very much money to spare, and none to waste. He wants to get full
value when he makes a purchase, and if a bargain comes his way so much
the better.” (Preface) To guide such a collector to know which to
choose and how to distinguish the old from the new, the real from the
sham is the object of the book. After an introductory chapter on
drinking glasses in England to the end of the seventeenth century and
seven chapters on the various kinds of wine glasses the contents are:
Cut glass; Engraved glasses; Curios; Bottles, decanters, flasks and
jugs; Opaque and coloured glass; Frauds, fakes and foreigners; Foreign
glass; Manufacturing and decorative processes; Prices; Bibliography;
Glossary; Index.
* * * * *
“Will be helpful to the amateur since it is very well illustrated and
contains hints on the detection of imitations.”
+ =Booklist= 16:335 Jl ’20
+ =Spec= 122:17 Ja 4 ’19 60w
=PERCIVAL, MACIVER.= Old English furniture and its surroundings. il
*$7.50 Scribner 749
“The period Mr Percival covers in this work is from the restoration of
the monarchy to the regency. This period he has divided into four
sections: The restoration; The end of the 17th century and the early
18th; Early Georgian; Late Georgian. To each section he has given five
chapters: Fittings and ornament decorations; Furniture; Upholstery,
wall and floor coverings; Table appointments; Decorative
adjuncts.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Int Studio= 72:164 D ’20 100w
“Mr Percival writes with unusual good sense. Moreover, he is firmly
though not pedantically for unmixed style and speaks with authority.
For the trained decorator, however, the book contains little that is
actually new or in any way suggestive.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 150w
“If one can judge at all from some of the imposing Fifth avenue shops,
people do enjoy living in period-houses, fitting up rooms in
period-furniture, buying all manner of things antique. For these
impassioned collectors, at least, Mr Percival’s book is unequivocally
useful, being clearly written and having much practical information.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 9 ’20 330w
=PERCY, EUSTACE SUTHERLAND CAMPBELL, lord.= Responsibilities of the
league. *$2 Doran 341.1
(Eng ed 20–5415)
“This is a book written in the interest of civilization. It is true
that there have been civilizations, not altogether contemptible,
without Christianity; and it is arguable that there may be
civilizations hereafter not based on state sovereignty. But the
author’s point is both true and indisputable that the revolution which
threatens both of these institutions may drag all civilization with it
unless a high intelligence commands and canalizes its forces. Lord
Eustace considers the league of nations as the potential champion of
the idea of the state and commonwealth, the possible medium by which
we may come to the spirit of a united Christendom. That, no doubt, is
his ideal: to set it off he offers a penetrating analysis of the past
and makes the profound observation that the treaty of Versailles,
which he does not defend, is the almost complete result of the two
forces of nationalism and democracy.”—Dial
* * * * *
“I do not understand all of it nor agree with all I understand, but I
am fain to mark its superior importance.” Sganarelle
+ =Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 1150w
“His book will provoke much dissent, but it has the supreme merit of
making its readers think on the great problems that face the world.”
+ − =Spec= 124:16 Ja 3 ’20 1400w
“The book fairly bristles with provocative suggestions. The treatment
of the basis and mainsprings of American foreign policy makes an
American gasp with envy at their insight and sympathy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5 Mr 29 ’20 800w
“A solution must answer the conditions of the problem proposed, and
one has the feeling that Lord Eustace’s criticisms of recent policy do
not always take account of that fact. But that is a matter of
controversy. What is not a matter of controversy is the quality of
Lord Eustace Percy’s book—its breadth of outlook, its richness of
information, its penetrating candour, its analytic power, and, above
all, its depth of conviction.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p780 D 25 ’19 650w
=PERCY, WILLIAM ALEXANDER.= In April once. *$1.50 Yale univ. press 811
20–15483
“Mr Percy’s book consists of a poetic drama in one act, about half a
hundred lyrics, and a longish philosophical monologue entitled ‘An
epistle from Corinth.’ The drama—‘In April once’—is a study of a
renaissance youth, Guido, who sacrifices his life out of impetuous
generosity that a leper and a jailer (though a very knightly jailer)
might tempt death.”—Bookm
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20
“In his lyrics, Mr Percy tastes in some degree of the divine madness
of Keats. Rare indeed is Mr Percy’s pure lyric gift: limpidity and
strength of emotion and adequacy of art.” R. M. Weaver
+ =Bookm= 52:65 S ’20 400w
“He is by no means distinguished, and he is somewhat too fond of his
literary good manners, but he has done some shapely, thoroughbred
exercises in elegy and exultation.”
+ − =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 80w
“His work proves imitative in many ways.”
+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 50w
“Finer than his ‘Sappho in Levkas,’ with all its promise, is ‘In April
once.’ This volume has all the charm and freshness of the earlier
book, with a deeper and more appealing view of the world.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 10:204 O ’20 150w
=PÉREZ DE AYALA, RAMÓN.= Prometheus: The fall of the house of Limón;
Sunday sunlight. *$3 Dutton
20–12561
“Under the threefold title, ‘Prometheus: The fall of the house of
Limón; Sunday sunlight,’ the E. P. Dutton company publishes three
novelettes of Spanish life by Ramón Pérez de Ayala, which Alice P.
Hubbard has turned into English. ‘Prometheus,’ a modern tale which
parallels or parodies a Greek legend, deals sunnily with a man who,
seeking for perfect offspring, becomes the father of an oaf and
hunchback. ‘Limón’ is a murder tale. ‘Sunday sunlight’ is a tale of
ravishers which recites horrors which recall and surpass ‘Titus
Andronicus.’”—Review
* * * * *
“Those who enjoy artistry, intelligence and pages overflowing with the
evidence of original and unique talent will welcome the book and will
read it more than once.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:15 Jl 18 ’20 830w
“Señor de Ayala is all sprightliness and glow. He has a draughtsman
eye, a colorist eye, an eye reminiscent of Gautier, and he scatters
brilliancies with the prodigality of a man for whom splendor is the
only warmth.”
+ =Review= 3:351 O 20 ’20 220w
=PERKINS, LUCY (FITCH) (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS).= Italian twins. il
*$1.75 Houghton
20–15958
The Italian twins are Beppo and Beppina, who live in an old palace on
the banks of the Arno. They are kidnapped by two vagabonds with a
monkey and a performing bear and are made to sing and dance and
entertain the country people and villagers. They are taken to Venice
but finally make their escape and after more wandering adventures
reach their home safely.
* * * * *
“Beautiful makeup and sketches.”
+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
+ =Lit D= p94 D 4 ’20 160w
“One is always sorry when Mrs Perkins fails to reach her own high
mark. But this incredible tale of the kidnapping of two little
aristocrats shows no side of real Italian life.” M. H. B. Mussey
− + =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 110w
“‘The Italian twins’ is a wholesome stimulating book for children
between eight and thirteen to read and own.” E. R. Burt
+ =Pub W= 98:1201 O 16 ’20 300w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 200w
=PERKINS, LUCY (FITCH) (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS).= Scotch twins. il
*$1.50 Houghton
19–18221
Jock and Jean are the hero and heroine of this story, with its scenes
laid in Scotland. The pictures as in other books of the series are
from drawings by the author.
* * * * *
“A good picture of national life and customs with a rather more
dramatic plot than that of former volumes of the series.”
+ =Booklist= 16:176 F ’20
=Boston Transcript= p9 D 20 ’19 300w
“Jock and Jean have, perhaps, the most exciting and amusing adventures
of any of the twins, but, as a small boy critic said, ‘They have an
absent-minded way of using occasional Scottish words and then
relapsing into plain American talk.’”
+ − =Nation= 109:780 D 13 ’19 140w
+ =Outlook= 124:29 Ja 7 ’20 40w
“‘The Scotch twins,’ Jock, the sleepy-head, and Jean, the canny little
polisher and scrubber, are just as lovable as any of their
predecessors. There is a nice little surprise, too, in the last
chapter.”
+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 120w
“Anyone who has never before understood the claims of a clan will find
this and other peculiarities of Scotch life thoroughly explained.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 D 19 ’19 100w
=PERRY, ALLEN MASON=, comp. Electrical aids to greater production. il
*$2 McGraw 621.3
19–10529
“Based upon a series of articles in the Electrical World, of which the
author is engineering editor. The best of practice, as developed by
the war, is presented as a practical handbook, rather than as a
text-book, full of suggestions for the installation, operation, and
maintenance, as well as the problems of layout and control. The eight
chapters cover: General power problems of industrial plants;
Distribution, transformation, switching and protection; Motors,
control, specific applications, troubles and remedies; Illumination,
selection of equipment, economies, and specific applications; Electric
furnaces, welding, etc.; Meters and measurements as applied to
industries; Handling material in industrial plants with electric
tractors; Outdoor substations.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:159 F ’20
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p47 Jl ’19 120w
=Pratt= p20 Ja ’20 30w
=PERRY, BLISS.= Study of poetry. *$3.25 Houghton 808.1
20–9853
In attempting “to set forth in decent prose some of the strange
potencies of verse” the author has given but little space to the epic
and drama and has devoted himself more especially to the various forms
of the lyric, which to him seems to hold the future of poetry. “The
folk-epic is gone, the art-epic has been outstripped by prose fiction,
and the drama needs a theatre. But the lyric needs only a poet, who
can compose in any of its myriad forms.... Through it today, as never
before in the history of civilization, the heart of a man can reach
the heart of mankind.” Accordingly the book falls into two parts. Part
I, Poetry in general, treats of poetry in retrospect, of the province
of poetry and the poet, of rhythm and metre, rhyme, stanza and free
verse. Part II, The lyric in particular, contains: The field of lyric
poetry; Relationships and types of the lyric; Race, epoch and
individual; The present status of the lyric. There are also Notes and
illustrations, an appendix, a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:106 D ’20
“While it has a genuine interest for the creator and critical
interpreter of poetry, its specific value is for that very large body
of readers who are between these two groups.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 30 ’20 2100w
“The book is avowedly written with the classroom’s needs in view, as
well as those of the inquiring general reader, and the former aim to
some extent vitiates the author’s treatment by imposing too eclectic
an ideal upon him. The book is a résumé of poetics rather than a
personal confession.” Llewellyn Jones
+ − =Freeman= 2:235 N 17 ’20 1500w
“No critic since Matthew Arnold seems to us to have so positively as
Mr Perry the capacity to make us see more clearly and think more
accurately and sensibly about poetry and at the same time make the
seeing and the thinking increase our enthusiasm for the vital things.”
C. F. L.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:308 D ’20 640w
“In the long run his book is not simple enough. He will be useful to a
certain kind of teacher; but he will move few students and he will
enkindle no poets.” Mark Van Doren
− + =Nation= 112:sup241 F 9 ’21 120w
“The fault of the book is that it contains too many long quotations
from other critics. But this very fault, in the present instance,
makes the book a presentation of the best modern critical thought on
the lyric. He will be a bold man who attempts to cover Professor
Perry’s field for many years to come.” C. E. Andrews
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 O 23 ’20 1100w
“Professor Perry’s volume is suggestive and stimulating. It will be
useful to the classroom teacher, to the solitary student and to the
average reader, who will gain from it knowledge certain to increase
his enjoyment of verse.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p6 S 12 ’20 2000w
“He gives an unusually clear analysis, supported by rich and apt
quotation, of the effects of poetry upon the reader. The value of his
essay lies in its vivid ability to provide us with those moments of
lucid understanding in which poetic experience is restored to us.” L.
R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 126:377 O 27 ’20 400w
“He is first of all a collector, secondly, an assayer, thirdly, and a
little less willingly, an arbiter, and, only incidentally and
reluctantly, a reasoner or controversialist.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:501 N 24 ’20 2000w
=PERRY, LAWRENCE.= For the game’s sake. (Fair play ser.) il *$1.65
Scribner
20–15706
“Half a dozen tales, each having to do with some special form of
athletics, make up Mr Lawrence Perry’s little volume entitled ‘For the
game’s sake.’ The first tells of a football ‘star’ who, being also
‘The spoiled boy,’ broke training and misbehaved himself until the
coach found it necessary to put him off the team. But there was a
sensible and eloquent girl in the case, who brought the culprit to
book in a manner which convinced him of the error of his ways. Another
tale has to do with an international tennis tournament. Baseball of
course is not neglected. Each of the tales presupposes a fairly close
acquaintance on the reader’s part with that particular game with which
it has to do.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =N Y Times= p27 S 26 ’20 230w
“The book stands for clean playing in every sport. Each story works up
thrillingly to a dramatic climax where victory comes by the narrowest
of margins.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 200w
=PERRY, STELLA GEORGE (STERN) (MRS GEORGE HOUGH PERRY).= Palmetto.
