“Mr Olgin has managed to convey an exceptionally colorful and rich
picture of each of these writers, with a good deal of detail crowded
into a small space.”
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:350 N ’20 340w
=OLIVER, MAUDE I. G.= First steps in the enjoyment of pictures. il
*$1.50 (4c) Holt 750
20–4272
A book designed for boys and girls which may also be helpful to other
beginners in picture study. The fifty-five illustrations show examples
from American museums and art galleries, and are limited to the work
of American painters. One aim of the book is “to furnish a background
for the reading of descriptive books on art.” Consequently the author
has taken pains to introduce all the accepted art terms and phrases
and to make their meaning clear. Contents: Media (two chapters);
Classification; Color; Draughtsmanship; Values; Perspective;
Composition; Technique; Character; Conclusion—A glimpse into fairyland
(a suggested pageant).
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:353 Jl ’20
=N Y Times= p25 S 5 ’20 40w
+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 70w
“Any boy or girl above the age of twelve may use this book to
advantage and will find it interesting and suggestive as well as
instructive.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:612 Je ’20 80w
=OLMSTEAD, FLORENCE.= Stafford’s Island. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner
20–9141
Clarissa Stafford had grown up a lonely child on a lonely island, off
the Georgia coast, with her apathetic, hermit grandfather, Peter
Stafford. Her loneliness had developed occult powers in her and she
sometimes felt certain that she saw the reflection of a man in the
mirror of the drawing room where the picture of her grandmother, whose
namesake and image she was, hung over the fireplace. When Clarissa is
twenty a young man is washed ashore in a storm who resembles the
vision. It all comes out in the story how Henry Thorne is the grandson
of the man who painted Clarissa Stafford, and how that accounts for
the picture and then ran off with the older the mysterious affinity
that draws the living young people irresistibly towards each other.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20
“Miss Olmstead has, with appealing artistry, woven a fascinating love
story.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 300w
=OMORI, ANNIE SHEPLEY, and KOCHI DOI=, trs. Diaries of court ladies of
old Japan. il *$5 Houghton 895
21–128
An introduction to the book by Amy Lowell describes the time and
environment in which the ladies of these diaries wrote and gives a
biographical sketch of each of them. The time was the middle of the
Heian period which lasted from 794 to 1186, when Japan was thoroughly
civilized, even “a little overcivilized, a little too fined down and
delicate” and when women occupied an advanced position—they were
educated, allowed a share of inheritance and had their own houses.
Much of the best literature of Japan has been written by women. A
common characteristic of the diaries is delicacy, rare and exquisite
taste and skill in poetic composition. The ladies are Sarashina,
Murasaki Shikibu and Izumi Shikibu. The illustrations are from
Japanese prints, some in color, and the appendix contains an Old
Japanese calendar and a chronological table of events connected with
the diaries.
* * * * *
“A delightful curiosity and an attractively made book.”
+ =Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21
“The literary quality of the three diaries is extremely high. They
would all be eminently readable if written only yesterday. Added to
the joyment of their intrinsic merits is the fact that they present a
faithful picture of the court life of the times as well as some
singularly striking contrasts between three women of totally different
temperaments.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 D 26 ’20 2050w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:558 D 8 ’20 60w
=O’NEILL, EUGENE GLADSTONE.= Beyond the horizon; a play in three acts.
*$1.50 Boni & Liveright 812
20–8634
“The tragedy of the misfit. Robert Mayo, a young farm born dreamer who
longs to travel ‘beyond the horizon,’ gives up going to sea when he
finds out that Ruth Atkins loves him but refuses to sail with him. His
brother Andrew, as well fitted to be a farmer as Robert is unfitted to
be a farmer becomes a sailor. Robert marries Ruth, but they soon cease
to love each other and Robert, wasted by tuberculosis, crawls out of
the house to die ‘alone—in a ditch by the open road—watching the sun
rise.’”—Wis Lib Bul
* * * * *
“A powerful, grim ironic tragedy.”
+ =Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20
“Mr O’Neill is most successful with such primitive types as Ruth. When
he approaches a complex nature like Robert’s, his presentation is
weaker. ‘Beyond the horizon’ is a good drama. It might have been a
great one but for two defects that create and sustain each other,
namely the theatre-consciousness of the playwright, and the fact that
he is a too anxious father to his brood.” Lola Ridge
+ − =New Repub= 25:173 Ja 5 ’21 980w
“The appeal of ‘Beyond the horizon’ is instantaneous, but lasting.
Never is it reduced to cleverness; never does it compromise with the
American audience. Its truth is too profound and too soul-stirring to
carry in one eye a smile, in the other a tear.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 750w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:116 Je ’20 120w
=ONIONS, BERTA (RUCK) (MRS OLIVER ONIONS).= Bridge of kisses. il *$2
(2½c) Dodd
20–17083
A story as sentimental as its title. Josephine Dale becomes engaged to
a very worthy young man, Hilary Sykes, but obviously the wrong man for
her. She frankly admits to herself that she is only doing it to give
her mother peace of mind about her future. A young bridge-builder
comes into the neighborhood on an engineering project, and, as his
mother and hers had been girlhood friends, she takes a friendly
interest in him, and that interest finally prompts her to find a wife
for him. Her efforts do not meet with signal success, since it is
obvious to everyone but Joey herself that the bridge-builder was made
for her and her alone. A happy ending is inevitable, and Mr Sykes is
consoled with a more suitable mate, so all is well.
=ONIONS, BERTA (RUCK) (MRS OLIVER ONIONS).= Sweethearts unmet. il *$1.75
(2c) Dodd
19–18030
In the form of separate stories, confessions, so to speak, a young
girl and a young man each in turn pours out the story of his and her
life, of their longings, their love hunger and their ideals. They were
meant for each other, they had dreamt and speculated about each other,
but seemed actually destined to live lives apart till luck and chance
brought them, when it was almost, but not quite, too late, into each
other’s arms. On this the author philosophizes: many young people in
the large cities who are meant for each other never meet and end by
marrying the wrong one. Her remedy is, not social centres, or
matrimonial bureaus but a more hearty, understanding welcome of young
people in individual homes, the creation of an entirely new atmosphere
for the possibilities and needs of youth.
* * * * *
“A sentimental, very light love story of the kind that will please
young readers.”
+ =Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20
“She proceeds to write the story, in her own pretty, quaint way, and a
capital story it is—wholesome as a breath of spring.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:135 Mr 21 ’20 650w
=OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILLIPS.= Devil’s paw. il *$1.90 (3c) Little
20–16858
Miss Catherine Abbeway, the heroine of the story, is a wonderful
woman. By birth half Russian and half English and an aristocrat, her
sympathies are entirely with the oppressed and with labor. She belongs
to a secret labor organization whose object it is to bring about an
early peace with the Central powers. Of this organization or council
all but two, and they the leaders, are honest men. The two are
scoundrels in the pay of Germany. Catherine undertakes, at great
personal risk, to intercept messages from alleged German socialists
for the council. Julian Orden, son of a peer, and anonymous author of
peace articles that are creating a stir, discovers her in the act and
takes the documents from her. But, to protect her in a compromising
situation, he proclaims her his fiancée. Later when, after some
breathless days, Catherine has discovered the sinister plot of the
pseudo labor leaders and has saved England and the Allies from
disaster, the pretense becomes fact.
* * * * *
“One of his poorer stories.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20
“The novel is not without ingenuity, and contains one or two fairly
dramatic scenes; but it is not so entertaining a story as ‘The great
impersonation.’”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 O 3 ’20 550w
“‘The devil’s paw’ is far from being his best work.”
− =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 60w
“The story cannot be classed among the best that Mr Oppenheim has
written, but will, nevertheless, stimulate a considerable degree of
interest.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 180w
+ − =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 40w
=OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILLIPS.= Great impersonation. il *$1.75 (2c) Little
20–629
Baron Leopold von Ragastein had been educated in England, at Eton and
Oxford. While there he had had a double in a school mate, Sir Everard
Dominey. Later they meet again in a German colony in East Africa where
von Ragastein is now military commander. The latter is a perfect type
of German efficiency and fitness, while the other, with a growing
drink habit upon him, is generally at outs with life. They exchange
confidences and when the German receives sudden orders to go to
England on a secret mission he resolves to go as Sir Everard Dominey
after first making away with the real Sir Everard. There he faces many
delicate situations, but all goes well and the tasks imposed by the
German government grow with the impostor’s daring. When the war breaks
out he out-does himself by enlisting in the Norfolk yeomanry and at
the very end comes the startling disclosure that it is after all the
real Sir Everard who had not been so drunk in Africa “but that he was
able to pull himself up when the great incentive came.”
* * * * *
“A good Oppenheim book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:205 Mr ’20
“The story pursues its course, sometimes in a lively fashion and
sometimes sluggishly, but always moving towards a goal of surprise
that will doubtless astonish many a reader. Its characters have in
them something less fairylike and more human than is customary with Mr
Oppenheim.” E. F. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 7 ’20 1250w
=Ind= 102:66 Ap 10 ’20 240w
“‘The great impersonation’ is a very decided improvement on the
productions which have recently been flowing from the excessively
prolific pen of Mr E. Phillips Oppenheim. The main idea is a good one
and many of the details are well managed.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:10 Ja 11 ’20 550w
“Mr Oppenheim certainly springs a genuine surprise upon his readers in
the outcome of this story. Unfortunately, it is often the case that
things that are novel and surprising are not very convincing, and that
is true here.”
+ − =Outlook= 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 120w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
=Pub W= 96:1691 D 27 ’19 280w
“The plot is exceedingly ingenious.”
+ =Spec= 125:675 N 20 ’20 40w
“He taxes one’s credulity, however, in asking the acceptance of the
Englishman’s magic rejuvenation and revolutionary alterations in
character and habit.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p15a Ja 18 ’20 420w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 O 14 ’20 200w
=ORCZY, EMMUSKA (MRS MONTAGUE BARSTOW) baroness.= His Majesty’s
well-beloved. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
19–19054
A quaintly told story of an English actor in the times of Charles II.
John Honeywood, devoted to Thomas Betterton is permitted, in his
capacity as friend and secretary, to see much of the intimate life of
that famous actor. It is he, who, in the form of a beseeching letter
to Mary Saunderson, formerly betrothed to Tom Betterton, tells of the
latter’s strange, thwarted love and passion for a lady of nobility:
the insults and outrage her family heap upon “the mountebank” who
presumes to my lady’s affections; the bitter, relentless revenge
Betterton slowly perfects and executes: and finally his utter
renunciation to save the innocence of Lady Barbara, and to restore to
her the man she loves, cleared from all dishonor. Throughout the
narrative Honeywood pleads with Mistress Saunderson that Betterton’s
love for Lady Barbara is naught but a wild infatuation, and that his
feeling for herself is still pure and unsullied. Evidently he
succeeds, for the final chapter chronicles the wedding of Thomas
Betterton, actor, and Mary Joyce Saunderson.
* * * * *
“An interesting, wholesome adventure story.”
+ =Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 100w
“The tale is picturesque and dramatic, with many an unexpected twist.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 500w
“Better written, we think, than this author’s ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’
romances and equally stirring in plot.”
+ =Outlook= 125:125 My 19 ’20 20w
“The Baroness Orczy is an old hand at this kind of story, has the
machinery under control and the lingo pat.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 2:463 My 1 ’20 150w
“It is a vivid tale, told with all the charm, color and romantic
flavor characterizing Baroness Orczy’s novels.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 310w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p573 O 16 ’19 60w
=O’RIORDAN, CONAL O’CONNELL (NORREYS CONNELL, pseud.).= Adam of Dublin.
*$2 Harcourt
20–20003
Adam was born in the gutter and began his career in life, at the age
of seven, selling stale papers. When he came to a sudden realization
of what that meant he went to pour out his heart in confession to
Father Innocent Feeley and found his first and truest friend. He makes
other friends too, for after Father Innocent’s intervention has
secured for him an education for the priesthood, and after the good
Father’s death occurred at a crisis in Adam’s school life that made
his position there untenable, the queer old Frenchman in Adam’s
lodging house, who was not a Frenchman at all but a German musician,
took him under his wing and saw to it that he was freed from the
clutches of the Jesuits. The book leaves young Adam—the incarnation of
the romantic soul of Ireland—on the brink of a new and freer life, of
which the reader is led to expect an account in another volume.
* * * * *
“Among so many dead novels it is a delight to hail one that is so rich
in life.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p652 N 12 ’20 960w
+ =Booklist= 17:159 Ja ’21
“The story so far is noteworthy not so much because of its youthful
hero, as for the effortless creation of the atmosphere of Irish life.”
L. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 100w
“Mr Conal O’Riordan has apparently embarked on a trilogy. However,
Adam is an amusing child. One feels resigned to meeting him again.”
+ =Spec= 125:641 N 13 ’20 70w
“It is not a story of plot, nor can it be called one of ‘child
psychology’; but it is carried through with an underlying humour and a
resourcefulness free from all the usual devices of the novelist, which
is not without its charm.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p637 S 30 ’20 200w
“The author feels acutely and deeply, both in joy and in pain. He has
both quick sensitiveness and profound emotion, two qualities which do
not always go together. We cannot at the moment recall any book that
drags us so deep into the mire, yet keeps the light of love and hope
so steadily shining throughout.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p683 O 21 ’20 560w
=ORTH, SAMUEL PETER.= Armies of labor; a chronicle of the organized
wage-earners. (Chronicles of America ser.). il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale
univ. press 331.87
19–19137
“As the subtitle suggests, this volume is a history of the labor
movement as expressed through workers’ organizations, rather than of
labor conditions. It touches only incidentally upon wages, hours of
work, and other features of the labor contract at different periods,
or upon the details of labor legislation. Within these limits it
covers the field. The author cites mostly secondary sources. The
volume is well indexed and contains bibliographical appendixes.”—Am
Hist R
* * * * *
“It is readable, concise, and comprehensive.” V: S. Clark
+ =Am Hist R= 26:122 O ’20 290w
Reviewed by L. B. Shippee
+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:157 S ’20 310w
“In ‘The armies of labor’ Samuel P. Orth has written a book of great
value.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=ORTH, SAMUEL PETER.= Our foreigners; a chronicle of Americans in the
making. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ.
press 325.1
20–4766
“This book, by a professor of political science at Cornell university,
is chiefly descriptive; and, owing to limitations of space,
considerably condensed. The first two chapters cover the period prior
to 1820; and the unique fourth chapter upon Utopias in America,
describes the various communistic experiments. The negroes, Irish,
Teutons, and Orientals each have a chapter to themselves; but all the
more recent types of immigrants are mentioned, and are illustrated by
cuts from photographs. Thirteen pages are devoted to the history of
immigration legislation. A short bibliographical note is appended.”—Am
Hist R
* * * * *
“In general the treatment is impartial. There is lacking a certain
ethnological accent needed to bring out fundamental considerations.”
P. F. Hall
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:749 Jl ’20 320w
+ =Cleveland= p91 S ’20 60w
“A better perspective would have brought out more sharply the cultural
contributions of our foreigners, their political affiliations and
influence, and the setting of our immigration legislation. Mr Orth
writes well and with poise and discrimination, but he has added
nothing to our knowledge. His book is for the general reader rather
than the scholar.” G: M. Stephenson
+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:174 S ’20 380w
“It may be said in fact that the many statistics with which ‘Our
foreigners’ is enriched are admirable, and that the almost equally
numerous opinions which scarify the work are for the most part
violently prejudiced, wholly out of place, and not only false in
deduction but entirely misleading in the theories to which they give
rise.” E: H. Bierstadt
− + =New Repub= 24:302 N 17 ’20 1200w
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=St Louis= 18:98 Je ’20 20w
=OSBORNE, JAMES INSLEY.= Arthur Hugh Clough. *$2.25 (4½c) Houghton
20–12116
The author has written the life of Arthur Hugh Clough with special
emphasis on his intellectual development and the growth of his powers
as a poet. There are interesting references to his friendships with
Emerson, Lowell, and others and to his sojourn in America. Contents:
Childhood; At Rugby; As undergraduate; As fellow of Oriel; The Bothie
of Tober-na-Vuolich; Amours de voyage; Dipsychus; Last years;
Conclusion; Index.
* * * * *
“The investigation has not, perhaps, been as thorough as it is
clearheaded.” F. W. S.
+ − =Ath= p268 F 27 ’20 1000w
+ =Booklist= 17:29 O ’20
Reviewed by J. W. Krutch
+ =Bookm= 51:687 Ag ’20 1050w
“Its one drawback is a peculiar style which changes back and forth
between the past tense and the historical present.” E. F. E.
+ − |=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 26 ’20 1550w
“There is much in this study which the student of mid-Victorian poetry
and intellectual life will find useful and suggestive. But Mr
Osborne’s work has little charm of style, and fails to render Clough
attractive to the reader.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:831 R ’20 60w
“Mr Lytton Strachey has already devoted a few acid paragraphs to ‘this
earnest adolescent.’ But Mr Osborne is free from any such levity. To
him Clough is neither the corpus vile nor the hero: he is the occasion
none the less for some uncommonly adroit criticism.”
+ =Freeman= 1:427 Jl 14 ’20 1150w
“Mr Osborne’s temper, at least as it exhibits itself here, is almost
too well suited to his subject. A heartier, less scrupulous treatment
might have left more oxygen in the air at the really depressing end.”
M. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 112:122 Ja 26 ’21 640w
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
=N Y Times= p11 O 3 ’20 1350w
“Mr Osborne’s book is a critique rather than a biography; suggestive,
but not satisfying. He would have done better had he given us less of
his own interpretations and more of Clough’s letters, leaving the
reader to interpret their significance for himself.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 100w
“The unimportant subject is exhaustively and exhaustingly studied.
Nothing could exceed the pains with which we are told what a man who
is not made interesting thought.”
+ − =Review= 3:655 D 29 ’20 120w
“If there is a defect in Mr Osborne’s book, it is that he seems less
inclined to dwell on the positive qualities of Clough’s poetry than on
its shortcomings. In a psychological and critical study of Clough’s
life it is masterly; the analysis is searching, but there is sympathy
as well as justice in the author’s intuition.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p153 Mr 4 ’20 1850w
=O’SHAUGHNESSY, EDITH LOUISE (COUES) (MRS NELSON O’SHAUGHNESSY).= Alsace
in rust and gold. il *$2 (3½c) Harper 940.48
20–6294
The author says that from the rut and routine of war-work in Paris she
was conveyed “as on a magic carpet, to the blue valleys and the rust
and gold and jasper hills of Alsace, where the color is laid on thick,
thick,” when she accompanied the French military mission during the
thirteen historic days preceding the armistice. In this
well-illustrated book she describes with “no polemics and no
statistics” the picturesque aspect of the country. Contents: The
journey there; All Saints’ day, November, 1918; Fête des morts,
November, 1918; Thann and old Thann; The Ballon d’Alsace; La popote;
The houses of the chanoinesses; Luncheon at Bitschwiller—the mission
in residence at St-Amarin—Saint-Odile; The “field of lies” and
Laimbach; The valley of the Thur; The re-Gallicizing of Alsace; The
Hartmannswillerkopf; “Les crêtes”—“Déjeuner” at Camp Wagram—the
Freundstein and its phantoms; Return to Masevaux; The vigil of the
armistice; Dies gloriæ.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20
“‘Alsace in rust and gold’ has a quality of permanence that will make
it readable ten, fifteen, twenty years hence. It should occupy an
honored place on the shelf, marked ‘Travel’ in every well-regulated
library.”
+ =Cath World= 111:689 Ag ’20 260w
+ =Nation= 110:773 Je 5 ’20 250w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 70w
“So long as she confines herself to impressions and sentiments the
record flows smoothly, for Mrs O’Shaughnessy is a writer of quick
perception and likely feeling. But from time to time there is a little
attempt, unconscious perhaps, to parade the knowledge she has picked
up in her long acquaintance with many lands and many men, and then
even the most indulgent reader is roused to revolt.”
+ − =Review= 3:47 Jl 14 ’20 300w
=R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 50w
“It is a book of charm, to be read leisurely. The account of the last
few days of the war in this province, which was so vitally affected by
the outcome of the conflict, adds something worth while to the volume
of war literature.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 11 ’20 450w
=O’SHAUGHNESSY, EDITH LOUISE (COUES) (MRS NELSON O’SHAUGHNESSY).=
Intimate pages of Mexican history. *$3 (3c) Doran 972
20–17983
“This book, concerning the four presidents of Mexico whom I have
personally known, contains only what I have seen myself, or what, by
word of mouth and eye in eye I have learned from those intimately
connected with the men and events of which it speaks.” (Preface) As
the wife of a diplomat the author combines intimate knowledge of
Mexican conditions with her personal reminiscences. The four
presidents are: Porfirio Diaz, Francisco Leon de la Barra, Francisco
I. Madero, and Victoriano Huerta.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:108 D ’20
“This is the most delightful of Edith O’Shaughnessy’s books. It
deserves the place of honor among books dealing with Mexico.” C. A.
Crowell
+ =Bookm= 52:270 N ’20 680w
“It is an absorbing story, told in a masterly manner, by one who
thoroughly comprehends it all and who is a master of English
composition.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 9 ’20 1250w
“The book under discussion is decidedly worth while.”
+ =Cath World= 112:250 N ’20 230w
“She is a brilliant writer, with a free hand and an indifferent
tread.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 O 24 ’20 2050w
“There is throughout the whole book an intimacy and warmth which, if
it does no more, can scarcely fail to make one’s mind receptive of a
broader point of view. Probably it will do more. It is not easy to see
that Mrs O’Shaughnessy’s philosophy of Mexico, realistic to the point
of cynicism, yet generous in feeling, is in any essential way wrong.”
+ =No Am= 212:716 N ’20 1000w
“The author has an advantage for which she owes thanks to no one but
herself: a vivid and picturesque style which, reinforced by deep
sincerity and an ardent enthusiasm, gives her narrative the glow of
adventurous fiction. There is much in the latter chapters more spicy
than reverential. But the author has a clear vision and her plain
speaking makes for better understanding of Mexico.” Calvin Winter
+ =Pub W= 98:663 S 18 ’20 400w
=O’SHEA, PETER F.= Employees’ magazines; for factories, offices, and
business organizations. il *$1.80 Wilson, H. W. 658
20–26978
A book on house organs as a factor in employment management. The
foreword says, “The value of the printed word in organizing, educating
and managing large groups of employees in industry is greater today
than ever before.... The old paternalistic shop paper which reached
down to pat a man on the shoulder is out of date. But the modern house
magazine, alive, sincere, human and constructive, has tremendous
opportunities, that have been greatly increased by the wide-spread
growth in intelligence and interest among workmen the country over.”
Contents: The employees’ magazine as an aid to management; Promoting
cooperation by the house organ; Educational work of a house organ; How
a house organ improves morale; Democracy of an employees’ magazine;
Organization and getting material; Editorial methods and costs; A
contractor’s employees’ magazine; Magazines for offices, stores, and
sales organizations; Learning from other fields; Appendix: a brief
list of good exchanges.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:100 D ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 11 ’20 480w
=OSLER, SIR WILLIAM.= Old humanities and the new science. *$1.50
Houghton 375
20–7592
The book contains Sir William Osler’s inaugural address as president
of the British classical association, which proved to be his last
public utterance. It contains a memorial introduction by Dr Harvey
Cushing setting forth the unusually high and many-sided achievements
of the author as both scholar and man and describing in brief the
organization and purpose of the Classical association. One of these
purposes—the furthering of a closer cooperation between natural
science and the humanities—accounts for the choosing of “one of the
most eminent physicians in the world” as its president. Dr Osler is
said to have been “a well-nigh perfect example” of this union and his
address to have “embodied the whole spirit of this ideal.”
* * * * *
“It is a rare production, witty, learned, fraught with a high degree
of inspiration, full of sympathy for the old humanities, filled with
surprises in the portrayal of great classical writers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 300w
“The conclusion is that an eminent medico, even with a generous dose
of litteræ humaniores, is not qualified to lecture on mediævalism,
philosophy and history.”
− =Cath World= 112:250 N ’20 330w
“It is a pregnant, witty and humane discussion of the
interdependence of the two branches of learning. Osler reveals
himself here as a physician of the line of Sir Thomas Browne and the
scholar-philosophers of the renaissance.”
