P
“P., Q.” How-to buy life insurance. **$1.20. Doubleday.
A book that “has been written and published in the interest of the policyholder primarily. It undertakes to free the subject from the technical obscurities that so frequently interfere with a clear understanding of its elements and to give the plain citizen straightforward advice and information as to the various types of policies in the market and the relative advantages of each.” (R. of Rs.)
“As a practical guide to the policyholder desirous of figuring out for himself the real cost of his insurance and of choosing between rival companies, ought to be found of substantial value by the busy man, because of the comparative tables and specimen blanks given in the appendix. These could be considerably improved upon in certain respects, but they are a distinct advance over what has been furnished by most other books on the subject.”
+ + – Dial. 41: 117. S. 1, ’06. 350w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 408. Je. 23, ’06. 720w.
“It is a helpful and suggestive manual.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 80w.
Page, Curtis Hidden, ed. Chief American poets: selected poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Whitman, and Lanier. *$1.75. Houghton.
“The selections have been made with good taste and judgment and the notes are ample and to the point.”
+ + Critic. 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 90w. + + Dial. 40: 96. F. 1, ’06. 150w. + + – Nation. 82: 158. F. 22, ’06. 170w.
“Such a book would be a great convenience for the use of a class studying American literature.”
+ School R. 14: 233. Mr. ’06. 100w.
Page, Thomas Nelson. Negro: the southerner’s problem. **$1.25. Scribner.
“These essays are characterized by a sanity of spirit and a painstaking thoroughness.” C: A. Elwood.
+ Am. J. Soc. 11: 698. Mr. ’06. 440w. + Outlook. 83: 88. My. 12, ’06. 510w.
Page, Thomas Nelson. On Newfound river. †$1.50. Scribner.
“In the story we meet ... the Southern life of an earlier day: hot-tempered men and gracious women, trusty slaves, negro-hunting whites, the grocery-store-town-meeting, and the open-air court of justice. The love-story, however, is the thing and is young, Arcadian, rough-running, happily arriving. Mr. Page explains that it is a story enlarged; explicitly not a novel, but ‘a love story, pure and simple,’ and such it will be found.”—Nation.
+ Dial. 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 40w. + Lit. D. 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 130w. + Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
“A delicate, finished specimen of its author’s art.”
+ + Nation. 83: 332. O. 18, ’06. 170w.
“It is a story pure and sweet amid the poisonous blossoms of fiction that nowadays spring thick, an idyll of loyalty and of love, thrilled through and through with ‘the tender grace of a day that is dead.’”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 440w.
“The most appreciative comment that can be made on this story is that he has not spoiled it; the old charm still lingers.”
+ Outlook. 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
Paine, Albert Bigelow. [Little garden calendar for boys and girls.] $1. Altemus.
“This is one of the best children’s books in recent years. It is bright and entertaining and while holding the interest of the young in the story that is told, it imparts a vast fund of information which every child should know.”
+ + Arena. 35: 222. F. ’06. 320w.
Paine, Albert Bigelow. [Lucky piece: a story of the North woods.] $1.50. Outing pub.
A tale of the Adirondacks whose hero is an idle young man of more wealth than ambition, and whose heroine undertakes to teach him the definite purpose in life. A Spanish luck piece brings friends, wealth and happiness in its train of talismanic bestowals.
“This is a pleasant story, with some well-drawn characters and just enough plot to carry the reader comfortably along to the last chapter.”
+ Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 50w. N. Y. Times. 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 370w.
Paine, Albert Bigelow. Sailor of fortune; memoirs of Capt. B. S. Osbon. **$1.20. McClure.
“Captain Osbon, whose memoirs are given practically as he detailed them to the writer, Mr. Albert Bigelow Paine, lived among some of the most stirring scenes of the past century, and his narrative presents with extraordinary vividness events of which he was an actor or an eye-witness.” (Lit. D.) “This lively record covers whaling, buccaneering, the Civil war, journalism, and almost everything but love.” (World To-Day.)
“Mr. Paine, the redactor of these stories of sea life, has succeeded admirably in preserving the personal quality of the actor-narrator, and we easily accept the ‘yarns’ as a long succession of fireside talks face to face with the man who lived them.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 556. O. 20, ’06. 180w.