*$1.90 (1c) Stokes
20–15507
Palmetto, as a child of thirteen, runs away from the only parents she
has ever known, but whom she instinctively feels are only foster
parents. She finds a refuge in New Orleans with a kindly fisherman who
adopts her and brings her up as his own daughter. Associated with him
is David Cantrelle, a lad of good birth whose family is genuinely
shocked at his choice of occupation. He loves Palmetto from the first,
and when her heart awakens and responds to his, they become engaged.
But his family objects to the match, on account of the mystery of her
birth and she determines to show them she is worth while. So she goes
to New York where she makes a conspicuous success as an actress. One
of her southern admirers follows her there, makes ardent love to her
and almost succeeds in replacing David in her heart. But she learns in
time that her love for David is deeper than any Hartley can command.
The mystery of her birth is eventually cleared up and she finds she
has as good blood in her veins as either David or Hartley.
* * * * *
“The greatest defect in this romance of the bayou region of Louisiana
is that it is somewhat overlong. Individual sentences and paragraphs
are frequently overgrown with too rank a growth of adjectives.”
+ − =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 500w
=PETERSON, SAMUEL.= Democracy and government. *$2 Knopf 321.8
20–104
According to the author’s initial assumption that “a government
carries into effect ideas,” the book naturally falls into two parts:
What persons should have the legal right to determine finally the
ideas to be carried into effect; and in what manner the ideas to be
carried into effect should be selected, and how they should be carried
into effect. Accordingly part 1, The ruling power of the state,
discusses the difference between autocracy, oligarchy and democracy as
one of conditions rather than of law, and defines a democratic
government as a government of the intelligent members of the ruling
race. Part 2, The organization of the government, is an inquiry into
how the ideas to be carried into effect may be selected as reliably
and carried into effect as certainly and efficiently as possible. The
contents under part 2 are: Governmental functions; Legislative
organization; Administrative organization; Judicial organization;
Direct legislation. There is an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:331 Jl ’20
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:39 O 20 ’20 60w
=Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 180w
=R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 50w
=R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 30w
“A book which, while blazing no new paths, is well designed to assist
the reader in forming a reasonably critical view of the state is
Samuel Peterson’s ‘Democracy and government’ which treats fundamental
political theories with knowledge of their historical importance, yet
with hard-headed sociological insight. The author is always frank,
and, while he has pronounced views of his own, he cannot be called a
doctrinaire.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 13 ’20 400w
“His criticisms of the present governmental machinery are generally
just, but the remedies suggested might prove to be worse than the
disease. The book shows hard work and earnestness throughout, however,
and should prove a valuable contribution to the literature on the
subject.” A. G. Dehly
+ − =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 200w
=PETRUCCI, RAPHAËL.= Chinese painters; a critical study; tr. by Frances
Seaver; with a biographical note by Lawrence Binyon. il *$2 Brentano’s
759.9
20–7443
“The book comprises a comprehensive and yet compact study of painting
in China. His survey takes us back to the dim ages long before the
appearance of Buddhism in China, and then brings the reader to the
present time.” (Outlook) “It explains briefly the principles of
technique and then, as it sketches the historical evolution of
painting, reveals its dominating philosophical idea, the search for
abstract form. The author was an authority on oriental art. There are
numerous pleasing reproductions, bibliography, index of painters and
periods.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
“Concise and illuminating volume.”
+ =Booklist= 16:336 Jl ’20
“Happily the author writes for the general reader and the lover of art
rather than for the elect; his treatment of a large theme shows the
advantage of one who has a gift for luminous condensation.”
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 170w
“For the uninitiated in these matters, ‘Chinese painters’ is a
necessary education. For him who understands already the beauty of the
masters of China, the book is valuable.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 26 ’20 280w
=PETTIGREW, RICHARD FRANKLIN.= Course of empire; introd. by Scott
Nearing. il *$4.50 Boni & Liveright 815
20–12790
“The author of this volume held a seat in the United States senate
during the ’90s of the last century. He was active in the senate at a
turning point in the career of the nation, a period when the frontier
was disappearing, when the great oligarchies of capital were
organizing, and when the United States became a colonial power. In
short, his public career is identical with the origin of imperialism
in the United States. The book consists of a compilation of the
speeches of ex-Senator Pettigrew in the senate on these imperialist
policies as they were forming. They fall into three groups—those
dealing with the annexation of the Hawaiian islands; those dealing
with the conquest of the Philippines; and those dealing with the
antagonism of the West to the banking and trust groups of the East.
Accompanying the addresses which reveal a wide variety of information
on the part of the author, are many documents of much historical value
to the reader.”—N Y Call
* * * * *
“These speeches, both concerning Hawaiian affairs and those in the
Philippines, are useful as a matter of record; they will be very
valuable to the future historian, who desires to understand the
obstacles encountered by the nation in its movement toward an expanded
civilization and world power.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 660w
“The addresses show that the author during his public career had that
capacity which is so rare in the men of a later generation who have
served in Congress. His mind was always open, and he advanced with the
progress of his time.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p10 N 21 ’20 940w
“Although the book comprises a vivid study of the development of
imperial policy in the United States it might better have been
compressed into half the size for the benefit of the general reader.
There are too many and too liberal quotations from Mr Pettigrew’s own
speeches.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 27 ’20 570w
=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, comp. Selected articles on the American merchant
marine. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.50 Wilson, H. W. 387
20–4721
To this second edition of a handbook published in 1916 nearly one
hundred pages of reprinted matter have been added. This matter is
designed to cover events since the publication of the first edition,
including the assembling of a large merchant fleet and the question of
its disposal, together with arguments for and against government
ownership and operation. The bibliography has been enlarged and
brought down to date, and the introduction and briefs have been
rewritten.
* * * * *
=Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 40w
=Booklist= 16:291 My ’20
“A volume covering intelligently and with reasonable fulness the
history and present status of the commercial fleet of the United
States.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 30 ’20 280w
=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, ed. University debaters’ annual; constructive and
rebuttal speeches delivered in debates of American colleges and
universities during the college year, 1919–1920. v 6 *$2.25 Wilson, H.
W.
808.5
Seven subjects of timely importance are included in this volume of the
debaters’ annual: Government ownership and operation of coal mines;
The Cummins plan for the control of railroads; Affiliation of teachers
with the American federation of labor; Compulsory arbitration of
railway labor disputes; Compulsory arbitration of labor disputes; The
closed shop; Suppression of propaganda for the overthrow of the United
States government (two debates). Each debate is accompanied by briefs
and a selected bibliography. “The bibliographies have been compiled
mostly by the editor, and are not limited to the material actually
used in the debate, as their main purpose is helpfulness to the
prospective debater.” (Preface) The volume is indexed.
=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= As the wind blows. *$1.50 Macmillan 821
20–18071
“Mr Phillpotts sings a good deal about his beloved Dartmoor, but he
tells of other subjects, too—Gallipoli, the grave of Keats, etc.—and
he has one descriptive piece from the jungle called ‘Tiger,’ and a
longish blank verse poem staging Adam and Eve in Paradise.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Of some of his pieces one has the impression that they were written
as an exercise in verse. But in others a genuine inspiration is
apparent. ‘The neolith’ and ‘Tiger’ contain fine things.”
+ − =Ath= p718 My 28 ’20 70w
“It is the reality of the atmosphere rather than the circumstance that
gives Mr Phillpotts’s verse its individuality; the taste, smell,
contour of locality, rather than the sharp and sudden force of either
crisis or event in human action that gives the unique character to his
rhythmic expression.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 1750w
“He writes in the great English tradition, but brings a note that is
essentially his own at the same time.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 290w
“It is always difficult to analyse charm, but in this instance the
effect of the attraction is that we are apt to like poems that have
very palpable faults.”
+ − =Spec= 124:86 Jl 17 ’20 430w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p443 Jl 8 ’20 60w
=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Evander. *$2 Macmillan
20–4895
“Evander is an apostle of plain living and high thinking in the early
days when the gods of Olympus had not settled their respective rights
in the hierarchy of worship and when marriage was still a rare thing
among humble folk. Festus and Livia were perhaps the first among their
neighbours to wed, under the auspices of Bacchus, while Evander, as
the votary of Apollo, endeavours to convert her to the higher worship
of his god. He succeeds for a time in gaining her allegiance, and she
leaves her husband to follow him, but finds the mental atmosphere too
rarefied for her, and finally returns to her home and husband, Bacchus
being able to show his half-brother the unwisdom of vengeance on
Festus.”—Sat R
* * * * *
“The delicate, bright atmosphere in which this enchanting book is
bathed must be left for the reader to enjoy.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p15 Ja 2 ’20 650w
“The dialogue is full of witty and amiable satire of our own times,
the barb being especially sharp for the ‘intelligentzia’ of all
times.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:340 My ’20 460w
“It is impossible to overlook the roguish satire upon social affairs
of the present day that Mr Phillpotts has woven into his story. The
very presence and name of Bacchus proves that he has reference to the
immediate present in writing of the far-away past.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 18 ’20 1600w
+ =Dial= 68:664 My ’20 80w
“The trouble with the book is the same as with all of Mr Phillpotts’s
books—a lack of felicity which is not compensated for, as it is in the
case of his master, Hardy, by a dour grandeur. ‘Evander’ particularly
needed grace and there is none.”
− + =Nation= 110:304 Mr 6 ’20 400w
“The tale would, indeed, be worth reading merely for the grace and
charm of its style, and its flexible, deft, and effective phrasing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:89 F 15 ’20 900w
“A bit of irony impishly humorous, entirely delightful.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 20w
“The vein is one of mild social satire; the touch is light and easy;
and here also is the charm of imagination and fancy.”
+ =Outlook= 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 80w
“We should like to congratulate the author on his success in a rather
limited style of fiction. We can remember nothing in English at all
equal to it since Dr Garnett’s ‘Twilight of the gods,’ while it has
much in common with Anatole France in the satire of the foibles of the
philosopher which lies at its root. It may be perceived we are giving
Mr Phillpotts high praise.”
+ =Sat R= 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 150w
“A pretty, though often rather cheap, little story.”
+ − |=Spec= 123:822 D 13 ’19 100w
“Mr Phillpotts’s literary cunning makes an agreeable tale out of all
this—picturesque and quietly humorous.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p697 N 27 ’19 100w
=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Miser’s money. *$2 Macmillan
20–3882
“The characters [of this novel] are drawn with realism and subtlety.
More especially that of David Mortimer, the hard-bitten old miser,
whose cheese-paring, hatred of women, and cynical disbelief in
everybody and everything are so cleverly defended that they almost
capture the young soul of his nephew Barry Worth, who lives with him
and works his farm. David leaves his money to Barry on condition that
he doesn’t marry, the fact that Barry was ‘tokened’ to a buxom barmaid
having been concealed from him. Barry is true to Marian; the will is
void; and the money divided between the miser’s brother and two
sisters. But the lawyer who handed the will to Barry delivered at the
same time a bulky letter from David to be read in solitude. In that
letter is contained the mystery, the heart of the matter which makes
the novel.”—Sat R
* * * * *
“The characters are interesting and the story moves along pleasantly
and very calmly. There is less humor than in some of the earlier
work.”
+ =Booklist= 16:283 My ’20
“After all, Mr Phillpotts has said his say about human nature on
Dartmoor, and he has little new to offer in type or situation. It is
pleasant and comfortable to meet some more of his people now and
then—and that is all.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Bookm= 51:339 My ’20 520w
“The story as a whole is an excellent example of Mr Phillpotts’s style
at its best.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Mr 17 ’20 1200w
“The novel is beautifully written. All Mr Phillpotts’s readers know
how fine are his descriptions of his dearly loved Dartmoor, though
there are fewer of them in this his latest novel than in the majority
of his Dartmoor books.”
+ =N Y Times= p116 Mr 14 ’20 1150w
“An excellent example of the author’s quiet, subtle, and humorous
exposition of contrasted character.”
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 100w
“It is as charming a novel, and as telling a picture of family life on
‘Dartymoor’ as we ever read, or as Mr Phillpotts has ever written.
Worthy to rank with the best of his many delightful novels.”
+ =Sat R= 129:333 Ap 3 ’20 440w
“The different veins of his talent, tragic and humorous, are here
fused with happy results. ‘Miser’s money’ shows him at his mellowest
and best as artist and observer.”