+ =Freeman= 1:358 Je 23 ’20 180w
+ =Nation= 111:192 Ag 14 ’20 340w
“As a whole this address of a man of science who was also a man of
letters is delightful. It is scholarly, as became the place and the
occasion, but it is never pedantic and it is never dull. Indeed, it is
often playful.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:263 My 23 ’20 1600w
“Wit and wisdom equally characterize this essay.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 13 ’20 250w
=OSTRANDER, ISABEL EGENTON (ROBERT ORR CHIPPERFIELD, DOUGLAS GRANT,
pseuds.).= How many cards? *$2 (2c) McBride
20–19916
A murder in New York society forms the raison d’être for this
detective story. Eugene Creveling is found dead in his library early
one April morning. McCarthy, the ex-roundsman detective of previous
stories, constitutes himself the chief investigator. He interviews the
family, social and business friends and servants of the murdered man,
and finds, as he says, “every last one of them bluffing and hedging
and lying,” except the O’Rourkes, former friends of his in the old
country, whose integrity he would swear by. He can’t understand what
the others are all working for, but gradually their motives are
uncovered, and altho they have a bearing on the character and habits
of the dead man, the identity of the murderer remains still a mystery.
Then in a flash the solution is revealed to McCarthy by a passing
glimpse of a woman’s handwriting, the last woman in the world he would
want to suspect. But thru an act of what he calls Providence she is
not brought to justice, and after all perhaps Creveling got no more
than he deserved for playing with a woman’s honor.
* * * * *
=N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 360w
=Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 110w
=OSTRANDER, ISABEL EGENTON (ROBERT ORR CHIPPERFIELD, DOUGLAS GRANT,
pseuds.).= Unseen hands. *$1.75 McBride
20–10735
“This story of Mr Chipperfield’s is placed before us as a mystery in
which every member of a wealthy family seems to be menaced. The mother
and the eldest son have each died under peculiar circumstances shortly
before the opening of the story. We are instantly met with strange,
murderous intention being disclosed in regard to the father and the
second son. Such intimate knowledge of the family life is disclosed
that we are forced to the conclusion that it is an ‘inside Job.’ The
problem is to find the person with motive and means for such gradual
but wholesale murder.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
“It is an unlikely situation in twentieth-century America, but capable
of being quite mystifying if handled dexterously. Mr Chipperfield
guards his secret well. His situations are not always screwed up to
the highest pitch, but he does succeed in rousing false conjectures
and the general air of suspicion which successful detective fiction
demands.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 380w
“Readers of detective tales will find this book of absorbing interest;
the plot is well developed and the dénouement startling. Decidedly, Mr
Chipperfield knows how to write a detective story. ‘Unseen hands’ is
one of the best of its kind.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 15 ’20 350w
“The climax is not unexpected, yet possesses the elements of a
surprise. The story is entertaining of its type.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 130w
=O’SULLIVAN, MRS DENIS.= Mr Dimock. *$2 (2½c) Lane
20–21190
Horace Dimock, a prosperous American business man and a notorious
philanderer, spends much of his time in England with his English
friends, the center of whom are Lady Freke and the widowed Crystal
McClinton, sisters and of American birth. To Crystal he is even
secretly married. As the story opens he is coming to England, at the
appeal of the sisters, to rescue his ward, Daphne O’Brien, daughter of
a former love, from the nunnery. He falls violently in love with
Daphne at first sight. His ardor diverts her from her purpose, but she
turns from him as soon as she learns of his treachery to Crystal, whom
he now seeks to divorce. At the end we find him sans Crystal and
Daphne, and reduced to the goodnatured tolerance of the friends who
had once admired him. Much of international, post war interest and of
the havoc of war plays in the story and Daphne, the would-be nun,
becomes the happy wife of a wonderful young Serbian hero.
* * * * *
“There is workmanlike writing in the book and there are moments of
some emotional power. We object to a certain romantic staginess of the
war heroes.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 15 ’21 330w
=N Y Times= p24 D 26 ’20 400w
=OTTMAN, FORD CYRINDE.= J. Wilbur Chapman. *$2.50 Doubleday
20–12138
The biography of a distinguished and widely-known preacher written by
a personal friend. “To write his life none among his friends was so
well qualified as Dr Ottman,” says John F. Carson in his introduction.
“In all his ministry Dr Ottman was his confidant, his companion in the
home and on his world journeys, his friend and counsellor, a sharer of
his joys and sorrows. Such intimacy supplies a biographer with
materials for a sympathetic and revealing interpretation.” There are
chapters on: Lineage; Environment; College and seminary; The
Whitewater and the Hudson; Philadelphia and New York; A retrospect;
Summer conferences; Evangelism; On the way to Australia; At home and
abroad, etc., with a closing chapter on Personality. There is a
frontispiece portrait.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 300w
“With sympathetic approach and with due appreciation of Dr Chapman
himself, one lays down the book with a feeling that Dr Ottman has
fallen short of the possibilities in the case.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 580w
=OUR= unseen guest. *$2 (3c) Harper 134
20–3803
Philosophical discussions communicated to Joan and Darby, the
anonymous authors of this book—by a young soldier who had recently
died, or “graduated,” and was living and working “on the other side.”
In the beginning this spirit gave proof of his identity, which the
authors quite accidently found corroborated. The communications center
about “quality of consciousness.” Our development is both qualitative
and quantitative. At birth we are given quality of soul—which is
definitely fixed—a rebirth of a certain quality of consciousness,
which has been developing on the other side, into our human body.
During our earth life, if we are true to our “quality,” we develop
quantity of soul, which upon our “graduation” we bring as our
contribution to the whole of consciousness on the other side. There
are many rebirths, until the supreme consciousness is reached. Joan
and Darby at first were very material skeptics, holding fast to the
theories of subconsciousness, telepathy, etc., but in the end were
quite convinced.
* * * * *
“In view of the unconvincing and emotional quality of many of the
popular books upon psychical research, the readers of ‘Our unseen
guest’ will be inclined to [say]—‘the best thing of the kind!’”
Margaret Deland
+ =N Y Times= 25:4 Je 27 ’20 1250w
“Wordy nonsense as this is, it is more coherent because more modest
than most of the revelations from the beyond; the evasion (in the
vernacular bluff) is more transparent, less likely to produce the
semblance of profundity by which the judgment is soothed to a blissful
ignorance mistaken for knowledge.” Joseph Jastrow
+ − =Review= 3:43 Jl 14 ’20 350w
=OVERTON, GRANT MARTIN.= Mermaid. il *1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–1891
A story of the sea and of sea-faring life seen from the coast and a
coast-guard station. Captain Smiley and his crew have rescued a little
girl of six, the only survivor of a wreck, and have called her
Mermaid, from the ship’s name. With the captain as Dad and the crew as
uncles she lives a life full of poetry and adventure. In spite of her
name she grows into a sane and healthy womanhood, surrounded in her
school days by boy friendships that later turn into love. From among
these she chooses Guy Vanton the lonely poet boy, shadowed by a dark
family history. In the course of the story several family histories of
the old coast town are revealed and withal much human nature, some
philosophy and the light of a new era is shown to lay old ghosts and
to conquer old fears. Mermaid’s husband, Guy, pays for his conquest
with his life, and Dick Hand, overstepping conventions with the
courage of love, reaps his reward.
=OVINGTON, MARY WHITE.= Shadow. *$1.75 (2c) Harcourt
20–5123
A story of the race problem told with an effective restraint. The plot
is unusual. A white baby, for family reasons, is left in a negro
cabin, to be brought up as a negro child and until the age of
nineteen, to believe herself of negro blood. Then a dying and
repentent grandfather restores her to her name and position and she is
free to cross the line into the white world. Realizing what her fate
will be wherever her story is known, she chooses to lose herself in
New York, earning a living in the garment trades. Here she finds
herself on the edge of the labor movement, but she is never quite
drawn into it. She remains outside the conflict. The call to action
comes to her when the life of her dark brother, the playmate of her
childhood, is endangered, and to save him from the fury of a lynching
mob, enraged to the point of blood lust at thought of a negro who has
laid his hand on a white woman’s arm, she again crosses the color line
and falsely declares herself of negro birth. The story ends as it
began, in the South, with Hertha entering the beautiful southern home
of which she is to be mistress, but even within its protection, with
her lover’s arm about her, she looks ahead and knows that “the shadow
of man’s making” will always lie beside her path.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20
“Miss Ovington has written a novel of keen interest. She has handled
the story unfalteringly. She has shown the immense possibilities that
lie in such a theme when treated truthfully and artistically. She
treats her colored characters with the same attributes of nature and
temperament as the whites, and in so doing opens up the way to the
possibilities in the future of American fiction.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 2000w
“In no recent book has the American negro’s problem been more
sympathetically treated than in ‘The shadow.’ She succeeds throughout
in treating them as individuals rather than as racial types and does
so with a simple and unselfconscious realism.” M. G.
+ =Freeman= 2:93 O 6 ’20 160w
“The execution is unexceptionable, but the people and the incidents
lack concreteness. No doubt Miss Ovington has seen them in the flesh.
But she has seen them as a sociologist rather than as an artist. But
this will not trouble the average reader at all. And since in most of
the novels he gets the characters are conventionalized into conformity
with the demands of intolerance and hatred, one cannot but desire a
wide popularity for this book in which the controlling spirit is one
of humanity and of the civilized instincts.”
+ − =Nation= 110:558 Ap 24 ’20 160w
“There can be no doubt of Miss Ovington’s love and sympathy for the
negroes. Each page is full of the burning resentment she feels for
their wrongs, but one cannot help wondering what her real belief is
with regard to the race.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 My 1 ’20 630w
“Miss Ovington’s book is well constructed and faultlessly written.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 560w
“Incidentally, the race question is touched upon with sympathy toward
all sides of the problem.”
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 40w
“The story is written throughout with a deep sympathy for all the
characters.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 240w
“Her black characters are drawn lovingly: for she seems to possess in
rare combination that sympathetic affection which the southern white
feels for the black when he ‘keeps his place’ together with
comprehension of the aspiring mind and soul of the black race.” M. K.
R.
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:287 S ’20 260w
=OWEN, ROBERT.= Life of Robert Owen. *$1.50 (1c) Knopf
20–26889
The book is the first of a series of economic reprints which form a
new social economic section of the famous Bohn libraries. The volumes
deal with the great writers and pioneers in the field of economics of
whom Robert Owen was the first to grasp the meaning of the industrial
revolution. The present volume has an introduction by M. Beer, a
bibliography of the works of Owen, and an index.
+ =Ath= p784 Je 11 ’20 50w
=Booklist= 17:85 N ’20
“A comparison of Owen’s ‘Life’ with contemporary records will reveal a
number of substantial discrepancies.” R: Roberts
+ − =Freeman= 2:187 N 3 ’20 850w
=OYEN, HENRY.= Plunderer. *$1.75 (3c) Doran
20–4782
Roger Payne, an energetic young northerner, buys a thousand acre tract
of “prairie” land in Florida. When he goes down to look it over he
finds that the quality of the land corresponds quite exactly to the
agent’s description, but that it is covered with about two feet of
water. With the aid of his friend Higgins, an engineer, he works out a
plan for drainage, but finds that the physical difficulties are the
least of his obstacles. One of the men in the company that sold him
the land is Senator Fairclothe, but he soon learns that this statesman
is only the catspaw for Garman, the real villain in the situation. The
senator’s beautiful daughter is engaged to Garman, but there is love
at first sight between her and Roger and the outcome of the tale,
which abounds in scenes of brutality, is the winning of the girl as
well as title to the reclaimed land.
* * * * *
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:683 Jl ’20 290w
“The book is an adventure tale of good quality: and if the reader will
overlook its lack of plausibility it will hold his attention to the
end.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:134 Mr 21 ’20 300w
“The tale is exciting and adventurous.”
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 20w
=Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 200w
=OZAKI, YEI THEODORA.= Romances of old Japan. *$8.50 Brentano’s 895
“Madame Ozaki’s ‘romances’ are for the most part stories dealt with by
the popular drama of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They are
of two types, the sanguinary and the supernatural. The first
corresponds to the earlier period of the Yedo popular stage and to the
careers of the first three Danjūrōs, famous for their impersonations
of ferocious warriors. In the present work ‘The quest of the sword,’
‘The tragedy of Kesa’ and ‘The Sugawara tragedy’ belong to this type.
The second type, represented in this book by ‘The spirit of the
lantern,’ ‘The reincarnation of Tama,’ ‘The badger-haunted temple,’
etc., corresponds to the popularity of the great ghost-impersonator
Matsusuke, who died c.1820.”—Ath
* * * * *
“These characteristic native idylls are charmingly translated.”
+ =Ath= p1170 N 7 ’19 70w
“It is not difficult to discover why Madame Ozaki’s material is drawn
from the stage, and not from the classical literature of Japan. Her
rendering of one or two poems in this book shows that she is
imperfectly acquainted with the older language. Her style is that of
cinema-libretti, a medium thoroughly suited to the nature of her
material. Numerous illustrations by the contemporary artists Keishū
and Hōsai add to the impression of modernity produced by the book.
