appendix contains an account of two plays by James which have been
staged in London.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“So far as we have been able to test it, Mr. Phillips’s work is
admirably done, and the amount of research must have been very
considerable.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 37. Ja. 10, ’07. 560w.
“Mr. Phillips ... seems to have done his work with satisfactory
patience and care:” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 1210w.
=Phillips, Stephen.= Nero. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–7415.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The utmost that can be said of this play as a whole is that it will
not detract from Mr. Phillips’s reputation.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 572. Mr. 9. ’07. 400w.
* =Phillpotts, Eden.= Folk afield. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–32559.
Fourteen stories of love and adventure on sea and land which draw
color from the sun, sea, and mountains of the South of France, of
Italy and of North Africa. One of the best is “Souvenir de Maupassant”
in which the heroine is the beautiful Kabyle girl pictured with all
the fascination of her oriental heritage.
* * * * *
“We are glad to have this collection, as it exhibits the author in an
unusual rôle, and gives us a larger impression of him.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 210w.
“In ‘Souvenir de Maupassant,’ Mr. Phillpotts offers most of that
imaginative suggestion which is the short story’s highest merit; and
here he shows himself not merely the patient and eclectic recorder of
the scene and the hour, but the artist in description, whose words
make nature live again.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 251. Ag. 16, ’07. 370w.
“Here is a miscellany of short stories, in various moods and keys, but
of no marked power.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 360w.
“The backgrounds are vivid in color and very realistic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= My garden. (Country life lib.) *$3.75. Scribner.
7–8530.
Enthusiasm abounds in Mr. Phillpotts’ garden book with prejudices born
of individuality and experience. It demands that a real gardener shall
love nurserymen’s catalogues and shall abhor butterflies. In his
garden of only an acre he has a thousand genera from all parts of the
world, and his Devonshire sunshine seems to foster their growth almost
magically.
* * * * *
“He knows how to make a garden, and he knows how to write about it.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 621. N. 17. 380w.
“The whole book will signify nothing except to gardeners; but they
will enjoy it.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 288. D. 24, ’06. 630w.
“Is certainly a pleasure to the eye, and we find its leaves
besprinkled with a pleasant humor here and there. The general reader,
however, will shy at the constant stream of technical botanical names.
The book contains many valuable bits of information for the amateur,
but it has no Index.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 448. N. 22, ’06. 140w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Whirlwind. †$1.50. McClure.
7–4812.
Mr. Phillpotts’ “standard is a high one. His method is conceived on a
large scale. It is no other than to bring all the aspects of
nature—the changing sky, with its range of colours, the wind that
blows across his Devon moors, the trees, the flowers, the animals, all
the denizens of earth—into league with him in telling one great story
of passion or love or disaster.” (Acad.) “In his theme Mr. Phillpotts
has enlarged the ‘eternal triangle’ of one woman and two men into a
case of one woman loved by three men and herself honestly loving two
of the men and married to one of them. This must be admitted to be a
new complication, warranted to tax even the ingenuities of as keen a
student of human nature as Mr. Phillpotts, and requiring no little
delicacy of perception and feeling for its acceptable solution.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“There is a lack of inevitability about the final tragedy, and that
lack lends to the tragedy an element of sordidness which is
belittling.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 95. Ja. 26, ’07. 460w.
“It will be seen that while Mr. Phillpotts runs the risk, as often, of
falling into melodrama, he keeps himself out of that pit by the
artistry of his handling and the dignity of his characterization.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 129. F. 2. 450w.
“Mr. Phillpotts has never given us anything so effectively composed as
the present novel. In its culminating situation the action moves
serenely upon the heights of real tragedy, and leaves one with the
same richly complex yet elevated sense of peace.” Harry James Smith.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 127. Jl. ’07. 1350w.
“Is not to be numbered among his strongest books. There is less
spontaneity of character drawing; his men and his women lack the vital
individuality of the earlier volumes; they suggest something
stereotyped and worked over from earlier impressions. The central plot
is not merely repellent, but difficult of acceptance.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 380w.
“It is a story that more than ever makes us feel that Mr. Hardy has
found a worthy successor.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 396. Je. 16, ’07. 300w.
“Attempts to put a halo of self-sacrifice around a woman’s frailty,
and the result is one of the most unconvincing stories he ever wrote.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
− =Forum.= 39: 118. Jl. ’07. 370w.
“Eden Phillpotts’s new novel is his masterpiece.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1090. My. 9, ’07. 780w.
“Eden Phillpotts’ last epic of the Dartmoor is beyond question the
greatest of his angry masterpieces of that region.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 20w.
“So long as their lives proceed quietly the book is delightful, and
the true tragedy of its end is the tragedy of a fine novel spoilt.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 29. Ja. 25, ’07. 1090w.
“It is to be regretted that the writer did not more nearly confine
himself to the main theme. The supernumerary persons ... are too many
and too much in the way.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 415. My. 2, ’07. 400w.
“Here is the ‘Whirlwind’ ... thrashing out the same familiar subjects
with still enough of freshness and originality to make the reading of
it an unexpectedly pleasing task.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 191. Mr. 30, ’07. 570w.
“At his best and at his worst—at his best in true and faithful
presentation of the Dartmoor country and the Dartmoor rustics, at his
worst because there are breaks in the psychology, inconsistencies
between character and action, abrupt tragedy more startling than
real.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 765. Je. ’07. 90w.
=Phillpotts, Eden, and Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= Doubloons. †$1.50.
McClure.
6–39024.
A joint “light-hearted, mile-a-minute detective story” (Nation) which
abounds in the local color of the West Indies.
* * * * *
“There is much clever invention and some charming descriptions of
nature, which are quite out of place, but the novel, as a whole, is a
failure, and does not arrest the attention.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 503. N. 17, ’06. 130w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07.
“Despite Mr. Phillpotts’ spurt, we cannot follow the narrative so
zealously as we should like, and the story drags out to a lame
conclusion.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 687. D. 1. 210w.
“Some latent humor may be observed in the intense seriousness with
which the wild piece of sensationalism is worked out.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 148. F. 2. 160w.
“The London part of the story is better than its sequel, and provides
a thrill for every chapter. After a while the complication becomes so
great that there is nothing for it but to cut loose and to take refuge
in foreign parts. Meanwhile all sorts of loose ends are left hanging,
and some of them are not gathered up at all.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 150w.
“The effect of such a skilful and enthralling plot is heightened by
the other features of the story, especially by its delightful vein of
satire.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 549. Ap. ’07. 430w.
− + =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 130w.
“The story differs from the average detective mystery only in being
quicker, more amusing, and in covering a wider geographical field.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 320w.
“It has achieved the difficult task of a thoroughly original plot with
a unique criminal.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 813. D. 1, ’06. 530w.
“The authors seem to have fallen between two stools by combining an
exciting tale of crime and treasure-seeking with a strain of
burlesque.”
− =Outlook.= 84: 711. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 50w.
“The book is certainly a first-class detective story; but we miss from
the mixture the peculiar qualities of Mr. Eden Phillpotts.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 250w.
=Phyfe, William Henry P.= Napoleon: the return from Saint Helena. 8 il.
**$1. Putnam.
7–20318.
An informing account of the removal of the Emperor’s remains from
Saint Helena to France in 1840; together with a description of his
tomb in the Hôtel des invalides in Paris.
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 600. N. ’07. 70w.
Reviewed by Henry E. Bourne.
=Dial.= 43: 89. Ag. 16, ’07. 310w.
=Nation.= 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 60w.
“The book is written in excellent taste, very simply and contains many
facts which students of the Emperor’s career will find interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 416. Je. 29, ’07. 190w.
=Pickering, Sidney.= Basket of fate. †$1.50. Longmans.
“Mr. Pickering delineates no wonderful hero or heroine, but just
‘nice’ people, and people who are ‘not nice’ as we meet them in life.
The middle-aged man who loves, almost against his will, the fresh
English girl who can live near pitch, yet not allow the hem of her
skirt to be soiled, supplies the interest, being backed by a scheming
half-sister and her former lover.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“This is a book to be enjoyed at the fireside rather than criticised
in serious style.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 130w.
“For the tale ... is constructed and told with much skill. The
characters, even the minor ones, are cleverly drawn and made to reveal
themselves by their speech and actions.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 891. D. 22, ’06. 590w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 647. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
“Not particularly remarkable for originality, but brisk and pleasant
reading,”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 200w.
=Pickworth, Charles N.= Slide rule. $1. Van Nostrand.
A tenth edition of a well known book in which “the text appears to be
simplified and improved, there is a large number of illustrative
examples from various phases of engineering calculation, and some few
of the numerous modified and special slide rules are described.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 240w.
=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Harding of St. Timothy’s. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–33574.
“A very good story of school life about boys in their middle and later
teens.... The scene is laid in a big boys’ school ... in New England.
The story is largely concerned with the athletic side of school life,
and shows the influence which can be exerted unconsciously among a lot
of boys by one who is always frank and manly and honorable.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“A novel ... with a wholesome flavor and a genuine appeal to boys.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 607. S. 29, ’06. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1. ’06. 100w.
=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Young in heart. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–16383.
“Comprises eight essays in observation of the writer’s fellow mortals,
their excellences and defects, their successes and failures, their
work and their play. Particularly strong has the author shown himself
in what may be called the psychology of self-conceit.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Enjoyment of these agreeable and often illuminating studies in human
nature ... would be more nearly perfect did they reveal a finer sense
of the niceties of language.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 380w.
“A delightful little book which justifies its title. The author is
certainly young in heart, and his outlook on the world is hospitable
and comprehensive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 320. My. 18, ’07. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.
=Pier, Garrett Chatfield.= Egyptian antiquities in the Pier collection.
*$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–41525.
=pt. 1.= “The first volume ... consists of specimens represented in
twenty-two plates, and includes objects in glazed pottery, flint and
other stones, ivory and other materials. There are pendants,
ornaments, inlays, and amulets, but the chief place is given to more
than two hundred scarabs, seals, and cylinders. The catalogue
describes the articles which the plates picture.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 915. Jl. ’07. 150w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Ind.= 61: 1352. D. 6, ’06. 230w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“The whole is a conscientious and useful piece of work, free from
ostentation and creditably performed. The value of the book is
increased by the excellence of the reproduction of the legends and
devices on the scarabs.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 447. N. 22, ’06. 240w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“The disadvantages of the book are such as the author can easily
remedy in the succeeding parts, and we hope that he will continue his
plan to its end.” H. H.
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 148. Je. 13, ’07. 920w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Pierce, Ernest Frederic.= Traveller’s Joy. †$1.50. Dutton.
7–37555.
“The Traveller’s Joy” is an inn of the South Downs where a young
writer, Anthony Penrose spends a summer and falls in love with Madge
Weston, the sister of a college chum and the niece of his publisher.
It is full of the wealth of summer and invincible youth.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 330w.
“The book is as fresh and as wholesome as a spring morning; its worst
faults are those of inexperience.”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 949. Je. 16, ’06. 820w.
=Pierce, Franklin.= Tariff and the trusts. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–4381.
In this treatise the author “attempts to show ... how the Dingley
tariff has been the direct cause of the rise and growth of hundreds of
oppressive capitalistic combinations. In the course of his argument he
institutes comparisons with foreign governments and deduces many
illustrations from the tariff history of those countries, particularly
England and Germany.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“The author finds the tariff the chief cause for the oppression of
corporate monopoly. It is here that the logic is weak; the analysis of
the inconsistencies of the tariff is keen, and for the most part
justified, but little evidence is given of the causal relation between
the tariff and the great trusts which defy competition.” D. R. D.
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 933. Jl. ’07. 380w.
“Clear, forceful, controversial.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.
“The book contains the most startling array of facts.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 645. My. ’07. 670w.