“Cannot fail to be a joy to old and young.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 667. O. 13, ’06. 190w.
“His reminiscences of famous men are numerous and characteristic.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
“Mr. Paine has done well what must have been a difficult task. The book will amuse and enchain the reader who has a love for the unusual and picturesque.”
+ Putnam’s. 1: 381. D. ’06. 110w.
“Every chapter reads like a condensed historical novel.”
+ World To-Day. 11: 1222. N. ’06. 50w.
Paine, Dorothy C. Maid of the mountains. †$1. Jacobs.
To Carol, a mountain maid of North Carolina, comes a good fairy in the guise of Beth, a happy tender-hearted little girl, who brings real aid to the sufferings of the mountain family. Among other things, she gives a benefit entertainment in which it is discovered that Carol has a beautiful voice, and a wealthy but childless woman in the audience decides to take her north. The movement of the book is rapid, ranging from train wrecks to doll dressing, and is certain to delight the heart of adventure-loving children.
Paine, Ralph Delahaye. [Praying skipper and other stories.] $1.50. Outing pub.
“The fact that not one of this collection of seven stories is a love story, in the ordinary sense of that saccharine term, is a point in its favor. In making sentiment secondary to action the author has heightened the effect of both.” (N. Y. Times.) The stories following the title story are: A victory unforeseen, The last pilot schooner, The jade teapot, Corporal Sweeney, deserter, and two other thrilling sea tales which have the merit of not being told in dialog by an old salt.
+ Ind. 60: 1375. Je. 7, ’06. 300w.
“Vigorous, straightforward yarns, and as satisfactory as they are exciting.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 355. Je. 2, ’06. 440w.
“There are pathos and humor in the book, and both the pathos and the humor grip the reader tightly.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“These are stories of the kind men like—told with considerable vigor and dealing with active life.”
+ Putnam’s. 1: 127. O. ’06. 80w.
Paine, Ralph Delahaye. Story of Martin Coe; il. by Howard Giles. $1.50. Outing pub.
Martin Coe, gunner’s mate, deserts from the American navy to lead a revolution in a South American state. By a strange chance he comes at length to a little Maine village where his regeneration begins. It is love that clarifies his nature, and brings to the surface the broken oath, neglected duty, general culpableness. His honor demands atonement, and his obedience to the call sends him back to the navy to serve out his term.
“The best thing about the book, however, is the fact that, though Martin is regenerated, he remains he same Martin Coe to the end—a typical sailor hero—than whom there is not any better either in real life or in fiction.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 540w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“The character is well enough conceived, but a touch of caricature throughout weakens the personality and decidedly impairs the love story. The book as a character-study is lacking in close interpretation.”
– + Outlook. 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 80w.
Painter, Franklin Verzelius Newton, ed. Great pedagogical essays; Plato to Spencer. *$1.25. Am. bk.
“This anthology of selections from writers ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, upon educational topics has the merit of bringing together from the most diverse sources the best thoughts that have been entertained of the educational ideal which is still the object of pursuit. It is a source-book of the history of this pursuit, embodying its major documents—a history not always marked by progress.”—Outlook.
“The chief objection to these selections is that there is no unified basis of selection.”
+ – Bookm. 22: 643. F. ’06. 240w. Dial. 40: 203. Mr. 16, ’06. 50w.
“The book will meet the demand among students of educational history for an acquaintance with the original sources of information, and will form an acceptable and useful volume supplementary to any standard history of education.”
+ El. School T. 6: 438. Ap. ’06. 80w. Ind. 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 80w.
“He has failed signally in his purpose, and not wholly or mainly because of space limitations, but rather because of manifest lack of broad historic scholarship and clear pedagogic insight. His selections are in the main inconsequential fragments, and the translations are often poor.” Will S. Monroe.
– – J. Philos. 3: 79. F. 1, ’06. 480w.
“An excellent companion book is this to any of the current histories of education.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 940. D. 16, ’05. 130w.
