convincingly true to it.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 515. Ag. 29, ’07. 270w.
“Baroness Orczy has a vivid imagination and a fertile fancy, and she
has woven a gorgeous web of splendid pageants and beautiful scenes and
no end of exciting adventures.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 150w.
=Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.
=Ormond, Alexander T.= Concepts of philosophy. 3 pts. *$4. Macmillan.
6–35520.
The three parts to Professor Ormond’s book are, “(1) an analysis which
sets forth the two methods by which man seeks to realize his world:
the method of external observation ... and the method of inner
reflection ... (2) a synthesis which, while it justifies the two
methods revealed by the analysis, sets forth the necessity of a
synthesis of them and an attempt to realize it; (3) a series of
deductions, which might more properly be called corollaries, dealing
with a number of themes of general philosophical interest.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 69. Jl. 20. 300w.
“It is remarkably free from blemishes of the polemical spirit, a
thoroughly notable and helpful addition to our standard works on the
philosophy of religion. It is to be hoped that the next edition of the
work will give us a good index.” J. Macbride Sterrett.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 4: 46. Ja. 17, ’07. 2160w.
“We confess that Professor Ormond’s book has aroused in us the
suspicion that he has—without malice, we may admit—developed his
philosophy in support of certain beliefs, but has not exhibited it as
a source from which those beliefs spontaneously sprung.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 108. Ja. 31, ’07. 1900w.
“Clear and straight thinking characterizes Dr. Ormond’s work
throughout.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 676. N. 17, ’06. 340w.
“Professor Ormond’s last book takes, in the opinion of the reviewer, a
very high place among recent systematic works of philosophy. A large
measure of agreement with his conclusions may emphasize this judgment;
but the powers of analysis and the philosophical insight which the
book reveals, any unprejudiced critic must recognize. Compared with
the remarkable clear cut treatment of the scientific concepts, the
religious concept is largely taken on trust, and this seems to me the
point in which the book is weakest.” A. K. Rogers.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 425. Jl. ’07. 3980w.
“To many, and especially to non-professional readers, is likely to
seem much fresher and more interesting than [‘Foundations of
knowledge’].” Arthur O. Lovejoy.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 339. N. 15, ’07. 1200w.
“The book may well be read by those who are not philosophical
specialists, for, unlike much American philosophical work, it is
written in lucid English, and is largely free from the preposterous
terminology affected by certain modern metaphysicians.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 461. O. 5, ’07. 630w.
* =Orr, Rev. James.= Virgin birth of Christ. (Bible teachers’ training
school lectures, 1907.) **$1.50. Scribner.
7–31231.
“The aim of these lectures is ‘to establish faith in the miracle of
the Lord’s incarnation by birth from the Virgin, to meet objections,
and to show the intimate connection of fact and doctrine in this
transcendant mystery.’ The purpose is not to discover truth but to
defend it.” (Bib. World.) There is an appendix giving the opinions of
living scholars.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 60w.
“He never quotes an opponent’s position unfairly, nor intentionally
presses his own argument beyond his honest conviction of its worth.
His book is probably the clearest and strongest defense of the
traditional view that can be made at the present time.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1174. N. 14, ’07. 590w.
“Dr. Orr is a past master in argument. He keeps the main point at all
times clearly in mind, marshals his facts in effective order, is
shrewd in the discernment of an opponent’s weak points, understands
how to make his adversaries appear to refute each other, and, above
all, lends to the weight of his reasoning the force of sincere and
positive religious conviction. His attitude however, is that of a
doughty defender of the faith, a polemic theologian. not of an
historical critic or a seeker after light.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 449. N. 14, ’07. 750w.
=Osborne, Duffield.= Angels of Messer Ercole: a tale of Perugia. (Little
novels of famous cities.) il. †$1.25. Stokes.
7–28457.
The scenes of this series of novels are all laid in some city of the
Old world vitally interesting from the standpoint of history. “Mr.
Osborne has selected Perugia and the period of Vannucci Perugino as
the place and time of his romance. The artist and his pupil,
Raffaello. appear as characters, but mostly the tale is devoted to the
love of the Lady Ottavia, daughter of the noble house of Baglioni, for
Messer Ercole, another pupil of Perugino.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 110w.
“Both author and publisher have begun promisingly and expressively
their intended Series of ‘Little novels of famous cities.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Adventurer. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–31207.
Somewhat similar to “The wrecker” written by the author and his
step-father, Robert Louis Stevenson. Answering an advertisement for
men willing to take risks for great gain, “the adventurer” enlists in
a mysterious project of seeking treasures hidden beyond the South
American pampas.
* * * * *
“In spite of this defect of taste, and the too liberal amplification
of a plot which, is at best, only a conceit, ‘The adventurer’ bids
fair to take its place among a not too numerous company of Stocktonian
and Stevensonian kindred.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 518. D. 5, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“If the culmination has in it a hint of flatness, if the ending is
more or less smothered in detail, it must be conceded that no solution
possible to put into words would have quite the quality expected by
the irresponsible and exacting reader.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
“The opening chapters are capitally managed so as to excite curiosity
and foreshadow a mystery. [Later] the tale becomes ordinary and hardly
worth while even as a plot-story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 90w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Schmidt; il. by Allen True. †50c. Crowell.
7–21226.
Schmidt is a stolid East-Side German shopkeeper. “The inner Schmidt
was as much a butter-slicer and ham-shaver as the outer article. He
was consistently Schmidt all the way through.” Yet when he loved Ella,
his colorless life changed, he became a man of feeling, capable of joy
and grief. It is the human note in the story that holds the reader.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Three speeds forward: an automobile love story with
one reverse. †$1. Appleton.
6–31657.
The motor mad hero and heroine of this story meet unconventionally by
the roadside when the heroine’s car breaks down opportunely and all
goes well save for the sorry fact that her parents cannot bring
themselves to approve of a young man who made his fortune thru the
invention of a popular puzzle. The hero, undaunted, sets about winning
them to his cause, despite the puzzle, and finally succeeds by
cleverly mending a break in their car, a break which he had with equal
cleverness previously arranged for.
* * * * *
“While it has its amusing moments, its humour is for the most part
distinctly thin and rather forced.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 617. N. 16. 160w.
“It is a bright and sprightly little story, very strongly flavored
with gasoline, but quite readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 563. S. 15, ’06. 440w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Tin diskers; the story of an invasion that all but
failed. †50c. Altemus.
6–25690.
“An amusing although entirely trivial short story about an American
girl who has curious adventures in England, growing out of the recent
newspaper sensation known as ‘treasure-hunting.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“This is a bright, breezy love story written with no other object than
to entertain. One of Mr. Osbourne’s best short stories”
+ =Arena.= 36: 574. N. ’06. 260w.
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 45. S. 1, ’06. 30w.
=Osgood, Herbert Levi.= American colonies in the 17th century. *$3.
Macmillan.
=v. 3.= “The present volume contains a history of British colonial
administration during the period under review, together with treatment
in some detail of the external development of Virginia and of domestic
relations in the other royal provinces. The author attempts in this
volume, to trace the history of the British systems of control as a
distinct and separate feature of colonization.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“Mr. Osgood combines in a remarkable degree the quality of patient
research and a mastery of numerous details with the power of
philosophic generalization.” Hugh E. Egerton.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 804. O. ’07. 1490w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This work marks an epoch in the writing of colonial history.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 444. N. 14, ’07. 2250w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Admirable work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It is distinctly a product of real scholarship, distinguished by a
constant and conscientious weighing of authorities and a keen
discrimination between the trustworthy and the unreliable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 968. Ag. 3, ’07. 990w. (Review of v. 3.)
=R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Individuality and immortality. 1906. **75c.
Houghton.
6–4176.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by W. A. Hammond.
=Philos. R.= 16: 211. Mr. ’07. 510w.
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Letters to a painter on the theory and practice of
painting; authorized tr. by H. W. Morse. *90c. Ginn.
7–3698.
The technique of painting is dealt with in these letters which
advocate the “empirical experimental” method. The artist’s explanation
of the rise of his “tools,” of pastel painting, pigments, fresco oils
and tempera is given, also a discussion of academies, etc.
* * * * *
“The art student will find in these letters much food for reflection,
particularly in the treatment of media, their optical characteristics
and results.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 160w.
“The placing of the book in the hands of every art student would do
more for the cause of sound education than any number of lectures on
aesthetics.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 241. S. 12, ’07. 440w.
“Will be found attractive to the lay reader interested in painting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 614. Jl. 20, ’07. 110w.
“Professor Ostwald’s scientific explanations ... may at least stir up
a more vital interest among professional artists and lead them toward
independent investigations useful to themselves and others.” Elisabeth
Luther Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 358. D. ’07. 290w.
=Otto, Rudolf.= Naturalism and religion; tr. by J. Arthur Thomson and
Margaret R. Thomson. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–18190.
“The present volume by a Göttingen professor gives in a compact form
to the general reader the main points in the great controversy that
now seems to have been fought almost through.... He points out that it
is not in the proper domain of science, but ‘in the teacup of logic
and epistemology that the storm in regard to the theories of the
universe has arisen.’ And he acutely concludes that the theory of
naturalism, that there is no such thing as free creative mind, is
refuted by its own existence as the actual progeny of such a
mind.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“He pursues [his argument] with enthusiasm as well as with logical
force.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 391. Ap. 25, 07. 330w.
“Presented here in eleven chapters by a discriminating thinker, as
hostile to exaggerated assertions in a religious as in a scientific
interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 22, ’07. 230w.
=Oudin, Maurice A.= Standard polyphase apparatus and systems. *$3. Van
Nostrand.
7–27156.
The fifth edition revised and enlarged to keep pace with the notable
increase in the size of apparatus units and in the development of
appliances for their control and protection.
* * * * *
“As a whole the book is readable, interesting and stimulating. Will be
intelligible to any one who is reasonably familiar with electrical
machines.” Henry H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 536. N. 14, ’07. 670w.
=Outcault, Richard Felton.= My resolutions: Buster Brown. †750. Stokes.
6–35950.
Buster Brown becomes a sage, a philosopher, and a humorist by turns in
Mr. Outcault’s “Resolutions.” Of course it is Mr. Outcault with his
little favorite as a mouthpiece, yet Buster and Tige suddenly grow
virtuous beyond their years.
=Oxenham, John.= Long road. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–10620.
The long road is the way that marks the exile’s journey from Russia to
Siberia. Traveled by a Russian and his wife and child in punishment
for the offence of snuff-taking, it terminates in a little Siberian
village where the grim cruelty of a despot governer works havoc in
hearts and homes.
* * * * *
“But when all is said, it remains a straight-forward narrative,
capable of giving pleasure to a not too exacting or critical public.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.
“Notwithstanding the painful incidents of their travels, the effect of
the story is inspiring, not depressing.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07. ✠
“It verges more than once upon melodrama, but at least it pictures the
desolation of unbroken stretches of snow with a haunting force not
easily to be duplicated in modern fiction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 360w.
“The story is deeply moving and is related with knowledge of the life
depicted and a rare degree of artistic strength.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 376. Je. 16, ’07. 370w.
“A charming story, charmingly told.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 219. Jl. 25, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 370w.