+ =Spec= 125:215 Ag 14 ’20 530w
“The plot is simple and rather erratic, but taken as a whole the story
displays that excellence of craftsmanship which long since placed the
author in the forefront of his peculiar field.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 750w
“Mr Phillpotts keeps us almost too near to life. He presents us with
one more faithful and consistent study of Dartmoor people, but of
Dartmoor people principally in their heavier and less significant
moments. The plot, though simple and pastoral, is a very good plot;
but no plot could survive this flood of conversation.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p186 Mr 18 ’30 400w
=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.=[2] West country pilgrimage. il *$9 Macmillan 914.2
“A by-product of Mr Phillpotts’s researches into the lore of
Devonshire has been put together in a volume entitled ‘A west country
pilgrimage,’ with sixteen illustrations in color by A. T. Benthall.
Here he sketches in a series of sixteen essays the scenes of heath and
river, of village and shore as they meet the eye of the traveller
through or the sojourner in that corner of England.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The book represents the happiest combining of language, printing, and
art.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 130w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 260w
“Some of the water colors by A. T. Benthall are unusually fine, and
they all display a decided originality of talent. To many, perhaps,
the illustrations will seem preferable to the text, for they achieve
their intended result with less effort.” B. R. Redman
+ − =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 140w
“An attractive book for lovers of Devon and Cornwall.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 90w
=PICKARD, BERTRAM.= Reasonable revolution. *$1.25 Macmillan 336.2
(Eng ed 19–12869)
“A thin blue volume entitled ‘A reasonable revolution,’ filled with
economic principles and suggestions, has just been brought out by
Macmillan company. It is an ardent and eager defense of the state
bonus for motherhood and national minimum income scheme as evolved by
Dennis Milner, the head of the state bonus league of England. This
book is written by Bertram Pickard, who has been a co-worker with
Milner for some time.” (Springf’d Republican) “Briefly, the scheme is
for a national appropriation of 20 per cent of all incomes, without
consideration of other taxes or burdens on them; the resulting fund to
be pooled and redistributed in such a way as to provide every
individual and family with a national minimum sufficient to sustain
national standards of comfort, health, education and other essentials
of a full and efficient life.” (Survey)
* * * * *
=Ath= p570 Jl 4 ’19 50w
“Mr Pickard is thoroughly conversant with his subject, looks at it
tirelessly from every point of view and appears to answer every
possible question with which a careful student of economics might
attack the scheme.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 12 ’20 220w
=Survey= 43:194 N 29 ’19 440w
=PILLSBURY, WALTER BOWERS.= Psychology of nationality and
internationalism. *$2.50 (3½c) Appleton 321
20–458
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“The argument is well-reasoned throughout.” C. G. Fenwick
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:340 My ’20 90w
“Following upon much political disputation on nationality and
internationality, it is very clarifying to follow this psychologist
through his discussion of the mentality of nations.”
+ =Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20
“His belief in the integrity of the national state does not take into
account that growing regionalism which challenges the authority of the
state at the same time that it denies the false unity of belligerent
nationalism. And the temperate lucidity of the author’s psychological
exposition does not equate his superficial examination of the
historical groundwork of nationality and internationalism.”
− + =Dial= 68:404 Mr ’20 150w
“The reviewer found the most interesting chapter the one on Hate as a
social force.” Ellsworth Faris
+ =Int J Ethics= 30:339 Ap ’20 330w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
+ =Nation= 112:185 F 2 ’21 450w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 300w
“Dr Pillsbury’s chapter on Hate as a social force is very apposite and
suggestive. The chapter on The nation and mob consciousness is an
excellent criticism of LeBon’s group psychology. The chapter on
Nationality and the League of nations is the least satisfactory.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 500w
=PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY), and PINKERTON, ROBERT
EUGENE.= Long traverse. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–12811
When Bruce Rochette comes into the northland he comes with a deadly
hatred of the Hudson’s Bay Company and a determination to avenge his
mother’s death which he holds the fur trading company responsible for.
He wins the confidence of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s manager, Herbert
Morley, and then uses every trick and stratagem at his command to
establish a rival post at Fort Mystery. Everything is going well,
until he meets Evelyn Morley, and falls in love with her. Judged by
her absolute standards of right and wrong, his policy of all’s fair in
war condemns him in his own eyes as well as hers. In an endeavor to
straighten matters out, he very nearly loses his self respect, his
girl, his job, and even his life. But finally everything is restored
to him that is necessary for his happiness and Evelyn’s.
* * * * *
“A pleasantly written tale.”
+ =Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
=PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY), and PINKERTON, ROBERT
EUGENE.= Penitentiary Post. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–10313
A story of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Phil Boynton is sent to take
charge of the fort known as Penitentiary Post, a place with an evil
reputation. Behind him at Savant House, he leaves the girl he loves,
knowing that John Wickson, the man who is sending him north, also
loves her and is determined to win her, and half suspecting that
personal motives were back of the appointment. At Penitentiary Post he
finds himself fully occupied with the mystery of the “weeteego,” or
evil spirit, that haunts it. His Indians desert the place in fear and
the fur hunters refuse to come near it. Joyce Plummer, hearing tales
of what he is undergoing, comes alone through the storm to find him,
and Wickson follows. The three, who are forced to make common cause
against hunger, come to an understanding, and the poor, crazed Indian
who had watched his family die of starvation and is taking a weird
revenge on the white man, meets his own fate.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
=PINOCHET, TANCREDO.= Gulf of misunderstanding; or, North and South
America as seen by each other. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 917.3
20–17985
“This book first appeared serially in El Norte Americano. Mr Pinochet
is a Chilean and the author of seven books on government and kindred
subjects. He came to this country some years ago for the expressed
object of learning to understand the United States that he might tell
his countrymen about us. He has selected an entertaining manner of
setting forth the views of the two Americas. He has made no attempt to
make a story of his book, yet he has introduced two distinct
characters. The first is a Latin-American man, who, being in the
United States, writes letters to his wife at home about whatever
interests him in this country. The woman is an American, a member of
the censor’s department during the war. She reads the letters of the
husband and in her turn writes an accompanying letter, discussing the
same subject.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The surprising thing about the book is that Mr Pinochet should so
have entered into the United States point of view as to make one
believe, while reading his instructive volume, that a native of this
country had risen in its defense.”
+ =Bookm= 52:368 D ’20 300w
“The book should prove a link in the chain which should finally bind
closer the two continents, so many of whose interests are the same.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 390w
“Both the imaginary writers are interesting and neither writes a page
that one can go to sleep over.”
+ − =N Y Times= p7 Ja 9 ’21 1750w
“The book has a temporary flavor, being written before the adoption of
the suffrage amendment and more recent events. But it will prove
interesting to anyone who wishes to know how a highly intelligent
‘foreigner’ judges our country from the front it presents to him.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 290w
=PINSKI, DAVID.= Ten plays. *$2 Huebsch 892.4
20–9850
These ten one-act plays have been translated from the Yiddish by Isaac
Goldberg. They depict the various weaknesses and passions of men:
greed, selfishness, war hysteria, lust, war’s devastation, with at the
end a dramatization of the Midrash legend. The titles are: The
phonograph; The god of the newly rich wool merchant; A dollar; The
cripples; The Inventor and the king’s daughter; Diplomacy; Little
heroes; The beautiful nun; Poland—1919; The stranger.
* * * * *
“Plays which are often unpleasantly grim though not sordid. There is
the same keen analysis of human nature as in earlier plays. The method
is symbolic rather than literal, and sometimes the meaning is
blurred.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20
“Brilliant but not always clear.”
+ − =Cleveland= p87 S ’20 20w
“There are few of his ‘Ten plays’ which can wholly escape the
murkiness of inferior translation.” K. M.
+ − =Freeman= 1:548 Ag 18 ’20 450w
“Mr Pinski has become an unswerving symbolist. He has deliberately
silenced the voice of nature that sounded so clearly in his earlier
plays. He still cultivates the ironic anecdote in dramatic form but
his mind is more fixed on the bare intention than on the stuff of
life. His peculiar dangers are the fantastic and the obscure, and
these make several of his plays ineffectual.”
+ − =Nation= 110:693 My 22 ’20 250w
“Pinski may lack certain graces, especially graces of lightness and
saving humor. But passion and power he does not lack, whether he
writes in one-act or three. No American dramatist today gives such an
effect of surging vitality. It will be a great pity if he does not
identify himself more closely with American life and write ultimately
for English-speaking audiences direct.” W. P. Eaton
+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 350w
“The shortest of the ten plays, ‘Cripples,’ is the strongest. Force,
indeed, gnarled and ungainly, is characteristic of Mr Pinski’s drama
at its best. This force, however, is accompanied by a heaviness of
tread and a density of fibre which are prolific of trials for the
sensitive reader.”
− + =Review= 3:133 Ag 11 ’20 320w
“Every play in the volume is readable, most of them are actable. It
would, in fact, be safe to say that they would all be actable if they
were in the hand of the players of the Jewish art theatre, who know as
well as Pinski does how to make the quick transitions—native to the
Jewish mind and heart—from tragedy to comedy, from irony to philippic,
from joy to the depths of sorrow.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:225 Jl ’20 310w
=PITT, FRANCES.= Wild creatures of garden and hedgerow. il *$4 (7c) Dodd
590.4
20–27527
A collection of papers by an English naturalist, who says, “The
following account of some of the commoner birds and beasts around us
is written in the hope of interesting boys and girls, and some of the
older people too if possible, in the wild life of garden, hedgerow,
and field.” (Preface) Contents: Bats; The bank vole; Two common birds
(blackbird and thrush); Shrews; Toads and frogs; The longtailed field
mouse; ‘The little gentleman in the black velvet coat’; Thieves of the
night; Some garden birds; The hedgehog; Three common reptiles; The
short-tailed field vole. The illustrations are from photographs.
* * * * *
“Her first-hand records are set out in an easy unpretentious style,
and on obscure points she makes suggestions as illuminating as they
are modest.” E. B.
+ =Ath= p303 S 3 ’20 720w
+ =Booklist= 17:100 D ’20
“Miss Pitt’s book is beautifully printed and handsomely illustrated
and is especially of value for the reading of young people, many of
whom are glad to make friends with the living things of the world
about them.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 11 ’20 400w
“Miss Pitt is to be congratulated on a book which takes its place in
the first rank of works on field natural history. It is a personal
record of clever, patient, and sympathetic observation.” J. A. T.
+ =Nature= 106:246 O 21 ’20 1700w
“The author’s work is not inspired or inspiring, but it is clean of
sentimentality and of spurious nature philosophy, pleasant reading,
and informative.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p29 O 23 ’20 130w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 50w
+ =Spec= 125:710 N 27 ’20 30w
“The photographs of the little creatures in their haunts are most
cleverly taken.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 60w
“Even if they sometimes carry a rather too large conclusion, these
histories of birds and beasts and creeping things are full of fine
insight and the right enthusiasm.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p563 S 2 ’20 600w
=PLATT, AGNES.= Practical hints on playwriting. il *$1.50 (5c) Dodd
808.2
20–17152
A book of advice on writing for the professional stage. The author
says “I do most fervently believe that the dry bones of stage
technique can be taught—in fact, all my personal experience goes to
prove this. I have been handling plays now for more years than I care
to remember, and have found in case after case that a little technical
adjustment will turn an unmarketable play into a commercial
proposition.” Among the topics covered are: What the public want;
Things that are essential in a good play; How to choose a plot; How to
select and differentiate the characters; Humour; How to sell a play
when finished; Casting and production. A glossary of stage terms comes
at the end. The author is an English woman writing with London
conditions in mind but most of her discussion is general in nature.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p384 Mr 19 ’20 50w
“A beginner, provided he were only a beginner with no idea of the
drama, would do well to read this book.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 180w
=PLUMB, CHARLES SUMNER.= Types and breeds of farm animals. (Country life
educ. ser.) rev ed il *$3.80 Ginn 636
20–8897
A revision of a work published in 1906. The new edition contains “a
more detailed discussion relative to the great breeds, and
considerable space is devoted to families of importance and to noted
individuals. A large amount of new data has been collected relating to
various phases of production, although it is a hopeless task to bring
such records down to date.... The number of chapters remains the same,
but several obsolete breeds have been omitted and other new and more
important ones have been substituted. Maps and many illustrations have
been added.” (Foreword)
* * * * *
“The book gives probably the best account published of modern farm
animals and there are good illustrations. Another very interesting
feature is the history of the families which the author has diligently
worked out.” E. J. R.
+ =Nature= 106:659 Ja 20 ’21 210w
=POLLAK, GUSTAV.= International minds and the search for the restful.