“The argument is very one-sided, but is so well put together that the
stand-patters cannot well afford to neglect it.” Max West.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 121. S. 1, ’07. 250w.
“The author’s arguments based upon the comparison of the volume of
exports and imports at different periods and of different countries
should accordingly not be accepted as conclusive of the economic evils
of the protective system.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1473. Je. 20, ’07. 330w.
“The book is frankly based on secondary sources, apparently not on
very many, and is written for the general public, not for the student.
We conclude that even among the staunchest of free-traders a book of
this character could be welcomed only by the most shortsighted.”
Chester W. Wright.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 308. My. ’07. 1230w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Pierce’s book is of great value to the
student, but for the general reader it should serve a useful purpose.
The author is at his best in the chapter which discusses the relation
of protective tariffs to public morals.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Pierce has not written a book to class with Prof. Taussig’s, but
it will serve a purpose for which the academic treatises are
unsuited.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 104. F. 16, ’07. 1120w.
=Outlook.= 86: 341. Je. 15. ’07. 440w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 60w.
=Pierce, James Oscar.= Studies in constitutional history. *$1.50.
Wilson, H. W.
6–24023.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Discusses in a clear and interesting way, and with a deep conviction
that the hand of an ‘Overruling Providence’ can be detected in the
development of our country.”
+ + =Yale. R.= 16: 224. Ag. ’07. 50w.
* =Pierson, Clara Dillingham.= Millers at Pencroft. †$1. Dutton.
6–35325.
A bright wholesome story of “a nice family with three children, who do
the interesting things most children do. They send valentines, go out
to tea and have cream puffs for desert, and once the boys sailed the
kittens until they fell into the water. Buttercup had only to be
dried, but Blackie was restored by means of artificial respiration.
The children fed a party in a snow-stalled train, and that was great
fun. too.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
“We would strongly recommend ‘The Millers at Pencroft.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 763. D. ’07. 150w.
=Pierson, Delevan Leonard=, ed. Pacific Islanders; from savages to
saints. **$1. Funk.
6–39748.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.
“We could wish that there might have been somewhat less
insistence upon the differences between Catholic and Protestant
missionaries—differences which do not make very edifying
reading.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 25, ’06. 160w.
=Pirscher, Johanna.= Growth without end: a popular exposition of some
current ethical and religious views. **30c. Crowell.
7–21388.
One of the year’s additions to the “What is worth while series.” An
optimistic discussion of the good resulting from the active principle
of evolution and the work of modern sociology—good that shows itself
in courtesy and generosity in daily intercourse, strength of purpose,
devotion to duty and in a simple practical faith in God.
=Pitman, Isaac.= Pitman’s dictionary of commercial correspondence in
English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. $2.25. Pitman.
A valuable aid to the foreign correspondent. It gives the most common
commercial terms and phrases. It does not attempt to displace, but
rather to supplement other dictionaries, and it presupposes some
knowledge of the grammar and construction of the different languages.
* * * * *
+ =Spec.= 98: 464. Mr. 23, ’07. 100w.
=Pitt, William, 1st earl of Chatham.= Correspondence of William Pitt
when secretary of state, with colonial governors and military and naval
commissioners in America; ed. under the auspices of the National society
of colonial dames of America, by Gertrude S. Kimball. 2v. **$6.
Macmillan.
“This publication in two volumes contains the official correspondence
of William Pitt, when secretary of state, 1756–1761, with the colonial
governors and the naval and, military commanders in America. These
were the years of Great Britain’s glory, when, under the inspiring
genius of Pitt, her arms were successful in all corners of the globe,
and when the British navy attained an unquestioned command of the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans.”—Putnam’s.
* * * * *
“Valuable documentary publication.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 469. Ja. ’07. 70w.
“The letters may be read with special advantage by those who are
taking up the study of the campaigns of 1756–1760, and they are full
of interest to the average reader, since they contain much of the
thought of the greatest statesman England can claim for three hundred
years. The books are well printed and are unusually free from
typographical errors, although there are one or two slight
topographical slips in the volumes, such as placing Bic off the
Saguenay river.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 663. Ap. ’07. 1560w.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 799. D. 22. 1730w.
“Teachers and students of early American history owe to the patriotic
society women, and to Miss Kimball, their thanks for making available
these interesting records.” Edwin Erle Sparks.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 117. S. 1, ’07. 790w.
“The introduction is lucid and the notes admirably brief and painted;
while the material collected gives a picture of Pitt’s powers of
practical administration which is an absolute revelation.” Basil
Williams.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 377. Ap. ’07. 1980w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1413. Je. 13, ’07. 790w.
“Miss Kimball was fortunate in finding nearly all her material ready
arranged in the series of American and West Indian state papers
preserved in the Record office, but a debt of gratitude is none the
less due to her for bringing it to the notice of the English-speaking
public in this clear and readable form.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 3. Ja. 4, ’07. 2160w.
“The documents in these volumes have been well edited, but Miss
Kimball’s preface hardly meets the demands of the occasion.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 244. Mr. 14, ’07. 1780w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 970. Ag. 31, ’07. 550w.
“Carefully edited.” Herbert L. Osgood.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 326. Je. ’07. 990w.
“It seems ungracious to find fault when so much that is valuable is
presented in these volumes, yet the collection would have been far
completer, though much bulkier, if the enclosures in the dispatches
had also been printed. The availability of such material cannot,
however, compensate for an adequate biography.” George Louis Beer.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 757. Mr. ’07. 460w.
“It is a great boon to the student of history to have valuable
documentary material of this character printed in this convenient and
accessible form.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 170w.
“The Society of the colonial dames of America has performed a pious
task in collecting a correspondence which covers the origins of their
nation, and in Miss Kimball they have found a competent editor. The
book is interesting mainly as the raw material of history.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 143. Ja. 26. ’07. 1330w.
=Plantz, Samuel.= Church and the social problem: a study in applied
Christianity. *$1.25. Meth. bk.
6–30015.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There are a few minor features in the work which seem to fall short
of a sympathetic understanding of Catholicism. Looking for the good in
the work, however, we find it full of Christian sympathy, and of an
honest desire to make Christianity true to its social mission.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 698. F. ’07. 870w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 13. Ja. 1. ’07. 170w.
“A wholesome book and a tonic book.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 237. S. 22, ’06. 330w.
=Plumb, Charles Sumner.= Types and breeds of farm animals. *$2. Ginn.
7–1488.
Commonly accepted types and breeds of horses, asses, mules, cattle,
sheep, goats and swine are treated in this volume, as for instance,
the draft or speed type of horse, dairy type of cattle, and bacon type
of swine. It includes a discussion on original habitat, breed
development, history, work of pioneer breeders, characteristics, etc.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07. S.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 600. N. ’07. 130w.
=Plummer, Mary Wright.= Roy and Ray in Mexico. Il. **$1.75. Holt.
7–19788.
A story told from the standpoint of Roy and Ray Stevens, lively twins,
who spend a summer in Mexico. They visit Mexican cities, meet
President Diaz, take part in an American colony’s celebration of the
fourth of July, visit ruins and landmarks, and incidentally learn
interesting bits of Mexican history. It is a travel book that will
interest old as well as young.
* * * * *
“Will be helpful to teachers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 209. N. ’07.
“The pictures are particularly good.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 100w.
“A sensible book of travel.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 768. D. ’07. 60w.
=Plunkett, Charles Hare.= Letters of one: a study in limitations.
**$1.25. Putnam.
7–12641.
“The book consists of more than forty letters, all purporting to be
from a writer who is cursed with the artistic temperament, and
addressed to a lady with whom he has fallen in love.... Every one of
these letters explains, from one aspect or another, the writer’s
conviction that courtship and marriage would involve infidelity to his
true mistress—his art.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The writing of these letters, from the literary standpoint, is
excellent. The sameness of the matter in them, tends to spoil the
book, which would have been more interesting if it had included some
of the replies to these highly wrought outpourings.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 471. Ap. 20. 550w.
“Bears the unmistakable Benson stamp in conception and execution. As a
tour de force in the portrayal of love-madness at the summit of its
absurdity, the little book is a sort of curiosity.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 343. Je. 1, ’07. 610w.
“An interesting study of the morbid and irritating type. As a reductio
ad absurdum of the artistic temperament theory, the book has merit.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 590. Je. 27, ’07. 490w.
“Not a manly enough character to arouse much admiration in the
reader’s mind. But it painted, with all its curious limitations and
contradictions, very clearly and convincingly.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 380w.
“Take it all in all, is pretty thin gruel, fit for an invalid, maybe,
but not very tasty at that. They do these things better on the
continent, you know.” Florence Wilkinson.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 1900w.
“A very clever book this.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 180w.
=Plympton, Almira George.= Dorcaster days. †$1.25. Little.
7–31228.
A story for young people in which the simple, pure, near-to-nature
life of one family reforms the false, snobbish standards of another.
=Podmore, Frank.= Robert Owen, a biography. *$6. Appleton.
7–11019.
Mr. Podmore has gathered together and presented the details of the
life of this Welshman whose plans for a co-operative village marks the
beginning of modern socialism. The sketch follows his efforts and his
failure. “There is hardly an item in the whole modern programme of
social endeavour to-day, apart from religion, which he did not
initiate, promote, or suggest; and the gospel of salvation by
material-means, which is his gospel, gains ground everywhere at the
expense of all other gospels.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“An excellent and well-balanced biography. Mr. Podmore’s work will be
found of value to students of present social conditions, as well as to
those interested in early history in the middle west of America.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 289. N. 1, ’07. 390w.
“It is not the final biography of the prophet of socialism—a more
illuminating one remains yet to be written; but it is opportune,
meritorious and acceptable.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 2100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 1300w.
“The life of Robert Owen, which Mr. Podmore has written with much
insight and considerable literary skill, is full of interest.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 1040. Je. 30, ’06. 1400w.
=Poe, Edgar Allan.= Poems; collected and edited, with a critical
introduction and notes, by Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward
Woodberry. $1. Duffield.
7–21324.
The text adopted here is that of the Lorimer Graham copy of the
edition of 1845, revised by marginal corrections in Poe’s hand. There
is a critical introduction to the poems and notes including variant
readings.
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 616. O. 12, ’07. 130w.
=Politovsky, Eugene S.= From Libau to Tsushima: a narrative of the
voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky’s fleet to eastern seas, including a
detailed account of the Dogger Bank incident; tr. by Major F. R.
Godfrey. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–10987.
A diary in the form of letters to his wife written by the chief
engineer of the fleet from Aug. 28, 1904 to May 10, 1905. “It presents
with greater vividness than any formal history can the life on the
Russian vessels during the seven months’ cruise from the Baltic around
Africa, the long, tedious stay at Madagascar and Kamranh Bay and the
preparations for the last fatal fight.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“If the author had been a closer observer and a more trained writer,
the letters might have been very valuable, since little is known of
that remarkable journey after the fleet left Tangier until it met its
doom.”
− + =Acad.= 71: 382. O. 13, ’06. 230w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.
=Ind.= 61: 1571. D. 27. ’06. 190w.
“He is merely an intelligent outside observer, ready enough to make
allowances for the difficulties with which Rojdestvensky was beset;
but on that account his casual and incidental remarks are all the more
illuminative.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 310. S. 14, ’06. 1170w.
“His diary ... has deservedly been called a valuable contribution to
the history of the great struggle in the Far East. It holds material,
however, which should be subjected to careful interpretation.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 415. My. 2, ’07. 610w.
“The translator is to be congratulated upon his terse English and his
successful avoidance of foreign idioms. An index would have been most
acceptable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 861. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
“This book may be considered a trustworthy record of events and of
life on board the ships under Rojdestvensky’s command, whilst in it
can be clearly traced the causes which led up to the crowning disaster
of Tsushima.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 370. S. 22, ’06. 350w.
