A volume in the “Debaters’ handbook series” in which articles or parts
of articles bearing upon the subject have been gathered together from
books, magazines and pamphlets, and have been printed for the benefit of
students, club members and general readers whose town libraries can not
furnish them with material necessary for debating purposes.
=Philip, Alexander J.= Dickens dictionary: the characters and scenes
of the novels and miscellaneous works alphabetically arranged. *$3.
Dutton.
9–16959.
Provides an alphabetical index of characters and scenes that appear in
Dickens’s novels and miscellaneous writings. His letters and “Child’s
history of England” are not included.
* * * * *
“Mr. Philip’s attempt is in itself praiseworthy, for an adequate book of
reference on the subject is needed; but the present work is of little
value, and many of its shortcomings might with reasonable care have been
avoided.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 458. Ap. 17. 850w.
=Dial.= 46: 233. Ap. 1, ’09. 80w.
“The compiler himself laments the difficulty of separating the
characters and places dealt with by the novelist from merely casual
allusions. Barring this defect, the dictionary is admirably wrought.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 579. Je. 10, ’09. 150w.
“The design of this ‘Dickens dictionary’ is better than the execution.
The mechanical errors that disfigure the book are trivial compared with
Mr. Philips’s own inaccuracies. He has a synopsis of the various works,
quite dull and useless, for the plots as he gives them are all
incoherent. Mr. Philips is at his worst, however, as a critic. He lacks
not only judgment and discretion, but the ability to express his
thoughts.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 162. Mr. 20, ’09. 850w.
“His book is a very painstaking guide to and interpretation of the
characters and references in Dickens’ works.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 438. Ap. 3, ’09. 100w.
=Spec.= 102: 506. Mr. 27, ’09. 120w.
=Philip, James C.=^{[12]} Romance of modern chemistry. *$1.50.
Lippincott.
“A description in non-technical language of the diverse and wonderful
ways in which chemical forces are at work, and of their manifold
application in modern life.” “The volume shows how dependent we are on
the chemist for almost every creature comfort we enjoy, from our clothes
and our food to our means of locomotion on or in three of the ‘elements’
known to the ancient philosophers quoted by Mr. Philip.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The series to which this excellent book belongs is intended, no doubt,
for boys and girls, but it deserves a better fate than banishment to the
junior library, though its somewhat gaudy binding makes it seem out of
place on grown-up shelves.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 498. O. 23. 300w.
=Nation.= 89: 598. D. 16, ’09. 50w.
“Altogether Dr. Philips goes over most of the more striking discoveries
of chemistry in a way to tempt the lay reader and intelligent lads to
further study of the science.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 764. D. 4, ’09. 250w.
“The author seems to feel that to make his book interesting to the
general reader he must occasionally try to be flippant and sprightly by
using slangy colloquialisms. He has an interesting story to tell and he
tells it in a vivid, interesting way. The book is so good that it is a
pity it should be marred by these blemishes, and if the author would cut
them out in his next edition his book and its readers would be gainers.”
E: Renouf.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 30: 886. D. 17, ’09. 200w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Fashionable adventures of Joshua Craig: a
novel. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–2260.
An interesting portrayal of the bull-in-a-china-shop methods of a young
westerner, uncouth and unconventional, who roars thru his paces in
Washington social and political life. Abrupt, determined, noisy,
invincible, by sheer force of physical strength and will he wins the
office he wants and the woman too—a dainty aristocrat to whom his
coarseness is nauseatingly revolting.
* * * * *
“If Mr. Phillips’s aim was to present a new and particularly
objectionable type of all-round cad, the book must be regarded as an
unqualified success. If he intended offering a half apology for his cad;
if he wished to reconcile the reader to the marriage of Craig and
Margaret Severence, or had himself the slightest belief in a possible
happy result of that marriage, he has just as certainly failed.” Firmin
Dredd.
− =Bookm.= 29: 95. Mr. ’09. 410w.
“The straining for sensational effect and the determination of the
author to be startling at any cost are so obvious that the total result
is repellent, and this quite apart from the commonness of the style and
the unredeemed vulgarity of the treatment. Considering the story as an
extravaganza, it is rather good fun to follow the progress of the
forceful Josh.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 46: 264. Ap. 16, ’09. 250w.