$1.50 Nation press 814
19–16675
The collection of essays in this book are gathered from articles
contributed to the Evening Post and the Nation before the war. As the
title indicates, they fall into two groups. The first group bears out
the author’s claim “that intellect recognizes no distinctions of
nationality, race, or religion.” He has selected a representative of
each, from the literatures of Germany, Austria, France and America in
the persons of Goethe, Grillparzer, Sainte-Beuve and Lowell and points
out a certain similarity of attitude toward life and literature, of
perception of the dignity of literary achievement, of keen-eyed
observation and of a self-contained repose. The second group of essays
is devoted to Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben, and his book on the
“Hygiene of the soul” which of late years has achieved a new fame. One
of the essays gives a resumé of the book. The titles of the essays
are: Literature and patriotism; Goethe’s universal interests;
Grillparzer’s originality; Sainte-Beuve’s unique position; Lowell:
patriot and cosmopolitan; Permanent literary standards; Feuchtersleben
the philosopher; The hygiene of the soul; Feuchtersleben’s aphorisms;
Feuchtersleben’s influence.
=POLLARD, ALBERT FREDERICK.= Short history of the great war. *$3.25
Harcourt 940.3
20–26545
“Although several histories of the war have already appeared, only a
few of them have been written by men who had an ante-war historical
reputation. Dr Pollard is one of this small group. For many years he
has held the chair of English history in the University of London, and
is the author of numerous historical works, besides having served as
assistant editor of the ‘Dictionary of national biography.’ His record
of the war is chronologically complete, and includes the work of the
peace conference.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“Simply as an account of military events the volume leaves something
to be desired, in spite however of what the book does not contain—and
one cannot say everything in four hundred pages—the volume is well
worth reading.” A. P. Scott
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:331 Ja ’21 470w
“An excellent feature of Professor Pollard’s evenly balanced and
temperately written narrative is that it corrects several popular
misapprehensions.”
+ =Ath= p431 Mr 26 ’20 260w
=Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20
“An excellent record of the facts, combined with a true representation
of their relative importance. Some of his opinions will not be
generally accepted, and he has a strong prejudice against the present
prime minister. Original views will not, however, detract from the
great and patriotic interest of the book. The style is vigorous and
sometimes eloquent.” G. B. H.
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:477 Jl ’20 190w
“In contrast with some other writers on the subject, he has succeeded
in being more historical than hysterical. Having mastered the sources,
as far as they are available, he presents his conclusions with
admirable impartiality. But his book is conclusive proof that the true
history of the war will not be written in this generation.” Preserved
Smith
+ − =Nation= 110:804 Je 12 ’20 800w
“It is written from the British rather than from the world’s point of
view.” Walter Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w
“He has vision, he has perspective, and almost more, he has style. In
reading this book, we are clearly conscious that a discriminating
spirit of power and clearness is ever preserving a proper balance, and
so resisting the temptation of overcoloring and undercoloring.
Professor Pollard has written a capital book, packed with common
sense; it will be hard to surpass it.”
+ =Review= 3:423 N 3 ’20 650w
“His book undoubtedly represents the best that English historical
scholarship can do at this stage by way of outlining the five-years’
struggle.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 120w
“Professor Pollard’s lucid narrative and caustic comments are highly
interesting. His very able and stimulating book deserves careful
reading.”
+ =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w
“Professor Pollard’s is a notable achievement; and he who has been
looking for the one small volume which shall tell him what innumerable
more bulky ones have failed to impart may be confidently recommended
to purchase this short history. We cannot, however, invariably follow
Professor Pollard in his military appreciations.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p133 F 26 ’20 1050w
=POLLEN, JOHN HUNGERFORD.= English Catholics in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, 1558 to 1580; a study of their politics, civil life and
government. *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans 282
20–7672
“Father Pollen has written a history of the English Catholics under
Elizabeth from the fall of the old church to the advent of the
counter-reformation (1558–1580). He himself gives us the reasons of
his beginning with the reign of Elizabeth; ‘Henry’s revolt is indeed
the proper starting-point for a history of the reformation taken as a
whole; but Elizabeth’s accession is better, if one is primarily
considering the political and civil life of the post-reformation
Catholics. Reform and counter-reform under Henry, Edward and Mary were
transitory. The constructive work of each was immediately undone by
their successor. But the work done by Queen Elizabeth, whether by
Catholic or Protestant, lasted a long time. There have, of course,
been many developments since, but they have proceeded on the lines
then laid down. On the Catholic side the work of reorganization began
almost immediately after the first crash, though it was only in the
middle of the reign that the vitality and permanence of the new
measures became evident.’”—Cath World
* * * * *
“The soundness of his assumptions, the critical value of his
judgments, are certainly for us to consider. An internal history of
Catholic organization such as Father Pollen might write would be
exceptionally valuable, but this book does not contain it.” R. G.
Usher
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:84 O ’20 1250w
+ =Cath World= 111:534 Jl ’20 1050w
“Father Pollen has written an interesting and scholarly work on a
critical period of our island history. The book is written, on the
whole, with tact and discrimination: the author holds the scales more
evenly than most Catholic historians do between the warring creeds and
factions.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:55 Ag 17 ’20 1200w
“His present volume is well documented with printed and unprinted
material. He is somewhat sparing in his references to other scholars
who have laboured in the same field.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 S 2 ’20 1400w
=POLLOCK, SIR FREDERICK.= League of nations. *$4 (*10s 6d) Macmillan
341.1
20–14891
“The author’s purpose is to give a practical exposition of the
covenant of the League of nations, ‘with so much introduction as
appears proper for enabling the reader to understand the conditions
under which the League was formed and has to commence its work.’ The
references to authentic documents and to other publications, which are
given at the heads of some of the chapters, are of material assistance
to the reader.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p462 Ap 2 ’20 130w
“A valuable reference and guide to further reading written for the
layman.”
+ =Booklist= 17:55 N ’20
“The veteran jurist’s exposition of the text of the covenant is
lucidity itself.”
+ =Spec= 124:215 F 14 ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p39 Ja 15 ’20 330w
=POLLOCK, JOHN.=[2] Bolshevik adventure. *$2.50 Dutton 914.7
20–1771
“Mr Pollock was in Russia from 1915 to 1919, and his book pretends to
be nothing more than a calm statement of facts as he saw them.” (Ath)
“We gather that until the revolution of November, the author worked on
the Red cross committee: when the others left the country, however, he
stayed on, though he should have left with them. One day in the summer
of 1918, he was told by a friend that the Red guards were in
possession of his rooms at the hotel. From that date he lived under a
disguise and an assumed name. He got employment as a producer of
plays, and to attain membership in the second food category he joined
the ‘Professional union of workers in theatrical undertakings.’ He
worked in this capacity first at Moscow, and afterwards at Petrograd
until January, 1919, when he decided to risk an attempt at escape into
Finland.” (Sat R)
* * * * *
=Ath= p32 Ja 2 ’20 150w
“‘The entire upper class’ is Mr Pollock’s chief concern throughout his
book. Everything else in Russia is anathema, to be damned in eternity.
Especially the Jews. There are so many Jews in the ‘Bolshevik
adventure’ that in reading the book one has the impression that Mr
Pollock uses Russia as a misnomer for Jewry.” S. K.
− =Ath= p111 Ja 23 ’20 1250w
“The like of his book for misstatement, weakness of thought, and
excited imagination is not to be found even among books on Russia.”
Jacob Zeitlin
− =Nation= 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 240w
“This book should have been written in two parts, the first containing
Chapters I to VI and the second Chapters VII, VIII, and IX. Then the
first part should have been filed with the Minister of propaganda at
London and pigeonholed in an asbestos-lined receptacle. This treatment
would have left us with eighty pages of rather vivid narrative by an
English eye-witness.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 31 ’20 780w
“It is a pity that Mr Pollock’s style of writing is not better: some
of the confusion of Russia appears to have crept into the construction
of his sentences. Apart from such minor defects as these, the book is
a magnificent and crushing indictment of the Bolsheviks by one who has
lived under their misrule for nearly sixteen months. No other work on
the subject has conjured up for us such a vivid picture of the
loathsome misery and degradation to which communism can drag a
country.”
+ =Sat R= 129:211 F 28 ’20 550w
“Where Mr Pollock tells his own story he does succeed in adding to the
volume of evidence against them. But the other portions of the book,
written in the early days of the bolshevik régime, are too violent and
too superficial to be convincing.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p2 Ja 1 ’20 1050w
=POLLOCK, WALTER.= Hot bulb oil engines and suitable vessels. il *$10
Van Nostrand 621.4
(Eng ed 20–10619)
“The objects of this book are: (1) To popularise the engine, to
explain what it has done and what it is capable of doing; (2) To
enable those interested to appreciate the advantages and disadvantages
of the various designs; (3) To facilitate the study, and add to the
general knowledge of this form of prime mover and its application to
vessels of various types.” (Chapter I) There are 369 illustrations and
an index.
* * * * *
“The photographic reproductions and clear and carefully executed
drawings are calculated to give sufficient detail without introducing
unnecessary complexity.”
+ =Engineer= 129:225 F 27 ’20 380w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p32 Ap ’20 160w
=POOLE, ERNEST.= Blind. *$2.50 (2c) Macmillan
20–18299
The theme of this novel is stated in Chapter 1: “I am blind—but no
blinder than is the mind of the world, these days. The long thin
splinter of German steel which struck in behind my eyes did no more to
me than the war has done to the vision of humanity.” Larry Hart, who
tells the story, begins with his boyhood, describing the happy home
life that his Aunt Amelia created for himself and his sister Lucy as
well as for her own children in the old Connecticut homestead. After
college he goes to New York as a journalist, lives in the slums with
his friend, Steve McCrea, a doctor, has a part in the budding reform
movements of the nineties, mixes with radicals, interests himself in
strikes, writes plays, is swept into the enthusiasm of the Progressive
movement and in 1914 goes to Berlin as correspondent. Later he goes to
Russia to report the revolution and when America enters the war
enlists, and, as the first chapter foretells, is blinded. In its
closing chapters the book becomes largely a commentary on America’s
part in the war, arriving at no definite point of view or conclusion.
* * * * *
“Little plot, but real people and much earnest seeking after truth.”
+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20
“On the whole, it is newspaper correspondence worked into the shape of
a novel. The parts dealing with Russia immediately after the fall of
the Czar are especially interesting.”
+ =Dial= 70:230 F ’21 100w
“The author is more than a seer of social progress; he has the sense
for individuality which a novelist must possess. It suffers not
because it is, in large part, about the war period, but, like its
blind, hard-thinking hero, because of the war. It is like many an
ex-soldier, just perceptibly shell-shocked. As a book it should have
been restrained, cut down, cooled, simplified. But so should the war.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 O 23 ’20 900w
“‘Blind’ is just one more testimonial to the incompatibility as
bookmates of art and argument, one more example of their mutually
fatal effect upon each other. When ‘the will to convince’ comes in at
the door, artistry flies out the window. Some of the descriptive
writing in ‘Blind’ is excellent.”
− + =N Y Times= p24 O 31 ’20 800w
“It must not be thought that the novel is one of social propaganda
alone. It has fictional vitality because of the variety and realism of
its shifting scenes, the good and bad human qualities of its actors,
its rapid movement, and its precision in description.” R. D. Townsend
+ =Outlook= 126:653 D 8 ’20 270w
“It seems incredible that so soon after a devastating war anyone could
write so sane a book as ‘Blind.’ Best of all, it is a book that
compels thought, without a shred of the sentimentality that so many
novelists feel is a necessity in any successful novel recipe.” E. P.
Wyckoff
+ =Pub W= 98:1191 O 16 ’20 260w
=POOLEY, ANDREW MELVILLE.= Japan’s foreign policies. *$3.50 Dodd 327
(Eng ed 20–12064)
The present volume was originally a part of a larger unpublished work.
The chapters of that work dealing with Japan’s internal affairs were
published in 1917 under the title “Japan at the cross roads” while the
chapters dealing with Japan’s foreign affairs compose the present
book. It records the rapid imperialistic developments in Japan and its
Chinese policy and hints at the possibility of a war between America
and Japan in the making. Contents: Japan and the Anglo-Japanese
alliances; Japan’s real policy in China; The first revolution in
China, 1911–12; The second revolution in China, 1912–13; Japan,
America and Mexico, 1911–14; The twenty-one demands; Japan’s
commercial expansion, 1914–18; Note.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:95 D ’20
=Boston Transcript= p4 N 6 ’20 750w
Reviewed by A. P. Danton
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 31 ’20 1000w
Reviewed by W. W. Willoughby
=Review= 3:474 N 17 ’20 1300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 90w
“In the present work special knowledge is manifest, but its value is
vitiated from the outset by the violence of the author’s unconcealed
hostility. His book is a sweeping judgment, and, like all sweeping
judgments, unjust. There is evidence of this kind of haste throughout
the book, from the literary as well as from the critical point of
view.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p462 Jl 22 ’20 1000w
Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler
=Yale R n s= 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
=POORE, IDA MARGARET (GRAVES) lady.= Rachel Fitzpatrick. *$1.75 (2c)
Lane
20–11899
The heroine is an Irish girl who spends two years with wealthy
relatives in London. The Fitzpatricks belong to the gentry but are
very poor and gladly accept the offer that means two years of
education for Rachel. At the end of the two years she goes to Germany.
