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PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS. From now on. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–6
Dave Henderson, through environment a crook, steals one hundred thousand dollars, which unfortunately is coveted by other, more hardened crooks. Scarcely has he hidden his prize securely when he is hotly pursued. Caught and convicted, he serves five years in the “pen” patiently, for is not the reward worth while? Released, he is a marked man to both police and crook. Nevertheless, after hair-raising adventures, he at last holds in his hands the hundred thousand dollars, only to find he can no longer enjoy this stolen money. Association with an honest, great hearted gentleman and a girl who loves Dave, creates in him values other than material, and a desire for clean straight living. He accepts “God’s chance,” and together with the woman he loves, looks forward to an honest, decent, constructive life “from now on.”
“As a well-constructed, plausible and exciting story, ‘From now on’ deserves unstinted praise.” A. A. W.
+ Boston Transcript p10 Ja 31 ’20 300w N Y Times 25:71 F 8 ’20 550w Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 21 ’20 210w
PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS. White Moll. *$1.75 (1½c) Doran
20–8628
The White Moll is the name Rhoda Gray has earned for herself in New York’s East side district by always playing on the square with its denizens. So Gypsy Nan, when dying in a slightly penitent frame of mind, entrusts her with the secret of a crime about to be committed. Rhoda tries to stop it, but is arrested, charged with committing it. She escapes but her career of charity as the White Moll is thus wrecked and she is forced for safety to disguise herself as Gypsy Nan in which rôle she finds herself in the midst of a criminal gang. She resolves to circumvent their schemes, and so plays the double part of Gypsy Nan, who is hand in glove with them, and the White Moll, their bitterest enemy and a fugitive from justice. Her part is hard, but her luck is good, and with the “Adventurer” as her ally she finally, after many exciting experiences, breaks up the gang and brings it to punishment. Then she makes the gratifying discovery that the Adventurer is not the thief she had thought him and that they had been working for the same ends.
“If a thrill on every page is any consideration, here you have it.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 51:585 Jl ’20 140w
“As is usual in his stories of the underworld, Mr Packard’s tale is filled with exciting adventures. He has without doubt built a place for himself and his particular type of tale.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 17 ’20 300w
“There is no need for anyone to find life unexciting so long as there are men in the world with imaginations like Frank L. Packard’s.”
+ Ind 104:381 D 11 ’20 140w
“It is a clever, absorbing story, with a certain freshness in its theme.”
+ N Y Times 25:329 Je 20 ’20 480w Springf’d Republican p9a Jl 4 ’20 180w Wis Lib Bul 16:238 D ’20 50w
PACKARD, WINTHROP. Old Plymouth trails. il *$3 (4c) Small 917.4
20–26567
“He who would see Plymouth and the Pilgrim land about it as the Pilgrims saw it may do so. Nature holds grimly onto her own and sedulously heals the scars that man makes.... Plymouth is a manufacturing city, a residence town, a resort and a thriving business centre all in one ... but you have only to step out of town to find their very land all about you, traces of their occupancy, the very marks of their feet, worn in the earth itself.... Along the old Pilgrim trails you may step from modern culture and its acme of civilization through the pasture lands of the Pilgrims into glimpses of the forest primeval.” (Chapter I) A partial list of the contents is: Plymouth mayflowers; Nantucket in April; Footing it across the Cape; Along the salt marshes; Ghosts of the northeaster; White pine groves; The pasture in November; Coasting on Ponkapoag; Yule fires.
“Pleasant informal essay style with special appeal to the lover of the out-of-doors.”
+ Booklist 16:342 Jl ’20
Reviewed by W. A. Dyer
+ Bookm 52:126 O ’20 30w + Cath World 112:257 N ’20 160w
“As a prose technician, Mr Packard is, of course, inferior to W. H. Hudson, lacking both the English writer’s restraint and his sense of nervous rhythm. Yet he writes with great vividness at times, and his accuracy of observation is hardly less keen.” W. P. Eaton
+ − Freeman 2:117 O 13 ’20 900w + N Y Times 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 100w + Outlook 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 60w + Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 23 ’20 240w Wis Lib Bul 16:236 D ’20 70w
Reviewed by C. L. Skinner
+ Yale R n s 10:181 O ’20 750w
PAGE, GERTRUDE (MRS GEORGE ALEXANDER DOBBIN).[[2]] Paddy-the-next-best-thing. *$2 (2c) Stokes
20–18935
When Paddy Adair was born, her father had ardently wished for a boy, but as she grew up he had become quite contented with the “next-best-thing,” and Paddy, while longing herself to be a boy, had satisfied herself with being as hoydenish and wild as the “next-best-thing” could be. But for all that, she had a way with her with the opposite sex, a captivating Irish way which won and held the heart of Lawrence Blake, as her sister Eileen’s dreamy moods could never do. But Paddy, because she thought Eileen was breaking her heart over Lawrence’s defection, swore eternal hatred against him. Altho patience was far from natural to him, he cultivated it and in the end won out. The story in play form has had a successful run both in this country and England.
“As fiction of the very lightest sort this tale has its good points. Although over-played, its heroine, Paddy, is real and often behaves like a human sort.”
+ N Y Evening Post p22 O 23 ’20 50w
“The author does not rely on plot for the appeal of her book. What she does is to offer a pleasing, polite, mildly amusing sketch of certain phases of life in Ireland, with nothing to remind one of Sinn Fein uprising and hunger strikes, and this work she has done with commendable skill.”
+ N Y Times p18 D 5 ’20 410w Springf’d Republican p8 D 28 ’20 130w
PAGE, KIRBY.[[2]] Something more. *90c Assn. press 248
20–11091
The book, “a consideration of the vast, undeveloped resources of life” (Sub-title) is the first in the New generation series. It contains four essays enlarging respectively on the latent possibilities in God, in man, in Jesus Christ, in life—that are man’s for the searching. The last essay, Enemies of life, enumerates the negative factors, both material and spiritual, all rooted in ignorance, that keep man from entering into his true heritage.
“An invigorating book.”
+ Bib World 54:645 N ’20 120w
PAGE, THOMAS NELSON. Italy and the world war. *$5 Scribner 940.345
20–21941
Ambassador Page was in Italy during the entire period of the war and followed sympathetically the part played therein by the Italian people. He holds that the key to Italy’s relation to the war is to be found in her traditions, her history and in her geographical and economic situation. Accordingly the book falls into three parts: “The first is introductory and contains in outline the history of the Italian people in the long period when they were included in and bound under the Holy Roman empire. The second contains the story of their evolution, from the conception of their national consciousness on through the long and bitter struggle with the Austrian empire for their liberty down to the time when ... they developed into a new and united Italy.... The third part contains the story of the diplomatic struggle to establish herself in a position to which Italy considers herself entitled as a great power.” (Preface) The book has six maps, appendices, giving the texts of the armistice with Austria and of the pact of London, and an index.
“A much needed contribution to the political history of the war.”
+ Booklist 17:149 Ja ’21
“It is not impertinent to say that an experienced newspaper man, equipped with a good encyclopædia, a good atlas, and the newspaper files for the past five years, could produce an excellent replica of ‘Italy and the world war’ without having crossed the Atlantic. Mr Page had an opportunity to write a very remarkable pamphlet, and he wrote instead a hurried, congested, and unnecessary hotch-potch history of the war.” W: McFee
− N Y Evening Post p4 Ja 29 ’21 1400w
“It is to be regretted that the American public could not have had the benefit of this unequaled book months ago. Mr Page smashes beyond recovery many illusions which, during and after the war, militated against the character of Italy, her people, her statesmen.” Walter Littlefield
+ N Y Times p3 N 28 ’20 2500w R of Rs 63:222 F ’21 130w Springf’d Republican p6 D 4 ’20 80w
PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED. Automobile starting, lighting and ignition. 6th ed rev and enl il $3 Henley 629.2
20–9556
“Mr Pagé first explains the nature of electricity—how a current is produced—and then goes on to explain in general the systems used for ignition, starting and lighting. This is followed by a detailed explanation of the individual systems on various cars. Many illustrations and diagrams make this book easy to understand.” (R of Rs) “The sixth edition repeats the material of the second edition with the addition of eight new chapters on leading electrical ignition systems, design of electrical measuring instruments and use in testing, and wiring diagrams of popular cars.” (Booklist)
Booklist 16:357 Jl ’20 R of Rs 62:336 S ’20 50w The Times [London] Lit Sup p669 O 14 ’20 20w
PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED. Model T Ford car. rev and enl il $1.50 Henley 629.2
20–4100
“Victor W. Pagé’s ‘Model T Ford car’ has appeared in its new and enlarged 1920 edition. This edition should be even more popular than the earlier editions, as it contains information and instructions for the Fordson farm tractor and the F. A. lighting and starting system, as well as all the principles and parts of the Ford. Numerous illustrations and diagrams make the instructions and explanations easily understood by a novice.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes
Booklist 16:291 My ’20 N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes 7:35 O 13 ’20 50w R of Rs 62:336 S ’20 50w
PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED, ed. Motor boats and boat motors. il $3 Henley 623.8
20–11842
“Mr Pagé has compiled a volume full of interest to the novice as well as to the experienced motor-boat enthusiast. It covers fully the design, construction, operation, and repair of boats and motors in general, including full instructions, with working drawings, for building five boats from tested designs by A. Clark Leitch, naval architect. A chapter on seaplanes and flying-boat construction gives both theory and practical application.”—R of Rs
Booklist 17:100 D ’20
“Clearly written and has nearly 400 exceptionally good illustrations. Anyone contemplating the purchase of a boat should be guided by the excellent advice given in the first chapter.”
+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p60 Jl ’20 80w R of Rs 62:336 S ’20 70w
PAGE, WILLIAM, ed. Commerce and industry; with a preface by William Ashley. 2v il v 1 *$15 v 2 *$10 Dutton 330.9
(Eng ed 19–18954)
“In the twelve chapters that make up the main text of the first volume of this work, and the three appendices, an historical review of the economic conditions of the British empire for ninety-nine years, largely based upon parliamentary debates as reported by Hansard, is given. The second volume consists of statistical tables of the economic factors, such as population, taxation, imports and exports, production, finance, etc., in supplementation proof of the conditions as set forth in the text of the first volume. The subjects dealt with in the main portion of the work cover the Effects of war (1815 to 1820); Commercial reform (1820 to 1830); The reform Parliament (1830 to 1841); Repeal of the Corn laws (1841 to 1852); War and finance (1852 to 1859); Free trade (1859 to 1868); Retrenchment and reform (1869 to 1880); Organization (1880–1892); Foreign competition (1892 to 1900); The movement towards tariff reform (1900 to 1910); and Unrest (1910 to 1914). The three appendices discuss The Cabinet and Parliament, Ministries 1812 to 1912, and A chronicle of the British empire beyond the seas.”—Boston Transcript
“The volume is a storehouse of facts for politicians and economists.”
+ Ath p745 Ag 15 ’19 1150w + Boston Transcript p4 S 29 ’20 720w
“Impartiality is a dominant quality of the work, as it ought to be.”
+ Spec 122:151 Ag 2 ’19 1050w
PAGET, STEPHEN. Sir Victor Horsley; a study of his life and work. il *$6 Harcourt
(Eng ed 19–18661)
“The life was well worth writing by so practised a biographer as Mr Stephen Paget of Sir Victor Horsley (1857–1916)—a surgeon of great distinction and a pioneer on the field of scientific medicine, a keen champion of temperance and woman suffrage, and a Liberal politician—who closed a great career by giving his life for his country in Mesopotamia, where he patriotically volunteered for service as medical consultant with the forces and where he died of heat stroke on July 16, 1916.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Mr Paget has written in a calm, dispassionate manner without literary tricks or mannerisms.”
+ Ath p18 Ja 2 ’20 1900w Brooklyn 12:132 My ’20 40w
“Admirable biography.”
+ N Y Evening Post p9 O 30 ’20 240w Sat R 128:513 N 29 ’19 700w
“No happier selection could have been made than that Mr Paget should become the biographer of Sir Victor Horsley. The author, a man of letters, also possesses the scientific and medical knowledge essential to the theme, and his enterprises in other fields of literature have preserved him from the besetting sins of the medical biographer who makes his book unduly technical, or even dull.”
+ Spec 122:894 D 27 ’19 1250w
“There is no doubt that this biography, in the full sense of an overworked word, is an ‘inspiring’ record of a man’s character and achievement; it is the more so because it is always straightforward and concrete, showing the man exactly as he was.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 17 ’20 1450w The Times [London] Lit Sup p676 N 20 ’19 90w
“It is not too much to say that of the many services which this author has rendered to scientific medicine and surgery none is so important as his biography of Sir Victor Horsley.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p685 N 27 ’19 1650w
PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW. Short life of Mark Twain. il *$2.50 Harper
20–18960
In answer to the demand for a short life of Mark Twain, Mr Paine, his official biographer, has prepared a condensed version of his longer work. The story is told in brief chapters and in simple language and is adapted for young people’s reading. There are eighteen illustrations.
Booklist 17:113 D ’20 Wis Lib Bul 16:237 D ’20 40w
PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE. Corsair in the war zone. il *$4 Houghton 940.45
20–14468
At a critical time in the submarine campaign a number of American pleasure yachts volunteered for service as French coast patrols. Their amateur crews had little naval training, and these yachts were dubbed the “Suicide fleet,” but they performed heroic service and played an important rôle in the war. The Corsair of whose exploits the book gives an account, was owned by J. Pierpont Morgan. Contents: The call of duty overseas; “Lafayette, we are here!”; At sea with the Breton patrol; Tragedies and rescues; When the Antilles went down; Admiral Wilson comes to Brest; Smashed by a hurricane; The pleasant interlude at Lisbon; Uncle Sam’s bridge of ships; The Corsair stands by; In the radioroom; The long road home; Honorably discharged; The ship’s company. There is a map showing the Corsair’s wanderings in the war zone and numerous illustrations.
“The book is a welcome and valuable minor contribution to the history of the world war. The numerous and excellent illustrations greatly add to its attractiveness.” E: Breck
+ Am Hist R 26:371 Ja ’21 280w Booklist 17:108 D ’20 + Boston Transcript p6 Ag 25 ’20 600w
“The author has collected and selected his official and unofficial documents with praiseworthy skill, and the result is a swift-flowing narrative, written in an easy style, that will prove interesting to sailor and landsman alike.” B. R. Redman
+ N Y Times p16 Ag 29 ’20 3200w + Springf’d Republican p8 S 9 ’20 310w
PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE. Fight for a free sea; a chronicle of the war of 1812. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 973.5
20–4767
“This volume is concerned with our War of 1812, the chief episodes of which are related by Ralph D. Paine under the title, ‘The fight for a free sea.’ The book has special chapters on Perry and Lake Erie, The navy on blue water, Matchless frigates and their duels, and Victory on Lake Champlain.”—R of Rs
Reviewed by D. R. Anderson
+ Am Hist R 26:112 O ’20 300w
“It is of Perry on Lake Erie, of Macdonough on Lake Champlain, of Captain Bainbridge and of Captain Isaac Hull that Mr Paine writes charmingly, gloriously. Their brilliant deeds arouse his instinct for the sea, his hero-worship of sea-faring men. With them this writer of delightful sea stories is at home.”
+ Cath World 112:390 D ’20 270w
“Mr Paine writes splendidly of the sea and of ships, as readers of his stories know, and this is a subject that lends itself especially to his talents.”
+ N Y Times p16 O 31 ’20 130w R of Rs 62:223 Ag ’20 50w
PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE. Ships across the sea. il *$1.90 (2½c) Houghton 940.45
20–7139
The author of these stories of the American navy in the great war has firsthand knowledge of the navy and the life on board ship, and his fiction breathes real life. The first story is one of jealousy between two petty officers over a wee Scotch lassie, a war orphan, who came on board on occasion of the sailors’ Christmas party. On Jim Cooney’s side it was something of a lark for he loved to bully simple minded Henry Turnbull. With Henry it was a matter of the heart. But when Henry is washed overboard Jim’s remorse inspires a Henry Turnbull fund, to be raised among the crew for the education and up-bringing of little Mary MacDonald. The stories are: The orphan and the battle-wagon; Ten fathoms down; Too scared to run; The quiet life; On a lee shore; The net result; The last shot; The silent service; The red sector.
+ Booklist 16:350 Jl ’20
“The sense of the sea and ships is vividly conveyed. ‘Ships across the sea’ gives an excellent idea of what it was like to be a sailor in the United States navy during the great war.”
+ |N Y Times 25:237 My 9 ’20 650w |Wis Lib Bul 16:195 N ’20 50w
PALAMAS, KOSTÈS. Life immovable. *$2 Harvard univ. press 889
19–19666
“A volume of translations is ‘Life immovable,’ from the modern Greek of Kostes Palamas by Professor Aristides Phoutrides, a former instructor at Harvard. Kostes Palamas, secretary to the University of Athens, was one of the first writers of contemporary Greece to gain recognition outside his own country, and Professor Phoutrides has the courage to call him ‘a new world-poet.’” (Bookm) “The translator furnishes a sketch of the poet and his work, and an analysis of the poems in this volume.” (Booklist)
“It is reasonable to suppose that the unsatisfactory effect of the book before us cannot be entirely attributed to the defects either of the poet or the translator. It is tiresome to read these poems, where images rise and clash and fade in confusion, and to feel that in the original there may have existed harmony and emotional coherence where we are now oppressed by meaningless glitter and noise. Our annoyance is accentuated by the translator’s harsh and clumsy rhythms, and by an insensitiveness to word-values in the language into which he is translating, exemplified by the title ‘Life immovable.’” F. W. S.
− Ath p140 Jl 30 ’19 760w
“Too much of the symbolic, philosophical and mythological enter these pages to invite interest from any but the scholarly thinker.”
