the book
is the adjusting of two busy lives in marriage.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 300w.
“Rarely if ever has an unattainable ideal of combined reticence and
frankness been more closely approximated. Prof. Palmer is far from
lacking appreciation for the eminence of his wife either in character
or in achievement, but he also has and exercises in due measure a keen
sense of proportion.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 276. My. 16, ’08. 800w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“To those who knew and loved Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer this book will
be a friend; to those who knew her not it will be a revelation of a
great soul and an inspiration to noble living.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 262. My. 30, ’08. 600w.
“It is, however, not so much the record of Mrs. Palmer’s public
services as the intimate study of the woman herself that gives this
biography its distinction and ranks it among the vividly _human_ books
of the season.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 150w.
“This is one of the rare books which one wishes to share with many
others.” F. A. Manny.
+ + =School. R.= 16: 687. D. ’08. 680w.
* =Palmer, George Herbert, and Palmer, Alice Freeman.= The teacher:
essays and addresses on education. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–32424.
Three groups of papers: problems of school and college, and Harvard
papers contributed by Professor Palmer; and Papers by Alice Freeman
Palmer. The first group evolves a philosophy of education thru dealing
with the practical problems of teaching: the second discusses The new
education, Erroneous and necessary limitations of the elective system,
College expenses, and The teacher of the olden time; the third deals
with Three types of women’s colleges, Women’s education in the
nineteenth century, Women’s education at the World’s fair, and Why go
to college?
=Palmer, William Scott.= Church and modern men. *$1.20. Longmans.
“The central underlying thought of these essays is the active
immanence of the self-limiting Infinite in man, giving rise to
revelation from within outward, in a growing religious experience, and
a consequently growing theology, changing as it grows, while ever at
the root the same.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The style of the book, its subtle and elastic use of language, its
delicacy and breadth, alone make it worth reading. But the real value
of the volume lies in its appeal to the leaders of the English church
to look beyond their own borders.”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 1: 346. Mr. 21. 750w.
“These pages may be cordially commended both to shepherds and sheep.”
G. Tyrrell.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 707. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“In this small volume of thoughtful essays a cultured and religious
layman reasons with the reactionaries and obscurantists among the
Anglican clergy.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 612. Mr. 14, ’08. 250w.
=Park, Joseph C.= Educational woodworking for home and school. *$1.
Macmillan.
8–10294.
Deals with (1) The enumeration, description, and illustration of
woodworking tools; (2) woodworking machinery; (3) classification,
description and properties of various woods; (4) fastenings; (5) the
finishing of wood surfaces; (6) examples of suitable objects to make;
(7) instruction in woodturning, with examples for practice.
* * * * *
“Under a capable instructor the work should prove of undoubted
educational value.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 140w.
“Teachers in this country will be well advised in consulting this
excellent text-book.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 630. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
=Parker, Theodore.= American scholar; ed. with notes by George
Willis Cooke. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–39034.
A collection of essays written by Theodore Parker in the forties and
fifties of the past century. Mr. Parker shows what a debt to the whole
community men of superior culture owe, a debt which is discharged in
representing the higher facts of human consciousness to the people,
expressed in the speech of the people, in thinking with the sage and
saint, but talking with common men. There follow critical essays on
Emerson, Channing, Prescott, Hildreth’s “United States,” Macaulay’s
“History of England,” Buckle’s “History of civilization,” Henry Ward
Beecher, Dr. Follen and German literature.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Parker, Theodore.= Discourse of matters pertaining to religion; ed.
with a preface by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–38887.
A reprint of the work written more than a half century ago “by which
the author will be most permanently remembered.” The author stated in
his preface that “it is the design of this work to recall men from the
transient shows of time to the permanent substance of religion; from a
worship of creeds and empty belief, to a worship in the spirit and in
life.”
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Parker, Theodore.= World of matter and the spirit of man: latest
discourses of religion, ed. with notes by George Willis Cooke.
*$1. Am. Unitar.
7–39391.
Of the sixteen pieces in this volume, the six sermons on “The
revelation of God in the world of matter and mind,” and the two on
“The theological and philosophical development of New England” have
never been in print. The other eight appeared in tract and pamphlet
form but have never previously found their way into any American
volume.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Parker, Thomas Valentine.= Cherokee Indians, with special reference
to their relations with the United States government. (Grafton
historical ser.) **$1.25. Grafton press.
7–38633.
Based chiefly upon printed official sources, Dr. Parker tells the
story of the Cherokees, giving “a most interesting and unprejudiced
narrative of the Cherokee history in the West, covering the
dissensions that arose between the earlier and later immigrants, the
divided attitude toward the civil war, the reconstruction principles
of the Treaty of 1866, and finally the events that led to the opening
of Oklahoma.” (Am. Hist. R.) “The author is critical of the
government’s attitude toward the Indians, which he says has been ‘one
of treaties violated, of promises broken, and of partisan prejudice
where there should have been judicial fairness.’” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“The rhetorical form of the latter part of the book is seriously
affected by the insertion of extraneous material, the subject-matter
proper being very much condensed. On the whole, however, the work is
worthy of very favorable comment. It is practically free from
historical errors, and those that do occur are of slight importance.
The book is a fair illustration of what ought to be done for every
Indian tribe within the limits of the United States.” A. H. Abel.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 184. O. ’08. 870w.
“This is a very good, brief, historical account of the Cherokee
Indians, especially as concerns their relation to the United States
government.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 449. S. ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Bookm.= 26: 514. Ja. ’08. 160w.
“The narrative is interesting, if somewhat annalistic; and the facts
are generally accurate. In the broader relations of the Indian
question, the book is very weak.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 256. O. 16, ’08. 320w.
=Parmelee, Maurice.= Principles of anthropology and sociology in
their relations to criminal procedure. (Citizens lib. of
economics, politics, and sociology.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–22622.
Gives “clear and reliable summary of the theories of criminology of
the Italian school, and especially of Lambroso, Garofalo and Ferri....
The central idea of the book is the superior importance of procedure,
as compared with the penal code. The author recommends the abolition
of the law jury except for political offences; the appointment of
trained judges and prosecutors, both to be educated in criminology and
sociology as well as in law; the indeterminate sentence, with
scientific study of the criminal at the trial and afterward, with a
judicial board to revise the sentences periodically; scientific
methods of dealing with evidence, as suggested also by Professor
Münsterberg; and the use of experts employed by the state, and not
representing private parties, during the trial.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The discussion is in every way strong and clear, and deserves the
careful study of all intelligent citizens.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 349. N. 16, ’08. 230w.
“Tho American judges and lawyers may look with cynicism and skepticism
on such a volume, students of sociology will find it helpful in
working toward a loftier basis of treatment for the criminal.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1123. N. 12, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Parmelee’s book is notably concise, direct, and logical in
statement, and gives in compact form a fairly complete view of this
important subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 671. N. 14, ’08. 1050w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Last voyage of the Donna Isabel: a romance of
the sea. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–26195.
A tale of thrilling sea adventure which follows the search for a
Spanish treasure ship that sailed from Guayaquil for Cadiz in 1753.
The time of the story is the year 1879, and the Antarctic’s “heaving
leagues of watery solitude” furnish the setting; while chief among the
searching party are the hero whom strange circumstances had made
leader, and the wife of a British lord. The love interest vies with
the wonders of sky and sea and the thrill of perilous adventure.
* * * * *
“A good sea yarn told with considerable spirit.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“It must be reckoned among the most successful of Mr. Randall
Parrish’s inventions.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 220w.
“This is a good yarn, reeled off with considerable spirit. Its
characters are hardly more than the good old stock-puppets.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 170w.
“In our view the proper thing is to take Mr. Parrish’s story in the
spirit in which he offers it, and enjoy it, and not worry over the
fact that there are some unheard of and undreamed of things in it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 700w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Prisoners of chance: the story of what befell
Geoffrey Benteen, borderman, through his love for a lady of
France. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–9526.
