interfere with the enjoyment and edification of the general reader.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 240w.
=Osler, William.= Counsels and ideals; from the writings of William
Osler. **$1.25. Houghton.
In culling selections from his less technical lectures and addresses,
Dr. Osler aims to offer “individual influence” and “inspiration” to
the student or general reader. “Wise counsels abound in this
volume—counsels inspired by high ideals and wide experience. The real
man whom they present is no more like the individual whose words were
so travestied by the press on a recent occasion as to threaten the
dictionary-makers with a new word, ‘oslerize,’ than the caricature of
the political cartoonist is like its original.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“A book which may be read with pleasure and lasting profit, not only
by every member of the medical profession, but also by the general
public. Dr. Camac has made his selection with judgment.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 301. Mr. 10. 730w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 190w.
“What most impresses one on examining this selection from forty-seven
of the author’s fugitive pieces is not only the professional and
practical wisdom displayed, and the breadth of view revealed, but also
the wide reading in writers not commonly held to be a necessary part
of a doctor’s library.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 93. F. 1, ’06. 390w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 929. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.
“They afford very interesting reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 680w.
“What he writes, however, is of household, individual interest, and it
is presented in a manner which causes facts to breathe eloquence and
conviction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 48. Ja. 27, ’06. 350w.
“To dip into these pages anywhere is to meet with a thoughtful,
strong, and sagacious man.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 130w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 90w.
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Conversations on chemistry. Pt. 1, General
chemistry; authorized tr. by Elizabeth Catherine Ramsay, $1.50; Pt. 2,
Chemistry of the most important elements and compounds; authorized tr.
by Stuart K. Turnbull, $2. Wiley.
The authorized translation of Ostwald’s “Die schule der chemie.”
Addressed distinctly to elementary pupils, the subject is presented in
dialogue, the conversations taking place between master and pupil.
Such subjects are treated as substance, properties, solution, melting
and freezing, density, compounds, elements, oxygen, hydrogen,
nitrogen, air, etc.
* * * * *
“Miss Ramsay has done her work with much skill, and has made the
dialogue not less natural and vivacious than it is in the original.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 364. Ag. 17, ’05. 330w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“Most points are worked out with great ingenuity and address to an
entirely logical conclusion. The allusion to things and phenomena of
real human interest and the suppression of pedantry are also to be
warmly commended. The actual work of translation has, on the whole,
been well done.” A. S.
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 173. Je. 21, ’06. 570w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“The chief value of the book, must lie, therefore, in showing
something of the spirit and the methods best adapted for arousing the
interest of the young pupils in elementary science.” William
McPherson.
+ =Science=, n.s. 22: 829. D. 22, 05. 220w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Individuality and immortality: the Ingersoll
lectures, 1906. **75c. Houghton.
Professor Ostwald, professor of chemistry at the university of
Leipzig, treats the question scientifically. “At the very outset, the
lecturer calls attention to the fact that our knowledge ‘is an
incomplete piece of patchwork;’” but, he adds, “each one is bound to
make the best possible use of it, such as it is, never forgetting that
it may at any time be superseded by new discoveries or ideas. In this
truly scientific spirit, very remote from the dogmatism of the
churches, Professor Ostwald proceeds to consider what immortality may
be supposed to be, and what reasons we have for believing it.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The chief value of this work is in showing the attitude which the
scientifically trained mind tends to take to those problems where the
clear principles and positive methods of the physical sciences do not
obtain.” W. C. Keirstead.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 555. Jl. ’06. 560w.
“The discussion is an interesting one, both from its statement of
scientific views and from the glimpse it affords of the mind of the
author. It is, nevertheless, strangely incomplete, almost ignoring the
deeper questions at issue.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 228. Ap. 1, ’06. 1680w.
“It is an exceedingly interesting discourse, and quite up to date,
scientifically speaking; it is full of fine moral thoughts, but it
contains very little Christian consolation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 116. F. 24, ’06. 230w.
– =Outlook.= 82: 716. Mr. 24, ’06. 150w.
=Ottley, Rev. Robert Lawrence.= Religion of Israel: a historical sketch.
*$1. Macmillan.
“It is a readable outline of the history from a modern point of view,
chiefly at second-hand.” George F. Moore.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 144. Ja. ’06. 70w.
=Outram, James.= In the heart of the Canadian Rockies. **$3. Macmillan.
“His counsel is sound, and his knowledge reaches far. The volume was
well worth writing.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 13. Ja. 6. 560w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 20w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 457. F. 22, ’06. 420w.
“He has succeeded in producing a useful piece of work, which brings
together an account of all that has been accomplished in the Canadian
Rockies by himself and by other kindred spirits.” G. W. L.
+ + – =Nature.= 73: 362. F. 15, ’06. 720w.
“The book is written by a man who has his soul in the story.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 210w.
P
“=P., Q.=” How-to buy life insurance. **$1.20. Doubleday.
A book that “has been written and published in the interest of the
policyholder primarily. It undertakes to free the subject from the
technical obscurities that so frequently interfere with a clear
understanding of its elements and to give the plain citizen
straightforward advice and information as to the various types of
policies in the market and the relative advantages of each.” (R. of
Rs.)
* * * * *
“As a practical guide to the policyholder desirous of figuring out for
himself the real cost of his insurance and of choosing between rival
companies, ought to be found of substantial value by the busy man,
because of the comparative tables and specimen blanks given in the
appendix. These could be considerably improved upon in certain
respects, but they are a distinct advance over what has been furnished
by most other books on the subject.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 117. S. 1, ’06. 350w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 408. Je. 23, ’06. 720w.
“It is a helpful and suggestive manual.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 80w.
=Page, Curtis Hidden=, ed. Chief American poets: selected poems by
Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Whitman, and
Lanier. *$1.75. Houghton.
“The selections have been made with good taste and judgment and the
notes are ample and to the point.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 90w.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 96. F. 1, ’06. 150w.
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 158. F. 22, ’06. 170w.
“Such a book would be a great convenience for the use of a class
studying American literature.”
+ =School R.= 14: 233. Mr. ’06. 100w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Negro: the southerner’s problem. **$1.25.
Scribner.
“These essays are characterized by a sanity of spirit and a
painstaking thoroughness.” C: A. Elwood.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 698. Mr. ’06. 440w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 88. My. 12, ’06. 510w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= On Newfound river. †$1.50. Scribner.
“In the story we meet ... the Southern life of an earlier day:
hot-tempered men and gracious women, trusty slaves, negro-hunting
whites, the grocery-store-town-meeting, and the open-air court of
justice. The love-story, however, is the thing and is young, Arcadian,
rough-running, happily arriving. Mr. Page explains that it is a story
enlarged; explicitly not a novel, but ‘a love story, pure and simple,’
and such it will be found.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 40w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 130w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
“A delicate, finished specimen of its author’s art.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 332. O. 18, ’06. 170w.
“It is a story pure and sweet amid the poisonous blossoms of fiction
that nowadays spring thick, an idyll of loyalty and of love, thrilled
through and through with ‘the tender grace of a day that is dead.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 440w.
“The most appreciative comment that can be made on this story is that
he has not spoiled it; the old charm still lingers.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Little garden calendar for boys and girls. $1.
Altemus.
“This is one of the best children’s books in recent years. It is
bright and entertaining and while holding the interest of the young in
the story that is told, it imparts a vast fund of information which
every child should know.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 222. F. ’06. 320w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Lucky piece: a story of the North woods. $1.50.
Outing pub.
A tale of the Adirondacks whose hero is an idle young man of more
wealth than ambition, and whose heroine undertakes to teach him the
definite purpose in life. A Spanish luck piece brings friends, wealth
and happiness in its train of talismanic bestowals.
* * * * *
“This is a pleasant story, with some well-drawn characters and just
enough plot to carry the reader comfortably along to the last
chapter.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 370w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Sailor of fortune; memoirs of Capt. B. S.
Osbon. **$1.20. McClure.
“Captain Osbon, whose memoirs are given practically as he detailed
them to the writer, Mr. Albert Bigelow Paine, lived among some of the
most stirring scenes of the past century, and his narrative presents
with extraordinary vividness events of which he was an actor or an
eye-witness.” (Lit. D.) “This lively record covers whaling,
buccaneering, the Civil war, journalism, and almost everything but
love.” (World To-Day.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Paine, the redactor of these stories of sea life, has succeeded
admirably in preserving the personal quality of the actor-narrator,
and we easily accept the ‘yarns’ as a long succession of fireside
talks face to face with the man who lived them.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20, ’06. 180w.
“Cannot fail to be a joy to old and young.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 667. O. 13, ’06. 190w.
“His reminiscences of famous men are numerous and characteristic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
“Mr. Paine has done well what must have been a difficult task. The
book will amuse and enchain the reader who has a love for the unusual
and picturesque.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 110w.
“Every chapter reads like a condensed historical novel.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 50w.
=Paine, Dorothy C.= Maid of the mountains. †$1. Jacobs.
To Carol, a mountain maid of North Carolina, comes a good fairy in the
guise of Beth, a happy tender-hearted little girl, who brings real aid
to the sufferings of the mountain family. Among other things, she
gives a benefit entertainment in which it is discovered that Carol has
a beautiful voice, and a wealthy but childless woman in the audience
decides to take her north. The movement of the book is rapid, ranging
from train wrecks to doll dressing, and is certain to delight the
heart of adventure-loving children.
=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Praying skipper and other stories. $1.50.
Outing pub.
“The fact that not one of this collection of seven stories is a love
story, in the ordinary sense of that saccharine term, is a point in
its favor. In making sentiment secondary to action the author has
heightened the effect of both.” (N. Y. Times.) The stories following
the title story are: A victory unforeseen, The last pilot schooner,
The jade teapot, Corporal Sweeney, deserter, and two other thrilling
sea tales which have the merit of not being told in dialog by an old
salt.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 60: 1375. Je. 7, ’06. 300w.
“Vigorous, straightforward yarns, and as satisfactory as they are
exciting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 355. Je. 2, ’06. 440w.
“There are pathos and humor in the book, and both the pathos and the
humor grip the reader tightly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“These are stories of the kind men like—told with considerable vigor
and dealing with active life.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 80w.
=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Story of Martin Coe; il. by Howard Giles.
$1.50. Outing pub.
Martin Coe, gunner’s mate, deserts from the American navy to lead a
revolution in a South American state. By a strange chance he comes at
length to a little Maine village where his regeneration begins. It is
love that clarifies his nature, and brings to the surface the broken
oath, neglected duty, general culpableness. His honor demands
atonement, and his obedience to the call sends him back to the navy to
serve out his term.
* * * * *
“The best thing about the book, however, is the fact that, though
Martin is regenerated, he remains he same Martin Coe to the end—a
typical sailor hero—than whom there is not any better either in real
life or in fiction.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 540w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“The character is well enough conceived, but a touch of caricature
throughout weakens the personality and decidedly impairs the love
story. The book as a character-study is lacking in close
interpretation.”
– + =Outlook.= 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 80w.