Might not it have been illustrated by old theatrical woodcuts?” A. D.
W.
+ − =Ath= p1398 D 26 ’19 440w
“Mme Ozaki’s very readable tales gain by being associated with native
pictures, though the artist seems to have been influenced by western
painting.”
+ =Spec= 123:696 N 22 ’19 140w
“The illustrations are Japanese. None of them, we suppose, would be
considered anything but negligible in Japan. But to the western eye
there is hardly one which does not possess some of those qualities of
grace, decision, and style which are seldom absent from the most
trifling Japanese work.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p747 D 11 ’19 400w
P
=PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS.= From now on. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–6
Dave Henderson, through environment a crook, steals one hundred
thousand dollars, which unfortunately is coveted by other, more
hardened crooks. Scarcely has he hidden his prize securely when he is
hotly pursued. Caught and convicted, he serves five years in the “pen”
patiently, for is not the reward worth while? Released, he is a marked
man to both police and crook. Nevertheless, after hair-raising
adventures, he at last holds in his hands the hundred thousand
dollars, only to find he can no longer enjoy this stolen money.
Association with an honest, great hearted gentleman and a girl who
loves Dave, creates in him values other than material, and a desire
for clean straight living. He accepts “God’s chance,” and together
with the woman he loves, looks forward to an honest, decent,
constructive life “from now on.”
* * * * *
“As a well-constructed, plausible and exciting story, ‘From now on’
deserves unstinted praise.” A. A. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ja 31 ’20 300w
=N Y Times= 25:71 F 8 ’20 550w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 210w
=PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS.= White Moll. *$1.75 (1½c) Doran
20–8628
The White Moll is the name Rhoda Gray has earned for herself in New
York’s East side district by always playing on the square with its
denizens. So Gypsy Nan, when dying in a slightly penitent frame of
mind, entrusts her with the secret of a crime about to be committed.
Rhoda tries to stop it, but is arrested, charged with committing it.
She escapes but her career of charity as the White Moll is thus
wrecked and she is forced for safety to disguise herself as Gypsy Nan
in which rôle she finds herself in the midst of a criminal gang. She
resolves to circumvent their schemes, and so plays the double part of
Gypsy Nan, who is hand in glove with them, and the White Moll, their
bitterest enemy and a fugitive from justice. Her part is hard, but her
luck is good, and with the “Adventurer” as her ally she finally, after
many exciting experiences, breaks up the gang and brings it to
punishment. Then she makes the gratifying discovery that the
Adventurer is not the thief she had thought him and that they had been
working for the same ends.
* * * * *
“If a thrill on every page is any consideration, here you have it.” H.
W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:585 Jl ’20 140w
“As is usual in his stories of the underworld, Mr Packard’s tale is
filled with exciting adventures. He has without doubt built a place
for himself and his particular type of tale.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 300w
“There is no need for anyone to find life unexciting so long as there
are men in the world with imaginations like Frank L. Packard’s.”
+ =Ind= 104:381 D 11 ’20 140w
“It is a clever, absorbing story, with a certain freshness in its
theme.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 480w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 180w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 50w
=PACKARD, WINTHROP.= Old Plymouth trails. il *$3 (4c) Small 917.4
20–26567
“He who would see Plymouth and the Pilgrim land about it as the
Pilgrims saw it may do so. Nature holds grimly onto her own and
sedulously heals the scars that man makes.... Plymouth is a
manufacturing city, a residence town, a resort and a thriving business
centre all in one ... but you have only to step out of town to find
their very land all about you, traces of their occupancy, the very
marks of their feet, worn in the earth itself.... Along the old
Pilgrim trails you may step from modern culture and its acme of
civilization through the pasture lands of the Pilgrims into glimpses
of the forest primeval.” (Chapter I) A partial list of the contents
is: Plymouth mayflowers; Nantucket in April; Footing it across the
Cape; Along the salt marshes; Ghosts of the northeaster; White pine
groves; The pasture in November; Coasting on Ponkapoag; Yule fires.
* * * * *
“Pleasant informal essay style with special appeal to the lover of the
out-of-doors.”
+ =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20
Reviewed by W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 30w
+ =Cath World= 112:257 N ’20 160w
“As a prose technician, Mr Packard is, of course, inferior to W. H.
Hudson, lacking both the English writer’s restraint and his sense of
nervous rhythm. Yet he writes with great vividness at times, and his
accuracy of observation is hardly less keen.” W. P. Eaton
+ − =Freeman= 2:117 O 13 ’20 900w
+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 100w
+ =Outlook= 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 23 ’20 240w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 70w
Reviewed by C. L. Skinner
+ =Yale R= n s 10:181 O ’20 750w
=PAGE, GERTRUDE (MRS GEORGE ALEXANDER DOBBIN).=[2]
Paddy-the-next-best-thing. *$2 (2c) Stokes
20–18935
When Paddy Adair was born, her father had ardently wished for a boy,
but as she grew up he had become quite contented with the
“next-best-thing,” and Paddy, while longing herself to be a boy, had
satisfied herself with being as hoydenish and wild as the
“next-best-thing” could be. But for all that, she had a way with her
with the opposite sex, a captivating Irish way which won and held the
heart of Lawrence Blake, as her sister Eileen’s dreamy moods could
never do. But Paddy, because she thought Eileen was breaking her heart
over Lawrence’s defection, swore eternal hatred against him. Altho
patience was far from natural to him, he cultivated it and in the end
won out. The story in play form has had a successful run both in this
country and England.
* * * * *
“As fiction of the very lightest sort this tale has its good points.
Although over-played, its heroine, Paddy, is real and often behaves
like a human sort.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 50w
“The author does not rely on plot for the appeal of her book. What she
does is to offer a pleasing, polite, mildly amusing sketch of certain
phases of life in Ireland, with nothing to remind one of Sinn Fein
uprising and hunger strikes, and this work she has done with
commendable skill.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 D 5 ’20 410w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 28 ’20 130w
=PAGE, KIRBY.=[2] Something more. *90c Assn. press 248
20–11091
The book, “a consideration of the vast, undeveloped resources of life”
(Sub-title) is the first in the New generation series. It contains
four essays enlarging respectively on the latent possibilities in God,
in man, in Jesus Christ, in life—that are man’s for the searching. The
last essay, Enemies of life, enumerates the negative factors, both
material and spiritual, all rooted in ignorance, that keep man from
entering into his true heritage.
* * * * *
“An invigorating book.”
+ =Bib World= 54:645 N ’20 120w
=PAGE, THOMAS NELSON.= Italy and the world war. *$5 Scribner 940.345
20–21941
Ambassador Page was in Italy during the entire period of the war and
followed sympathetically the part played therein by the Italian
people. He holds that the key to Italy’s relation to the war is to be
found in her traditions, her history and in her geographical and
economic situation. Accordingly the book falls into three parts: “The
first is introductory and contains in outline the history of the
Italian people in the long period when they were included in and bound
under the Holy Roman empire. The second contains the story of their
evolution, from the conception of their national consciousness on
through the long and bitter struggle with the Austrian empire for
their liberty down to the time when ... they developed into a new and
united Italy.... The third part contains the story of the diplomatic
struggle to establish herself in a position to which Italy considers
herself entitled as a great power.” (Preface) The book has six maps,
appendices, giving the texts of the armistice with Austria and of the
pact of London, and an index.
* * * * *
“A much needed contribution to the political history of the war.”
+ =Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21
“It is not impertinent to say that an experienced newspaper man,
equipped with a good encyclopædia, a good atlas, and the newspaper
files for the past five years, could produce an excellent replica of
‘Italy and the world war’ without having crossed the Atlantic. Mr Page
had an opportunity to write a very remarkable pamphlet, and he wrote
instead a hurried, congested, and unnecessary hotch-potch history of
the war.” W: McFee
− =N Y Evening Post= p4 Ja 29 ’21 1400w
“It is to be regretted that the American public could not have had the
benefit of this unequaled book months ago. Mr Page smashes beyond
recovery many illusions which, during and after the war, militated
against the character of Italy, her people, her statesmen.” Walter
Littlefield
+ =N Y Times= p3 N 28 ’20 2500w
=R of Rs= 63:222 F ’21 130w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 D 4 ’20 80w
=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED.= Automobile starting, lighting and ignition. 6th
ed rev and enl il $3 Henley 629.2
20–9556
“Mr Pagé first explains the nature of electricity—how a current is
produced—and then goes on to explain in general the systems used for
ignition, starting and lighting. This is followed by a detailed
explanation of the individual systems on various cars. Many
illustrations and diagrams make this book easy to understand.” (R of
Rs) “The sixth edition repeats the material of the second edition with
the addition of eight new chapters on leading electrical ignition
systems, design of electrical measuring instruments and use in
testing, and wiring diagrams of popular cars.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:357 Jl ’20
=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 50w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 O 14 ’20 20w
=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED.= Model T Ford car. rev and enl il $1.50 Henley
629.2
20–4100
“Victor W. Pagé’s ‘Model T Ford car’ has appeared in its new and
enlarged 1920 edition. This edition should be even more popular than
the earlier editions, as it contains information and instructions for
the Fordson farm tractor and the F. A. lighting and starting system,
as well as all the principles and parts of the Ford. Numerous
illustrations and diagrams make the instructions and explanations
easily understood by a novice.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:291 My ’20
=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:35 O 13 ’20 50w
=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 50w
=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED=, ed. Motor boats and boat motors. il $3 Henley
623.8
20–11842
“Mr Pagé has compiled a volume full of interest to the novice as well
as to the experienced motor-boat enthusiast. It covers fully the
design, construction, operation, and repair of boats and motors in
general, including full instructions, with working drawings, for
building five boats from tested designs by A. Clark Leitch, naval
architect. A chapter on seaplanes and flying-boat construction gives
both theory and practical application.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:100 D ’20
“Clearly written and has nearly 400 exceptionally good illustrations.
Anyone contemplating the purchase of a boat should be guided by the
excellent advice given in the first chapter.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p60 Jl ’20 80w
=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 70w
=PAGE, WILLIAM=, ed. Commerce and industry; with a preface by William
Ashley. 2v il v 1 *$15 v 2 *$10 Dutton 330.9
(Eng ed 19–18954)
“In the twelve chapters that make up the main text of the first volume
of this work, and the three appendices, an historical review of the
economic conditions of the British empire for ninety-nine years,
largely based upon parliamentary debates as reported by Hansard, is
given. The second volume consists of statistical tables of the
economic factors, such as population, taxation, imports and exports,
production, finance, etc., in supplementation proof of the conditions
as set forth in the text of the first volume. The subjects dealt with
in the main portion of the work cover the Effects of war (1815 to
1820); Commercial reform (1820 to 1830); The reform Parliament (1830
to 1841); Repeal of the Corn laws (1841 to 1852); War and finance
(1852 to 1859); Free trade (1859 to 1868); Retrenchment and reform
(1869 to 1880); Organization (1880–1892); Foreign competition (1892 to
1900); The movement towards tariff reform (1900 to 1910); and Unrest
(1910 to 1914). The three appendices discuss The Cabinet and
Parliament, Ministries 1812 to 1912, and A chronicle of the British
empire beyond the seas.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The volume is a storehouse of facts for politicians and economists.”
+ =Ath= p745 Ag 15 ’19 1150w
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 720w
“Impartiality is a dominant quality of the work, as it ought to be.”
+ =Spec= 122:151 Ag 2 ’19 1050w
=PAGET, STEPHEN.= Sir Victor Horsley; a study of his life and work. il
*$6 Harcourt
(Eng ed 19–18661)
“The life was well worth writing by so practised a biographer as Mr
Stephen Paget of Sir Victor Horsley (1857–1916)—a surgeon of great
distinction and a pioneer on the field of scientific medicine, a keen
champion of temperance and woman suffrage, and a Liberal
politician—who closed a great career by giving his life for his
country in Mesopotamia, where he patriotically volunteered for service
as medical consultant with the forces and where he died of heat stroke
on July 16, 1916.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Mr Paget has written in a calm, dispassionate manner without literary
tricks or mannerisms.”
+ =Ath= p18 Ja 2 ’20 1900w
=Brooklyn= 12:132 My ’20 40w
“Admirable biography.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 240w
=Sat R= 128:513 N 29 ’19 700w
“No happier selection could have been made than that Mr Paget should
become the biographer of Sir Victor Horsley. The author, a man of
letters, also possesses the scientific and medical knowledge essential
to the theme, and his enterprises in other fields of literature have
preserved him from the besetting sins of the medical biographer who
makes his book unduly technical, or even dull.”