“The student of education who is without access to a large library will be grateful for what the editor has provided, and will profit greatly by a careful study of these pages.” W. B. O.
+ School R. 14: 310. Ap. ’06. 250w.
Pais, Ettore. Ancient legends of Roman history; tr. by Mario E. Cosenza. *$4. Dodd.
Professor Pais, connected with the University of Naples, brings together here a number of lectures on the early Roman legends which form the substratum of later political and social development.
“The translation is marred by some constantly recurring errors. Very few of the radical views advanced in these lectures will ever be generally accepted, but they cannot fail to arouse opposition and to stimulate fruitful discussion. The erudition and acumen of the author are truly remarkable.” Samuel Ball Platner.
+ – Am. Hist. R. 11: 872. Jl. ’06. 1180w.
“The book is a scholarly one, essentially for the scholar.”
+ + Critic. 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“While in the main satisfactory, [the English version] frequently lacks in point of clearness, the involved parenthetical structure of the sentences making it difficult at times to follow the author’s arguments.”
+ + – Dial. 40: 201. Mr. 16, ’06. 400w.
“Professor Pais has sifted the origins of Rome without fear or pity. The style is not smooth. The lack of an index can only be excused by the consideration that such an index would have added materially to the bulk of the book. The maps are good.”
+ + – Ind. 59: 1481. D. 21. ’05. 630w.
“The translation is very well done, although the paragraphing is often bad. The index, which is indispensable in a work of this kind, has been omitted.”
+ – Nation. 82: 474. Je. 7, ’06. 1410w.
“Although technical and teeming with data of detail, Prof. Pais’s work ... should form the means of valuable supplementary reading for students of Roman history.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 104. F. 17, ’06. 840w.
“The book should challenge the attention of all who care for archaeology and early Roman history.”
+ Outlook. 81: 523. O. 28, ’05. 120w. + R. of Rs. 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 90w.
Palmer, Frederick. Lucy of the stars: il. by Alonzo Kimball. †$1.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Frederick Palmer combines in admirable balance the functions of war-correspondent and novelist. When the piping times of peace are at hand, he will sit down to his desk and write you as pretty a story as you could wish to read in an idle hour, and when the war-trumpet sounds, he will sally forth until he is in the thick of the scrimmage collecting observations for a graphic portrayal of the scene of carnage. It is this dual activity that now gives us ‘Lucy of the stars’ as a successor to ‘With Kuroki in Manchuria.’ We like Mr. Palmer’s portrait of the imaginary Lucy, as we liked his portrait of the real Kuroki, but we object most strenuously to the fate that he has bestowed upon her.”—Dial.
“It is a pity that such good material should be used on so persistently pessimistic a theme. The characters are clearly and consistently drawn, the story is well, and in places wittily told, and ‘Lucy of the stars’ is a charming heroine.”
+ – Acad. 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 300w.
“The merit of the book lies in the presentation, under an unusually attractive aspect, of public life across the Atlantic in certain latter-day phases; yet it can scarcely be said to fulfil the conditions requisite for that difficult achievement, a successful political novel.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 298. S. 15. 160w.
“In order to write a great novel, it is necessary to sympathize with all your characters. Mr. Palmer has not done this; nevertheless, ‘Lucy of the stars’ is worth reading.”
+ – Critic. 49: 120. Ag. ’06. 270w. + – Critic. 49: 192. Ag. ’06. 80w.
“The story is more than worth reading for [Lucy’s] sake, even if its outcome does rudely shock our romantic sensibilities.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 40: 368. Je. 1, ’06. 260w.
“Sensible, normal people will not care for a romance in which sorrows and griefs are the only heroes and heroines.”
– + Ind. 61: 759. S. 27, ’06. 80w.
“Although written with spirit, and though the author has brought a keen observation to bear upon a wide range of experience, the story has been a disappointment.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 338. My. 26, ’06. 490w. – R. of Rs. 33: 758. Je. ’06. 30w.
Palmer, William T. [English lakes.] *$6. Macmillan.
“We fail, in this volume, to find many of the interesting stories of adventure and sport on the fells, or glimpses of the dalesman’s life, such as made its predecessors readable in spite of a somewhat unchastened style. The style, indeed, is all there. Strange words abound.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 329. S. 9. 1180w.