+ Booklist 16:162 F ’20
Reviewed by H: A. Lappin
+ Bookm 51:214 Ap ’20 120w
“He deserves to be read widely beyond the confines of his own land and tongue; and Professor Phoutrides, with the Harvard press, deserves the cordial thanks of all lovers of life and letters for the present translation.” F. B. R. Hellems
+ Class Philol 15:205 Ap ’20 1600w
“His book, with its thoughtful, well-written introduction, will give much pleasure to the quiet lovers of the quiet poetry of meditation and sentiment.” Paul Shorey
+ Review 2:309 Mr 27 ’20 1200w
PALMER, EDWIN JAMES, bp. of Bombay. Great church awakes. *$2 Longmans 280
21–198
“The conception of ‘the great church’ which inspires this little volume may be described as a liberalized restatement of the traditional Anglo-Catholic position. In the first part of the work, called ‘Ideas,’ Dr Palmer insists strongly on the importance and force of the present desire for Christian unity, especially as it is manifested in India. The second section, entitled ‘Studies,’ is mainly devoted to the question of the Christian ministry. It opens with a careful study of the ‘Ministry in the primitive church.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott
+ Outlook 126:689 D 15 ’20 390w The Times [London] Lit Sup p475 Jl 22 ’20 380w
PANCHARD, EDOUARD. Meats, poultry and game; with a preface by A. Louise Andrea. *$3 Dutton 641.5
20–2273
“The author of this volume is managing chef for the Hotel McAlpin, Waldorf-Astoria, Claridge, Café Savarin and Fifth avenue restaurant, New York, and Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, and honorary lecturer, Columbia university. He gives much valuable information about the buying, cooking and serving of meat, poultry and game, and as the book is illustrated even the amateur can learn readily from it. Not the least desirable part of the volume is a collection of choice recipes.”—Boston Transcript
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
+ Bookm 52:30 S ’20 110w
“A book so simply and clearly planned and written that it must be a desirable acquisition.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ap 7 ’20 100w
“Part I is written very definitely and clearly but Part II, ‘A potpourri of recipes,’ would be rather difficult for an inexperienced cook to follow.” M. E. Dakin
+ J Home Econ 12:426 S ’20 60w + Springf’d Republican p13a My 2 ’20 140w
PANYITY, LOUIS S.[[2]] Prospecting for oil and gas. il *$3.25 Wiley 622.1
20–2108
“This brief treatment of a large subject is designed to meet the needs of the practical oilman and the general reader. More than half of the text is devoted to surveying methods and geology, including general cross-sections of important districts. The rest of the book covers even more briefly: scouting, methods of locating wells, drilling methods, ‘bringing in,’ gauging, and leasing. Samples of forms and contracts are shown. Good illustrations and a number of mathematical and technical tables.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
“Good book on a subject not heretofore well covered.”
+ Booklist 17:100 D ’20
“The first ten chapters of this book, comprising 134 pages in all, deal directly with the subject indicated by the title, and they are by far the most useful part of the volume. The remainder of the principal part of the book is disappointing. It attempts to cover so much that it covers nothing at all.”
+ − Mining and Scientific Press 120:554 Ap 10 ’20 210w
“It is undoubtedly an attractive and useful publication, which, by virtue of its clearness of diction, careful arrangement of subjectmatter, and freedom from ‘padding,’ should make an appeal to a very wide public.” H. B. Milner
+ Nature 106:625 Ja 13 ’21 580w + N Y P L New Tech Bks p35 Ap ’20 80w
PARK, JOHN EDGAR. Bad results of good habits and other lapses. *$1.50 (4½c) Houghton 814
20–7286
The contents of these essays all hinge on the distinction the author makes between two kinds of goodness; respectable goodness and adventurous goodness. It is the difference between a mummy and a living body. For the ten commandments he would substitute the golden rule, as including them all, and his parting words to the reader are: “Don’t be solemn. Don’t be staid and conventional. Get off your pedestal. Fool a little. Love much.” A partial list of the contents are: The disadvantages of being good; The folly of getting there; The world, the flesh, and the devil; What I would not that I do; Lies; The grammar of life; The secret of the moral training of children.
+ Booklist 16:306 Je ’20
“Altogether they are a very readable lot, and if most of them leave a moral truth behind, the reader will forget the preachment for the enjoying of his ideas.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 25 ’20 240w + Cleveland p85 S ’20 30w
“Mr Park’s relaxations avoid the too facile generalization which is the usual fault of the type. Yet they breathe a certain serene remoteness from dust and heat. In contrast with the good gigantic smile of Mark Twain, it lacks what closet wit must always lack, an earthly and living contact with men and women.”
+ − Nation 111:224 Ag 21 ’20 250w N Y Times p15 O 10 ’20 80w
“It is bright, gay, and logically weak, with the useful knack of arraying a commonplace in the garb of a paradox.”
− + Review 3:133 Ag 11 ’20 290w + St Louis 18:248 O ’20 30w
“There is a vein of humor in Mr Park that makes him a delightful companion in print or in person.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Je 17 ’20 280w
PARKER, CARLETON HUBBELL. Casual laborer and other essays. *$1.75 (5½c) Harcourt 331
20–5645
This posthumous volume of essays by Professor Parker has an introduction by Mrs Cornelia Stratton Parker in which she points out the fundamental characteristics of her husband’s work, and through numerous quotations the importance in which he was held as one of the frontiersmen not along geographical but along economic lines. He was first in studying the labor problem from a psychological point of view. “What is the psychic balance sheet?” he asks. “It is a relation between a plastic, sensitive, easily degenerated nervous organism called ‘man’ and an environment. The product is human character. The labor problem is one of character-formation.” The essays are: Toward understanding labor unrest; The casual laborer; The I. W. W.; Motives in economic life. The appendix contains Professor Parker’s report on the Wheatland hop fields’ riot with a foreword by Mrs Parker. The second paper is reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the third from the Atlantic Monthly.
Am Econ R 10:610 S ’20 80w Booklist 16:263 My ’20
“In conclusion it may be said that the book is an interesting rather than a convincing one. The man really needs to be saved from his friends. The present book bears out the statement that when all is said and done, Professor Parker’s life was potential in promise and not in actual measurable performance.” G. M. J.
+ − Boston Transcript p4 Ap 7 ’20 1200w
“As his discussion stands and so far as it has been carried on it is so fragmentary and one-sided as to appear somewhat crude and far fetched.” Virgil Jordan
− Dial 69:96 Jl ’20 1150w Int J Ethics 31:115 O ’20 130w
“In their present state the essays reveal a lack in the organization of his new ideas as well as a faulty perspective in the arrangement of his biological and psychological material. His purpose, however, is admirable, and has brought about an advance of the line he set upon, namely the study of human behavior, as such, where it assists in the understanding of economic conditions.” Florence Richardson
+ − J Pol Econ 28:622 Jl ’20 600w
“For the economist, the book is like one of those impressive events that make history. It marks the closing of a chapter.” H. A. Overstreet
+ Nation 111:455 O 20 ’20 950w
Reviewed by C: Merz
+ New Repub 22:424 My 26 ’20 1200w
“The book is a useful record of an industrious and brilliant investigator who seems also to have been an unusually inspiring teacher. It is not too much to say that no man who has anything worth writing about should be allowed to write so badly as Professor Parker seems to have done when left to himself.”
+ − N Y Times 25:324 Je 20 ’20 700w R of Rs 61:671 Je ’20 40w Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 24 ’20 70w
“Those interested to know how this labor problem will be handled when those in authority have been educated will do well to read this delightful and illuminating book. It marks the road.” W: L. Chenery
+ Survey 45:26 O 2 ’20 540w
PARKER, DEWITT HENRY. Principles of æsthetics. *$2.50 (2½c) Silver 701
20–15459
The book has grown out of lectures to students at the University of Michigan but the author’s appeal is to all people who are interested in the intelligent appreciation of art. For his broader philosophy of art he declares himself indebted to the artists and philosophers of the period from Herder to Hegel, and among contemporaries to Croce and Lipps. Among the contents are: The analysis of the æsthetic experience; The problem of evil in æsthetics, and its solution through the tragic, pathetic, and comic; The standard of taste; The dominion of art over nature: painting, sculpture; Beauty in the industrial arts: architecture; The function of art: art and morality, art and religion; Bibliography.
Booklist 17:145 Ja ’21 Boston Transcript p5 O 23 ’20 480w
“For the beginner it is as satisfactory a work as has yet appeared.”
+ Dial 69:666 D ’20 50w
PARKER, SIR GILBERT. No defence. il *$2 Lippincott
20–17085
“The scene is laid first in Ireland at the close of the eighteenth century; and we are taken thence to the fleet at the time of the mutiny at the Nore, and later to Jamaica. The hero, Dyck Calhoun, is a young Irish gentleman, who falls innocently into disgrace. He becomes a common seaman and a mutineer; he escapes to Jamaica; and here he gradually achieves success, in spite of the persistent enmity of the governor, with whom he has fought a successful duel in his early days.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“The author seems well able to depict the English soldier and sailor of the day, but he knows nothing of the Irish soul or character.”
+ − Cath World 112:545 Ja ’21 230w
“To judge from internal evidence, ‘No defence’ was written simply and solely in order that it might eventually be turned into a motion picture, with little or no regard for literary excellence. From first to last, the book is carelessly written, and the tale is devoid of atmosphere, while the dialogue reveals very little effort to keep the speech of the different persons in character.”
− N Y Times p26 S 12 ’20 900w
“The book has dash, fire, and romance.”
+ Outlook 126:333 O 20 ’20 450w
“It lacks something both of the ardour and of the fundamental gravity which make romance completely valid; but it has an undeniable sincerity which makes it very much more readable than most such works.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p617 S 23 ’20 460w
PARKER, SAMUEL CHESTER. Methods of teaching in high schools. il $2 Ginn 373
20–6653
“The printing of a new edition of the ‘Methods of teaching in high schools’ has given the author an opportunity to make a number of slight but important revisions. Some of these are necessitated by new scientific investigations, while others are merely improvements in the examples or the phrasing. References have also been inserted to the supplementary volume, ‘Exercises for “Methods of teaching in high schools.”’... The fundamental organization, however, has nowhere been changed.” (Preface to revised edition)
PARKS, LEIGHTON. English ways and byways. *$1.75 (3c) Scribner 914.2
20–19160
In the form of letters John and Ruth Dobson, an American clergyman and his wife, on a motoring tour in England, talk pleasantly of their experiences, which include unconventional glimpses of England and the English and much about the vicissitudes of motoring. Among the chapters on England are: The great North road; The England of Fielding; An English interior; Rural England; Education; A by-election; Sheep-dogs; The black country; The county families; The boat-race; Vested interests; Church and state.
+ Booklist 17:111 D ’20
“All that is written is interesting and often it is amusing; but the wit is never biting, the story never cuts in the telling, and when all is told we really have gained a very agreeable idea of our English cousins.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 N 3 ’20 480w
“Add that both husband and wife are extremely clever with the pen, and rather impudent in their freedom of remark, and you have all the materials out of which Dr Leighton Parks has made as entertaining a little volume as one often meets with in these dull days.”
+ Review 3:563 D 8 ’20 280w
PARRISH, RANDALL. Mystery of the silver dagger. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–9714
Philip Severn, a secret service agent, is a collector of curios. An odd lacquer box in a New York shop attracts his attention and he buys it, altho all the proprietor can tell him is that it had been left in a hotel room and never claimed. After returning to his home he accidentally drops the box to the floor, unlooses a secret spring and picks up a folded bit of paper. But while the box itself was of undoubted antique origin, the paper is modern. It rouses Severn’s suspicion and he resolves to trace down the mystery at which it hints. His search leads him to Jersey City, a deserted factory building, a Polish saloon and a beautiful girl. The plot he uncovers involves a conspiracy against Chile, and the last bit of mystery cleared away is the relation of the beautiful girl to the band of plotters. After that comes the conventional ending.
Booklist 17:35 O ’20
“The plot is ingenious and the story has the fascination of swift action.”
+ Cleveland p51 My ’20 60w
“A lively enough yarn.”
+ N Y Times 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 320w
“A murder mystery skillfully handled.”
+ Outlook 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 20w
“Mr Parrish can always be depended upon for a breath-bating narrative.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ap 12 ’20 300w The Times [London] Lit Sup p385 Je 17 ’20 100w
PARRY, REGINALD ST JOHN.[[2]] Pastoral epistles; with introduction, text and commentary. *$8 Macmillan 227
“The object of the author has been to inquire afresh into the critical and exegetical problems on which the question of the genuineness of I and II Timothy and Titus depends. The outcome is a vigorous defense of the Pauline authorship of all three letters.”—Bib World
“Without disparaging the conscientious work in these notes, we must say that so far as the object of the monograph is concerned, Dr Parry would have done better to omit the commentary altogether—it is not any advance on earlier English work—and to discuss the partition theories of the epistles, a branch of criticism which he passes by.”
+ − Ath p45 Jl 9 ’20 720w
“All that can be said in favor of this opinion is here brought together probably in as convincing a form as is possible. Yet the presentation does not carry full conviction, for it treats far too lightly the objections which have been urged by other scholars against Pauline authorship.”
+ − Bib World 54:649 N ’20 110w
PARSONS, JOHN. Tour through Indiana in 1840; ed. by Kate Milner Rabb. il *$3.55 McBride 917.72
20–19355
The book contains the diary of John Parsons of Petersburg, Virginia, giving an account of a trip by railroad, by stage coach and by steamboat, and an intimate picture of the life of the then near west, in its political, geographical and social and family aspects ending with a personal romance. The illustrations are from old prints and drawings and from photographs.
“There is a quaint and charming flavor in this diary.”
+ Booklist 17:113 D ’20
“The book is of particular value to those interested in Indiana and surrounding country and in the lives of the great and soon-to-be-great men and women of the time. As such it holds rank as an unusual historic document, and is a quaint picture of the politics and life of the day.”
+ Bookm 52:173 O ’20 270w + Boston Transcript p8 O 23 ’20 420w
“This book breathes the very spirit of the young West. It is a flowing and human story that takes one into the heart of the time it describes.”
+ Outlook 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w
“The love story that is dragged in does not add to the credibility of the tale. If the volume is not an authentic record of the journey it pretends to chronicle, the deception is inexcusable. This does not mean that the book is a waste of time. On the contrary, it is a triumph of accuracy and readability. It lifts the curtain upon a most interesting scene and shows us a fairly typical American commonwealth at a definite stage of development.”
+ − Review 3:481 N 17 ’20 260w R of Rs 62:446 O ’20 100w
“An altogether entertaining book.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 760w
PARSONS, SAM JONES. Malleable cast iron. il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 672
In this second edition the author has “considered it advisable to revise the contents so as to include information concerning the more modern and scientific methods of production, thus bringing the book up to date and adding considerably to its practical value.” (Preface to the second edition) Two chapters are added on Mining by analysis and Measurement of temperature; there is also an addendum on Malleable cast steel.
“It is somewhat surprising that in a book which is evidently designed to assist the malleable-iron industry to more scientific methods of production there is no mention of the light thrown by the microscope on the structural changes which occur in the malleablising process; nor is there any reference to the mechanical properties of the various types of iron produced.”
+ − Nature 105:290 My 6 ’20 430w
PARSONS, WILLIAM BARCLAY. American engineers in France. il *$4 Appleton 940.373
20–16507
The motif of the book is the work of the nine regiments of American engineers, with one of which the author served. “In the writing, it has been necessary to touch on all the fields of engineer activity, because these regiments came in contact with every field, even if they did not invade each one, from constructing ports to digging and holding trenches, in all parts of France from the Atlantic to the Vosges, from the Mediterranean to Flanders. Consequently there results a brief outline of what all engineers did.” (Preface) The contents are in part: The new military engineer; America’s problem; Engineer organization; Ports; French railways; American railway operations in France; Relations with the French; Forestry; Water supply; Chemical engineers; Camouflage and other fields of engineering; Maps; Flash and sound ranging and search light detection; Artillery; Light railways; Roads; Trenches and trench warfare. There are full page illustrations, figures, maps and an index.
+ Booklist 17:109 D ’20
“He has covered the field in outline sufficient for the lay reader, and with an authority that will make this one of the lasting records of the war.”
+ N Y Evening Post p13 O 30 ’20 140w R of Rs 62:671 D ’20 170w
PARTRIDGE, GEORGE EVERETT. Psychology of nations; a contribution to the philosophy of history. *$2.50 Macmillan 901
19–19152
“This is a psychologist’s appeal for an understanding of what is fundamental in our national life and a warning against radical and superficial thinking; it was written during the closing months of the war and in the days that followed. The first part of the book is a study of the motives of war—an analysis of such motives in the light of the general principles of the development of society. The second part of the book is a study of the present situation as an educational problem, in which we have for the first time a problem of educating national consciousness as a whole, or the individuals of a nation with reference to a world-consciousness.”—N Y Times
“Two chapters dealing with Internationalism and the School and two others on the Teaching of patriotism are especially sane and well-balanced and will be suggestive to teachers of American history who wish to base their influence for Americanization upon something less superficial than tradition and prejudice.” W: H. Allison
+ Am Hist R 25:740 Jl ’20 450w
Reviewed by C. G. Fenwick
Am Pol Sci R 14:340 My ’20 130w
“Part two, on education, offers many suggestions that should interest educators.”
+ Booklist 16:276 My ’20 Boston Transcript p7 Mr 13 ’20 420w Brooklyn 12:95 Mr ’20 50w
“One’s total reaction to the book is emotional. It is impressive not as an argument or a scientific inquiry, but as a sermon. It is edifying rather than clarifying. One is swept along much as though one were reading a book of psalms; each sentence is an exhortation, and as one proceeds the exhortatory force accumulates until one ends in an ‘intoxication mood’ of edification. One can not emerge from the book without a feeling of enthusiasm for something which is critically important, but that something is intellectually elusive.” H. W. Schneider
+ − J Philos 17:441 Jl 29 ’20 3400w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
+ Nation 112:185 F 2 ’21 840w
“Mr Partridge has given to the public a book which doubtless will be, as it deserves to be, widely read.”
+ N Y Times 25:144 Mr 28 ’20 650w R of Rs 61:336 Mr ’20 30w
“The large value of his book—which really ought to be called ‘The education of nations’—is that it presents, compiled and digested, the theories of many men who have dealt with a broad complex of problems.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Je 22 ’20 280w The Times [London] Lit Sup p258 Ap 22 ’20 150w
PATCH, EDITH MARION. Little gateway to science. il $1 Atlantic monthly press 595.7
20–9285
Nature stories for young children. The author calls them “hexapod stories,” for they are all about six-footed insects, butterflies, bees, grasshoppers and the like. The titles are: Van, the sleepy butterfly, who was awakened by a January thaw; Old Bumble; The strange house of Cecid Cido Domy; Poly, the Easter butterfly; Jumping Jack; Nata, the nymph; Lampy’s Fourth o’ July; Carol; Ann Gusti’s circus; Gryl, the little black minstrel; Luna’s Thanksgiving; Keti-Abbot, the littlest Christmas guest. A word to the teacher follows and there are notes, with references to other books. The pictures are by Robert J. Sim.