“We cannot but be grateful to Mr. Oxenham for remembering mercy and
for permitting his readers to close a novel of unusual sincerity and
strength with minds less penetrated by the wrongs and the anguish of
its hero than by his moral victory and ultimate peace.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 860w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.
“He has exceeded his former work in human sympathy, quiet charm, and
dramatic force. For freshness of sentiment and vividness of narrative
it seems to us unexcelled by any recent romance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 360w.
“Mr. Oxenham’s vein of pathos is melodramatic—and therefore false.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 35: 763. Je. ’07. 240w.
=Oxenham, John.= Man of Sark. il. †$1.50. Baker.
7–29685.
A story which tells “in the first person, of the adventures of a
sturdy youth who seeks his fortune as a privateer during the
Napoleonic wars. Although loyal to England, he is mistaken for a
Frenchman after an exciting engagement, and his English captors take
him to a prison stockade by the North sea. When he escapes and finds
his way back to Sark, he is welcomed as one from the dead. He is also
just in time to rescue the maiden whom he has loved all his life from
the hands of certain villainous persons who have abducted her.”
(Dial.)
* * * * *
“The vivid account of island life and customs, of landscapes and
sea-scapes relieves the obsession produced by this competent villain.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 180w.
“The author has evidently steeped himself in the history, the
folk-lore, and the customs of the island folk whom he describes, and
tells a tale that is deeply appealing and full of varied interest.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 150w.
“To sum up, ‘A man of Sark’ shows a brisk imagination and capable
workmanlike treatment of wholesome, legitimate material.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 240w.
“The novel is very well written, with much poetic feeling and with a
certain distinction of style, which, with its vigorous manner and its
hardy and manly characters, makes it a very pleasing romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 170w.
“It is a stirring story, but one likely to please the young rather
than the experienced reader.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
=Oxley, James Macdonald.= North overland with Franklin. †75c. Crowell.
7–22915.
This volume in the “Crowell’s young people series” tells the story of
the boy Denis who went with Franklin and his party from York factory
overland to the farther north and whose flute cheered the men in time
of despair and danger. It is a tale of hunting and adventure, of
hardship and of peril.
P
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Coast of Bohemia. **$1. Scribner.
Collected for the first time, Mr. Page’s poems could be launched with
no better l’envoi than the author’s “fine confession of the faith of a
minor poet:” “There is for a minor poet also a music that the outer
world does not catch—an inner day which the outer world does not see.
It is this music, this light, which, for the most part, is for the
lesser poet his only reward.”
* * * * *
“So trained a hand as his could hardily fail to produce a creditable
work, even in the unwonted medium of rhyme and rhythm.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 252. Ap. 16, ’07. 290w.
“Poetic sensibility ... is very evident in Mr. Page’s verse, and he
has an admirable command of traditional poetic tone.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 280w.
“It is well modulated song, mellow as a Southern voice. While not
varied in form nor experimental in meter, it is refined, smoothly
textured, always melodious verse.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 480w.
“The poems ring true; they have the quality of sanity throughout; they
are conspicuously free from self-consciousness; and they are often
happy in the ease and freedom of their phrasing.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 743. N. 30, ’07. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 50w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Novels, stories, sketches and poems. “Plantation
ed.” 12v. $18. Scribner.
Twelve illustrated volumes make up this “plantation edition,” so
called because all the stories, novels, verses and essays present
phases of plantation life.
* * * * *
+ + =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 190w.
“What one might almost call definitive edition.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1351. D. 6, ’06. 480w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 27. Ja. 19, ’07. 780w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= On Newfound river. †$1.50. Scribner.
6–35938.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Ind.= 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 100w.
* =Page, Thomas Nelson.= Under the crust. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–37269.
“In the seven stories which make up the volume of short tales, ‘Under
the crust,’ the discerning reader will find the characteristic
idealism of Mr. Page expressing itself in delicate and sympathetic
studies of men and women to whom commercialism exists only to be
resisted, and who live in the world as if life were still a matter of
the spirit and not a matter of physical luxury.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“The lack of distinction is made up for by a healthy, cheerful tone,
and there is reality to the men and women the author depicts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 826. D. 14, ’07. 120w.
“The stories in this volume are not of equal excellence, but it
contains work which Mr. Page has never surpassed.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 742. N. 30, ’07. 1100w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= From van dweller to commuter. †$1.50. Harper.
A breezy account of the trials that overtook a man, his wife and the
“Precious Ones” while moving from flat to flat in New York in quest of
a really comfortable and livable place that they might call home.
Comparative peace falls to their lot only when they enter upon the
commuter’s life in a near-by suburb. The entire story is a “sort of
general unburdening” of the troubles that haunt one during an
attempted solution of the problem of living, with a view to “relief of
spirit which is said to follow confession.”
* * * * *
“Though the narrative for the most part runs too familiarly along
well-worn grooves, its facile humor and abundant sentiment may well
afford some innocent diversion—especially to readers whose memory
turns backward to adventures of kindred nature.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 270w.
“It will find its clientele among those who enjoy Warner’s ‘My summer
in a garden.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 631. O. 19, ’07. 220w.
“There is much humor of a popular kind, and many clever character
sketches.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 70w.
* =Paine, John K.= History of music to the death of Schubert. $2.75.
Ginn.
The posthumous work of Professor Paine which includes his lectures on
the history of music to the death of Schubert. The lectures are
arranged under the headings Ancient and mediaeval music and Origin of
dramatic music, opera and oratorio.
=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Greater America. *$1.50. Outing.
7–14803.
A series of glimpses of the splendid activities of the American west
of to-day. The author introduces the reader to numerous activities
along the line of extension movement which show great creative and
pioneering forces at work. Some of his chapters are as follows: Past
and present of the “Soo,” The story of a copper mine, The magnet of
the wheat, The cow puncher versus irrigation, The heart of the big
timber country, A breath from Alaska, and Gold camps of the desert.
* * * * *
“To read the book is to get a new appreciation of the greatness of
America, the greatness of her present and the possibilities of her
future.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 599. N. ’07. 200w.
“Belongs to a class of books which may be called rare even in this age
of print. It bears the same relation to the ordinary volume of travel
and description that the realistic novel of actual events bears to the
novel of romantic cast.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 430w.
“Mr. Paine has felt and has put into his book the very spirit of
energy and enthusiasm and confidence and ambition and kindliness which
fills the vast miles to the west of New York.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 520w.
=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Praying skipper and other stories. $1.50.
Outing pub.
6–11303.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Uncommonly good tales of the straight-ahead sort.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
* =Paine, Ralph Delahaye=, ed. Romance of an old time shipmaster.
*$1.25. Outing pub.
A collection of letters and Journals written by an American sea
captain during the early part of the nineteenth century. “It reveals a
most charming and lovable personality, a sort of Lord Chesterfield of
the quarter-deck, and throws a curious light on life at sea at that
time.”
=Pais, Ettore.= Ancient legends of Roman history; tr. by Mario E.
Cosenza. *$4. Dodd.
5–33942.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Indeed every page of the book is full of illuminating and original
ideas. For the most part the translation reads well, and a certain
number of un-English expressions do not detract from its value, nor
can we say that much is added by the greater part of the
illustrations.” G. McN. Rushforth.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 556. Jl. ’07. 610w.
“Professor Pais is a difficult writer. There is much to be learned
from his book. His notes cite the sources with considerable fulness,
occasionally ... possessing an interest for students outside the
narrower limits of the subject.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 366. Mr. 23, ’07. 1510w.
=Palgrave, Francis Turner.= Treasury of sacred songs; selected from the
English lyrical poetry of four centuries: with explanatory and
biographical notes. *$1.15. Oxford.
3–25607.
A well chosen collection of sacred songs which includes many of our
best sacred poems and such of our hymns as can be termed poetry.
* * * * *
“On the whole it is a good selection and gives a just idea of the
quality of our sacred poetry.”
+ − =Acad.= 71:325. O. 6, ’06. 2290w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 102. Ap. ’07. S.
=Palmer, Frederick William=, ed. With the sorrowing: a handbook of
suggestions for the use of pastors, missionaries, and other visitors in
the homes of sorrow. **75c. Revell.
5–41616.
“Appropriate prayers, hymns, and passages of Scripture for use at
funerals.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 27: 480. Je. ’06. 10w.
“Most profitable for the avoidance of monotony and formalism in the
effort to discharge a sacred duty.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 278. F. 3, ’06. 110w.
=Pardo Bazan, Emilia.= Midsummer madness; tr. from the Spanish by Amparo
Loring. $1.50. Clark.
7–11214.
“The story tells of a gentle flirtation, occasionally verging on the
dangerous, and always inclining to the superficial. The book is
readable, however, while not elevating. The best feature is the minute
detail with which the story describes the everyday life of the
characters, both nobility and peasantry.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The English translation ... is well rendered, and follows the Spanish
form of conversation with great conscientiousness. Of plot and
counterplot there is very little.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 915. Ap. 18, ’07. 150w.
“The little tale is conceived in a spirit of tender gayety which marks
it for that rare thing, a work of true humor.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 140w.
“The pages ... are full of the deplorable effects of rapid production,
clever, vivid, and interesting picture of Spanish life though it is.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 178. Mr. 23, ’07. 500w.
“Besides, the translation, by Amparo Loring, fulfills the difficult
task of conveying the original writer’s sprightly, animated style in a
manner quite spontaneous and natural.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 250w.
=Pares, Bernard.= Russia and reform. *$3. Dutton.
“Beginning with a rather impressionistic but distinctly readable
sketch of the rise and advance of Russia from the earliest times, Mr.
Pares, with the emancipation of the serfs, enters into a detailed
study which is really worthy of comparison with Mackenzie Wallace’s
great book. Like Wallace, Mr. Pares evidently knows his Russia
thoroughly, and his Russian in every walk of life. The geographical
and economic aspects of the country, the governmental system, the
educational facilities, the home life of the noble and the peasant,
the literature that has been produced and the men who have produced
it—all this and much more is expounded by him in a way that is equally
interesting and authoritative.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“We have many faults to find, but they do not affect the value of the
work.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 439. Ap. 13. 500w.
“In our opinion, Mr. Pares would have added to the value of his work
by more concentration and by resolutely leaving on one side those
matters which have already been adequately dealt with by other
authorities.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 131. Ap. 26, ’07. 1360w.
“On the whole, it may be said that he has succeeded in gaining a place
close to Wallace and to Leroy-Beaulieu’s ‘Empire des Tsars.’ In its
range, method, and adequacy of knowledge and insight, it is certainly
the best account that the Russian liberation movement which began in
1904, has brought forth.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 332. O. 10, ’07. 680w.
“For all who wish to broaden their knowledge of a highly complex
question Mr. Pares’s volume may be recommended as a safe guide.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 615. O. 12, ’07. 480w.
“The work is in reality encyclopedic. We feel that in some matters,
particularly with respect to prison methods, Mr. Pares takes an
over-roseate view.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 971. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w.
“If Mr. Pares tells us nothing sensational in this stout volume, we
are all the more ready to believe his word ... and if he tells us
nothing exactly new, he at all events presents his points with a
lucidity of the first order. Altogether, this book is valuable because
it contains the comments and judgments of a competent and wise
observer.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 674. Ap. 27, ’07. 1960w.
=Paret, William, bp.= Place and function of the Sunday school in the
church. *50c. Whittaker.