“A more faithful picture of what the Russians thought and said and did
during these nine months there could not be.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 338. S. 8, ’06. 450w.
=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Factors in modern history and their
application to the problems around us. **$2.25. Putnam.
“Prof. Pollard’s book is made up of a number of lectures dealing
chiefly with various aspects and developments of English history in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In his own words, his object
is ‘primarily to stimulate imagination,’ and he avowedly neglects
‘facts’ as such. What he offers is a series of conclusions (based as
they must be, on an intimate knowledge of facts) on the character and
inner meaning of certain phases of sixteenth and seventeenth century
history, embodying illuminating reflections and generalizations from
which the reader will turn with added zest to the ‘facts’ of the
period.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Professor Pollard is, we think, at his best in the earlier lectures.
His tracing of the growth of the national idea, of the advent of the
middle class, and his picture of the new monarchy are most interesting
and stimulating in the Aristotelian sense of the word. His style is
happy and light and his lectures, should be most interesting to listen
to, for even in cold print they read delightfully.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 725. Jl. 27, ’07. 550w.
“It is ungrateful to carp at incidental peculiarity and ambiguity of
detail amidst so much valuable generalization.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 91. Jl. 27. 850w.
“A word should be added in appreciation of the author’s literary
style: the reviewer recalls no other discussion that brings out the
humor of history so freely and so delightfully. Professor Pollard’s
latest work is one that lovers of history will read with enjoyment as
well as with profit.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 320. N. 16, ’07. 480w.
“It is long since we have approached a book of historical philosophy
so intelligent or so incisive.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1174. N. 14, ’07. 640w.
“Some of the chapters are worthy of their author at his best; but
others are not likely to add to his reputation and, though they may
have been useful for their original purpose, ought not to have been
given to the world in this form.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 251. Ag. 16, ’07. 1170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 70w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 272. Ag. 31. ’07. 940w.
“It unquestionably merits the adjective ‘readable,’ which is more
often bestowed than deserved.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 390w.
=Pollock, Frank Lillie.= Treasure trail. $1.25. Page.
6–18588.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 150w.
=Sat. R.= 102: sup. 7. D. 8, ’06. 140w.
“It has occasional touches of verisimilitude, but its dramatic climax
belongs to the region of the impossible.”
− + =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 70w.
=Pollok, Allan.= Studies in practical theology. $1.50. T. C. Allen &
co., Halifax, Canada.
“While the subject of preaching and pulpit preparation is not
neglected, much more space is devoted to such topics as the
clergyman’s life as a student, the conduct of public worship, the
adminstration of the church and the visitation of the sick, than is
usual in homiletical treatises. The best traditions of the Scottish
ministry, among which are scholarly industry, personal dignity,
unfailing courtesy, and above all things, fidelity and
conscientiousness, find a kindly and gentle exponent in Principal
Pollok.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 85: 56. Jl. 18, ’07. 190w.
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 110w.
=Pond, Oscar Lewis.= Municipal control of public utilities. **$1.50; pa.
**$1. Macmillan.
7–4379.
“He begins with the definition of the purely governmental and the
private or business functions of municipal corporations, discusses the
legal construction of municipal charters and the implied powers of
municipal corporations. He then sets forth ‘municipal purposes within
the meaning of the constitution,’ shows the grounds on which municipal
property is exempted from taxation, and treats of the sale of
municipal property, power to grant exclusive franchises, and the
regulation of charges for services rendered by private
corporations.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Legal rather than economic in its discussion, it is rather more
interesting to the student and general reader than most purely legal
treatises.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 166. Jl. ’07. 240w.
=Engin. N.= 57: 555. My. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Poole, Ernest.= Voice of the street. †$1.50. Barnes.
6–19774.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is strong in its story element, but is not likely to have a large
influence in changing conditions.” Madeline Z. Doty.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 487. D. 15, ’06. 420w.
=Porter, Eleanor H.= Cross currents: the story of Margaret. †$1. Wilde.
7–27618.
The story of a little girl of wealth who was lost and found by a
little waif of the slums, taken to his meager attic, and forced to
grow up among the sordid conditions of sweat-shops and dirty streets.
The book is a revealing child-labor document.
=Porter, Gene Stratton (Mrs. Charles Darwin Porter).= What I have done
with birds. **$3. Bobbs.
7–17394.
The sub-title of this book is wholly suggestive of its scope:
“character studies of native American birds which through friendly
advance I induced to pose for me, or succeeded in photographing by
good fortune, with the story of my experiences in obtaining their
pictures.”
* * * * *
“Self-appreciation or self-consciousness constantly reappears
throughout the book.” George Gladden.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 622. Ag. ’07. 330w.
“A thread of sustained interest runs through the whole book and makes
it possible for the reader to overlook a perhaps justifiable pride of
the author in her achievements and to ignore at times an abrupt style
and a tendency to employ unusual words and phrases.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 216. O. 1. ’07. 220w.
“Besides the numerous half-tones, the volume contains seventeen
full-page colored plates of unusual accuracy and beauty.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 150w.
“Few books entail such actual labor as this, such marvelous patience,
and few books are produced with a spirit of enthusiastic at-one-ness
with the subjects.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 170w.
=Porter, General Horace.= Campaigning with Grant. *$1.80. Century.
2–8573.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07. ✠
=Porter, Robert Percival.= Dangers of municipal ownership. **$1.80.
Century.
7–3905.
A study of conditions in many of the most famous industrial centers of
the world lies back of Mr. Porter’s exposition. By way of a warning to
the United States, he gives a brief history of Municipal ownership in
Great Britain, pointing out the serious consequences of the
indiscriminate pursuit of the system there. He says “Trading with the
public credit, whether state or municipal, must, of necessity, lead to
stupendous financial liabilities, add to the burden of the rates,
weaken municipal credit, bring about inequality of taxation, interfere
with the natural laws of trade, check industrial and scientific
progress, stop invention, discourage individual effort, destroy
foreign trade, establish an army of officials, breed corruption,
create an aristocracy of labor, demoralize the voter, and ultimately
make socialistic communities of towns and cities.”
* * * * *
+ − =Acad.= 73: 108. N. 9, ’07. 1000w.
“Partisan in spirit but useful because it is practically the first
presentation of this side of the question.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07.
“As a wholly partisan writer on his chosen subject, Mr. Porter is an
unqualified success except as his zeal defeats his own ends.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 553. My. 16, ’07. 400w.
“Mr. Porter has given us one of the most vigorous and readable books
on this much-discussed subject. It is the work of an advocate but of
an advocate perfectly sure of the correctness of his position and
thoroughly alarmed at the tendencies he describes.” Wm. Hill.
+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 495. O. ’07. 600w.
“The book is well worth the study of those interested in present
economic conditions and is likely to attract considerable notice.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 530w.
“It is a real service to put the facts, which are accumulating clearly
before the public and to explain them, so that people may know what
they are doing. Mr. Porter’s book does that, and therein lies its
value.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 250. Ag. 16, ’07. 1270w.
“He Is a confessed and violent partisan, and too many of the figures
which he gives are untested and unfairly collated for inferences
dubiously drawn. This we the more regret because we agree in the main
with his point of view. Nor is his sense of order good.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 49. Ja. 26, ’07. 230w.
“He goes on to declare that the object of his book is to set forth
‘the inherent defects of the whole principle of public trading.’ We do
not think that a book founded on this lack of discrimination and
taking for itself this sole object, will be of any great help to the
student of this problem.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 78. My. 11, ’07. 370w.
“This volume by Mr. Porter will attract attention, since it is
practically the first popular presentation of that side of the
discussion. Mr. Porter is a trained investigator and statistician, and
presents his case in an attractive and entertaining way.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 38. Mr. ’07. 110w.
“Valuable as the work of a practical official and citizen of a
practical nation.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 130w.
=Porter, Thomas F.= City songs and country carols. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
6–41028.
Nearly two hundred and fifty poems including fireside reveries,
reminiscences, and sentiments of the philosopher, patriot and citizen.
=Post, Louis Freeland.= Ethical principles of marriage and divorce. *$1.
Public pub. co., Chicago.
6–13427.
A serious treatment in which “Mr. Post ... argues that without
unifying love marriage is essentially no better than concubinage.
Genuine marriage is not created by the formal ceremony that is
requisite to declare it; it exists before such declaration; it dies,
if the love that constitutes it dies; it is reasonable and also
conducive to moral interests that there should be a conventional
release from the remaining conventional bond.” (Outlook.) “The natural
inference from this is that when marriage ceases in reality, it should
cease also in form. Divorce should be granted and remarriage
permitted.” (Arena.)
* * * * *
“We do not hesitate to call this book a classic on the subject of
marriage and divorce. It is the ultimate analysis, the final answer to
a problem engaging now, more than ever, human attention. We commend
its consideration to all Bible-bound ecclesiastics as well as to
free-lovers and sex-radicals wherever found.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 322. Mr. ’07. 2120w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 808. Ap. 7, ’06. 280w.
=Potter, Beatrix.= Tale of Tom Kitten. †50c. Warne.
7–28973.
A prettily illustrated children’s story by the author of “The tale of
Peter rabbit” and companion to it.
* * * * *
“Other folk, as well as Pickles, will find pleasure in the dry and
simple humor of the narrator, and the dainty pictures she has
provided.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 140w.
=Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Codman.= Reminiscences of bishops and
archbishops. **$2. Putnam.
6–33595.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.
“The whole collection has so finely human a quality that it should
have interest to those in no way connected with either of the offices
that make so impressive an appearance in the title.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 973. Ap. 25, ’07. 260w.
“He is able to indicate character by a stroke here and there, and the
man stands before us, recalled by a good memory.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 39. Ja. 5, ’07. 1170w.
=Potter, Margaret.= The princess. †$1.50. Harper.
7–9844.
A sad story of love and intrigue with scenes drawn from Russian court
life. The central figure is Princess Catherine, who lived in aloofness
and isolation amid the social corruption about her which affected her
in its most humiliating sense thru the inconstancy of her husband. The
Czar and Czarina, diplomats and courtiers appear upon the stage where
there is enacted a drama lacking neither romantic nor tragic interest.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 469. Ap. 20. 120w.
“It is a pity that Miss Potter should have resorted to this trick of
supernaturalism, which seriously weakens her book.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 240w.
“An interesting novel of sufficient verisimilitude to give life and
character to her narrative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 170w.
“It would be hard to imagine an uglier situation than that upon which
the action turns. Nevertheless the tale is in its way absorbing, and
not likely to be at once forgotten.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 480w.
“Considering the general unpleasantness of Miss Potter’s theme, she
has managed its development with a good deal of skill, though some
doubts insist on obtruding as to her solution of the story’s final
problem.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 570w.
“Represents the highest achievement of its author yet given to the
public.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + − =No. Am.= 185. 549. Jl. 5, ’07. 1220w.
“An occult strain runs through the novel, managed with frankness and
some skill.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.
* =Poulsson, Emilie.= Father and baby plays. †$1.25. Century.
7–38013.
A book of pictures, verses, music and notes for the teacher, father,
mother and baby. It is designed as a means of strengthening the tie
between father and child who are separated the whole day thru.
* * * * *
“A new and very attractive book.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 40w.
=Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5. ’07. 20w.
“The verses which Miss Poulsson has written are most uneven. The
illustrations, however, are spirited and above the average.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 80w.
=Powell, Elmer Ellsworth.= Spinoza and religion: a study of Spinoza’s
metaphysics and of his particular utterances in regard to religion, with
a view to determining the significance of his thought for religion and
incidentally his personal attitude toward it. *$1.50. Open ct.
6–21921.
“The aim of this book is to prove that Spinoza was irreligious and his
philosophy antireligious.”—Philos. R.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 62: 856. Ap. 11, ’07. 250w.