+ =Spec= 122:894 D 27 ’19 1250w
“There is no doubt that this biography, in the full sense of an
overworked word, is an ‘inspiring’ record of a man’s character and
achievement; it is the more so because it is always straightforward
and concrete, showing the man exactly as he was.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 1450w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p676 N 20 ’19 90w
“It is not too much to say that of the many services which this author
has rendered to scientific medicine and surgery none is so important
as his biography of Sir Victor Horsley.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 N 27 ’19 1650w
=PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW.= Short life of Mark Twain. il *$2.50 Harper
20–18960
In answer to the demand for a short life of Mark Twain, Mr Paine, his
official biographer, has prepared a condensed version of his longer
work. The story is told in brief chapters and in simple language and
is adapted for young people’s reading. There are eighteen
illustrations.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 40w
=PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.= Corsair in the war zone. il *$4 Houghton 940.45
20–14468
At a critical time in the submarine campaign a number of American
pleasure yachts volunteered for service as French coast patrols. Their
amateur crews had little naval training, and these yachts were dubbed
the “Suicide fleet,” but they performed heroic service and played an
important rôle in the war. The Corsair of whose exploits the book
gives an account, was owned by J. Pierpont Morgan. Contents: The call
of duty overseas; “Lafayette, we are here!”; At sea with the Breton
patrol; Tragedies and rescues; When the Antilles went down; Admiral
Wilson comes to Brest; Smashed by a hurricane; The pleasant interlude
at Lisbon; Uncle Sam’s bridge of ships; The Corsair stands by; In the
radioroom; The long road home; Honorably discharged; The ship’s
company. There is a map showing the Corsair’s wanderings in the war
zone and numerous illustrations.
* * * * *
“The book is a welcome and valuable minor contribution to the history
of the world war. The numerous and excellent illustrations greatly add
to its attractiveness.” E: Breck
+ =Am Hist R= 26:371 Ja ’21 280w
=Booklist= 17:108 D ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ’20 600w
“The author has collected and selected his official and unofficial
documents with praiseworthy skill, and the result is a swift-flowing
narrative, written in an easy style, that will prove interesting to
sailor and landsman alike.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p16 Ag 29 ’20 3200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 9 ’20 310w
=PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.= Fight for a free sea; a chronicle of the war of
1812. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ.
press 973.5
20–4767
“This volume is concerned with our War of 1812, the chief episodes of
which are related by Ralph D. Paine under the title, ‘The fight for a
free sea.’ The book has special chapters on Perry and Lake Erie, The
navy on blue water, Matchless frigates and their duels, and Victory on
Lake Champlain.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
Reviewed by D. R. Anderson
+ =Am Hist R= 26:112 O ’20 300w
“It is of Perry on Lake Erie, of Macdonough on Lake Champlain, of
Captain Bainbridge and of Captain Isaac Hull that Mr Paine writes
charmingly, gloriously. Their brilliant deeds arouse his instinct for
the sea, his hero-worship of sea-faring men. With them this writer of
delightful sea stories is at home.”
+ =Cath World= 112:390 D ’20 270w
“Mr Paine writes splendidly of the sea and of ships, as readers of his
stories know, and this is a subject that lends itself especially to
his talents.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 50w
=PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.= Ships across the sea. il *$1.90 (2½c) Houghton
940.45
20–7139
The author of these stories of the American navy in the great war has
firsthand knowledge of the navy and the life on board ship, and his
fiction breathes real life. The first story is one of jealousy between
two petty officers over a wee Scotch lassie, a war orphan, who came on
board on occasion of the sailors’ Christmas party. On Jim Cooney’s
side it was something of a lark for he loved to bully simple minded
Henry Turnbull. With Henry it was a matter of the heart. But when
Henry is washed overboard Jim’s remorse inspires a Henry Turnbull
fund, to be raised among the crew for the education and up-bringing of
little Mary MacDonald. The stories are: The orphan and the
battle-wagon; Ten fathoms down; Too scared to run; The quiet life; On
a lee shore; The net result; The last shot; The silent service; The
red sector.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20
“The sense of the sea and ships is vividly conveyed. ‘Ships across the
sea’ gives an excellent idea of what it was like to be a sailor in the
United States navy during the great war.”
+ |=N Y Times= 25:237 My 9 ’20 650w |=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 50w
=PALAMAS, KOSTÈS.= Life immovable. *$2 Harvard univ. press 889
19–19666
“A volume of translations is ‘Life immovable,’ from the modern Greek
of Kostes Palamas by Professor Aristides Phoutrides, a former
instructor at Harvard. Kostes Palamas, secretary to the University of
Athens, was one of the first writers of contemporary Greece to gain
recognition outside his own country, and Professor Phoutrides has the
courage to call him ‘a new world-poet.’” (Bookm) “The translator
furnishes a sketch of the poet and his work, and an analysis of the
poems in this volume.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
“It is reasonable to suppose that the unsatisfactory effect of the
book before us cannot be entirely attributed to the defects either of
the poet or the translator. It is tiresome to read these poems, where
images rise and clash and fade in confusion, and to feel that in the
original there may have existed harmony and emotional coherence where
we are now oppressed by meaningless glitter and noise. Our annoyance
is accentuated by the translator’s harsh and clumsy rhythms, and by an
insensitiveness to word-values in the language into which he is
translating, exemplified by the title ‘Life immovable.’” F. W. S.
− =Ath= p140 Jl 30 ’19 760w
“Too much of the symbolic, philosophical and mythological enter these
pages to invite interest from any but the scholarly thinker.”
+ =Booklist= 16:162 F ’20
Reviewed by H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:214 Ap ’20 120w
“He deserves to be read widely beyond the confines of his own land and
tongue; and Professor Phoutrides, with the Harvard press, deserves the
cordial thanks of all lovers of life and letters for the present
translation.” F. B. R. Hellems
+ =Class Philol= 15:205 Ap ’20 1600w
“His book, with its thoughtful, well-written introduction, will give
much pleasure to the quiet lovers of the quiet poetry of meditation
and sentiment.” Paul Shorey
+ =Review= 2:309 Mr 27 ’20 1200w
=PALMER, EDWIN JAMES, bp. of Bombay.= Great church awakes. *$2 Longmans
280
21–198
“The conception of ‘the great church’ which inspires this little
volume may be described as a liberalized restatement of the
traditional Anglo-Catholic position. In the first part of the work,
called ‘Ideas,’ Dr Palmer insists strongly on the importance and force
of the present desire for Christian unity, especially as it is
manifested in India. The second section, entitled ‘Studies,’ is mainly
devoted to the question of the Christian ministry. It opens with a
careful study of the ‘Ministry in the primitive church.’”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott
+ =Outlook= 126:689 D 15 ’20 390w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p475 Jl 22 ’20 380w
=PANCHARD, EDOUARD.= Meats, poultry and game; with a preface by A.
Louise Andrea. *$3 Dutton 641.5
20–2273
“The author of this volume is managing chef for the Hotel McAlpin,
Waldorf-Astoria, Claridge, Café Savarin and Fifth avenue restaurant,
New York, and Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, and honorary
lecturer, Columbia university. He gives much valuable information
about the buying, cooking and serving of meat, poultry and game, and
as the book is illustrated even the amateur can learn readily from it.
Not the least desirable part of the volume is a collection of choice
recipes.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
+ =Bookm= 52:30 S ’20 110w
“A book so simply and clearly planned and written that it must be a
desirable acquisition.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 100w
“Part I is written very definitely and clearly but Part II, ‘A
potpourri of recipes,’ would be rather difficult for an inexperienced
cook to follow.” M. E. Dakin
+ =J Home Econ= 12:426 S ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 140w
=PANYITY, LOUIS S.=[2] Prospecting for oil and gas. il *$3.25 Wiley
622.1
20–2108
“This brief treatment of a large subject is designed to meet the needs
of the practical oilman and the general reader. More than half of the
text is devoted to surveying methods and geology, including general
cross-sections of important districts. The rest of the book covers
even more briefly: scouting, methods of locating wells, drilling
methods, ‘bringing in,’ gauging, and leasing. Samples of forms and
contracts are shown. Good illustrations and a number of mathematical
and technical tables.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
“Good book on a subject not heretofore well covered.”
+ =Booklist= 17:100 D ’20
“The first ten chapters of this book, comprising 134 pages in all,
deal directly with the subject indicated by the title, and they are by
far the most useful part of the volume. The remainder of the principal
part of the book is disappointing. It attempts to cover so much that
it covers nothing at all.”
+ − =Mining and Scientific Press= 120:554 Ap 10 ’20 210w
“It is undoubtedly an attractive and useful publication, which, by
virtue of its clearness of diction, careful arrangement of
subjectmatter, and freedom from ‘padding,’ should make an appeal to a
very wide public.” H. B. Milner
+ =Nature= 106:625 Ja 13 ’21 580w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p35 Ap ’20 80w
=PARK, JOHN EDGAR.= Bad results of good habits and other lapses. *$1.50
(4½c) Houghton 814
20–7286
The contents of these essays all hinge on the distinction the author
makes between two kinds of goodness; respectable goodness and
adventurous goodness. It is the difference between a mummy and a
living body. For the ten commandments he would substitute the golden
rule, as including them all, and his parting words to the reader are:
“Don’t be solemn. Don’t be staid and conventional. Get off your
pedestal. Fool a little. Love much.” A partial list of the contents
are: The disadvantages of being good; The folly of getting there; The
world, the flesh, and the devil; What I would not that I do; Lies; The
grammar of life; The secret of the moral training of children.
+ =Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20
“Altogether they are a very readable lot, and if most of them leave a
moral truth behind, the reader will forget the preachment for the
enjoying of his ideas.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 25 ’20 240w
+ =Cleveland= p85 S ’20 30w
“Mr Park’s relaxations avoid the too facile generalization which is
the usual fault of the type. Yet they breathe a certain serene
remoteness from dust and heat. In contrast with the good gigantic
smile of Mark Twain, it lacks what closet wit must always lack, an
earthly and living contact with men and women.”
+ − =Nation= 111:224 Ag 21 ’20 250w
=N Y Times= p15 O 10 ’20 80w
“It is bright, gay, and logically weak, with the useful knack of
arraying a commonplace in the garb of a paradox.”
− + =Review= 3:133 Ag 11 ’20 290w
+ =St Louis= 18:248 O ’20 30w
“There is a vein of humor in Mr Park that makes him a delightful
companion in print or in person.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 17 ’20 280w
=PARKER, CARLETON HUBBELL.= Casual laborer and other essays. *$1.75
(5½c) Harcourt 331
20–5645
This posthumous volume of essays by Professor Parker has an
introduction by Mrs Cornelia Stratton Parker in which she points out
the fundamental characteristics of her husband’s work, and through
numerous quotations the importance in which he was held as one of the
frontiersmen not along geographical but along economic lines. He was
first in studying the labor problem from a psychological point of
view. “What is the psychic balance sheet?” he asks. “It is a relation
between a plastic, sensitive, easily degenerated nervous organism
called ‘man’ and an environment. The product is human character. The
labor problem is one of character-formation.” The essays are: Toward
understanding labor unrest; The casual laborer; The I. W. W.; Motives
in economic life. The appendix contains Professor Parker’s report on
the Wheatland hop fields’ riot with a foreword by Mrs Parker. The
second paper is reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the
third from the Atlantic Monthly.
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:610 S ’20 80w
=Booklist= 16:263 My ’20
“In conclusion it may be said that the book is an interesting rather
than a convincing one. The man really needs to be saved from his
friends. The present book bears out the statement that when all is
said and done, Professor Parker’s life was potential in promise and
not in actual measurable performance.” G. M. J.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 1200w
“As his discussion stands and so far as it has been carried on it is
so fragmentary and one-sided as to appear somewhat crude and far
fetched.” Virgil Jordan
− =Dial= 69:96 Jl ’20 1150w
=Int J Ethics= 31:115 O ’20 130w
“In their present state the essays reveal a lack in the organization
of his new ideas as well as a faulty perspective in the arrangement of
his biological and psychological material. His purpose, however, is
admirable, and has brought about an advance of the line he set upon,
namely the study of human behavior, as such, where it assists in the
understanding of economic conditions.” Florence Richardson
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:622 Jl ’20 600w
“For the economist, the book is like one of those impressive events
that make history. It marks the closing of a chapter.” H. A.