6–34266.
A discussion of the place and function of the Sunday school in
relation to the greater subject on which it rests, namely, the duty
and relation of the Church to children.
=Park, James.= Text book of mining geology, for the use of mining
students and miners. *$2. Lippincott.
GS 7–1129.
“The author deals with the subject in nine chapters. The first
contains a brief summary of geological principles, and the following
chapters are devoted respectively to the classification of mineral
deposits, ore veins, the dynamics of lodes and beds, ore deposits
considered genetically, the theories of vein formation, ores and
minerals considered economically, mine sampling, and the examination
and valuation of mines.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“The chapter dealing with the genesis of ore deposits is of special
interest. The perplexing problems by which the subject is surrounded
are judicially dealt with.”
+ =Nature.= 74: 520. S. 20, ’06. 540w.
=Parker, Gilbert.= Weavers. †$1.50. Harper.
7–30167.
A finely wrought tapestry reproducing the house builded upon a rock.
David Claridge, a sturdy English Quaker carries the new civilization
of the West to the Egyptian East. He becomes counsellor and confident
of Prince Kaïd and fights his battles for him. The story is a
reënactment of the terrors of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the
fiery furnace, and of Daniel in the lions’ den; for David, invincible
in the might of truth, is unharmed by the fire which is the consuming
traditional and superstitional heathenism and the lions which are
treacherous oriental trickery and love of revenge.
* * * * *
“Is an excellent book and splendid reading. Alike in the manner and
matter of the story, there are the ease and fulness that come of both
the writer’s and the reader’s assured interest in the career of David
Claridge.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: sup. 116. N. 9, ’07. 640w.
“Not so artistic as the author’s earlier work, and rather long drawn
out, but holding the interest, without question, to the end.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07.
“He spoils his material by wilfully romanticizing it; nevertheless he
produces an interesting tale, set forth with such a serious air that
we are bound to take it seriously.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 399. O. 5. 190w.
“The truth is that Sir Gilbert has tried to write a story without
first thinking it out clearly to the end; he has tried to make his
readers realise characters which he has never successfully projected
in his own imagination; and the result, with all allowance made for
good intention and a certain amount of good workmanship, cannot be
called a success.” Ward Clark.
− + =Bookm.= 26: 169. O. ’07. 1000w.
“A work that, despite certain quite obvious faults, is nevertheless
endowed with unity of design and fine idealism.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 319. N. 16, ’07. 400w.
“The whole conception is as dead as any mummy in Egypt, the chief
difference being that it is embalmed in an excellent literary style.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 550w.
“Sir Gilbert Parker’s book is not lacking in well-drawn, dramatic
scenes growing out of the conflict between Oriental subtlety and the
straightforward Quakerism of David; and the picture of Egypt, although
possibly not an altogether accurate one, emerging from its centuries
of political darkness, is an interesting contribution to the romance
of history.”
+ + − =Lit. D.= 35: 695. N. 9, ’07. 650w.
“Deserves and has achieved a place among the leading novels of the
year.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Ungrateful though it may seem it is not easy to follow this long
drama with any keen interest or to feel that the people in it are any
more sensitive than the props that sustain old-fashioned cumbersome
draperies. It is ungrateful because the purpose of the book is
earnest, and Sir Gilbert evidently writes with knowledge and from his
own observation.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 450w.
“Although Sir Gilbert Parker uses a civilized if somewhat heavy
English, and puts his book together in practised fashion, his
treatment of Egyptian troubles ... on the whole lacks the brilliancy
given to the same event by the late Archibald Clavering Gunter. It is
hard to believe that ‘The weavers’ comes from the same hand which once
gave so thoughtful and sincere a study of character as Charley in ‘The
right of way.’”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 806. O. 3, ’07. 140w.
“The idea has obtained very generally of late that the good old
three-volume novel of the mid-Victorian age was forever extinct, like
the dodo or the drama in blank verse. There were to be no more wronged
or missing heirs, no more ‘papers’ turning up in old cabinets, no more
‘heavy’ old men telling their stories in quavering voices with the
lights burning low and the violins going soft, no more benevolent
low-comedy gents coming in slapdash at the critical moments, no more
singularly fatuous villains getting caught in their own toils. It is a
mistake; read ‘The weavers’ and be convinced. All, all are here, the
old familiar faces. The book is written with the author’s usual
facility and command of English.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 1000w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Is full of brilliant and striking passages, but the parts of the
story do not perfectly cohere, and the tale is a series of dramatic
episodes rather than a well-knit narrative of action.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 150w.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 368. D. ’07. 1460w.
“Much practice has made Sir Gilbert Parker a skilful weaver of a kind
of plot which has no relation to reality, or even to probability, but
which always fascinates a large novel-reading public. Sir Gilbert
Parker writes about society and politics as if he were an outsider.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. O. 19, ’07. 450w.
“Whatever fault may be found with the novel, it certainly shows no
sign of scamped work or perfunctory handling. In every sense in which
the phrase is applicable to a novel, the author has given us full
measure,—length, wealth of colour and exciting incident, careful
portraiture, minute character analysis. It may not be unfairly urged
that Sir Gilbert Parker has been too lavish of his materials, and that
his book loses in directness of appeal from the complexity of his
theme, the kaleidoscopic nature of the narrative, and the widely
divergent phases of life which he essays to depict. Yet of its
picturesqueness, its eloquence, and its exciting quality there can be
no doubt.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 533. O. 12, ’07. 1140w.
=Parr, G. D. Aspinall.= Electrical engineering in theory and practice.
*$3.25. Macmillan.
6–36474.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Although the book is generally quite readable, the English is by no
means perfect throughout. The reasoning is here and there
unsatisfactory, loose language creeps in, or the style becomes
diffuse. The descriptive portion of the work is throughout very
carefully written and illustrated.” D. K. M.
+ − =Nation.= 74: 581. O. 11, ’06. 1200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 332. My. 19, ’06. 280w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Beth Norvell. †$1.50. McClurg.
7–30865.
Again the West furnishes the setting of Mr. Parrish’s story. An
ambitious young actress, with a past that has linked her with an
adventurer and gambler, and a young mining engineer meet in a small
town of Colorado. Their romance is brought well into the foreground of
the story while western color is provided by the sturdy miners of the
Little Yankee whose claims the young engineer defends against the
aforementioned gambler. Tragedy, misunderstanding and years of waiting
precede the wholly satisfactory dénouement.
* * * * *
“It is occasionally amateurish as to the manner of telling but
absorbing as to incident and plot.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3. 203. N. ’07.
“Here is the good old style of western melodrama, which, we suppose
and hope, will never die out.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 130w.
“The story itself fairly revels in the old familiar conventions.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 26: 270. N. ’07. 320w.
“It is all melodrama of a rather preposterous sort, and the hero’s
conversation is a little more preposterous than anything else in the
book.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 570. S. 21, ’07. 170w.
“He wallows in adjectives, his conversations are stilted, and the
actions and motives of his characters are unconvincing.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 560w.
“Some striking situations are evolved, but the high-flown language of
the hero and heroine when in peril of their lives on various occasions
seems unnatural and detracts from the effect of several strong
scenes.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 90w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Bob Hampton of Placer. †$1.50. McClurg.
6–34646.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“One would like to see the same quality of narration expended upon a
simpler and more natural plot.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 330w.
“Mr. Randall Parrish has mastered the trick of popular narrative after
a comparatively brief apprenticeship to the trade, and is to-day one
of the most effective of our story-tellers.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 330w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Great plains. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–29851.
To write accurate history so clothed as to appeal to the imagination
has been Mr. Parrish’s aim. He tells how the stretch of country
between the valley of the Missouri and the foothills of the Rockies
was discovered and settled, emphasizes its possibilities and
picturesque wonders, and dwells upon the characteristics of men and
customs of the frontier towns.
* * * * *
“The choice of material is commendable, the weaving skilful, and the
interest well sustained.” Edwin Erle Sparks.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 283. N. 1, ’07. 780w.
“He shows care and judgment in the balancing of contradictory
accounts. And he has told the story well and in interesting style. But
he has missed not a little of the high spirit, the valiant courage,
the dauntless expectations of the men who conquered the plains.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 530w.
“Much of the narrative is avowedly based on the work of others, but he
has combined and arranged the material in such a way as to produce a
well-proportioned historical sketch. The book is alive with incident,
adventure, and odd happenings in the days of Indian trappers, army
camps, and frontier scouts.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 120w.
“A book of far more than ordinary interest. Whatever else is
attempted, Mr. Parrish has at least set forth the romantic aspects of
the story in a most vivid and fascinating way.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 90w.
=Parshall, Horace Field, and Hobart, Henry Metcalfe.= Electric railway
engineering. *$10. Van Nostrand.
W 7–100.
“This book concerns itself mainly with the application of electricity
to heavy traction as distinguished from tramway work, and gives an
exceedingly comprehensive view of the progress which the new motive
power has made up to the present time, besides containing a great
store of collected data regarding the results obtained in
representative examples of its application.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“A high standard of excellence has been maintained in the preparation
of the volume.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 385. Mr. 30. 1130w.
“The most comprehensive book on electric railway practice which has
yet appeared.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 663. Je. 13, ’07. 1130w.
“The present volume endeavors, not unsuccessfully, to combine [the
practical and technical phases] and to give the reader a clear
knowledge of the fundamental principles that underlie the application
of electricity to haulage.”
+ − =Nature.= 75: 531. Ap. 4. ’07. 1080w.
=Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews.= Family. **$3. Putnam.
6–42901.
An ethnographical and historical outline, with descriptive notes,
planned as a text-book for the use of college lectures and directors
of home-reading clubs.
* * * * *
“The best book yet prepared for the student, whether in school or at
home.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 185. Jl. ’07. 820w.
“Mrs. Parsons has written a most valuable contribution to sociological
study. She has pursued the scientific and not the theologic method,
and therein lies her sole offense. This world will be a better one to
live in because of this thought-stimulating and exhaustive guide to
the scientific study of the family.” Theodore Schroeder.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 105. Ja. ’07. 1690w.
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 445. Ap. 13. 720w.
Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.
=Charities.= 17: 475. D. 15. ’06. 1200w.
“A better book to put into the hands of the mature person looking for
trustworthy information and judicious guidance of his thinking upon
the family problem, it would be hard to find.” Franklin H. Giddings.
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 202. S. ’07. 670w.
“Outline notes constitute the greater portion and the chief value of
the work. The fact that the author is not obsessed by a novel theory
of her own, like some of her more original predecessors, makes the
book more useful to the elementary student.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1348. D. 6, ’06. 780w.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 467. Ag. 15, ’07. 440w.
“It is scholarly, abounds with references to authorities and to
text-books for the student’s reading, but deals almost wholly with the
family in its primitive forms. In our judgment it is wholly inadequate
as a text-book for the study of the family, because it practically
ignores the nature, origin, function, and laws of the modern Christian
family, which is what the student most needs to comprehend.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 899. Ap. 20, ’07. 120w.
“The attempt of the author to subject the family to careful scientific
examination is exceedingly praiseworthy and altogether helpful. And
there will be no question in the mind of the reader that the work has
been courageously and honestly done. As a broad-minded piece of
inductive research it is worthy of imitation in other fields. The book
will probably stand as one of the many single and helpful pieces of
inductive sociological study.” Frederick Morgan Davenport.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 744. D. ’07. 1750w.