“It is a pretty problem, and if Mr. Phillips had put it less crudely and
splashily, his audience would, no doubt, be more likely to dismiss it as
a very old one.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 225. Mr. 4, ’09. 620w.
“The author’s view of American society in this book is unrelenting.
There is little relief of sentiment and good humor. There is more of
verisimilitude in a single chapter of Leonard Merrick or Locke than in
his whole book.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 59. Ja. 30, ’09. 780w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 378. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.
“The book has its faults, but dullness is not one of them.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 533. Mr. 6, ’09. 220w.
“The story is more vigorous than entertaining.”
− =R. of Rs.= 39: 762. Je. ’09. 70w.
=Phillips, David Graham.=^{[9]} Hungry heart: a novel. †$1.50.
Appleton.
9–22750.
A story of married life in which the neglected wife of a chemist is
beguiled into thinking that the love of a young Philadelphian can stanch
her domestic grief. The husband discovers the true state of affairs,
magnanimously frees her only to learn that her amour has wed another
woman. The curtain rings down upon forgiveness and reconciliation.
* * * * *
“Unfortunately, Mr. Phillips, who can write verbosely and expound a
thesis with a good deal of vehemence, cannot shape consistent
characters, and cannot avoid the pitfalls of vulgarity and
sensationalism. He keeps our sympathies constantly shifting.” W: M.
Payne.
− =Dial.= 47: 386. N. 16, ’09. 270w.
“If he had not worked at his solution with what may be almost praised as
a courageous disregard for decency and virtue, the book might be called
a moral masterpiece in fiction.”
− − + =Ind.= 67: 758. S. 30, ’09. 1300w.
“It is a book one would hardly care to read aloud in the family circle.
The novel is not convincing and the cynical tendency it exhibits in
railing at human nature and existing conditions is not uplifting.”
− =Lit. D.= 39: 444. S. 18, ’09. 300w.
“‘The hungry heart’ is a vigorous tract.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 196. Ag. 26, ’09. 650w.
“It is not the theme which is in itself repellent; it is the lack of
artistic balance, the insistence on details which have no value, moral
or artistic, to the working out of the story, and that fixed idea which
is becoming an unpleasantly prominent feature in Mr. Phillips’s work
which render the book unattractive. He is mistaken in his method of
presenting his ideas, which are often well worth while.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 511. Ag. 28, ’09. 570w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 633. O. 23, ’09. 130w.
=Phillips, Henry Wallace.= Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–30248.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Well told and pleasingly illustrated. Too expensive for its length.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 26. Ja. ’09.
“He has introduced at times profanity, rough sayings and descriptive
phrases that he who would depict the characters described with
photographic accuracy must employ otherwise the book is very charming.
it is a sweet tale of human service and love that faileth not.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 482. N. ’08. 250w.
“The story develops with a good deal of excitement and some humor, and
comes to a satisfactory conclusion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 3. Ja. 2, ’09. 120w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.=^{[12]} The haven. †$1.50. Lane.
9–27991.
“Mr. Phillpotts has set his newest story in the fishing harbour of
Brixham, within the blue arc of Torbay.... John Major, the owner of the
Jack and Lydia, ‘a fine dandy-rigged trawler,’ is a character admirably
conceived and executed, worthy to be placed beside the portraits of the
‘Three brothers.’... The chief theme of the book is the revolt of John
Major’s son against following the sea, and his ultimate surrender. We
leave him, his father, and his son sailing for the fishing grounds in
company on the Jack and Lydia. One of the most interesting features in
the story is the vivid account of trawling on the ‘Scruff.’ Under Mr.
Phillpotts’s cunning hands this description becomes more interesting
than many a narrative of action.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Mr. Phillpotts knows his seafarers as intimately as he does the moormen
and farmers of Devon, and he is able to interest us from the outset in
the lives and fortunes of the Majors and their connexions and friends
and acquaintances.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 521. O. 30. 250w.
“‘The haven’ suffers from a diffusion of interest—a shifting of
emphasis, which, somehow, leaves the reader cold, yet with the
consciousness that a drama of unusual pathos has been opened out to him.