“The book is clear in style, thorough in execution, and exhibits much
logical acumen.” Eugene W. Lyman.
+ =J. Philos.= 4: 668. N. 21, ’07. 440w.
“The author demonstrates his familiarity with the field and his
liveliness of interest. The style, furthermore, is excellent, and does
much to redeem a book which is otherwise too doggedly iconoclastic to
be either stimulating or pleasing.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 487. D. 6, ’06. 1520w.
“Lacks that spirit of impartiality which is the prime requisite in all
critical investigations. Nor does Dr. Powell appear to have studied
the philosopher’s writings with enough thoroughness to enable him to
grasp the true significance of his teaching.” E. Ritchie.
− =Philos. R.= 16: 339. My. ’07. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Power, John O’Connor.= Making of an orator. **$1.35. Putnam.
6–19419.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is popular in style and suggestive as to matter.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.
=Pratt, Ambrose.= Counterstroke. *$1. Fenno.
A melodramatic story filled with lurid pictures. The characters are
“either Nihilists of the most rabid breed or members of a society
pledged to exterminate Nihilists by the use of tactics exactly modeled
on their own bloody methods—whence the title, ‘The counterstroke.’”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“As lurid as the wildest dream of villainy and injured innocence that
ever found its way into the pages of the cheap story papers.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 180w.
=Pratt, Antwerp Edgar.= Two years among New Guinea cannibals: a
naturalist’s sojourn among the aborigines of unexplored New Guinea. *$4.
Lippincott.
6–24917.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Pratt devotes little space in this book to natural history, its
bulk being given to a gossipy description of the author’s journeyings,
with remarks, too often inaccurate, on the natives he came in contact
with.” C. G. Seligmann.
− + =Nature.= 74: 58. My. 17, ’06. 890w.
=Pratt, Edwin A.= Railways and their rates. *$1.50. Dutton.
6–7780.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3:104. Ap. ’07.
“The pamphlet is well worth studying.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 643. N. 2, ’07. 340w.
=Pratt, Henry Sherring.= Course in vertebrate zoology: a guide to the
dissection and comparative study of vertebrate animals. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–1432.
“The work includes practical directions for the dissection and study
of seven types of vertebrates; the dogfish for the elasmobranchs; the
perch for the teleost; the Necturus and frog for the amphibians; the
turtle; pigeon; and cat.... Each type is treated independently of the
rest, and may be studied separately.... It is strictly a laboratory
guide, not a treatise on comparative anatomy.”—School R.
* * * * *
“Notwithstanding drawbacks, the work remains as a useful guide to
those teachers who wish to arrange a course in comparative anatomy.”
+ − =Nature.= 74: sup. 8. O. 11, ’06. 750w.
“One might have wished that the author had omitted entirely the very
incomplete, incorrect, antiquated, and obsolete outline of the
classification of the vertebrates, for which, however, the author is
responsible only in accepting Wiedersheim as an authority. The work
itself, for which the author is responsible, is remarkably free from
errors.” S. W. Williston.
+ − =School R.= 15: 235. Mr. ’07. 280w.
=Pratt, James Bissett.= Psychology of religious belief. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
7–4164.
A discussion which is more concerned with the modest and concrete
problem of the nature of belief in a God or gods and the basis or
bases on which this belief really rests than with the nature or the
definition of religion. The author aims to break ground in a rich but
neglected field.
* * * * *
“The book will repay study. We must, however. submit that Professor
Pratt’s definition of intellectual belief stands in need of
modification.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 25: 255. My. ’07. 430w.
“Valuable work.”
+ =Current Literature.= 42: 418. Ap. ’07. 1820w.
“As a simple direct presentation of religious-mindedness, the essay is
to be commended.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 148. Mr. 1, 07. 280w.
“The argument is well reasoned, and is expressed in clear and popular
style.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1378. D. 5, ’07. 140w.
“This volume is a happy addition to the rapidly growing literature of
religious psychology. It deals with the side of the subject that as
yet has received scant attention from the scientific students of the
religious consciousness. The clear and simple style of the book,
together with the note of earnestness and sincerity that pervades it,
makes it a pleasure to read. It is a scholarly study of a
psychological problem. It will be read with profit by many who have
neither a psychological training nor scholarly interests. A carefully
selected bibliography of the psychology of religion and an index add
to the usefulness of the book for the purposes of the student.” F. C.
French.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 383. Jl. 4, ’07. 1680w.
+ − =Nation.= 85: 237. S. 12, ’07. 440w.
“One can hardly ask for a clearer vindication than this volume
presents of the absolute validity of the religious consciousness.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 831. Ag. 17, ’07. 1030w.
* =Pratt, Waldo Selden.= History of music. Schirmer.
Distinctly a book of reference for students rather than a literary or
critical survey of a few salient aspects, or a specialist’s report of
original research. It is encyclopedic in its fulness and from
primitive or savage music down to later nineteenth century music the
leading tendencies or movements of musical advance are discussed.
=Preissig, Edward.= Notes on the history and political institutions of
the old world. **$2.50. Putnam.
6–22387.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Threshing as it does over fields already covered by many excellent
works, such a book as this should find its justification in clearness
of presentation, yet in this respect it can hardly be called a
success. The language is often so confused as to be almost
unintelligible, and many errors appear which should have been detected
in a careful reading of the manuscript or of the proof.”
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 414. Ja. ’07. 650w.
=Prendergast, William A.= Credit and its uses. **$1.50. Appleton.
6–40205.
“This book treats briefly of the theory of credit, urging that,
besides the tangible element of property, the intangible element of
good faith, or confidence, is fundamental. Thus he holds strongly that
credit is chiefly dependent on these intangible elements.”—J. Pol.
Econ.
* * * * *
“The book is sufficiently popular to be understood by the layman, is
strong on the practical side. Its weakness on the theoretical side
will not hurt it as an introduction to practical problems of credit.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 170. O. ’07.
“The weakest part of the book is that dealing with the theory of
credit.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 157. Ja. 17, ’07. 480w.
“Whatever the value to be assigned to his treatment of the academic
side of credit, the book must really be estimated by the useful
compilation he has made of material bearing on the practical side of
the question.” L.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 638. D. ’06. 320w.
“A work serviceable at some points and altogether unsatisfactory at
others.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 142. F. 7. ’07. 1030w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 40w.
=Prentice, Ezra Parmalee.= Federal power over carriers and corporations.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
7–4172.
A book which deals with the nature and extent of powers belonging to
the general government and not with Congressional legislation. In Mr.
Prentice’s study, constitutional construction is interpreted by the
aid of constitutional history.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.
“Mr. Prentice’s excellent work has serious limitations which are
doubtless the result of his close identity with certain large
corporations whose activities may be more or less affected by the
enforcement of the anti-trust act.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 186. Jl. ’07. 800w.
“Apart from its interest to the lawyer and the lawmaker, the book is
of value to all who are concerned with or are interested in the
problems of government and economics.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 273. Ja. 31, ’07. 950w.
“On the whole, however, it must be said that the book’s place is as a
readable partisan account of the development of a constitutional
doctrine, and not as a serious contribution to the legal literature of
the subject.” James Parker Hall.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 238. Ap. ’07. 1680w.
“For some students of constitutional theories they may have their
interest; but to the elucidation of the practical questions now before
the country they contribute substantially nothing.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 350w.
“He writes like a lawyer, with close study of the precedents, and with
no wandering from his text. The book is not large, but it is weighty,
and calls for an answer. The subject cannot be allowed to drop until
it is settled, and those wishing the latest word cannot afford to
neglect Mr. Prentice’s discussion.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 84. F. ’07. 1670w.
“This is the book of a lawyer, but one written less for lawyers than
for those, whatever may be their lines of life, who are now studying
from the historical standpoint the Rooseveltian theory of
constitutional government.” Simeon E. Baldwin.
+ =No. Am.= 184: 311. F. 1, ’07. 1530w.
“The rarity of lapses emphasizes the scrupulous care with which the
work has been prepared, while the industry, skill and conviction of
the author make criticism difficult.” H. A. Cushing.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 716. D. ’07. 1120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 40w.
=Prentis, John Harcourt.= Case of Dr. Horace: a study of the importance
of conscience in the detection of crime. †$1.25. Baker.
7–12637.
In the interests of psychology, to prove how great a part the
conscience of a criminal plays in the detection of his crime, two
friends devise a daring test. They substitute the body of a man who
died at a hospital for Dr. Horace, who promptly disappears on a two
weeks’ vacation. They arrange the body so that murder is evident, they
furnish a motive and every clue points to Wallace, the other man in
the plot, as the murderer. Then follows the work of the detectives on
the trail of the murderer without a conscience. The story is
interesting, and the end is clever, altho it evades the psychological
point.
* * * * *
“The story, however, though readable thruout, weakens deplorably in
the latter chapters.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 370w.
=Price, George Bacon.= Gaining health in the West, (Colorado, New
Mexico, Arizona); being impressions of a layman. *$1. Huebsch.
7–19791.
Based upon seven years’ personal experience with “climate” this little
volume offers sane and valuable advice to all who are obliged to seek
the West in search of health. It discusses climatic conditions,
marital obligations, social and ethical aspects, tells where and how
to live, how to avoid loneliness, how to get employment and many other
things which only one who has learned the detailed lessons taught by
experience can know.
* * * * *
“Anyone contemplating a Colorado residence, especially if in search of
health, will find this little volume an admirable substitute for such
advice as he might expect from an experienced sensible, and
sympathetic friend.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 200w.
“Is a sensible little book of good advice for the consumptives:”
+ =Ind.= 63: 344. Ag. 8, ’07. 90w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 70w.
* =Price, John Ambrose.= The negro: past, present, and future. $1.50.
Neale.
A three part treatment. The Past is a vindication of the old south as
regards the black man, the Present reveals the negro as he exists in
the south to-day under peculiar conditions and circumstances, the
Future relates the possibilities of what may come to the American
negro.
=Price, William Hyde.= English patents of monopoly. (Harvard economic
studies, v. 1.) **$1.50. Houghton.
6–36187.
In this volume “the application of the common law to cases of monopoly
down to the enactment of the common-law principle in the statute of
monopolies in 1624, is followed in detail.... Having treated of the
political and economic aspects of the monopoly system as a whole, the
author devotes succeeding chapters to several selected important
industries wherein monopolies were established.... In appendices,
occupying something over one hundred pages, original documents,
statutes, letters, and proclamations concerning patents, monopolies,
and commissions, and touching grievances, are reprinted.”—J. Pol.
Econ.
* * * * *
“This somewhat perfunctory treatment of the larger question involved
is our principal, in fact almost our only criticism of this serious
study by a well-trained investigator of an interesting and important
subject. We regret that a more restricted subject was not taken, or
else that the first chapter, the ‘political history’ of the
monopolies, was not made much longer and more serious, more
discriminating and more scientifically historical. We have no doubt
that the author is entirely capable of having so treated it, but was
led astray by a predominatingly economic interest.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 878. Jl. ’07. 710w.
“To that literature [English economic history] the present monograph
is a scholarly contribution.” John Cummings.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 575. N. ’06. 600w.
“Mr. Price ... deals with the matter as a historian rather than as a
legislator or statesman, but publicists cannot read his excellent
contribution to the subject of monopolies without finding it highly
suggestive.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 122. Mr. 2, ’07. 1650w.
=Prichard, Kate O’Brien Hesketh, and Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh
(E. and H. Heron, pseud.).= Don Q. in the Sierra. †$1.50. Lippincott.
6–42429.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His various adventures are well told, and we shall be delighted to
meet him again next time he comes to life.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 590. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
“Here are twelve new sketches of the career of this redoubtable
brigand; and if they are inferior to their predecessors, the
difference is not noticeable.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 100w.
“The narratives making up the volume ... are crowded with exciting
incident and are capitally told.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 110w.