The war finds her there alone with her aunt’s German husband, who
takes advantage of the situation to make love to her. She runs away
and after many difficulties reaches Ireland. The course of the war and
the Irish attitude are touched upon and the story ends with Rachel’s
marriage to her sailor lover.
* * * * *
“The authoress’s naive Irish heroine is skilfully and naturally
drawn.”
+ =Ath= p386 Mr 19 ’20 100w
“If there is a fault to be found with this story, it is that enough is
not made of the big scenes in the life of the charming heroine. Yet,
this does not, somehow, detract from the pleasure of the book, which
is charmingly written in a style that is too rapidly passing. A good
part of the pleasure derived from the story is due to its clever
characterizations.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 550w
+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 30w
“A novel which is neither better nor worse than hundreds of others.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:455 My 15 ’20 140w
“What is perhaps the chief merit of quite a readable story is the
pictures of Irish life and character, of which the author has an
intimate knowledge.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p189 Mr 18 ’20 150w
=POPENOE, WILSON.= Manual of tropical and subtropical fruits. (Rural
manuals) il *$5 Macmillan 634
20–15789
“The author is an expert, employed as agricultural explorer for the
United States Department of agriculture. On his title page he
announces his design of excluding the banana, the cocoanut, the
pineapple, citrus fruits, the olive and the fig.... He begins with the
avocado, which many people in the regions where it grows often call
the avocado pear. He displays his scientific knowledge by giving first
a botanical description of the avocado, its history and distribution,
its composition and its uses.... The story of the avocado is followed
with similar considerations of the mango, the date, the papaya and its
relatives, the loquat, the guava and its intimates, the litchi, kaki,
pomegranate, breadfruit and a great variety of other fruits of lesser
fame, about which few of us have heard.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 300w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 320w
=Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 60w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p800 D 2 ’20 100w
=PORTER, ELEANOR (HODGMAN) (MRS JOHN LYMAN PORTER) (ELEANOR STUART,
pseud.).= Mary Marie. il *$1.90 (2½c) Houghton
20–8035
Her father had wanted to name her Mary, her mother Marie. Mary Marie
was the compromise. But there had come a time when compromise seemed
no longer possible, followed by separation and divorce. Mary Marie
spends six months of the year with her father, six with her mother,
and she tells about it in her diary. In one house she is Marie. In the
other she tries to be Mary. But after awhile things get so mixed up
she doesn’t know which she is, for she finds her mother trying to make
her into a staid, dignified Mary, while her father seems to be
encouraging the Marie side of her. And then she is the means of
bringing the two together, and the book closes with a postscript that
gives a glimpse of Mary Marie’s grown-up story.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20
“The book is very readable, and occasionally amusing.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 420w
+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 4 ’20 600w
“The story falls short of what we expect from Miss Eleanor H. Porter.”
+ − =Spec= sup p782 D 3 ’20 60w
“Beneath the light tone of the narrative may be observed a serious
moral. The frequent misfortunes of divorce, especially where there are
children, are pointedly apparent here. But Mary Marie will be loved
for herself alone, for her quaint observations, for her unspoiled
character, and for her earnest efforts to understand life.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 600w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p637 S30 ’20 30w
=PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.).= Egan. *$1.90 (2c)
Dodd
20–15701
When Bronson Egan came back to Plainfield, Ohio, after four years of
service in France, he found his status very different from what it had
previously been. He went away the only son of a wealthy father, and
practically engaged to one of the city’s most attractive girls. He
came back to find his father dead, their business wrecked, and the
girl reengaged to a stay-at-home. With characteristic determination he
set himself to gain back what he had lost. It was not all plain
sailing, however, for he had keen rivals in business as well as love.
But he had staunch friends as well, and the end of the story finds him
re-established in business on a firmer basis than before, and happy in
the love of a girl who is more worthy of him than the fickle Mary.
* * * * *
“The business element is particularly well developed.”
+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20
“Aside from occasional lapses, Mr Hall’s style is well adapted to his
material, which is in part new.” C. K. H.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 O 16 ’20 530w
“It is the substantial characterization which makes the book finally
so satisfactory. Its fresh and rapid story-telling ought to win for it
a large general audience.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 250w
“There is no letup in the interest, and the business element is
especially well handled.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 240w
“The present story is worthy of praise especially for the consistency
and humanness of young Egan. Perhaps the financial and business sides
of the book are a little too much to the front, but, as a whole, the
novel keeps the reader’s attention on the alert, and it includes some
exceedingly good character depiction.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 170w
“The novel exists for its narrative, which is neatly conceived and
marks Mr Porter’s further growth in the art of story-telling. It flows
along with agreeable humor, and the reader’s interest is sustained
without recourse to theatricalities.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 580w
=PORTER, REBECCA NEWMAN.= Girl from Four Corners. il *$1.75 (2c) Holt
20–6861
A California story with scenes laid on a lonely ranch and in San
Francisco. Margaret Garrison, disappointed in the man she loves,
yields to Frederick Bayne’s sudden wooing and goes to live on his
ranch in Mendocino county. The marriage is unhappy, but with fine
courage she makes the best of it and trains her little daughter,
Freda, to be true to the highest ideals. Most of the story has to do
with the career of this daughter, who after her mother’s death goes to
San Francisco where she passes thru many experiences, some of them
tragic, and finally finds happiness and love.
* * * * *
“The story is entertainingly told, and toward the end a dramatic touch
is thrown in.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 260w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 120w
=POST, MELVILLE DAVISSON.= Mystery at the Blue villa. *$1.75 (2c)
Appleton
20–1695
Seventeen dramatic short stories by the author of “Uncle Abner.” The
settings in these stories are selected from many fascinatingly remote,
and also familiar places. In the title story the action takes place at
Port Said, a refuge for human derelicts, “the devil’s halfway house,”
where through cleverly playing upon a guilty man’s fear of the
supernatural, a dying sculptor gets money enough to die in the way it
pleases him. “The great legend,” narrated by a semi-French,
semi-oriental gentleman sitting beside a fire made of bleached bones,
on an undulating, moonlit desert of sand, takes us to the underworld
of Paris. “The miller of Ostend” is a tale of Belgium. “The pacifist”
is a story of the United States and a German spy. Other titles are:
The laughter of Allah; The witch of the Lecca; The new administration;
The Baron Starkheim.
* * * * *
“Though somewhat overdramatic and artificial, the plots are clever and
interesting.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:246 Ap ’20
+ =Dial= 68:537 Ap ’20 40w
“The stories are well told and the people have much more character and
individuality than is usual among inhabitants of mystery tales.”
+ =Ind= 103:322 S 11 ’20 140w
“They have variety and freshness, and, if occasionally overemphasized,
they are never trite.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 40w
“In the matter of untangling a crime or running a mystery to its lair
Melville Davisson Post can give even the immortal Holmes himself quite
a brush. His latest collection in no way falls short of the Uncle
Abner tales.” E. C. Webb
+ =Pub W= 96:1694 D 27 ’19 240w
“All have the merit of sustaining the reader’s interest up to an
unexpected conclusion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 50w
=POST, MELVILLE DAVISSON.= Sleuth of St James’s square. *$2 (3c)
Appleton
20–18613
A book of mystery stories. There are sixteen in all, and in each of
them Sir Henry Marquis, chief of the Criminal investigation department
of Scotland yard, figures. He is not the Sherlock Holmes type of
detective, for mystery and solution seem to run side by side, instead
of being spread out like a pattern before him. Some of the tales Sir
Henry reads from the diary of an ancestor. The titles are: The thing
on the hearth; The reward; The lost lady; The cambered foot; The man
in the green hat; The wrong sign; The fortune teller; The hole in the
mahogany panel; The end of the road; The last adventure; American
horses; The spread rails; The pumpkin coach; The yellow flower; A
satire of the sea; The house by the loch. Many of the tales journey
far afield from St James’s square for their setting. Some have already
appeared in short story form in popular magazines.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21
“The stories are short, piquant and cleverly maneuvered, though the
mechanism which moves the puppets is sometimes a bit too evident and
there is great lack of originality in the gestures made by them either
when they pause or start up again.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 500w
“They are not only unusual in construction; they are very well
written, and with but few exceptions, close with a twist which will
surprise even the skilled and habitual reader.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 D 12 ’20 380w
“The author’s method is unusual and some of the tales are remarkably
good.”
+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w
=Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 130w
=POSTGATE, R. W.= Bolshevik theory. *$2 Dodd 335
The book is a sincere attempt to state what Bolshevism is and what it
is not—to clear away “the atmosphere of a dog-fight which surrounds
this subject.” (Introd.) The author claims for it that it is neither
pro-bolshevik nor anti-bolshevik. “It is a mere exposition. It is true
that a certain amount of intelligent sympathy is necessary for the
understanding of a point of view. The marks of some such sympathy may
be traced in this book. This is inevitable, for it is merely the
reflection of the author’s belief that bolshevik theories are neither
inhuman ... nor logically ridiculous.... If these assumptions are not
correct, then Bolshevism is not worth considering.” (Introd.) The
contents are: What is Bolshevism? Controversies; The dictatorship of
the proletariat; On dictatorship; The two roads; The pedigree of
Bolshevism; Extracts and comments; Syndicalism, Blanquism and
Bolshevism; Karl Kautsky; Industrial pacifism; The soviet; The future
of the soviet. There are appendices and a bibliographical note.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p441 O 1 ’20 190w
Reviewed by Jacob Zeitlin
=Nation= 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 210w
“R. W. Postgate has set forth in a clear and concise manner the facts
about Bolshevism.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 Ja 2 ’21 220w
=Sat R= 130:463 D 4 ’20 140w
“His historical allusions are not to be depended upon. Many of the
rest of Mr Postgate’s references to the Bolshevists, past and present,
and to General Denikin and other anti-Bolshevists, are equally
unreliable.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p430 Jl 8 ’20 1200w
=POTTER, MIRIAM CLARK.= Rhymes of a child’s world. il *$2 Four seas co.
811
A book of little verses for children. It is a collection of poems
about the everyday things, child fancies, and lullabies. There are
three groups of poems: In the house; Outdoors at play; Twilight songs.
The illustrations are by Ruth Fuller Stevens. Many of the poems have
appeared in the Youth’s Companion, St Nicholas and Little Folks.
* * * * *
“Such quaint imagery greatly appeals to the dreamy child. The
illustrations by Ruth Fuller Stevens are especially charming and
nicely adapted to the text.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 160w
“Deserves to be noted for its naturalness and fidelity to childish
moods. It has a strong appeal to both old and young.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 O 20 ’20 70w
“Both verse and illustration have the subtle quality of imagination,
even when their theme sounds realistic. These poems are amusing to
children and well worth the attention of their elders.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 90w
=POUND, EZRA LOOMIS.= Instigations of Ezra Pound, together with an essay
on the Chinese written character. *$3.50 Boni & Liveright 814
20–8532
“A collection of criticisms and essays, with an essay by Fenollosa on
the Chinese written character, edited by Pound. There are short
sketches of the modern French poets with quotations; a detailed
appreciative criticism of Henry James and his works; another on Remy
de Gourmont; a group including James Joyce, T. S. Eliot Wyndham Lewis,
Lytton Strachey, the new poetry; essay by Jules Laforgue, an amusing
commentary on Genesis, a discussion of Arnaut Daniel and some sharp
raps at Greek translators, including Browning.”—Booklist
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20
“An important point, however, about Mr Pound’s critical writings,
which has been generally neglected, is this: they do satisfy two very
conspicuous demands of the American public; the demand for
‘constructive criticism,’ and the demand for ‘first rate school
teaching.’” W. C. Blum
+ =Dial= 69:422 O ’20 900w
=Freeman= 1:334 Je 16 ’20 550w
“The ‘Instigations of Ezra Pound’ have this virtue—they badger and
bully us out of a state of intellectual backwardness.” Padraic Colum
+ =New Repub= 25:52 D 8 ’20 650w
− =N Y Times= 25:293 Je 6 ’20 1300w
“Stimulating and provocative statements provide an intellectual shower
bath.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 320w
=POWELL, CHARLES.= Poets in the nursery. *$1.50 Lane 827
20–19194
To this collection of parodies on well-known poets, John Drinkwater
writes an introduction to the effect that although parodies are
usually a defilement of poetry and contemptible, these never outrage
our love of poetry but exercise it in a very friendly intimacy. Mr
Powell, he says, invariably catches his subject’s external manner with
easy precision, the underlying spiritual force never evades him and he
measures himself successfully against the poet’s impulse as well as
against its formal expression. While Mother Goose furnishes the
subjects the poets are: G. K. Chesterton, John Masefield, Ella Wheeler
Wilcox, Alfred Noyes, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt, William Watson,
Austin Dobson, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, A. C. Swinburne, W. E.