“Is essentially a work for students of sociology, teachers, and men of
temperate and studious minds, and takes its place, for instance, with
such books as Stanley Hall’s ‘Adolescence,’ which, by the way, it
surpasses in original research.” Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 557. F. ’07. 1850w.
“Judging from the scope of the book and the method of instruction
recommended, the author imposes no bounds to the subject to be studied
by these young people, and it is on this point that she is most open
to adverse criticism. Whatever may be the criticism to which her
conclusions are subjected, no one can object to the tone of the book
or doubt the courage and transparent honesty of the writer.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 689. Je. 1, ’07. 1310w.
=Parsons, Florence Mary (Mrs. Clement Parsons).= Garrick and his circle;
il. **$2.75. Putnam.
6–45350.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 85. Mr. ’07.
“Not only does she appear to have read—and to have mastered—everything
the most exacting could require; but she has shown excellent judgment
as to fact and fable, essentials and non-essentials.” S. M. Francis.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 489. O. ’07. 290w.
“Her portraits have that fulness and unity which impart a conclusive
notion of personality, set with a due sense of perspective against a
well-balanced background.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 18. Ja. 1, ’07. 390w.
=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.
6–13090.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Vivid, concrete, interesting; covers with great detail one problem
only, that of discrimination and its remedy.”
+ + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 102. Ap. ’07.
Reviewed by Emory R. Johnson.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 617. N. ’07. 560w.
“While he occasionally disturbs the reader’s confidence by basing his
charges upon rumors and hearsay evidence, after the manner of the
newspaper reporter, he relies principally upon official
investigations, hearings and reports, and in his handling of this
material he shows a thorough familiarity with his subject.” Frank
Haigh Dixon.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 156. Mr. ’07. 270w.
=Parsons, Frank.= Railways, the trusts, and the people. 25c. Taylor, C.
F.
6–46268.
“A comprehensive work on the political, industrial, and social effects
of different systems of railway control.... The work is divided into
two parts, the first dealing with the relations of the railways to the
public, ... and the second analyzing the railway problems.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“As a source of information Professor Parsons’s volume is a rich mine.
It is unfortunate that so valuable a work should suffer so from the
author’s lack of literary discretion.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 617. N. ’07. 360w.
“As far as bulk and comprehensiveness are concerned, all previous
contributions are outdone. Despite the many facts and figures
presented by Professor Parsons, there is still wanting a comprehensive
and scientific study of the railroad problem.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 387. F. 14, ’07. 720w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 210w.
* =Pasteur, Violet M.= Gods and heroes of old Japan; decorated by Ada
Galton. *$3.50 Lippincott.
7–18124.
Faint gray drawings of Japanese plants and flowers furnish marginal
decoration while the text consists of “short stories taken from the
sacred writings and ancient histories of Japan. Some are legendary and
miraculous; others correspond to the tales of our own age of
chivalry.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Interesting, to those especially who have a real sympathy with old
Japan.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 838. D. 29. 170w.
“Simply and gracefully told, with a quaintness that suits the
primitive type of the stories.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 190w.
“The work should appeal to young and old readers alike.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 90w.
“There is much that is beautiful and poetic in these heroic legends,
but the story gets frequently very involved, and the names are most
confusing.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“The stories ... are well told, and Miss Pasteur cleverly brings
before us the strange far Eastern outlook on life.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 50w.
=Paston, George, pseud. (Miss E. M. Symonds).= Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
and her times. *$4.50. Putnam.
“This is, for three reasons, a very interesting book. In the first
place Lady Mary is herself a woman who claims attention.... She became
a national benefactress, and her character deserves to be studied.
Secondly, the times in which Lady Mary lived, though different from
our own in many respects, were in some ways alarmingly like them....
In the third place, Lady Mary knew well enough that she was an
excellent letter-writer.” (Lond. Times.) The sketch is keenly alive to
her learning, her fascination, her eccentricities and her wit.
* * * * *
“There are but slight deductions to be made from our praise of this
excellent piece of biography. The notes are numerous and informing,
and the few errata are chiefly to be found in the text.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 568. My. 11. 1710w.
“It is because of her letters almost exclusively that we now feel much
interest in Lady Mary, and in her letters from Constantinople we have
the best of her.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 96. Ag. 16, ’07. 250w.
“By some lack Mr. Paston fails to show the charm that Lady Mary’s
contemporaries for the most part cordially owned, and that the reader
of her letters feel, today.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 343. Ag. 8, ’07. 390w.
“The book is written with great discretion, with a certain reticence,
for which in these days we cannot be too grateful.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 140. My. 3, ’07. 2550w.
“We feel we have been ‘personally conducted’ over an interesting tract
of time.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 589. Je. 27, ’07. 1970w.
“When the author speaks herself, she does so with delightful
appreciation of the whole business, and links the mass of manuscripts
into a coherent and agreeable book.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 313. My. 18, ’07. 2380w.
“The true significance of Lady Mary’s life story, that which gives it
value to readers of to-day, is the light it throws on the period in
which it was lived, and the fact that ... Lady Mary herself was par
excellence a product of her times.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 80. S. 14, ’07. 3700w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 235. N. ’07. 1030w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 901. Je. 8, ’07. 2140w.
=Paternoster, George Sidney.= Lady of the blue motor. $1.50. Page.
7–16942.
An automobile story which does not content itself with the gentle
excitements incident to motoring, but which involves a young
Englishman, who undertakes to champion a mysterious lady who drives a
blue car, in a series of strange complications which do not stop short
of murder. The villain, also equipped with a car, is as diabolical as
any of his class and the whole story moves at third speed along a
highway bristling with dangers to a conventionally happy ending.
* * * * *
“The misprints are sometimes serious. Apart from this, the story is a
well-constructed melodrama, interesting in its own way, and with less
hysteria and more character-study than one usually finds in books of
this type.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 43. O. 19, ’07. 220w.
“The character of this delectable volume is that of the ‘shilling
shocker.’ It is an ordinary sensational story of the stereotyped
sort.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 70w.
“While audacious and seemingly rather bold in the beginning of Sydney
Pasternoster’s new motor car story, is proved in the end to be
courageous and loving.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.
=Paterson, Arthur Henry.= John Glynn; a novel of social work. †$1.50.
Holt.
7–14252.
John Glynn is an Englishman who has made a fortune in America on her
rough frontier and goes back to London to do settlement work in that
unlovely quarter known as The Nile. Here he works side by side with a
young woman who is secretary of his district and this, of course,
furnishes the romance of the book, but its vital interest lies in the
life of the criminal quarter in which they labor and in the strong
characters, both good and evil, which they encounter.
* * * * *
“The more serious will welcome a book which contains more than a mere
love-story, while those who do not care for too thoughtful fiction
will find an exciting and convincing novel, in which the characters
are alive, and the interest is sustained to the end.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 414. Ap. 27, ’07. 400w.
“The characters are well drawn and, on the whole, convincing. What is
lacking in literary merit is overlooked in the swift succession of
incidents.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 156. My. ’07.
“The characterization is stereotyped, each figure being plainly
labelled, good or evil, and painted in bold colours. Plot and general
treatment are in keeping with this class of work; but the book is not
without its instructive side, and despite occasional tendencies to
claptrap, and frequent exaggeration, has here and there touches of
genuine human wisdom, and indications of sincere thought regarding
some of the problems which face the worker among the poor.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 502. Ap. 27. 130w.
“The book holds more entertainment—if only you can forget that first
chapter—than many a better one.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 520. Jl. ’07. 930w.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 97. Jl. 11, ’07. 130w.
“The pictures of the seamy side of London life are said to be true
without being unwholesomely realistic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
“The author evidently knows thoroughly the region he describes. He is
less happy, however, in his allusions to the western United States,
whence his hero has just come with a fortune made in the cattle
business.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20. ’07. 340w.
“The tone throughout is frankly and conventionally sentimental and
emotional, and though ‘John Glynn’ is a well-intentioned and even
entertaining story, it can hardly be considered as a serious attempt
to add to our knowledge of criminology or of the best methods of
social reform.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 722. Je. 8, ’07. 290w.
“Like many stories with a purpose. ‘John Glynn’ would be very much
better without the love interest which Mr. Paterson has thought it
necessary to introduce, and perhaps it would be truer to life but for
a certain melodramatic tendency which he has not been able to keep out
of its pages.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 722. My. 4, 07. 270w.
=Paterson, William Romaine.= Nemesis of nations: studies in history: the
ancient world, Hindustan, Babylon, Greece, Rome. *$3. Dutton.
W 7–123.
“The first of a series of studies analyzing the causes why
civilizations—ancient, mediaeval, modern—have broken down, and the
manner in which national sins ... have avenged themselves by bringing
retribution on the sinners.” (Ath.) “In each of these studies the
method pursued is substantially the same: There is an examination of
the origin of the race in question: an effort to trace its
affiliations with other races; a sketch of the salient features of the
land. The religion, laws, politics, and social customs of the people
are then considered; and, finally, we are given a comprehensive
account of that slavery which was at the base of all these
civilizations.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Throughout this learned book, covering an immense range, and parading
a large bibliography, there are hardly any citations to verify the
assertions of the text; yet these are often, to our knowledge, loose
or inaccurate.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 346. Mr. 23. 1440w.
“It is no common piece of work dreamed out without labor—but betrays
on every page an intimate acquaintance with the best modern literature
on antiquity and also with the original sources themselves.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1315. N. 28, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Paterson’s book is on the whole too audacious. He admits the
complexity of the subject, and yet practically he writes as though the
fall of his four great empires could be explained by the same simple
causes acting in the same simple way.” F. Melian Stawell.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 121. O. ’07. 600w.
“Thoughtful and scholarly essays.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 305. My. 11, ’07. 490w.
“Viewed not as a philosophical interpretation of the downfall of
ancient civilizations, but as a history of their slavery systems, it
is clearly a product of thoughtful and painstaking research, and
contains much that is informing to a high degree. The reader, however,
cannot be too strongly warned against unreserved acceptance of the
sweeping conclusions Mr. Paterson would draw from his investigations.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 472. Je. 29, ’07. 580w.
“Remarkable book.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 834. My. 25, ’07. 2000w.
=Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton.= Poems; with an introd. by Basil
Champneys. $1.75. Macmillan.
7–2591.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 407. Je. ’07. 350w.
“It is fitting that there should be a definitive edition of his
poetical work, and nothing could be in better taste than the volume
‘Poems.’”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 180w.
=Spec.= 98: 17. Ja. 5, ’07. 1420w.
=Patten, Gilbert (Burt L. Standish, pseud.).= Frank Merriwell at Yale.
75c. McKay.
Little that fills the life of a college youth of to-day is missing
from this spirited tale. Frank Merriwell is made of true stuff, and
with manly courage dominates every situation unexpected and
prearranged that confronts him during his four years.
=Patten, Helen Philbrook=, comp. Intimations of immortality: significant
thoughts on the future life. **$1.50. Small.
7–2422.
An anthology which aims not so much to present an orderly, rhetorical
argument for any theory of immortality as to bring before the reader a
composite picture of the spiritual intentions of mankind thru the
ages.