A story reproduced from an old manuscript which has a historic basis.
It is set in the Louisiana province in the sixties of the eighteenth
century and follows the mighty efforts of one Geoffrey Benteen to save
from the fate of death the husband of the woman he loves.
* * * * *
“Though carelessly written ... it shows an advance upon his previous
work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“A facile, stirring book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 120w.
“It is an excellent example of the sort of romantic narrative which
Mr. Parrish has cultivated with marked success, and upon which he has
brought to bear the fruits of much serious historical investigation.”
W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 351. Je. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The book, in a word, is nothing if not ample in reach and
thoroughgoing in invention.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“Randall Parrish’s former stories, although they proved him to be of
the stuff of which good novelists are made, were marred by such
crudity of style and method as made them rather a promise than an
achievement. But in every respect ‘Prisoners of chance’ is a notable
advance upon his previous work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 269. My. 9, ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
Reviewed by E. L. Cary.
=Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 70w.
=Parsons, John Denham.= Nature and purpose of the universe. *$6.
Wessels.
Deals with the much debated question of human immortality. Discusses
soul, body, matter, Buddhism, psychical research, spiritualism,
incarnation, theology, the Bible, life, and death.
* * * * *
“Although it is clear that Mr. Parsons has read widely and thought for
himself, it does not seem likely to us that any considerable number of
persons will be physically or mentally able to follow his reasonings
in all their sinuous windings by means of such a volume as the
present.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 14. Ja. 5. 200w.
“The worst thing, perhaps, about the work is its style, which does the
treatment grave injustice. In a work of this kind, it has seemed more
desirable to give some insight into the real scope and design of the
work, rather than deal mainly with matters of criticism. But its
manifold points of learning and interest can scarcely be set forth in
a review.” James Lindsay.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 260. Ja. ’08. 900w.
“It would perhaps be easier to discover the nature and purpose of the
universe than the nature and purpose of this book. It has been
vouchsafed to only a few to have definite information on this subject,
and Mr. Parsons has been even less successful than others in his
attempt to solve this riddle.”
− =Nation.= 86: 108. Ja. 30, ’08. 380w.
“If the author knows what he means, and he cannot possibly, no other
human being will have the slightest glimmering of it.”
− − =Sat. R.= 102: 618. N. 17, ’06. 180w.
=Partridge, Anthony.= The distributors. †$1.50. McClure.
8–28064.
The author offers a diversion quite unparalleled in fiction in the
doings of a polite and exclusive circle known as “The ghosts.”
Exhausting what their friends called “esoteric rubbish,” but craving
amusement, the members of this group enter upon a series of bold
robberies and turn the spoils over to charitable institutions. After
they run their daring course they are steered back into normal
channels and the curtain falls upon a serene, apparently unscathed,
circle.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 80w.
“A weird sort of novel, and one that leaves a distinctly bad taste in
the mind. It is a daring and uncanny theme, and one that invites to
discussion of its psychological possibility. But the author offends
against both probability and the instinctive sense of human justice in
his resolution of the problem.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 250w.
=Partsch, Herman.= Messages to mothers: a protest against artificial
methods. **$1.50. Elder.
8–14355.
The collected utilitarian results of a series of vital human nature
studies undertaken during twenty-three years of medical practice. With
a view to eliminating preventable ills he presents a simple scheme for
right diet, care and treatment of mother and child, and for the
conservation of power in physiological functions.
=Pastores, Los.= Los pastores, a Mexican play of the nativity; tr.,
introd. and notes by M. R. Cole; with illustrations and music.
(Memoirs of the American folk-lore society, v. 9, 1907.) *$4.
Houghton.
7–11974.
Carefully edited to show comparison of various accessible versions,
this play is of “interest as a survival on American soil of a form of
drama which we usually associate with Europe in the Middle ages.” (Am.
Hist. R.) “It is probably a seventeenth century production. It varies
in style ‘from doggerel to the distinction of good Spanish models.’
The actors are the shepherds, the hermit, Lucifer, and the archangel
Michael. The message of the nativity is announced, producing varying
effects upon the different actors. The shepherds seek the babe and
render adoration to him. A combat takes place between Michael and
Lucifer, in which the latter is finally subdued.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The subject-matter ... is of very uneven literary merit and contains
frequent inconsistencies, and an unexpected amount of humor. The
introduction, notes, music of the songs, and photographs of the actors
in costume add much to the value of the work.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 935. Jl. ’07. 250w.
“The spirit of the play is on the whole good. There are fine passages,
but there is also a good deal of coarse by-play.” Frederick Starr.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 244. Ap. 16, ’08. 1100w.
=Paternoster, George Sidney.= The master criminal. 75c. Cupples & L.
7–42014.
The “master criminal” is a man who devotes his intellectuality, strong
character and courage to the furthering of crime. “His morbid,
perverted nature causes him to hate all his fellowmen and to injure
them in every possible way.” (N. Y. Times.) “He has planned to strike
a father thru his son, but love interferes, the love that purifies and
ennobles. It may interest the reader to know that it was this master
criminal who planned the theft of the antique snuffboxes from the
London home of Mr. Wertheim—Floerscheim he is called in the story.”
(Ind.)
* * * * *
“The book will furnish rather entertaining occupation for an hour or
two.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“For all who are fond of the hectic flush in fiction the story, whose
scene is laid in London, will be an entertaining tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Paton, Lewis Bayles.= Jerusalem in Bible times. *$1. Univ. of
Chicago press.
8–26700.
A handbook giving in convenient form the results of the latest
archaeological researches. The author gives carefully sorted facts
concerning the sites, archaeology, and the history of Jerusalem,
accompanied by numerous illustrations and maps.
* * * * *
“An excellent handbook for students and travelers. The book not only
evinces familiarity with the results of recent investigation, but
itself makes a worthy contribution to the sum of existing knowledge
about Jerusalem.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 365. N. ’08. 60w.
=Patterson, John Henry.= Man-eaters of Tsavo and other East African
adventures; with a foreword by F: Courteney Selous. $2.50.
Macmillan.
8–4611.
The thrilling experiences of Col. Patterson among the man-eating lions
of Tsavo become an “epic of terrible tragedies.” How he succeeded in
bringing to an end these savage depredations by killing eight lions
constitutes a most intense story of adventure.
* * * * *
“It should prove intensely attractive to boys, and not less so to
their elders. It is strange, however, that a writer who evidently
knows Swahili should adhere to the obsolete method of writing an
apostrophe after initial _m_ and _n_.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 570w.
“The story he tells us is given very simply and quietly, with no
aiming whatever at effect. It does not need it; the facts are
overpoweringly dramatic by themselves.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 338. N. 8. ’07. 610w.
“Col. Patterson is an engineer and a sportsman rather than a man of
letters but his book is full of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“No boy’s book of imaginary adventures published at this season is
likely to make its reader hold his breath more frequently than this
modest but veracious record. There is a good deal else in the book
which will interest the sportsman as well as the general reader,
though if the book were fiction we should be inclined to describe
those parts which do not deal with the man-eaters as an anti-climax.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 459. O. 12, ’07. 220w.
“The story, indeed, is so amazing that the reader might at first
suppose it to be exaggerated. But quite apart from the entire absence
of artifice in Colonel Patterson’s style, which is itself an evidence
of truth, an overwhelming amount of independent testimony supports the
genuineness of all the details.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 669. N. 2, ’07. 2450w.
=Patterson, Joseph Medill.= Little brother of the rich: a novel.
$1.50. Reilly & B.
8–23548.
“The story concerns a young man, son of a country parson in Indiana,
who won his way by his athletic prowess into the selected and richest
set of Yale undergraduates, and afterward, with the help of these same
young men, rose by way of a broker’s office to affluence and a
position in society in New York.” (N. Y. Times.) Sordid facts of
fashionable social life in New York are exploited.