Henley, D. G. Rossetti, Walt Whitman, Omar Khayyám, Francis Thompson,
Robert Browning, E. B. Browning, E. A. Poe, Alfred Tennyson.
* * * * *
“John Drinkwater’s introduction to ‘The poets in the nursery’ leads us
to expect work of high distinction, and though we find traces of
burlesque now and then, our expectations are realized.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 1 ’20 200w
=POWELL, E. ALEXANDER.= New frontiers of freedom, from the Alps to the
Ægean. il *$2.50 (5c) Scribner 914.9
20–7665
The author has traveled by motor car and by sea “from the Alps to the
Ægean, in Italy, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Turkey,
Rumania, Hungary and Serbia” and gives his impressions of what he saw
in these countries during the year succeeding the armistice while they
and their people were in a state of political flux. “To have seen
millions of human beings transferred from sovereignty to sovereignty
like cattle which have been sold—these are sights the like of which
will probably not be seen again in our times or in those of our
children” and, the author thinks, may serve to illustrate an important
chapter in history. Contents: Across the redeemed lands; The
borderland of Slav and Latin; The cemetery of four empires; Under the
cross and the crescent; Will the sick man of Europe recover? What the
peace-makers have done on the Danube; Making a nation to order. There
are numerous illustrations from photographs.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20
“Major Powell gives an excellent description of d’Annunzio. He has
brought the same keenness of observation and ease of style to the
other portraits in this volume, which range from picturesque peasants
to exiled royalties. His treatment of the political situation in the
countries he visited is marked by clarity and fairness.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:12 Jl 4 ’20 500w
“This narrative is spirited and colorful throughout.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 80w
“A book as interesting as it is instructive.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 250w
=POWELL, LYMAN PIERSON=, ed. Social unrest. 2v $2.50 Review of reviews
co. 308
20–1056
“The two volumes entitled ‘The social unrest’ present the best current
thought of leading authorities as now focussed on the industrial and
social problems of the day. The opinions of President Wilson and
ex-president Taft are set forth side by side with those of Karl Marx,
Morris Hillquit and Sidney Webb. All schools of opinion have here at
least the privilege of utterance. The material has been edited and
coordinated by Dr Lyman P. Powell.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 60w
+ =Outlook= 124:336 F 25 ’20 60w
=R of Rs= 61:223 F ’20 200w
“We fear the editor’s somewhat hesitant attempt to link up these
pieces into something looking like a methodically arranged whole has
not been successful—at least we are unable to tell what the plan of
that arrangement really is. But it is the collection itself that
counts, and this is of great interest.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 43:782 Mr 20 ’20 280w
=POWER, RHODA.= Under the Bolshevik reign of terror. *$2 McBride 947
20–2711
“A record of domestic experiences in a bourgeois household in Rostov,
on the Don, during the old régime, the revolution, and the Bolshevik
occupation.”—Brooklyn
=Boston Transcript= p8 N 22 ’19 500w
=Brooklyn= 12:71 Ja ’20 30w
“A lively and readable little book.”
+ =Cleveland= p104 S ’19 30w
“An intimate, readable account of Bolshevism is presented in this
volume. The book is free from theorizing and statistics, but it tells
of the practical effect of Bolshevism on people who lived through the
first days of this sinister experiment.”
+ =N Y Times= 24:465 S 14 ’19 240w
“Miss Power has given us a series of vivid sketches. They are
impressionistic and full of power, but they must not be accepted as
descriptive of general conditions.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:204 Ag 30 ’19 120w
“An extremely vivid and interesting account of certain phases of the
Russian revolution from the pen of an eye-witness. One would like to
know how far this family, of the rich bourgeois type, was
representative of its class. If there were many others like it, the
appalling violence and bloodiness of the revolution cease to be matter
of wonder.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p224 Ap 24 ’19 700w
=PRATT, JAMES BISSETT.= Religious consciousness; a psychological study.
*$3.50 Macmillan 201
20–10634
“Professor Pratt’s point of view in the present volume is avowedly
scientific. He aims to describe the religious consciousness as it
presents itself for observation to the modern psychologist, that is to
say, without any attempt to press behind phenomena into the realm of
the unknown or the unknowable. An interesting feature of his treatment
is a constant use of the results of recent questionnaires sent out to
ascertain the present state of the religious consciousness among
various classes of Americans. He has studied the forms of
Protestantism in America. Roman Catholicism he has studied in Europe
and at home. Finally, he has made his pilgrimage through India, Burma,
and Ceylon, seeking initiation into the letter and the spirit of
Hinduism, Buddhism, and Mohammedanism in mosque and shrine and temple,
from peasants, teachers, priests, and holy men. The last five chapters
of the book deal with mysticism.”—Nation
* * * * *
“‘The religious consciousness’ is a very good book. Dr Pratt knows his
subject and he knows how to write about it. There is hardly a dull
page in the nearly five hundred of this volume. Perhaps the most
valuable quality of the book is its quiet sanity.” R. R.
+ =Freeman= 2:22 S 15 ’20 360w
“His account of phenomena is remarkably fresh and instructive; and it
differs commendably from some of its predecessors in emphasizing
rather normal than exceptional types of experience.” S. P. Sherman
+ =Nation= 111:506 N 3 ’20 1550w
Reviewed by G. E. Partridge
=N Y Times= p28 D 26 ’20 250w
=PRENTICE, SARTELL.= Padre. *$2 Dutton 940.476
19–13304
“[This book tells the] experiences of a Red cross hospital chaplain of
the Dutch Reformed church, principally in Base hospital 101, at St
Nazaire and in Evacuation hospital 13 where wounded were received
straight from the battlefield. [It is] full of anecdotes revealing the
bravery of individuals, and the gratitude of the French people toward
Americans.”—Cleveland
* * * * *
=Cleveland= p16 F ’20 50w
“There is nothing particularly new in the narrative, although the fact
that it comes first-hand from one who saw and lived the awful scenes
he describes gives it a value of its own which cannot be gainsaid.”
+ =N Y Times= 24:516 O 5 ’19 500w
=PRICE, EDITH BALLINGER.= Silver Shoal light. il *$1.75 Century
20–16502
When Miss Joan Kirtland, who has left town very suddenly after a
disagreement with Mr Robert Sinclair, finds that the Harbor View house
cannot take her in, she is at a loss for a place to spend the night.
Captain ‘Bijah Dawson comes to her aid and suggests that the light
house people may take her in. As Captain ‘Bijah assured her, they are
“cur’ous folks,” Jim and Elspeth Pemberley and their little son Garth,
but their presence in this unusual situation is explained and Joan,
who had meant to stay a night, then a week, remains all summer. Joan,
who had thought she did not like children, is captivated by Garth and
at the end of the summer learns that Mr Sinclair is his Uncle Bob. Jim
Pemberley has aspirations toward the navy and there is a German spy
episode in the story.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
=PRICE, EDITH BALLINGER.= Us and the bottle man. il *$1.50 Century
20–14292
The story of three delightful children who play pirates and send out a
message in a sealed bottle that brings a surprising answer and leads
to a pleasantly mysterious correspondence. And then events take a
serious turn. What had been play becomes reality and the “three poore
mariners” become castaways indeed for the length of one dreadful
night. Their rescuer is no less person than the Bottle man himself and
a war-time romance is at the same time brought to a happy culmination.
* * * * *
“Although somewhat adult in point of view, the mystery and adventure
will interest children from ten to twelve.”
+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
=PRICE, JULIUS MENDES.= On the path of adventure. il *$3.50 (5½c) Lane
940.48
20–11661
The author was war-artist correspondent for the Illustrated London
News. The present work is a record of his adventures in the early
months of the war, before the existence of war correspondents had been
“officially admitted.” The book, he says, “does not in any way claim
to be an addition to the formidable array of books on the technical
side of the war. It is, on the contrary, merely a narrative compiled
from the notes in my diary of a period during the early days of the
war when I was ‘out’ to get all the material I could.... As my
wanderings were entirely within the zone of operations, it is obvious
that the incidents I have described were always more or less connected
with the theatre of the war—but they were happenings rather behind the
scenes than on the actual battle-front.” The book is illustrated with
drawings from the author’s sketch book.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 50w
“One of the few interesting but not sordid personal narratives.”
+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20
“Mr Price puts down his remarkable escapades and hairbreadth escapes
as a sportsman and an artist. There is something beautifully
impersonal in the style of his book. This makes of his book something
unique in war annals, a book that is ‘beautifully and completely
something,’ as Henry James might have said.” B. D.
+ =N Y Times= p21 Ag 29 ’20 750w
=Sat R= 129:191 F 21 ’20 750w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 50w
=PRICHARD, HESKETH VERNON HESKETH.= Sniping in France, with notes on the
scientific training of scouts, observers, and snipers; with a foreword
by General Lord Horne of Stirkoke. il *$5 Dutton 623.44
(Eng ed 20–12124)
“Major Hesketh-Prichard was of course, as a big game hunter, a natural
sniper. He enjoyed sniping because it employed all his highly
specialised hunter faculties to the full—sight, hearing, and all those
analytical powers which hunters possess. His book is full of good
stories. But what will make the book interesting to the soldier is the
complete way in which Major Hesketh-Prichard manages to justify the
art of sniping, and to show how intolerable it is to be opposed to a
well-organised sniping side unless you can answer in kind. Major
Hesketh-Prichard proves completely that it will always be worth while
from the point of view of _moral_ to maintain an efficient body of
specialist snipers.”—Spec
* * * * *
“Before the war the author was known as a sportsman, traveller, and
athlete. It is his other vocation, that of writer, which helps him not
merely to give us information, but to give it in a form enthralling as
any detective story.”
+ =Ath= p816 Je 18 ’20 180w
“Written in a style that makes it pleasantly acceptable to the general
reader.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 220w
“His book is fascinating in its records of romantic individual tales
and of cunning camouflage which are intended for the general reader,
but we trust that the military authorities will not on this account
overlook it. Major Hesketh-Prichard has a contribution to make to
military science.”
+ =Spec= 124:728 My 29 ’20 280w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p293 My 13 ’20 900w
=PRISONER of Pentonville=, by “Red Band.” *$1.50 Putnam 821
20–8220
Poems written while the author was confined in Pentonville prison in
London, between September, 1917, and May, 1918. They are written in
varying meters and on different themes. Many are addressed to his
wife, one is written on receiving news of his mother’s death, others
recall scenes from boyhood, and one that brings to mind “Reading gaol”
is written the day of an execution. The concluding poems record his
sentiments as release approaches and there is an epilogue written
after regaining liberty. Joseph Fort Newton, formerly of the City
Temple, London, now of the Church of the divine paternity, New York,
writes a foreword.
* * * * *
“The emotional sincerity which constantly contrives to break through a
crust of indifferent and often absurd verse makes this series of
prison meditations a very interesting and moving human document.”
+ − =Ath= p495 Ap 9 ’20 80w
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 950w
=PRITCHARD, MYRON THOMAS, and OVINGTON, MARY WHITE=, comps. Upward path;
with an introd. by Robert R. Moton. il *$1.35 Harcourt 810.8
20–16516
The foreword to this collection of readings for colored children says:
“To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and
poems by negro writers, which colored children could read with
interest and pleasure and in which they could find a mirror of the
traditions and aspirations of their race. Realizing this lack, the
compilers have brought together poems, stories, sketches and addresses
which bear eloquent testimony to the richness of the literary product
of our negro writers.” All of the contributors to the volume are
negroes, among them Paul Laurence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, W. E.
B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson and others who have made names in
literature. In addition to these there are the less familiar names of
negro educators, social workers, ministers and lawyers, and there is
one explorer, Matthew Henson, who was with Peary at the Pole.
* * * * *
“The selections in it are ably chosen and present a great variety. But
more important is the fact that it must accomplish its intent. For
while giving pleasure, it will foster the love of tradition, and from
the evidences of past accomplishment, an honest racial pride.” M. E.