“They are simply told without any sentimentality or ‘writing down.’ Good for school libraries as well as public.”
+ Booklist 17:78 N ’20
PATERSON, WILLIAM PATERSON, and RUSSELL, DAVID, eds.[[2]] Power of prayer. *$4 Macmillan 217
20–15946
“In May, 1916, the Walker trust of the University of St Andrews offered certain prizes on ‘the meaning, the reality and the power of prayer, its place and value to the individual, to the church, and to the state, in the everyday affairs of life, in the healing of sickness and disease, in times of distress and national danger, and in relation to national ideals and to world-progress.’ In response to this offer one thousand six hundred and sixty-seven essays were received, coming from all quarters of the world and written in nineteen languages. The first prize was awarded to Rev. Samuel McComb, of Baltimore, Maryland, and is printed as the first paper following an interesting essay by Dr Paterson entitled ‘Prayer and the contemporary mind.’ Twenty other papers of varying length of different aspects of the subject are also printed.”—Bib World
“The quality of the essay by Dr McComb warrants the decision of the readers in his favor. This book is the most voluminous and satisfactory study of the subject that we know.”
+ Bib World 54:650 N ’20 320w
“Most appear to have read widely. They express themselves lucidly. They can give reasons, not unworthy of consideration, for the faith which is in them; though, with the exception of Canon McComb, no writer can be classed as a trained theologian of eminence. The volume has not, in consequence, the importance of the series of essays entitled ‘Concerning prayer,’ which Messrs Macmillan published a few years ago. The main value of the book consists in the light which it throws on the religious tendencies of the time.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p514 Ag 12 ’20 1400w
PATON, STEWART. Education in war and peace. *$1.50 Hoeber
20–3200
“In ‘Education in war and peace,’ the author makes an appeal for a united effort by physicians, psychologists, and educators to search out and develop appropriately the basic instincts and deep emotional undercurrents which have so much to do in shaping personality, determining character, and controlling conduct. The current tendency to try to ‘compensate for personal inadequacy in facing the real problems of life’ by various forms of ‘wishful thinking’ is examined and illustrated.”—Survey
+ − Dial 69:213 Ag ’20 90w
“His treatment is stimulating, and any educator or social worker may read the book with the hope of receiving immediate profit from it.” F. G. Bonser
+ Survey 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 270w
PATRICK, DIANA. Wider way. *$2 Dutton
20–11891
“Veronica Quening, with a dour and brutal market gardener (who is also a local preacher) for her father, but also with a devoted stepmother, entirely free from traditional stepmotherliness, is quite staggeringly fascinating, lovely, and magnetic. She has all our sympathy in her career as school teacher, as wife for a time—after another passionate love affair—of a German; and specially as friend of Lord Swathe, for there is evidently a kinship between the beautiful girl and the stately noble house. All ends well with Veronica.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Harmless and pretty and silly.”
+ − Ath p258 F 20 ’20 80w
“Veronica, with her complexities, her ambitions, her mental and spiritual endowments, her surface froth and her profound depths, is a creation that would do credit to an older and more practiced hand. As a whole, the novel is an exceptionally good first book, which reveals a real gift for story telling and a marked faculty for producing the illusion of reality.”
+ − N Y Times 25:31 Jl 11 ’20 550w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p290 F 5 ’20 110w
PATRICK, GEORGE THOMAS WHITE. Psychology of social reconstruction. *$2 Houghton 301
20–19443
In considering the dangers that threaten our present civilization—reversion to barbarism, decadence, ill-timed social reforms, et al.—the author maintains that he is not taking the usual attitude of either advocate or critic, but that of a student of ultimate values. He sees in our present awareness of social evils a hopeful sign, but insists on the inadequacy of all economic and political reforms that disregard the psychological and historical factors. No reform can endure whose psychological basis does not rest on human needs and does not conform to human nature. The three first chapters are devoted to the psychological factors in social reconstruction and the remaining four to: The psychology of work; Our centrifugal society; Social discipline; The next step in applied science. There is an index.
Boston Transcript p7 N 13 ’20 620w N Y Evening Post p23 D 4 ’20 240w
“The book is eminently readable and deserves a wide response.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 20 ’21 160w
PATTERSON, FRANCES TAYLOR. Cinema craftsmanship. il *$2 Harcourt 808.2
20–17895
The author, who is instructor in photoplay composition in Columbia university, recognizes that the moving picture art is still in its infancy, but says that her motive for writing this book is faith in its future and a desire to help awaken the public to its possibilities. Contents: The art and the science; The plot; The characters; The setting; Adaptation; Scenario technique; Writing a synopsis for the photoplay market; Cinema comedy; The critical angle; The photoplay market. The scenario for the photoplay “Witchcraft” by Margaret Turnbull, awarded a prize offered by the Famous Players-Lasky company, is appended, together with bibliography and index.
“A model scenario and an excellent bibliography make the book a complete manual for all persons interested in photoplay writing.”
+ N Y Evening Post p16 N 13 ’20 160w N Y Times p25 N 7 ’20 90w
PATTERSON, JOHN EDWARD. Passage of the barque Sappho. *$2.50 Dutton
20–11150
“‘The passage of the barque Sappho’ portrays in minute detail the voyage of a sailing vessel from San Francisco around Cape Horn, homeward bound, to a British port. The author, J. E. Patterson, died before the book was published, and it was prepared for the press by his friend, C. E. Lawrence, who contributes a foreword. The narrative purports to be the work of two individuals, and is told in the first person. The joint contributions come from the two extremes of sea society—the cabin and the fo’castle. One is an officer and the other an ordinary seaman. When events are witnessed by both, it is from different points of view. The officer and sailor write alternately, and describe in detail all that went on above deck and in the forecastle during the long voyage. The story ends with shipwreck in the Sargasso sea.”—Springf’d Republican
Ath p930 S 19 ’19 80w
“The style of the story, in so far as it may be detached from its substance, is (but for certain passages of description) homely enough, lacking in the ordinary ‘literary’ graces; but this in the end appears to be a part of virtue. Beside Conrad and Bullen my copy shall take its place with confidence.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 51:79 Mr ’20 700w
“The book has a historical as well as a literary value. Mr Patterson proves by this posthumous novel his understanding of character as well as his ability to write an impressive description. Each officer and man of the Sappho is a distinct individual possessed of his own little traits and peculiarities—traits and peculiarities which the author’s leisurely method enables him fully to illustrate.”
+ N Y Times 24:767 D 21 ’19 650w
“Quite at variance with the usual nautical romance, the chronicle is free from intrigues and brutality. The book is rather long (and expensive) and is likely to prove a bit tiring to all save those interested in the subject of seafaring.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 28 ’20 420w + − The Times [London] Lit Sup p498 S 18 ’19 380w
PAUL, EDEN, and PAUL, CEDAR. Creative revolution. *$2 (*8s 6d) (4c) Seltzer 335
The authors subtitle their book “A study of communist ergatocracy,” using the newly coined word “ergatocracy” to signify workers’ rule. In the opening chapter they say, “This little volume has a twofold aim, theoretical and practical. In the theoretical field, we wish to effect an analysis of socialist trends and to attempt a synthesis of contemporary proletarian aims. In the sphere of practice we hope to intensify and to liberate the impulse towards a fresh creative effort.” Contents: Communist ergatocracy; Socialism through social solidarity; Socialism through the class struggle; The shop stewards’ movement; Historical significance of the great war; The Russian revolution; The third international; The dictatorship of the proletariat; The iron law of oligarchy; Socialism through parliament or soviet? Creative revolution; Freedom; Bibliography.
“Do the gifted authors realize that the atmosphere of a Marxian library varied by stimulating conversations with trade union leaders, is not the same as the atmosphere of a bloody revolution? Do they clearly realize the difference? Do they, in fact, know what they are talking about?”
− Ath p145 Jl 30 ’20 290w
Reviewed by A. C. Freeman
N Y Call p11 Ja 16 ’21 1400w The Times [London] Lit Sup p386 Je 17 ’20 150w − The Times [London] Lit Sup p413 Jl 1 ’20 1350w
“After so much has been written, camouflaged and in equivocal language, it is a pleasure to find a book so clear-cut, so incisive and so direct in its wording and in its thought. I still believe as firmly as ever that the principles of pacifism represent the most workable social philosophy. I am therefore at total variance with the authors in their interpretation of the lessons which the Russian revolution has taught. At the same time, I am glad to welcome their contribution because of the splendid effect which it will have in clarifying issues that have puzzled and baffled so many earnest souls during the past few months.” Scott Nearing
+ − World Tomorrow 4:60 F ’21 420w
PAYNE, FANNY URSULA. Plays and pageants of citizenship. il *$1.50 Harper 792.6
20–18670
A new book of plays by the author of “Plays and pageants of democracy,” and “Plays for anychild.” Contents: Dekanawida; The triumph of democracy; The spirit of New England; The soap-box orator; The victory of the good citizen; Old Tight-wad and the victory dwarf; Rich citizens; Humane citizens.
Lit D p99 D 4 ’20 60w
PAYNE, GEORGE HENRY. History of journalism in the United States. *$2.50 (2c) Appleton 071
20–10538
A short history of American journalism from the first newspaper to the present day, written by a man of wide newspaper experience. Among the early chapters are: Historic preparation for journalism; The first newspaper in America; The first journals and their editors; Philadelphia and the Bradfords; Printing in New York—the Zenger trial; Rise of the fourth estate; The assumption of political power; The “Boston Gazette” and Samuel Adams; Journalism and the Revolution; Adams and the alien and sedition laws. Other chapters cover the newspapers of the west, suffrage and slavery and the Civil war. Special chapters are also devoted to such great dailies as the Sun, the Herald and the Tribune. There are closing chapters on Editors of the new school; After-war problems and reform and The melodrama in the news. Interesting documents and statistics are given in appendices. There is a valuable bibliography of twenty-nine pages, followed by an index.
“The story is compact, but it moves to a lively tune, and is widely allusive. The personal human interest is widely kept in the foreground, and Mr Payne reveals a keen perception of the dramatic values of his subject.” C: H. Levermore
+ − Am Hist R 26:107 O ’20 850w
“Will be useful to students of journalism, but it will have an interest of its own to the general reader as it traces the growth of journalism with the development of democracy.”
+ Booklist 17:47 N ’20
Reviewed by H: L. West
Bookm 52:116 O ’20 950w
“A swiftly written and vigorously phrased volume.” D. C. Seitz
+ Freeman 2:452 Ja 19 ’21 600w
“It is hard to tell which impresses one most in reading this book—the author’s sincerity or his thoroughness. The book is very valuable and intensely interesting.” C. W. T.
+ N Y Times 25:6 Jl 11 ’20 3150w + Outlook 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 80w
“He has done a creditable piece of work, amassed adequate material, used it with discrimination and an excellent sense of selection, has not forgotten that he had a ‘story’ to tell, and that one of the prime requisites of a story is that it shall be interesting.” E. G. L.
+ Review 3:232 S 15 ’20 750w
“Mr Payne’s history of American newspaper publication is well written and well proportioned. He has made the story interesting from beginning to end.”
+ R of Rs 62:222 Ag ’20 220w
“Mr Payne’s treatment of the press in the years before the Civil war is much the more satisfactory because, while involving little original research, it deals out information suggestively. The last part of the book is intelligent in general outlines, but is a brief and inadequate summary and seems less frank in comment. The appendices are somewhat haphazard.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a S 5 ’20 1100w Wis Lib Bul 16:232 D ’20 90w
PEABODY, ROBERT SWAIN, and PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD.[[2]] New England romance; the story of Ephraim and Mary Jane Peabody, 1807–1892. il *$2 Houghton
20–19929
“Aside from the interest it has of a faithful account by his sons of one of America’s earliest and most distinguished preachers, it possesses value as revealing the life and manner of a period. No conscious attempt has been made to do this, however, and whatever of history the reader may get comes to him as from between the lines and is therefore the more subtly impressed. The early eighties, prior to the Civil war, are revealed through the lives, ambitions, and struggles of the minister and his wife.”—N Y Evening Post
“A quaint book for lovers of New England.”
+ Booklist 17:113 D ’20
“Because of its very evident qualities of naturalness and sincerity this little volume should escape the limbo which awaits the major part of commemorative literature and be preserved among those works classed as human documents.”
+ N Y Evening Post p8 N 6 ’20 160w
“Told with a simple and natural beauty of language fitting for such a theme. Incidentally it gives a graphic picture of revolutionary and pre-revolutionary days.”
+ Outlook 126:690 D 15 ’20 50w + Survey 45:329 N 27 ’20 180w
PEAKE, C. M. A. Eli of the downs. *$2 (2c) Doran
20–18768
The narrator of the story found Eli as an old man in his cottage, Beulah, on the downs, where he spends his last days carving fiddles, and surrounded by the few treasures he had garnered from his wanderings over the earth. He had always been a rare character, this shepherd, with a rich inner life. Early in life he had married a mate worthy of him, but it was a short happiness, and then the young widower took to wandering. For some eight years he followed the sea and saw many lands. Then it was surveying and ranching in Canada where an old Chinese cook instructed him in the wisdom of Confucius and Lao Tsu, but with failing health he turned his steps once more to England. At Beulah cottage, lonely to the last, but emanating a silent influence for good over the neighborhood, he ended his days in peace.
“The author cannot leave his characters to speak their mind, he must speak it for them, and even reinforce their statements with a kind of running commentary and explanatory notes which are very tiring to keep up with.” K. M.
− Ath p211 F 13 ’20 280w Cleveland p105 D ’20 60w
“It is, on the whole, well written, and while not a particularly engrossing volume, neither is it a dull one.”
+ N Y Times p27 S 12 ’20 170w
“Apart from its idea, or animus, this is a narrative of sincere and fresh quality, varied in substance and by no means artless, though it agreeably lacks the art of the professional story-teller.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 3:349 O 20 ’20 300w
“‘Eli of the downs’ is more than a work of promise: Mr Peake tells the life-history of one who was ‘a shepherd at heart as well as by profession’ with a wealth of illuminating detail, with a love of his subject and an intimate knowledge of Wessex country life that combine to make the story memorable and delightful.”
+ Spec 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 430w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p301 My 13 ’20 460w
PEARCE, FRANCIS BARROW. Zanzibar; the island metropolis of eastern Africa. il *$12 Dutton 967
(Eng ed 20–8651)
“A very substantial work by the British resident in Zanzibar, embracing the history, politics, anthropology, resources, and archæology of the island.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ Ath p431 Mr 26 ’20 60w
“For a leisurely pursuit of odds and ends of knowledge, or for the scholar, geographer, historian, or student of Arab dominion I recommend his volume. No thrills, few laughs, but the book marches on in a pleasant and profitable path of facts and comment.” F: O’Brien
+ N Y Times 25:4 Jl 18 ’20 1200w + Spec 125:311 S 4 ’20 250w The Times [London] Lit Sup p159 Mr 4 ’20 30w
“He has taken immense pains in the compilation of his book, he has ransacked the chronicles, consulted the retailers of legends, referred to modern authorities and drawn upon his own experiences to produce a well-constructed and agreeably written compendium of all that there is to be told of Zanzibar.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p165 Mr 11 ’20 1050w
PEARL, BERTHA. Sarah and her daughter. $2.25 (1½c) Seltzer
20–11892
The scene of the story opens on Henry street in the Ghetto and portrays the American Jew in every nuance of his racial peculiarities. The abject poverty and suffering, the breaking under suffering, the resiliency, the ethical slips in the fierce struggle for existence, the hysteria and nervous breakdowns, the seriousness and absence of a sense of humor and the fundamental goodness of heart that always has the last word to say, are all there and every type finds its place down to the tragic figure of the orthodox survivor of a dead religion. In Sarah and her daughter Minnie, the immigrant Jew and the first generation, with the resulting sad conflicts between parent and child, are represented.
“Not a pleasant story, but worth while as a sincere interpretation of a type of life which the author understands intimately.”
+ Booklist 17:159 Ja ’21
“As a story it is very little more than a string of episodes reported with pitiless minuteness. If ruthless and harrowing verisimilitude is of service to you, accept it in this book. Why the publishers should assert that it is a new thing, is not clear.” H. W. Boynton
− Bookm 52:69 S ’20 880w
“There is real emotional power in the author’s handling of her calamitous theme. She seems to lose subtlety at times because of her very sincerity; the book is in spots too wooden in its realism, and there is some careless workmanship. But the characterization is acute.” F. E. H.
+ − Freeman 1:407 Jl 7 ’20 300w
“There is no relief, even in the scenes between the young children, and we wonder if the story is not too photographically realistic, missing some worth or beauty under the bald surface.” L. W. M.
+ − Grinnell R 15:259 O ’20 420w
“A rather amorphous but by no means talentless book. Miss Pearl has a very keen and clear eye for the physical conditions of her people’s lives—both in the Ghetto and beyond it—and a genuine gift, despite her blunt and sprawling style, for rendering the atmosphere of bleak and homeless places. There is no reason why Miss Pearl should not do admirable work as she grows in self-discipline of both style and feeling, and acquires a cooler spirit and a more tempered surface.”
+ − Nation 110:730 My 29 ’20 320w
“It does more than present a partially new viewpoint of matters with which we are familiar, it brings a new range of material within our understanding. Here is an American book with a straightforward story, in the main well told and without sentimentalism.” R. V. A. S.
+ New Repub 23:343 Ag 18 ’20 520w
“Her descriptions are so true that one can’t help but feel that the story is equally as true.” Rose Karsner
+ N Y Call p10 My 30 ’20 500w
“It is a work that is noteworthy in American literature, suggesting Dickens and De Morgan modernized and Americanized.”
+ N Y Times 25:253 My 16 ’20 550w
“To the American reader who has previously known little or nothing about that life, it is like the brilliant illumination from the inside of a dark room.”