* * * * *
“It would not be worth while to take this novel seriously enough to
laugh at it, were it not put forth, like Mr. Sinclair’s fustian, as
socialistic or the work of a socialist.” J: Macy.
− =Bookm.= 28: 279. N. ’08. 1300w.
“In the judgment of the intelligent reader, has little excuse for
being.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 230w.
=Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 320w.
“The workmanship of the story is distinctly amateurish, and the matter
fails to carry conviction. Also the theme is somewhat threadbare and
the details are more so. But the book is readable.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Patterson has delivered a telling blow at the evils that he
uncovers.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 170w.
=Paulin, George.= No struggle for existence, no natural selection.
*$1.75. Scribner.
A critical examination of the fundamental principles of the Darwinian
theory. “This is a book by a mature scholar written for the purpose of
establishing the Lamarckian theory against the Darwinian. The second
part of the book is devoted to a reactionary refutation of the
Malthusian doctrine of population.” (Am. J. Theol.)
* * * * *
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 674. O. ’08. 40w.
“The book before us is altogether interesting, although it mainly
consists of an attack on well-known theories. His views are open to
serious criticism. The book is written in a pleasant style, and
contains much food for thought.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 187. Ag. 15. 700w.
=Payson, William Farquhar.= Barry Gordon. †$1.50. McClure.
8–27100.
The fiery blood of undisciplined southern ancestors is in Barry
Gordon’s veins, which uncurbed, causes expulsion from college and
rejection at the hands of the girl he loves. During a period of
wandering he gathers courage for a great sacrifice from which he
emerges a conquered self, and is restored to his early forfeited
happiness.
* * * * *
“So amateurish a writer as Mr. Payson can awaken no belief in the
reality either of the gallant Col. Gordon or of his son.”
− =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 200w.
“A good story, written with vigor and skill and dash.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 280w.
“Exciting tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 100w.
“The story is not of especial value, but it. is entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 100w.
=Peabody, Josephine Preston.= Book of the little past. †$1.50.
Houghton.
8–24442.
A book of child verse full of child problems and child-philosophy. A
note of the seriousness with which children are wont to interpret all
play as work is suggested in the lines:
“And now I have the boat to mend
And all our supper to pretend.
I am so Busy, all the day,
I haven’t any time to play.”
The illustrations are done by Elizabeth Shippen Greene.
* * * * *
“She sometimes strains to copy Stevenson, without quite approaching
him.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 70w.
“Some really deserve to rank with Stevenson’s melodies in his ‘Child’s
garden of verses.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 30w.
=Pearson, Charles William.= Literary and biographical essays: a
volume of papers by the way. *$1.25. Sherman, French & co.
8–19169.
Essays in the following subjects: Poetry, Early American poetry, The
art of poetry, The English language, Alexander Pope, Macaulay,
Tennyson, Robert Browning, Ruskin, James Martineau, Longfellow,
Washington, and Lincoln.
* * * * *
“The biographical essays are as a rule excellent. In the case of John
Ruskin, we think the author has slighted the subject and failed
properly to interpret the great philosopher, critic and teacher.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 478. N. ’08. 260w.
“While the essays lean a little to the pulpit treatment, they are
wholly and wholesomely adapted to the general reader who may happen to
take a lively interest in the best literature of our time. There is
here and there an oversight in the proofreading.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1069. N. 5, ’08. 470w.
“One of those unnecessary books which the world will willingly let
die.”
− =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl: 23, ’08. 320w.
=Pearson, Robert Hooper.= Book of garden pests. (Handbooks of
practical gardening.) *$1. Lane.
8–8130.
An English work designed for English cultivators. Here are “set forth
in clear language, devoid of unnecessary scientific terms, the evils
to which garden and orchard are subject—and they are not few—and also
how to deal with each pest as it occurs.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It is a book which we recommend all gardeners, amateur or
professional, to purchase, and keep for reference in the day of
trouble.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 766. Je. 20. 130w.
“Mr. Pearson’s book will supplement some excellent American treatises,
especially those which have been given out by our experiment stations
and in our garden libraries.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 191. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“The American gardener will find its chapters suggestive and in some
instances distinctly useful.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 60w.
=Peck, George Record.= Kingdom of light. **$1. Putnam.
7–21301.
A corporation attorney’s confession. “Mr. Peck tells us that Concord
‘was in its day, and will long continue to be, a greater force in this
nation than New York and Chicago added to each other.’ In that
elevated spirit his little book is written. The pity of it is that
means will never be found for giving it such wide distribution among
those who need its philosophy, as the help of a great railroad gave to
‘A message to Garcia.’” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“As captivating and convincing a plea for devotion to the ideal in the
midst of common life as one often runs across.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 90w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 140w.
=Peck, Theodora.= Sword of Dundee: a tale of “bonnie Prince
Charlie.” †$1.50. Duffield.
8–17830.
A sprightly tale set in Jacobite times in which the representatives of
two Scottish clans are rivals for the hand of spirited Agnes of
Anchnacarry, with Stuart loyalty, who devotes her wit and courage to
the cause of Prince Charlie all the while proving true to her lover of
Clan Cameron.
* * * * *
“The loyal young heroine’s adventures are many and exciting, and in
following them the reader so far catches the spirit of that eventful
period as to be willing to overlook the author’s occasional failure to
keep the machinery running smoothly and noiselessly.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08. ✠
“She has evidently studied the period. It is the more pity that her
work should be marred by incongruities.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 504. O. 24. 180w.
“An interesting romance based on one of the most romantic episodes in
Scottish history.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 230w.
=Peele, Robert.= Compressed air plant for mines: the production,
transmission, and use of compressed air, with special reference to
mine service. $3. Wiley.
8–24250.
In which “all the well-known makes of air compressors are described,
their principles of operation and details of construction are
discussed, and their good and their not so good features are pointed
out with such impartiality that those most numerously employed in
actual work find no more favor than those which are less frequently
met.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The book is a useful presentment of its subject in many respects, and
offers a safe guide to the practitioner, as far as it goes. It is only
occasionally marred by minor defects.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 319. S. 17, ’08. 560w.
“A very complete and convenient summary, at once useful and usable
with not the slightest suggestion of padding. The author quotes
authorities quite profusely and perhaps not always after sufficient
scrutiny.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Peile, James H. F.= Reproach of the gospel: being the Bampton
lectures for the year 1907. *$1.80. Longmans.
7–42089.
Professor Peile states that “The influence of Christianity on mankind
at large is, and has been, strangely disproportionate alike to its
high claims and to the reasonable expectation of those who saw its
beginnings.” This conviction, the cause, and the remedy constitute the
subject of a discussion which places its emphasis upon the conduct
rather than the creed of Christianity.
* * * * *
“Though Mr. Peile’s book is in no sense great, and does not stimulate
thinking like Dr. Bussell’s more valuable work, it is an impressive
appeal to the Christian world to take its Christianity as seriously as
its worldliness.... As a volume addressed, not to the academic, but
the ‘respectable’ world, this book could hardly be surpassed.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 665. My. 30. 520w.
Reviewed by G. Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 124. Jl. ’08. 500w.
Reviewed by James Seth.
=Hibbert, J.= 6: 910. Jl. ’08. 1450w.
“Professor Peile tells us that the true object of his lectures was to
make his hearers think, and in this he has succeeded.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 464. Mr. 21, ’08. 1350w.
=Pell, Albert.= Reminiscences of Albert Pell, sometime M. P. for
South Leicestershire; ed. with introd by Thomas Mackay; with an
appreciation by the Right Hon. James Bryce. *$5. Dutton.
8–32328.
Albert Pell was a man of rugged independence, a practical and skilful
farmer, a Tory of prominence in the party ranks, tho an avowed Free
Trader, and a philanthropist in spirit, while sincerely showing his
detestation of its cant. This book records his views and includes his
collection of good stories told about political personages of
importance.