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 86. Ja. 19, ’07. 160w.
=Spec.= 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 100w.
=Prideaux, Sarah Treverbian.= Modern bookbindings; their design and
decoration. *$3. Dutton.
6–33798.
“An account of the best English and French bookbinders of the day,
written by an artist of their work.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The only objection to it that can be raised is that, none of the
artist’s own work being included, it is incomplete as a representation
of what is being done.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 81. Jl. 21. 550w.
“Miss Prideaux has admirably supplemented her former volume,
‘Book-binders and their craft.’”
+ =Ind.= 63: 160. Jl. 18, ’07. 280w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 89. N. ’06. 190w.
“There is scarcely any attempt at technical exposition, so that these
who take up the book with the object of gaining information on these
points must be warned to look elsewhere.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 298. Ag. 31, ’06. 670w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 238. Ap. 13, ’07. 470w.
=Spec.= 96: 760. My. 12, ’06. 100w.
=Prince, Leon Cushing.= Bird’s-eye view of American history. **$1.25.
Scribner.
7–12868.
A brief survey of American history from the discovery by Columbus down
to the Roosevelt administration.
* * * * *
“In view of the space-limits of the book, some topics receive
surprisingly comprehensive treatment. To the mature reader this
outline will prove serviceable in connection with more extended
histories. The book’s usefulness, however, is greatly impaired by the
inexcusable omission of an index.” George H. Haynes.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 183. O. ’07. 610w.
“There are too many errors of fact. Nor is Mr. Prince always happy in
his generalizations.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 271. Ap. 27, ’07. 560w.
“Is generally speaking, in accord with the findings of modern
scholarship. It is not free from questionable statements. But against
these defects must be set some really striking features.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 350w.
“Any student of American history who finds himself confused or
overwhelmed by the mass of material that is presented in more
elaborate works should make it a point to read Professor Prince’s book
for the sake of its clarifying effect.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 90w.
=Prince, Morton.= Dissociation of a personality: a biographical study in
abnormal psychology. *$2.80. Longmans.
5–42041.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Francis Harold Dike.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 265. Ja. ’07. 2340w.
=Prudden, Theophil M.= On the great American plateau: wanderings among
canyons and buttes in the land of the cliff-dweller, and the Indian of
to-day; il. by E. Leaming. **$2. Putnam.
7–1482.
The reader is here afforded “glimpses of the rugged southwest country,
with its quaint aborigines and the ruins of an older folk.” “Of
prehistoric remains, of the life and work of primitive house-builders,
and of the present conditions of Indian life on the great plateau Dr.
Prudden tells us much, while the natural wonders of the locality are
graphically described.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The interpretation of the far southwest requires a command of
language and a power of appreciation possessed by few writers. Mr.
Prudden has both. Perhaps the best recommendation that can be given
this picturesque description is that it makes the reader anxious to
see what is spoken of with his own eyes.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 646. My. ’07. 240w.
“Dr. Prudden’s style is notably vigorous and enthusiastic.” H. E.
Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 200w.
“A very readable book.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 735. Mr. 28, ’07. 210w.
“The book on the whole has the charm of freshness and reality.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 748. N. 10, ’06. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 15. Ja. 12, ’07. 290w.
“A popular travel book, but it is not of the superficial variety. It
is the work of a keen observer who reflects upon what he sees.” Cyrus
C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 122. Mr. 2, ’07. 630w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 100w.
=Pryce, Richard.= The successor: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–25083.
Here is a story with a mystery surrounding the birth of an heir to a
vast English estate. The moral law is sacrificed to the interests of
ambition, and like many a modern story, no retribution follows for the
offenders. The art of the story teller protects the mystery almost too
well. The best character of the story is that of a faithful servant
who served the house rather than individuals.
* * * * *
“However venturesome the foundation of its plot, this book cannot be
charged with grossness. The seasoned reader will get from if no great
harm, but much delightful entertainment. The immature reader will do
just as well not to make its acquaintance.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 251. O. 16, ’07. 310w.
“The style is evidently an earnest attempt to follow in the crooked
footsteps of Henry James, and the matter, too, is not so very
different from the sort of exposition upon which that master expends
his genius. One might even say at the risk of great contumely, that,
being at least lucid, it is really a little better worth while.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 534. S. 7, ’07. 230w.
=Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice (Mrs. Roger Atkinson Pryor).= Birth of the
nation, Jamestown, 1607. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–14669.
In view of the Jamestown celebration special emphasis is here laid
upon the part which it played in the birth of our nation. Beginning
with the legends of early discoverers, the story of the colonization
of Virginia is given briefly but with good detail, the men both white
and red, who took active part in the struggle with the wilderness are
vividly pictured in connection with the work they did. It is not a
history of Jamestown, it is a history of the great movement which
created Jamestown and preserved it, and it is a timely tribute to the
town’s significance.
* * * * *
“It is based upon all the available sources, and these have been
fairly well used. There is no offensive display of the critical
spirit; neither is the author credulous. In the way of criticism, it
may be said that the author seems to think that Powhatan is a name,
not a title; that too much space is devoted to descriptions of the
Indians and their life, and not enough attention to conditions among
the colonists; that there is no index, and some of the illustrations
would be better suited to a work of fiction.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 66. Ag. 1, ’07. 440w.
“It is the careful, finished work of one who loves the task for its
own sake, and who has lived long with her materials.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 698. S. 19, ’07. 230w.
“This book is in all respects a worthy and interesting memorial of the
Jamestown celebration.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 453. My. 16, ’07. 160w.
“She has weighed the reputations of men in the balance, and one feels
that her judgment is equally just and sympathetic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 282. My. 4, ’07. 1320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“No better book could be found to give a lively impression of the
early days of the seventeenth century, and to refresh our knowledge of
the events we are now celebrating in old Jamestown.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 77. My. 11, ’07. 290w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 70w.
=Spec.= 99: 170. Ag. 3, ’07. 250w.
=Puffer, Ethel D.= Psychology of beauty. *$1.25. Houghton.
5–16135.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Is composed of a series of delightful essays whose charm can escape
neither the casual nor the critical reader. Its difficulties are
exactly the crucial difficulties of the subject.” I. Madison Bentley.
+ − =Philos. R.= 16: 86. Ja. ’07. 1700w.
=Pulitzer, Walter.= Cozy corner confidences. 75c. Dodge.
A collection of epigrams gathered from comic periodicals.
* * * * *
“The collection makes a readable booklet after the style of the
‘Cynic’s calendar.’”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1399. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=Pullan, Richard Butterfield.= Currency and coin. *$1. Occasional
publisher.
7–23269.
“This excursion of a business man into monetary reform is based upon a
desire to adjust bimetallism and the use of silver to the gold
standard. Instead of ‘asset currency’ he suggests more silver.
Thinking our currency insufficient, he advises that the government,
‘under a safe and conservative system of bimetallism,’ should greatly
increase our circulating medium.... Next, the author proposes an
indefinite increase of government bonds, to be called upon request of
any national bank which will pay in gold or silver to an amount equal
to the par value of the bonds.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“The whole scheme is whimsical, and not worthy of serious attention.”
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 493. O. ’07. 230w.
“We have suffered too much from bad finance to allow tenderness for an
author to encourage his errors by condoning them.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 647. O. 19, ’07. 520w.
“The whole treatment shows lack of familiarity with the principles of
monetary science and the literature of the subject.”
− =Yale R.= 16: 335. N. ’07. 90w.
=Putnam, George Haven.= Censorship of the church of Rome, and its
influence upon the production and distribution of literature. **$2.50.
Putnam.
7–1301.
To be complete in two volumes. The work is a study of the history of
the prohibitory and expurgatory indexes, together with some
consideration of the effects of Protestant censorship and of
censorship by the state. It includes a list of the more important
decrees, prohibitions, briefs, and edicts relating to the prohibition
of specific books from the time of Gelasius I., 567 A. D., to the
issue in 1900 of the latest of the church under Leo XIII.
=v. 2.= “The theological controversies in France, Germany, England,
and the Netherlands, from 1600 to 1750, are first discussed. These are
followed by a study of the treatment of the Scriptures under
censorship in these countries and Spain, and then the author considers
the relations of the censorship to the various monastic
orders—Jesuits, Dominicans, Casuits Seculars, and Regulars.” (N. Y.
Times.) Further he describes the Roman Indexes, gives brief
descriptions of examples of condemned literature, and discusses the
subject of censorship.
* * * * *
“Who can commend in any way, especially to a general reader, looking
for the information on a specific point, a book which contains
numerous errors on almost every page?” George L. Hamilton.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 12. 871. Jl. ’07. 1160w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Can he cite any instances of a misunderstanding of the subject of the
books, and of the language in which they are written, as remarkable as
those of which he himself is guilty?” George L. Hamilton.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 135. O. ’07. 650w. (Review of v. 2.)
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 403. Ap. 6. 2100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“As we turn over these pages we have often felt ourselves, like the
cave dwellers in Plato, trying to reconstruct the facts from the
shadows of them before us. The author’s general conclusion as to the
effect of censorship is correct and obvious.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 210. Ag. 24. 520w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Putnam’s book ... is honorably free from bias. He is simply and
solely a historian, and he tries, and successfully tries, to put
before us the main facts, in the history with which he deals.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 552. Jl. ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 1.)
“We do not mean to say that the book is free from hints and phrases to
which the majority of Catholics would object. But, looking at the
matter impartially, we are bound to credit Dr. Putnam with the desire
to be a just and equitable historian.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 85: 839. S. ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It may be remarked in passing, however, that the value of the work as
a book of reference might have been enhanced by the provision of a
more complete general index.” Arthur Howard Noll.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 338. Je. 1, ’07. 2420w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dr. Putnam has accomplished his difficult task with conscientious
thoroness and complete scientific impartiality. If we may suggest a
possible improvement in the work, we would observe that the medieval
prohibitions of Bible-reading in the vernacular are too summarily
dismissed.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 969. Ap. 25, ’07. 660w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work, as now completed, ranks second only to Reusch as a history
of prohibitive book legislation, and is easily the best authority on
the subject in the English language.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 401. Ag. 15, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Fairness and justice, and that essential historical perspective which
is attained by transporting oneself into the epoch described are the
prevailing traits of the work.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In dealing with this large and difficult subject, Dr. Putnam appears
to have fallen between two stools. Although the book shows evidence of
considerable labor and contains much matter not to be found elsewhere
in convenient form, it is frankly selective, and therefore not of
essential value for scholars. On the philosophical side, again, Dr.
Putnam has but little to offer. The book is somewhat loose in style
and inaccurate in minor details.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 478. My. 23, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The temper in which the work is done and the purposes manifested by
the writer are open to the appreciation of all. It would be ungracious
to close this slight notice of Mr. Putnam’s work without an expression
of appreciation for the unusual lucidity of his style.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 1. Ja. 5, ’07. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is prepared by a scholar for scholars. It takes rank with such
works as Henry Charles Lea’s volumes on ‘The Inquisition of the middle
ages,’ ‘The inquisition of Spain’ and ‘Sacradotal celibacy.’ We
predict that it will be an authority on this subject for American and
English readers.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 520. Jl. 6, ’07. 820w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dr. Putnam presents the facts with all impartiality, and has given
scholars a serviceable book of reference. The profusion of misprinted
Latin words in volume 1 is unfortunate.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 209. Ag. 17, ’07. 990w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)
“Mr. Putnam’s book is a triumph of industry and, what is not less
important in such a matter, impartiality.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 296. Ag. 31, ’07. 1500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Pyle, Howard.= Stolen treasure. †$1.25. Harper.
7–18095.
Four as stirring tales of romance and adventure of pirates and buried
treasure as ever delighted boys old or young. They are entitled: With
the buccaneers, Tom Chist and the treasure box, The ghost of Captain
Brand, and The devil of New Hope. The volume is illustrated by the
author.