+ N Y Times p10 Ja 16 ’21 80w
“Whatever criticism may be offered lies in the possibility that even tenement existence is not always as barren of sunshine and joys of life as the author would have us believe. But that is not sufficiently outstanding to detract from the authentic interest of the story.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 25 ’20 360w
PEARL, RAYMOND.[[2]] Nation’s food. il *$3.50 Saunders 338
20–4023
“Mr Pearl was chief of the statistical division of the Food administration, and as such presents ‘unbiased statistical data rather than my own opinion as to their interpretation.’ The book is made up for the greater part of clear classifications and tables.”—Survey
+ Booklist 17:95 D ’20
“With his usual thoroughness and breadth of view he has included in his inquiry so many ramifications that his investigation covers Europe also. It thus possesses extraordinary interest at the present time.” E. J. Russell
+ Nature 106:305 N 4 ’20 850w
“As a source book, this volume is warmly recommended.” B. L.
+ Survey 44:309 My 29 ’20 500w
PEARSON, EDMUND LESTER. Theodore Roosevelt. il *$1.75 (5c) Macmillan
20–16084
The book is one of the series of “True stories of great Americans,” and is a brief biography intended to catch the interest of boys. Contents: The boy who collected animals; In college; In politics; “Ranch life and the hunting trail”; Two defeats; Fighting office-seekers; Police commissioner; The rough rider; Governor of New York; President of the United States; The lion hunter; Europe and America; The bull moose; The explorer; The man; The great American; Illustrations.
Booklist 17:124 D ’20
“He has been unwise in trying to explain Roosevelt’s war-policies to the detriment of President Wilson, and to laud the efficiency of one party over another—especially in his capacity as writer for children who want the essential action of the man—Roosevelt—without the political struggles in which he was involved.”
+ − Lit D p90 D 4 ’20 150w
“One of the best short summaries of Roosevelt’s career that have yet appeared. The author’s treatment of the intimate, personal phases of his subject is especially felicitous.”
+ N Y Evening Post p8 S 25 ’20 150w
“He has made excellent use of the new material about Mr Roosevelt which has been available since his death, and has brought out with skill and judgment the simplicity and singleness of Mr Roosevelt’s Americanism.”
+ Outlook 126:202 S 29 ’20 120w
“Mr Pearson has perhaps had more than ordinary success in confining his story to the essential features, keeping a good sense of proportion and never letting go the central thread of the narrative. His book is workmanlike as well as entertaining.”
+ R of Rs 62:447 O ’20 100w
“One cannot help feeling that the appeal would be stronger if the work were more graphic and less controversial and the author had seen fit to eliminate his attacks on the opponents of Roosevelt.”
− + Springf’d Republican p9a O 17 ’20 200w The Times [London] Lit Sup p800 D 2 ’20 20w + Wis Lib Bul 16:237 D ’20 40w
PECK, LORA B. Stories for good children. il *$1.50 Little
20–18926
These fairy and folk tales are collected from all countries. Some of them are very ancient, being traced back to the home of the Aryan race and all are so simple in their make-up and telling that they are offered as an aid to reading. The countries represented in the choice are: Ireland, Scotland, England, India, China, Japan, Mexico, Persia, Russia.
PEDLER, MARGARET. House of dreams-come-true. *$1.75 (1½c) Doran
19–17179
Jean, though English, has never seen England until she is twenty. Then her father, a prey to wanderlust, packs her off to some friends of his, while he goes roaming the world. Just before she goes to England, Jean has one magical day with an anonymous young Englishman, and to her surprise and his apparent dismay when she arrives at Lady Anne’s home where she is to stay she finds the elder son of the house to be her unknown companion of Montavan. The magic still holds for both of them, but there are many barriers between them and many bitter hours before they finally enter their “house of dreams-come-true,” a house “not built of stones and mortar, but just—where love is.”
“Not ‘deep’ but entertaining.”
+ Booklist 17:35 O ’20 + Boston Transcript p6 Jl 24 ’20 190w
“A fairly consistent and always readable book of fiction. The book, as a whole, is one that will give excellent entertainment, although it is impossible to assign it any important place in the contemporary output of fiction.”
+ N Y Times p24 Ag 1 ’20 430w + Springf’d Republican p11a S 5 ’20 130w
“A thoroughly readable story, though inclining somewhat to the sentimental.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p717 D 4 ’19 140w
PEEL, GEORGIANA ADELAIDE (RUSSELL), lady. Recollections; comp. by Ethel Peel. il *$5 Lane
20–12214
Lady Georgiana Peel, whose recollections are compiled in the present volume by her daughter, is the daughter of Sir John Russell and her recollections cover the period from the early forties to the present time. She was intimately acquainted with all the eminent people in Queen Victoria’s reign of whom she has recorded pleasant memories with many historical events of importance. The book is illustrated and has an index.
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ N Y Times p4 S 5 ’20 2800w
“It is mainly a picture of the most attractive side of English social life. It gives to the American reader a much more intimate acquaintance with that life than he could possibly attain by any introductions.”
+ Outlook 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 180w
“It is a kindly book, written by a gracious lady, giving a picture of an age that has passed away.”
+ Sat R 129:333 Ap 3 ’20 1050w
“Lady Georgiana Peel’s engaging book of recollections ought to attract readers of many and varied tastes. The book is attractive in its frank simplicity.”
+ Spec 124:389 Mr 20 ’20 1200w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p102 F 12 ’20 1350w
PENDEXTER, HUGH. Red belts. il *$1.50 (1½c) Doubleday
20–2261
The time in which the story is placed is 1784, when the quondam colonies had not yet acquired the consciousness of a consolidated group of states. The scene is west of the Alleghanies in what was to be the state of Tennessee but where, at the time of the story, the white settlers were still fighting for their existence against the surrounding Indians aided by renegade white plotters in the interests of Spain. It is a tale of love and adventure in which the hero John Sevier, “Chucky Jack,” a pioneer of Americanism performs gallant deeds of heroism and daring and not only saves his state for the Union but lovely Elsie Tonpit from brutal outlaws and for her lover Kirk Jackson, another true American.
“A stirring pioneer tale.”
+ Booklist 16:283 My ’20
“Taken on the whole, ‘Red belts’ is a good example of the real adventure story, with enough patriotic suggestion to render it of wholesome appeal.”
+ N Y Times 25:4 Mr 7 ’20 600w
PENNELL, ELIZABETH (ROBINS) (MRS JOSEPH PENNELL) (N. N., pseud.), and PENNELL, JOSEPH. Life of James McNeill Whistler. new and rev ed il *$6.50 Lippincott
“This is the revised sixth edition of the authorized biography of Whistler. Since the original publication in two volumes in 1908 the authors have been collecting and verifying documents, and have received numerous suggestions and statements of facts. The new edition, therefore, contains new materials in the text as well as new illustrations, which include more than one hundred reproductions of the artist’s works.”—R of Rs
+ Boston Transcript p7 Jl 21 ’20 640w
“The book, because of the treatment no less than because of the subject, is vastly entertaining.”
+ Dial 69:322 S ’20 60w Outlook 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 50w R of Rs 62:334 S ’20 100w
PEPPER, CHARLES MELVILLE. Life and times of Henry Gassaway Davis, 1823–1916. il *$4 (4½c) Century
20–4454
The life of “the grand old man” of West Virginia is marked by two phases, says the biographer: “the romance of railway building, the development of natural resources, the creation of industrial communities” is the one, “public service, political leadership, citizenship in its highest sense,” the other. His many-sided character and activities were unusual. He was intensely practical and was also a man of vision. A partial list of the contents follows: Ancestry and youth; Pioneer railway days; International American conferences; The Pan-American railway; Vice-presidential nomination and after; Benefactions and philanthropies; Famous contemporaries; Personal characteristics. There is an index and illustrations.
PERCIVAL, MACIVER. Glass collector; a guide to old English glass. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (4c) Dodd 738.2
A20–905
“The collector who has been in my mind when writing this book has not very much money to spare, and none to waste. He wants to get full value when he makes a purchase, and if a bargain comes his way so much the better.” (Preface) To guide such a collector to know which to choose and how to distinguish the old from the new, the real from the sham is the object of the book. After an introductory chapter on drinking glasses in England to the end of the seventeenth century and seven chapters on the various kinds of wine glasses the contents are: Cut glass; Engraved glasses; Curios; Bottles, decanters, flasks and jugs; Opaque and coloured glass; Frauds, fakes and foreigners; Foreign glass; Manufacturing and decorative processes; Prices; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.
“Will be helpful to the amateur since it is very well illustrated and contains hints on the detection of imitations.”
+ Booklist 16:335 Jl ’20 + Spec 122:17 Ja 4 ’19 60w
PERCIVAL, MACIVER. Old English furniture and its surroundings. il *$7.50 Scribner 749
“The period Mr Percival covers in this work is from the restoration of the monarchy to the regency. This period he has divided into four sections: The restoration; The end of the 17th century and the early 18th; Early Georgian; Late Georgian. To each section he has given five chapters: Fittings and ornament decorations; Furniture; Upholstery, wall and floor coverings; Table appointments; Decorative adjuncts.”—Springf’d Republican
Int Studio 72:164 D ’20 100w
“Mr Percival writes with unusual good sense. Moreover, he is firmly though not pedantically for unmixed style and speaks with authority. For the trained decorator, however, the book contains little that is actually new or in any way suggestive.”
+ N Y Evening Post p12 N 27 ’20 150w
“If one can judge at all from some of the imposing Fifth avenue shops, people do enjoy living in period-houses, fitting up rooms in period-furniture, buying all manner of things antique. For these impassioned collectors, at least, Mr Percival’s book is unequivocally useful, being clearly written and having much practical information.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 D 9 ’20 330w
PERCY, EUSTACE SUTHERLAND CAMPBELL, lord. Responsibilities of the league. *$2 Doran 341.1
(Eng ed 20–5415)
“This is a book written in the interest of civilization. It is true that there have been civilizations, not altogether contemptible, without Christianity; and it is arguable that there may be civilizations hereafter not based on state sovereignty. But the author’s point is both true and indisputable that the revolution which threatens both of these institutions may drag all civilization with it unless a high intelligence commands and canalizes its forces. Lord Eustace considers the league of nations as the potential champion of the idea of the state and commonwealth, the possible medium by which we may come to the spirit of a united Christendom. That, no doubt, is his ideal: to set it off he offers a penetrating analysis of the past and makes the profound observation that the treaty of Versailles, which he does not defend, is the almost complete result of the two forces of nationalism and democracy.”—Dial
“I do not understand all of it nor agree with all I understand, but I am fain to mark its superior importance.” Sganarelle
+ Dial 68:799 Je ’20 1150w
“His book will provoke much dissent, but it has the supreme merit of making its readers think on the great problems that face the world.”
+ − Spec 124:16 Ja 3 ’20 1400w
“The book fairly bristles with provocative suggestions. The treatment of the basis and mainsprings of American foreign policy makes an American gasp with envy at their insight and sympathy.”
+ Springf’d Republican p5 Mr 29 ’20 800w
“A solution must answer the conditions of the problem proposed, and one has the feeling that Lord Eustace’s criticisms of recent policy do not always take account of that fact. But that is a matter of controversy. What is not a matter of controversy is the quality of Lord Eustace Percy’s book—its breadth of outlook, its richness of information, its penetrating candour, its analytic power, and, above all, its depth of conviction.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p780 D 25 ’19 650w
PERCY, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. In April once. *$1.50 Yale univ. press 811
20–15483
“Mr Percy’s book consists of a poetic drama in one act, about half a hundred lyrics, and a longish philosophical monologue entitled ‘An epistle from Corinth.’ The drama—‘In April once’—is a study of a renaissance youth, Guido, who sacrifices his life out of impetuous generosity that a leper and a jailer (though a very knightly jailer) might tempt death.”—Bookm
+ Booklist 17:63 N ’20
“In his lyrics, Mr Percy tastes in some degree of the divine madness of Keats. Rare indeed is Mr Percy’s pure lyric gift: limpidity and strength of emotion and adequacy of art.” R. M. Weaver
+ Bookm 52:65 S ’20 400w
“He is by no means distinguished, and he is somewhat too fond of his literary good manners, but he has done some shapely, thoroughbred exercises in elegy and exultation.”
+ − Nation 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 80w
“His work proves imitative in many ways.”
+ − N Y Times p16 N 7 ’20 50w
“Finer than his ‘Sappho in Levkas,’ with all its promise, is ‘In April once.’ This volume has all the charm and freshness of the earlier book, with a deeper and more appealing view of the world.” E: B. Reed
+ Yale R n s 10:204 O ’20 150w
PÉREZ DE AYALA, RAMÓN. Prometheus: The fall of the house of Limón; Sunday sunlight. *$3 Dutton
20–12561
“Under the threefold title, ‘Prometheus: The fall of the house of Limón; Sunday sunlight,’ the E. P. Dutton company publishes three novelettes of Spanish life by Ramón Pérez de Ayala, which Alice P. Hubbard has turned into English. ‘Prometheus,’ a modern tale which parallels or parodies a Greek legend, deals sunnily with a man who, seeking for perfect offspring, becomes the father of an oaf and hunchback. ‘Limón’ is a murder tale. ‘Sunday sunlight’ is a tale of ravishers which recites horrors which recall and surpass ‘Titus Andronicus.’”—Review
“Those who enjoy artistry, intelligence and pages overflowing with the evidence of original and unique talent will welcome the book and will read it more than once.”
+ N Y Times 25:15 Jl 18 ’20 830w
“Señor de Ayala is all sprightliness and glow. He has a draughtsman eye, a colorist eye, an eye reminiscent of Gautier, and he scatters brilliancies with the prodigality of a man for whom splendor is the only warmth.”
+ Review 3:351 O 20 ’20 220w
PERKINS, LUCY (FITCH) (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS). Italian twins. il *$1.75 Houghton
20–15958
The Italian twins are Beppo and Beppina, who live in an old palace on the banks of the Arno. They are kidnapped by two vagabonds with a monkey and a performing bear and are made to sing and dance and entertain the country people and villagers. They are taken to Venice but finally make their escape and after more wandering adventures reach their home safely.
“Beautiful makeup and sketches.”
+ Booklist 17:78 N ’20 + Lit D p94 D 4 ’20 160w
“One is always sorry when Mrs Perkins fails to reach her own high mark. But this incredible tale of the kidnapping of two little aristocrats shows no side of real Italian life.” M. H. B. Mussey
− + Nation 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 110w
“‘The Italian twins’ is a wholesome stimulating book for children between eight and thirteen to read and own.” E. R. Burt
+ Pub W 98:1201 O 16 ’20 300w + Springf’d Republican p8 N 18 ’20 200w
PERKINS, LUCY (FITCH) (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS). Scotch twins. il *$1.50 Houghton
19–18221
Jock and Jean are the hero and heroine of this story, with its scenes laid in Scotland. The pictures as in other books of the series are from drawings by the author.
“A good picture of national life and customs with a rather more dramatic plot than that of former volumes of the series.”
+ Booklist 16:176 F ’20 Boston Transcript p9 D 20 ’19 300w
“Jock and Jean have, perhaps, the most exciting and amusing adventures of any of the twins, but, as a small boy critic said, ‘They have an absent-minded way of using occasional Scottish words and then relapsing into plain American talk.’”
+ − Nation 109:780 D 13 ’19 140w + Outlook 124:29 Ja 7 ’20 40w
“‘The Scotch twins,’ Jock, the sleepy-head, and Jean, the canny little polisher and scrubber, are just as lovable as any of their predecessors. There is a nice little surprise, too, in the last chapter.”
+ Pub W 97:606 F 21 ’20 120w
“Anyone who has never before understood the claims of a clan will find this and other peculiarities of Scotch life thoroughly explained.”
+ Springf’d Republican p12 D 19 ’19 100w
PERRY, ALLEN MASON, comp. Electrical aids to greater production. il *$2 McGraw 621.3
19–10529
“Based upon a series of articles in the Electrical World, of which the author is engineering editor. The best of practice, as developed by the war, is presented as a practical handbook, rather than as a text-book, full of suggestions for the installation, operation, and maintenance, as well as the problems of layout and control. The eight chapters cover: General power problems of industrial plants; Distribution, transformation, switching and protection; Motors, control, specific applications, troubles and remedies; Illumination, selection of equipment, economies, and specific applications; Electric furnaces, welding, etc.; Meters and measurements as applied to industries; Handling material in industrial plants with electric tractors; Outdoor substations.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
Booklist 16:159 F ’20 N Y P L New Tech Bks p47 Jl ’19 120w Pratt p20 Ja ’20 30w
PERRY, BLISS. Study of poetry. *$3.25 Houghton 808.1
20–9853
In attempting “to set forth in decent prose some of the strange potencies of verse” the author has given but little space to the epic and drama and has devoted himself more especially to the various forms of the lyric, which to him seems to hold the future of poetry. “The folk-epic is gone, the art-epic has been outstripped by prose fiction, and the drama needs a theatre. But the lyric needs only a poet, who can compose in any of its myriad forms.... Through it today, as never before in the history of civilization, the heart of a man can reach the heart of mankind.” Accordingly the book falls into two parts. Part I, Poetry in general, treats of poetry in retrospect, of the province of poetry and the poet, of rhythm and metre, rhyme, stanza and free verse. Part II, The lyric in particular, contains: The field of lyric poetry; Relationships and types of the lyric; Race, epoch and individual; The present status of the lyric. There are also Notes and illustrations, an appendix, a bibliography and an index.
+ Booklist 17:106 D ’20
“While it has a genuine interest for the creator and critical interpreter of poetry, its specific value is for that very large body of readers who are between these two groups.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ Boston Transcript p6 O 30 ’20 2100w
“The book is avowedly written with the classroom’s needs in view, as well as those of the inquiring general reader, and the former aim to some extent vitiates the author’s treatment by imposing too eclectic an ideal upon him. The book is a résumé of poetics rather than a personal confession.” Llewellyn Jones
+ − Freeman 2:235 N 17 ’20 1500w
“No critic since Matthew Arnold seems to us to have so positively as Mr Perry the capacity to make us see more clearly and think more accurately and sensibly about poetry and at the same time make the seeing and the thinking increase our enthusiasm for the vital things.” C. F. L.