* * * * *
“The book is remarkable in the way it endears the author to us.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 192. F. 15. 1100w.
“Certainly nothing so distinctly good in English non-political
autobiography has found its way into ‘The Independent’ office for the
last twenty years.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 438. Ag. 20, ’08. 280w.
“In his racy, unaffected language he offers a series of pictures of
English life in hall, farmhouse, and cottage, which are a real
addition to the literature of social England.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 93. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 160w.
“This volume is as full of good stories, well told, as an egg of meat;
and everyone should read it who wishes to travel from George IV to
Edward VII and to laugh by the way.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 758. Je. 13, ’08. 1350w.
“This is a book which should not be missed by any one who enjoys racy
humour and a genuine revelation of character.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 422. Mr. 14, ’08. 1450w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Amateur motorist. **$3.75. McClurg.
“A book for amateur motorists, written by an amateur motorist,
relating his experiences in the hope that others may profit
thereby.... The 70 pages given to a description of the leading cars,
with illustrations and prices, flavor somewhat of a catalog.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The book contains practical hints of a sound character, but it would
not be easy to say precisely what good end it is destined to serve.
Its disadvantages are these: from the standpoint of the experienced
motorist, it offers nothing new; from the standpoint of the novice, it
is needlessly verbose in some directions, and, upon the whole, neither
explicit nor comprehensive.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 685. N. 30. 460w.
=Ind.= 65: 950. O. 22, ’08. 120w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Sir Richard Escombe: a romance. †$1.50. Harper.
8–18372.
A story of the ruined Medmanham Abbey and the famous Society of St.
Francis founded there during the stirring days of Sir Francis
Dashwood, John Wilkes, Churchill, the poet Whitehead and the
villainous Lord Harborne. It concerns mainly the relations of Sir
Richard Escombe with the society, his efforts to end it, and his
relations thru trial and misunderstanding with Kitty Dulcimore of
Sherbourn in the county of Warwickshire.
* * * * *
“Despite its staginess, it is a fairly brisk and cheery story.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 716. D. 5. 130w.
“Melodrama of the carefully matured, carefully selected variety, that
with a judicious blending of realistic detail may be warranted not to
offend the sensitive literary palate.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 66. S. ’08. 580w.
“A highly readable piece of work.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 455. D. 16, ’08. 220w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 50w.
“There is an ingenious story, there are court portraits, social
caricatures, wild Irish extravaganza, even idyllic patches. The
language fairly wallows in artificiality.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 340w.
“If it does not endure much thinking or analysis, that is no great
fault, since its readers will be disposed to little of either.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 398. Jl. 18, ’08. 420w.
=Pendleton, Louis Beauregard.= Alexander H. Stephens. (American
crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–11395.
From sources new and old the author has gathered together material for
this biography which follows a great life full of tragedy both public
and private as well as full of triumph and usefulness. It is suited to
the modern reader and is desirable “not only because of the peculiar
personality of one of the ablest of the southern statesmen of the old
régime, and because of his association with great events as
vice-president of the southern confederacy, but because he was one of
the most consistent figures in the long struggle between the champions
of state sovereignty and the supporters of federal supremacy.”
(Preface.)
* * * * *
“A book to be taken rather seriously. Mr. Pendleton is weakest, I
think, in his discussion of the question of the right of secession.”
W. G. Brown.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 155. O. ’08. 860w.
“The best available book on the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08.
“Mr. Pendleton’s life of Stephens is less partisan and better informed
than some of the southern biographies that have recently appeared.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1146. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“Without adding anything valuable to the printed materials, Mr.
Pendleton has given a good popular account of this pathetic career.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 556. Je. 18, ’08. 750w.
“A comprehensive and interesting life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 800w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 860. Ag. 15, ’08. 920w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 122. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“This life is worth reading first as a study of the man, secondly for
the light it throws on the struggle between North and South.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 372. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
=Penhallow, David Pearce.= Manual of the North American gymnosperms,
exclusive of the cycadales but together with certain exotic
species. *$4.50. Ginn.
7–23272.
“The book is divided into two parts, the first entitled “Anatomy,” the
second “Systematic.” Under anatomy (192pp.) a detailed account of the
regions and elements of mature gymnosperm wood is given, including
discussions of durability, decay, and general phylogeny. In the
systematic part (157pp.) a synopsis of the genera and species of
cordaitales, ginkgoales, and coniferales is presented, based entirely
on wood characters, and including so far as possible the economic
values.”—Bot. Gaz.
* * * * *
“A very painstaking and a unique book. The book will certainly be
highly useful in its practical applications and also as a great
assistance in the recognition of fossil material.” J. M. C.
+ =Bot. Gaz.= 45: 417. Je. ’08. 620w.
Reviewed by C: E. Bessey.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 609. O. 30, ’08. 600w.
* =Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell), and Pennell,
Joseph.= Life of James McNeill Whistler. 2v. *$10. Lippincott.
Whistler who authorized the Pennells to write his biography, during a
number of years before his death furnished them with personal
reminiscences, anecdotes, correspondence, and various other data. This
material with the addition of other first hand facts gathered from his
family after his death is ample for the complete intimate, sympathetic
biography which has been produced. “As a collection of Whistler
pictures, also, the work is of remarkable value, the reproductions
made for the Pennells, at Whistler’s order, bringing to light etchings
and drawings which have not before been made public.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“The book is a conscientious endeavor to put before the reader
Whistler as he really was—as he appeared to those privileged to know
him intimately. A few inaccuracies have crept in. The numerous
illustrations constitute a feature of great interest. Taken together
they afford a more extended glimpse of the range and character of
Whistler’s art than has hitherto been available.” F: W. Gookin.
+ + − =Dial.= 45: 448. D. 16, ’08. 2000w.
“The Pennells appear to have maintained a balance both of judgment and
taste that fully justifies the artist’s choice and designation of
them.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 300w.
“Is unusually complete, supplying many details regarding the famous,
eccentric artist which have hitherto been lost in obscurity.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
“One may sometimes take exception to the particular form of praise
indulged in.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 532. N. 26, ’08. 2000w.
“The pattern of intercourse and incident is intricate enough, and the
background of misunderstanding and injustice that frequently appears
is, of course, sombre, but the harmony of the whole is marvelously
kept, and the reader sees a Whistler of many sides but of one
inspiration.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 682. N. 21, ’08. 2200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“One of the most interesting chapters in Mr. and Mrs. Pennell’s book
is the account of Whistler’s experiment in teaching, the ‘Académie
Carmen.’” Laurence Binyon.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 571. N. 7, ’08. 1800w.
“The book is a sympathetic record rather than an impartial criticism,
and the painter’s personality, no less than his art, is treated with
loving approbation.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 779. N. 14, ’08. 1700w.
=Peple, Edward Henry.= Spitfire. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–24456.
An “ingenious yarn of the sea and stolen jewels and characters at
cross purposes.... ‘The Spitfire’ is a yacht, and it is strongly
suggested by several people, beside the author, that the name
describes the heroine of the yacht’s log for its last eventful
voyage.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“A good story, of the kind which does not depend upon minute analysis
or subtile psychology for its interest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 786. O. 1, ’08. 280w.
“There is plenty of action in the plot, and if occasionally the author
permits himself a certain amount of license in grammatical
construction, and loads his descriptive passages with colloquialisms,
he no doubt hopes thus to preserve the atmosphere of the story, which
is not that of the classics.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 260w.
=Perry, Arthur Cecil, jr.= Management of a city school. *$1.25.
Macmillan.
8–10626.
Here are discussed the problems of public school administration from
the standpoint of the principal, rather than that of the
superintendent or the teacher. The author sets forth the work of the
principal; his duties; his responsibilities to the state, public,
authorities, and pupils; his problems; and the principles which should
direct his administrative work.