Bailey
+ =Bookm= 52:305 Ja ’21 140w
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 27 ’20 360w
“A collection of stories and poems by negroes—many of them very good.
Perhaps whites can gain as much from it as can the blacks. The book
would be suitable for junior high schools.”
+ =English J= 9:549 N ’20 60w
=Lit D= p94 D 4 ’20 170w
=PRYDE, ANTHONY.= Marqueray’s duel. *$2 (1½c) McBride
20–7060
Marqueray, to all appearances, was a globe-trotter and a sportsman. In
truth he was a secret spy in the employ of the British foreign office.
His knowledge stands him in good stead against a certain Lord
Marchmont, a millionaire Jew, implicated in illicit transactions in
South America. The latter has allowed a poor innocent Irish girl, in
reality Lady Marchmont, to consider herself duped by him and to be a
“fallen woman,” after he had turned her adrift. Phyllida is found and
rescued by Marqueray and his friend and cousin, Aubrey West. A romance
grows up between Phyllida and Marqueray, who naturally wants to
horsewhip Marchmont and free his beloved entirely from his clutches.
Before this can be done a political election and much intrigue,
involving West, intervene. In the end Marqueray is wounded by a shot
from Marchmont who himself succumbs to his vicious morphia habit. Some
fine touches of friendship and loyalty among men make one of the
features of the story.
* * * * *
“The story drags somewhat in places; but ... the book as a whole may
be read with a fair amount of satisfaction.”
+ − =Ath= p414 My 30 ’19 120w
“Very good work. Readers who liked Stephen McKenna’s ‘Sonia’ will
probably like this.”
+ =Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20
“It is evidently Mr Pryde’s first novel, and it is far and above the
majority of ‘first novels.’ He writes with a good deal of style, and
his characterization is excellent to the least important actor on his
London stage.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 540w
“The book is exceedingly well written, with a steady succession of
incidents, always logical and never loosening their hold on the
interest. The book is a long one, but it never becomes tedious.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 500w
Reviewed by Isabel Juergens
+ =Pub W= 97:1288 Ap 17 ’20 260w
“A very clever romance.”
+ =Sat R= 128:346 O 11 ’19 100w
“It is decidedly melodramatic, but the melodrama is well done.”
+ =Spec= 123:154 Ag 2 ’19 30w
“The author displays much ability for character portraiture. As a
romanticist he is not so capable.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 650w
=PRZYBYSZEWSKI, STANISLAW.= Snow. *$1.50 Brown, N. L. 891.85
20–4039
“‘Snow,’ a play in four acts by Stanislaw Przybyszewski, translated
into English by O. F. Theis, is a powerful production. A man and wife
are living happily together. A brother comes in and falls in love with
the wife. A woman friend comes in and the husband falls in love with
her. Result—unfaithfulness and a double suicide.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The types are not typical; they are primarily unconvincing. There is
an intense and urgent attempt at drama which, were it only dramatic,
would be Ibsen, even Wagner, in terms of men and not gods. The play is
disappointing to read, because it does not grip; it is scarcely fitted
for theatrical success, because it has insufficient sustained
interest.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 220w
“The beautiful diction and Maeterlinckian charm of the Polish
original, are somewhat lost in translation.”
+ − =Cleveland= p87 S ’20 50w
“‘Snow,’ which bears amusing internal evidence of its translation from
a German original, is a characteristic phantasmagoria of the acutely
hysterical. It is not without moments of sombre effectiveness. But
action and passion are both, humanly speaking, in the void. The
characters are haunted wraiths in an unrealized world who live and
love and die equally without motivation.”
− + =Nation= 110:435 Ap 3 ’20 200w
“The tale is true to life and truthfully presented and commendable for
artistic qualities, but uselessly nerve-racking for all that.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 8 ’20 100w
“Limitations of temperament may easily prevent a western reader from
doing justice to characters who seem to him so morbid and neurotic, so
pathologically introspective: nor can he see ‘Snow’ as a play for the
western stage. Yet he must admit that the author shows at times
profound psychological insight and can write occasional passages of
power.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:259 Jl ’20 230w
=PUMPELLY, RAPHAEL.=[2] Travels and adventures of Raphael Pumpelly; ed.
by O. S. Rice. il *$1.75 Holt
20–22545
The book is an abridged edition of the author’s autobiography, “My
reminiscences,” for young readers. As a mining engineer, geologist,
archaeologist and explorer, the author’s experiences, which transpired
on our western frontier in it’s heroic days, on the mountains of
Corsica, in China, Japan and Siberia, were many and thrilling and
those portions of the original work have been selected that are most
interesting to the young with only so much editing as was required to
make a connected story. Appropriate illustrations have been added.
* * * * *
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 130w
=PURDAY, HERBERT FRANK P.= Diesel engine design. il *$7.50 Van Nostrand
621.43
(Eng ed 20–18166)
“This book is based on about twelve years’ experience of Diesel
engines, mainly from the drawing-office point of view, and is intended
to present an account of the main considerations which control the
design of these engines. The author ventures to hope that, in addition
to designers and draughtsmen, to whom such a book as this is most
naturally addressed, there may be other classes of readers—for
example, Diesel engine users and technical students—to whom the
following pages may be of interest.” (Preface) Contents: First
principles; Thermal efficiency; Exhaust, suction and scavenge; The
principle of similitude; Crank-shafts; Flywheels; Framework; Cylinders
and covers; Running gear; Fuel oil system; Air and exhaust system;
Compressed air system; Valve gear; Index. There are 271 figure
illustrations.
* * * * *
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p32 Ap ’20 80w
=PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER=, comp. Tabular views of universal history. il
*$2.50 Putnam 902
19–16001
In this latest edition of the compilation the summary has been brought
down to the peace conference in Paris; like former revisions, under
the editorial supervision of George Haven Putnam. Two new maps are
added showing the forfeited German colonies and Germany under the
peace treaty, and there is a supplementary index covering events
subsequent to August 1, 1914.
=PUTNAM, MRS NINA (WILCOX).=[2] It pays to smile. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–19578
Miss Freedom Talbot, of Boston ancestry and birth, is the narrator of
the story, and shares honors with “Peaches” Pegg as the heroine. Her
family fortunes being at a low ebb, she answers an advertisement
inserted by the millionaire Pinto Pegg for a chaperone for his
daughter. This combination of money and breeding Pinto hopes will
result in culture for the daughter. Their course in refinement
includes a trip to Europe and a stay in California, in the process of
which Miss Freedom receives perhaps as broad an education as “Peaches”
does. Romance and mystery enter their lives, but after an exciting
course, true love runs smoothly at last.
* * * * *
“The story is perhaps very improbable, but not unreal.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 80w
“Except as a study of the Boston governess and Peaches, showing how
each reacts on the other, there is little to note. When the author
ventures to work out a ‘plot’ she is singularly unconvincing.”
+ − =N Y Times= p27 Ja 9 ’21 650w
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 50w
“The early chapters describing the Talbot home on Chestnut street,
Boston, are much the best of the book.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 140w
=PYLE, KATHARINE.=[2] Tales of wonder and magic. il *$2 (3c) Little
20–19078
This is the third volume of old-world fairy tales and folk lore
translated, adapted and illustrated by the author. The stories are:
White as snow, red as blood, and black as a raven’s wing—Irish; The
wonderful ring—East Indian; The three sisters—Georgian; The golden
horse, the moon lantern, and the beautiful princess—Swedish; The lady
of the lake—Welsh; The beaver stick—American Indian; The enchanted
waterfall—Japanese; Fair, brown, and trembling—Irish; The demon of the
mountain—Transylvanian gipsy; The Lamia—Hindoo; The three doves—Czech;
Mighty-arm and mighty-mouth—East Indian; The beautiful
Melissa—Louisiana; The castle that stood on golden pillars—Danish; The
twelve months—Czech.
Q
=QUENNELL, MARJORIE, and QUENNELL, CHARLES HENRY BOURNE.= History of
everyday things in England. v 2 il *$4.50 (v 1 and 2 in one volume *$9)
Scribner 914.2
(Eng ed 19–6495)
“The second volume of a history which applies real historical research
to the making of children’s books. As in the first book the authors
have described changes in building, furniture, dress, and games as
‘history in stone, wood, and fabrics.’ It is their desire to present
work as a ‘joyous sort of business’ which shall give boys and girls
the desire to take the pains with their labors which distinguished the
craftsmen. Bibliography. Index.”—Booklist
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p127 Ja 23 ’20 90w
“Charming volume.”
+ =Booklist= 16:247 Ap ’20
“This second part is not nearly so good as its predecessor. Its
authors have been spoilt by success, and the latter pages of the book
in particular show, to put it mildly, signs of haste. The first
chapter, on the sixteenth century, is the best.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:435 My 8 ’20 1150w
“The second part is as original and as fascinating as the first, and
those who read the first will know that no higher praise can be
given.”
+ =Spec= 124:145 Ja 31 ’20 1000w
=QUICKENS, QUARLES, pseud.=[2] English notes. $15 L. M. Thompson, 29
Broadway, N.Y. 817
20–6982
“In 1842, not long after the appearance of Charles Dickens’s
irritating ‘American notes,’ there was published anonymously in Boston
a work bearing for its title an obvious parody—‘English notes for very
extensive circulation by Quarles Quickens.’ This book is now reprinted
by Lewis M. Thompson of New York, with an introductory essay designed
to prove that the person who hid under the pseudonym of ‘Quarles
Quickens’ was Edgar Allan Poe. Joseph Jackson and George H. Sargent
supply an introduction and notes, and the publisher has added two
portraits of Poe.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The book is valuable as a curiosity rather than as a masterpiece of
Poe’s style.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 260w
“The truth is that the pamphlet is mostly dull, a ponderous parody.
Its merit today is that it has served Mr Jackson for an excellent and
entertaining piece of detective work. In its present form, with this
foreword, ‘English notes’ must have a place on the shelves of every
collector of Dickens or of Poe.”
+ − =Nation= 111:382 O 6 ’20 410w
=N Y Times= p9 Ag 1 ’20 2800w
“Unfortunately, the attribution of the work to Poe is sustained by
neither internal nor external evidence.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 19 ’20 600w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 160w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p595 S 16 ’20 600w
=QUILLER-COUCH, SIR ARTHUR THOMAS (Q., pseud.).= On the art of reading.
*$2.75 Putnam 028
20–16869
The spirit of the volume can perhaps best be illustrated by two
extracts from the preface: “The real battle for English lies in our
elementary schools, and in the training of our elementary teachers. It
is there that the foundations of a sound national teaching in English
will have to be laid, as it is there that a wrong trend will lead to
incurable issues,” and “that a liberal education is not an appendage
to be purchased by the few; that humanism is, rather, a quality which
can, and should, condition all our teaching; which can, and should, be
impressed as a character upon it all, from a poor child’s first lesson
in reading up to a tutor’s last word to his pupil on the eve of a
tripos.” Contents: Apprehension versus comprehension; Children’s
reading; On reading for examinations; On a school of English; The
value of Greek and Latin in English literature; On reading the Bible;
On selection; On the use of masterpieces; Index.
* * * * *
“We find it as hard to conceive that undergraduates did not enjoy
hearing these lectures on ‘The art of reading’ as that ‘Q’ did not
enjoy delivering them. The elements of an ideal professor were always
in him. To communicate a gusto, a vivid and thrilling delight in
literature for its own sake, as a delectable duchy where no passport,
save the fact of your own enjoyment, is required, is a gift given to
few. ‘Q’ is among them.” J. M. M.
+ =Ath= p234 Ag 20 ’20 2000w
“Especially useful to elementary teachers.”
+ =Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21
+ =Dial= 70:108 Ja ’21 50w
“As an advocate of books, I know of none so well equipped in
perspective to give advice as Quiller-Couch; as a precepter, I have
met with no one on whom the burden of his task has rested so lightly,
so agreeably, so sympathetically, as on him. Out of the fullness of
his enjoyment he speaks, and it is refreshing to observe how jealously
he tries to rescue the books he loves from the palsied grasp of the
pedagog.” M. J. Moses
+ =N Y Times= p5 Ja 2 ’21 2650w
“Original points of view, apt quotations, and genial play with the
subject characterize the volume.”