* * * * *
“Should prove entertaining to both young and old.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 203. N. ’07. ✠
“Although Mr. Pyle’s delightful tales appeal primarily to youthful
readers they may be recommended as a sort of tonic for adults grown
weary of the fiction of the day. The pictures, which are by the
author, are of course in perfect tune with the lively narrative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6.’07. 210w.
“These stories are his best of the type. There are four of them and
they are each distinctive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.
* =Pyle, Howard.= Story of Sir Launcelot and his companions, il.
**$2.50. Scribner.
7–34314.
The story is told in text and pictures. The book is “a companion to
the former volumes dealing with the Round table, and it follows the
original closely in spirit. In the re-telling of Malory, there is
always a loss of spirit and of ruggedness, however sincere the effort
may be: and it takes a genius equal to Malory’s own to rewrite him.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is far superior to the average attempt.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 110w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w.
=Pyle, Katharine, and Portor, Laura S.= Theodora. †$1.25. Little.
7–32563.
A book for little girls which tells of the experiences of Theodora
Winthrop in an Episcopal sisters’ school in New York city during her
father’s absence abroad. It contains a lesson of hatred turned to love
through careful guidance.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 40w.
Q
=Quayle, William Alfred.= God’s calendar, il. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.
7–34142.
The significance of each month is imaginatively revealed and its
secrets uncovered in the thirteen chapters of Mr. Quayle’s offering.
The illustrations are beautiful and suggestive of dream life in
nature.
* * * * *
“The tone of the book is distinctly rapturous, but it will find many
appreciators. One would surmise that it will be especially popular
with the older generation of readers, who have not been sated with
nature books, and who will like it for expressing feelings which they
have never quite dared to voice for themselves.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, ’07. 210w.
Queen’s festivals: an explanation of the feasts of the blessed Virgin
Mary for her little ones. 60c. Benziger.
7–16988.
An introduction is followed by three parts devoted respectively to The
Queen’s anniversaries, Festivals of the Queen’s titles, and The
Queen’s Sundays.
* =Quick, John Herbert.= Broken lance. il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–32560.
The hero of this story is a young minister at the head of a
fashionable Chicago church who recoils from the luxury of his
congregation’s worship, and espouses the real and vital cause of the
dwellers in the underworld. With him are associated a sturdy,
strong-willed propagandist of the Henry George principles and a
dark-skinned girl who fearlessly lives her faith. It is a study which
involves various religious and economic questions of to-day.
R
=Rae, John.= Sociological theory of capital. **$4. Macmillan.
6–7791.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His rearrangement of the text represents a great improvement over the
original form. While he has employed his privilege of annotating very
sparingly, such notes as he has attached are uniformly helpful.” Alvin
S. Johnson.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 162. Mr. ’07. 1310w.
“Dr. Mixter has done work of a valuable type in producing this volume,
for, whether Rae’s economic conclusions are accepted or not, they are
certainly a most stimulating contribution to the history of
economics.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 648. Ap. 27, ’07. 720w.
=Ragg, Rev. Lonsdale.= Dante and his Italy. *$3.50. Putnam.
7–29016.
“To look at Italy through the eyes of Dante himself, and having looked
to realise her for others, as she appeared to the poet during his
sojourn upon earth, has been the chief aim of the author of this new
study.... He begins with a rapid sketch of the state of Europe as a
whole at what he calls the ‘critical moment of Dante’s life, the ideal
state of his vision,’ passing on to concentrate his attention first on
Italy, then on Florence, and finally on Dante himself, tracing his
literary antecedents, calling up one after another the possibilities
of his contemporary authors and of his hosts during the weary
wanderings of his exile, the narrative terminating with an eloquent
account of the last days at Ravenna, and of the impression caused by
the news that the great genius had passed away.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“Our chief quarrel with Mr. Ragg is on account of his trick of
introducing trivialities, hardly suited to the dignity of his theme.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 662. Je. 1. 1120w.
“Canon Ragg is steeped to the finger tips in Dantesque lore, is
thoroughly familiar with everything written by the man to whom his
book is one long tribute of homage, and is gifted with an imagination
so vivid that he has been able to piece together a very realistic
picture of the period at which his hero lived.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 169. Ag. ’07. 200w.
“His task is suited to his powers, which are, it must be said, not
inconsiderable. He gives the delightful impression, so rarely received
in these days, that he knows a great deal more than he has set down.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 164. My. 24, ’07. 1340w.
“With a little more system, a greater tenacity in developing each of
his themes, Mr. Ragg would have written a book to be often opened for
reference after being once read for pleasure. It is a pity, that this
book should be marred by many misprints in foreign words. A more
serious defect is an excessive fondness for the dramatic and
picturesque, which leads Mr. Ragg into baseless conjectures and
striking inconsistencies.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 1070w.
“Everywhere Canon Ragg writes as a man, scholarly and imaginatively
dominated by his subject, and yet with a painstaking discretion which
at once enables the reader to separate facts from hearsay. On one or
two points, however, he shows that he has not followed the researches
of Dante’s scholars as carefully as he has the half-forgotten
chronicles of the poet’s contemporaries.” Walter Littlefield.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 550. S. 14, ’07. 2220w.
“Dr. Ragg’s narrative style, clear, compact, smooth, well fits his
subject-matter.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 614. Jl. 20, ’07. 410w.
“Many of Mr. Ragg’s statements have that air of generalization which
belongs to ideas absorbed at second-hand. He needs a course of
reading, and above all a study of statutes and documents.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 688. Je. 1, ’07. 750w.
“If the writer allows himself here and there a touch of fancy not
altogether authorised by known facts, he never in any case sins
against probability.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 233. Ag. 17, ’07. 1140w.
=Raine, Allen, pseud. (Mrs. Beynon Puddicombe).= Queen of the rushes, a
tale of the Welsh country. †$1.50. Jacobs.
6–35940.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Considered as a series of pictures representing Welsh landscape and
Welsh people, this book has much charm and a certain quiet interest.
As a story it fails by an excessive and inartistic introduction of the
marvellous.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 758. Je. 23. 110w.
“Allan Raine is very sensitive to the beauty and the picturesqueness
of the rugged Welsh character and Welsh scenery, and has a skillful
pen in the weaving of these things into a structure of the tale. The
result is to mask very pleasingly an inherent feebleness of conception
and treatment.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 28. Ja. 19, ’07. 280w.
=Raleigh, Walter Alexander.= Shakespeare. *75c. Macmillan.
7–15578.
A monograph in the English men of letters series, which interprets
Shakespeare to us largely from his dramas. It is in five chapters:
Shakespeare, Stratford and London, Books and poetry, The theatre,
Story and character, and The last phase.
* * * * *
“A distinct contribution to Shakesperean literature.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 170. O. ’07. S.
“It is one of the most suggestive books on Shakespeare that this
country has yet produced.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 689. Je. 8. 2870w.
“Even some of the most appreciative among [the critics] have
considered his work too much as literature and not enough as drama.
This is the chief fault in Professor Raleigh’s contribution.” Edward
Fuller.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 155. O. ’07. 1320w.
“He has produced a thoroughly safe volume on the subject of what
everyone should know about Shakespeare. And when we add that he writes
not as a fetich-worshipper but as a reverent and honest student, we
have said enough.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 390w.
“To a layman the contrast between Professor Raleigh’s volume and the
writings of Shakespeare scholars generally is very astonishing. The
point that, as a layman, we wish to emphasize, is that he can be read
with pleasure by those who have tried to read the other books and
failed.” Frank Moore Colby.
+ + =Forum.= 39: 255. O. ’07. 1760w.
“For this little volume it is safe to predict a large degree of public
favor. It reveals, it is true, many instances of bad logic and an
abundant lack of system. But it is in many respects brilliant, the
style is almost epigrammatic in its sententiousness, and the
felicitous aptness with which the text is quoted amounts almost to a
display of genius.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 153. Jl. 18, ’07. 1000w.
“Mr. Raleigh has given us an essay, overflowing with life, crammed
with suggestion, full of stimulating ideas and happy turns of phrase,
and with no dull page from beginning to end. It is table-talk _in
excelsis_, stamped with all the freshness and brightness of an
original mind. This impromptu nature of Mr. Raleigh’s criticism brings
with it, of course, the defect of its quantity.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 130. Ap. 26, ’07. 2870w.
“We are delighted to find him penetrating to the root of the matter,
which is that Shakespeare’s stage was a platform and not, like ours, a
picture-frame, and that drama written to be played on a platform took
a peculiar shape from that very fact. Alive to the fact, he seems to
be dead, or only half alive, to its consequences. He has the key,
nourishes it, and then, instead of using it, puts it in his pocket.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 141. My. 8, ’07. 1700w.
“The book is not well constructed; and throughout, the author’s
strength lies rather in stimulating comment than in logical
inference.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 454. My. 11, ’07. 1400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 256. Ap. 20, ’07. 330w.
“Prof. Raleigh’s comprehension of this theatre and its demands lends
much value to his book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 288. My. 4, ’07. 1230w.
“It is in his consideration of Shakespeare as a poet and as a creator
of character that Professor Raleigh is seen at his best.” Brander
Matthews.
+ + =No. Am.= 185: 780. Ag. 2, ’07. 1090w.
“Professor Raleigh is not so happily untechnical as Professor Baker,
and is more concerned with critical estimates, from the easy
assumptions of which many of his readers will heartily dissent.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 331. O. 19, ’07. 380w.
“Though not so good a book as we might expect from him, is much better
than some of the critics reckon it.” Wm. J. Rolfe.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 276. S. ’07. 890w.
“Dr. Raleigh manages to get within the compass of one brief volume a
vast amount of information and interpretation of the immortal bard
without becoming either prosy or dogmatic.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 40w.
“Professor Raleigh has really achieved some sort of balance within a
scope which he recognizes from the outset to be very limited.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 145. Ag. 3, ’07. 1850w.
“The writer of this happy volume has the art of forgetting that he is
a professor.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 942. Je. 15, ’07. 1330w.
=Ramsay, William Mitchell.= Pauline, and other studies in early
Christian history. *$3. Armstrong.
7–29067.
A group of fifteen essays touching upon the character of Paul, the
authorship of the Acts and early Christianity in Asia Minor. They have
been collected from various British magazines and are accompanied by a
great number of illustrations.
* * * * *
“The book exhibits all those qualities which we are accustomed to look
for in Professor Ramsay’s writings; freshness of standpoint, flashes
of insight only possible to a scholar of rich and varied learning,
unflagging zest in the handling of his subject—a zest which
communicates itself to the reader—and that lucid and forcible style
which has done so much to popularize the results of his
investigations.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 527. Jl. ’07. 1330w.
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 130. F. 2. 820w.
“Many possess permanent value.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 160. F. ’07. 60w.
“Since the author confessedly speaks as ‘a historian and geographer,’
one cannot fail to notice the dogmatic tone that marks some of his
purely theological utterances.” George H. Gilbert.
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 294. O. ’07. 1030w.
=Ind.= 62: 505. D. 28, ’07. 50w.
“The title is inexact and the unity of character in the studies
slight.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 70w.
“Not only does Professor Ramsay bring fresh and valuable instruction
from the field of his special study, but he renders good service as a
judicious moderator of the schools of critics.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w.
“The pages dealing with the life of St. Paul are perhaps the most
interesting in the book, not only intrinsically, but because Professor
Ramsay is so great an authority on the subject.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 170w.
=Randal, John.= Sweetest solace. $1.50. Dutton.
7–7197.