+ Grinnell R 16:308 D ’20 640w
“In the long run his book is not simple enough. He will be useful to a certain kind of teacher; but he will move few students and he will enkindle no poets.” Mark Van Doren
− + Nation 112:sup241 F 9 ’21 120w
“The fault of the book is that it contains too many long quotations from other critics. But this very fault, in the present instance, makes the book a presentation of the best modern critical thought on the lyric. He will be a bold man who attempts to cover Professor Perry’s field for many years to come.” C. E. Andrews
+ − N Y Evening Post p5 O 23 ’20 1100w
“Professor Perry’s volume is suggestive and stimulating. It will be useful to the classroom teacher, to the solitary student and to the average reader, who will gain from it knowledge certain to increase his enjoyment of verse.” Brander Matthews
+ N Y Times p6 S 12 ’20 2000w
“He gives an unusually clear analysis, supported by rich and apt quotation, of the effects of poetry upon the reader. The value of his essay lies in its vivid ability to provide us with those moments of lucid understanding in which poetic experience is restored to us.” L. R. Morris
+ Outlook 126:377 O 27 ’20 400w
“He is first of all a collector, secondly, an assayer, thirdly, and a little less willingly, an arbiter, and, only incidentally and reluctantly, a reasoner or controversialist.” O. W. Firkins
+ − Review 3:501 N 24 ’20 2000w
PERRY, LAWRENCE. For the game’s sake. (Fair play ser.) il *$1.65 Scribner
20–15706
“Half a dozen tales, each having to do with some special form of athletics, make up Mr Lawrence Perry’s little volume entitled ‘For the game’s sake.’ The first tells of a football ‘star’ who, being also ‘The spoiled boy,’ broke training and misbehaved himself until the coach found it necessary to put him off the team. But there was a sensible and eloquent girl in the case, who brought the culprit to book in a manner which convinced him of the error of his ways. Another tale has to do with an international tennis tournament. Baseball of course is not neglected. Each of the tales presupposes a fairly close acquaintance on the reader’s part with that particular game with which it has to do.”—N Y Times
+ N Y Times p27 S 26 ’20 230w
“The book stands for clean playing in every sport. Each story works up thrillingly to a dramatic climax where victory comes by the narrowest of margins.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 200w
PERRY, STELLA GEORGE (STERN) (MRS GEORGE HOUGH PERRY). Palmetto. *$1.90 (1c) Stokes
20–15507
Palmetto, as a child of thirteen, runs away from the only parents she has ever known, but whom she instinctively feels are only foster parents. She finds a refuge in New Orleans with a kindly fisherman who adopts her and brings her up as his own daughter. Associated with him is David Cantrelle, a lad of good birth whose family is genuinely shocked at his choice of occupation. He loves Palmetto from the first, and when her heart awakens and responds to his, they become engaged. But his family objects to the match, on account of the mystery of her birth and she determines to show them she is worth while. So she goes to New York where she makes a conspicuous success as an actress. One of her southern admirers follows her there, makes ardent love to her and almost succeeds in replacing David in her heart. But she learns in time that her love for David is deeper than any Hartley can command. The mystery of her birth is eventually cleared up and she finds she has as good blood in her veins as either David or Hartley.
“The greatest defect in this romance of the bayou region of Louisiana is that it is somewhat overlong. Individual sentences and paragraphs are frequently overgrown with too rank a growth of adjectives.”
+ − N Y Times p20 D 5 ’20 500w
PETERSON, SAMUEL. Democracy and government. *$2 Knopf 321.8
20–104
According to the author’s initial assumption that “a government carries into effect ideas,” the book naturally falls into two parts: What persons should have the legal right to determine finally the ideas to be carried into effect; and in what manner the ideas to be carried into effect should be selected, and how they should be carried into effect. Accordingly part 1, The ruling power of the state, discusses the difference between autocracy, oligarchy and democracy as one of conditions rather than of law, and defines a democratic government as a government of the intelligent members of the ruling race. Part 2, The organization of the government, is an inquiry into how the ideas to be carried into effect may be selected as reliably and carried into effect as certainly and efficiently as possible. The contents under part 2 are: Governmental functions; Legislative organization; Administrative organization; Judicial organization; Direct legislation. There is an index.
Booklist 16:331 Jl ’20 + N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes 7:39 O 20 ’20 60w Outlook 126:558 N 24 ’20 180w R of Rs 61:560 My ’20 50w R of Rs 62:672 D ’20 30w
“A book which, while blazing no new paths, is well designed to assist the reader in forming a reasonably critical view of the state is Samuel Peterson’s ‘Democracy and government’ which treats fundamental political theories with knowledge of their historical importance, yet with hard-headed sociological insight. The author is always frank, and, while he has pronounced views of his own, he cannot be called a doctrinaire.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ap 13 ’20 400w
“His criticisms of the present governmental machinery are generally just, but the remedies suggested might prove to be worse than the disease. The book shows hard work and earnestness throughout, however, and should prove a valuable contribution to the literature on the subject.” A. G. Dehly
+ − Survey 44:307 My 29 ’20 200w
PETRUCCI, RAPHAËL. Chinese painters; a critical study; tr. by Frances Seaver; with a biographical note by Lawrence Binyon. il *$2 Brentano’s 759.9
20–7443
“The book comprises a comprehensive and yet compact study of painting in China. His survey takes us back to the dim ages long before the appearance of Buddhism in China, and then brings the reader to the present time.” (Outlook) “It explains briefly the principles of technique and then, as it sketches the historical evolution of painting, reveals its dominating philosophical idea, the search for abstract form. The author was an authority on oriental art. There are numerous pleasing reproductions, bibliography, index of painters and periods.” (Booklist)
“Concise and illuminating volume.”
+ Booklist 16:336 Jl ’20
“Happily the author writes for the general reader and the lover of art rather than for the elect; his treatment of a large theme shows the advantage of one who has a gift for luminous condensation.”
+ Outlook 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 170w
“For the uninitiated in these matters, ‘Chinese painters’ is a necessary education. For him who understands already the beauty of the masters of China, the book is valuable.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 26 ’20 280w
PETTIGREW, RICHARD FRANKLIN. Course of empire; introd. by Scott Nearing. il *$4.50 Boni & Liveright 815
20–12790
“The author of this volume held a seat in the United States senate during the ’90s of the last century. He was active in the senate at a turning point in the career of the nation, a period when the frontier was disappearing, when the great oligarchies of capital were organizing, and when the United States became a colonial power. In short, his public career is identical with the origin of imperialism in the United States. The book consists of a compilation of the speeches of ex-Senator Pettigrew in the senate on these imperialist policies as they were forming. They fall into three groups—those dealing with the annexation of the Hawaiian islands; those dealing with the conquest of the Philippines; and those dealing with the antagonism of the West to the banking and trust groups of the East. Accompanying the addresses which reveal a wide variety of information on the part of the author, are many documents of much historical value to the reader.”—N Y Call
“These speeches, both concerning Hawaiian affairs and those in the Philippines, are useful as a matter of record; they will be very valuable to the future historian, who desires to understand the obstacles encountered by the nation in its movement toward an expanded civilization and world power.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 O 13 ’20 660w
“The addresses show that the author during his public career had that capacity which is so rare in the men of a later generation who have served in Congress. His mind was always open, and he advanced with the progress of his time.” James Oneal
+ N Y Call p10 N 21 ’20 940w
“Although the book comprises a vivid study of the development of imperial policy in the United States it might better have been compressed into half the size for the benefit of the general reader. There are too many and too liberal quotations from Mr Pettigrew’s own speeches.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p6 D 27 ’20 570w
PHELPS, EDITH M., comp. Selected articles on the American merchant marine. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.50 Wilson, H. W. 387
20–4721
To this second edition of a handbook published in 1916 nearly one hundred pages of reprinted matter have been added. This matter is designed to cover events since the publication of the first edition, including the assembling of a large merchant fleet and the question of its disposal, together with arguments for and against government ownership and operation. The bibliography has been enlarged and brought down to date, and the introduction and briefs have been rewritten.
Ann Am Acad 90:172 Jl ’20 40w Booklist 16:291 My ’20
“A volume covering intelligently and with reasonable fulness the history and present status of the commercial fleet of the United States.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 30 ’20 280w
PHELPS, EDITH M., ed. University debaters’ annual; constructive and rebuttal speeches delivered in debates of American colleges and universities during the college year, 1919–1920. v 6 *$2.25 Wilson, H. W.
808.5
Seven subjects of timely importance are included in this volume of the debaters’ annual: Government ownership and operation of coal mines; The Cummins plan for the control of railroads; Affiliation of teachers with the American federation of labor; Compulsory arbitration of railway labor disputes; Compulsory arbitration of labor disputes; The closed shop; Suppression of propaganda for the overthrow of the United States government (two debates). Each debate is accompanied by briefs and a selected bibliography. “The bibliographies have been compiled mostly by the editor, and are not limited to the material actually used in the debate, as their main purpose is helpfulness to the prospective debater.” (Preface) The volume is indexed.
PHILLPOTTS, EDEN. As the wind blows. *$1.50 Macmillan 821
20–18071
“Mr Phillpotts sings a good deal about his beloved Dartmoor, but he tells of other subjects, too—Gallipoli, the grave of Keats, etc.—and he has one descriptive piece from the jungle called ‘Tiger,’ and a longish blank verse poem staging Adam and Eve in Paradise.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Of some of his pieces one has the impression that they were written as an exercise in verse. But in others a genuine inspiration is apparent. ‘The neolith’ and ‘Tiger’ contain fine things.”
+ − Ath p718 My 28 ’20 70w
“It is the reality of the atmosphere rather than the circumstance that gives Mr Phillpotts’s verse its individuality; the taste, smell, contour of locality, rather than the sharp and sudden force of either crisis or event in human action that gives the unique character to his rhythmic expression.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 24 ’20 1750w
“He writes in the great English tradition, but brings a note that is essentially his own at the same time.”
+ N Y Times p16 N 7 ’20 290w
“It is always difficult to analyse charm, but in this instance the effect of the attraction is that we are apt to like poems that have very palpable faults.”
+ − Spec 124:86 Jl 17 ’20 430w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p443 Jl 8 ’20 60w
PHILLPOTTS, EDEN. Evander. *$2 Macmillan
20–4895
“Evander is an apostle of plain living and high thinking in the early days when the gods of Olympus had not settled their respective rights in the hierarchy of worship and when marriage was still a rare thing among humble folk. Festus and Livia were perhaps the first among their neighbours to wed, under the auspices of Bacchus, while Evander, as the votary of Apollo, endeavours to convert her to the higher worship of his god. He succeeds for a time in gaining her allegiance, and she leaves her husband to follow him, but finds the mental atmosphere too rarefied for her, and finally returns to her home and husband, Bacchus being able to show his half-brother the unwisdom of vengeance on Festus.”—Sat R
“The delicate, bright atmosphere in which this enchanting book is bathed must be left for the reader to enjoy.” K. M.
+ Ath p15 Ja 2 ’20 650w
“The dialogue is full of witty and amiable satire of our own times, the barb being especially sharp for the ‘intelligentzia’ of all times.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 51:340 My ’20 460w
“It is impossible to overlook the roguish satire upon social affairs of the present day that Mr Phillpotts has woven into his story. The very presence and name of Bacchus proves that he has reference to the immediate present in writing of the far-away past.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 F 18 ’20 1600w + Dial 68:664 My ’20 80w
“The trouble with the book is the same as with all of Mr Phillpotts’s books—a lack of felicity which is not compensated for, as it is in the case of his master, Hardy, by a dour grandeur. ‘Evander’ particularly needed grace and there is none.”
− + Nation 110:304 Mr 6 ’20 400w
“The tale would, indeed, be worth reading merely for the grace and charm of its style, and its flexible, deft, and effective phrasing.”
+ N Y Times 25:89 F 15 ’20 900w
“A bit of irony impishly humorous, entirely delightful.”
+ N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 20w
“The vein is one of mild social satire; the touch is light and easy; and here also is the charm of imagination and fancy.”
+ Outlook 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 80w
“We should like to congratulate the author on his success in a rather limited style of fiction. We can remember nothing in English at all equal to it since Dr Garnett’s ‘Twilight of the gods,’ while it has much in common with Anatole France in the satire of the foibles of the philosopher which lies at its root. It may be perceived we are giving Mr Phillpotts high praise.”
+ Sat R 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 150w
“A pretty, though often rather cheap, little story.”
+ − |Spec 123:822 D 13 ’19 100w
“Mr Phillpotts’s literary cunning makes an agreeable tale out of all this—picturesque and quietly humorous.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p697 N 27 ’19 100w
PHILLPOTTS, EDEN. Miser’s money. *$2 Macmillan
20–3882
“The characters [of this novel] are drawn with realism and subtlety. More especially that of David Mortimer, the hard-bitten old miser, whose cheese-paring, hatred of women, and cynical disbelief in everybody and everything are so cleverly defended that they almost capture the young soul of his nephew Barry Worth, who lives with him and works his farm. David leaves his money to Barry on condition that he doesn’t marry, the fact that Barry was ‘tokened’ to a buxom barmaid having been concealed from him. Barry is true to Marian; the will is void; and the money divided between the miser’s brother and two sisters. But the lawyer who handed the will to Barry delivered at the same time a bulky letter from David to be read in solitude. In that letter is contained the mystery, the heart of the matter which makes the novel.”—Sat R
“The characters are interesting and the story moves along pleasantly and very calmly. There is less humor than in some of the earlier work.”
+ Booklist 16:283 My ’20
“After all, Mr Phillpotts has said his say about human nature on Dartmoor, and he has little new to offer in type or situation. It is pleasant and comfortable to meet some more of his people now and then—and that is all.” H. W. Boynton
+ − Bookm 51:339 My ’20 520w
“The story as a whole is an excellent example of Mr Phillpotts’s style at its best.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p4 Mr 17 ’20 1200w
“The novel is beautifully written. All Mr Phillpotts’s readers know how fine are his descriptions of his dearly loved Dartmoor, though there are fewer of them in this his latest novel than in the majority of his Dartmoor books.”
+ N Y Times p116 Mr 14 ’20 1150w
“An excellent example of the author’s quiet, subtle, and humorous exposition of contrasted character.”
+ Outlook 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 100w
“It is as charming a novel, and as telling a picture of family life on ‘Dartymoor’ as we ever read, or as Mr Phillpotts has ever written. Worthy to rank with the best of his many delightful novels.”
+ Sat R 129:333 Ap 3 ’20 440w
“The different veins of his talent, tragic and humorous, are here fused with happy results. ‘Miser’s money’ shows him at his mellowest and best as artist and observer.”
+ Spec 125:215 Ag 14 ’20 530w
“The plot is simple and rather erratic, but taken as a whole the story displays that excellence of craftsmanship which long since placed the author in the forefront of his peculiar field.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 18 ’20 750w
“Mr Phillpotts keeps us almost too near to life. He presents us with one more faithful and consistent study of Dartmoor people, but of Dartmoor people principally in their heavier and less significant moments. The plot, though simple and pastoral, is a very good plot; but no plot could survive this flood of conversation.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p186 Mr 18 ’30 400w
PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.[[2]] West country pilgrimage. il *$9 Macmillan 914.2
“A by-product of Mr Phillpotts’s researches into the lore of Devonshire has been put together in a volume entitled ‘A west country pilgrimage,’ with sixteen illustrations in color by A. T. Benthall. Here he sketches in a series of sixteen essays the scenes of heath and river, of village and shore as they meet the eye of the traveller through or the sojourner in that corner of England.”—Boston Transcript
“The book represents the happiest combining of language, printing, and art.” Margaret Ashmun
+ Bookm 52:344 D ’20 130w + Boston Transcript p7 O 30 ’20 260w
“Some of the water colors by A. T. Benthall are unusually fine, and they all display a decided originality of talent. To many, perhaps, the illustrations will seem preferable to the text, for they achieve their intended result with less effort.” B. R. Redman
+ − N Y Times p9 Ja 9 ’21 140w
“An attractive book for lovers of Devon and Cornwall.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p442 Jl 8 ’20 90w
PICKARD, BERTRAM. Reasonable revolution. *$1.25 Macmillan 336.2
(Eng ed 19–12869)
“A thin blue volume entitled ‘A reasonable revolution,’ filled with economic principles and suggestions, has just been brought out by Macmillan company. It is an ardent and eager defense of the state bonus for motherhood and national minimum income scheme as evolved by Dennis Milner, the head of the state bonus league of England. This book is written by Bertram Pickard, who has been a co-worker with Milner for some time.” (Springf’d Republican) “Briefly, the scheme is for a national appropriation of 20 per cent of all incomes, without consideration of other taxes or burdens on them; the resulting fund to be pooled and redistributed in such a way as to provide every individual and family with a national minimum sufficient to sustain national standards of comfort, health, education and other essentials of a full and efficient life.” (Survey)
Ath p570 Jl 4 ’19 50w
“Mr Pickard is thoroughly conversant with his subject, looks at it tirelessly from every point of view and appears to answer every possible question with which a careful student of economics might attack the scheme.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Mr 12 ’20 220w Survey 43:194 N 29 ’19 440w
PILLSBURY, WALTER BOWERS. Psychology of nationality and internationalism. *$2.50 (3½c) Appleton 321
20–458
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
“The argument is well-reasoned throughout.” C. G. Fenwick
+ Am Pol Sci R 14:340 My ’20 90w
“Following upon much political disputation on nationality and internationality, it is very clarifying to follow this psychologist through his discussion of the mentality of nations.”
+ Booklist 16:190 Mr ’20
“His belief in the integrity of the national state does not take into account that growing regionalism which challenges the authority of the state at the same time that it denies the false unity of belligerent nationalism. And the temperate lucidity of the author’s psychological exposition does not equate his superficial examination of the historical groundwork of nationality and internationalism.”