“His bright and chatty narrative, in spite of its want of style, is eminently readable.”
+ Int. Studio. 27: 278. Ja. ’06. 240w.
Pancake, Edmund Blair. Miss New York. $1.50. Fenno.
A story with a college setting. The heroine is a “discovery” made one day by a student who comes upon a rude hut in the mountains near the town. She and her mother are evidently in hiding. For what purpose remains a mystery thruout the course of a tale that defies the reader in the matter of making even a guess at the probation accompanied by sunbonnet and calico.
N. Y. Times. 11: 343. My. 26, ’06. 220w.
Parker, Edward Harper. China and religion. **$3.50. Dutton.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 727. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“We cannot conclude without congratulating him upon the research he has displayed and upon the readable style which makes an abstruse subject easily grasped by the general reader.”
+ + Lond. Times. 4: 455. D. 22, ’05. 970w.
“His method of composition is peculiar and his literary graces are not very great. On the whole, it is cool, clear, impartial.”
+ – Nation. 82: 477. Je. 7, ’06. 820w.
“Mr. Parker is a profound Chinese scholar, and is possibly the highest living authority upon the subject with which he deals in the volume under notice.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 53. Ja. 13, ’06. 1550w.
“His excellent book should be regarded as the best and simplest English authority on this important subject.”
+ + Spec. 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 340w.
Parr, G. D. Aspinall. Electrical engineering in theory and practice. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“The present volume treats only of the elements of the subject and it is to be amplified later or possibly followed by a second volume, the new material to comprise electrical machinery and its applications.... There are three chapters dealing with the fundamental facts and laws regarding magnetism and statical and current electricity. Then follow three chapters dealing with the interrelated subjects, resistance, electro-magnetism and induction. The remainder of the work is of a more practical nature and covers measuring instruments, incandescent lamps, and the thermal and chemical production of electro-motive force.”—Engin. N.
“The work as a whole differs somewhat from other books on the market. In general its field may be said to be similar to that with the same title by Slingo and Brooker, which is also an English book. It will be read with profit by practical engineers desiring a broad general view of the principles of electrical engineering practice.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + Engin. N. 56: 55. Jl. 12, ’06. 870w.
Parrish, Randall. [Bob Hampton of Placer.] †$1.50. McClurg.
The Sioux uprising in 1876 furnishes the main incidents for this story of Wyoming and Montana, and of Bob Hampton, a gambler and disgraced army officer, who saves the life of Naida, old Gillis’s girl, at the risk of his own, only to discover that she is his own daughter. He does not reveal himself to her however, but gives her up for the sake of her future, then quietly renounces his old life and keeps watch over her from afar. In the end he dies a brave death, leaving her an untarnished name and a gallant soldier lover. It is a stirring tale of frontier life and Indian warfare culminating in a description of the Custer massacre.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
“Its theme, indeed, is so like that of Harte’s ‘Protégé of Jack Hamlin’s’ as to make it seem rather more reminiscent than original. A certain racy quality of its own, however, it preserves.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
“Is one of the good Western stories—not especially literary, but thoroughly interesting, and excellent in plot and characters.”
+ Outlook. 81: 890. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
Parrish, Randall. Historic Illinois: the romance of the earlier days. **$2. McClurg.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 755. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“The book will interest the general student of our national history as well as the people of Illinois.”
+ Critic. 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 90w.
“Altogether the book is highly attractive, and will be found particularly useful in the schools, every one of which should be provided with a copy.”
+ + Dial. 40: 94. F. 1, ’06. 250w.
“It would be difficult to find a picture of pioneer days at once so true to the spirit of the time and so accurate in detail.”
+ + Ind. 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 150w.
“Altogether he gives a very tolerable idea of Illinois history.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 89. F. 10, ’06. 400w.
“His book, in a word, is encyclopaedic in scope. No pretense is made to original research, but the authorities followed are sound, and there is little to criticise.”
+ Outlook. 81: 1083. D. 30, ’05. 150w.
“An entertaining volume of historic romance.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 80w.