=Painter, Franklin Verzelius Newton=, ed. Great pedagogical essays;
Plato to Spencer. *$1.25. Am. bk.
“This anthology of selections from writers ancient and modern, pagan
and Christian, upon educational topics has the merit of bringing
together from the most diverse sources the best thoughts that have
been entertained of the educational ideal which is still the object of
pursuit. It is a source-book of the history of this pursuit, embodying
its major documents—a history not always marked by progress.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The chief objection to these selections is that there is no unified
basis of selection.”
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 643. F. ’06. 240w.
=Dial.= 40: 203. Mr. 16, ’06. 50w.
“The book will meet the demand among students of educational history
for an acquaintance with the original sources of information, and will
form an acceptable and useful volume supplementary to any standard
history of education.”
+ =El. School T.= 6: 438. Ap. ’06. 80w.
=Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 80w.
“He has failed signally in his purpose, and not wholly or mainly
because of space limitations, but rather because of manifest lack of
broad historic scholarship and clear pedagogic insight. His selections
are in the main inconsequential fragments, and the translations are
often poor.” Will S. Monroe.
– – =J. Philos.= 3: 79. F. 1, ’06. 480w.
“An excellent companion book is this to any of the current histories
of education.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 940. D. 16, ’05. 130w.
“The student of education who is without access to a large library
will be grateful for what the editor has provided, and will profit
greatly by a careful study of these pages.” W. B. O.
+ =School R.= 14: 310. Ap. ’06. 250w.
=Pais, Ettore.= Ancient legends of Roman history; tr. by Mario E.
Cosenza. *$4. Dodd.
Professor Pais, connected with the University of Naples, brings
together here a number of lectures on the early Roman legends which
form the substratum of later political and social development.
* * * * *
“The translation is marred by some constantly recurring errors. Very
few of the radical views advanced in these lectures will ever be
generally accepted, but they cannot fail to arouse opposition and to
stimulate fruitful discussion. The erudition and acumen of the author
are truly remarkable.” Samuel Ball Platner.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 872. Jl. ’06. 1180w.
“The book is a scholarly one, essentially for the scholar.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“While in the main satisfactory, [the English version] frequently
lacks in point of clearness, the involved parenthetical structure of
the sentences making it difficult at times to follow the author’s
arguments.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 201. Mr. 16, ’06. 400w.
“Professor Pais has sifted the origins of Rome without fear or pity.
The style is not smooth. The lack of an index can only be excused by
the consideration that such an index would have added materially to
the bulk of the book. The maps are good.”
+ + – =Ind.= 59: 1481. D. 21. ’05. 630w.
“The translation is very well done, although the paragraphing is often
bad. The index, which is indispensable in a work of this kind, has
been omitted.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 474. Je. 7, ’06. 1410w.
“Although technical and teeming with data of detail, Prof. Pais’s work
... should form the means of valuable supplementary reading for
students of Roman history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 104. F. 17, ’06. 840w.
“The book should challenge the attention of all who care for
archaeology and early Roman history.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ’05. 120w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 90w.
=Palmer, Frederick.= Lucy of the stars: il. by Alonzo Kimball. †$1.50.
Scribner.
“Mr. Frederick Palmer combines in admirable balance the functions of
war-correspondent and novelist. When the piping times of peace are at
hand, he will sit down to his desk and write you as pretty a story as
you could wish to read in an idle hour, and when the war-trumpet
sounds, he will sally forth until he is in the thick of the scrimmage
collecting observations for a graphic portrayal of the scene of
carnage. It is this dual activity that now gives us ‘Lucy of the
stars’ as a successor to ‘With Kuroki in Manchuria.’ We like Mr.
Palmer’s portrait of the imaginary Lucy, as we liked his portrait of
the real Kuroki, but we object most strenuously to the fate that he
has bestowed upon her.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“It is a pity that such good material should be used on so
persistently pessimistic a theme. The characters are clearly and
consistently drawn, the story is well, and in places wittily told, and
‘Lucy of the stars’ is a charming heroine.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 300w.
“The merit of the book lies in the presentation, under an unusually
attractive aspect, of public life across the Atlantic in certain
latter-day phases; yet it can scarcely be said to fulfil the
conditions requisite for that difficult achievement, a successful
political novel.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 298. S. 15. 160w.
“In order to write a great novel, it is necessary to sympathize with
all your characters. Mr. Palmer has not done this; nevertheless, ‘Lucy
of the stars’ is worth reading.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 120. Ag. ’06. 270w.
+ – =Critic.= 49: 192. Ag. ’06. 80w.
“The story is more than worth reading for [Lucy’s] sake, even if its
outcome does rudely shock our romantic sensibilities.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 368. Je. 1, ’06. 260w.
“Sensible, normal people will not care for a romance in which sorrows
and griefs are the only heroes and heroines.”
– + =Ind.= 61: 759. S. 27, ’06. 80w.
“Although written with spirit, and though the author has brought a
keen observation to bear upon a wide range of experience, the story
has been a disappointment.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 338. My. 26, ’06. 490w.
– =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 30w.
=Palmer, William T.= English lakes. *$6. Macmillan.
“We fail, in this volume, to find many of the interesting stories of
adventure and sport on the fells, or glimpses of the dalesman’s life,
such as made its predecessors readable in spite of a somewhat
unchastened style. The style, indeed, is all there. Strange words
abound.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 329. S. 9. 1180w.
“His bright and chatty narrative, in spite of its want of style, is
eminently readable.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 278. Ja. ’06. 240w.
=Pancake, Edmund Blair.= Miss New York. $1.50. Fenno.
A story with a college setting. The heroine is a “discovery” made one
day by a student who comes upon a rude hut in the mountains near the
town. She and her mother are evidently in hiding. For what purpose
remains a mystery thruout the course of a tale that defies the reader
in the matter of making even a guess at the probation accompanied by
sunbonnet and calico.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 343. My. 26, ’06. 220w.
=Parker, Edward Harper.= China and religion. **$3.50. Dutton.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 727. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“We cannot conclude without congratulating him upon the research he
has displayed and upon the readable style which makes an abstruse
subject easily grasped by the general reader.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 455. D. 22, ’05. 970w.
“His method of composition is peculiar and his literary graces are not
very great. On the whole, it is cool, clear, impartial.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 477. Je. 7, ’06. 820w.
“Mr. Parker is a profound Chinese scholar, and is possibly the highest
living authority upon the subject with which he deals in the volume
under notice.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 53. Ja. 13, ’06. 1550w.
“His excellent book should be regarded as the best and simplest
English authority on this important subject.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 340w.
=Parr, G. D. Aspinall.= Electrical engineering in theory and practice.
*$3.25. Macmillan.
“The present volume treats only of the elements of the subject and it
is to be amplified later or possibly followed by a second volume, the
new material to comprise electrical machinery and its applications....
There are three chapters dealing with the fundamental facts and laws
regarding magnetism and statical and current electricity. Then follow
three chapters dealing with the interrelated subjects, resistance,
electro-magnetism and induction. The remainder of the work is of a
more practical nature and covers measuring instruments, incandescent
lamps, and the thermal and chemical production of electro-motive
force.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The work as a whole differs somewhat from other books on the market.
In general its field may be said to be similar to that with the same
title by Slingo and Brooker, which is also an English book. It will be
read with profit by practical engineers desiring a broad general view
of the principles of electrical engineering practice.” Henry H.
Norris.
+ + =Engin. N.= 56: 55. Jl. 12, ’06. 870w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Bob Hampton of Placer. †$1.50. McClurg.
The Sioux uprising in 1876 furnishes the main incidents for this story
of Wyoming and Montana, and of Bob Hampton, a gambler and disgraced
army officer, who saves the life of Naida, old Gillis’s girl, at the
risk of his own, only to discover that she is his own daughter. He
does not reveal himself to her however, but gives her up for the sake
of her future, then quietly renounces his old life and keeps watch
over her from afar. In the end he dies a brave death, leaving her an
untarnished name and a gallant soldier lover. It is a stirring tale of
frontier life and Indian warfare culminating in a description of the
Custer massacre.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
“Its theme, indeed, is so like that of Harte’s ‘Protégé of Jack
Hamlin’s’ as to make it seem rather more reminiscent than original. A
certain racy quality of its own, however, it preserves.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
“Is one of the good Western stories—not especially literary, but
thoroughly interesting, and excellent in plot and characters.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Historic Illinois: the romance of the earlier days.
**$2. McClurg.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 755. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“The book will interest the general student of our national history as
well as the people of Illinois.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 90w.
“Altogether the book is highly attractive, and will be found
particularly useful in the schools, every one of which should be
provided with a copy.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 94. F. 1, ’06. 250w.
“It would be difficult to find a picture of pioneer days at once so
true to the spirit of the time and so accurate in detail.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 150w.
“Altogether he gives a very tolerable idea of Illinois history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 89. F. 10, ’06. 400w.
“His book, in a word, is encyclopaedic in scope. No pretense is made
to original research, but the authorities followed are sound, and
there is little to criticise.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1083. D. 30, ’05. 150w.
“An entertaining volume of historic romance.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Sword of the old frontier; a tale of Fort Chartres
and Detroit. †$1.50. McClurg.
“Mr. Parrish writes with colour and spirit, and his ingenuity in
devising new variations in adventure is admirable.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 194. F. 17. 280w.
“One thing to be said in favor of Randall Parrish’s books is that the
melodrama does not appear in streaks; it is part of their very
essence; you recognize it at once from a certain trick of style that
sounds like an echo of Ouida at her worst.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 632. F. ’06. 580w.
“The story is strictly conventional in type, but the type is one that
has justified its right to exist.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 4. Ja. 6. ’06. 200w.
=Parry, David Maclean.= Scarlet empire. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A book to make the socialist satisfied with things as they are. A
young socialist weary of life plunges into the sea. He wakens in a
lost Atlantis, known as the Scarlet Empire. Here is a social democracy
in which people dwell in slavery; the state owes every man a living
which it grants in a grudging sense, food, conversation, education and
marriage, all being limited. The hero sickens of his satiety of
scholastic practices, and after gruesome experiences escapes with
three companions to his own New York world.
* * * * *
“‘The scarlet empire’ is not a discussion of socialism. It is rather a
developed misconception of socialism. It is a house built on the
illusive sands of fundamental error or false premises.” Ellis O.
Jones.
– =Arena.= 36: 330. S. ’06. 2050w.
=Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 80w.
“Crudely written as it is, it sets forth a skilfully constructed plot
and shows a certain enthusiasm for his subject on the part of the
author, but throughout the book the great aim seems to be not only to
satirize all the doctrines that Socialists hold dear, but even, where
possible, to burlesque them.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 604. Ap. 21, ’06. 1420w.
“The satire is light but cleverly aimed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“As a story the book is fairly readable, but as a contribution to the
discussion of the social problem it has no slightest claim to
consideration.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Parry has missed a splendid chance and has missed it so widely
that he almost obscures the chance.”