In description, Mr. Phillpotts is a consummate artist; he paints the sea
in its myriad phases, and pictures the fisherman’s life of simple
heroism with grace and power. But there is no ‘grip’ to the book; it
ends without seeming to be finished.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 740. N. 27, ’09. 450w.
“It covers an entire generation, and in its quiet and unhurried,
undirected presentation of progressive existence its hold on the reader
will be found. That hold is unexacting, there is, most commendably, no
effort made to heighten it, and it depends throughout on a sheer
simplicity and directness which never attains the highest narrative
quality, and even when it moves us most is plainly but a paraphrase, and
often a somewhat distant one, of actuality.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 668. N. 27, ’09. 620w.
“There is a crowd, but not too large, of vividly drawn characters, and
the effect of the whole is distinctly impressive.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 851. N. 20, ’09. 30w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Three brothers. $1.50. Macmillan.
9–2043.
Once more a Dartmoor setting, once more the intimate handling of the
life incidents that fill up the gaps between the great joys and sorrows
of life. Three brothers, Vivian, Humphrey and Nathan Baskerville, well
on in years, are neighbors on the moor, yet strangely separated in
ideals and temperament. Vivian, generous, and self-opinionated, embodies
the spirit of hard work; Nathan, volatile and swift-minded practices
trickery without discovery; Humphrey, the greatest soul among them,
personifies doubt. Humphrey’s development is the great work of the
author. Sorrow and disaster serve to teach him the way of peace. He
learns that “to see a poor soul happy is better far than to see ’em
gratified.” The children of the brothers, their love-making and
love-tragedies, the village folk, their philosophy and gossip, and the
vicar and the parish clerk are all portrayed with photographic
definition.
* * * * *
“Strong, faithful study of peasant life in Dartmoor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 92. Mr. ’09. ✠
“It is a considerable feat, that this, his latest novel of the district,
should be in some ways more interesting than any of its predecessors.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 460. Ap. 17. 200w.
“It is a kindly picture of life in its physical aspects, and in certain
ethical aspects as well, done with a large stroke, by means of a
generous brush which is not sparing of color.”
+ =Atlan.= 103: 704. My. ’09. 950w.
“While no greater than its immediate predecessor, ‘The three brothers,’
is a worthy companion to Mr. Phillpotts’s best work. It is a book one
likes to linger over and think of afterward.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 94. Mr. ’09. 780w.
“In the treatment of a theme like this, Mr. Phillpotts’s sincere method
is at its best.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 282. Mr. 18, ’09. 350w.
“In it are new ideas, new aspects, and, in fact, an indication of some
change in the approach to the vital things of life. Unfortunately, there
is also a loss of artistic power.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 600w.
“The book is full of humorous epigrams from the mouths of the Devon
rustics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 378. Je. 12, ’09. 130w.
“The story opens with a sweet, wholesome pastoral, compounded of
youthful desire, filial faith, and sound common sense. From this level
there is never a descent, even at moments of perplexity in the presence
of sin, open or hidden.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 532. Mr. 6, ’09. 730w.
“It is less sombre than most of its predecessors. Its comedy episodes
are better managed, more worth while for their own sake; and it actually
has a happy ending for the persons in whom we are chiefly interested.”
H. W. Boynton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 6: 494. Jl. ’09. 300w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 762. Je. ’09. 60w.
=Pick, Bernhard.=^{[12]} Apocryphal acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew
and Thomas. $1.25. Open ct.
9–26819.
A compact work on the apocryphal legends of the Apostles that is based
largely on Lipsius’ work of some 1800 pages. Altho originally the
apocryphal writings aimed to supply a popular kind of religious reading
in the shape of tracts set forth by the Gnostic propaganda, they have
also succeeded in giving to modern times valuable descriptions of second
and third century divine service in the houses.
* * * * *
“The work will give English readers an interesting glimpse of popular
Christianity in the late second and early third centuries.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 430. D. ’09. 70w.
=Pick, Bernhard=, comp. Hymns and poetry of the Eastern church;
collected and chronologically arranged by Bernhard Pick. *$1. Meth.
bk.
8–6991.