Parrish, Randall. Sword of the old frontier; a tale of Fort Chartres and Detroit. †$1.50. McClurg.
“Mr. Parrish writes with colour and spirit, and his ingenuity in devising new variations in adventure is admirable.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 194. F. 17. 280w.
“One thing to be said in favor of Randall Parrish’s books is that the melodrama does not appear in streaks; it is part of their very essence; you recognize it at once from a certain trick of style that sounds like an echo of Ouida at her worst.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 22: 632. F. ’06. 580w.
“The story is strictly conventional in type, but the type is one that has justified its right to exist.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 4. Ja. 6. ’06. 200w.
Parry, David Maclean. Scarlet empire. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A book to make the socialist satisfied with things as they are. A young socialist weary of life plunges into the sea. He wakens in a lost Atlantis, known as the Scarlet Empire. Here is a social democracy in which people dwell in slavery; the state owes every man a living which it grants in a grudging sense, food, conversation, education and marriage, all being limited. The hero sickens of his satiety of scholastic practices, and after gruesome experiences escapes with three companions to his own New York world.
“‘The scarlet empire’ is not a discussion of socialism. It is rather a developed misconception of socialism. It is a house built on the illusive sands of fundamental error or false premises.” Ellis O. Jones.
– Arena. 36: 330. S. ’06. 2050w. Critic. 48: 573. Je. ’06. 80w.
“Crudely written as it is, it sets forth a skilfully constructed plot and shows a certain enthusiasm for his subject on the part of the author, but throughout the book the great aim seems to be not only to satirize all the doctrines that Socialists hold dear, but even, where possible, to burlesque them.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 604. Ap. 21, ’06. 1420w.
“The satire is light but cleverly aimed.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“As a story the book is fairly readable, but as a contribution to the discussion of the social problem it has no slightest claim to consideration.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Parry has missed a splendid chance and has missed it so widely that he almost obscures the chance.”
– Pub. Opin. 40: 476. Ap. 14, ’06. 520w. R. of Rs. 33: 759. Je. ’06. 120w.
Parsons, Mrs. Clement. David Garrick and his circle; il. **$2.75. Putnam.
“Mrs. Parsons’s book is first of all a life of the greatest of English actors, a record of his triumphs and a study of his methods. It is also a broad picture of the social life of the day. Garrick is followed into all the circles he frequented, and we make the acquaintance of the great company of his friends and associates.”—Outlook.
“She has written a very charming and entertaining book, which clothes wide learning in graceful though transparent chiffon. The pity is that she has not always—or not often—distinguished between lightness of the right and the wrong kinds.”
+ – Acad. 71: 415. O. 27, ’06. 140w.
“Among stage records the present volume will take an agreeable place. It is written with abundant verve, and shows a wide range of reading.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 703. D. 1. 840w.
“The chief fault in Mrs. Parsons’s book is its diffuseness. The author has done her work thoroughly, however, and carefully; such research commands respect, because of what it exacts in the gathering. Students will find her volume a mine of information, and an available reference-book, with its commendable bibliography and appropriate illustrations.”
+ + – Lit. D. 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 170w. + Lit. D. 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
“This is a work of vastly superior quality to the great majority of books, especially those of recent date, relating to the stage and its associations.”
+ + Nation. 83: 377. N. 1, ’06. 1010w.
“It has the easy cleverness of a clever woman’s letter, but it is perhaps a little too vivacious, too allusive, too up-to-date and too on-the-spot for a stately tome of 400 pages.” Brander Matthews.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 794. D. 1, ’06. 990w.
“This book, besides being an admirable study of Garrick, is a gallery of admirably executed eighteenth-century portraits, a repertory of most delectable anecdotes that strike with perfect truth the keynote of the period, and a mine of curious and out-of-the-way information in regard to eighteenth-century theaters, the physical conditions of the stage, the tumultuous behavior of the audiences, the costumes of the actors and actresses, and no end of other matters of a kind that will be keenly relished.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 714. N. 24, ’06. 410w.