– =Pub. Opin.= 40: 476. Ap. 14, ’06. 520w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 759. Je. ’06. 120w.
=Parsons, Mrs. Clement.= David Garrick and his circle; il. **$2.75.
Putnam.
“Mrs. Parsons’s book is first of all a life of the greatest of
English actors, a record of his triumphs and a study of his
methods. It is also a broad picture of the social life of the day.
Garrick is followed into all the circles he frequented, and we
make the acquaintance of the great company of his friends and
associates.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“She has written a very charming and entertaining book, which clothes
wide learning in graceful though transparent chiffon. The pity is that
she has not always—or not often—distinguished between lightness of the
right and the wrong kinds.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 415. O. 27, ’06. 140w.
“Among stage records the present volume will take an agreeable place.
It is written with abundant verve, and shows a wide range of reading.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 703. D. 1. 840w.
“The chief fault in Mrs. Parsons’s book is its diffuseness. The author
has done her work thoroughly, however, and carefully; such research
commands respect, because of what it exacts in the gathering. Students
will find her volume a mine of information, and an available
reference-book, with its commendable bibliography and appropriate
illustrations.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 170w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
“This is a work of vastly superior quality to the great majority of
books, especially those of recent date, relating to the stage and its
associations.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 377. N. 1, ’06. 1010w.
“It has the easy cleverness of a clever woman’s letter, but it is
perhaps a little too vivacious, too allusive, too up-to-date and too
on-the-spot for a stately tome of 400 pages.” Brander Matthews.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 794. D. 1, ’06. 990w.
“This book, besides being an admirable study of Garrick, is a gallery
of admirably executed eighteenth-century portraits, a repertory of
most delectable anecdotes that strike with perfect truth the keynote
of the period, and a mine of curious and out-of-the-way information in
regard to eighteenth-century theaters, the physical conditions of the
stage, the tumultuous behavior of the audiences, the costumes of the
actors and actresses, and no end of other matters of a kind that will
be keenly relished.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 714. N. 24, ’06. 410w.
“She has humor, has this admirer of the great English actor, and a
clever way of expressing it; she also has the knack of recreating the
whole from a fragment. And, at the same time, she is a capable serious
historian of stage and drama.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 180w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 648. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“He has found here an admirable chronicler.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 831. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
=Parsons, Ellen C.= Christus liberator. **30c. Macmillan.
“The author has managed to pack in a surprising amount of concrete and
stirring story.” L. Call Barnes.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 199. Ja. ’06. 160w.
=Parsons, Frank.= Heart of the railroad problem: the history of railway
discrimination in the United States, with efforts at control, remedies
proposed, and hints from other countries. **$1.50. Little.
Twenty years of study and observation have been brought into Dr.
Parsons’ treatment of this subject. “The study reveals the facts in
reference to railway favoritism—or unjust discrimination from the
beginning of our railway history to the present time, discloses the
motives and causes of discrimination, discusses various remedies that
have been proposed, and gathers hints from the railway systems of
other countries to clarify and develop the conclusions indicated by
our railroad history.”
* * * * *
“It is by far the most important, authoritative and comprehensive
popular discussion of the rate question that has appeared, and no
intelligent American should fail to read it.”
+ + + =Arena.= 35: 658. Je. ’06. 3700w.
“An exhaustive and authoritative work that is extremely clear and
interesting, while affording the most complete and satisfactory view
of the railway question and the true relation of the railways to
commercial enterprises, to the government and to the people, that has
ever been published in any land.”
+ + + =Arena.= 36: 557. N. ’06. 9730w.
“The merits of Mr. Parsons’s book are in its thorough and compendious
presentation of the various evils that have come to pass in the making
of railway rates. If the treatment is open to criticism, it is along
the line of the genesis of these conditions.” John J. Halsey.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 35. Jl. 16, ’06. 1350w.
“As a critic of existing conditions, the author has done his work
well.” William Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 575. N. ’06. 250w.
“The book is a readable collection of single instances of railroad
enormities. In the hands of one acquainted with the essentials of
transportation, it may prove of service; in the hands of a novice, it
is likely to engender prejudice and disseminate error.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 17. Jl. 5, ’06. 850w.
“The book is a useful one and brings the subject down to date, but it
casts only the scantiest light ahead.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 287. My. 5, ’06. 790w.
=Parsons, Henry de Berkeley.= Disposal of municipal refuse. $2. Wiley.
“The book is mainly devoted to the characteristics of the material
collected in New York, the uses to which it may be put, and the
principles underlying its sanitary and economic handling.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“We take pleasure in commending Mr. Parsons’ book, within the limits
covered by it, as a fair and able presentation of the main points
involved in the disposal of municipal refuse, more particularly by
cremation.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 558. My. 17, ’06. 1130w.
=Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.
+ =Nature.= 74: 630. O. 25, ’06. 580w.
=Partridge, William Ordway.= Czar’s gift. **40c. Funk.
A pretty little tale of how Paul, the wood carver, made for the czar a
statue of his lost daughter so beautiful that it won for Paul’s
brother, the nihilist, release from the mines in Siberia, and brought
them both the czar’s forgiveness and protection.
* * * * *
+ =Arena.= 36: 220. Ag. ’06. 360w.
=Passmore, Rev. T. H.= In further Ardenne: a story of the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg. **$2.50. Dutton.
This little section tucked away between Belgium, Prussia, France and
Lorraine has not been much written about owing to its not being among
the “Beaten track itineraries.” The author very generously offers to
“pay your fare for you, so to speak, and take you there, and present
you to its beauties and interests and simple kindly folk, without
troubling you to move out of your chair.”
* * * * *
“The charm of this book is that the author has the power of
communicating his ‘etat d’âme.’”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1236. N. 25, ’05. 260w.
“If the author had restricted himself to what he knew and saw, or was
told on good authority, he would have made a noteworthy addition to
the very limited number of works on his subject.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 418. Ap. 7. 250w.
“Enthusiasm, spontaneity, kindly humor, and a sprightly style
characterize the volume.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 234. Ap. 1, ’06. 370w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 180w.
“It is a real book, not a made book, that he has given us.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 422. D. 1, ’05. 430w.
“Would that Mr. Passmore had put all of his experience in simpler
phrase. His command of verbal wealth and imagery too often leads him
from standards safe astray.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 105. F. 1, ’06. 520w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 809. N. 25, ’05. 350w.
“This is no guide-book; it is far better—a book to read, and read
again, and then to follow, not like the blind Baedekerite, but as one
follows Walton.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 151. Mr. 10, ’06. 360w.
“A very entertaining volume, in which history, legend, folk-lore, and
description are linked together by a mind attuned to the picturesque,
the romantic, and—the humorous.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 1083. D. 30, ’05. 310w.
“We think a style less wanton than Mr. Passmore’s and more sweet than
Baedeker’s would serve the purpose better.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 14. D. 9, ’05. 300w.
“Mr. Passmore is both historical and descriptive, and in both
characters shows much energy.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 504. Mr. 31, ’06. 290w.
=Paston, George, pseud. (Miss E. M. Symonds).= Social caricature in the
eighteenth century. *$15. Dutton.
“George Paston’s book deals textually and pictorially with the various
phases of social caricature and of the social groups, the places, the
fashions which inspired the pens of the artists, who were ever on the
alert for abnormal tendencies—‘Le Beau Monde,’ the Pantheon, Carlisle
House, the Mall, Hyde Park, Dramatic and musical, Literary and
artistic, and, finally, Popular delusions and impostures.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“It is perhaps inevitable that the text of the book itself, being
obviously ‘written up’ to the illustration, should be less interesting
as a whole, though abounding in isolated good things.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 240. F. 24. 1400w.
“What is really the first complete work on the subject of English
eighteenth century caricature that has yet appeared.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 28: 86. Mr. ’06. 330w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 30. Ja. 26, ’06. 160w.
“George Paston’s text is a splendid achievement of thoroughly
sympathetic work, whether seen from the point of view of history or
criticism.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 367. Je. 9, ’06. 890w.
“The volume is full of the entertaining and curious from cover to
cover.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 794. My. 19, ’06. 340w.
=Paternoster, George Sidney.= Cruise of the Conqueror: being the further
adventures of the motor pirate; with a front. by Frank T. Merrill.
$1.50. Page.
A sequel to “The motor pirate,” whose hero, it will be remembered,
after bringing repeated terror to England shot over the edge of a
precipice to certain death. How he comes to life and is in the present
story the “same truculent hero in an eight-foot, gold-coated motor
boat, capable of something over forty knots an hour at sea.” (Ath.)
suggests exciting possibilities for the present tale of adventure. Nor
does Mr. Paternoster make sure of his elusive hero at the end of the
present story, the evasion suggests another reappearance.
* * * * *
“It is not strong in characterization or literary style; but it has go
and vigour.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 200w.
“Aside from the glamourless love interest, the further adventures of
the motor pirate form, as they should, exciting reading.” Stephen
Chalmers.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 560w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“The author contrives that his melodrama shall be to a certain extent
convincing.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 345. Mr. 3, ’06. 120w.
=Paterson, Arthur, and Allingham, Helen (Mrs. W. Allingham).= Homes of
Tennyson. **$2. Macmillan.
The homes of Tennyson have been painted by Mrs. Allingham, and Mr.
Paterson has furnished the descriptive portions which are written
“from a personal rather than a biographical standpoint.” “The book
pleasantly deals with Farringford, in the Isle of Wight, where
Tennyson usually spent the winter, and with Aldworth, on the borders
of Surrey, and Sussex, the summer home of Tennyson’s declining years.”
(Ind.)
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 59: 1384. D. 14, ’05. 60w.
“There is not one word in his book that could have wounded the
susceptibilities of Tennyson, yet the record is full of interest and
charm.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 28: 181. Ap. ’06. 110w.
+ – =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 120w.
“Mr. Paterson’s share in this book, whose value is quite unaffected by
his defects—sentimentality and exaggerated adoration of Tennyson—would
call for no remark had he not loaded his pages with a construction
that must give pain to the sensitive reader.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ’05. 210w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 728. D. 2, ’05. 60w.
“The descriptive letterpress, by Mr. Arthur Paterson, is worthy even
of the work of Mrs. Allingham. He commands a style that is graphic in
the best sense.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 648. Ap. 28, ’06. 280w.
=Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton.= Poems; with an introd. by Basil
Champneys. $1.75. Macmillan.
“All the poems, with the latest changes in them (whether improvements
or otherwise) are brought together in a single volume of clear and
stately print. A remarkably faithful portrait is included in the
six-shillings’ worth, and Mr. Basil Champneys adds an introductory
discourse in which a sufficiency of biographical detail has
place.”—Acad.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 366. O. 13, ’06. 1640w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 702. O. 27, ’06. 1250w.
=Putnam’s= 1: 378. D. ’06. 90w.
=Patrick, William.= James, the Lord’s brother. **$2. Scribner.
The author stands on debatable ground in his monolog which aims to
show that the author of the Epistle of James is the James whom St.