Overstreet
+ =Nation= 111:455 O 20 ’20 950w
Reviewed by C: Merz
+ =New Repub= 22:424 My 26 ’20 1200w
“The book is a useful record of an industrious and brilliant
investigator who seems also to have been an unusually inspiring
teacher. It is not too much to say that no man who has anything worth
writing about should be allowed to write so badly as Professor Parker
seems to have done when left to himself.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:324 Je 20 ’20 700w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 40w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 24 ’20 70w
“Those interested to know how this labor problem will be handled when
those in authority have been educated will do well to read this
delightful and illuminating book. It marks the road.” W: L. Chenery
+ =Survey= 45:26 O 2 ’20 540w
=PARKER, DEWITT HENRY.= Principles of æsthetics. *$2.50 (2½c) Silver 701
20–15459
The book has grown out of lectures to students at the University of
Michigan but the author’s appeal is to all people who are interested
in the intelligent appreciation of art. For his broader philosophy of
art he declares himself indebted to the artists and philosophers of
the period from Herder to Hegel, and among contemporaries to Croce and
Lipps. Among the contents are: The analysis of the æsthetic
experience; The problem of evil in æsthetics, and its solution through
the tragic, pathetic, and comic; The standard of taste; The dominion
of art over nature: painting, sculpture; Beauty in the industrial
arts: architecture; The function of art: art and morality, art and
religion; Bibliography.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21
=Boston Transcript= p5 O 23 ’20 480w
“For the beginner it is as satisfactory a work as has yet appeared.”
+ =Dial= 69:666 D ’20 50w
=PARKER, SIR GILBERT.= No defence. il *$2 Lippincott
20–17085
“The scene is laid first in Ireland at the close of the eighteenth
century; and we are taken thence to the fleet at the time of the
mutiny at the Nore, and later to Jamaica. The hero, Dyck Calhoun, is a
young Irish gentleman, who falls innocently into disgrace. He becomes
a common seaman and a mutineer; he escapes to Jamaica; and here he
gradually achieves success, in spite of the persistent enmity of the
governor, with whom he has fought a successful duel in his early
days.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The author seems well able to depict the English soldier and sailor
of the day, but he knows nothing of the Irish soul or character.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:545 Ja ’21 230w
“To judge from internal evidence, ‘No defence’ was written simply and
solely in order that it might eventually be turned into a motion
picture, with little or no regard for literary excellence. From first
to last, the book is carelessly written, and the tale is devoid of
atmosphere, while the dialogue reveals very little effort to keep the
speech of the different persons in character.”
− =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 900w
“The book has dash, fire, and romance.”
+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 450w
“It lacks something both of the ardour and of the fundamental gravity
which make romance completely valid; but it has an undeniable
sincerity which makes it very much more readable than most such
works.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p617 S 23 ’20 460w
=PARKER, SAMUEL CHESTER.= Methods of teaching in high schools. il $2
Ginn 373
20–6653
“The printing of a new edition of the ‘Methods of teaching in high
schools’ has given the author an opportunity to make a number of
slight but important revisions. Some of these are necessitated by new
scientific investigations, while others are merely improvements in the
examples or the phrasing. References have also been inserted to the
supplementary volume, ‘Exercises for “Methods of teaching in high
schools.”’... The fundamental organization, however, has nowhere been
changed.” (Preface to revised edition)
=PARKS, LEIGHTON.= English ways and byways. *$1.75 (3c) Scribner 914.2
20–19160
In the form of letters John and Ruth Dobson, an American clergyman and
his wife, on a motoring tour in England, talk pleasantly of their
experiences, which include unconventional glimpses of England and the
English and much about the vicissitudes of motoring. Among the
chapters on England are: The great North road; The England of
Fielding; An English interior; Rural England; Education; A
by-election; Sheep-dogs; The black country; The county families; The
boat-race; Vested interests; Church and state.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20
“All that is written is interesting and often it is amusing; but the
wit is never biting, the story never cuts in the telling, and when all
is told we really have gained a very agreeable idea of our English
cousins.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 480w
“Add that both husband and wife are extremely clever with the pen, and
rather impudent in their freedom of remark, and you have all the
materials out of which Dr Leighton Parks has made as entertaining a
little volume as one often meets with in these dull days.”
+ =Review= 3:563 D 8 ’20 280w
=PARRISH, RANDALL.= Mystery of the silver dagger. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–9714
Philip Severn, a secret service agent, is a collector of curios. An
odd lacquer box in a New York shop attracts his attention and he buys
it, altho all the proprietor can tell him is that it had been left in
a hotel room and never claimed. After returning to his home he
accidentally drops the box to the floor, unlooses a secret spring and
picks up a folded bit of paper. But while the box itself was of
undoubted antique origin, the paper is modern. It rouses Severn’s
suspicion and he resolves to trace down the mystery at which it hints.
His search leads him to Jersey City, a deserted factory building, a
Polish saloon and a beautiful girl. The plot he uncovers involves a
conspiracy against Chile, and the last bit of mystery cleared away is
the relation of the beautiful girl to the band of plotters. After that
comes the conventional ending.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
“The plot is ingenious and the story has the fascination of swift
action.”
+ =Cleveland= p51 My ’20 60w
“A lively enough yarn.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 320w
“A murder mystery skillfully handled.”
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 20w
“Mr Parrish can always be depended upon for a breath-bating
narrative.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 12 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p385 Je 17 ’20 100w
=PARRY, REGINALD ST JOHN.=[2] Pastoral epistles; with introduction, text
and commentary. *$8 Macmillan 227
“The object of the author has been to inquire afresh into the critical
and exegetical problems on which the question of the genuineness of I
and II Timothy and Titus depends. The outcome is a vigorous defense of
the Pauline authorship of all three letters.”—Bib World
* * * * *
“Without disparaging the conscientious work in these notes, we must
say that so far as the object of the monograph is concerned, Dr Parry
would have done better to omit the commentary altogether—it is not any
advance on earlier English work—and to discuss the partition theories
of the epistles, a branch of criticism which he passes by.”
+ − =Ath= p45 Jl 9 ’20 720w
“All that can be said in favor of this opinion is here brought
together probably in as convincing a form as is possible. Yet the
presentation does not carry full conviction, for it treats far too
lightly the objections which have been urged by other scholars against
Pauline authorship.”
+ − =Bib World= 54:649 N ’20 110w
=PARSONS, JOHN.= Tour through Indiana in 1840; ed. by Kate Milner Rabb.
il *$3.55 McBride 917.72
20–19355
The book contains the diary of John Parsons of Petersburg, Virginia,
giving an account of a trip by railroad, by stage coach and by
steamboat, and an intimate picture of the life of the then near west,
in its political, geographical and social and family aspects ending
with a personal romance. The illustrations are from old prints and
drawings and from photographs.
* * * * *
“There is a quaint and charming flavor in this diary.”
+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
“The book is of particular value to those interested in Indiana and
surrounding country and in the lives of the great and soon-to-be-great
men and women of the time. As such it holds rank as an unusual
historic document, and is a quaint picture of the politics and life of
the day.”
+ =Bookm= 52:173 O ’20 270w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 23 ’20 420w
“This book breathes the very spirit of the young West. It is a flowing
and human story that takes one into the heart of the time it
describes.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w
“The love story that is dragged in does not add to the credibility of
the tale. If the volume is not an authentic record of the journey it
pretends to chronicle, the deception is inexcusable. This does not
mean that the book is a waste of time. On the contrary, it is a
triumph of accuracy and readability. It lifts the curtain upon a most
interesting scene and shows us a fairly typical American commonwealth
at a definite stage of development.”
+ − =Review= 3:481 N 17 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 100w
“An altogether entertaining book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 760w
=PARSONS, SAM JONES.= Malleable cast iron. il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 672
In this second edition the author has “considered it advisable to
revise the contents so as to include information concerning the more
modern and scientific methods of production, thus bringing the book up
to date and adding considerably to its practical value.” (Preface to
the second edition) Two chapters are added on Mining by analysis and
Measurement of temperature; there is also an addendum on Malleable
cast steel.
* * * * *
“It is somewhat surprising that in a book which is evidently designed
to assist the malleable-iron industry to more scientific methods of
production there is no mention of the light thrown by the microscope
on the structural changes which occur in the malleablising process;
nor is there any reference to the mechanical properties of the various
types of iron produced.”
+ − =Nature= 105:290 My 6 ’20 430w
=PARSONS, WILLIAM BARCLAY.= American engineers in France. il *$4
Appleton 940.373
20–16507
The motif of the book is the work of the nine regiments of American
engineers, with one of which the author served. “In the writing, it
has been necessary to touch on all the fields of engineer activity,
because these regiments came in contact with every field, even if they
did not invade each one, from constructing ports to digging and
holding trenches, in all parts of France from the Atlantic to the
Vosges, from the Mediterranean to Flanders. Consequently there results
a brief outline of what all engineers did.” (Preface) The contents are
in part: The new military engineer; America’s problem; Engineer
organization; Ports; French railways; American railway operations in
France; Relations with the French; Forestry; Water supply; Chemical
engineers; Camouflage and other fields of engineering; Maps; Flash and
sound ranging and search light detection; Artillery; Light railways;
Roads; Trenches and trench warfare. There are full page illustrations,
figures, maps and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20
“He has covered the field in outline sufficient for the lay reader,
and with an authority that will make this one of the lasting records
of the war.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 140w
=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 170w
=PARTRIDGE, GEORGE EVERETT.= Psychology of nations; a contribution to
the philosophy of history. *$2.50 Macmillan 901
19–19152
“This is a psychologist’s appeal for an understanding of what is
fundamental in our national life and a warning against radical and
superficial thinking; it was written during the closing months of the
war and in the days that followed. The first part of the book is a
study of the motives of war—an analysis of such motives in the light
of the general principles of the development of society. The second
part of the book is a study of the present situation as an educational
problem, in which we have for the first time a problem of educating
national consciousness as a whole, or the individuals of a nation with
reference to a world-consciousness.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Two chapters dealing with Internationalism and the School and two
others on the Teaching of patriotism are especially sane and
well-balanced and will be suggestive to teachers of American history
who wish to base their influence for Americanization upon something
less superficial than tradition and prejudice.” W: H. Allison
+ =Am Hist R= 25:740 Jl ’20 450w
Reviewed by C. G. Fenwick
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:340 My ’20 130w
“Part two, on education, offers many suggestions that should interest
educators.”
+ =Booklist= 16:276 My ’20
=Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 13 ’20 420w
=Brooklyn= 12:95 Mr ’20 50w
“One’s total reaction to the book is emotional. It is impressive not
as an argument or a scientific inquiry, but as a sermon. It is
edifying rather than clarifying. One is swept along much as though one
were reading a book of psalms; each sentence is an exhortation, and as
one proceeds the exhortatory force accumulates until one ends in an
‘intoxication mood’ of edification. One can not emerge from the book
without a feeling of enthusiasm for something which is critically
important, but that something is intellectually elusive.” H. W.
Schneider
+ − =J Philos= 17:441 Jl 29 ’20 3400w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
+ =Nation= 112:185 F 2 ’21 840w
“Mr Partridge has given to the public a book which doubtless will be,
as it deserves to be, widely read.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:144 Mr 28 ’20 650w
=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 30w
“The large value of his book—which really ought to be called ‘The
education of nations’—is that it presents, compiled and digested, the
theories of many men who have dealt with a broad complex of problems.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p258 Ap 22 ’20 150w
=PATCH, EDITH MARION.= Little gateway to science. il $1 Atlantic monthly
press 595.7
20–9285
Nature stories for young children. The author calls them “hexapod
stories,” for they are all about six-footed insects, butterflies,
bees, grasshoppers and the like. The titles are: Van, the sleepy
butterfly, who was awakened by a January thaw; Old Bumble; The strange
house of Cecid Cido Domy; Poly, the Easter butterfly; Jumping Jack;
Nata, the nymph; Lampy’s Fourth o’ July; Carol; Ann Gusti’s circus;
Gryl, the little black minstrel; Luna’s Thanksgiving; Keti-Abbot, the
littlest Christmas guest. A word to the teacher follows and there are
notes, with references to other books. The pictures are by Robert J.
Sim.
* * * * *
“They are simply told without any sentimentality or ‘writing down.’
Good for school libraries as well as public.”