* * * * *
“This is the best work of the kind that has appeared in anything like
the same compass. The compiler has displayed rare judgment and
discrimination in her selections. Should be found in every
well-ordered library.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 213. Ag. ’07. 680w.
=Patten, Simon Nelson.= New basis of civilization. (American social
progress series.) **$1. Macmillan.
7–18589.
A book designed for collateral reading and class discussion which
“interprets in a specially suggestive and stimulating way the meaning
and significance of recent social changes with which the practical
social worker is so actively engaged and to which he is so close in
point of time and contact that he may well fail to secure for himself
the stimulus of the larger outlook upon the events in which he is a
participant.” It discusses the basis in resources, heredity, family
life, social classes, social consciousness, amusement, character and
social control.
* * * * *
“Prof. Patten ... too often obscures his meaning to the common mind by
expressing perfectly sensible observations and conclusions in the
formulae they frequently employ to conceal lack of thought, but he has
nevertheless an astonishing number of really vital and suggestive
things to say. In short, in many points, at least, he has hold of the
truth.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 347. Je. 1, ’07. 2000w.
=Outlook.= 86: 765. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.
“Even if some of these things seem utopian, no fair-minded thinker can
deny that Professor Patten has vividly brought out important
differences between our civilization and any past régime, has called
attention to the inevitableness of readjustment, has offered
illuminating interpretations of our standards and ideals, and has made
many wise and stimulating suggestions for practical effort.” George E.
Vincent.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 741. D. ’07. 1330w.
=Patterson, Annie W.= Chats with music lovers. **$1.25. Lippincott.
Miss Patterson talks illuminatingly on such subjects as the following:
How to enjoy music; How to practice; How to sing; How to compose; How
to read text-books; How to be an organist; How to conduct; Preparing
for examinations; How to get engagements; How to appear in public; How
to organize musical entertainments; and How to publish music.
* * * * *
“It is a compendium of really practical hints in almost every branch
of music, expressed with great shrewdness, and in a way that carries
weight.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 240w.
“Covering so much ground, she has necessarily covered it very thinly.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 270w.
=Pattison, James William.= World’s painters since Leonardo. *$4.
Duffield.
“The author has taken up the long succession of artists of whom he
treats in chronological order, without regard to nationality, schools
or character of work. In this he has sought to present the influence
exerted by contemporaries upon one another, even at great
distances.... It is as though he had produced an abridged Bryan’s
Dictionary of painters, arranging by date instead of alphabet, and
giving the whole affair the lively inspiration of alert thought and
ready sympathy.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“The student who uses it merely as a court of last resort on minutiae
will have missed its import, which consists rather in its spirit of
sincere conviction and its direct delight in men rather than
theories.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 24. N. ’06. 720w.
=Patton, John Shelton, and Doswell, Sallie J.= University of Virginia:
glimpses of its past and present. 25c. Bell.
5–39859.
“An account, based on the correspondence of Jefferson and Joseph C.
Cabell, of the founding of the university, a sketch of the
institution’s early history, a description of the Jeffersonian
buildings, and accounts of the various phases of the university’s
development, together with lists of honor and prize students, orators,
participants in the civil war, etc.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 473. Ja. ’07. 80w.
“Notwithstanding oversights, the volume contains much information that
an alumnus may be glad to have in convenient compass.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 466. N. 29, ’06. 370w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50.
Macmillan.
4–2649.
Descriptive note of v. 1–3 in Annual, 1906.
=v. 4 and 5.= Volume 4 opens with the Turkish troubles of 1876 and
closes with the defeat of the Gladstone government in 1885. The
closing volume begins with June 8, 1885, “a memorable day in English
history ... from [which] all subsequent events in this history take in
some degree their colour,” and closes with the events that led up to
the defeat of the Liberal party in 1895.
* * * * *
“The weakest part of the whole work is the conclusion. We have to
thank Mr. Paul for a book which, if not profound, has at least the
merit of putting great matters clearly, attractively and simply, of
being at once instructive and entertaining.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 385. Ja. ’07. 1420w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 48. F. ’07. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Mr. Paul’s comments on public men and parties are keen and incisive:
his narrative vivid, terse and clear. The general style is midway
between the severe classic stateliness of Morley’s ‘Life of
Gladstone’, and the easy gossipy style of Justin McCarthy’s ‘History
of our own times.’ With very little dissertation, no rhetoric, a good
sprinkling of wit, recorded and first hand, this history may be read
for enjoyment as well as for information.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 84: 829. Mr. ’07. 980w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Mr. Paul’s work, is, in brief, a readable journalistic enterprise,
sufficiently accurate in details, but lacking in study, in erudition,
and in thought, and largely deficient in all save avowed political
information.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 290w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Surely Mr. Paul’s wisdom and foresight must have fallen short when he
accords such a high place to the man [Mr. Balfour] whom both
Conservatives and Liberals now realize to be a failure as the leader
of a modern political party and whose successor is being discussed in
his own political camp. ‘The history of modern England’ will certainly
not hold its own either as history or as literature.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 454. Ag. 22, ’07. 570w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Giving always a picturesque and interesting narrative of contemporary
events, not always, it is true, without prejudice and bias, but
possessing all the virtues of an honest account by an intelligent
participant.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 70w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
+ + =Nation.= 84: 177. F. 21, ’07. 2240w. (Review of v. 5.)
“No one can question the breeziness and vigor of his style or the
cleverness of his epigrams; but however successful the work may be as
literature, as history it leaves much to be desired.” W. Roy Smith.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 129. Mr. ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“The present volume is distinctly inferior to its predecessors, both
in arrangement and form, and in the objectivity of its criticisms.”
George Louis Beer.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 760. Mr. ’07. 1240w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Paullin, Charles O.= Navy of the American revolution. *$1.25. Burrows.
6–42974.
“A small well-printed duodecimo, into whose narrow compass the author
has packed an astonishingly succinct and trustworthy account of the
administration of the maritime forces of the revolted colonies.
Dealing with the creation, organization, and control of the
Continental navy and the various state navies in turn, he has
emphasized that neglected page of our history rather than the
well-known brilliant exploits of a few popular heroes.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It is in fact a masterly little book, well conceived, thoroughly
studied, and judiciously written. It is a real contribution to the
study of the American revolution.” C. H. Van Tyne.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 666. Ap. ’07. 720w.
“This book is in all respects admirable, and the author may be
congratulated upon the possession of the painstaking industry and
ripeness of judgment which disarm the most captious of critics.”
Herbert C. Bell.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 614. N. ’07. 530w.
=Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“Dr. Paullin’s references to authorities are so frequent and
scrupulous that his book becomes an indispensable guide to the student
of this epoch.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 170w.
“Details of a number of actions unknown to the general reader are
given, and all together it is a valuable work of reference.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 903. D. 29. ’06. 70w.
=Paulsen, Friedrich.= German universities and university study;
authorized tr. by Frank Thilly and W: W. Elwang. **$3. Scribner.
6–12846.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In many respects it is an extraordinarily good translation—spirited,
idiomatic, and even racy—but it contains some queer words and some
awkward constructions. The weakest things are the references to the
English universities, which Professor Paulsen evidently knows only at
second hand and comprehends very imperfectly.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 34. F. 1, ’07. 2450w.
+ + + =Nature.= 75: 338. F. 7, ’07. 1340w.
“I know of no book discussing university problems and their solving
which I can more heartily commend to others who are working at these
same problems.” J. H. Finley.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 410. S. 7, ’06. 1450w.
* =Paulus Diaconus.= History of the Langobards, by Paul, the Deacon; tr.
by William D. Foulke, with explanatory and critical notes, a biography
of the author, and an account of the sources of the history.
(Translations and reprints. N. S. v. 3.) $1.50. Dept, of history, Univ.
of Pa., Phil. (Sold by Longmans.)
7–20902.
The first English version of Paul’s history. The introduction, notes
and appendices are a compilation from modern writers.
* * * * *
“The translation is on the whole well done, but the constant
introduction of ‘indeed’ is not English, it is comical to find Plinius
Secundus appearing as ‘Pliny the Second,’ and ‘quite distinguished’
does not translate ‘eminentiores’ (p. 142). Commas are strewn about in
profusion, with the odd result that on p. 380 Paul is quoted as the
authority for the fact that Kiepert made a map for Mommsen.” E. W. B.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 826. O. ’07. 230w.
“This account of his own people by one of the most learned of medieval
historians will be a pleasant surprise to the English reader who has
hitherto had no opportunity to put this vivacious chronicle of the
seventh century on the shelf with his Herodotus and Froissart.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 90w.
=Payne, Will.= When love speaks. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–40589.
A novel with a Middle West town for the setting portrays the conflict
between two civic standards, the one absolute, invincible against
bribery and graft, the other, avowedly stamped by a leaning toward
“big game” methods. The strife between the two men who have adopted
these standards respectively is further complicated by their close
domestic relations, the wife of one being the sister of the other.
“The problem of the book, as implied in the title, of course, is
whether, whenever the inevitable clash comes, the voice of love will
speak strongly enough to outweigh the voice of the wife’s inherited
convictions.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠
“It worked out with Mr. Payne’s usually strong grasp of the affairs of
men and the emotions of women.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 490. Ja. ’07. 390w.
“Truthfulness rather than idealism is the note of the book, although
it has latent idealism a-plenty.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 260w.
“The whole tone of the book is wise, tolerant, and unimpeachably
sincere. [Grammatical] blemishes are few and trifling, only noticeable
because they are growing so rife in Western fiction as to create a
menace.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 450w.
“The tale is told with directness and strength. The incidents are
dramatically handled, and throughout Mr. Payne writes with vigor and
is in close touch with human nature.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 16, ’06. 250w.
=Payne, William Morton.= Greater English poets of the nineteenth
century. **$2. Holt.
7–32172.
A study of a group of English writers including Keats, Shelley, Byron,
Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Rossetti,
Morris and Swinburne. The aim of the work is not to consider these men
in their characters as poetic artists so much as to view them in their
relations to the world of thought and action, to examine their poetry
with respect to intellectual content, to set forth their ideas upon
religious and philosophic subjects, and to discuss their attitude
toward the political and social conditions of their time.
* * * * *
“They deserve wide reading.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 536. D. ’07. 30w.
“His best chapters are on Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold; the
treatment of Coleridge and Morris cannot be regarded as adequate.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 491. N. 28, ’07. 310w.
* =Peabody, Francis Greenwood.= Mornings in the college chapel: short
addresses to young men on personal religion. Second ser. **$1.25.
Houghton.
7–37984.
Short chapel talks to students which are intended to point out the way
of life and to stimulate a desire to have a living faith.
=Peake, Elmore Elliott.= Little king of Angel’s Landing. †$1.25.
Appleton.
6–34050.
“A pathetic story with a happy ending about a little cripple who had
been blown up when a baby in a steamboat explosion, and had grown into
such a quaint, elflike, lovable child that he fairly dominated the
little town on the Ohio river where he lived.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
“The study is keen as well as tender, and there is something
peculiarly American in the traits revealed—a material shrewdness
coupled with an idealism unusually pure.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27. ’06. 160w.
=Pearson, Elizabeth Ware=, ed. Letters from Port Royal, written at the
time of the civil war. *$2. Clarke.
6–46220.