Paul refers to as “the Lord’s brother” in Galatians i, 19. “His
conclusion is the one that Christian men would naturally wish to be
true but it must be confessed that serious difficulties are in the
way. These Dr. Patrick combats with great ability, but with a success
that seems somewhat contingent on the predilection of his readers.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“We welcome his volume as a scholarly and reasonable contribution to a
clearer understanding of the forces at work during the apostolic age.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 138. Ap. 20, ’06. 930w.
– =Nation.= 83: 152. Ag. 16, ’06. 430w.
“With ample learning makes a very plausible argument.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 130w.
=Patten, Helen Philbrook.= Music lovers’ treasury. **$1.20. Estes.
An anthology of poetry, ancient and modern, referring to music and
musicians.
* * * * *
“A volume that certainly merits its title.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ’05. 70w.
=Ind.= 59: 1544. D. 28, ’05. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 645. S. 30, ’05. 80w.
“The compiler has generally succeeded in avoiding the merely
commonplace or distinctly bad, and the anthology is pleasing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 275. Ap. 28, ’06. 300w.
=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50.
Macmillan.
“The value of Mr. Paul’s history lies in its being a convenient record
of events or, as we have said, above, an enlarged Annual register. It
will be excellent material for the historian of the future, when he
comes to deal with the time of which he treats.”
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1309. D. 16, ’05. 1550w. (Review of v. 4.)
“By judicious omission and emphasis, the author’s strong grasp of the
subject as a whole and his sense of dramatic unity he has produced a
sort of journalistic prose epic of the British Empire, centering about
the two protagonists Beaconsfield and Gladstone. This volume seems in
many ways the best of the four which have thus far appeared.” Wilbur
C. Abbott.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 898. Jl. ’06. 1930w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Fair-mindedness continues to be a marked feature of this able and
lively work.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 892. D. 30. 560w. (Review of v. 4.)
“On the whole, Mr. Paul deserves warm congratulations on the last
volume of his attractive history.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 860w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Mr. Paul writes entertainingly and satisfactorily, and as this
information can be found nowhere else, except with great trouble in
scattered special treatises or in voluminous biographies, his book
will unquestionably be heartily welcomed by a large number of
readers.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 390w. (Review of v. 4.)
“His work is everywhere compact, but his terse and vigorous style
gives emphasis to what might otherwise easily read like a mere summary
of political events.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 95. F. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The effect on the mind is produced by the continual bias of the
writer’s judgment, together with the bitter and ungracious way in
which the judgment is expressed. We regret that so good a book should
be marred by such tiresome defects, for Mr. Paul is interesting and
painstaking and clear.” G. Townsend Warner.
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 604. Jl. ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“It is entertaining even where most exasperating; its sharpness and
color will not allow the interest to flag; in fact, there is nothing
on modern history comparable to it unless it be Hanotaux’s recent work
on ‘Contemporary France.’”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 833. Ag. 9, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 14. Ja. 12, ’06. 840w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The book is not written by the Mr. Paul whom the House of Commons
knows. But neither is it written by the delightful author of ‘Men and
letters’ and ‘Stray leaves.’ It is written by that able and useful but
less distinguished person, a daily journalist. There is nothing of
great importance in it.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 660w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Here he is again bright, rapid, epigrammatic, free from all vagueness
or hesitation, delivering positive and definite views, telling his
story in short sentences, whose meaning no one can mistake. He is not
a partisan in the sense of endeavoring to suppress the case for the
side to which he does not belong while setting out the whole of his
own. But he has strong opinions, and allows them to appear.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 120. F. 8, ’06. 2310w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“Alertness of mind and the ability to visualize and present pointedly
are his to an extraordinary degree. They give his work all the
sprightliness of a contemporary record. After the brave beginnings of
his earlier volumes we are not quite satisfied with this one.”
Christian Gauss.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 176. Mr. 24, ’06. 1750w. (Review of v. 4.)
“For him who wishes a brilliant account of English politics and the
working of that great governmental machine, the English constitution,
there is no better book.” Christian Gauss.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 845. D. 8, ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Outlook.= 81: 1081. D. 30, ’05. 80w. (Review of v. 4.)
“It need hardly be added that his pages are distinguished by the ease,
candor, honesty and incisiveness that gave such a charm to the earlier
installments.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 5.)
=R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Mr. Paul is a clever journalist whose fascinating style of writing
and peculiar type of humour succeed in making the dullest subjects
entertaining.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 215. Ag. 12, ’05. 1800w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This volume may be recommended as a work of reference and at the same
time a very entertaining reading, for it is full of shrewd and
philosophic sayings about political parties, is suffused with dry
humor, and contains occasional flashes of wit.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 303. Mr. 10, ’06. 1410w. (Review of v. 4.)
“In many of the transactions described by him, Mr. Paul, as an active
politician must have taken some part. During most of the period
covered by this volume, Mr. Paul’s opponents were in power. Yet the
story is told with scrupulous impartiality: nought is set down in
malice: and though in so concise a work there must necessarily be much
suppression, the perspective is admirably caught and maintained. An
absence of picturesque detail is the price we have to pay for sober
style, relieved by touches of caustic but not ill-natured humor.”
Arthur A. Baumann.
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 477. O. 20, ’06. 1920w. (Review of v. 5.)
“He writes so well, his judgment is, on the whole, so sound, that we
cannot but deplore the deficiencies of his narrative.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 345. Mr. 3, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The new volume, like the volumes which have preceded it, is
brilliantly written. Whatever qualities or defects Mr. Paul may have
as an historian, his style is, in the main, beyond criticism. His
narrative may occasionally be inadequate, but it is never dull.”
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 726. N. 10, ’06. 1660w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= Life of Froude. **$4. Scribner.
Thru the personal assistance of Miss Froude and Ashley Froude, the
historian’s only son, the biographer has gathered a generous amount of
new and interesting material by means of which he traces Froude’s
character and career. “He was one of England’s really great
historians.... No historian has done so much as Mr. Froude to
interpret aright the English reformation and its great characters, no
one so much to explain Henry VIII, and no one so much to dispel the
romantic mystery which has enveloped the character and career of Mary
Queen of Scots, who deserves to be ranked, as Froude’s realistic
portraiture has ranked her, with Jezebel of Israel, Lucretia Borgia of
Italy, and Catherine de’ Medici of France.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“A book that from beginning to end is always attractive, although, for
our part, we feel that the biographer has given too much attention to
the controversies in which Froude was engaged.”
+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1217. N. 25, ’05. 1480w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 901. Jl. ’06. 750w.
“His book is a series of essays about Froude; It is in no sense a
biography, like Froude’s own work on Carlyle.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 164. F. 10. 1470w.
“In Froude he has a spicy subject. He was sure to produce a lively
book.” Goldwin Smith.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 680. My. ’06. 5050w.
“Mr. Herbert Paul is well fitted to write a sympathetic life of
Froude, both because, of his own historical studies and because, like
Froude himself, he possesses imagination and a sense of style.” H. T.
P.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 529. Jl. ’06. 2420w.
Reviewed by George Louis Beer.
+ =Critic.= 49: 180. Ag. ’06. 1990w.
“Whether it be that sympathy with his subject has imparted to him
something of Froude’s own consummate art as a literary craftsman,
certain it is that he has produced a very readable account.” Percy F.
Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 80. F. 1, ’06. 2630w.
“The biography ... which has something of an ‘official’ character, is
made subordinate to the description and estimate of his writings.” A.
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 397. Ap. ’06. 1800w.
“No reader can finish Mr. Paul’s volume on Froude without a vivid
impression of the life which it is written to commemorate. Had he
contented himself with narration, and omitted the discussion of his
hero’s merits as an historian, the volume would have been more useful
and permanent.” Charles A. Beard.
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 683. Mr. 22, ’06. 1610w.
“A work whose biographical and critical sides are, however, very
uneven.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
“If Mr. Paul has failed to produce a masterpiece, he has written what
will be accepted as an adequate life, and perhaps it may prove to be
the final one. It is an excellent piece of work, considering the
limitations imposed.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 490w.
“Perhaps the most exact title for this interesting book would have
been ‘Froude: a sketch.’ It is alive from the first page to the last.
It is full of Froude and full of his biographer.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 417. D. 1, ’05. 2270w.
“Marked by his usual force, point, and vivacity.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 452. My. 31, ’06. 2510w.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 875. D. 9, ’05. 1670w. (Reprinted from Lond.
Times.)
“His admiration lends a charm to his volume, but also imparts to it
its two chief defects: it could be lessened in bulk with advantage ...
and its tone is throughout too much that of one who is retained to
defend an accused from attack. But in the main we agree with Mr.
Paul’s interpretation.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 82: 92. Ja. 13, ’06. 520w.
“There is, perhaps, nothing really new in the volume, but there is
certainly a great deal of vigorous, pungent, and intellectually
brilliant comment on the views and accomplishments of the late
historian.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 118. Ja. ’06. 190w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 52. Ja. 13, ’06. 1530w.
“This is a very delightful and refreshing book. Is one of the best and
happiest portraits we have seen painted with that most graphic of
instruments, the pen, for a long time.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 148. Ja. 27, ’06. 1870w.
=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= Stray leaves. **$1.50. Lane.
“Ten brilliant papers by Herbert Paul the accomplished critic and
historian.... As characterizations the essays on Bishop Creighton and
George Eliot are most stimulating.... In his book reviews Mr. Paul ...
defends his point of view with nimble wit and careless confidence. He
differs with Leslie Stephen in his estimate of George Eliot. He
analyzes the essays and addresses of Mr. Balfour, touching upon the
political position of the ex-leader with caustic irony.... The review
of Lucas’s ‘Life of Charles Lamb’ is favorable and highly
appreciative.... ‘The study of Greek’ and ‘The religion of the Greeks’
show the cleverness of the author from another point.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The main reason why Mr. Herbert Paul is not a great critic is that he
is not fundamental. An agreeable, witty and learned writer, he still
lacks the patient analytical power and penetration required for any
true illumination of his subject.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 278. S. 22, 06. 1470w.
“The articles reprinted by Mr. Herbert Paul under the title of ‘Stray
leaves’ are pretty sure to repeat the success of his similar
collection ‘Men and letters.’”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 364. S. 29. 580w.
“Apart from this absurd notion as to the uselessness of a little
Greek, Mr. Paul has written a good book.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 480w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20, ’06. 180w.
“Is as rich in pleasure-giving quality as its predecessor, ‘Men and
letters.’”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 329. S. 28, ’06. 1070w.
“They are unfailingly pleasant reading. ‘Pleasant’ is exactly the
adjective.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 814. D. 1, ’06. 108Ow.
“Altogether, one could not read a more entertaining and enlivening
book than this collection of papers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 290w.
“The ‘Stray leaves’ were worth gathering together and preserving.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 384. D. ’06. 60w.
=Paulsen, Friedrich.= German universities and university study;
authorized tr. by Frank Thilly and W: W. Elwang. **$3. Scribner.