“This collection does not profess to be more than a compilation from
sources ‘accessible in the English language’ of five early and eight
later anonymous compositions and eighty-seven others, the authors of
which are known or which are attributed to some known author of the
early Greek or Syrian church.” (Am. J. Theol.) “After a brief
biographical sketch of each author, such as one might gather from Julian
or Schaff, a translation, in some cases several versions, of the
better-known poems is supplied. The renderings are from various writers,
those of John Mason Neale being of course of greatest merit. The
arrangement is chronological.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 152. Ja. ’09. 170w.
“Mr. Pick has done good service in making this compilation; and, in his
notes and introductions, he has given due credit to other students of
Eastern hymnology.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 705. Ap. 1, ’09. 450w.
“The volume furnishes convenient information concerning the hymns of
Greek origin commonly found in hymn books and religious writings.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 466. My. 21, ’08. 130w.
=Pickett, William Passmore.=^{[7]} Negro problem: Abraham Lincoln’s
solution. **$2.50. Putnam.
9–15773.
“Rather more than half [of this book] is taken up with a preliminary
survey of the condition of the negro in the United States.... For most
of the numerous ‘solutions’ thus far proposed, including that of
industrial education, Mr. Pickett has but little respect, since, to his
thinking, their main premises are erroneous. The remedy which he
extracts from Lincoln’s writings, and to the exposition and defence of
which he consecrates more than two hundred and fifty solid pages, is
colonization, preferably in South or Central America, San Domingo, or
Africa, at the expense and under the protection of the United
States.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The author’s tone is balanced, his attitude very fair. His statements
are generally accurate, though lack of personal observation leads him
into some errors of judgment.” Carl Kelsey.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 625. N. ’09. 360w.
“That Mr. Pickett is an earnest, dispassionate student of the problem
and that he makes an effective plea for his case is sufficiently clear.
If his argument falls short of being convincing, the fault lies mainly
in the character of the chief proposition advanced.” U. G. Weatherly.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 391. D. ’09. 630w.
“When a writer has thoroughly convinced himself, that the deportation of
some ten millions of persons, at a cost to the nation of several hundred
millions of dollars ... is within the bounds of practicability, argument
‘contra’ is obviously useless.”
− =Nation.= 88: 604. Je. 17, ’09. 300w.
“Mr. Pickett would have us think that the grand scheme he presents for
ridding the country of its radical troubles is fully in accord with the
views Lincoln entertained and frequently expressed in his addresses and
conversation, but with all possible consideration for Mr. Pickett, we
are quite unable to come to his way of thinking.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 365. Je. 12, ’09. 770w.
=Spec.= 103: 611. O. 16, ’09. 310w.
=Picton, James Allanson.=^{[10]} Man and the Bible: a review of the
place of the Bible in human history. **$2. Holt.
“Concerned not with the questions of the various versions and
manuscripts about which so many books have been written, but with the
far more interesting question of the attitude toward the Scriptures that
has characterized the successive ages of the church’s history.”—Bib.
World.
* * * * *
“The author, while indulging in a considerable amount of desultory talk,
is very determined in his attack on the Bible as ‘the revealed word of
God.’ It is impossible to follow Mr. Picton in all his arguments or
assertions, but that he is not free from prejudice may be seen from his
treatment of St. Francis.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 2: 293. S. 11. 680w.
“An admirable book.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 142. Ag. ’09. 50w.
“His point of view is frankly and severely critical. In his discussion
he has in mind the bearing of all modern science upon the subject.
Before the age of printing the influence of the Bible was so indirect
and so slight that ‘a superficial observer might have regarded it as
negligible.’ In this part of his work the author is sketchy, considers
his real subject indirectly, discusses some irrelevant material, and is
unsatisfactory. The book in this respect is disappointing. It is
impossible to get from it any clear understanding of the conception of
the Bible which prevailed through the centuries.” J. W. Bailey.
+ − =Bib. World.= 34: 357. N. ’09. 800w.
=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= New boy. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23550.
Another story of St. Timothy’s school in which the author “adheres with
almost mathematical precision to all the ethical requirements, to the
athletic demands, to the conventional bully and self-sacrificing hero,
of a hundred stories of like character.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Not quite equal to ‘Harding of St. Timothy’s.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 311. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 60w.