− + Dial 68:404 Mr ’20 150w
“The reviewer found the most interesting chapter the one on Hate as a social force.” Ellsworth Faris
+ Int J Ethics 30:339 Ap ’20 330w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
+ Nation 112:185 F 2 ’21 450w + Springf’d Republican p11a My 16 ’20 300w
“Dr Pillsbury’s chapter on Hate as a social force is very apposite and suggestive. The chapter on The nation and mob consciousness is an excellent criticism of LeBon’s group psychology. The chapter on Nationality and the League of nations is the least satisfactory.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p215 Ap 1 ’20 500w
PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY), and PINKERTON, ROBERT EUGENE. Long traverse. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–12811
When Bruce Rochette comes into the northland he comes with a deadly hatred of the Hudson’s Bay Company and a determination to avenge his mother’s death which he holds the fur trading company responsible for. He wins the confidence of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s manager, Herbert Morley, and then uses every trick and stratagem at his command to establish a rival post at Fort Mystery. Everything is going well, until he meets Evelyn Morley, and falls in love with her. Judged by her absolute standards of right and wrong, his policy of all’s fair in war condemns him in his own eyes as well as hers. In an endeavor to straighten matters out, he very nearly loses his self respect, his girl, his job, and even his life. But finally everything is restored to him that is necessary for his happiness and Evelyn’s.
“A pleasantly written tale.”
+ Booklist 17:35 O ’20
PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY), and PINKERTON, ROBERT EUGENE. Penitentiary Post. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–10313
A story of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Phil Boynton is sent to take charge of the fort known as Penitentiary Post, a place with an evil reputation. Behind him at Savant House, he leaves the girl he loves, knowing that John Wickson, the man who is sending him north, also loves her and is determined to win her, and half suspecting that personal motives were back of the appointment. At Penitentiary Post he finds himself fully occupied with the mystery of the “weeteego,” or evil spirit, that haunts it. His Indians desert the place in fear and the fur hunters refuse to come near it. Joyce Plummer, hearing tales of what he is undergoing, comes alone through the storm to find him, and Wickson follows. The three, who are forced to make common cause against hunger, come to an understanding, and the poor, crazed Indian who had watched his family die of starvation and is taking a weird revenge on the white man, meets his own fate.
Booklist 17:35 O ’20
PINOCHET, TANCREDO. Gulf of misunderstanding; or, North and South America as seen by each other. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 917.3
20–17985
“This book first appeared serially in El Norte Americano. Mr Pinochet is a Chilean and the author of seven books on government and kindred subjects. He came to this country some years ago for the expressed object of learning to understand the United States that he might tell his countrymen about us. He has selected an entertaining manner of setting forth the views of the two Americas. He has made no attempt to make a story of his book, yet he has introduced two distinct characters. The first is a Latin-American man, who, being in the United States, writes letters to his wife at home about whatever interests him in this country. The woman is an American, a member of the censor’s department during the war. She reads the letters of the husband and in her turn writes an accompanying letter, discussing the same subject.”—Boston Transcript
“The surprising thing about the book is that Mr Pinochet should so have entered into the United States point of view as to make one believe, while reading his instructive volume, that a native of this country had risen in its defense.”
+ Bookm 52:368 D ’20 300w
“The book should prove a link in the chain which should finally bind closer the two continents, so many of whose interests are the same.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 N 24 ’20 390w
“Both the imaginary writers are interesting and neither writes a page that one can go to sleep over.”
+ − N Y Times p7 Ja 9 ’21 1750w
“The book has a temporary flavor, being written before the adoption of the suffrage amendment and more recent events. But it will prove interesting to anyone who wishes to know how a highly intelligent ‘foreigner’ judges our country from the front it presents to him.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p7a D 26 ’20 290w
PINSKI, DAVID. Ten plays. *$2 Huebsch 892.4
20–9850
These ten one-act plays have been translated from the Yiddish by Isaac Goldberg. They depict the various weaknesses and passions of men: greed, selfishness, war hysteria, lust, war’s devastation, with at the end a dramatization of the Midrash legend. The titles are: The phonograph; The god of the newly rich wool merchant; A dollar; The cripples; The Inventor and the king’s daughter; Diplomacy; Little heroes; The beautiful nun; Poland—1919; The stranger.
“Plays which are often unpleasantly grim though not sordid. There is the same keen analysis of human nature as in earlier plays. The method is symbolic rather than literal, and sometimes the meaning is blurred.”
+ − Booklist 16:338 Jl ’20
“Brilliant but not always clear.”
+ − Cleveland p87 S ’20 20w
“There are few of his ‘Ten plays’ which can wholly escape the murkiness of inferior translation.” K. M.
+ − Freeman 1:548 Ag 18 ’20 450w
“Mr Pinski has become an unswerving symbolist. He has deliberately silenced the voice of nature that sounded so clearly in his earlier plays. He still cultivates the ironic anecdote in dramatic form but his mind is more fixed on the bare intention than on the stuff of life. His peculiar dangers are the fantastic and the obscure, and these make several of his plays ineffectual.”
+ − Nation 110:693 My 22 ’20 250w
“Pinski may lack certain graces, especially graces of lightness and saving humor. But passion and power he does not lack, whether he writes in one-act or three. No American dramatist today gives such an effect of surging vitality. It will be a great pity if he does not identify himself more closely with American life and write ultimately for English-speaking audiences direct.” W. P. Eaton
+ N Y Call p10 Jl 18 ’20 350w
“The shortest of the ten plays, ‘Cripples,’ is the strongest. Force, indeed, gnarled and ungainly, is characteristic of Mr Pinski’s drama at its best. This force, however, is accompanied by a heaviness of tread and a density of fibre which are prolific of trials for the sensitive reader.”
− + Review 3:133 Ag 11 ’20 320w
“Every play in the volume is readable, most of them are actable. It would, in fact, be safe to say that they would all be actable if they were in the hand of the players of the Jewish art theatre, who know as well as Pinski does how to make the quick transitions—native to the Jewish mind and heart—from tragedy to comedy, from irony to philippic, from joy to the depths of sorrow.”
+ Theatre Arts Magazine 4:225 Jl ’20 310w
PITT, FRANCES. Wild creatures of garden and hedgerow. il *$4 (7c) Dodd 590.4
20–27527
A collection of papers by an English naturalist, who says, “The following account of some of the commoner birds and beasts around us is written in the hope of interesting boys and girls, and some of the older people too if possible, in the wild life of garden, hedgerow, and field.” (Preface) Contents: Bats; The bank vole; Two common birds (blackbird and thrush); Shrews; Toads and frogs; The longtailed field mouse; ‘The little gentleman in the black velvet coat’; Thieves of the night; Some garden birds; The hedgehog; Three common reptiles; The short-tailed field vole. The illustrations are from photographs.
“Her first-hand records are set out in an easy unpretentious style, and on obscure points she makes suggestions as illuminating as they are modest.” E. B.
+ Ath p303 S 3 ’20 720w + Booklist 17:100 D ’20
“Miss Pitt’s book is beautifully printed and handsomely illustrated and is especially of value for the reading of young people, many of whom are glad to make friends with the living things of the world about them.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 D 11 ’20 400w
“Miss Pitt is to be congratulated on a book which takes its place in the first rank of works on field natural history. It is a personal record of clever, patient, and sympathetic observation.” J. A. T.
+ Nature 106:246 O 21 ’20 1700w
“The author’s work is not inspired or inspiring, but it is clean of sentimentality and of spurious nature philosophy, pleasant reading, and informative.”
+ N Y Evening Post p29 O 23 ’20 130w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:376 O 27 ’20 50w + Spec 125:710 N 27 ’20 30w
“The photographs of the little creatures in their haunts are most cleverly taken.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p554 Ag 26 ’20 60w
“Even if they sometimes carry a rather too large conclusion, these histories of birds and beasts and creeping things are full of fine insight and the right enthusiasm.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p563 S 2 ’20 600w
PLATT, AGNES. Practical hints on playwriting. il *$1.50 (5c) Dodd 808.2
20–17152
A book of advice on writing for the professional stage. The author says “I do most fervently believe that the dry bones of stage technique can be taught—in fact, all my personal experience goes to prove this. I have been handling plays now for more years than I care to remember, and have found in case after case that a little technical adjustment will turn an unmarketable play into a commercial proposition.” Among the topics covered are: What the public want; Things that are essential in a good play; How to choose a plot; How to select and differentiate the characters; Humour; How to sell a play when finished; Casting and production. A glossary of stage terms comes at the end. The author is an English woman writing with London conditions in mind but most of her discussion is general in nature.
+ Ath p384 Mr 19 ’20 50w
“A beginner, provided he were only a beginner with no idea of the drama, would do well to read this book.”
+ N Y Evening Post p10 D 31 ’20 180w
PLUMB, CHARLES SUMNER. Types and breeds of farm animals. (Country life educ. ser.) rev ed il *$3.80 Ginn 636
20–8897
A revision of a work published in 1906. The new edition contains “a more detailed discussion relative to the great breeds, and considerable space is devoted to families of importance and to noted individuals. A large amount of new data has been collected relating to various phases of production, although it is a hopeless task to bring such records down to date.... The number of chapters remains the same, but several obsolete breeds have been omitted and other new and more important ones have been substituted. Maps and many illustrations have been added.” (Foreword)
“The book gives probably the best account published of modern farm animals and there are good illustrations. Another very interesting feature is the history of the families which the author has diligently worked out.” E. J. R.
+ Nature 106:659 Ja 20 ’21 210w
POLLAK, GUSTAV. International minds and the search for the restful. $1.50 Nation press 814
19–16675
The collection of essays in this book are gathered from articles contributed to the Evening Post and the Nation before the war. As the title indicates, they fall into two groups. The first group bears out the author’s claim “that intellect recognizes no distinctions of nationality, race, or religion.” He has selected a representative of each, from the literatures of Germany, Austria, France and America in the persons of Goethe, Grillparzer, Sainte-Beuve and Lowell and points out a certain similarity of attitude toward life and literature, of perception of the dignity of literary achievement, of keen-eyed observation and of a self-contained repose. The second group of essays is devoted to Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben, and his book on the “Hygiene of the soul” which of late years has achieved a new fame. One of the essays gives a resumé of the book. The titles of the essays are: Literature and patriotism; Goethe’s universal interests; Grillparzer’s originality; Sainte-Beuve’s unique position; Lowell: patriot and cosmopolitan; Permanent literary standards; Feuchtersleben the philosopher; The hygiene of the soul; Feuchtersleben’s aphorisms; Feuchtersleben’s influence.
POLLARD, ALBERT FREDERICK. Short history of the great war. *$3.25 Harcourt 940.3
20–26545
“Although several histories of the war have already appeared, only a few of them have been written by men who had an ante-war historical reputation. Dr Pollard is one of this small group. For many years he has held the chair of English history in the University of London, and is the author of numerous historical works, besides having served as assistant editor of the ‘Dictionary of national biography.’ His record of the war is chronologically complete, and includes the work of the peace conference.”—R of Rs
“Simply as an account of military events the volume leaves something to be desired, in spite however of what the book does not contain—and one cannot say everything in four hundred pages—the volume is well worth reading.” A. P. Scott
+ − Am Hist R 26:331 Ja ’21 470w
“An excellent feature of Professor Pollard’s evenly balanced and temperately written narrative is that it corrects several popular misapprehensions.”
+ Ath p431 Mr 26 ’20 260w Booklist 16:309 Je ’20
“An excellent record of the facts, combined with a true representation of their relative importance. Some of his opinions will not be generally accepted, and he has a strong prejudice against the present prime minister. Original views will not, however, detract from the great and patriotic interest of the book. The style is vigorous and sometimes eloquent.” G. B. H.
+ Eng Hist R 35:477 Jl ’20 190w
“In contrast with some other writers on the subject, he has succeeded in being more historical than hysterical. Having mastered the sources, as far as they are available, he presents his conclusions with admirable impartiality. But his book is conclusive proof that the true history of the war will not be written in this generation.” Preserved Smith
+ − Nation 110:804 Je 12 ’20 800w
“It is written from the British rather than from the world’s point of view.” Walter Littlefield
+ − N Y Times p6 D 19 ’20 380w
“He has vision, he has perspective, and almost more, he has style. In reading this book, we are clearly conscious that a discriminating spirit of power and clearness is ever preserving a proper balance, and so resisting the temptation of overcoloring and undercoloring. Professor Pollard has written a capital book, packed with common sense; it will be hard to surpass it.”
+ Review 3:423 N 3 ’20 650w
“His book undoubtedly represents the best that English historical scholarship can do at this stage by way of outlining the five-years’ struggle.”
+ R of Rs 61:670 Je ’20 120w
“Professor Pollard’s lucid narrative and caustic comments are highly interesting. His very able and stimulating book deserves careful reading.”
+ Spec 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w
“Professor Pollard’s is a notable achievement; and he who has been looking for the one small volume which shall tell him what innumerable more bulky ones have failed to impart may be confidently recommended to purchase this short history. We cannot, however, invariably follow Professor Pollard in his military appreciations.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p133 F 26 ’20 1050w
POLLEN, JOHN HUNGERFORD. English Catholics in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1558 to 1580; a study of their politics, civil life and government. *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans 282
20–7672
“Father Pollen has written a history of the English Catholics under Elizabeth from the fall of the old church to the advent of the counter-reformation (1558–1580). He himself gives us the reasons of his beginning with the reign of Elizabeth; ‘Henry’s revolt is indeed the proper starting-point for a history of the reformation taken as a whole; but Elizabeth’s accession is better, if one is primarily considering the political and civil life of the post-reformation Catholics. Reform and counter-reform under Henry, Edward and Mary were transitory. The constructive work of each was immediately undone by their successor. But the work done by Queen Elizabeth, whether by Catholic or Protestant, lasted a long time. There have, of course, been many developments since, but they have proceeded on the lines then laid down. On the Catholic side the work of reorganization began almost immediately after the first crash, though it was only in the middle of the reign that the vitality and permanence of the new measures became evident.’”—Cath World
“The soundness of his assumptions, the critical value of his judgments, are certainly for us to consider. An internal history of Catholic organization such as Father Pollen might write would be exceptionally valuable, but this book does not contain it.” R. G. Usher
+ − Am Hist R 26:84 O ’20 1250w + Cath World 111:534 Jl ’20 1050w
“Father Pollen has written an interesting and scholarly work on a critical period of our island history. The book is written, on the whole, with tact and discrimination: the author holds the scales more evenly than most Catholic historians do between the warring creeds and factions.”
+ − Sat R 130:55 Ag 17 ’20 1200w
“His present volume is well documented with printed and unprinted material. He is somewhat sparing in his references to other scholars who have laboured in the same field.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p560 S 2 ’20 1400w
POLLOCK, SIR FREDERICK. League of nations. *$4 (*10s 6d) Macmillan 341.1
20–14891
“The author’s purpose is to give a practical exposition of the covenant of the League of nations, ‘with so much introduction as appears proper for enabling the reader to understand the conditions under which the League was formed and has to commence its work.’ The references to authentic documents and to other publications, which are given at the heads of some of the chapters, are of material assistance to the reader.”—Ath
Ath p462 Ap 2 ’20 130w
“A valuable reference and guide to further reading written for the layman.”
+ Booklist 17:55 N ’20
“The veteran jurist’s exposition of the text of the covenant is lucidity itself.”
+ Spec 124:215 F 14 ’20 180w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p39 Ja 15 ’20 330w
POLLOCK, JOHN.[[2]] Bolshevik adventure. *$2.50 Dutton 914.7
20–1771
“Mr Pollock was in Russia from 1915 to 1919, and his book pretends to be nothing more than a calm statement of facts as he saw them.” (Ath) “We gather that until the revolution of November, the author worked on the Red cross committee: when the others left the country, however, he stayed on, though he should have left with them. One day in the summer of 1918, he was told by a friend that the Red guards were in possession of his rooms at the hotel. From that date he lived under a disguise and an assumed name. He got employment as a producer of plays, and to attain membership in the second food category he joined the ‘Professional union of workers in theatrical undertakings.’ He worked in this capacity first at Moscow, and afterwards at Petrograd until January, 1919, when he decided to risk an attempt at escape into Finland.” (Sat R)
Ath p32 Ja 2 ’20 150w
“‘The entire upper class’ is Mr Pollock’s chief concern throughout his book. Everything else in Russia is anathema, to be damned in eternity. Especially the Jews. There are so many Jews in the ‘Bolshevik adventure’ that in reading the book one has the impression that Mr Pollock uses Russia as a misnomer for Jewry.” S. K.
− Ath p111 Ja 23 ’20 1250w
“The like of his book for misstatement, weakness of thought, and excited imagination is not to be found even among books on Russia.” Jacob Zeitlin
− Nation 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 240w
“This book should have been written in two parts, the first containing Chapters I to VI and the second Chapters VII, VIII, and IX. Then the first part should have been filed with the Minister of propaganda at London and pigeonholed in an asbestos-lined receptacle. This treatment would have left us with eighty pages of rather vivid narrative by an English eye-witness.”
− + N Y Evening Post p4 D 31 ’20 780w
“It is a pity that Mr Pollock’s style of writing is not better: some of the confusion of Russia appears to have crept into the construction of his sentences. Apart from such minor defects as these, the book is a magnificent and crushing indictment of the Bolsheviks by one who has lived under their misrule for nearly sixteen months. No other work on the subject has conjured up for us such a vivid picture of the loathsome misery and degradation to which communism can drag a country.”
+ Sat R 129:211 F 28 ’20 550w
“Where Mr Pollock tells his own story he does succeed in adding to the volume of evidence against them. But the other portions of the book, written in the early days of the bolshevik régime, are too violent and too superficial to be convincing.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p2 Ja 1 ’20 1050w
POLLOCK, WALTER. Hot bulb oil engines and suitable vessels. il *$10 Van Nostrand 621.4
(Eng ed 20–10619)
“The objects of this book are: (1) To popularise the engine, to explain what it has done and what it is capable of doing; (2) To enable those interested to appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of the various designs; (3) To facilitate the study, and add to the general knowledge of this form of prime mover and its application to vessels of various types.” (Chapter I) There are 369 illustrations and an index.
“The photographic reproductions and clear and carefully executed drawings are calculated to give sufficient detail without introducing unnecessary complexity.”