Here “the German university is surveyed from every side—compared with
the universities of other countries, with its old self in former ages,
its relation to German national life, the instructors and their
instruction, the students and their studying, and lastly the separate
faculties as they prepare students for four professions. Altho his
exposition of present conditions leaves no feature neglected, what
interests one most in the present book is the practical aspect, the
bearings of each feature of the university.”—Ind.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 609. N. 17. 1780w.
“While useful and authoritative, the volume is not wholly suited to
English readers.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 19. Jl. 1, ’06. 310w.
“A volume might be written in praise of this admirable book. A second
volume might be written on the thoughts concerning American higher
education which it suggests. It will at once be accepted as the
authoritative book on its subject. Fortunately the translation
effectively preserves some of the best qualities of Paulsen’s very
readable style.”
+ + + =Educ. R.= 32: 315. O. ’06. 1040w.
“An all-round presentation of the most satisfying
completeness—historical, descriptive, practical.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 1103. My. 10, ’06. 580w.
“Fresh in the clear, forcible English of Professor Thilly.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 208. S. 6, ’06. 1250w.
“Such a volume as this, so rich both in information, and in
suggestion, cannot be too strongly commended to the attention of
American faculties and students.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 83: 285. Je. 2, ’06. 560w.
“This translation of the elaborate work of Professor Paulsen, the
leading authority on the subject, will therefore be welcomed by all
who are interested in the question of university education, for its
historical retrospects throw light upon the causes which have given to
the German universities their exceptional position.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 577. O. 20, ’06. 1700w.
=Payne, John.= Selections from the poetry of John Payne made by Tracy
and Lucy Robinson; with an introduction by Lucy Robinson. *$2.50. Lane.
Mrs. Robinson says in her introduction that this volume of poems is
published as “an appeal to all lovers of poetry on behalf of one of
its uncrowned kings—widely known, it is true, as a translator, but as
a poet receiving less than insular recognition.” The selections
include ballads, blank verse and sonnets, “they are exquisitely
graceful, and yet profoundly impressive, pervaded by a moving
undertone of sadness, which perhaps reaches its full expression in the
beautiful poem ‘The grave of my songs.’ How the poet could have
remained in comparative obscurity so long can only be explained by the
pre-eminence of his translations, and his own exceeding modesty as to
his original writings.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“These ‘Selections’ have been made with excellent taste and judgment
by Tracy and Lucy Robinson, the latter furnishing the Introduction
which is done with sympathetic insight and with fine appreciation of
the subject.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ + =Critic.= 49: 141. Ag. ’06. 550w.
“Is supplied as an extremely interesting study of his work as a
whole.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 326. My. 16, ’06. 930w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 696. S. 20, ’06. 340w.
“The first impression made by the selection is that of a marvelous
virtuosity, an amazing metrical and verbal ingenuity. Of the
poeticalness, so to say, of Mr. Payne’s literary impulse there can be
no doubt.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 327. Ap. 19, ’06. 750w.
“His inventive genius and remarkable use of melodious English give an
unusual pleasure to the appreciative reader.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 220w.
=Peabody, Francis Greenwood.= Jesus Christ and the Christian character.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
“This is a companion volume to “Jesus Christ and the social question.”
It examines the teaching of Jesus concerning personal life, and the
applicability of the Christian type to the conditions of the modern
world.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“It is a most valuable addition to the literature of Christian ethics.
It is an immensely fruitful book for all; but it has peculiar
eye-opening value for the student afflicted with academic theological
myopia.” Herbert A. Youtz.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 765. O. ’06. 700w.
“Here is learning and wisdom and perception of human need, and the
word spoken in season, made attractive and convincing and vital by
association with the Supreme Person.” George Hodges.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 250w.
=Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“The book embodies a clear insight into the fundamentals of the method
and of the subject-matter of Christian ethics. And when to this high
scholarly value one adds its extraordinary practical suggestiveness in
the concrete problems of modern life, it is evident that the book is
one which every pastor and teacher should read.” G. B. S.
+ + + =Bib. World.= 28: 428. D. ’06. 460w.
“The thinking is strong and clear, but somewhat conservative.” W.
Jones Davies.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 5: 219. O. ’06. 840w.
“The lectures are full of power and present a study of Christian
ethics which is truly inspiring.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 222. Ja. 25, ’06. 220w.
“The foot notes show a wide reading in modern studies upon the
character of Jesus Christ. The body of the book shows large
familiarity with the character and teaching of Jesus Christ.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ’05. 190w.
“Scholarly and yet simply phrased treatise.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Pearse, Mark Guy.= Pretty ways o’ Providence. *$1. Meth. bk.
A group of thirteen stories, simple possible tales, all bearing
testimony to the kindly rift that lets the light of heaven thru. How
definite good guided Henry Craze in his love-making, saved shy Man’el
Hodge from his baneful love-coaching, and touched the heart of a
hardened drunkard to transform his dreary cottage into a place fit for
the home-coming of his little maid, are among the “pretty ways o’
Providence.”
* * * * *
+ =Outlook.= 83: 225. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.
“These are pretty little stories of excellent moral tone, a little
over-sentimental and pious in a Methodist fashion, but pleasantly and
simply written with appreciation of country atmosphere and rustic
ways.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 150. Ag. 4, ’06. 30w.
=Peck, Ellen Brainerd.= Songs by the sedges. $1. Badger, R: G.
“Miss Peck has a pretty fancy and a light touch, which are just the
qualities needed for this sort of reminiscent verse.” Wm. M. Payne
+ =Dial.= 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 925. D. 30, ’05. 40w.
=Peck, Rev. George Clarke.= Vision and task. $1. Meth. bk.
Fifteen sermons in which the task of Christian living is expressed in
terms of life to-day, and is brought home with the force of current
comparison. The titles include: The passing of mystery; The plain
heroic breed; A vision for the wilderness; A lesson for the street;
The biography of a back-slider; Doing good by proxy; The hindering
God; The thorn as an asset; The paramount duty; and The divine
dependence.
* * * * *
“These are strenuous sermons, clearly conceived, and delivered in
clear and forcible English.” Edward Braislin.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 573. Jl. ’06. 180w.
“This is a collection of sermons eminently good. Their vision is
clear.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 892. D. 9, ’05. 60w.
=Peck, Harry Thurston.= William Hickling Prescott. **75c. Macmillan.
“If this were the only existing life of Prescott it would leave much
to be desired; taken in connection with the lives by Ticknor and Mr.
Rollo Ogden it will serve a genuinely useful purpose.” M. A. De Wolfe
Howe.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 117. Ja. ’06. 640w.
=Peckham, George Williams, and Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford.= Wasps,
social and solitary; with an introd. by John Burroughs. **$1.50.
Houghton.
“The book of the Peckhams is valuable as a whole because it gives us
an accurate description of the types of behavior of many different
genera and species of wasps.” J. B. W.
+ + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 172. My. 15, ’06. 1160w.
=Peixotto, Ernest Clifford.= By Italian seas; il. by the author.
**$2.50. Scribner.
“The interest of the book lies, of course, in the pictures rather than
the text, altho the latter satisfactorily fills its function of
supplying a running descriptive commentary enlivened by picturesque
anecdotes and observations of peasant life on all sides of the
Mediterranean. For the author fortunately interprets his title,
liberally, and includes not only the overwritten Riviera, but
Dalmatia, Malta and Tunis, which are still pervaded by Italian
influences.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Pleasant and informing book.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“The sketches of the Austrian coast of the Adriatic are especially
interesting, for strangely enough, it is rarely visited by the
tourist. But the numerous pen drawings and half tones of this
handsomely printed book will do something toward removing this
ignorance, for after we have read it and looked at the pictures we
shall know more about it than many who have been there.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1290. N. 20, ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Peixotto’s style is always clear, picturesque and mellow, and
often poetic, and he draws his word-pictures with the same dexterous
touch with which he sketches his pen-and-ink pictures of church
spires, tall cypresses, or ruined monasteries.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 512. D. 13, ’06. 450w.
“In publishing another edition of Mr. Peixotto’s book a few misspelt
Italian and French words should be corrected, but in the present
edition one hardly notices these rare errors in the enjoyment of the
author’s straightforward, wholesome style whether he gives us a
word-picture or an etching.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 130w.
“The book is really good reading, a capital record of travel for the
stay-at-home, observant of the picturesque, appreciative of historical
associations as of artistic beauties, and as for the illustrations,
Mr. Peixotto long since passed the stage in his career where praise of
his work was necessary.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 379. D. ’06. 180w.
“Mr. Peixotto’s descriptions of his wanderings through Italy and
across the Adriatic have the fascination of a novel.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 50w.
=Pemberton, Max.= My sword for Lafayette; being the story of a great
friendship; and of certain episodes in the wars waged for liberty, both
in France and America, by one who took no mean part therein. †$1.50.
Dodd.
Zaida Kay is a young American who after the battle of Yorktown follows
Lafayette to France. “There is mutiny on the high seas; there is a
miraculous escape; there is an idyllic sojourn in a quaint little
village on the coast of England, and a romantic marriage with a young
French girl in hiding there from enemies at home.” (N. Y. Times.) And
before a return to America is accomplished the two are led thru a maze
of happenings precipitated by Frenchmen fighting for liberty.
* * * * *
“The author has a certain facility of invention, but his style is
without flexibility, and his figures are rarely anything more than
puppets.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 37. Jl. 16, ’06. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 271. Ap. 28, ’06. 260w.
“For the most part the episodes are trite, and without exception the
characters are lifeless puppets. But it is perhaps in dialogue that
Mr. Pemberton fails most signally.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 561. My. 5, ’06. 230w.
=Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell).= Charles Godfrey
Leland: a biography. 2v. **$5. Houghton.
“All who knew Charles Godfrey Leland knew that the man was stronger
than his work. It is this man that Mrs. Pennell draws for us. From her
pages radiates a personality that refreshes and rejoices, a vitality
that heartens, and invigorates the reader. Not but that the
biographer, proud of her brilliant uncle, does her best to give some
account of what he achieved. And here she serves him truly.... The
biography is mainly the work of Leland’s own pen. It consists almost
entirely in transcripts from his memoranda, notes, and other papers,
and of letters written to his family and to celebrities, American and
English, with some of their replies. Mrs. Pennell furnishes the
necessary links, transitions, and explanations, drawing upon her
knowledge of the man and his ways, acquired during the period of her
intimate companionship with him.... The illustrations consist of two
frontispiece portraits of ‘the Rye,’ and facsimile reproductions of
letters written to him by Lowell, Holmes, Tennyson, Browning,
Bulwer-Lytton and many others.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“She has done ample justice to the fine traits in her uncle’s
character, and has produced a biography which will be read with
pleasure by all to whom his talents and achievements were known.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 686. D. 1. 1410w.
=Current Literature.= 41: 648. D. ’06. 1220w.
“As a companion and supplement to the ‘Memoirs’ of 1839, it helps to
furnish a full-length portrait of an unusually interesting man.” Percy
F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 198. O. 1, ’06. 1850w.