+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
=PATERSON, WILLIAM PATERSON, and RUSSELL, DAVID=, eds.[2] Power of
prayer. *$4 Macmillan 217
20–15946
“In May, 1916, the Walker trust of the University of St Andrews
offered certain prizes on ‘the meaning, the reality and the power of
prayer, its place and value to the individual, to the church, and to
the state, in the everyday affairs of life, in the healing of sickness
and disease, in times of distress and national danger, and in relation
to national ideals and to world-progress.’ In response to this offer
one thousand six hundred and sixty-seven essays were received, coming
from all quarters of the world and written in nineteen languages. The
first prize was awarded to Rev. Samuel McComb, of Baltimore, Maryland,
and is printed as the first paper following an interesting essay by Dr
Paterson entitled ‘Prayer and the contemporary mind.’ Twenty other
papers of varying length of different aspects of the subject are also
printed.”—Bib World
* * * * *
“The quality of the essay by Dr McComb warrants the decision of the
readers in his favor. This book is the most voluminous and
satisfactory study of the subject that we know.”
+ =Bib World= 54:650 N ’20 320w
“Most appear to have read widely. They express themselves lucidly.
They can give reasons, not unworthy of consideration, for the faith
which is in them; though, with the exception of Canon McComb, no
writer can be classed as a trained theologian of eminence. The volume
has not, in consequence, the importance of the series of essays
entitled ‘Concerning prayer,’ which Messrs Macmillan published a few
years ago. The main value of the book consists in the light which it
throws on the religious tendencies of the time.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 Ag 12 ’20 1400w
=PATON, STEWART.= Education in war and peace. *$1.50 Hoeber
20–3200
“In ‘Education in war and peace,’ the author makes an appeal for a
united effort by physicians, psychologists, and educators to search
out and develop appropriately the basic instincts and deep emotional
undercurrents which have so much to do in shaping personality,
determining character, and controlling conduct. The current tendency
to try to ‘compensate for personal inadequacy in facing the real
problems of life’ by various forms of ‘wishful thinking’ is examined
and illustrated.”—Survey
* * * * *
+ − =Dial= 69:213 Ag ’20 90w
“His treatment is stimulating, and any educator or social worker may
read the book with the hope of receiving immediate profit from it.” F.
G. Bonser
+ =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 270w
=PATRICK, DIANA.= Wider way. *$2 Dutton
20–11891
“Veronica Quening, with a dour and brutal market gardener (who is also
a local preacher) for her father, but also with a devoted stepmother,
entirely free from traditional stepmotherliness, is quite staggeringly
fascinating, lovely, and magnetic. She has all our sympathy in her
career as school teacher, as wife for a time—after another passionate
love affair—of a German; and specially as friend of Lord Swathe, for
there is evidently a kinship between the beautiful girl and the
stately noble house. All ends well with Veronica.”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Harmless and pretty and silly.”
+ − =Ath= p258 F 20 ’20 80w
“Veronica, with her complexities, her ambitions, her mental and
spiritual endowments, her surface froth and her profound depths, is a
creation that would do credit to an older and more practiced hand. As
a whole, the novel is an exceptionally good first book, which reveals
a real gift for story telling and a marked faculty for producing the
illusion of reality.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 11 ’20 550w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 F 5 ’20 110w
=PATRICK, GEORGE THOMAS WHITE.= Psychology of social reconstruction. *$2
Houghton 301
20–19443
In considering the dangers that threaten our present
civilization—reversion to barbarism, decadence, ill-timed social
reforms, et al.—the author maintains that he is not taking the usual
attitude of either advocate or critic, but that of a student of
ultimate values. He sees in our present awareness of social evils a
hopeful sign, but insists on the inadequacy of all economic and
political reforms that disregard the psychological and historical
factors. No reform can endure whose psychological basis does not rest
on human needs and does not conform to human nature. The three first
chapters are devoted to the psychological factors in social
reconstruction and the remaining four to: The psychology of work; Our
centrifugal society; Social discipline; The next step in applied
science. There is an index.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p7 N 13 ’20 620w
=N Y Evening Post= p23 D 4 ’20 240w
“The book is eminently readable and deserves a wide response.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 20 ’21 160w
=PATTERSON, FRANCES TAYLOR.= Cinema craftsmanship. il *$2 Harcourt 808.2
20–17895
The author, who is instructor in photoplay composition in Columbia
university, recognizes that the moving picture art is still in its
infancy, but says that her motive for writing this book is faith in
its future and a desire to help awaken the public to its
possibilities. Contents: The art and the science; The plot; The
characters; The setting; Adaptation; Scenario technique; Writing a
synopsis for the photoplay market; Cinema comedy; The critical angle;
The photoplay market. The scenario for the photoplay “Witchcraft” by
Margaret Turnbull, awarded a prize offered by the Famous Players-Lasky
company, is appended, together with bibliography and index.
* * * * *
“A model scenario and an excellent bibliography make the book a
complete manual for all persons interested in photoplay writing.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 N 13 ’20 160w
=N Y Times= p25 N 7 ’20 90w
=PATTERSON, JOHN EDWARD.= Passage of the barque Sappho. *$2.50 Dutton
20–11150
“‘The passage of the barque Sappho’ portrays in minute detail the
voyage of a sailing vessel from San Francisco around Cape Horn,
homeward bound, to a British port. The author, J. E. Patterson, died
before the book was published, and it was prepared for the press by
his friend, C. E. Lawrence, who contributes a foreword. The narrative
purports to be the work of two individuals, and is told in the first
person. The joint contributions come from the two extremes of sea
society—the cabin and the fo’castle. One is an officer and the other
an ordinary seaman. When events are witnessed by both, it is from
different points of view. The officer and sailor write alternately,
and describe in detail all that went on above deck and in the
forecastle during the long voyage. The story ends with shipwreck in
the Sargasso sea.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Ath= p930 S 19 ’19 80w
“The style of the story, in so far as it may be detached from its
substance, is (but for certain passages of description) homely enough,
lacking in the ordinary ‘literary’ graces; but this in the end appears
to be a part of virtue. Beside Conrad and Bullen my copy shall take
its place with confidence.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:79 Mr ’20 700w
“The book has a historical as well as a literary value. Mr Patterson
proves by this posthumous novel his understanding of character as well
as his ability to write an impressive description. Each officer and
man of the Sappho is a distinct individual possessed of his own little
traits and peculiarities—traits and peculiarities which the author’s
leisurely method enables him fully to illustrate.”
+ =N Y Times= 24:767 D 21 ’19 650w
“Quite at variance with the usual nautical romance, the chronicle is
free from intrigues and brutality. The book is rather long (and
expensive) and is likely to prove a bit tiring to all save those
interested in the subject of seafaring.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 28 ’20 420w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p498 S 18 ’19 380w
=PAUL, EDEN, and PAUL, CEDAR.= Creative revolution. *$2 (*8s 6d) (4c)
Seltzer 335
The authors subtitle their book “A study of communist ergatocracy,”
using the newly coined word “ergatocracy” to signify workers’ rule. In
the opening chapter they say, “This little volume has a twofold aim,
theoretical and practical. In the theoretical field, we wish to effect
an analysis of socialist trends and to attempt a synthesis of
contemporary proletarian aims. In the sphere of practice we hope to
intensify and to liberate the impulse towards a fresh creative
effort.” Contents: Communist ergatocracy; Socialism through social
solidarity; Socialism through the class struggle; The shop stewards’
movement; Historical significance of the great war; The Russian
revolution; The third international; The dictatorship of the
proletariat; The iron law of oligarchy; Socialism through parliament
or soviet? Creative revolution; Freedom; Bibliography.
* * * * *
“Do the gifted authors realize that the atmosphere of a Marxian
library varied by stimulating conversations with trade union leaders,
is not the same as the atmosphere of a bloody revolution? Do they
clearly realize the difference? Do they, in fact, know what they are
talking about?”
− =Ath= p145 Jl 30 ’20 290w
Reviewed by A. C. Freeman
=N Y Call= p11 Ja 16 ’21 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 150w
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p413 Jl 1 ’20 1350w
“After so much has been written, camouflaged and in equivocal
language, it is a pleasure to find a book so clear-cut, so incisive
and so direct in its wording and in its thought. I still believe as
firmly as ever that the principles of pacifism represent the most
workable social philosophy. I am therefore at total variance with the
authors in their interpretation of the lessons which the Russian
revolution has taught. At the same time, I am glad to welcome their
contribution because of the splendid effect which it will have in
clarifying issues that have puzzled and baffled so many earnest souls
during the past few months.” Scott Nearing
+ − =World Tomorrow= 4:60 F ’21 420w
=PAYNE, FANNY URSULA.= Plays and pageants of citizenship. il *$1.50
Harper 792.6
20–18670
A new book of plays by the author of “Plays and pageants of
democracy,” and “Plays for anychild.” Contents: Dekanawida; The
triumph of democracy; The spirit of New England; The soap-box orator;
The victory of the good citizen; Old Tight-wad and the victory dwarf;
Rich citizens; Humane citizens.
* * * * *
=Lit D= p99 D 4 ’20 60w
=PAYNE, GEORGE HENRY.= History of journalism in the United States.
*$2.50 (2c) Appleton 071
20–10538
A short history of American journalism from the first newspaper to the
present day, written by a man of wide newspaper experience. Among the
early chapters are: Historic preparation for journalism; The first
newspaper in America; The first journals and their editors;
Philadelphia and the Bradfords; Printing in New York—the Zenger trial;
Rise of the fourth estate; The assumption of political power; The
“Boston Gazette” and Samuel Adams; Journalism and the Revolution;
Adams and the alien and sedition laws. Other chapters cover the
newspapers of the west, suffrage and slavery and the Civil war.
Special chapters are also devoted to such great dailies as the Sun,
the Herald and the Tribune. There are closing chapters on Editors of
the new school; After-war problems and reform and The melodrama in the
news. Interesting documents and statistics are given in appendices.
There is a valuable bibliography of twenty-nine pages, followed by an
index.
* * * * *
“The story is compact, but it moves to a lively tune, and is widely
allusive. The personal human interest is widely kept in the
foreground, and Mr Payne reveals a keen perception of the dramatic
values of his subject.” C: H. Levermore
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:107 O ’20 850w
“Will be useful to students of journalism, but it will have an
interest of its own to the general reader as it traces the growth of
journalism with the development of democracy.”
+ =Booklist= 17:47 N ’20
Reviewed by H: L. West
=Bookm= 52:116 O ’20 950w
“A swiftly written and vigorously phrased volume.” D. C. Seitz
+ =Freeman= 2:452 Ja 19 ’21 600w
“It is hard to tell which impresses one most in reading this book—the
author’s sincerity or his thoroughness. The book is very valuable and
intensely interesting.” C. W. T.
+ =N Y Times= 25:6 Jl 11 ’20 3150w
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 80w
“He has done a creditable piece of work, amassed adequate material,
used it with discrimination and an excellent sense of selection, has
not forgotten that he had a ‘story’ to tell, and that one of the prime
requisites of a story is that it shall be interesting.” E. G. L.
+ =Review= 3:232 S 15 ’20 750w
“Mr Payne’s history of American newspaper publication is well written
and well proportioned. He has made the story interesting from
beginning to end.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 220w
“Mr Payne’s treatment of the press in the years before the Civil war
is much the more satisfactory because, while involving little original
research, it deals out information suggestively. The last part of the
book is intelligent in general outlines, but is a brief and inadequate
summary and seems less frank in comment. The appendices are somewhat
haphazard.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 1100w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w
=PEABODY, ROBERT SWAIN, and PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD.=[2] New England
romance; the story of Ephraim and Mary Jane Peabody, 1807–1892. il *$2
Houghton
20–19929
“Aside from the interest it has of a faithful account by his sons of
one of America’s earliest and most distinguished preachers, it
possesses value as revealing the life and manner of a period. No
conscious attempt has been made to do this, however, and whatever of
history the reader may get comes to him as from between the lines and
is therefore the more subtly impressed. The early eighties, prior to
the Civil war, are revealed through the lives, ambitions, and
struggles of the minister and his wife.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“A quaint book for lovers of New England.”
+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
“Because of its very evident qualities of naturalness and sincerity
this little volume should escape the limbo which awaits the major part
of commemorative literature and be preserved among those works classed
as human documents.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 N 6 ’20 160w
“Told with a simple and natural beauty of language fitting for such a
theme. Incidentally it gives a graphic picture of revolutionary and
pre-revolutionary days.”
+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 50w
+ =Survey= 45:329 N 27 ’20 180w
=PEAKE, C. M. A.= Eli of the downs. *$2 (2c) Doran
20–18768
The narrator of the story found Eli as an old man in his cottage,
Beulah, on the downs, where he spends his last days carving fiddles,
and surrounded by the few treasures he had garnered from his
wanderings over the earth. He had always been a rare character, this
shepherd, with a rich inner life. Early in life he had married a mate
worthy of him, but it was a short happiness, and then the young
widower took to wandering. For some eight years he followed the sea
and saw many lands. Then it was surveying and ranching in Canada where
an old Chinese cook instructed him in the wisdom of Confucius and Lao
Tsu, but with failing health he turned his steps once more to England.