“The tale is told sincerely, but with ever recurrent monotony.” M. J.
Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1476. D. 17, ’08. 100w.
=Piercy, Rev. William Coleman=, ed. Murray’s illustrated Bible
dictionary. *$5. Dutton.
9–13277.
Many eminent scholars have contributed the text for the volume which “is
not only a dictionary of persons, names, things, and customs mentioned
in the Bible each with copious references to the Bible and
cross-references to other articles, but it contains also many articles
on spiritual things, on ideas and on doctrines.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The dictionary is profusely illustrated, a circumstance which is sure
to add materially to the interest with which the volume will be received
by many. One could wish that the bibliographies at the end of the
articles were uniformly satisfactory.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 565. N. 7. 1900w.
“The chief purpose is to supply a volume confessedly conservative in its
theology, not simply more conservative than Cheyne’s, but also than
Hastings’s. In this the editor has succeeded.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 264. F. 4, ’09. 300w.
“The space allotted to important subjects is altogether too meagre. The
point of view is decidedly conservative, and scant courtesy is allowed
to critical opinions now generally received.”
− =Nation.= 88: 223. Mr. 4, ’09. 70w.
“Is so much wider in scope than its title signifies that it is a
veritable treasure house of knowledge, not only of Biblical matters in
themselves, but of the manners, customs, and history of all the eastern
nations that in any wise influenced or were connected with the Hebrews.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 3. Ja. 2, ’09. 240w.
“In matters of Biblical criticism a strong aversion is often shown to
the present consensus of the majority of critical scholars. On the other
hand, there is a perceptible shifting to modern views. Of sectarian bias
no evidence appears.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 149. Ja. 23, ’09. 200w.
“The critical articles ... are of very unequal merit.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 374. Mr. 20, ’09. 730w.
“This volume may be described as a manifesto of the conservative party
in the church. When we have put the controverted matters aside, there
remains a vast mass of information which has been carefully brought
together and lucidly expressed.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 842. N. 21, ’08. 400w.
=Pigou, Arthur Cecil.= Problem of theism, and other essays. *$1.
Macmillan.
9–6580.
Seven essays as follows: The general nature of reality; The problem of
theism; Free will; The problem of good; The ethics of the gospels; The
ethics of Nietzsche; The optimism of Browning and Meredith.
* * * * *
“We fear ‘the general reader’ will not carry much away in the form of
positive conclusions, even when he has derived full advantage from the
careful and always interesting style in which the book is written.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 251. F. 27. 680w.
“At present not a few votaries of philosophy are wending their way
towards realism. Professor Pigou’s first essay is an interesting
illustration of this tendency. And to the present writer it is
gratifying to meet Professor Pigou on the road to critical realism.” A.
Wolf.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 454. Ja. ’09. 2150w.
“Disciples of the late Professor Henry Sidgwick will be pleased with
this little volume. Professor Pigou is one of them, and the same careful
analysis and critical judgment that distinguished Sidgwick is noticeable
in his disciple’s work.” D. Phillips.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 510. Jl. ’09. 800w.
“Mr. Pigou’s essays are deeply interesting, yet there is about them an
element of disappointment. He asks questions of vital moment; he begins
to argue about them as though he were working up to an optimistic
conclusion; he raises his reader’s hopes. At last, however, he comes to
no conclusion at all, and the reader perceives that, after a long,
delightful, and at times strenuous excursion among the intricacies of
the subject, he and his author have come back to where they began.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 382. Mr. 6, ’09. 380w.
=Pike, Oliver G.=^{[7]} Behind the veil in birdland. *10s. 6d.
Religious tract society, London.
A book for the nature lover that “consists of some exceedingly good
photographs and rather slender letterpress.” (Spec.) “The illustrations
are mounted on brown paper and show us many of the denizens of wood and
field in their haunts, some familiar enough by name at all events if not
by sight, such as the fox and the badger, the squirrel, the thrush and
the kite, while others as the Fulmar petrel, Richardson’s skua, the
puffin, the white-tailed eagle, and the chough, are year by year
becoming fewer in number and more shy of man.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“The letterpress is rather trivial, though a few interesting items may
be here and there gleaned.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 649. My. 29. 250w.