“A life absorbed in interests of so romantic a nature cannot fail to
furnish a rich find to the biographer, and Mrs. Pennell has acquitted
herself admirably of the task.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20. ’06. 370w.
“Is one of the really important books of the kind that have appeared
this season.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“This readable biography, permeated with the strong personality of its
subject has the shortcomings that Leland’s versatility made
practically avoidable.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 262. S. 27, ’06. 1430w.
“This and other failings of his, Mrs. Pennell does not see; it is
perhaps, not a part of her chosen task to see them. That she gives
great charm to her record goes without saying; and that her estimate
of her uncle as a person of importance is just, no reader will be
disposed to deny.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 625. O. 6, ’06. 1580w.
“If the tone is rather more admiring than would be the case if it were
not all in the family, is nevertheless an exceedingly readable book,
full of letters and anecdotes of real intrinsic interest.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“The life and character of Charles Geoffrey Leland [are]
sympathetically interpreted by his niece.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 553. N. 3, ’06. 2430w.
“Mrs. Pennell has very cleverly contrived in this way to make her
brilliant uncle’s cheerful, enthusiastic personality pervade the book,
and to give, at the same time, his own valuation of the different
tasks to which his versatility applied itself during his long career.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 390w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 140w.
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 3. D. 8, ’06. 1960w.
=Pepper, Charles Melville.= Panama to Patagonia: the Isthmian canal and
the west coast countries of South America. **$2.50. McClurg.
The author, a member of the Permanent pan-American railway committee,
dates his study from the year 1905. His lessons in physical and
commercial geography show that the geographical sphere of the canal
includes the Amazon basin, the Argentine wheat plains and the Andes
treasure box of mines from Panama to Patagonia. The author analyzes
the national tendencies, political history, governmental policies and
the unfolding of industrial life among the inhabitants. He urges
America to share in the opportunity which the canal enterprise has
created for contributing to the civilization that comes thru the
spread of commerce and industry.
* * * * *
“There are few matters treated in the volume which are of interest to
the ordinary traveller or reader.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 364. S. 29. 590w.
“The book is timely, well written, and copiously equipped with maps
and illustrations.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 200w.
“The book before us will be of value to every American who would keep
in touch with our own commercial development; nor less does it deserve
a place in the alcove devoted to books of travel.” Thomas H. MacBride.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 322. My. 16, ’06. 1160w.
“The book is a useful one for its descriptions of the countries and
people which we ought to know much more about than we do and for the
trade and industrial facts and figures it contains.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 875. Ap. 12, ’06. 250w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 327. S. 28, ’06. 730w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 291. My. 5, ’06. 270w.
“It embodies ... a serious and commendable effort to enlighten the
American public as a matter of National concern.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 333. My. 26, ’06. 3900w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 672. Jl. 21, ’06. 390w.
=Perez, Isaac Loeb.= Stories and pictures; tr. from the Yiddish by
Helena Frank. $1.50. Jewish pub.
The translator makes note of the fact that fully to understand these
sketches one needs to know intimately the life of the Russian Jews who
figure here, and to be familiar with the love of the Talmud and the
Kabbalah which color their talk. These stories are “intensely Jewish”
but are told in the spirit of the author’s broad views and wide
sympathies.
* * * * *
“The author possesses the master-power which enables him to impart to
commonplace and even sordid happenings that deep human interest which
lifts his work above the plane of mediocrity to that of genius.” Amy
C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 36: 684. D. ’06. 180w.
“Ought to be of interest to any one, regardless of creed, to whom a
sympathetic study in human nature is always precious.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 657. O. 6, ’06. 330w.
“They are short in form, depending in the main upon a dramatic
perception of character, having no narrative interest, or very little.
The various difficulties confronting the translator have not been
entirely overcome; but to reproduce a local dialect is almost as
impossible as to reproduce the subtle qualities of style.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 432. O. 20, ’06. 190w.
=Perkins, Mrs. Lucy (Fitch).= Goose girl: a mother’s lap book of rhymes
and pictures. †$1.25. McClurg.
A book of verse and pictures for little people.
* * * * *
“The simple little rhymes are quaint and pleasing, and the full page
and smaller pictures, in black and white, are done with cleverness and
charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 60w.
“A folio volume with a ‘stunning’ cover, and with rhymes and pictures
above the average in effectiveness and genuine wit.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 766. D. ’06. 40w.
=Perrigo, Charles Oscar Eugene.= Machine shop construction, equipment
and management. $5. Henley.
The author “attempts in this book to give a comprehensive didactic
treatment of this subject. There are two main divisions of this
subject which should be kept distinct; they discuss (1) The plant, or
the producing implement, and (2) Operation, or the handling of this
implement. They are just as separate and independent as are
construction and operation in the case of railways: though
inter-related at many points, they are the concern of different
classes of men, based on wholly different sets of principles, and have
to meet quite different conditions.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The work has much interest as a record, even though far from thorough
or comprehensive, of the methods and object of laying out a machine
shop and controlling its operation.”
+ =Engin. N.= 55: 194. F. 15, ’06. 1340W.
=Perry, Bliss.= Walt Whitman: his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.
“Confronted by a figure looming eccentrically large in its
environment, as persistently and perversely suggestive of the
picturesque as that of Carlyle, and equally rich in opportunities for
misinterpretation, the author has set himself to depict it with much
the thoroughness and anatomical accuracy shown by the old Dutch
masters in the great period of Dutch painting.” (N. Y. Times.) “Mr.
Perry’s work is modest in compass, but shows throughout that he has
studied the documents with care and patience.... In general the
narrative portions are well told and properly balanced.... Much the
most important sections of the book deal with sources and here Mr.
Perry has a field almost entirely his own.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ =Atlan.= 98: 853. D. ’06. 1530w.
=Current Literature.= 41: 640. D. ’06. 950w.
“Mr. Perry’s critical judgment is calm, sane and discriminating. His
attitude is friendly always, at times enthusiastic, although never
that of an enthusiast: he never slips his moorings, critically.” W. E.
Simonds.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 317. N. 16. ’06. 2060w.
“It is unusually well written. The materials for anything like a
satisfactory estimate are wanting.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1231. N. 22. ’06. 660w.
“Altogether the volume will probably take its place as the sane and
authoritative life of Whitman for many years to come.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 306. O. 11, ’06. 1210w.
“His book throughout is a striking instance of the value of poise. No
significant details are slurred over, no difficult passages are
omitted, no grotesque features are softened, no preliminary effort has
been considered superfluous, respect for ‘nature as she is’ reigns in
the picture: yet the work complete is saved from any suspicion of the
meticulous by a fusing glow of imaginative insight.” Elisabeth Luther
Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 717. N. 3, ’06. 1850w.
“Shunning partisanship as well as prejudice, Prof. Perry has been
inclined to present a psychological rather than a material biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. ’06. 200w.
“Mr. Perry has made the first successful attempt to bring within a
book of moderate compass a complete biography and critical study of
that unique personage in American literature, Walt Whitman.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 758. D. ’06. 110w.
=Perry, John G.= Letters from a surgeon of the civil war; comp. by
Martha Derby Perry; il. from photographs. **$1.75. Little.
Mrs. Perry has brought together her husband’s letters written during
1862–64 while he was serving as surgeon with the Twentieth
Massachusetts volunteers. “His brief and modest letters, supplemented
by a few editorial insertions, tell a story of hardship and danger,
especially in the Wilderness campaign and before Petersburgh, that
easily might have tempted another to essay a more ambitious style.”
(Dial.)
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 71. Ag. 1, ’06. 310w.
=Nation.= 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 50w.
“A new volume of considerable interest and some historical value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 557. S. 8. ’06. 670w.
=Perry, Ralph Barton.= Approach to philosophy. **$1.50. Scribner.
To make the reader “more solicitously aware of the philosophy that is
in him, or to provoke him to philosophy in his own interests” is the
author’s aim in the present work. In the first part of the work the
author establishes his approach to philosophy thru practical life,
poetry, religion and science; the second part furnishes “‘the reader
with a map of the country to which he has been led,’ to provide ‘a
brief survey of the entire programme of philosophy.’” The third part
“emphasizes the point of view, or the internal consistency that makes
a system of philosophy out of certain answers to the special problems
of philosophy.” (Philos. R.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Perry has compressed a wonderful amount of information into a
short space. Nevertheless we are sorry for the beginner who approaches
philosophy by way of such a wilderness of -isms.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 169. F. 10. 440w.
“One closes the book with the conviction of having enjoyed and
profited by a gracefully written, a skillfully planned, and
well-sustained discussion of the vital relationship of philosophy to
practical interests, its inevitableness, its characteristic problems,
and its representative systems. The non-technical will doubtless find
this approach well designed to lead to intimacy.” Albert Lefevre.
+ =Philos. R.= 15: 204. Mr. ’06. 1810w.
“Dr Perry possesses the power of writing English that is lucid and
distinguished—a rare gift in a philosopher—and this fact, combined
with an extremely wide range of reading, enables him to display the
historic field of philosophy in a manner that, so far as we are aware,
has no precedent other than the famous work of Dean Mansel. This
admirable work should be in the hands of every thinker.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 1012. Je. 30, ’06. 760w.
=Perry, Thomas Sergeant.= John Fiske. **75c. Small.
A late “Beacon biography” which presents the life of this worthy
historian in summary form, comprehensively viewing the man’s life and
labors, “and because the theme was a man of letters rather than
affairs, the qualities of an extended essay are more conspicuous than
those of biographical narrative.” (Atlan.)
* * * * *
“This brief biography cannot be commended for accuracy, abundance of
information, discriminating judgment, or literary merit.” F. G. D.
– – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 717. Ap. ’06. 170w.
“One feels in the spirit and outlook which form the background of the
little book the peculiar qualifications of Mr. Perry for undertaking
what he has performed so well.”
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 117. Ja. ’06. 360w.
“One turns from it with the feeling that the picture is drawn in bold,
strong lines, regretting only that fuller detail was not attempted.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 250w.
=Ind.= 60: 1548. Je. 28, ’06. 60w.
“Is one of the best, if not the best in the series.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 897. D. 16, ’05. 150w.
“This little biographical essay would make an excellent preface to the
collected works of John Fiske. There is a great deal in it.”
Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 77. F. 10. ’06. 840w.
“He is, indeed inclined to be over-eulogistic, and his portrayal
suffers from awkward phraseology. But in spite of this he contrives to
convey a good idea of Mr. Fiske both as man and as writer.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 220w.
“A very excellent biography of John Fiske.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 60w.
=Peters, Madison Clinton.= Jews in America: a short story of their part
in the building of the republic; commemorating the 250th anniversary of
their settlement. $1. Winston.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 477. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“The results are so interesting that one cannot but wish that the work
had been more thoroughly done.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 260. Ap. 16, ’06. 1590w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= History of Egypt from the XIXth to
the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.
“It is rather a series of citations from original sources than a
history in the modern sense of the term.”
+ + – =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“May be said to be almost a model of a presentative history as
distinguished from a philosophical one.” L. H. Gray.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 358. D. ’05. 350w.