+ Engineer 129:225 F 27 ’20 380w + N Y P L New Tech Bks p32 Ap ’20 160w
POOLE, ERNEST. Blind. *$2.50 (2c) Macmillan
20–18299
The theme of this novel is stated in Chapter 1: “I am blind—but no blinder than is the mind of the world, these days. The long thin splinter of German steel which struck in behind my eyes did no more to me than the war has done to the vision of humanity.” Larry Hart, who tells the story, begins with his boyhood, describing the happy home life that his Aunt Amelia created for himself and his sister Lucy as well as for her own children in the old Connecticut homestead. After college he goes to New York as a journalist, lives in the slums with his friend, Steve McCrea, a doctor, has a part in the budding reform movements of the nineties, mixes with radicals, interests himself in strikes, writes plays, is swept into the enthusiasm of the Progressive movement and in 1914 goes to Berlin as correspondent. Later he goes to Russia to report the revolution and when America enters the war enlists, and, as the first chapter foretells, is blinded. In its closing chapters the book becomes largely a commentary on America’s part in the war, arriving at no definite point of view or conclusion.
“Little plot, but real people and much earnest seeking after truth.”
+ Booklist 17:73 N ’20
“On the whole, it is newspaper correspondence worked into the shape of a novel. The parts dealing with Russia immediately after the fall of the Czar are especially interesting.”
+ Dial 70:230 F ’21 100w
“The author is more than a seer of social progress; he has the sense for individuality which a novelist must possess. It suffers not because it is, in large part, about the war period, but, like its blind, hard-thinking hero, because of the war. It is like many an ex-soldier, just perceptibly shell-shocked. As a book it should have been restrained, cut down, cooled, simplified. But so should the war.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p4 O 23 ’20 900w
“‘Blind’ is just one more testimonial to the incompatibility as bookmates of art and argument, one more example of their mutually fatal effect upon each other. When ‘the will to convince’ comes in at the door, artistry flies out the window. Some of the descriptive writing in ‘Blind’ is excellent.”
− + N Y Times p24 O 31 ’20 800w
“It must not be thought that the novel is one of social propaganda alone. It has fictional vitality because of the variety and realism of its shifting scenes, the good and bad human qualities of its actors, its rapid movement, and its precision in description.” R. D. Townsend
+ Outlook 126:653 D 8 ’20 270w
“It seems incredible that so soon after a devastating war anyone could write so sane a book as ‘Blind.’ Best of all, it is a book that compels thought, without a shred of the sentimentality that so many novelists feel is a necessity in any successful novel recipe.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ Pub W 98:1191 O 16 ’20 260w
POOLEY, ANDREW MELVILLE. Japan’s foreign policies. *$3.50 Dodd 327
(Eng ed 20–12064)
The present volume was originally a part of a larger unpublished work. The chapters of that work dealing with Japan’s internal affairs were published in 1917 under the title “Japan at the cross roads” while the chapters dealing with Japan’s foreign affairs compose the present book. It records the rapid imperialistic developments in Japan and its Chinese policy and hints at the possibility of a war between America and Japan in the making. Contents: Japan and the Anglo-Japanese alliances; Japan’s real policy in China; The first revolution in China, 1911–12; The second revolution in China, 1912–13; Japan, America and Mexico, 1911–14; The twenty-one demands; Japan’s commercial expansion, 1914–18; Note.
Booklist 17:95 D ’20 Boston Transcript p4 N 6 ’20 750w
Reviewed by A. P. Danton
+ N Y Evening Post p3 D 31 ’20 1000w
Reviewed by W. W. Willoughby
Review 3:474 N 17 ’20 1300w The Times [London] Lit Sup p386 Je 17 ’20 90w
“In the present work special knowledge is manifest, but its value is vitiated from the outset by the violence of the author’s unconcealed hostility. His book is a sweeping judgment, and, like all sweeping judgments, unjust. There is evidence of this kind of haste throughout the book, from the literary as well as from the critical point of view.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p462 Jl 22 ’20 1000w
Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler
Yale R n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
POORE, IDA MARGARET (GRAVES) lady. Rachel Fitzpatrick. *$1.75 (2c) Lane
20–11899
The heroine is an Irish girl who spends two years with wealthy relatives in London. The Fitzpatricks belong to the gentry but are very poor and gladly accept the offer that means two years of education for Rachel. At the end of the two years she goes to Germany. The war finds her there alone with her aunt’s German husband, who takes advantage of the situation to make love to her. She runs away and after many difficulties reaches Ireland. The course of the war and the Irish attitude are touched upon and the story ends with Rachel’s marriage to her sailor lover.
“The authoress’s naive Irish heroine is skilfully and naturally drawn.”
+ Ath p386 Mr 19 ’20 100w
“If there is a fault to be found with this story, it is that enough is not made of the big scenes in the life of the charming heroine. Yet, this does not, somehow, detract from the pleasure of the book, which is charmingly written in a style that is too rapidly passing. A good part of the pleasure derived from the story is due to its clever characterizations.”
+ − N Y Times 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 550w + Outlook 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 30w
“A novel which is neither better nor worse than hundreds of others.”
+ − Sat R 129:455 My 15 ’20 140w
“What is perhaps the chief merit of quite a readable story is the pictures of Irish life and character, of which the author has an intimate knowledge.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p189 Mr 18 ’20 150w
POPENOE, WILSON. Manual of tropical and subtropical fruits. (Rural manuals) il *$5 Macmillan 634
20–15789
“The author is an expert, employed as agricultural explorer for the United States Department of agriculture. On his title page he announces his design of excluding the banana, the cocoanut, the pineapple, citrus fruits, the olive and the fig.... He begins with the avocado, which many people in the regions where it grows often call the avocado pear. He displays his scientific knowledge by giving first a botanical description of the avocado, its history and distribution, its composition and its uses.... The story of the avocado is followed with similar considerations of the mango, the date, the papaya and its relatives, the loquat, the guava and its intimates, the litchi, kaki, pomegranate, breadfruit and a great variety of other fruits of lesser fame, about which few of us have heard.”—Boston Transcript
Boston Transcript p6 N 24 ’20 300w + N Y Evening Post p27 O 23 ’20 320w Springf’d Republican p7a D 26 ’20 60w The Times [London] Lit Sup p800 D 2 ’20 100w
PORTER, ELEANOR (HODGMAN) (MRS JOHN LYMAN PORTER) (ELEANOR STUART, pseud.). Mary Marie. il *$1.90 (2½c) Houghton
20–8035
Her father had wanted to name her Mary, her mother Marie. Mary Marie was the compromise. But there had come a time when compromise seemed no longer possible, followed by separation and divorce. Mary Marie spends six months of the year with her father, six with her mother, and she tells about it in her diary. In one house she is Marie. In the other she tries to be Mary. But after awhile things get so mixed up she doesn’t know which she is, for she finds her mother trying to make her into a staid, dignified Mary, while her father seems to be encouraging the Marie side of her. And then she is the means of bringing the two together, and the book closes with a postscript that gives a glimpse of Mary Marie’s grown-up story.
Booklist 16:350 Jl ’20
“The book is very readable, and occasionally amusing.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 My 29 ’20 420w + N Y Times 25:26 Jl 4 ’20 600w
“The story falls short of what we expect from Miss Eleanor H. Porter.”
+ − Spec sup p782 D 3 ’20 60w
“Beneath the light tone of the narrative may be observed a serious moral. The frequent misfortunes of divorce, especially where there are children, are pointedly apparent here. But Mary Marie will be loved for herself alone, for her quaint observations, for her unspoiled character, and for her earnest efforts to understand life.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 11 ’20 600w The Times [London] Lit Sup p637 S30 ’20 30w
PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.). Egan. *$1.90 (2c) Dodd
20–15701
When Bronson Egan came back to Plainfield, Ohio, after four years of service in France, he found his status very different from what it had previously been. He went away the only son of a wealthy father, and practically engaged to one of the city’s most attractive girls. He came back to find his father dead, their business wrecked, and the girl reengaged to a stay-at-home. With characteristic determination he set himself to gain back what he had lost. It was not all plain sailing, however, for he had keen rivals in business as well as love. But he had staunch friends as well, and the end of the story finds him re-established in business on a firmer basis than before, and happy in the love of a girl who is more worthy of him than the fickle Mary.
“The business element is particularly well developed.”
+ Booklist 17:73 N ’20
“Aside from occasional lapses, Mr Hall’s style is well adapted to his material, which is in part new.” C. K. H.
+ − Boston Transcript p6 O 16 ’20 530w
“It is the substantial characterization which makes the book finally so satisfactory. Its fresh and rapid story-telling ought to win for it a large general audience.”
+ N Y Evening Post p22 O 23 ’20 250w
“There is no letup in the interest, and the business element is especially well handled.”
+ N Y Times p27 S 12 ’20 240w
“The present story is worthy of praise especially for the consistency and humanness of young Egan. Perhaps the financial and business sides of the book are a little too much to the front, but, as a whole, the novel keeps the reader’s attention on the alert, and it includes some exceedingly good character depiction.”
+ Outlook 126:202 S 29 ’20 170w
“The novel exists for its narrative, which is neatly conceived and marks Mr Porter’s further growth in the art of story-telling. It flows along with agreeable humor, and the reader’s interest is sustained without recourse to theatricalities.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 24 ’20 580w
PORTER, REBECCA NEWMAN. Girl from Four Corners. il *$1.75 (2c) Holt
20–6861
A California story with scenes laid on a lonely ranch and in San Francisco. Margaret Garrison, disappointed in the man she loves, yields to Frederick Bayne’s sudden wooing and goes to live on his ranch in Mendocino county. The marriage is unhappy, but with fine courage she makes the best of it and trains her little daughter, Freda, to be true to the highest ideals. Most of the story has to do with the career of this daughter, who after her mother’s death goes to San Francisco where she passes thru many experiences, some of them tragic, and finally finds happiness and love.
“The story is entertainingly told, and toward the end a dramatic touch is thrown in.”
+ N Y Times p26 Ag 1 ’20 260w + Springf’d Republican p11a S 26 ’20 120w
POST, MELVILLE DAVISSON. Mystery at the Blue villa. *$1.75 (2c) Appleton
20–1695
Seventeen dramatic short stories by the author of “Uncle Abner.” The settings in these stories are selected from many fascinatingly remote, and also familiar places. In the title story the action takes place at Port Said, a refuge for human derelicts, “the devil’s halfway house,” where through cleverly playing upon a guilty man’s fear of the supernatural, a dying sculptor gets money enough to die in the way it pleases him. “The great legend,” narrated by a semi-French, semi-oriental gentleman sitting beside a fire made of bleached bones, on an undulating, moonlit desert of sand, takes us to the underworld of Paris. “The miller of Ostend” is a tale of Belgium. “The pacifist” is a story of the United States and a German spy. Other titles are: The laughter of Allah; The witch of the Lecca; The new administration; The Baron Starkheim.
“Though somewhat overdramatic and artificial, the plots are clever and interesting.”
+ − Booklist 16:246 Ap ’20 + Dial 68:537 Ap ’20 40w
“The stories are well told and the people have much more character and individuality than is usual among inhabitants of mystery tales.”
+ Ind 103:322 S 11 ’20 140w
“They have variety and freshness, and, if occasionally overemphasized, they are never trite.”
+ − N Y Times 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 40w
“In the matter of untangling a crime or running a mystery to its lair Melville Davisson Post can give even the immortal Holmes himself quite a brush. His latest collection in no way falls short of the Uncle Abner tales.” E. C. Webb
+ Pub W 96:1694 D 27 ’19 240w
“All have the merit of sustaining the reader’s interest up to an unexpected conclusion.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p442 Jl 8 ’20 50w
POST, MELVILLE DAVISSON. Sleuth of St James’s square. *$2 (3c) Appleton
20–18613
A book of mystery stories. There are sixteen in all, and in each of them Sir Henry Marquis, chief of the Criminal investigation department of Scotland yard, figures. He is not the Sherlock Holmes type of detective, for mystery and solution seem to run side by side, instead of being spread out like a pattern before him. Some of the tales Sir Henry reads from the diary of an ancestor. The titles are: The thing on the hearth; The reward; The lost lady; The cambered foot; The man in the green hat; The wrong sign; The fortune teller; The hole in the mahogany panel; The end of the road; The last adventure; American horses; The spread rails; The pumpkin coach; The yellow flower; A satire of the sea; The house by the loch. Many of the tales journey far afield from St James’s square for their setting. Some have already appeared in short story form in popular magazines.
+ Booklist 17:160 Ja ’21
“The stories are short, piquant and cleverly maneuvered, though the mechanism which moves the puppets is sometimes a bit too evident and there is great lack of originality in the gestures made by them either when they pause or start up again.” N. H. D.
+ − Boston Transcript p6 N 24 ’20 500w
“They are not only unusual in construction; they are very well written, and with but few exceptions, close with a twist which will surprise even the skilled and habitual reader.”
+ N Y Times p21 D 12 ’20 380w
“The author’s method is unusual and some of the tales are remarkably good.”
+ Outlook 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 130w
POSTGATE, R. W. Bolshevik theory. *$2 Dodd 335
The book is a sincere attempt to state what Bolshevism is and what it is not—to clear away “the atmosphere of a dog-fight which surrounds this subject.” (Introd.) The author claims for it that it is neither pro-bolshevik nor anti-bolshevik. “It is a mere exposition. It is true that a certain amount of intelligent sympathy is necessary for the understanding of a point of view. The marks of some such sympathy may be traced in this book. This is inevitable, for it is merely the reflection of the author’s belief that bolshevik theories are neither inhuman ... nor logically ridiculous.... If these assumptions are not correct, then Bolshevism is not worth considering.” (Introd.) The contents are: What is Bolshevism? Controversies; The dictatorship of the proletariat; On dictatorship; The two roads; The pedigree of Bolshevism; Extracts and comments; Syndicalism, Blanquism and Bolshevism; Karl Kautsky; Industrial pacifism; The soviet; The future of the soviet. There are appendices and a bibliographical note.
+ Ath p441 O 1 ’20 190w
Reviewed by Jacob Zeitlin
Nation 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 210w
“R. W. Postgate has set forth in a clear and concise manner the facts about Bolshevism.”
+ N Y Times p25 Ja 2 ’21 220w Sat R 130:463 D 4 ’20 140w
“His historical allusions are not to be depended upon. Many of the rest of Mr Postgate’s references to the Bolshevists, past and present, and to General Denikin and other anti-Bolshevists, are equally unreliable.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p430 Jl 8 ’20 1200w
POTTER, MIRIAM CLARK. Rhymes of a child’s world. il *$2 Four seas co. 811
A book of little verses for children. It is a collection of poems about the everyday things, child fancies, and lullabies. There are three groups of poems: In the house; Outdoors at play; Twilight songs. The illustrations are by Ruth Fuller Stevens. Many of the poems have appeared in the Youth’s Companion, St Nicholas and Little Folks.
“Such quaint imagery greatly appeals to the dreamy child. The illustrations by Ruth Fuller Stevens are especially charming and nicely adapted to the text.”
+ N Y Evening Post p10 S 25 ’20 160w
“Deserves to be noted for its naturalness and fidelity to childish moods. It has a strong appeal to both old and young.”
+ Springf’d Republican p12 O 20 ’20 70w
“Both verse and illustration have the subtle quality of imagination, even when their theme sounds realistic. These poems are amusing to children and well worth the attention of their elders.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 N 18 ’20 90w
POUND, EZRA LOOMIS. Instigations of Ezra Pound, together with an essay on the Chinese written character. *$3.50 Boni & Liveright 814
20–8532
“A collection of criticisms and essays, with an essay by Fenollosa on the Chinese written character, edited by Pound. There are short sketches of the modern French poets with quotations; a detailed appreciative criticism of Henry James and his works; another on Remy de Gourmont; a group including James Joyce, T. S. Eliot Wyndham Lewis, Lytton Strachey, the new poetry; essay by Jules Laforgue, an amusing commentary on Genesis, a discussion of Arnaut Daniel and some sharp raps at Greek translators, including Browning.”—Booklist
+ Booklist 16:338 Jl ’20
“An important point, however, about Mr Pound’s critical writings, which has been generally neglected, is this: they do satisfy two very conspicuous demands of the American public; the demand for ‘constructive criticism,’ and the demand for ‘first rate school teaching.’” W. C. Blum
+ Dial 69:422 O ’20 900w Freeman 1:334 Je 16 ’20 550w
“The ‘Instigations of Ezra Pound’ have this virtue—they badger and bully us out of a state of intellectual backwardness.” Padraic Colum
+ New Repub 25:52 D 8 ’20 650w − N Y Times 25:293 Je 6 ’20 1300w
“Stimulating and provocative statements provide an intellectual shower bath.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 8 ’20 320w
POWELL, CHARLES. Poets in the nursery. *$1.50 Lane 827
20–19194
To this collection of parodies on well-known poets, John Drinkwater writes an introduction to the effect that although parodies are usually a defilement of poetry and contemptible, these never outrage our love of poetry but exercise it in a very friendly intimacy. Mr Powell, he says, invariably catches his subject’s external manner with easy precision, the underlying spiritual force never evades him and he measures himself successfully against the poet’s impulse as well as against its formal expression. While Mother Goose furnishes the subjects the poets are: G. K. Chesterton, John Masefield, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Alfred Noyes, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt, William Watson, Austin Dobson, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, A. C. Swinburne, W. E. Henley, D. G. Rossetti, Walt Whitman, Omar Khayyám, Francis Thompson, Robert Browning, E. B. Browning, E. A. Poe, Alfred Tennyson.
“John Drinkwater’s introduction to ‘The poets in the nursery’ leads us to expect work of high distinction, and though we find traces of burlesque now and then, our expectations are realized.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 N 1 ’20 200w
POWELL, E. ALEXANDER. New frontiers of freedom, from the Alps to the Ægean. il *$2.50 (5c) Scribner 914.9
20–7665
The author has traveled by motor car and by sea “from the Alps to the Ægean, in Italy, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Turkey, Rumania, Hungary and Serbia” and gives his impressions of what he saw in these countries during the year succeeding the armistice while they and their people were in a state of political flux. “To have seen millions of human beings transferred from sovereignty to sovereignty like cattle which have been sold—these are sights the like of which will probably not be seen again in our times or in those of our children” and, the author thinks, may serve to illustrate an important chapter in history. Contents: Across the redeemed lands; The borderland of Slav and Latin; The cemetery of four empires; Under the cross and the crescent; Will the sick man of Europe recover? What the peace-makers have done on the Danube; Making a nation to order. There are numerous illustrations from photographs.