* * * * *
“Suggestive and helpful.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 202. Je. ’08.
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“The book should be helpful to young principals and to those who are
fitting themselves for such work; and it can be read with profit by
all who are concerned in the work of the public schools.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 140w.
=Perry, Bliss.= Park-Street papers. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–28842.
Five papers concerned with the Atlantic monthly, with its Park street
home, and with some of its distinguished writers of the past. The
contents are: Atlantic prologues, (five toastmaster addresses); The
centenary of Hawthorne, The centenary of Longfellow, Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, Whittier for to-day; and The editor who was never an editor.
* * * * *
“Graceful essays.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 263. N. ’08.
“Marked by his customary geniality of temper and lightness of touch,
with just enough of artistic detachment to lend grace and freedom to
his style without rendering it too coldly impersonal, ‘Park-Street
papers’ maintain the high standard of their author’s work as essayist
and literary critic.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Those who read the sober little volume will feel nearer, kinder to
that dignified periodical, the ‘Atlantic monthly,’ just as they might
feel more intimate with any other old ‘grande dame’ after looking at
her family album and the skeletons in her closet.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1244. N. 26, ’08. 160w.
“He has the ‘toastmaster’s’ fondness for life under its social,
cultivated, and genial aspects, and, having a genuine esteem for the
characters of his guests, displays at times a toastmasterly indulgence
to their literary deficiencies.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 437. N. 5, ’08. 430w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 785. D. 19, ’08. 430w.
=Person, Harlow Stafford.= Industrial education: a system of
training for men entering upon trade and commerce. (Hart,
Schaffner and Marx prize essays.) **$1. Houghton.
7–22413.
“The volume deals with the training required by young men who would
fit themselves for the higher positions in industry or commerce, and
the need of providing such training in the United States.... His
opinion clearly is that while commercial training should be offered in
high schools, collegiate courses, and professional departments, the
ideal conditions can be found, only in distinctly professional
instruction, open solely to those who have already completed a liberal
education.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Admirable brief discussion entirely from viewpoint of higher
education.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 82. Mr. ’08.
=Cath. World.= 87: 112. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“We disagree strenuously with the implication in the author’s
statement that ‘the training for work should not be weakened by having
to carry the burden of training for culture.’ The monograph is an
interesting and valuable study.” David Kinley.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 115. F. ’08. 500w.
“His book is a useful contribution to an important branch of
educational discussion.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 190w.
“The book is suggestive rather than exhaustive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 600w.
=Peters, Rev. John Punnett=, ed. Annals of St. Michael’s; being the
history of St. Michael’s Protestant Episcopal church, New York,
for one hundred years, 1807–1907. **$3.50. Putnam.
7–31234.
“The history of St. Michael’s church of this city is more than an
account of the founding and growth of a particular parish, with its
petty trials, its varying fortunes according to the abilities of its
leaders, and its trivial enterprises of merely parochial
significance.... It constitutes an important part of the history of
the development of the upper part of New York city, its old families,
its marvelous material changes, its schools, hospitals, orphanages,
and institutions for the variously afflicted.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“A model of what a history of an important church should be.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 321. F. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The story is told with fidelity to fact, skill in narration, and with
an enthusiasm that sustains the reader’s attention throughout.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 220. Mr. 5, ’08. 470w.
“Mr. Peters has assembled much that is of great interest in the
development of New York.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 729. N. 16, ’07. 170w.
* =Peters, Rev. Madison Clinton.= Justice to the Jew; new ed. rev.
**75c. McClure.
8–9751.
“The present edition of a work published nine years ago, and now
re-written, is a strong statement of facts which demonstrate the
irrationality of prejudice against any Jew because he is a Jew. It
comes with peculiar force from one who confesses that he himself was
once blinded by such prejudice.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 278. N. ’08.
“Dr. Peters is not always duly careful in statement or temperate in
language, but blemishes of such sort are venial in comparison with the
unreason and inhumanity at which he strikes.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 884. Ap. 18, ’08. 100w.
* =Peters, Rev. Madison Clinton.= Strenuous career, or Short steps to
success. *$1.25. Laird.
8–17545.
“The volume is packed with edifying examples of worldly success
attained in the face of obstacles; and these are strung together on a
thread of good common-sense moralizing. The author warns his readers
that the fruits of success turn to ashes in the mouth unless the
success sought be a high and worthy one. True success, he points out,
‘lies not in getting what you desire, but in achieving that which will
elevate and ennoble yourself and at the same time confer some benefit
on your kind,—a success which will be measured by its contribution to
the world’s welfare and happiness.’”—Dial.
* * * * *
“It is characteristic of the country.” F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 20. S. ’08. 800w.
“The combination of worldly wisdom with sound moral standards, which
the author shows, makes the book a safe and helpful one to put in the
hands of aspiring youths.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 257. O. 16, ’08. 170w.
=Phillips, Alfred E.= Surveying. $1.50. Am. school of
correspondence.
8–8482.
“Gives in clear form practical instruction in the use of
surveying-instruments and the method of plain surveying, including
plotting, levelling, triangulation, line running, cross sectioning,
traversing and other details of field work.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 294. D. ’08.
“While it has little to distinguish it from any one of many similar
works, yet it seems to be well adapted to the purposes of a
correspondence school.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07. 50w.
“The information is given in a clear manner.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 60w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Old wives for new. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–8091.
The story of a man who weds a thin slip of a maiden. “Sophy, the slip
grows fat—and grows fat with all the pomp and circumstance of flesh.
No details are spared. Meanwhile Sophy’s husband (who herds railways
like sheep) grows ever more natty and fastidious.” (N. Y. Times.) “By
this time neither loves the other, so they obtain new partners without
disgrace or even embarrassment.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“It is a powerful story, as unpleasant as it is vividly faithful to
conditions as they exist.”
+ − =Arena.= 39: 509. Ap. ’08. 750w.
“As vigorous and straightforward a story as we have now come to expect
from this writer.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 495. Jl. ’08. 700w.
“It would be useless to try to find a moral in this incoherent
fabrication, which is one of the most revolting books, in both
incident and general plan, that we have ever read.” W: M. Payne.
− − =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“In making so much of the purely physical attractions and repulsions
between unhappily mated characters, Mr. Phillips offended the instinct
for decency of the sounder millions of Americans.”
− =Ind.= 64: 808. Ap. 9, ’08. 750w.
“Setting out with a theme which is ignoble in most of its external
aspects, he has not a touch to refine or even to lighten it.”
− =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.
“Substance is furnished by some very truthful pictures of real
every-day America—good and bad—but the author has depended—like the
makers of many modern plays—upon his ‘specialties’ to catch the
public.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 187. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 20w.
“There are introduced scenes and incidents that are far from nice
reading, that are vulgar and disgusting in themselves, whatever may
have been the author’s moral purpose.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Phillips has lavished paint on his picture to a degree
approaching vulgarity.” Charlotte Harwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 621. Ag. ’08. 130w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 762. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Phillips, Henry Wallace.= Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch. †$1.50.
Bobbs.
8–30248.
A slight story that tells how a maltreated little waif darted into the
life of a dispirited gold hunter, and how the lad’s coming was the
beginning of happier days at the Gulch tho not until a severe test of
courage proved the boy’s metal.
=Phillips, Stephen.= New poems. **$1.25. Lane.
7–34791.
A group of poems including practical pieces, and verse that appeals to
the emotions and to the sense of beauty.
* * * * *
“Not up to the average of the author’s earlier work, but the large
libraries will want it for the student and lover of English
literature.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 82. Mr. ’08.
“We fear that Mr. Phillips’s reputation will gain but little by this
volume. Good lines—indebted for their charm, in great measure, to
hints of Tennyson—stand out from the ruck with an added prominence;
and, on the other hand, lines are not lacking which are noteworthy by
reason of their inferiority.”