These letters set forth the experiences of the colony of Northerners
who were delegated to take charge of the negroes and the cotton crop
of 1862 when, after the capture of the forts at Hilton Head and Bay
Point, South Carolina, the Sea Island region fell into the hands of
the federals. “How they blundered and struggled on to very
considerable success, and how their military superiors seemed in
league to ruin their whole undertaking, because of poor judgment, or
jealousy, or intrigue, is set forth in the volume before us in their
own simple, unaffected words.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 932. Jl. ’07. 280w.
=Atlan.= 99: 868. Je. ’07. 970w.
“The ‘Letters from Port Royal’ have been painstakingly edited and
elucidated by Mrs. Pearson.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 203. F. 28. ’07. 860w.
=Pearson, Norman.= Some problems of existence. *$2.10. Longmans.
7–32165.
“This little book sketches a philosophy of religion from the
standpoint of theistic evolution. The questions discussed are such as
‘inevitably present themselves to anyone who seriously considers the
problem of human existence.’ The postulates—or conclusions?—of the
author’s theory are: ‘(1) The existence of a Deity; (2) the
immortality of man; (3) a Divine scheme of evolution of which we form
a part, and which, as expressing the purpose of the Deity, proceeds
under the sway of an inflexible order’ (p. 2). With these principles
in hand, Mr. Pearson finds singularly facile answers to the question
of the mind.”—Philos. R.
* * * * *
“If one overlooks its crudities of method and its scientific and
philosophical dilettanteism, the book as a whole impresses one as
rather a happy blend of naturalism and theism, reflecting both an
attractive personality and a broad tendency characteristic of the
age.”
+ − =Nation.= 85; 125. Ag. 8. ’07. 600w.
“More instructive than the author’s conclusions are the spirit in
which he has approached his subject and the intellectual weapons with
which he attacks his task.” A. C. Armstrong.
+ =Philos. R.= 16: 550. S. ’07. 360w.
=Peary, Robert Edwin.= Nearest the pole. **$4.80. Doubleday.
7–35225.
A narrative of the Polar expedition of the Peary Arctic club in the S.
S. Roosevelt 1905–6, being Peary’s own account of his achievement, the
dangers encountered, and the problems solved. The volume is well
illustrated.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 118. Ag. 3. 1900w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 100: 260. Jl. 11. ’07. 190w.
“Is an energising book. It is a story of achievement, the kind of
story that appeals to what is called the American appreciation of
success. It is distinctly a personal work.” Albert White Vorse.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 424. Je. ’07. 1800w.
“A very readable record of a heroic achievement.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 304. My. 16, ’07. 1890w.
“For American readers it is the most important book on Arctic
exploration that we have had for many years.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1147. My. 16, ’07. 890w.
“Peary’s volume will be accepted as the best and most authoritative
account of polar exploration that has in many years appeared.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 962. Je. 15. ’07. 380w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 227. Jl. 19, ’07. 760w.
+ + =Nation.= 85: 41. Jl. 11, ’07. 900w.
“He knows his field as no other man knows it, and his methods of work
are the outcome of his own originality and experience. There is charm,
too, in his way of telling things; nervous energy in his written
records. The dramatic element is strong in many a situation that
confronts him, and it does not evaporate when he tries to put it on
paper.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 297. My. 11, ’07. 1790w.
“He writes rather as a scientist than as an adventurer. His journal of
necessity deals with adventure, and yet the spirit of the analyst is
the scientific spirit.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 130w.
“The story of the journey must be read at length to be appreciated.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 435. S. 28, ’07. 750w.
* =Peck, Harry Thurston.= Hilda and the wishes, il. †$1. Dodd.
7–36100.
The story of a little girl and her five wishes which a fairy godmother
gave her the power to make.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“No children can resist it, and grown people will add to their
enjoyment of the pretty tale the amusement they find in noting the
especial characteristics of the author, which they are accustomed to
find in writing of a very different style.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
=Peck, Harry Thurston.= Twenty years of the republic. **$2.50. Dodd.
6–39787.
A summary of the most significant events occurring in our country’s
history from President Cleveland’s inauguration in 1885, to the end of
the McKinley-Roosevelt administration, in 1905.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07. S.
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 253. Mr. 2. 250w.
“To tell the story of such a period so that its significance shall be
plain to the uncritical reader requires evidently two gifts, of both
of which Dr. Peck is possessed, the gift of analysing and picturing a
personality, and the gift of tracing and describing the slow working
of those social forces whose evolution may be recognized only after
its results are accomplished—in short, to trace and describe ‘history
in the making.’ Dr. Peck has also the gift of a lively narrative
style, and he is not deterred by a false sense of the dignity of
history from making use of any lively anecdotes which have come his
way.” Arthur Reed Kimball.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 473. Ja. ’07. 3080w.
“Sensational episodes, up-to-date pictures, and journalistic
spellbinding are absent. No perversion of historiography is attempted;
instead appears a series of short stories, delightfully told, with now
and then a thoughtful word of comment, about men, women, and things as
they are depicted on the shifting panorama of two decades of a
nation’s life.” William R. Shepherd.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 33: 313. Mr. ’07. 1020w.
“Professor Peck’s annals are as good as we can hope for today. We find
no intentional bias in them and some excellent portrayals. We cannot
hope for the present, to have our immediate needs better met.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1469. Je. 20, ’07. 630w.
“We are inclined to believe the book will be accepted as the best
contribution its author has made to contemporary literature.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
“Professor Peck writes entertainingly. He has woven the events of five
presidential terms into a racy and eminently readable
narrative—qualities not impaired by a tendency to snap judgment, a
habit of rather sweeping generalization, and a love for unusual words.
Mistakes which crept into this history as published serially have been
corrected. There remain slips which seem to show lack of familiarity
with the minutiæ of government machinery rather than downright
blundering.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 15. Ja. 3, ’07. 440w.
“Such a history is of particular value to put on record in a country
which is passing through a transitory stage of eager endeavor and
unattained ideals.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“Professor Peck speaks his mind more freely than does Mr. Paul, and
occasionally with undue warmth. Sometimes, too, he writes with an air
of finality that is unwarranted in view of the fact that all the
evidence is not yet at hand. And now and again his pen portraits are
hardly fair to their historic subjects. For all of this, we have read
his work with satisfaction, recognizing that in more than one
important way it is soundly informative.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.
“Although on ... [some] matters—mostly trivial—the reader will feel an
occasional impulse to rise up and disagree, there can be no question
that the author has succeeded in what he has undertaken. His
characters appear as living and breathing human beings; his story is
told with genuine literary skill.” Paul Leland Haworth.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 331. Je. ’07. 1050w.
“For Americans who like hearty distribution of praise and condemnation
he will be a pleasant and satisfactory authority. In the mere matter
of narration his book contains many points which the more stately
writers would do well to study.” John Spencer Bassett.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 255. My. ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 60w.
=Spec.= 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 260w.
=Peck, Theodora.= Hester of the Grants: a romance of old Bennington.
**$2.50. Duffield.
7–23717.
A special Vermont edition of a novel first issued two years ago,
illustrated with pictures of Green mountain localities and characters.
The new dress enhances the historical flavor of this tale of
revolutionary times in Vermont when it was still a part of the
Hampshire grants, and adds interest to the romantic story of the
patriotic heroine, her lovers, and her turncoat father.
* * * * *
“There are many evidences of youth in the composition of the
narrative, but on the whole it is a surprising piece of work for a
young author, and furnishes very pleasing and satisfactory reading to
all interested in the events and spirit of our country’s most romantic
days.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 80w.
=Peixotto, Ernest Clifford.= By Italian seas. **$2.50. Scribner.
6–37648.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Peixotto is a very excellent artist, but as a writer he leaves
much to be desired.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 969. O. 5, ’07. 170w.
“The text is clear and only less charming than the exquisite pictures
by the author.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.
“The text is to be read rather as a commentary upon the many excellent
drawings than for its own sake. Even so it seems rather shallow and
superficial.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 290w.
“The word-painting is exactly as good, in its way, as the penciling,
and so curiously like it in style that the two seem to make upon the
reader’s mind a single harmonious impression.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 423. Mr. ’07. 560w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 220w.
=Peloubet, Francis N.= Studies in the Book of Job: a Biblical drama
illuminating the problem of the ages. **$1. Scribner.
6–32405.
For advanced classes in Sunday-school, for Biblical literature courses
in high schools and colleges, for evening service and for individual
use.
* * * * *
“The critical standpoint of the author is uncertain, and his estimate
of the literature on Job is in many points at fault, but the
interpretation of Job is affected by errors of this kind perhaps less
than that of any other Old Testament writing.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 184. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“There was need of just such a book as this, which is not inferior to
Moulton or Genung in its powers to bring to the ordinary Bible-reader
a new and vivid realization of the treasure hidden in this Arabian
ash-field, while for teachers it is of unique value.” Camden M.
Cobern.
+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 235. Mr. 07. 910w.
“A real vade mecum on this most troublesome but fascinating book of
the Old Testament.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 318. My. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Diamond ship. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–28763.
“Another machine-made yarn of crime and alleged mystery. The diamond
ship is a huge floating repository of the booty collected by an
organized band of jewel-thieves. The leader employs the method of a
captain of industry, and his operations are conducted upon a vast
scale.... The usually helpless maiden is involved.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It is all very interesting, if somewhat ingenuous, and those in
search of a well-written book of adventure are recommended to buy it.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 42. O. 19, ’07. 320w.
“Max Pemberton is usually a fairly safe choice, if your ideal of
hammock fiction requires abundance of sensation and not too much
literary quality.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 210w.
“Rather above the average of his later work. It escapes his besetting
tendency to be over-fantastic, and tells a reasonably straightforward
tale of villainy unearthed and virtue rewarded. It is, of course,
cheaply melodramatic throughout, but the excitement is
well-contrived.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 180w.
“A veritable pot-boiler of the poorest quality.”
− =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 100w.
=Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 240w.
“The most that can be said in the book’s favor is that the author has
shown a good deal of ingenuity in the invention of incident. For the
rest it is an illy-done piece of novel writing, clumsy in the
construction, and in the telling splotched all over with the
discredited tinsel and gew-gaws of melodrama.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 119. F. 23, ’07. 370w.
=Pendexter, Hugh.= Tiberius Smith: as chronicled by his right-hand man
Billy Campbell. †$1.50. Harper.
7–11207.
A new edition of the adventures of Tiberius Smith, the clever showman,
who never faces a situation so perilous that his quick wit and keen
sense of humor cannot effect a way of escape. Even lunatics and lions
do not daunt him.
* * * * *
“For the lover of the circus in literature here are thoughts that
breathe; for the collector of the ultra modern and vaudevillainous in
slang, words that burn; remain, for the lover of a book in the
accepted sense of that word, feelings not fit for publication.”
− =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 250w.
“The rough and ready conversational style of the narrative and the
grotesque humor of its similes and comparisons ... make a fitting garb
for the breezy, absurd, amusing tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 360w.
* =Penfield, Edward.= Holland sketches, il. **$2.50. Scribner.
7–36404.