“It is not history in the popular sense of that term, but it is rather
a chronological arrangement of the materials out of which a running
narrative could be constructed. As a compendium, it is invaluable to
the scholar.” Ira Maurice Price.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 16. Jl. 1, ’06. 260w.
“He has made a book for students and for specialists, a book which
enables us to say that the best and most inclusive history of Egypt is
in English; but it is not one that can be read with ease or possesses
literary merit.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 104. F. 1, ’06. 610w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= Researches in Sinai. **$6. Dutton.
Dr. Petrie’s researches in the desert region to which Sinai belongs
offer large returns to the student of archaeology. “On the way he
picked up a few unconsidered trifles in the way of ancient remains;
but his main work lay at Maghareh, where the turquois had been mined,
and at neighboring Serabít, where was erected the temple to Hathor,
the Lady of the Turquois. This temple Mr. Petrie’s party planned and
excavated, with the results that, considering the remoteness of the
region from Nilotic civilization and the frequency with which the spot
has been researched, are truly amazing.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 957. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“Its ingredients are excellent, stamped with the hall-mark of the
author’s original and independent mind. We only sigh for a little more
art in the concoction of them, a little more sense of the difference
between a book and the rough notes for several books.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 231. Je. 29, ’06. 1250w.
=Nation.= 83: 168. Ag. 23, ’06. 1620w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 440. Jl. 7, ’06. 870w.
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 816. Ag. 4, ’06. 660w.
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 81. Jl. 21, ’06. 1640w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 986. Je. 23, ’06. 1580w.
=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Christian origins. *$1.75. Huebsch.
This book has grown out of a series of lectures delivered by the
author at the University of Berlin, during the past winter. The
viewpoint from which he treats the origin of Christianity is
historical, and a complete interpretation of the meaning of his method
with its relation to other methods is furnished in the introduction.
The two main divisions of his study are Preparation and foundation of
Christianity, and The evolution of early Christianity into the church.
* * * * *
“This volume is in our judgment the most important religious work that
has appeared during the past year.”
+ + + =Arena.= 36: 97. Jl. ’06. 3100w.
“Brilliant though it is, needs to be corrected and restrained in its
most important positions before it can be taken as a scientifically
reliable narrative of the origins of the Christian faith.”
+ – =Cath. World.= 83: 554. Jl. ’06. 680w.
“The work is condensed and devoid of technicalities, and has been
rendered into excellent English.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 323. My. 16, ’06. 980w.
=Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
“The work of this great scholar will be widely accepted as conclusive.
It presents a serious challenge to the Church. To answer it
effectively will require, besides equal genius, preparedness to make
some concessions.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 856. Ap. 14, ’06. 380w.
=Phelps, Albert.= Louisiana; a record of expansion. *$1.10. Houghton.
“The book as a whole, shows careful study of the sources, and its
accuracy is commendable. There are, however, some errors, due partly
to a failure to examine recently discovered documents and partly to
other causes.” John R. Ficklen.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 408. Ja. ’06. 980w.
“The volume is among the most scholarly of the extensive literature
called forth by the recent centennial anniversary of the acquisition
of this vast territory.”
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 532. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“The work bears the stamp of originality, not that it offers any fresh
facts to the student, but rather because of the appreciations which it
gives of many events and movements.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 119. Ap. ’06. 140w.
“The account of the Reconstruction, though brief, is the first
satisfactory treatment of that tumultuous epoch in Louisiana history.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 157. Mr. 1, ’06. 470w.
“In accurate scholarship and depth of research it ranks well also, but
the last third of the book,—concerning the Civil war, its cause and
results—is unfortunately written in a controversial vein with strong
Southern sympathies.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 630. Mr. 15, ’06. 440w.
“A narrative exhibiting unity and coherence, and dealing with large
events in a large way. One of the best of the ‘Commonwealths’
histories.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 560w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Phelps, Idelle.= Your health. **75c. Jacobs.
The colored drawings by Helen Alden Knipe which illustrate this little
volume of toasts add much to its attractions. The toasts themselves
are not wholly new but cover a broad field extending from “the world”
to “babies,” and from “the Garden of Eden” to “a bird, a bottle and an
open-work stocking.”
* * * * *
“Something of the champagne flavor belongs to the collection of
toasts.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 40w.
=Philippi, Adolf.= Florence; tr. from the German by P. G. Konody.
*$1.50. Scribner.
“This is an excellent compendium of the art and, on the whole, of the
history of Florence. Misprints are, unfortunately, rather numerous.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 100: 851. D. 30, ’05. 520w.
=Phillipps, L. March.= In the desert. $4.20. Longmans.
“This interesting volume is a triumph of impressions.” (Ath.) “It is
concerned with two unrelated topics; the French scheme of colonization
in Algiers, and the influence of the Sahara desert on Arab life,
architecture, religion, poetry, and philosophy.... In his thesis that
the Arab character is the outcome of the influence of the desert, Mr.
Phillipps gives us a sketch of the effect of the desert life on
himself, and applies his experience to that of the Arab.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A vivid, plausible, and spirited piece of word-painting, which may
safely be commended to all save the real student and the practised
traveller in Africa.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 133. F. 3. 480w.
“The author has made an entertaining contribution to our knowledge of
Arab life and art.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 40: 233. Ap. 1, ’06. 470w.
“Would that Mr. Phillipps had never thought it his mission to simplify
history! That omitted, he had written a very charming book.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 368. N. 3, ’05. 1110w.
“The book is interesting and suggestive, though the style is at times
somewhat discursive and it is a little difficult to follow the
author’s train of thought.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 449. My. 31, ’06. 290w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Deluge. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“It must rank as a conservative under-statement of conditions as they
are now known to exist. As a romance this novel compares favorably
with ‘The cost’ in human and love interest while as a section taken
from present-day public life it is equal to ‘The plum-tree.’”
+ + + =Arena.= 35: 97. Ja. ’06. 2690w.
“His strongest piece of work up to the present time.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 372. D. ’05. 520w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Fortune hunter; il. by E. M. Ashe. †$1.25.
Bobbs.
The fortune hunter of the title of Mr. Phillips’ latest story is an
actor who spends his days in making love to girls of wealthy parents.
In ever choosing, in going out of his way, in fact, for the course of
least resistance he comes to well deserved grief. And the hearts that
are broken do mend.
* * * * *
“The story ... has little plot, but is deeply interesting from cover
to cover; and the closing half of the volume is especially admirable.”
+ – =Arena.= 36: 220. Ag. ’06. 380w.
“Mr. Phillips tantalizes us with the richness of his material and
provokes us by the comparatively meagre use that he has made of it.”
H. T. P.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 179. O. ’06. 380w.
“Rather clever is this sketch of this type of social nuisance.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 130w.
“The author of ‘The fortune hunter’ has added too much realism to his
romantic compound.”
– =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 80w.
“Is but a slight tale, and one rather grudges its author’s very real
powers to such ephemeral productions as are coming from his pen.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 520w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Plum tree. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“Story, in a sense, there is none; style, in a literary sense, there
is none; merely a serviceable prose, straightforward and energetic.”
Mary Moss.
+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 44. Ja. ’06. 470w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Social secretary. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“An entertaining, breezy story.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 140w.
=Phillips, Henry Wallace.= Mr. Scraggs: introduced by “Red Saunders.”
†$1.25. Grafton press.
Ezekiel George Washington Scraggs is introduced by his friend Red
Saunders. The incidents in his strenuous matrimonial career—eighteen
marriages all told—are recounted with a humor that “has a suggestion
of the slapstick, but like the slapstick it never fails to get a hand,
and mixed with it now and then a little genuine wit and more than a
little shrewd, practical frontier wisdom.” (Pub. Opin.)
* * * * *
“The stories are by no means dull and if they were not so obviously
intended to be funny, if our smiles were not literally held up and
challenged on every page, they could be read with real enjoyment.”
Mary K. Ford.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 197. Ap. ’06. 520w.
“There are seven stories in the book, and it would be hard to decide
which is the funniest. The tales are not nearly as funny as the man
who tells them, and his way of telling them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 62. F. 3, ’06. 740w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“It cannot be denied that the travesty is lively and entertaining in a
high degree.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 375. F. 17. ’06. 90w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 220w.
=Phillips, Stephen.= Nero. **$1.25. Macmillan.
In this latest play of Mr. Phillips “the world is a picture, not a
stage, and all the men and women not players, but talkers.” (Lond.
Times.) “It is a play, because it shows a will conflict—the struggle
between Nero and Agrippina, between natural affection and lust for
power—but it is even more a spectacle, illustrating polychromatically
the successive stages of Nero’s madness. It has fine poetic
passages—appropriately ‘purple’—as we shall see; it has vivid studies
of bed-rock character and fierce elemental passions. It blends the
fragrance of rose-leaves with the scent of blood. It sates the eye
with splendid pictures and the ear with voluptuous music of both verse
and orchestra. At the end of it all one gasps and is a little dizzy,
in short, it is a tremendous production.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is to be feared that Mr. Stephen Phillips will add little to his
reputation by the latest of his dramatic poems.”
– =Acad.= 70: 223. Mr. 10, ’06. 720w.
“The action of the play does little but show us the different phases
of character, but that it does with ingenuity and sufficiency.” Edward
Everett Hale.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 291. My. ’06. 640w.
“It is a poor descent of the talents, from which one can only wish the
author a speedy return upon himself to the promise of six years ago.”
Arthur Waugh.
– =Critic.= 49: 20. Jl. ’06. 1050w.
“Artifice and rhetoric seem to be the chief ingredients of the work.
The decline from ‘Paolo and Francesca,’ and ‘Ulysses’ is
discouragingly marked.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 326. My. 16, ’06. 360w.
“It contains a number of fine passages. But as a vision of life in
action, it is feeble and ineffective. And the failing is not merely
executive, it is fundamental; the piece is not conceived dramatically,
but pictorially and emotionally.”
– + =Ind.= 61: 520. Ag. 30, ’06. 200w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1164. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 439. Mr. 24. ’06. 1440w.
“The defect of ‘Nero’ is the defect of all its author’s plays.
Throughout it we are on the surface of things, never inside them.”
– =Lond. Times.= 5: 72. Mr. 2, ’06. 1260w.
“It proves him more conclusively than his previous plays did a
talented writer of elegiac verse, and expert composer of cycloramic
spectacle, who thinks habitually rather in terms of poetic phrase
than, as has been the way of the true dramatist, in terms of
character, of concerted situation, of human destiny as it is shaped
from the clashing, fatal actions of men.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 710w.
“‘Nero.’ one judges, will not add to the author’s claims as a
regenerator of the contemporary English-speaking stage. But it will
not deprive him of his laurels as one of the very few contemporary
English-writing poets.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 173. Mr. 24. ’06. 1360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16. ’06. 110w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + – =North American.= 182: 749. My. ’06. 300w.
“The whole play has the air of being written for the stage with the
effect of the stage accompaniments always before the writer’s mind.