+ Booklist 16:300 Je ’20
“Major Powell gives an excellent description of d’Annunzio. He has brought the same keenness of observation and ease of style to the other portraits in this volume, which range from picturesque peasants to exiled royalties. His treatment of the political situation in the countries he visited is marked by clarity and fairness.”
+ N Y Times 25:12 Jl 4 ’20 500w
“This narrative is spirited and colorful throughout.”
+ R of Rs 61:669 Je ’20 80w
“A book as interesting as it is instructive.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 250w
POWELL, LYMAN PIERSON, ed. Social unrest. 2v $2.50 Review of reviews co. 308
20–1056
“The two volumes entitled ‘The social unrest’ present the best current thought of leading authorities as now focussed on the industrial and social problems of the day. The opinions of President Wilson and ex-president Taft are set forth side by side with those of Karl Marx, Morris Hillquit and Sidney Webb. All schools of opinion have here at least the privilege of utterance. The material has been edited and coordinated by Dr Lyman P. Powell.”—R of Rs
Ind 103:319 S 11 ’20 60w + Outlook 124:336 F 25 ’20 60w R of Rs 61:223 F ’20 200w
“We fear the editor’s somewhat hesitant attempt to link up these pieces into something looking like a methodically arranged whole has not been successful—at least we are unable to tell what the plan of that arrangement really is. But it is the collection itself that counts, and this is of great interest.” B. L.
+ − Survey 43:782 Mr 20 ’20 280w
POWER, RHODA. Under the Bolshevik reign of terror. *$2 McBride 947
20–2711
“A record of domestic experiences in a bourgeois household in Rostov, on the Don, during the old régime, the revolution, and the Bolshevik occupation.”—Brooklyn
Boston Transcript p8 N 22 ’19 500w Brooklyn 12:71 Ja ’20 30w
“A lively and readable little book.”
+ Cleveland p104 S ’19 30w
“An intimate, readable account of Bolshevism is presented in this volume. The book is free from theorizing and statistics, but it tells of the practical effect of Bolshevism on people who lived through the first days of this sinister experiment.”
+ N Y Times 24:465 S 14 ’19 240w
“Miss Power has given us a series of vivid sketches. They are impressionistic and full of power, but they must not be accepted as descriptive of general conditions.”
+ − Sat R 128:204 Ag 30 ’19 120w
“An extremely vivid and interesting account of certain phases of the Russian revolution from the pen of an eye-witness. One would like to know how far this family, of the rich bourgeois type, was representative of its class. If there were many others like it, the appalling violence and bloodiness of the revolution cease to be matter of wonder.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p224 Ap 24 ’19 700w
PRATT, JAMES BISSETT. Religious consciousness; a psychological study. *$3.50 Macmillan 201
20–10634
“Professor Pratt’s point of view in the present volume is avowedly scientific. He aims to describe the religious consciousness as it presents itself for observation to the modern psychologist, that is to say, without any attempt to press behind phenomena into the realm of the unknown or the unknowable. An interesting feature of his treatment is a constant use of the results of recent questionnaires sent out to ascertain the present state of the religious consciousness among various classes of Americans. He has studied the forms of Protestantism in America. Roman Catholicism he has studied in Europe and at home. Finally, he has made his pilgrimage through India, Burma, and Ceylon, seeking initiation into the letter and the spirit of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Mohammedanism in mosque and shrine and temple, from peasants, teachers, priests, and holy men. The last five chapters of the book deal with mysticism.”—Nation
“‘The religious consciousness’ is a very good book. Dr Pratt knows his subject and he knows how to write about it. There is hardly a dull page in the nearly five hundred of this volume. Perhaps the most valuable quality of the book is its quiet sanity.” R. R.
+ Freeman 2:22 S 15 ’20 360w
“His account of phenomena is remarkably fresh and instructive; and it differs commendably from some of its predecessors in emphasizing rather normal than exceptional types of experience.” S. P. Sherman
+ Nation 111:506 N 3 ’20 1550w
Reviewed by G. E. Partridge
N Y Times p28 D 26 ’20 250w
PRENTICE, SARTELL. Padre. *$2 Dutton 940.476
19–13304
“[This book tells the] experiences of a Red cross hospital chaplain of the Dutch Reformed church, principally in Base hospital 101, at St Nazaire and in Evacuation hospital 13 where wounded were received straight from the battlefield. [It is] full of anecdotes revealing the bravery of individuals, and the gratitude of the French people toward Americans.”—Cleveland
Cleveland p16 F ’20 50w
“There is nothing particularly new in the narrative, although the fact that it comes first-hand from one who saw and lived the awful scenes he describes gives it a value of its own which cannot be gainsaid.”
+ N Y Times 24:516 O 5 ’19 500w
PRICE, EDITH BALLINGER. Silver Shoal light. il *$1.75 Century
20–16502
When Miss Joan Kirtland, who has left town very suddenly after a disagreement with Mr Robert Sinclair, finds that the Harbor View house cannot take her in, she is at a loss for a place to spend the night. Captain ‘Bijah Dawson comes to her aid and suggests that the light house people may take her in. As Captain ‘Bijah assured her, they are “cur’ous folks,” Jim and Elspeth Pemberley and their little son Garth, but their presence in this unusual situation is explained and Joan, who had meant to stay a night, then a week, remains all summer. Joan, who had thought she did not like children, is captivated by Garth and at the end of the summer learns that Mr Sinclair is his Uncle Bob. Jim Pemberley has aspirations toward the navy and there is a German spy episode in the story.
+ Booklist 17:78 N ’20
PRICE, EDITH BALLINGER. Us and the bottle man. il *$1.50 Century
20–14292
The story of three delightful children who play pirates and send out a message in a sealed bottle that brings a surprising answer and leads to a pleasantly mysterious correspondence. And then events take a serious turn. What had been play becomes reality and the “three poore mariners” become castaways indeed for the length of one dreadful night. Their rescuer is no less person than the Bottle man himself and a war-time romance is at the same time brought to a happy culmination.
“Although somewhat adult in point of view, the mystery and adventure will interest children from ten to twelve.”
+ Booklist 17:78 N ’20
PRICE, JULIUS MENDES. On the path of adventure. il *$3.50 (5½c) Lane 940.48
20–11661
The author was war-artist correspondent for the Illustrated London News. The present work is a record of his adventures in the early months of the war, before the existence of war correspondents had been “officially admitted.” The book, he says, “does not in any way claim to be an addition to the formidable array of books on the technical side of the war. It is, on the contrary, merely a narrative compiled from the notes in my diary of a period during the early days of the war when I was ‘out’ to get all the material I could.... As my wanderings were entirely within the zone of operations, it is obvious that the incidents I have described were always more or less connected with the theatre of the war—but they were happenings rather behind the scenes than on the actual battle-front.” The book is illustrated with drawings from the author’s sketch book.
Ath p1387 D 19 ’19 50w
“One of the few interesting but not sordid personal narratives.”
+ Booklist 17:66 N ’20
“Mr Price puts down his remarkable escapades and hairbreadth escapes as a sportsman and an artist. There is something beautifully impersonal in the style of his book. This makes of his book something unique in war annals, a book that is ‘beautifully and completely something,’ as Henry James might have said.” B. D.
+ N Y Times p21 Ag 29 ’20 750w Sat R 129:191 F 21 ’20 750w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p698 N 27 ’19 50w
PRICHARD, HESKETH VERNON HESKETH. Sniping in France, with notes on the scientific training of scouts, observers, and snipers; with a foreword by General Lord Horne of Stirkoke. il *$5 Dutton 623.44
(Eng ed 20–12124)
“Major Hesketh-Prichard was of course, as a big game hunter, a natural sniper. He enjoyed sniping because it employed all his highly specialised hunter faculties to the full—sight, hearing, and all those analytical powers which hunters possess. His book is full of good stories. But what will make the book interesting to the soldier is the complete way in which Major Hesketh-Prichard manages to justify the art of sniping, and to show how intolerable it is to be opposed to a well-organised sniping side unless you can answer in kind. Major Hesketh-Prichard proves completely that it will always be worth while from the point of view of moral to maintain an efficient body of specialist snipers.”—Spec
“Before the war the author was known as a sportsman, traveller, and athlete. It is his other vocation, that of writer, which helps him not merely to give us information, but to give it in a form enthralling as any detective story.”
+ Ath p816 Je 18 ’20 180w
“Written in a style that makes it pleasantly acceptable to the general reader.”
+ N Y Evening Post p12 N 27 ’20 220w
“His book is fascinating in its records of romantic individual tales and of cunning camouflage which are intended for the general reader, but we trust that the military authorities will not on this account overlook it. Major Hesketh-Prichard has a contribution to make to military science.”
+ Spec 124:728 My 29 ’20 280w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p293 My 13 ’20 900w
PRISONER of Pentonville, by “Red Band.” *$1.50 Putnam 821
20–8220
Poems written while the author was confined in Pentonville prison in London, between September, 1917, and May, 1918. They are written in varying meters and on different themes. Many are addressed to his wife, one is written on receiving news of his mother’s death, others recall scenes from boyhood, and one that brings to mind “Reading gaol” is written the day of an execution. The concluding poems record his sentiments as release approaches and there is an epilogue written after regaining liberty. Joseph Fort Newton, formerly of the City Temple, London, now of the Church of the divine paternity, New York, writes a foreword.
“The emotional sincerity which constantly contrives to break through a crust of indifferent and often absurd verse makes this series of prison meditations a very interesting and moving human document.”
+ − Ath p495 Ap 9 ’20 80w + Boston Transcript p4 My 12 ’20 950w
PRITCHARD, MYRON THOMAS, and OVINGTON, MARY WHITE, comps. Upward path; with an introd. by Robert R. Moton. il *$1.35 Harcourt 810.8
20–16516
The foreword to this collection of readings for colored children says: “To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by negro writers, which colored children could read with interest and pleasure and in which they could find a mirror of the traditions and aspirations of their race. Realizing this lack, the compilers have brought together poems, stories, sketches and addresses which bear eloquent testimony to the richness of the literary product of our negro writers.” All of the contributors to the volume are negroes, among them Paul Laurence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson and others who have made names in literature. In addition to these there are the less familiar names of negro educators, social workers, ministers and lawyers, and there is one explorer, Matthew Henson, who was with Peary at the Pole.
“The selections in it are ably chosen and present a great variety. But more important is the fact that it must accomplish its intent. For while giving pleasure, it will foster the love of tradition, and from the evidences of past accomplishment, an honest racial pride.” M. E. Bailey
+ Bookm 52:305 Ja ’21 140w + Boston Transcript p5 N 27 ’20 360w
“A collection of stories and poems by negroes—many of them very good. Perhaps whites can gain as much from it as can the blacks. The book would be suitable for junior high schools.”
+ English J 9:549 N ’20 60w Lit D p94 D 4 ’20 170w
PRYDE, ANTHONY. Marqueray’s duel. *$2 (1½c) McBride
20–7060
Marqueray, to all appearances, was a globe-trotter and a sportsman. In truth he was a secret spy in the employ of the British foreign office. His knowledge stands him in good stead against a certain Lord Marchmont, a millionaire Jew, implicated in illicit transactions in South America. The latter has allowed a poor innocent Irish girl, in reality Lady Marchmont, to consider herself duped by him and to be a “fallen woman,” after he had turned her adrift. Phyllida is found and rescued by Marqueray and his friend and cousin, Aubrey West. A romance grows up between Phyllida and Marqueray, who naturally wants to horsewhip Marchmont and free his beloved entirely from his clutches. Before this can be done a political election and much intrigue, involving West, intervene. In the end Marqueray is wounded by a shot from Marchmont who himself succumbs to his vicious morphia habit. Some fine touches of friendship and loyalty among men make one of the features of the story.
“The story drags somewhat in places; but ... the book as a whole may be read with a fair amount of satisfaction.”
+ − Ath p414 My 30 ’19 120w
“Very good work. Readers who liked Stephen McKenna’s ‘Sonia’ will probably like this.”
+ Booklist 16:350 Jl ’20
“It is evidently Mr Pryde’s first novel, and it is far and above the majority of ‘first novels.’ He writes with a good deal of style, and his characterization is excellent to the least important actor on his London stage.” G. M. H.
+ Boston Transcript p4 My 19 ’20 540w
“The book is exceedingly well written, with a steady succession of incidents, always logical and never loosening their hold on the interest. The book is a long one, but it never becomes tedious.”
+ N Y Times 25:329 Je 20 ’20 500w
Reviewed by Isabel Juergens
+ Pub W 97:1288 Ap 17 ’20 260w
“A very clever romance.”
+ Sat R 128:346 O 11 ’19 100w
“It is decidedly melodramatic, but the melodrama is well done.”
+ Spec 123:154 Ag 2 ’19 30w
“The author displays much ability for character portraiture. As a romanticist he is not so capable.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Je 27 ’20 650w
PRZYBYSZEWSKI, STANISLAW. Snow. *$1.50 Brown, N. L. 891.85
20–4039
“‘Snow,’ a play in four acts by Stanislaw Przybyszewski, translated into English by O. F. Theis, is a powerful production. A man and wife are living happily together. A brother comes in and falls in love with the wife. A woman friend comes in and the husband falls in love with her. Result—unfaithfulness and a double suicide.”—Springf’d Republican
“The types are not typical; they are primarily unconvincing. There is an intense and urgent attempt at drama which, were it only dramatic, would be Ibsen, even Wagner, in terms of men and not gods. The play is disappointing to read, because it does not grip; it is scarcely fitted for theatrical success, because it has insufficient sustained interest.”
− + Boston Transcript p6 Mr 31 ’20 220w
“The beautiful diction and Maeterlinckian charm of the Polish original, are somewhat lost in translation.”
+ − Cleveland p87 S ’20 50w
“‘Snow,’ which bears amusing internal evidence of its translation from a German original, is a characteristic phantasmagoria of the acutely hysterical. It is not without moments of sombre effectiveness. But action and passion are both, humanly speaking, in the void. The characters are haunted wraiths in an unrealized world who live and love and die equally without motivation.”
− + Nation 110:435 Ap 3 ’20 200w
“The tale is true to life and truthfully presented and commendable for artistic qualities, but uselessly nerve-racking for all that.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8 Ap 8 ’20 100w
“Limitations of temperament may easily prevent a western reader from doing justice to characters who seem to him so morbid and neurotic, so pathologically introspective: nor can he see ‘Snow’ as a play for the western stage. Yet he must admit that the author shows at times profound psychological insight and can write occasional passages of power.”
+ − Theatre Arts Magazine 4:259 Jl ’20 230w
PUMPELLY, RAPHAEL.[[2]] Travels and adventures of Raphael Pumpelly; ed. by O. S. Rice. il *$1.75 Holt
20–22545
The book is an abridged edition of the author’s autobiography, “My reminiscences,” for young readers. As a mining engineer, geologist, archaeologist and explorer, the author’s experiences, which transpired on our western frontier in it’s heroic days, on the mountains of Corsica, in China, Japan and Siberia, were many and thrilling and those portions of the original work have been selected that are most interesting to the young with only so much editing as was required to make a connected story. Appropriate illustrations have been added.
+ N Y Evening Post p11 D 31 ’20 130w
PURDAY, HERBERT FRANK P. Diesel engine design. il *$7.50 Van Nostrand 621.43
(Eng ed 20–18166)
“This book is based on about twelve years’ experience of Diesel engines, mainly from the drawing-office point of view, and is intended to present an account of the main considerations which control the design of these engines. The author ventures to hope that, in addition to designers and draughtsmen, to whom such a book as this is most naturally addressed, there may be other classes of readers—for example, Diesel engine users and technical students—to whom the following pages may be of interest.” (Preface) Contents: First principles; Thermal efficiency; Exhaust, suction and scavenge; The principle of similitude; Crank-shafts; Flywheels; Framework; Cylinders and covers; Running gear; Fuel oil system; Air and exhaust system; Compressed air system; Valve gear; Index. There are 271 figure illustrations.
N Y P L New Tech Bks p32 Ap ’20 80w
PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER, comp. Tabular views of universal history. il *$2.50 Putnam 902
19–16001
In this latest edition of the compilation the summary has been brought down to the peace conference in Paris; like former revisions, under the editorial supervision of George Haven Putnam. Two new maps are added showing the forfeited German colonies and Germany under the peace treaty, and there is a supplementary index covering events subsequent to August 1, 1914.
PUTNAM, MRS NINA (WILCOX).[[2]] It pays to smile. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–19578
Miss Freedom Talbot, of Boston ancestry and birth, is the narrator of the story, and shares honors with “Peaches” Pegg as the heroine. Her family fortunes being at a low ebb, she answers an advertisement inserted by the millionaire Pinto Pegg for a chaperone for his daughter. This combination of money and breeding Pinto hopes will result in culture for the daughter. Their course in refinement includes a trip to Europe and a stay in California, in the process of which Miss Freedom receives perhaps as broad an education as “Peaches” does. Romance and mystery enter their lives, but after an exciting course, true love runs smoothly at last.
“The story is perhaps very improbable, but not unreal.”
+ N Y Evening Post p17 D 4 ’20 80w
“Except as a study of the Boston governess and Peaches, showing how each reacts on the other, there is little to note. When the author ventures to work out a ‘plot’ she is singularly unconvincing.”
+ − N Y Times p27 Ja 9 ’21 650w + Outlook 126:558 N 24 ’20 50w
“The early chapters describing the Talbot home on Chestnut street, Boston, are much the best of the book.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p7a D 26 ’20 140w
PYLE, KATHARINE.[[2]] Tales of wonder and magic. il *$2 (3c) Little
20–19078
This is the third volume of old-world fairy tales and folk lore translated, adapted and illustrated by the author. The stories are: White as snow, red as blood, and black as a raven’s wing—Irish; The wonderful ring—East Indian; The three sisters—Georgian; The golden horse, the moon lantern, and the beautiful princess—Swedish; The lady of the lake—Welsh; The beaver stick—American Indian; The enchanted waterfall—Japanese; Fair, brown, and trembling—Irish; The demon of the mountain—Transylvanian gipsy; The Lamia—Hindoo; The three doves—Czech; Mighty-arm and mighty-mouth—East Indian; The beautiful Melissa—Louisiana; The castle that stood on golden pillars—Danish; The twelve months—Czech.