− + =Ath.= 1908. 1: 156. F. 8. 1100w.
“Left entirely to his own resources, Mr. Phillips does not seem to us
a vertebrate poet, but he can drape the limbs of old romance in very
graceful folds.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 74. F. 1, ’08. 320w.
“If this were the author’s first volume, one would call it promising;
from a proved craftsman it is merely slovenly.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 39: 527. Ap. ’08. 400w.
“The best of Mr. Phillips is not his thought nor his emotion, nor the
interaction of both; it is his expression. He is content, as a rule,
to take a good story or a respectable idea, and tell it with all the
resources at his command. The new book as a whole, gives the
impression that the poet has come to a pause in his development. The
old qualities are here, with a finer feeling than before for the point
where enough has been said.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 364. N. 29, ’07. 1150w.
“Like most of the lesser versifiers of the day, his virtue is in the
sensuous, unthinking perception of beauty.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 280w.
“The present volume is very well worth reading as an exemplification
of his skill, and especially as showing, upon the whole, a distinct
advance upon the ‘Poems’ of 1900.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 460w.
“There are good lines in Mr. Phillips’s poem, but there is very little
uplift of vision, and sometimes his verse drops to a level of
commonplace prose.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 142. Ja. 18, ’08. 370w.
“He is now a deft workman in his own spacious vein. These verses for
the most part have a fluent tinkle, a kind of obvious succulence,
which makes them in a way readable. Such readability, however, is more
remote from true standards of poetry than any amount of frankly bad
verse.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 637. N. 23, ’07. 280w.
“The poems almost without exception are characteristic of Mr.
Phillips’s best work.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 709. N. 9, ’07. 1770w.
=Phillips, Stephen, and Carr, J. Comyns.= Faust; freely adapted from
Goethe’s dramatic poem. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–24861.
A free paraphrase of Goethe’s poem which “presents the main events of
the legend with a more narrow continuity of narrative; compresses into
comparatively few scenes the unrestrained sweep of Goethe’s epical
inventiveness; discards the subtler phases of the world-poet’s
philosophy, and reduces his main ideas to the simplicity demanded by a
theatre-going public that yawns while it asks to be amused.... The
authors have cut out and thrown away many passages of their original;
they have rearranged the order of the passages retained; but beyond
this they have set themselves scarcely any exercise of the
imagination.” (Forum.)
* * * * *
“The great departure from Goethe is, in my humble opinion, an
absolutely fatal mistake.” F: B. R. Hellems.
+ − =Atlan.= 102: 812. D. ’08. 3700w.
“Their task was special, and they have performed it admirably.” Philip
Littell.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 363. D. ’08. 800w.
“Considered merely as an adaption of Goethe’s poem to the uses of the
stage, this latest ‘Faust’ is thoroughly commendable. The present work
is largely a dilution of previous rendering of the great original.”
Walter Clayton.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 221. S. ’08. 1350w.
“Is worth reading for its own sake and for the sake of the comparison
that it invites with the huge masterpiece on which it is based.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1179. N. 19, ’08. 130w.
“In mere style and rhythm and facility Messrs. Phillips and Carr ...
have thus been able to produce the best version in English of Goethe’s
work. The condemnation and adaption of the poem to a workable drama
have been skilfully managed, though not always to our taste.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 294. S. 24, ’08. 730w.
“It is not a translation, and yet it has all the awkwardness of
one—the phrases that suggest imperfect understanding of the original
or the carelessness natural in handling ideas not our own. Indeed, of
carelessness there is more than enough.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 611. N. 14, ’08. 130w.
=Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell.= History of transportation in the eastern
cotton belt to 1860. *$2.75. Macmillan.
8–1482.
“The present volume is concerned almost entirely with the development
of transportation in South Carolina and Georgia.... After an
introduction of twenty pages giving a general survey of the
transportation problems in the South, Professor Phillips devotes two
chapters to highway and canal development in lowland and upland South
Carolina prior to 1830. Then follow accounts of the Charleston and
Hamburg railroad and the premature Charleston project, the Georgia
railroad and banking company, the Central of Georgia system, the
Western and Atlantic (built by Georgia) and various minor branch
roads. The concluding chapter describes the beginning made during the
five years before the war in the integration and co-operation of the
hitherto independent roads, and summarizes the effects of the railways
upon social and economic organization.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“Professor Phillips has written a scholarly book rich in detail. He
has placed students of social as well as economic history under
lasting obligations.” E. R. Johnson.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 539. O. ’08. 650w.
“The investigation is both thoro and interesting, and the relations of
transportation to the wider economic interests are never lost sight
of.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 562. S. ’08. 140w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Mother of the man. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–4037.
Such a mother as Ibsen foresaw for the rearing of sturdy sons is
portrayed in this peculiarly strong tale with its convincing men and
women. The hero is a hot-headed, untamed youth, restless with the
surging of warring elemental passions. The mother’s wisdom and justice
apparent in her swift play of mind offer the restraining and
developing influences that finally bring the son thru pain and turmoil
to the light.
* * * * *
“The plot is simple, the delineation of character masterly and
delicate, the descriptions of the enchanting moors exquisite.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Phillpotts has a famous style, rich and generous, and his moor
draws the best out of him. His pictures of nature are singularly vivid
and delectable. The most notable point in this book is the greater
ease and quietness which his methods have acquired.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 221. F. 22. 350w.
“A book which is hard to discuss in terms of calm, every-day
criticism. It is the sort of novel the thoughtful reader will want to
keep, that he may return to it again and again, to browse here and
there upon its pages. In a word, this novel is that rare and beautiful
thing, the work of a poet who has something to say.” J. Marchand.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 60. Mr. ’08. 320w.
“The most human, the most appealing, the wisest and the most lovable
of mothers in recent fiction. Eden Phillpotts has written his
strongest book, so far, in ‘The mother of the man’ with a ripeness and
restrained power rarely excelled.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“None of these people have ‘cultivated’ minds. We have not to solve
them as intricate puzzles, but to watch them unfold in character and
meaning, simply and beautifully, by what they say and do—rather than
like Mr. James’s people, complexly and often beautifully, by the play
of his fancy about them.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 700w.
“This last is perhaps his finest work; it moves with greater freedom,
and gives evidence that the writer is growing with each book he gives
us.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 580w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“The plot is slight and the action far too sluggish, but the
workmanship and the intellectual quality are of the best.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 160w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 150w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Virgin in judgment. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–29741.
“This story contains a dozen capital portraits of rural men and women,
dwellers on Dartmoor some half-century ago. The lives of the three
protagonists culminate in tragedy, the legitimate outcome of clashing
temperaments. Rhoda Bowden’s affections are all centered in her
brother David.... David has married Madge, who is Rhoda’s antithesis,
a woman compact of sympathy and love. Jealous for her brother’s
honour, Rhoda charges Madge with unfaithfulness to him. Madge is
innocent, but unlucky circumstances lend colour to the accusation, and
Rhoda’s harshness drives her to self-destruction. Rhoda learns the
truth too late and loses her brother’s love.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“The principal charm of this book will lie for many readers in its
picture of the rustic community as a whole. The writer’s chief
distinction lies, perhaps, in his well-nigh Shakespearean respect and
liking for simple and dull people.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 540w.
“The end is so sudden, so unexplained, and so unnecessary. It is
pathetic, but it lacks justification; pathos is a mere trick of
technique, but tragedy is proof of the artist.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“It is doubtful whether Phillpotts has surpassed ‘The virgin in
judgment’ in any of his previous novels. He lies full length upon
Mother Earth, but he gazes up into the depths of the sky.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 749. N. 28, ’08. 330w.
“Here is a matter for sadness, but there is mirth too, for the author
gives us pages of humorous dialogue, as well as glimpses of content in
many a cottage. We feel, as we read, that his touch in
characterisation is sure and his outlook upon life is sane.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 180w.