Entire sympathy exists between the illustrations and text as both are
the work of Mr. Penfield. “Nothing could be better suited to his style
than the quaint Dutch peasants in their baggy trousers or voluminous
skirts, picturesque caps, and clumsy wooden sabots. Queer little
by-streets, flapping windmills on the banks of quiet canals, fishing
smacks with patched brown sails, ‘interiors’ hung with Delft and old
brasses,—these are the things that Mr. Penfield paints and writes
about.... He never has a beaten-track experience.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“It is seldom, even in these days of unique and beautiful travel
books, that anything so thoroughly delightful as ‘Holland sketches’ is
published.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 310w.
=Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 130w.
=Penfield, Frederic Courtland.= East of Suez, Ceylon, India, China and
Japan; il. from drawings and photographs. **$2. Century.
7–8551.
“The world’s turnstile at Suez” is the heading of the opening chapter
of a book of “journeyings loaded with gentle preachment.” After a
brief survey of the history and of the utilitarian phases of the great
marine highway, the author becomes a very informing guide thru
Colombo, the Ceylon hill country and Bombay, on to sluggish China and
to Japan where the “old is being supplanted by the new with amazing
rapidity.”
* * * * *
“He has assimilated much useful information, many statistics, and not
a few superficial impressions. These he has clothed in picturesque
language, decorated here and there with such gems as ‘truthlet’ for a
little truth.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 507. My. 25, ’07. 350w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07. S.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29. 644. My. ’07. 450w.
“It is one of the best books of travel of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 86: 672. Je. ’07. 280w.
“The clear manner in which Mr. Penfield presents his ideas and the
fact that he has had such excellent opportunities to know whereof he
speaks should entitle his opinions to serious consideration.”
Elizabeth Kendall.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 301. My. ’07. 890w.
“Few books of travel lately written in this country excel it, and we
predict it will be more than a book of an hour.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 371. Je. 16, ’07. 480w.
“Throughout the whole of this portion of the East there is an almost
total lack of American products. This state of things is regarded by
the author as wholly inexcusable. His views upon the subject are
timely and deserving of general attention.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.
“Most of these spots are familiar, but described from his point of
view in an attractive, often humorous way, they acquire a fresh
interest.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 289. Mr. 28, ’07. 370w.
“It is well worth while to travel in Mr. Penfield’s company, and look
at unfamiliar scenes with his fresh yet experienced eyes.” Edward A.
Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 1390w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 110w.
“The book is mere journalism and, though interesting, is by no means
trustworthy.” G: Louis Beer.
− + =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 130w.
“An excellent book of travels unusually well told.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 639. N. ’07. 40w.
“This is an eminently readable book.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 948. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
=Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell).= Charles Godfrey
Leland: a biography. 2v. **$5. Houghton.
6–31406.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Only for the larger library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 14. Ja. ’07.
=Atlan.= 99: 429. Mr. ’07. 980w.
“In spite of much that is delightful, the book is longer than
discretion would have dictated.” Elizabeth Kendall.
+ + − =Bookm.= 24: 593. F. ’07. 1080w.
“A graceful writer of unerring taste.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 914. Ap. 18, ’07. 730w.
“Her ready pen runs away with her, and she employs in expansion the
time which would have been more profitably devoted to condensation.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 5: 416. D. 14, ’06. 1460w.
“It must be conceded at the outset that these absorbing volumes do not
offer a uniformly analytical or judicial estimate of the picturesque
and magnetic ‘Hans Breitmann.’” Christian Brinton.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 1299. D. 21, ’06. 1780w.
=Peple, Edward Henry.= Semiramis: a tale of battle and of love. †$1.50.
Moffat.
7–26347.
A romance of ancient Assyria. “The figure of the warrior queen, half
goddess, half mortal, stands out brilliantly wherever she is placed.
Her love for the Assyrian prince, their adventures, her clever
manipulation of the jealous King Ninus, and her final grim triumph,
are vividly described.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Like the vast majority of novels that would feign reincarnate a
buried antiquity, the sense of actuality is ineffectual.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 26: 269. N. ’07. 330w.
“Whether he entertains or exasperates depends upon the character of
the reader. To one acquainted with accepted profane and religious
history the book is, to say the least of it, disconcerting. The story
is written in a kind of delirious prose, that is to say it has the
rigidity of poetry without its grace or high meaning, and the form of
prose without its flexibility.”
− =Ind.= 63: 946. O. 17, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 470w.
“Imagination almost routs history, and the result is a highly
entertaining story.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 80w.
=Pepper, Charles Melville.= Panama to Patagonia: the Isthmian canal and
the west coast countries of South America. **$2.50. McClurg.
6–10671.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 148. My. ’07.
“Our ignorance of the sister republics is so great that a work such as
Mr. Pepper’s is to be welcomed as a contribution toward the
enlightening of American public opinion.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 468. N. ’06. 160w.
=Pepys, Samuel.= Pepys’ memoirs of the Royal navy; ed. by Jos. Robson
Tanner. (Tudor and Stuart lib.) *$1.75. Oxford.
7–29045.
Memoirs that were published originally by Pepys in June, 1690. They
are a defense of his own naval administration prior to 1688, and a
criticism of that of his opponents. Interesting details concerning the
navy of this period are included.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 689. Ap. ’07. 160w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Periam, Annina.= Hebbel’s Nibelungen, its sources, method and style.
*$1. Macmillan.
6–24558.
“In her five chapters the author of these studies treats of the
genesis of Hebbel’s ‘Nibelungen.’ Hebbel’s conception of his dramatic
problem, the sources of the work and his use of them, his relation to
predecessor’s and critics, particularly Raupach, Fouqué, Geibel,
Wagner, and Vischer, and some special aspects of Hebbel’s
work—inventions, treatment of women, of religion, and the mythical and
mystical.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 83: 186. Ag. 30, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 456. Jl. 14, ’06. 310w.
* =Perkins, Lucy Fitch.= Book of joys: the story of a New England
summer. il. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–34806.
A Chicagoan tells how she takes a new lease of life during a spring
and summer spent in two New England villages. From the confusion of
the city she turns to the joys of rural loneliness, and revels in
turf-paved walks “spangled with buttercups and broidered with violets,
with the shadow of apple boughs dancing over it, and living silence
all about, the stillness of singing birds and humming bees.”
* * * * *
“Mrs. Perkins is keenly alive to both the delights and the limitations
of the old-school New England life, seeing it with the clear eye of an
alien who is sympathetic to its charm but fully conscious of its
whimsicalities and oddities.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 320w.
“A book of special interest to feminine readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Perkins, Mrs. Lucy (Fitch)=, comp. Robin Hood; his deeds and adventures
as recounted in the old English ballads. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–32850.
The compiler has prettily illustrated in color these ten Robin Hood
ballads, which are based upon authoritative versions and retain their
original form.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 111. Ap. ’07.
“The author-artist ... has not only shown judgment in her selections,
but accuracy of costume in her attractive drawings.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
“The book shows good taste, and the illustrations—most of them done in
color—are simple in outline and excellent In spirit.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 110w.
=Perrigo, Charles Oscar E.= Modern American lathe practice. $2.50.
Henley.
7–4843.
“This is a lathe book from beginning to end.... A few chapters are
given up to the history and development of the lathe and also to lathe
design.... A number of chapters are devoted to the description of the
latest production of our prominent manufacturers.... There are also
chapters on variable speed devices, lathe tools and attachments,
turret lathes, special lathes and electrically-driven lathes. The book
is well illustrated.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Just the kind of a book which one delights to consult, a masterly
treatment of the subject in hand.” Wm. W. Bird.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 443. Ap. 16, ’07. 210w.
=Perry, Bliss.= Walt Whitman: his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–35721.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“By all odds the most judicial and satisfactory account of that
disconcerting genius yet published. A kind of indecision or hesitancy
to pronounce a definitive Judgment makes his book a little
disappointing to a reader who looks to his biographer for his opinions
as well as for his information.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 110w.
“On the whole, Mr. Perry’s book is an exceedingly uncomfortable one to
read. The virtues of an editor and a college professor are too widely
different from those of a great original genius to admit of mutual
comprehension.” Louise Collier Willcox.
− =No. Am.= 185: 221. My. 17, ’07. 990w.
“Mr. Perry brought the methods of a scholar to his task, and for the
first time the world has an adequate and candid account of Whitman’s
antecedents and conditions, and of the outward happenings of his life.
This record is not only more complete but it is more intelligent than
any that has come from the Whitman cult.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 278. F. 2, ’07. 1920w.
“In writing a perfectly sensible life of Whitman, Mr. Perry has
performed a feat of which we may almost have despaired.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 635. F. ’07. 510w.
=Perry, John G.= Letters from a surgeon of the civil war. **$1.75.
Little.
6–24566.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07.
=Perry, Thomas Sergeant.= John Fiske. **75c. Small.
5–40797.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It describes a literary career to the neglect of character and
personality. We miss a sympathetic portraiture of the man himself.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 190. Mr. ’07. 120w.
=Peters, Edward Dyer.= Principles of copper smelting. $5. Hill pub. co.
7–12991.
“This work is divided into fifteen chapters, which deal with Methods
and collectors, First principles of smelting, Principles of roasting,
Chemistry of smelting, Practice of roasting, Blast furnace smelting,
Reverbatory smelting, Pyritic smelting, Practical study of slags,
Matte, Production of metallic copper from matte, Refining of copper,
Principles of furnace building, Applications of thermochemistry,
Miscellaneous and commercial.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The index is good, with plenty of cross-references, making it an easy
matter to look up any section or subject. This book is a pioneer along
the text-book line. The teaching of the principles, after all, is the
most important, and Dr. Peters deserves hearty congratulations and
thanks for producing such a clear, concise, and readable book.”
Bradley Stoughton.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 662. Je. 13, ’07. 1370w.
=Peterson, Henry.= Dulcibel: a tale of old Salem; il. by Howard Pyle.
†$1.50. Winston.
7–12980.
A story of the cruel persecution of the days of the Salem witchcraft,
with much stress placed upon the spell of hypnotism and imposture. It
mainly concerns a very charming girl who comes under the witchcraft
ban and her stout-hearted lover whose efforts to have her released
from prison prove effectual only when the spirited Lady Mary Phips
lends her assistance.
* * * * *
“The tale is not without its credulities, but it is animated and full
of zeal. With every allowance for partisanship it is a stirring
recital, and pulls at the nerves of indignation as if the dreadful
thing had not all happened two hundred years ago.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“A really charming little story, which keeps the reader’s interest
well sustained until the very end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 80w.
=Petre, F. Loraine.= Napoleon’s campaign in Poland, 1806–1807. *$3.50.
Lane.
“The book begins with a chapter on the state of Europe in 1805 and
1806, with a crisp sketch of the armies, the leaders and the
lieutenants on both sides, and gives a careful description of the
topographical features of the difficult theatre of war—its marshes and
forests, its mud and snow, its summer heat and winter tempests. Then
follow the several operations, from that beginning in November and
culminating in the battles of Pultusk and Golymin at Christmastide,
1806, through the butchery of Eylau in February and its succeeding
winter quarters, the siege of Danzig, and the ‘final triumph’ at
Heilsburg and Friedland in June, 1807, followed by the treaty of
Tilsit. At the end are three maps of the theatre of war, on two
sheets, and seven battle-plans on a third sheet.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“The style is simple and direct, with abundant foot-notes, the matter
in some of which might be incorporated in the text, to save
interruption of the narration by the reader. The detail is
considerable, but not too great for a work dealing with a single
campaign. We close Mr. Petre’s book with the feeling that he has done
a good piece of work, filling a needed gap; and we welcome his
forthcoming volume on ‘1806.’” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 888. Jl. ’07. 820w.