“She has humor, has this admirer of the great English actor, and a clever way of expressing it; she also has the knack of recreating the whole from a fragment. And, at the same time, she is a capable serious historian of stage and drama.”
+ Putnam’s. 1: 381. D. ’06. 180w. + Sat. R. 102: 648. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“He has found here an admirable chronicler.”
+ + Spec. 97: 831. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
Parsons, Ellen C. Christus liberator. **30c. Macmillan.
“The author has managed to pack in a surprising amount of concrete and stirring story.” L. Call Barnes.
+ Am. J. Theol. 10: 199. Ja. ’06. 160w.
Parsons, Frank. Heart of the railroad problem: the history of railway discrimination in the United States, with efforts at control, remedies proposed, and hints from other countries. **$1.50. Little.
Twenty years of study and observation have been brought into Dr. Parsons’ treatment of this subject. “The study reveals the facts in reference to railway favoritism—or unjust discrimination from the beginning of our railway history to the present time, discloses the motives and causes of discrimination, discusses various remedies that have been proposed, and gathers hints from the railway systems of other countries to clarify and develop the conclusions indicated by our railroad history.”
“It is by far the most important, authoritative and comprehensive popular discussion of the rate question that has appeared, and no intelligent American should fail to read it.”
+ + + Arena. 35: 658. Je. ’06. 3700w.
“An exhaustive and authoritative work that is extremely clear and interesting, while affording the most complete and satisfactory view of the railway question and the true relation of the railways to commercial enterprises, to the government and to the people, that has ever been published in any land.”
+ + + Arena. 36: 557. N. ’06. 9730w.
“The merits of Mr. Parsons’s book are in its thorough and compendious presentation of the various evils that have come to pass in the making of railway rates. If the treatment is open to criticism, it is along the line of the genesis of these conditions.” John J. Halsey.
+ + Dial. 41: 35. Jl. 16, ’06. 1350w.
“As a critic of existing conditions, the author has done his work well.” William Hill.
+ J. Pol. Econ. 14: 575. N. ’06. 250w.
“The book is a readable collection of single instances of railroad enormities. In the hands of one acquainted with the essentials of transportation, it may prove of service; in the hands of a novice, it is likely to engender prejudice and disseminate error.”
+ – Nation. 83: 17. Jl. 5, ’06. 850w.
“The book is a useful one and brings the subject down to date, but it casts only the scantiest light ahead.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 287. My. 5, ’06. 790w.
Parsons, Henry de Berkeley. Disposal of municipal refuse. $2. Wiley.
“The book is mainly devoted to the characteristics of the material collected in New York, the uses to which it may be put, and the principles underlying its sanitary and economic handling.”—Nation.
“We take pleasure in commending Mr. Parsons’ book, within the limits covered by it, as a fair and able presentation of the main points involved in the disposal of municipal refuse, more particularly by cremation.”
+ + Engin. N. 55: 558. My. 17, ’06. 1130w. Nation. 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w. + Nature. 74: 630. O. 25, ’06. 580w.
Partridge, William Ordway. Czar’s gift. **40c. Funk.
A pretty little tale of how Paul, the wood carver, made for the czar a statue of his lost daughter so beautiful that it won for Paul’s brother, the nihilist, release from the mines in Siberia, and brought them both the czar’s forgiveness and protection.
+ Arena. 36: 220. Ag. ’06. 360w.
Passmore, Rev. T. H. In further Ardenne: a story of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. **$2.50. Dutton.
This little section tucked away between Belgium, Prussia, France and Lorraine has not been much written about owing to its not being among the “Beaten track itineraries.” The author very generously offers to “pay your fare for you, so to speak, and take you there, and present you to its beauties and interests and simple kindly folk, without troubling you to move out of your chair.”
“The charm of this book is that the author has the power of communicating his ‘etat d’âme.’”
+ Acad. 69: 1236. N. 25, ’05. 260w.
“If the author had restricted himself to what he knew and saw, or was told on good authority, he would have made a noteworthy addition to the very limited number of works on his subject.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 418. Ap. 7. 250w.
“Enthusiasm, spontaneity, kindly humor, and a sprightly style characterize the volume.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + Dial. 40: 234. Ap. 1, ’06. 370w. + + Ind. 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 180w.