=Phillpotts, Eden, and Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= The statue: a story
of international intrigue and mystery. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–22564.
A story which “centers about a gigantic and mysterious statue built in
the grounds of his country place by a financier of international
reputation. A loan to the government of Morocco, which involves the
possibility of a European war and survival or downfall of an English
ministry, the murder of the great financier at the foot of his statue,
a dramatic trial, an escape from prison, and the final revelation of
the secret of the statue, provide ample complications and incidents.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Is no more than a melodramatic tale of ingenious intrigue, of
mysterious crime, and of detection and retribution. Taking it upon
this low level, the story is effective.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 130w.
“It is the kind of thing the cheap magazines print—a tale of murder
and supposed mystery, with suitable embellishment of ‘love interest.’”
− =Nation.= 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 240w.
“Too serious development of an ingenious tangle of circumstances. The
end is surprising in its hopelessly improbable character.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 488. S. 5, ’08. 280w.
“The secret is ingenious, but as a _dénouement_ it is disappointing.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 120w.
=Phyfe, William H. P.= Twelve thousand words often mispronounced.
**$1.25. Putnam.
8–16935.
A revised and enlarged edition of “10,000 words often mispronounced”
with a supplement of two thousand additional words. It is a complete
hand-book of difficulties in English pronounciation, including an
unusually large number of proper names and words and phrases from
foreign languages.
=Phythian, John Ernest.= Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to
Sargent; with 8 il. in colour and 32 in half-tone. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–17199.
Written from the English point of view this study follows the progress
made in the field of art during the latter half of the nineteenth
century. The Preraphaelites and the impressionists figure largely in
the treatment, with mainly such phases of other artists’ work as have
contributed directly or indirectly to the success of these two
schools.
* * * * *
“A useful compilation covering subjects difficult to get in one
volume.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 202. Je. ’08.
“The book cannot be regarded as important, but it is conscientious,
and as original as is required by its purpose.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 548. O. 31. 230w.
“The title is misleading and untrue as an indication of what the book
really is. ‘Modern painting’ is not English painting alone. It would
almost seem as if the two parts had been written at different times
and put together without any proper relation to each other.” W. C.
Larned.
− + =Dial.= 45: 340. N. 16, ’08. 1100w.
“Is not a well-proportioned book. The book is of no importance,
critically, but may have its uses as a popular account of the art of
the last half of the nineteenth century.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 542. Je. 11, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 233 Ap. 18, ’08. 220w.
“Is at times characteristically British and insular in tone.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 440w.
“The review is inadequate in its comprehension of what America has
done for modern painting.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 863. Ag. 15, ’08. 300w.
“A readable, well-informed, and eminently fair-minded book.” Laurence
Binyon.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 527. Ap. 25, ’08. 1050w.
=Phythian, John Ernest.= Trees in nature, myth and art. il. **$1.50.
Jacobs.
W 8–60.
“A book which tells what men have thought and said about trees, how
artists have painted them, rather than a discussion of trees
themselves. Mr. Phythian talks in a pleasant leisurely way about myths
and artists and art and the more or less scientific fancies of
unscientific observers.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“On account of its weakness in originality and insufficient power of
expression, we fear that we must place it too near the category of
those books to the writing of which there is no end.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 86. N. 2, ’07. 1500w.
“The worst point about the book is that the author is always throwing
off suggestions more interesting than his main argument.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 696. N. 30. 400w.
“Mr. Phythian’s book will interest those who, less active, still love
to lounge in grove or glade and dream of the stately procession of the
friendly trees.” T: H. Macbride.
+ =Dial.= 44: 342. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Phythian is at his best when he treats of trees in art, and is
least satisfying in the chapters which describe them in nature.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 348. N. 15. ’07. 1000w.
=Pier, Garrett Chatfield.= Inscriptions of the Nile monuments: a
book of reference for tourists. **$5. Putnam.
8–19581.
“The translations here presented of the more important and interesting
inscriptions that challenge the traveler’s curiosity recall the
vanished life of that once mighty kingdom in clear reality—the
Pharaohs and priests, the conquerors and magicians, the beliefs and
customs, of three and four thousand years ago. These inscriptions,
together with the photographs accompanying the text, make up a rare
‘book of remembrance’ for the returned traveler, as well as a guide
and interpreter for the tourist. The translated inscriptions are
accompanied with adequate historical and other notes and comments, and
the photographs are of superior quality.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 783. O. 1, ’08. 140w.
“Occasionally he has done violence to English construction by
following very closely the Egyptian order of words; at times, however,
this method adds to the picturesqueness of the versions. Printed on
thinner paper and in smaller type, some of the 130 illustrations might
suffer, but the book would gain, and it would certainly prove not only
a practicable, but an interesting and a profitable companion on a Nile
voyage and on a temple pilgrimage.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 528. N. 26, ’08. 420w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 200w.
“The selection is made with good judgment, and the author’s long
residence in Egypt makes him fully competent for his task.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 2000w.
“A more welcome companion-book for the visitor to ‘Egypt’s land of
memory’ than this finely illustrated volume could hardly be produced.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15. ’08. 120w.
=Pierce, Franklin.= Federal usurpation. **$1.50. Appleton.
8–4348.
“A plea for the sacredness of the constitution of the United States,”
called forth by President Roosevelt’s suggestion for an increase of
Federal power “thru executive action—and thru judicial interpretation
and construction of law.” “The author arraigns Mr. Roosevelt for
attempting to destroy the State government, imperialize the national
government and convert the presidency into a dictatorship.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08.
“This is a vigorous and well-written, tho somewhat polemic,
constitutional study.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 155. Jl. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Whatever one may think of Mr. Pierce’s methods or conclusions, it
cannot be denied that his vigorous plea for state rights ... is worthy
of thoughtful consideration. Neither the facts nor the tendencies
which they show are, of course, new, although no recent writer has so
carefully collected them.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“Cannot be taken by the student very seriously. It is a view of the
constitution much more ably presented by Professor Stimson. It is
accurate neither in its facts nor in its law.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 314. O. 10, ’08. 500w.
=Pierce, Ulysses G. B.=, comp. Soul of the Bible: being selections
from the Old and the New Testaments and the Apocrypha, arranged as
synthetic readings; introd. by Edward Everett Hale. *$1.25. Am.
Unitar.
7–32351.
Here are brought together passages which explain and supplement each
other and which are of permanent worth. “The readings are synthetic.
In each selection the whole Bible has been drawn upon, as needed to
develop the subject or to supplement the thought. Isolated passages
have been brought into relation with the larger thought of which they
are generic parts, thus utilizing many short passages which would
otherwise be overlooked because of their fragmentary character.”
=Pillsbury, Walter Bowers.= Attention. (Lib. of philosophy.) *$2.75.
Macmillan.
8–19132.
The English edition of a work which in 1906 appeared in French as a
volume of the Library of experimental psychology. “The English volume
is an expansion of the former work and increases notably the value of
this contribution to psychology. There is an additional chapter on
measurements of the attention, a very important topic; a similar
addition treating of the relation of attention to the feelings and to
the self, and a useful practical chapter upon the educational aspects
of attention. What appeared as a single chapter in the earlier
publication on memory, will and reason, is now amplified into three
separate chapters.” (Science.)
* * * * *
“The work is marked throughout by accuracy of statement, wide
familiarity with the literature of the subject, and fairness and
discrimination in criticism.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 406. Ap. 30, ’08. 1500w.
“It may be true that the functional view is not adequately worked out,
but it has been expressed a sufficient number of times to deserve,
some of us believe, a respectful hearing. As an example of structural
psychology, Professor Pillsbury’s work will command instant
recognition. He will probably be satisfied to answer that this was all
he intended.” C: H. Judd.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 651. N. ’08. 2300w.
“The volume may be emphatically commended.” J. J.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 27: 819. My. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Pinkham, Edwin George.= Fate’s a fiddler. †$1.50. Small.