The versification has the grave fault of a lack of organic strength.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 426. Mr. 17, ’06. 270w.
=Phillips, Stephen.= Sin of David. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 749. My. ’06. 310w.
=Phillips, Thomas W.= Church of Christ, by a layman. *$1. Funk.
“The writer has little conception of the inwardness of religion, or
the historic continuity and development of Judaism and Christianity.
The book ‘fails to convince’ largely because the real issues are not
touched.” Elbert Russell.
– =Bib. World.= 28: 77. Jl. ’06. 170w.
“The volume is well worth reading, though based, as we believe on
exaggerated views of the evils of denominationalism, and of failure to
appreciate the importance of the philosophical and systematic
presentation of the underlying principles of the gospel plan of
salvation.”
+ – =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 192. Ja. ’06. 220w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Knock at a venture. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 100w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 170w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1348. D. 7, ’05. 170w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Portreeve. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Phillpotts has placed the spirit of the Greek Fate in the breast
of the daughter of a Dartmoor farmer. Because the man whom she has
tricked into making a half-proposal of marriage to her, married the
woman he loved, she pursues him through life inexorably and without
mercy, finally working his death.” (Pub. Opin.) “Fiendish pertinacity,
fiendish coolness, fiendish ingenuity are hers. She is miasmatic ice
with a heart of malignant fire. She gives her victim law; he climbs;
she strikes ... leaving him once again a little further from his ideal
and from happiness. Finally, all but robbed of his livelihood, robbed
of his hopes of children, robbed of the simple faith of God that was
his dearest possession, he breaks. A raving lunatic, he all but
murders the woman’s foolish husband, and dies a horrible death in an
attempt to murder the woman herself.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“When all is said, this is a powerful, almost a great book. A full,
wise and glowing piece of work.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 139. F. 10, ’06. 860w.
“‘The portreeve’ is full of interesting material. But the composition
seems to be sometimes at the sacrifice of verisimilitude.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 194. F. 17. 430w.
“It lacks the grim tensity of ‘The secret woman,’ the lyric enthusiasm
of ‘Children of the mist;’ but on the other hand, it has a more even
strength, a greater dignity that comes from reserve force.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 283. My. ’06. 760w.
“One lays down ‘The portreeve’ in astonishment at the inventiveness
and ability that can use the same scenes and the same class of people
so often, yet with increasing interest.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Critic.= 48: 433. My. ’06. 380w.
“Mr. Phillpotts comes nearer than anyone else to being the legitimate
successor of Mr. Hardy as a rustic realist, and he has a considerable
measure of the imaginative power which can invest a simple passionate
complication with the severe attributes of high tragedy.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 364. Je. 1, ’06. 210w.
Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.
– =Ind.= 60: 1041. My. 3, ’06. 340w.
“A turgid dark tale ending in madness and death.”
– =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
“For all the strain it may put upon our belief, has in it much of its
author’s sense of natural beauty and fine sense of sincerity of
purpose, and a sympathy with the poor and the oppressed that is not
exceeded by any living novelist.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 45. F. 9, ’06. 580w.
“‘The portreeve,’ far nearer the Hardy level than he has ever reached
before, is undoubtedly the best work Mr. Phillpotts has done so far.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 192. Mr. 31, ’06. 1160w.
“Mr. Phillpotts has never sketched the loveliness and majesty of the
Dartmoor country with a surer hand. The motive is one of the most
repellent within reach of the novelist, and is worked out with
unsparing boldness.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 756. Mr. 31, ’06. 230w.
“It is a grim, hopeless tragedy woven out of the hard lives and plain,
simple speech of the Dartmoor people.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 390w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 130w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Secret woman. $1.50. Macmillan.
“A striking example of fine character-drawing revealed through a
highly trying medium.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 34. Ja. ’06. 240w.
=Phin, John.= Seven follies of science: a popular account of the most
famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made
to solve them, to which is added a small budget of interesting
paradoxes, illusions, and marvels. *$1.25. Van Nostrand.
The seven follies discussed are squaring the circle, the duplication
of the cube, the trisection of an angle, perpetual motion, the
transmutation of metals—alchemy, the fixation of mercury, the
universal medicine and the elixir of life.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. N.= 55: 677. Je. 14, ’06. 220w.
=Ind.= 60: 988. Ap. 26, ’06. 120w.
“He writes for the man in the street, and we can give no higher praise
than to say that the man in the street will understand him.” J. P.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 25. N. 8, ’06. 1110w.
=Outlook.= 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 50w.
“An absorbingly interesting discussion of a subject of no particular
value.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 60w.
“His book is a very agreeable excursion into a forgotten but curious
field of enquiry.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 470w.
=Phythian, J. Ernest.= Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood; a short biographical
sketch by the author, and 56 full-page reproductions in hf.-tone and a
photogravure front. *$1.25. Warne.
The latest issue in the “Newnes’ art library” “deals in a large way
with the group of men among whom Dante Gabriel Rossetti made so
distinct a name. The author covers his ground by chronicling the
history of the movement with little or no personal comment.” (Critic.)
* * * * *
“Writes with a sober accuracy.” Ford Madox Hueffer.
+ =Acad.= 69: 1296. D. 9, ’05. 110w.
=Critic.= 48: 377. Ap. ’06. 60w.
=Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 245. Ap. 14, ’06. 330w.
=Pickthall, Marmaduke.= House of Islam. †$1.50. Appleton.
“An imaginative picture of the curious Mohammedan world on the fringe
of the Sultan’s domain.... The benighted, barbaric, yet intensely
human, house of Islam.... Mr. Pickthall’s plan has been to set a
saintly, almost Biblical Sheykh in the midst of ambitious men, relying
upon the vividness of this presentation and the conflict of character
for the interest of his work. Plot there is, but it is unsymmetrical,
unimportant. The important thing is that all the machinery of the East
is set in motion and for a while the reader is transported to the
desert and the mosque, to the wineshop and the bazar.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Pickthall rouses our interest and respect; he is as yet without
that last touch of inspiration, which rouses enthusiastic conviction.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 311. S. 29, ’06. 220w.
“Our only objections are that Mr. Pickthall is at times too resolutely
Oriental for the ordinary reader to follow him easily, and that he
would gain occasionally by straightforward narrative where facts are
conveyed by brief allusion only.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 297. S. 15. 720w.
“He has failed to breathe into his characters the breath of life.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 130w.
“‘Saïd the fisherman,’ it is true remains his masterpiece, but ‘The
house of Islam’ has very great merits.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 290w.
“The geography, architecture, and figures are in admirable proportion:
the characters stand out and live; the style is swift, pictorial, and
amiably cynical, fitting its theme.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 300w.
“The strength of the book lies not so much in the story—although it is
an extremely human one—but in the struggles and bloodshed of religious
strife, the superstitions of the various sects, and the author’s
delicate brush upon these things and upon picturesque Asia.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 530w.
“The author has excellent command of his subject, but he writes with
little consideration for his hearers, never appealing to their
experience with that instinctive sympathy which helps to bring home to
them the episodes of so foreign a narrative. As a result the
characters are peculiarly remote, and the story is difficult to
follow; although a series of admirable pictures impresses itself upon
the mind.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 80w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 891. D. 1, ’06. 730w.
=Pidgin, Charles Felton.= Corsican lovers; a story of the vendetta.
$1.50. Dodge.
A Corsican vendetta forms the basis of this adventurous tale in which
the fate of many people and two large estates, one Corsican and one
English, are involved. The heroine, Vivienne Batistilli wipes out the
vendetta by marrying her family’s enemy, Bertha Renville, the heiress,
marries the friend of her guardian’s son, and by this arrangement the
good and bad receive their just deserts; but there are many wild
adventures before all this is safely brought about, and there are many
interesting characters involved, perhaps the most truly Corsican being
Cromillian, the moral bandit.
* * * * *
“Is amusing (in its way).”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 199. Mr. 31, ’06. 300w.
=Pidgin, Charles Felton.= Sarah Bernhardt Brown and what she did in a
country town. $1.50. Waters.
The heroine of Mr. Pidgin’s new story is a poor girl of obscure family
who achieves by sure and steady progress the lady bountiful plane.
There are arrayed in the background no less than well to the fore a
variety of characters drawn from rural New Hampshire. The plot itself,
which travels from Dolby City, Montana, to Snickersville, New
Hampshire, must of necessity lose force in transit. The story may be
called a companion volume to “Quincy Adams Sawyer.”
* * * * *
“If Mr. Pidgin’s humor is very primitive his supply of talk and
narrative (such as it is) is apparently limitless.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w.
“Combines a rather sensational plot with somewhat too extended and
thinly drawn out descriptions of country character and rustic pranks.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 80w.
=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Ancient grudge. †$1.50. Houghton.
“While lacking the swing and vitality to animate large issues, he
possesses, perhaps unknown to himself, a fine personal gift. This is a
delicate sensitiveness to the feelings of very young people.” Mary
Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 110w.
“It is a pleasure, occasionally, to take up a book written with the
ability, the intelligent sympathy, the serious purpose that stamp the
new volume by Arthur Stanwood Pier.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 495. Ja. ’06. 380w.
“The book is an honest piece of work which one is the better for
having read.”
+ =Reader.= 71: 453. Mr. ’06. 220w.
=Pierce, Rev. Charles Campbell.= Hunger of the heart for faith, and
other sermons. *$1. Young ch.
A series of sermons delivered at the Cathedral open-air services in
Washington, D. C. There is an introduction by Bishop Satterlee.
=Pierce, James O.= Studies in constitutional history. *$1.50. Wilson, H.
W.
Beginning with the spirit of ’76, these studies treat of American
constitutional history in a clear concise manner which will appeal to
both the student and the man of affairs. Such subjects as The United
States a nation from the Declaration of independence, The beginnings
of American institutions, The ethics of secession, The American and
French revolutions compared, The beneficiaries of the federal
constitution, Slavery in its constitutional relations, A century of
the American constitution, Our unwritten constitution, America’s
leadership, The American empire, Righteousness exalteth a nation, and
America’s place in history are treated in the light of eighteen years
of active lecture work upon kindred subjects.
* * * * *
“The lectures or addresses are pitched in a somewhat exalted key, and
are calculated to stimulate patriotism and extol the progress of
America. Judge Pierce has not always been careful in the use of
authorities. On the whole we must conclude that the volume has no
peculiar interest and makes no special appeal to the specialist, the
student, or the general reader. The reviews and addresses on the whole
well adapted for their purpose, do not make an indispensable volume
for the library.”
+ – – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 172. O. ’06. 480w.
“A series of studies of value to the careful delver into the facts of
American constitutional history is to be found in Mr. Pierce’s book.
It is typical of the lawyer mind that created it. Cautious,
conservative, and never going beyond the evidence, but here and there
is very suggestive.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 257. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“We do not always agree with the views expressed, and occasionally we
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=Pierson, Arthur Tappan.= Bible and spiritual criticism; being the
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=Pigafetta, Antonio.= Magellan’s voyage around the world; the original
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