+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 60w
=Sat R= 130:219 S 11 ’20 1500w
+ =Spec= 125:472 O 9 ’20 1050w
“The style is too discursive, there is too much quoting, some of the
long sentences puzzle one on first reading. And yet what a professor
of literature! Why do not all universities secure men like this King
Edward VII professor?”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 6 ’21 570w
“Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in his lectures shows that he has the
interests of the children and of the young men strongly at heart. His
are not the accustomed utterances of the professor of literature at an
ancient university. They are not in the great style nor, in their
form, are they learned. They abound in irrelevances, with a touch of
facetiousness that is often tiresome, and occasionally they breathe
the unction of the pulpit rather than the gravity of the chair. The
lectures were doubtless more effective in their delivery than in their
printed form.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 S 2 ’20 3350w
R
=RADICE, SHEILA (JAMIESON) (MRS ALFRED HUTTON RADICE).= New children;
talks with Dr Maria Montessori. *$1.50 (4c) Stokes 371.4
20–15392
The object of the book is to sketch in broad outline the Montessori
system of teaching, for which and for Dr Montessori’s insight into
child psychology, the author has a profound admiration. She holds that
with a full recognition and adoption of the Montessori methods, the
psycho-analyst’s vocation will be gone. Contents: Dr Montessori in
England; Two Montessori schools; The Montessori apparatus; Dr
Montessori herself; Dr Montessori as a lecturer; The ethical basis;
The psychological basis; What is psychology? The psychology of the
new-born; What is suggestion? What is music? Montessori and Bergson;
Training for citizenship; Training for vision; Liberal education; A
new theory of work; The education of the adolescent; The new children;
The English nursery school; Appendices; Bibliography.
* * * * *
“In spite of a good deal of vague romanticism and loose writing the
book leaves the impression that Dr Montessori herself is an unusually
sane and sensible personality, who regards her own methods as not
necessarily final.”
+ − =Review= 3:480 N 17 ’20 250w
“Her book is quite entertaining. It is also exceedingly combative.
Like many of those who believe in Mme Montessori, she regards any
criticism of the Dottoressa’s methods as almost blasphemous and quite
wanton and unnecessary.”
+ − =Spec= 124:619 My 8 ’20 900w
“The book is fragmentary and, as the author herself admits, ‘somewhat
hastily done.’ Since the range of topics is so wide, the argument is
brief and sketchy, giving glimpses of vistas for possible exploration
rather than settling the discussion.” A. E. Morey
+ − =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 510w
=RADZIWILL, CATHERINE (RZEWUSKA), princess (COUNT PAUL VASSILI,
pseud.).= Secrets of dethroned royalty. il *$3 (6c) Lane 920
20–9932
These secrets pertain to the love affairs of royal personages and the
book is accordingly divided into three parts, Russia, Austria, and
Germany. The author seems possessed of much intimate knowledge and the
book is well illustrated.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 350w
“There is not much, of course, in all this that is new, but some of
the instances are not well known, and now and then the author throws a
light upon familiar incidents that makes them more intelligible to the
American reader.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 18 ’20 490w
=RAEBURN, HAROLD.= Mountaineering art. il *$3.75 Stokes 796
“In this volume an endeavour has been made to trace and indicate the
broad principles of climbing and mountaineering, from ‘bouldering’ to
the conquest of the highest summits of the earth. The book is the
outcome of more than twenty years’ experience as a climbing leader in
many parts of the Asio-European continent, and on almost every kind of
rock, snow, and ice formation. In preparation for it, almost every
published work on climbing and mountaineering, in English, and in the
principal continental languages, has been consulted.” (Introd.) The
book is in five sections: Mountaineering art; British mountaineering;
Alpine mountaineering; For the lady mountaineer; General principles.
The chapter on dress for women climbers is contributed by Ruth
Raeburn. The work closes with a short list of books, glossary, and
index.
* * * * *
“In general Mr Raeburn’s technical chapters are first-rate. His
remarks on rock, snow and ice work are stamped by the seal of expert
and up-to-date knowledge. Of exploration, bivouacs and camps he writes
with the knowledge that many years of wandering in unexplored ranges
have yielded him. On equipment he has also much to say which is new
and needed saying. The book, as a whole, suffers a little from
redundant chapters.” Arnold Lunn
+ − =Ath= p579 O 29 ’20 1050w
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 250w
“It is severely practical and written for use, not for entertainment.
The numerous illustrations have all been chosen with regard to their
instructional rather than their pictorial value. Mr Raeburn writes
with conviction and refreshing candour.”
+ =Spec= 125:819 D 18 ’20 900w
“Apart from the instruction he gives to the novice, Mr Raeburn has
done the mountaineering public a service by composing a work which
sets forth the latest views on the best mode of ‘climbing and
mountaineering.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p529 Ag 19 ’20 820w
=RAGOZIN, ZÉNAÏDE ALEXEÏEVNA=, ed. and tr. Little Russian masterpieces.
4v *$7.70; ea *$1.25 Putnam 891.7
20–18302
A collection of Russian stories brought together with the object of
presenting American readers “with a selection which may not only prove
acceptable in itself, but reveal to them some less familiar aspects of
Russian thought and character.” There is an introduction, repeated in
each of the four volumes, by S. N. Syromiatnikof, who also contributes
biographical notes. There is one volume devoted to the work of Pushkin
and Lermontof. Authors represented in the others are: Lesskof,
Dombrovsky, Dostoyefsky, and Tolstoi; Saltykof-Stchedrin,
Mamin-Sibiriak, Slutchefsky, Niedzwiecki, Uspensky and Helen
Zeisinger; Staniukovitch and Korolenko.
* * * * *
“The stories that she presents are fresh, original, and full of
dramatic incident. It is one of the most interesting collections ever
got together. Her translation reads with exemplary smoothness and
accuracy; she is a mistress of English style.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 13 ’20 500w
“That there are here many names not familiar to the casual reader of
Russian literature is not among the least attractions of the
collection.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 180w
=RAGSDALE, LULAH.= Next-besters. *$1.75 Scribner
20–11498
“Robert Lee Poindexter—‘The boss’—was of the old South, the courtly
and sweet-natured master of the ancient and impoverished plantation of
Cherokee in Mississippi. But Pat and Polly, the Misses Poindexter,
were very modern, up-and-coming young people, who shouldered both hard
work and responsibility and evolved an energetic philosophy, though
Patricia was only twenty and Polly was just eighteen. The story of
their work and responsibility, and of how their philosophy resulted in
action is the story of ‘Next-besters.’”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:73 N ’20
“A pretty and amusing little story that is always entertaining, and
not without charm. Assuredly, ‘Next-besters’ is a pleasant piece of
‘light reading’ for a summer day.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 390w
“An excellent story for young people.”
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 40w
=RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.=[2] Big-town round-up. il *$2 (3c) Houghton
20–19181
This is the story of one of those bronzed, big-hearted westerners,
whom fiction so often presents to us riding over the plains of
Arizona. But in this novel, Clay Lindsay is functioning in the very
heart of civilization, in no less a metropolis than New York city, but
the traditional characteristics of the wild-west story are all here.
There is the bad-man, Clay’s natural enemy, personified in Jerry
Durand; there is the beautiful heroine, Beatrice Whitford; and there
is the weak easterner, Clay’s rival in love, Clarendon Bromfield. All
these and various minor characters play their accepted parts in the
drama of romance and gun-play, with the inevitable happy ending for
the deserving.
* * * * *
“Full of exciting situations, profanity and crude humor.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21
“They used to put these stories into paper covers with the luridest
scene in red and yellow on the jacket. Now—but it’s Diamond Dick just
the same, sandpapered a little, but otherwise not much changed.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 27 ’20 190w
“Mr Raine has written many another good story of the West, which he
knows so well, but he will find it hard to beat this one.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 Ja 30 ’21 580w
“The story has ‘punch.’”
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 30w
=RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.= Oh, you Tex! il *$1.90 (2c) Houghton
20–6711
A story of the Texas Panhandle in the period following the Civil war.
Jack Roberts, a line-rider for Clint Wadley, one of the big cattlemen,
gets into trouble with Wadley’s son Rutherford and gives him a
well-deserved trouncing. This is unfortunate, for Jack has just been
promoted and is in love with Wadley’s daughter Ramona. A few hours
after his dismissal, he enlists with the Texas Rangers. Rutherford
Wadley, who has become involved with a band of cattle rustlers and
outlaws, is shot by one of them. Suspicion falls on a young Mexican
and to save him from a lynching mob, led by the real murderer, Jack
puts up a brilliant bluff and risks his own life. His later adventures
have to do with the pursuit and capture of the Dinsmore gang and the
winning of Ramona.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20
=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 40w
“A fascinating story from beginning to end—in spite of its well-worn
material.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:326 Je 20 ’20 700w
“An exciting, old-fashioned tale of the western cattle country.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 100w
=RAINSFORD, W. H.=[2] That girl March. *$1.50 (*8s 6d) (1c) Lane
20–20431
Curiosity draws Philip Gray to Blaisham. Some thirty years before, his
mother, falling in love with the chapel minister, had defied her
family, run away with her lover and been disowned in consequence. And
now, father and mother dead, the son had returned to look on her old
home. He does not reveal his identity and does not learn that his
aunt, Lady Delwyn, has set her lawyers on his track, bent on
reconciliation. In the meantime he meets and falls in love with Edith
March, niece of one of the neighborhood farmers. The reconciliation
with the aunt takes place, but in his new position Philip finds that
his wooing does not proceed smoothly. However he has some of his
mother’s spirit and “that girl March” stands in no awe of Lady Delweyn
and it ends well.
* * * * *
“If this tale is representative of Mr Lane’s selection of first
novels, that selection must be astonishingly excellent, for Mr
Rainsford, or possibly Miss Rainsford, spins an enchanting yarn. The
only fault of the novel is its length. Here and there, it drags a
trifle.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 D 4 ’20 240w
“This book is not cheap or unsuccessful in an ordinary sense. It is
simply 366 pages with the book not there. One constantly apprehends
cleverness, vividness—but gets not one clear visualization in much
description.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 20 ’20 170w
=N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 330w
“‘W. H. Rainsford’ adopts a method that irresistibly recalls the
seaside acrobat courting attention by means of ridiculous somersaults
as a prelude to the display of more special powers. These affectations
being suddenly discarded, to reappear only intermittently, it becomes
possible to take a mild—a very mild—interest in the fortunes of Philip
Gray.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 S 9 ’20 510w
=RAINSFORD, WALTER KERR.= From Upton to the Meuse with the Three hundred
and seventh infantry. il *$2 (4c) Appleton 940.373
20–2288
The volume is a history of the 77th division and of the 307th
regiment. This division Colonel J. R. R. Hannay in the introduction
calls the cosmopolitan division of New York city, “New York’s own.” He
also states that this division consisting of men unused to the sturdy
activity of outdoor life conducted itself as the most perfectly
trained and disciplined army in the world. The sketches and
photographs in the book are of the best, the author being a graduate
from the École des beaux arts, Paris, in 1911. Besides the
introduction by Colonel Hannay, the foreword by General Alexander, and
two poems by the author, the contents are: Camp Upton; With the
British; Lorraine; The chateau du diable; Across the Vesle; Merval;
Sheets and bandages; The forest of Argonne; The dépôt de machines; The
surrounded battalion; Grand Pré; The advance to the Meuse; The home
trail; Appendix.
* * * * *
“Very telling photographs and drawings which suggest a beauty which is
the antithesis of war.”
+ =Booklist= 16:238 Ap ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 24 ’20 850w
+ =Cath World= 112:116 O ’20 370w
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 200w
“Captain Rainsford has succeeded in making his narrative clear,
expressive, and entertaining—thanks in good part to a never failing
sense of humor. We must give credit, too, for his having provided the
maps necessary to follow his narrative—a too unusual provision in
books about the war.”
+ =Review= 2:464 My 1 ’20 460w
=R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 170w
=RAMSAY, ROBERT E.= Effective house organs. il *$3.50 (3c) Appleton 659
20–2516
A book treating of “the principles and practice of editing and
publishing successful house organs.” (Sub-title) Chapter one describes
a house organ as “a small magazine or newspaper published once a
month, sometimes more frequently, sometimes less, and made up wholly
or in part of advertising from the house sending it out.” The treatise
which is profusely illustrated with specimen pages of typical house
organs, falls into three parts. “Part 1 lays down the underlying
principles of editing and publishing house organs of all classes. Part
2 gives you the actual practice among successful house organs in
applying principles previously laid down. Part 3 is made up of
appendices containing valuable reference data on the general subject
of house organs which may be of use to both student and practitioner.”
There is an index.
* * * * *
“A book much needed by the amateur editor in business organizations.”
+ =Booklist= 16:228 Ap ’20
“His style is easy and readable.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 240w
“The book contains many interesting examples of how a sound knowledge
of psychology is valuable in producing a successful house organ.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:296 Je 6 ’20 160w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p585 S 9 ’20 220w
=RAPEER, LOUIS WIN=, ed. Consolidated rural school. il *$3 Scribner
379.17
20–4557