“Entertaining book.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 337. Je. ’09. 150w.
“Mr. Pike in this rather pretentious volume has given some very
excellent photographs, but the ‘Nature secrets revealed by pen and
camera’ which he promises in his title-page are conspicuous by their
absence.” W. P. P.
− + =Nature.= 81: 67. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
“It is a handsome but unwieldy volume.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 861. My. 29, ’09. 100w.
=Pirie, P.= Kashmir: the land of streams and solitudes. **$5. Lane.
9–8389.
A volume in which descriptions and pictures combine to reveal the life
and scenery of Kashmir.
* * * * *
“As might be expected, both the writing and the drawing vary in
excellence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 768. D. 12. 250w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 338. F. ’09. 400w.
“Miss P. Pirie has contributed some gracefully written descriptions of
the country and some instructive observations upon the manners and
customs of the people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 100w.
“The book is neither very good nor very bad.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 49. Ja. 9, ’09. 80w.
“A most fascinating book.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 157. Ja. 30, ’09. 180w.
=Pirsson, Louis Valentine.= Rocks and rock minerals. *$2.50. Wiley.
8–19075.
A compact treatise on elementary petrology in which the subject is dealt
with entirely from a megascopic standpoint. Part 1, Introduction and
general considerations; Part 2, Rock minerals; Part 3, The rocks.
* * * * *
“Concise, practical treatise.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 294. D. ’08.
“The book is, of course, not adapted to the needs of the geologist and
petrographer, but to those of engineering and general students whose
knowledge of the subject need not be profound. His discussions of the
difficult subjects of metamorphism, differentiation, etc., are
remarkably well adapted in their simplicity and clearness to the place
they occupy. As is to be expected, they reflect chiefly the views of the
German school of petrographers.” A. N. W.
+ − =J. Geol.= 17: 93. Ja. ’09. 700w.
“Is the most advanced of the manuals of petrology without the
microscope, but it may be recommended even to students who can use that
instrument, owing to its clear statement of the principles of
petrogenesis and of the mode of occurrence of the sedimentary and
igneous rocks.”
+ =Nature.= 81: 242. Ag. 26, ’09. 310w.
“The arrangement of the material in the various chapters is admirable
throughout, while discussions, descriptions and statements in general
are accurate, clear, concise, yet sufficiently complete, and are written
in a style which is attractive and easy to read.” C. H. Warren.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 374. S. 18, ’08. 960w.
=Pisan, Christine de.= Book of the Duke of true lovers; introd. by
Alice Kemp-Welch. (New medieval lib.) *$2. Duffield.
9–14149.
Supposedly the love story of Jean, Duc de Bourbon, and Marie, Duchess de
Berry, which tells us that the ducal lover, harassed by mischief-makers,
and unable to bear the pain of separation in his own country which her
position and his own gallantry alike demanded, departs with the army for
an expedition in Spain.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 601. My. 16. 220w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 60w.
+ =Nation.= 88: 359. Ap. 8, ’09. 370w.
“A very useful introduction is contributed by the translator.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 70w.
=Plehn, Carl Copping.=^{[11]} Introduction to public finance. 3d ed.
*$1.75. Macmillan.
9–26310.
A third edition, completely revised and enlarged, in which the
statistics and other illustrative data have been brought down to date,
and discussions have been introduced of some of the more important of
the fiscal questions which have come into prominence since the first
edition was published.
=Plunket, Emmeline M.=^{[8]} Judgment of Paris and some other legends
astronomically considered. *7s. 6d. Murray, John, London.
A work in which Miss Plunket offers a scientific origin for a large
number of ancient Greek myths. “It is in effect an attempt to explain
the chief divinities and heroes associated with the Trojan war as
personifications not so much of the sun and its more obvious phenomena
but of more recondite astronomical events, and in particular to connect
them with certain peculiarities of the system of time measurement
employed in the early civilisations of Western Asia.” (Sat. R.)
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critic to read her work with attention and respect, even though he may
differ ‘toto caelo’ from its main contentions.” H. R. Hall.
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=Podmore, Frank.=^{[9]} Mesmerism and Christian science. **$1.50.
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