Gascoigne square, Whitborough, is made the scene of a pretty love
story in which two young girls from Australia come into the square as
mistresses of a board school. Here they meet a number of interesting
people, differing widely in character and social position, and here
the mystery of their father, who had lived his young life in this very
square, is unravelled, leaving them free to marry the two young men of
wealth and family who have come to love them. It is not the mystery,
however, which is uppermost for interest centers around the quaint
characters and their old prejudices: the social climbers, dear old
Miss Blackiston, wholehearted Ben Cox, Lord Streybridge, narrow-minded
Mrs. Petch, spiteful Miss Marston, and all the others.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 120w.
“This is a pleasant story reproducing something of the Trollope
atmosphere. But Mr. Randal lays the colours on too thickly when
depicting a cad.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 148. Ag. 4, ’06. 160w.
* =Rannie, David Watson.= Wordsworth and his circle. (Memoir ser.)
**$3.50. Putnam.
“Criticism, quotation, narrative, and anecdote are so woven together
as to form a single piece.... Coleridge moves through the scenes, with
the divine light ever waning in his eyes; Lamb banters and praises;
Southey, Christopher North, Dr. Arnold, De Quincey, Scott, Rogers,
Keats, come and go, speak and listen, and range themselves in proper
perspective about the central, still lonely figure.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Though well-read and in the main judicious, he occasionally makes odd
slips in his critical remarks. The style is always graceful and
dignified, and we do not hesitate to affirm that this is the best book
yet written for any one who wishes to breathe, so to speak, the very
atmosphere in which these men moved.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 1130w.
“This is a desultory but an entertaining, and often suggestive, book
on a subject which has grown somewhat worn.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 550. N. 2, ’07. 190w.
=Ransom, Olive.= Woman’s heart: manuscripts found in the papers of
Katherine Peshconet and ed. by her executor, Olive Ransom. †$1.50.
Doubleday.
6–11548.
The diary of a woman who loved a priest. “It is difficult to imagine a
twentieth-century Abelard receiving letters from an American Héloïse;
letters so quivering with intensity of emotion and with also a touch
of classicism that would have suited well the Renaissance spirit.”
(Ind.) “As for Katherine, if hers was a woman’s heart, then, indeed,
is a woman a daughter of Eve. She argued through years, got what she
wanted, and died for it.” (N. Y. Times.) The book “tells an
interesting story, altho its hold is purely psychical.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The old arguments against the theories and practices of the Roman
Catholic church, even here in America, are reiterated with amazing
vivacity and freshness.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 220w.
“The book leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 500w.
* =Ransome, Arthur.= Bohemia in London. **$1.50. Dodd.
Here is presented London’s historical and present-day Bohemia with the
Parisian “tinsel and sham” wanting. “The ‘Bohemia in London’ is
distinctly British and not Gallic; it is founded on the same code of
laws as that which prevailed in the more famous Bohemia of Paris;
there is no exaggeration in its pictures and there is no suppression
of realities.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“His book, if not exciting, is readable enough.” G. S. S.
+ =Acad.= 73: 158. N. 23, ’07. 520w.
=Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 160w.
“I feel very confident that ‘Bohemia in London’ will prove a distinct
literary success. I can say with conviction that the book gives the
most life-like picture of that London quarter which the author sets
himself to describe. The book is rich in humorous descriptions and
portraitures, has many pathetic scenes, and gleams here and there with
genuine poetic feeling.” Justin McCarthy.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1420. D. 12, ’07. 200w.
“The book is entertainingly and thoughtfully written.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. S. 28, ’07. 360w.
=Raper, Charles Lee.= Principles of wealth and welfare; economics for
high schools. *$1.10. Macmillan.
6–24099.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book contains little or nothing that is original either in
material or treatment. Moreover. it does not seem at all adapted to
the use for which its author intends it.”
− =Yale R.= 15: 468. F. ’07. 120w.
=Rappaport, Philip.= Looking forward: a treatise on the status of woman
and the origin and growth of the family and the state. $1. Kerr.
6–23736.
“As the preface states, ‘this book is written from the standpoint of
historic materialism.’ Its aim is to show how past forms of the family
and of the state have been determined by economic conditions,
especially by methods of production, and to demonstrate incidentally
that Marxian socialism is the only means of social salvation and the
natural goal of development. The author shows considerable
acquaintance with the socialist school of social and economic writers,
but beyond that his acquaintance with the scientific literature of the
subjects upon which he writes is very limited.”—Am. J. Soc.
* * * * *
“Like all socialist writers, he makes large use of Buckle and Morgan,
but he seems utterly unaware of the works of later investigators which
long since have made Buckle and Morgan out of date.” Charles A.
Ellwood.
− =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 563. Ja. ’07. 250w.
“It is an extremely valuable book, because it is fundamental in
character and rationalistic in method of treatment. There is,
therefore, no appeal to emotionalism, sentimentality or prejudice that
would tend to cloud the reason or obscure the unbiased judgment.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 443. Ap. ’07. 3280w.
=Rashdall, Hastings.= Theory of good and evil: a treatise on moral
philosophy. 2v. *$4.75. Oxford.
7–18191.
“In the first instance it is intended for ‘undergraduate students in
philosophy,’ and is not supposed to assume any previous acquaintance
either with ethics or with general philosophy. In the second place, it
aims at working out an ethical theory which shall be in some sense a
higher synthesis of Green and Sidgwick, to whose memory the book is
dedicated.” (Lond. Times.) “In the first volume, Mr. Rashdall deals
with the fundamental conceptions of ethics.... In the second volume
the author examines what he regards as the metaphysical implications
of ethics, but he hardly proves the propriety of introducing such a
discussion Into a treatise on moral philosophy.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“This treatise, though concerned with the investigation of profound
questions, is singularly successful in its avoidance of all
ponderosity and pedantry. Written in a pleasing style, it is readable
throughout. The problems discussed are clearly presented, the line of
argument is always developed with logical care and dialetical skill,
the discussions of even the most abstract questions are uniformly
lucid and illuminating. Much of the suggestive power of the work is
derived from the wealth of pertinent illustration, upon his abundant
store of which the author draws freely.” A. R. Gifford.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 548. S. 26, ’07. 1900w.
“In spite of the disadvantages incident to his plan, Dr. Rashdall has
produced a very readable and useful book. Without being strikingly
original his criticisms and contentions touch fundamental issues and
rest upon a full knowledge of ethical thought in the past as well as
of recent discussions. One of the features of the book is its
fairmindedness and moderation.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 290. S. 27, ’07. 1690w.
“The discussion is generally sympathetic—often entertaining, and in
attention to details the author has been industrious and thorough. Yet
the final impression left upon the reader is that of logical looseness
and structural weakness.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 331. O. 10, ’07. 870w.
“The chief merits of his book [are] clearness and force with which the
problem of morality is stated and the fearlessness with which the
author follows out his own solution.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1004. Je. 29, ’07. 1800w.
=Rauschenbusch, Walter.= Christianity and the social crisis. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
7–13925.
The author begins his study of tracing the relations of Christianity
to the social crisis as far back as the days of the greater Hebrew
prophets. He finds reasons for the “halting and groping,” conscience
of Christendom, “perplexed by contradicting voices” and finds reasons
for “freeing an honest man’s heart” on the maxims of the past and the
imperious call of the future.
* * * * *
“Of less value is the later and constructive part of the work where an
attempt is made to outline the immediate measures which should be
taken to mitigate the evils of our time. Such questions cannot be
successfully treated in the form of rhetorical appeals to somewhat
vague and elementary feelings and without a mastery of technical
economic reasoning which is not revealed in the work itself.” Charles
Richmond Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 170w.
“There is not room here to show the successive stages by which
Professor Rauschenbusch builds up his structure of thought to its
culmination: we can only say that nothing in it is set down in
carelessness or in ignorance, and that it cannot be ignored by any one
who would understand the social thought of today.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 572. S. 5, ’07. 410w.
“Professor Rauschenbusch writes in the heat of religious zeal and with
reforming passion.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 39. Jl. 11, ’07. 530w.
“It is a book to like, to learn from, and, though the theme be sad and
serious, to be charmed with.” Joseph O’Connor.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 1900w.
“While its argument is strongly based on economic, historical,
ethical, and religious grounds, its temper and tone, admirably
dispassionate and judicial, commend it to fairminded men.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 264. O. 5, ’07. 1100w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 80w.
=Raven, John Howard.= Old Testament introduction. general and special.
**$2. Revell.
6–3543.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The section on the ‘Text’ is rather uneven. ‘The Pentateuch in
general’ is handled somewhat in detail, and always to the detriment of
the modern view. We are still more amazed that a modern textbook
should be published without an index of any kind. This is
inexcusable.” Ira M. Price and John M. P. Smith.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 140. Ja. ’07. 310w.
=Raven, John James.= Bells of England; with 60 il. (Antiquary’s books.)
*$3. Dutton.
7–2433.
The result of a sixty years’ study of campanology. “It is a work that
can scarcely fail to give satisfaction to any who are interested in
the story of bells, whether experts or novices. The Celtic, Saxon,
Norman, Plantagenet, and Tudor use of bells, and the history of the
later foundries are fully discussed; whilst other chapters tell of
particular dedications, of change-ringing, of chime barrels and
carillons, of handbells or tintinnabula, of bell usages and laws, and
of the legends and poetry to which they have given birth.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The critic looks in vain for sins of commission.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 307. S. 15. 350w.
“Dr. Raven’s book puts a new and deeper meaning into a thousand
familiar quotations and allusions, and makes understandable numerous
rites and customs that may previously have been past over without a
thought of their significance.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 825. O. 3, ’07. 170w.
“A volume highly creditable to his patient industry.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 420w.
“Mr. Raven’s book is well worth the notice of students, serious and
slight, of the subject.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 150w.
“A book which should take a high place in the literature of the
subject.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 339. S. 8, ’06. 280w.
=Ravenel, Harriott Horry.= Charleston; the place and the people.
**$2.50. Macmillan.
6–42434.
A story that “has more to do with the antebellum Charleston than with
the city of to-day. A great store of local history and tradition has
been freely drawn upon in the preparation of this work, while the
artist, Vernon Howe Bailey, has co-operated ably with the author in
picturing the distinctive architectural features of South Carolina’s
stately and dignified capital.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“It is in a fine spirit of reverence for the traditions of her
home-land that Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel has written this volume.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 260w.
“The book is of peculiar interest, not only for the information it
contains, but for the manner in which all is presented.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 738. Mr. 28, ’07. 530w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 150w.
“It has much of the haunting fascination peculiar to the old town.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 886. D. 22, ’06. 510w.
“Mrs. Ravenel writes with loyalty, deep interest, and great care for
important detail. She infuses into otherwise dry history the elusive
charm of a vivacious and discriminating mind.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 420w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 70w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Ackroyd of the faculty. †$1.50. Little.
7–12975.
Ackroyd, the young professor of much intellect and worse than no
family, comes in contact with a wholly new social scheme of things
thru his position on the faculty of a great university. The daughter
of the head of his department stands for the world of culture he has
never known and the influence of these two characters upon each other
forms the story of the book. In the end, of course, each finds in the
other all that an early environment had failed to give.
* * * * *
“This is the best of the three faculty stories recently published. It
is better worked out and stronger than Miss Ray’s previous work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠
“The book is charmingly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 280w.
“The story offers some unusual attractions to the discriminating
reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 140w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Day: her year in New York. il. †$1.50. Little.
7–30834.
The third volume in Miss Ray’s “Sydney books.” It deals largely with
the development of Phyllis, Sydney’s younger sister, an untamed,
withal sensitive girl, who needs people and kindness to bring out the
best in her.
=Raymond, George Lansing.= Essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry,
painting, sculpture, and architecture. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–3936.