At Beulah cottage, lonely to the last, but emanating a silent
influence for good over the neighborhood, he ended his days in peace.
* * * * *
“The author cannot leave his characters to speak their mind, he must
speak it for them, and even reinforce their statements with a kind of
running commentary and explanatory notes which are very tiring to keep
up with.” K. M.
− =Ath= p211 F 13 ’20 280w
=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 60w
“It is, on the whole, well written, and while not a particularly
engrossing volume, neither is it a dull one.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 170w
“Apart from its idea, or animus, this is a narrative of sincere and
fresh quality, varied in substance and by no means artless, though it
agreeably lacks the art of the professional story-teller.” H. W.
Boynton
+ =Review= 3:349 O 20 ’20 300w
“‘Eli of the downs’ is more than a work of promise: Mr Peake tells the
life-history of one who was ‘a shepherd at heart as well as by
profession’ with a wealth of illuminating detail, with a love of his
subject and an intimate knowledge of Wessex country life that combine
to make the story memorable and delightful.”
+ =Spec= 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 430w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p301 My 13 ’20 460w
=PEARCE, FRANCIS BARROW.= Zanzibar; the island metropolis of eastern
Africa. il *$12 Dutton 967
(Eng ed 20–8651)
“A very substantial work by the British resident in Zanzibar,
embracing the history, politics, anthropology, resources, and
archæology of the island.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p431 Mr 26 ’20 60w
“For a leisurely pursuit of odds and ends of knowledge, or for the
scholar, geographer, historian, or student of Arab dominion I
recommend his volume. No thrills, few laughs, but the book marches on
in a pleasant and profitable path of facts and comment.” F: O’Brien
+ =N Y Times= 25:4 Jl 18 ’20 1200w
+ =Spec= 125:311 S 4 ’20 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Mr 4 ’20 30w
“He has taken immense pains in the compilation of his book, he has
ransacked the chronicles, consulted the retailers of legends, referred
to modern authorities and drawn upon his own experiences to produce a
well-constructed and agreeably written compendium of all that there is
to be told of Zanzibar.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p165 Mr 11 ’20 1050w
=PEARL, BERTHA.= Sarah and her daughter. $2.25 (1½c) Seltzer
20–11892
The scene of the story opens on Henry street in the Ghetto and
portrays the American Jew in every nuance of his racial peculiarities.
The abject poverty and suffering, the breaking under suffering, the
resiliency, the ethical slips in the fierce struggle for existence,
the hysteria and nervous breakdowns, the seriousness and absence of a
sense of humor and the fundamental goodness of heart that always has
the last word to say, are all there and every type finds its place
down to the tragic figure of the orthodox survivor of a dead religion.
In Sarah and her daughter Minnie, the immigrant Jew and the first
generation, with the resulting sad conflicts between parent and child,
are represented.
* * * * *
“Not a pleasant story, but worth while as a sincere interpretation of
a type of life which the author understands intimately.”
+ =Booklist= 17:159 Ja ’21
“As a story it is very little more than a string of episodes reported
with pitiless minuteness. If ruthless and harrowing verisimilitude is
of service to you, accept it in this book. Why the publishers should
assert that it is a new thing, is not clear.” H. W. Boynton
− =Bookm= 52:69 S ’20 880w
“There is real emotional power in the author’s handling of her
calamitous theme. She seems to lose subtlety at times because of her
very sincerity; the book is in spots too wooden in its realism, and
there is some careless workmanship. But the characterization is
acute.” F. E. H.
+ − =Freeman= 1:407 Jl 7 ’20 300w
“There is no relief, even in the scenes between the young children,
and we wonder if the story is not too photographically realistic,
missing some worth or beauty under the bald surface.” L. W. M.
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:259 O ’20 420w
“A rather amorphous but by no means talentless book. Miss Pearl has a
very keen and clear eye for the physical conditions of her people’s
lives—both in the Ghetto and beyond it—and a genuine gift, despite her
blunt and sprawling style, for rendering the atmosphere of bleak and
homeless places. There is no reason why Miss Pearl should not do
admirable work as she grows in self-discipline of both style and
feeling, and acquires a cooler spirit and a more tempered surface.”
+ − =Nation= 110:730 My 29 ’20 320w
“It does more than present a partially new viewpoint of matters with
which we are familiar, it brings a new range of material within our
understanding. Here is an American book with a straightforward story,
in the main well told and without sentimentalism.” R. V. A. S.
+ =New Repub= 23:343 Ag 18 ’20 520w
“Her descriptions are so true that one can’t help but feel that the
story is equally as true.” Rose Karsner
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 30 ’20 500w
“It is a work that is noteworthy in American literature, suggesting
Dickens and De Morgan modernized and Americanized.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:253 My 16 ’20 550w
“To the American reader who has previously known little or nothing
about that life, it is like the brilliant illumination from the inside
of a dark room.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 Ja 16 ’21 80w
“Whatever criticism may be offered lies in the possibility that even
tenement existence is not always as barren of sunshine and joys of
life as the author would have us believe. But that is not sufficiently
outstanding to detract from the authentic interest of the story.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 360w
=PEARL, RAYMOND.=[2] Nation’s food. il *$3.50 Saunders 338
20–4023
“Mr Pearl was chief of the statistical division of the Food
administration, and as such presents ‘unbiased statistical data rather
than my own opinion as to their interpretation.’ The book is made up
for the greater part of clear classifications and tables.”—Survey
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:95 D ’20
“With his usual thoroughness and breadth of view he has included in
his inquiry so many ramifications that his investigation covers Europe
also. It thus possesses extraordinary interest at the present time.”
E. J. Russell
+ =Nature= 106:305 N 4 ’20 850w
“As a source book, this volume is warmly recommended.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 500w
=PEARSON, EDMUND LESTER.= Theodore Roosevelt. il *$1.75 (5c) Macmillan
20–16084
The book is one of the series of “True stories of great Americans,”
and is a brief biography intended to catch the interest of boys.
Contents: The boy who collected animals; In college; In politics;
“Ranch life and the hunting trail”; Two defeats; Fighting
office-seekers; Police commissioner; The rough rider; Governor of New
York; President of the United States; The lion hunter; Europe and
America; The bull moose; The explorer; The man; The great American;
Illustrations.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:124 D ’20
“He has been unwise in trying to explain Roosevelt’s war-policies to
the detriment of President Wilson, and to laud the efficiency of one
party over another—especially in his capacity as writer for children
who want the essential action of the man—Roosevelt—without the
political struggles in which he was involved.”
+ − =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 150w
“One of the best short summaries of Roosevelt’s career that have yet
appeared. The author’s treatment of the intimate, personal phases of
his subject is especially felicitous.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 S 25 ’20 150w
“He has made excellent use of the new material about Mr Roosevelt
which has been available since his death, and has brought out with
skill and judgment the simplicity and singleness of Mr Roosevelt’s
Americanism.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 120w
“Mr Pearson has perhaps had more than ordinary success in confining
his story to the essential features, keeping a good sense of
proportion and never letting go the central thread of the narrative.
His book is workmanlike as well as entertaining.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 100w
“One cannot help feeling that the appeal would be stronger if the work
were more graphic and less controversial and the author had seen fit
to eliminate his attacks on the opponents of Roosevelt.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p800 D 2 ’20 20w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 40w
=PECK, LORA B.= Stories for good children. il *$1.50 Little
20–18926
These fairy and folk tales are collected from all countries. Some of
them are very ancient, being traced back to the home of the Aryan race
and all are so simple in their make-up and telling that they are
offered as an aid to reading. The countries represented in the choice
are: Ireland, Scotland, England, India, China, Japan, Mexico, Persia,
Russia.
=PEDLER, MARGARET.= House of dreams-come-true. *$1.75 (1½c) Doran
19–17179
Jean, though English, has never seen England until she is twenty. Then
her father, a prey to wanderlust, packs her off to some friends of
his, while he goes roaming the world. Just before she goes to England,
Jean has one magical day with an anonymous young Englishman, and to
her surprise and his apparent dismay when she arrives at Lady Anne’s
home where she is to stay she finds the elder son of the house to be
her unknown companion of Montavan. The magic still holds for both of
them, but there are many barriers between them and many bitter hours
before they finally enter their “house of dreams-come-true,” a house
“not built of stones and mortar, but just—where love is.”
* * * * *
“Not ‘deep’ but entertaining.”
+ =Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 190w
“A fairly consistent and always readable book of fiction. The book, as
a whole, is one that will give excellent entertainment, although it is
impossible to assign it any important place in the contemporary output
of fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 1 ’20 430w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 130w
“A thoroughly readable story, though inclining somewhat to the
sentimental.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p717 D 4 ’19 140w
=PEEL, GEORGIANA ADELAIDE (RUSSELL), lady.= Recollections; comp. by
Ethel Peel. il *$5 Lane
20–12214
Lady Georgiana Peel, whose recollections are compiled in the present
volume by her daughter, is the daughter of Sir John Russell and her
recollections cover the period from the early forties to the present
time. She was intimately acquainted with all the eminent people in
Queen Victoria’s reign of whom she has recorded pleasant memories with
many historical events of importance. The book is illustrated and has
an index.
* * * * *
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p4 S 5 ’20 2800w
“It is mainly a picture of the most attractive side of English social
life. It gives to the American reader a much more intimate
acquaintance with that life than he could possibly attain by any
introductions.”
+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 180w
“It is a kindly book, written by a gracious lady, giving a picture of
an age that has passed away.”
+ =Sat R= 129:333 Ap 3 ’20 1050w
“Lady Georgiana Peel’s engaging book of recollections ought to attract
readers of many and varied tastes. The book is attractive in its frank
simplicity.”
+ =Spec= 124:389 Mr 20 ’20 1200w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p102 F 12 ’20 1350w
=PENDEXTER, HUGH.= Red belts. il *$1.50 (1½c) Doubleday
20–2261
The time in which the story is placed is 1784, when the quondam
colonies had not yet acquired the consciousness of a consolidated
group of states. The scene is west of the Alleghanies in what was to
be the state of Tennessee but where, at the time of the story, the
white settlers were still fighting for their existence against the
surrounding Indians aided by renegade white plotters in the interests
of Spain. It is a tale of love and adventure in which the hero John
Sevier, “Chucky Jack,” a pioneer of Americanism performs gallant deeds
of heroism and daring and not only saves his state for the Union but
lovely Elsie Tonpit from brutal outlaws and for her lover Kirk
Jackson, another true American.
* * * * *
“A stirring pioneer tale.”
+ =Booklist= 16:283 My ’20
“Taken on the whole, ‘Red belts’ is a good example of the real
adventure story, with enough patriotic suggestion to render it of
wholesome appeal.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:4 Mr 7 ’20 600w
=PENNELL, ELIZABETH (ROBINS) (MRS JOSEPH PENNELL) (N. N., pseud.), and
PENNELL, JOSEPH.= Life of James McNeill Whistler. new and rev ed il
*$6.50 Lippincott
“This is the revised sixth edition of the authorized biography of
Whistler. Since the original publication in two volumes in 1908 the
authors have been collecting and verifying documents, and have
received numerous suggestions and statements of facts. The new
edition, therefore, contains new materials in the text as well as new
illustrations, which include more than one hundred reproductions of
the artist’s works.”—R of Rs
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+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 21 ’20 640w
“The book, because of the treatment no less than because of the
subject, is vastly entertaining.”
+ =Dial= 69:322 S ’20 60w
=Outlook= 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 50w
=R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 100w
=PEPPER, CHARLES MELVILLE.= Life and times of Henry Gassaway Davis,
1823–1916. il *$4 (4½c) Century
20–4454
The life of “the grand old man” of West Virginia is marked by two
phases, says the biographer: “the romance of railway building, the
development of natural resources, the creation of industrial
communities” is the one, “public service, political leadership,
citizenship in its highest sense,” the other. His many-sided character
and activities were unusual. He was intensely practical and was also a
man of vision. A partial list of the contents follows: Ancestry and
youth; Pioneer railway days; International American conferences; The
Pan-American railway; Vice-presidential nomination and after;
Benefactions and philanthropies; Famous contemporaries; Personal
characteristics. There is an index and illustrations.
=PERCIVAL, MACIVER.= Glass collector; a guide to old English glass.
(Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (4c) Dodd 738.2
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