8–18409.
One Bermondsey Bibbus, the keeper of a second-hand book shop in
Boston, his wife, addicted to lachrymose poetry, and his son, the hero
and narrator of this story, constitute the chief group of characters.
The father camps on the trail of the rainbow until he really finds a
reasonable pot of gold in a newspaper office in Missouri. The son goes
to school and enjoys the wealth of the cousin who inherited an uncle’s
fortune instead of himself.
* * * * *
“A confused story, with a somewhat foolish plot, but two characters
who might almost have stepped out of Dickens redeem it from
commonplaceness.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08.
“The story is not told in a way to appeal to mature minds, and however
much it may please young people accustomed to the stories of Oliver
Optic and writers of that class, it is not a book that will, we think,
be prized by most novel readers.”
− =Arena.= 40: 486. N. ’08. 200w.
“A very readable novel with a distinct flavor of Dickens in it.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 407. D. ’08. 240w.
“The book is rather well done, but one doubts if it is particularly
worth doing.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“To revive a wholesome type of story even on a reduced scale is a
thankworthy deed. Mr. Pinkham has done so, and has suitably,
humorously, and cleverly added of his own.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 265. S. 17, ’08. 430w.
“Had the excellence of the first chapters been sustained throughout,
the book would be a noteworthy one instead of merely above the
average.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 426. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
=Platt, Dan Fellows.= Through Italy with car and camera. il. **$5.
Putnam.
7–42023.
Mr. Platt’s itinerary “covers not only the well-beaten roads, but many
byways—from Castelfranco and San Daniele in the north to San Galgano,
Montefalco, and Jesi in the centre. Most remarkable are his
illustrations, which have three merits—they are very numerous, more
than 200 in all; they are uncommonly well done; and they include many
out-of-the-way scenes and bits of native life and costume.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“With that touch-and-go spirit which the motor-car encourages, and the
Italian scenery in the latter part of the year intensifies, [the
author] devotes his energies to the criticism of art. As a critic of
art Mr. Platt is by no means commonplace and conventional. He does,
indeed, cast down some of the ancient idols, but he is not a destroyer
of all the cherished images.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 400w.
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banalities in text and ‘illustration.’”
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“After one has read the letter-press, these half-tones will serve as a
sort of album of Italian subjects, to be returned to again and again.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja 30, ’08. 130w.
“A most readable record of the journey to the centres, great and
small, of Italy’s past artistic activity. His style is simple, there
is no attempt at fine writing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 47. Ja. 25, ’08. 420w.
“The lover of Italy, if he does not expect an elaborate work, will
find here much worth having and preserving.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
“Is in effect a glorified guide-book to the wonders of nature and
beauties of art, which were the objective of each day’s outing.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 624. F. ’08. 360w.
=Player, Preston.= Notes on hydro-electric developments. *$1.
McGraw.
8–21048.
A discussion whose object is to furnish information to the water power
promoter which shall enable him to determine accurately the merits of
a proposed undertaking.
* * * * *
“The information given is valuable and worth the consideration of
anyone at all interested in the subject.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 306. S. ’08. 160w.
“This book should be particularly interesting to younger men in
electrical and hydraulic work.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 191. Ag. 13, ’08. 400w.
“This side of hydro-electric work has never been taken up so
authoritatively before, and the manual is to be commended as answering
a real need.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 335. S. 19, ’08. 260w.
=Plechanoff, George.= Anarchism and socialism; tr. with the
permission of the author by Eleanor Marx Aveling; with an introd.
by Robert Rives La Monte. 50c. Kerr.
W8–79.
“One of a series of reprints of socialistic literature published for
the purposes of propaganda. The treatment is a well reasoned defense
of Marxian socialism as over against utopian socialism on the one hand
and nihilism and anarchism on the other hand.”—Am. J. Soc.
* * * * *
“The treatment is conventional, and the chapters on Proudhon and
Bakounine are especially readable.” C. R. H.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.
“Taken as a whole this volume is a masterpiece that surpasses every
other work on these subjects. It contains the quintessence of the
progressive thought of the past two centuries. It is an invaluable
contribution to art and literature.” Saul Beaumont.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 386. O. ’08. 800w.
=Plummer, Mary Wright.= Roy and Ray in Canada. **$1.75. Holt.
8–26881.
Roy and Ray whose journey thru Mexico taught many things historical
and geographical to young readers, are equally alert in the present
volume devoted to Canadian history, scenery, manners and customs. The
book offers valuable supplementary reading for schools.
* * * * *
“Clear, well-written and accurate, the book will prove especially
useful in connection with school work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1477. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“However excellent the material, we cannot overcome our dislike of the
cross-question. Miss Plummer, who has done her work carefully is a
trained observer.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 60w.
“An excellent travel book for children.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 140w.
“A book sure of a welcome from bright boys and girls.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 80w.
=Podmore, Frank.= Naturalisation of the supernatural. **$2. Putnam.
8–22271.
Traces the history of spiritualistic movements, and from the published
and unpublished investigations of the Society for psychical research
produces material that on the one hand exposes fraud and on the other
scientifically substantiates certain marvellous occurrences of psychic
phenomena. “The author is convinced of the reality of telepathy,
including the production of hallucinations by spontaneous thought
transference, but is skeptical of the physical manifestations of
spiritism which are now returning to popularity.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 294. D. ’08.
“Altho it follows the lines of his earlier works and contains little
that is essentially new or different, and altho he is disappointingly
inclusive in summing up the argument and stating his own opinion of
it, yet his care in collecting his evidence and fairness in discussing
it make the volume useful to those who wish to form their own
opinions.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 488. Ag. 27, ’08. 730w.
=Nation.= 87: 239. S. 10, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 300w.
“A really helpful addition to the rapidly growing literature dealing
with the work that is being done in the debatable field of spiritistic
phenomena, apparitions, hauntings, and kindred manifestations of a
supposedly supernatural character.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 317. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=Sat. R.= 106: 334. S. 12, ’08. 1050w.
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is plenty of evidence of careful work, and of a refusal to rush into a
spiritualistic explanation of unknown phenomena while any other
explanation remains possible.”
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* =Poincaré, Lucien.= New physics and its evolution; being the
authorized translation of “La physique moderne, son evolution.”
(International scientific ser.) *$1.75. Appleton.
“The keynote of the book is the remark that physical science
progresses by evolution rather than by revolution; and that science in
general is in some sort a living organism which gives birth to an
indefinite series of new beings which take the place of the old. The
author shows how the science of mechanics and the mechanical
hypotheses of Newton, Descartes, and La Place have been modified by
recent discoveries, and he explains the limits of metaphysics and
philosophy in dealing with the laws of nature.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Although it is short and clear, it will not be found easy reading,
and some of it will not be followed without consultation of other
works, save by those to whom the methods of research as well as the
broad principles of physics are already familiar.” S. S. Sprigge.
+ − =Acad.= 73: 885. S. 14, ’07. 1900w.
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“The compression of so many subjects into a space of little more than
300 pages is in itself a feat of which few living men would be
capable; but our wonder at this deepens when we observe the means by
which it is effected. The editor of the series has done his work with
discretion, and his comparatively few notes are useful in supplying
needed definitions and in bringing the book up to date.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 275. S. 7. 940w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 583. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“It is a scholarly production which can be confidently recommended to
all who are interested in the development of physics.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 121. D. 3, ’08. 800w.
=Pollak, Gustave.= Franz Grillparzer and the Austrian drama.
**$2.50. Dodd.
7–38906.
In which Franz Grillparzer, the typical Austrian of the Metternich
period, is introduced to American readers. The sketch gives an
intimate insight into the life and times of the playwright and also
translates “freely the best of the plays, thus affording, besides the
synopsis of each drama, a taste of the atmosphere of the work that
nothing short of the actual text can provide.” (Bookm.)