“This volume supplies a real want for the student of Napoleonic
history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.
=Petre, F. Loraine.= Napoleon’s conquest of Prussia. *$5. Lane.
7–25140.
A full account of Napoleon’s campaign of 1806 based upon all the
information available. “Mr. Petre confines himself, after two
interesting chapters on the origin of the war and the contending
armies, to the purely military aspect of his period.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“If a treatise on military history is to be placed in the first class,
the style must be clear and the narrative not overloaded with details
of secondary importance, the authorities should be quoted, and the
maps must be clear and large: Mr. Petre’s book fails in all these
respects.”
− =Acad.= 72: 385. Ap. 20, ’07. 760w.
“The volume is easy to read. To a student already familiar with 1806,
there are fewer causes of dissent than are usual.” Theodore Ayrault
Dodge.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 140. O. ’07. 770w.
“The appearance of Mr. Petre’s book fills a gap which needed filling.
In little matters Mr. Petre is sometimes irritating.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 597. My. 18. 1660w.
“The most instructive passage of the book is the description of
Napoleon’s army administration in the field and of the loose and
ineffective organization of the Prussian staff.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 90. Ag. 16, ’07. 340w.
“If he has nothing very novel to offer he is generally safe to
follow.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 110w.
“This is an exhaustive first hand account from a military point of
view, and the result of careful study of the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 270w.
“The work has been so thoroughly done that this book is likely to
become the definitive authority upon the subject.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. F. L. Petre has described, with a technical completeness hitherto
not available in the English language, Napoleon’s brilliantly
successful campaign of 1806, in which Prussia was so completely
humiliated.” G: Louis Beer.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 743. S. ’07. 180w.
“We must dissent from Mr. Petre’s discovery that incorporation of
footnotes in the text saves the reader ‘annoyance,’ for his habit in
this respect often distorts his narrative. Then the chief actors of
the ‘débâcle’ are not individualized.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 455. O. 5, ’07. 2270w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= History of Egypt from the XIXth to
the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.
5–26752.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Solidly packed with facts.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 706. Ap. ’07. 30w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= Janus in modern life. (Questions of
the day, no. 106.) *$1. Putnam.
7–37957.
A development in some measure from Professor Petrie’s recent Huxley
lecture. The study looks before and behind and deals with such present
day problems as race and immigration, communism, philanthropy, and
individualism in relation to historical philosophy. The burden of what
the author has to say is “that all our modern efforts for the
bettering of the race by saving the weaker individual rigors of
competition tend to degrade the race.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Janus, indeed, is a clever double-headed professor, who treats rather
amateurishly—that is to say, confidently and assertively—many subjects
as to which we suspect that his knowledge is not very profound.”
− =Acad.= 73: 185. N. 30, ’07. 1440w.
“Dr. Petrie commands respectful attention when he writes upon
archeology but when he turns to sociology, the subject of this little
book, he writes as an amateur and must be weighed dispassionately.”
− =Ind.= 63: 1315. N. 28, ’07. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 501. S. 21, ’07. 1180w.
“His chapters are well worth reading. They are always suggestive; we
may differ from their conclusions, but we cannot help thinking about
them, and are sure to get some profit from them. Sometimes, we think,
Dr. Flinders Petrie exaggerates.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 299. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= Researches in Sinai. *$6. Dutton.
6–40918.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ind.= 62: 216. Ja. 24, ’07. 410w.
=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Christian origins. *$1.50. Huebsch.
6–9289.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 132. F. 2. 590w.
“The value of the work is especially in the references to facts and
tendencies in other religions than Christianity as illustrating
features in the growth of the Christian faith and partly contributing
to this growth.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 388. F. 14, ’07. 240w.
=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Primitive Christianity; its writings and teachings
in their historical connections; tr. by W. Montgomery; ed. by Rev. W. D.
Morrison. 4v. *$3. Putnam.
7–16364.
=v. 1.= “In this revised and enlarged edition a veteran theologian has
availed himself of the latest fruits of learned research. The present
volume, after a chapter on the first Christian community, is occupied
with the Apostle Paul, his writings, and his theology.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A good translation. The lectures present, in a clear and interesting
way, the author’s well-known views.”
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 531. Jl. ’07. 470w.
“While Prof. Pfleiderer is a mere theorist when dealing with records
and traditions of supernatural events, he is a skilled and learned
critic when he discusses the ordinary experience of a man like St.
Paul.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 631. My. 25. 540w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Ind.= 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Outlook.= 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Religion and historic faiths; tr. from the German by
Daniel A. Huebsch. *$1.50. Huebsch.
7–29077.
A series of lectures delivered at the University of Berlin. The author
defines the essence of religion, the ethics and science of it and the
beginnings of religion; he discusses the Chinese, Egyptian, Babylonian
systems, Brahmanism, Buddhism, the religion of the Greeks, and of
Israel down to Christianity.
* * * * *
“The brief accounts of the various religions are clear and good. The
translation is only fair, clear, but often awkward.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 586. S. 28, ’07. 360w.
“His just emphasis on the ethical element in the New Testament does
not make full amends for an over-emphasis on the legendary.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 220w.
=Phelps, Mrs. Elizabeth Steward.= (Leigh North, pseud.). Predecessors of
Cleopatra. $1.50. Broadway pub.
6–45018.
A compilation of what is known of the queens of Egypt who reigned
during the four thousand years preceding the reign of Cleopatra. The
volume is illustrated by five drawings.
* * * * *
“She does not indicate what ... are [her sources], nor does she handle
her material critically.”
− =Ind.= 62: 276. Ja. 31, ’07. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 293. My. 4, ’07. 140w.
=Phelps, William Lyon.= Pure gold of nineteenth century literature.
**75c. Crowell.
7–25233.
A summary of the vital forces in nineteenth century literature as
embodied in the following authors destined to live: Keats, Wordsworth.
Browning, Byron, Shelley, Tennyson, Stevenson, Thackeray, Austin,
Eliot and Hardy.
* * * * *
“There is no alloy in his criticism.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 626. O. 19, ’07. 160w.
=Philipson, David.= Reform movement in Judaism. **$2. Macmillan.
7–15617.
A series of studies which “aim to present a connected story of the
progressive movement in Judaism ... setting forth the purposes and
accomplishments of the reform movement.” The beginnings of the reform
are discussed and chapters are devoted to: The Geiger-Tiktin affair,
The Hamburg Temple prayer-book controversy, Reform in England,
Rabbinical conferences, 1844–6, Reform Congregation or Berlin, The
Breslau “Friends of reform,” Reform in Hungary, The Leipzig and
Augsburg synods, Reform in the United States and Recent developments
in Europe.
* * * * *
“The author is to be commended for his careful and scholarly work, and
his book is eminently readable.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 503. My. 30, ’07. 390w.
“The present volume, relating the struggle and advance of the
reformers during the last century, is of peculiar interest and
importance to Christians as well as to the Jews.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 43. Jl. 20, ’07. 250w.
“A scholarly study.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 100w.
=Phillipps, L. March.= In the desert. $4.20. Longmans.
W 5–5.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Phillipps is no mere impressionist, and behind his charming
pictures there is a wealth of sound and acute political thought, all
the more valuable since it is rarely expressed in the conventional
language of politics. His mind has brilliance and swiftness, but
neither profundity nor coherence. Sometimes in his parallels Mr.
Phillipps is far-fetched and fantastic, but in the main his brilliant
analysis carries conviction.”
+ + − =Spec.= 95: 1037. D. 16, ’05. 700w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Light-fingered gentry, il. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–30833.
A novel based upon recent insurance exposures. The light-fingered
gentry are captains of industry and big men in the financial world.
The hero is an officer of an insurance company, and the interest of
the book is maintained thru his moral regeneration, both the phase of
it that affects his fight with corruption in business, and the side
that deals with his domestic happiness—the reawakening of love for his
divorced wife.
* * * * *
“Crude in style, but interesting in plot and character delineation.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 203. N. ’07. ✠
“Considering the possibilities of sensationalism inherent in the
theme, he has avoided the extremer forms of overstatement. The private
interest of the story is inconsiderable.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 253. O. 16, ’07. 280w.
“Has many clever features, and now and then passages of real power.
But as a whole it is the sort of novel which is own cousin to the
special article of the monthly magazine and the work of the star
reporter on the daily newspaper.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 615. O. 12, ’07. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“The colors—the lurid yellow of the sensational journalist and the
dismal black of the chronic pessimist—are laid on with a prodigal
brush.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Second generation. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–4160.
Hiram Ranger is a wealthy western manufacturer who deplores the
idleness into which his two children lapse after a lavish eastern
education. His conscience forbids bequeathing them any of his money,
and their struggles to work out their own salvation form the burden of
Mr. Phillips’ preachment.
* * * * *
“Written in a hasty, crude style, but the story is forceful,
absorbing, and timely.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07. ✠
“‘The second generation’ is not only Mr. Phillips’ strongest and best
novel; it is the most virile and vital romance of the present year.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 438. Ap. ’07. 3710w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 459. Ap. ’07. 690w.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Phillips has no style, and thus his management of
a strongly-conceived situation becomes bald and unconvincing. The
moral of the story is so fine and true despite a slight tincture of
unwholesome socialism, that we could wish the author’s literary gift
were in proportion to his ethical insight.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 250w.
“On the whole the book teaches us to be thankful that the social and
industrial salvation of the country is not in the hands of these
ingenious fiction makers, particularly those who have a socialistic
heaven in view which none of us are fit by nature or grace to enter.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 1415. Je. 13, ’07. 340w.
“So long as he wrote to prove the evil effects of wealth upon the
children of rich parents, he expressed his ideas with power and a
certain fierce distinction. But when he attempts to show how wealth
may be disposed of for the good of society, he offers a Munchausen
system of finance wearisome to read about.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 80w.
“Mr. Phillips has written a strong wholesome story of contemporaneous
American life.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w.
“There is quite enough importance in the tendency which Mr. Phillips
has in mind to make one wish that he might have painted it as tendency
rather than as inevitable fact. He has written a forcible tract,
however, and this is what we suppose he intended.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 85. Ja. 24, ’07. 450w.
“The story exhibits all of Mr. Phillips’s strong qualities, it is
interesting, and the characters are for the most part forcefully
drawn. Its weakness lies in his treating a tendency as if it were an
accomplished and universal fact of life.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 157. Mr. 16, ’07. 720w.
“The many entanglements in the plot are skillfully straightened out in
the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
“The whole book, although sober-minded and excellent in many ways, is
too long-drawn-out and somewhat stolid.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 100w.
“I cannot imagine anybody but a walking delegate of the most
exclamatory type taking pleasure in the ‘Second generation,’ and yet I
am sure the author is guilty of most excellent intentions.” Vernon
Atwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 2: 218. Ag. ’07. 190w.
=Phillips, Le Roy.= Bibliography of the writings of Henry James. **$3.
Houghton.
6–43541.
“Part 1, ‘Original works,’ is a chronological bibliography of books,
giving the first edition.... Following this account of the first
edition is a record of later editions and of translations.... In Part
2 are described books by other authors to which James contributed....