A handbook in which the author “traces the phenomena of the arts to
their sources in material nature and the human mind; he shows that the
different arts have been developed by similar methods and that these
methods characterize the entire work of artistic imagination.... There
are chapters on nature, art, beauty, artistic mental action, form, and
significance, the personality of the authors, art composition, rhythm
and proportion.... There are a large number of half-tone illustrations
and pen-and-ink sketches.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Some of his essays, notably that on Rhythm, are full of interesting
suggestion, and prove that their author, whatever else he may lack, is
a master of literary style.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 31: 249. My. ’07. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 273. Ap. 27, ’07. 550w.
“It can be said that its superior in an effective, all-around
discussion of its subject is not in sight.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 621. Mr. 16, ’07. 270w.
“As a whole, the work lacks those psychological foundations which many
of us consider desirable in a treatise on aesthetics. As a result, the
subject matter is more that of art theory than of aesthetics in any
broad sense. Yet the pervading tone is one of sanity and tolerance
which will commend the book to many. We cannot, perhaps, agree
entirely with the author’s own estimate of his work.” Robert Morris
Ogden.
− + =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 225. Jl. 15, ’07. 1310w.
=Rea, Hope.= Peter Paul Rubens. $1.75. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Acad.= 70: 617. Je. 20, ’06. 200w.
=Reade, Charles.= Cloister and the hearth. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the thin paper, limp leather reprints. It is prefaced by
an “Appreciation” of Charles Reade by Algernon C. Swinburne, reprinted
from “Miscellanies.”
=Reade, Willoughby.= When hearts were true. $1. Neale.
7–25510.
The title expresses the thought uppermost in four good short stories,
as follows: His last song, Forgive us our trespasses, For the child’s
sake, and The ghost of Oak Ridge.
Readers’ guide to periodical literature, 1900–1904, cumulated; ed. by
Anna Lorraine Guthrie. $16. Wilson, H. W.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Some of the periodicals seem too trivial for such a record, whereas
neither of the English quarterlies is represented. But on the whole
the work bears all the marks of being well planned and carefully
edited.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 90w.
=Reagan, Harry Clifton.= Locomotives, simple, compound, and electric.
$3.50. Wiley.
7–11983.
In the fifth edition of this practical treatise on the locomotive
engine and its handling in service, the work has been revised in order
to include the latest developments of steam and electric locomotives.
* * * * *
“There is no doubt but what a great deal of information for the
practical engineer can be obtained from this book, but it is a pity
that the arrangement has not been more systematic and that so many
prominent and important parts of the locomotive have been omitted from
discussion.” G. R. Henderson.
− + =Engin. N.= 57: 666. Je. 13, ’67. 1260w.
=Reagan, John Henninger.= Memoirs, with special reference to secession
and the civil war; ed. by Walter Flavius McCaleb; with introd. by George
P. Garrison. $3. Neale.
6–34012.
“The book itself is short, embracing but three hundred and fifty pages
of not very compact print. The main topics treated are the author’s
early life in Texas, his part in Congress during three or four years
prior to 1861, the organization of the Confederacy at Montgomery, the
civil war, as viewed by an active and efficient cabinet officer in
Richmond, and the problems of reconstruction. The most interesting
portion of the book is the plain, unvarnished story of Reagan’s
hardships and early struggles.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“The editing of the work has been very well done.” William E. Dodd.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 679. Ap. ’07. 700w.
=Ind.= 62: 1166. My. 3, ’07. 100w.
“Are partly dull and partly interesting. Perhaps it would be more
accurate to say that Mr. Reagan’s recollections of the early days of
Texan independence is not particularly lively. As postmaster general
of the Confederacy, however, Mr. Reagan stands on firmer ground, and
has written pages that are not without future historical value.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w.
=Spec.= 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 430w.
=Reed, Helen Leah.= Napoleon’s young neighbor. †$1.50. Little.
7–34325.
A side-light story based upon the “Recollections of Napoleon at St.
Helena” by Mrs. Abell. It tells of Napoleon’s friendship for a little
girl, Betsy Balcombe, at whose house, “The Briars,” he spent the first
ten weeks of his banishment.
* * * * *
“Is a bit of history interestingly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
=Reed, Myrtle.= Love affairs of literary men. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–31403.
The author brings out of their lavender the love-memories of Swift,
Pope, Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Cowper, Carlyle, Poe, Shelley
and Keats.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 80w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 350w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.
“A collection of more or less well-known facts, retold in pleasant
fashion. A book that will find favor among the many whose appetite
prefers entrées to joints.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 170w.
=Reed, Myrtle.= Spinner in the sun. **$1.50. Putnam.
6–33577.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This story—especially the earlier part of it—has both charm and
originality, its diction being excellent, and the characters, if not
altogether life-like, well imagined.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 797. D. 22. 90w.
“The only trouble is that the author has resorted to narcotics in
order to produce effects sufficiently weird in the minds of her
characters, and, as is too often the case with women writers, she
cannot quite achieve the dramatic without falling into the
melodramatic.”
− =Ind.= 62: 215. Ja. 24, ’07. 290w.
=Rees, Arthur Dougherty.= Double love; a tragedy in five acts. †$1.
Winston.
7–17377.
In this poem-drama of American life a modern capitalist in blank
verse, insists that his daughter’s love must choose between her and
his other love, a literary career. He demands that he “walk the Rialto
of true trade, the mart of traffic.” Naturally tragedy is the artistic
result.
=Reich, Emil.= Success in life. **$1.50. Duffield.
7–11564.
The philosophy of success is the outgrowth of definite basic
principles. Mr. Reich denounces the “fluke” idea of success and plants
success on the principle of energetics. The hope of the author is to
establish an ideal so universal that it may be used by anyone in any
walk of life for the attaining of honest, successful results.
* * * * *
“In spite of this ill-advised plan of constructing a mathematical
framework on which to fashion a body of doctrine dealing with the most
unmathematical of subjects, the book is so fresh, so unconventional,
so ingenious, and so suggestive, that its weaknesses and imperfections
do not need to plead very hard for forgiveness. He has the readiness,
not to say looseness, of the fluent talker and lecturer, but little of
the exactness, the terseness, the fine reserve of the scholarly and
painstaking writer.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 420w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w.
“He is the possessor of a lucid and attractive style which enables him
to clothe abstract and even trite themes with a new and timely
interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 370w.
“The book, however, has an interest and value not promised in its
title. The whole book is written with reference to British conditions.
As a criticism of these it is interesting. Dr. Reich is a Teutonic Max
O’Rell, who has read Schopenhauer and Herbert Spencer.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 479. My. 23, ’07. 440w.
“Dr. Reich’s misfortune is that he presents real and false
explanations with equal confidence and equal felicity. His merit is
that he is always readable and always suggestive, even when he is as
wrong as sheer ignorance or rash haste to conclusions can make any
man.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 155. Mr. 16, ’07. 1620w.
“A sagacious writer he is, though at times amusingly otherwise.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 767. Mr. 30, ’07. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 80w.
=Reichel, Rev. George Valentine.= Bible truths through eye and ear.
**$1. Whittaker.
6–45727.
A volume of “object teachings,” written for children, based upon such
subjects as Harbors, Fog-signals, Life-saving, Lessons of the snow,
Knots, Having salt, Fort builders, Like unto clear glass, and a great
many more.
=Reid, George Archdall.= Principles of heredity, with some applications.
*$3.50. Dutton.
5–40286.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The book not only lacks evidences of seasoned thought, but of
familiarity with the more recent literature bearing on the discussion
of heredity, and, on the whole, is a disappointing analysis of the
subject. Nevertheless, we believe it will be of service on account of
the new point of view adopted and the citing of evidences hearing on
heredity furnished by disease.” William A. Locy.
− + =Science=, n.s. 25: 60. Ja. 11, ’07. 1400w.
=Reid, Homer A.= Concrete and reinforced concrete construction. *$5.
Clark, M. C.
7–6665.
“The book is divided into 34 chapters. The subject matter may be
grouped as follows: Cement and its manufacture and tests, the
aggregate, proportioning, mixing and placing concrete, cost of work,
and finishing concrete surfaces, 132 pages; physical and elastic
properties of concrete and steel, 85 pages; principles and style of
reinforcement, mechanical bond, curved pieces subject to flexure, and
columns, walls, and pipes, 53 pages; theory of flexure of beams and
strength of columns with formula and calculations, 136 pages;
foundations, 58 pages; general building and construction and matters
connected with practical construction, 142 pages; retaining walls,
dams, conduits and sewers, tank and reservoir construction, chimneys,
tunnels, etc., 144 pages; bridges, arches, piers and abutments, 104
pages; concrete building blocks, 20 pages.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The analytical or theoretical portion of the book is its weakest
feature. On the whole, with a few important items to be excepted, the
analytical treatment is more complete than that in other books which
have appeared. The general plan of the book is excellent, the
proportioning of parts good, and the manner of presentation
commendable. In some minor particulars objection may be made to the
exact order of presentation, and some headings and forms of statement
need editing.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 301. Mr. ’07. 3180w.
=Reid, Rev. John.= Jesus and Nicodemus: a study in spiritual life.
*$1.75. Scribner.
A series of studies given in the form of lectures or sermons to
different congregations in Scotland. “The conversation with Nicodemus
peculiarly invites exposition, not only because of the far-reaching
truth contained in it, but also because from our knowledge of the
historical situation we are enabled to fill out the scene which the
gospel gives in bare outline. Mr. Reid has become himself master of
the historical situation, and has thus made luminous the mental
attitude of Nicodemus. He has also given the right place to the
reflective illumination of the mind of the evangelist as it came to a
larger, fuller understanding of Jesus.” (Am. J. Theol.)
* * * * *
“There is perhaps only one interpretation which will not meet with
general acceptance. Would that we had more of such penetrating,
illuminating, vital interpretations of the scenes of the fourth
gospel.”
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 534. Jl. ’07. 460w.
“Characterized by literary skill and religious insight.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 239. Mr. ’07. 20w.
=Reid, Stuart J.= Life and letters of the first Earl of Durham
(1792–1840). 2v. *$10. Longmans.
7–10998.
An authoritative and detailed biography of John George Lambton, first
Earl of Durham; “The Durham book has been written with full access to
the letters and papers of Lord Durham, and will throw a new light on
the reform struggle of 1830, the secret history of the reform bill of
1832, on the creation of the kingdom of Belgium, on the affairs of
Russia, when Durham pleaded for the Poles, and subsequently when he
was Ambassador at St. Petersburg; on the strange vicissitudes of the
Whigs under Grey and Melbourne, and much else that will be much worth
reading.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Of the misrepresentations to which he was exposed and all else
pertaining to this interesting chapter of his life Mr. Reid writes
fully and well.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 465. N. 10, ’06. 970w.
“If one essays the task of criticizing Mr. Reid one must add that his
work is only moderately well done. He lacks conciseness and sometimes
lucidity; his matter is not always well arranged, not always
pertinent, not always quite accurate. He makes too great a hero of
Durham and resents too obviously any unfavorable criticism by his
contemporaries.” George M. Wrong.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 637. Ap. ’07. 780w.
“Mr. Stuart Reid has acquitted himself with credit as the recorder of
a brief and brilliant career. He has studied his authorities
carefully. and though a good deal of an enthusiast, he is fairly alive
to his hero’s shortcomings. Wordiness and prolixity unfortunately
disfigure his otherwise acceptable volumes.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 539. N. 3. 2100w.
“There appears only one statement with regard to Canadian history
which need be questioned.” H. E. Egerton.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 187. Ja. ’07. 620w.
“An obvious and long existing gap in English political biography is
now filled.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1209. My. 23. ’07. 780w.
“He furnishes us for the first time with copious and well nigh
exhaustive materials for forming our own judgment. But he is rather
long-winded, and he is a little too blind to the real defects of
Durham’s personal character and political temper.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. O. 26, ’06. 3320w.
“These volumes are an extreme illustration of that obsession of
bigness which now seems to afflict most writers of English biography.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 111. Ja. 31, ’07. 530w.