“It is a real book, not a made book, that he has given us.”
+ + Lond. Times. 4: 422. D. 1, ’05. 430w.
“Would that Mr. Passmore had put all of his experience in simpler phrase. His command of verbal wealth and imagery too often leads him from standards safe astray.”
+ – Nation. 82: 105. F. 1, ’06. 520w. N. Y. Times. 10: 809. N. 25, ’05. 350w.
“This is no guide-book; it is far better—a book to read, and read again, and then to follow, not like the blind Baedekerite, but as one follows Walton.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 151. Mr. 10, ’06. 360w.
“A very entertaining volume, in which history, legend, folk-lore, and description are linked together by a mind attuned to the picturesque, the romantic, and—the humorous.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 1083. D. 30, ’05. 310w.
“We think a style less wanton than Mr. Passmore’s and more sweet than Baedeker’s would serve the purpose better.”
+ – Sat. R. 100: sup. 14. D. 9, ’05. 300w.
“Mr. Passmore is both historical and descriptive, and in both characters shows much energy.”
+ Spec. 96: 504. Mr. 31, ’06. 290w.
Paston, George, pseud. (Miss E. M. Symonds). Social caricature in the eighteenth century. *$15. Dutton.
“George Paston’s book deals textually and pictorially with the various phases of social caricature and of the social groups, the places, the fashions which inspired the pens of the artists, who were ever on the alert for abnormal tendencies—‘Le Beau Monde,’ the Pantheon, Carlisle House, the Mall, Hyde Park, Dramatic and musical, Literary and artistic, and, finally, Popular delusions and impostures.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is perhaps inevitable that the text of the book itself, being obviously ‘written up’ to the illustration, should be less interesting as a whole, though abounding in isolated good things.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 240. F. 24. 1400w.
“What is really the first complete work on the subject of English eighteenth century caricature that has yet appeared.”
+ + Int. Studio. 28: 86. Mr. ’06. 330w. + Lond. Times. 5: 30. Ja. 26, ’06. 160w.
“George Paston’s text is a splendid achievement of thoroughly sympathetic work, whether seen from the point of view of history or criticism.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 367. Je. 9, ’06. 890w.
“The volume is full of the entertaining and curious from cover to cover.”
+ Spec. 96: 794. My. 19, ’06. 340w.
Paternoster, George Sidney. Cruise of the Conqueror: being the further adventures of the motor pirate; with a front. by Frank T. Merrill. $1.50. Page.
A sequel to “The motor pirate,” whose hero, it will be remembered, after bringing repeated terror to England shot over the edge of a precipice to certain death. How he comes to life and is in the present story the “same truculent hero in an eight-foot, gold-coated motor boat, capable of something over forty knots an hour at sea.” (Ath.) suggests exciting possibilities for the present tale of adventure. Nor does Mr. Paternoster make sure of his elusive hero at the end of the present story, the evasion suggests another reappearance.
“It is not strong in characterization or literary style; but it has go and vigour.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 200w.
“Aside from the glamourless love interest, the further adventures of the motor pirate form, as they should, exciting reading.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 560w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“The author contrives that his melodrama shall be to a certain extent convincing.”
+ Spec. 96: 345. Mr. 3, ’06. 120w.
Paterson, Arthur, and Allingham, Helen (Mrs. W. Allingham). Homes of Tennyson. **$2. Macmillan.
The homes of Tennyson have been painted by Mrs. Allingham, and Mr. Paterson has furnished the descriptive portions which are written “from a personal rather than a biographical standpoint.” “The book pleasantly deals with Farringford, in the Isle of Wight, where Tennyson usually spent the winter, and with Aldworth, on the borders of Surrey, and Sussex, the summer home of Tennyson’s declining years.” (Ind.)
+ Ind. 59: 1384. D. 14, ’05. 60w.
“There is not one word in his book that could have wounded the susceptibilities of Tennyson, yet the record is full of interest and charm.”
+ Int. Studio. 28: 181. Ap. ’06. 110w. + – Lit. D. 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 120w.
“Mr. Paterson’s share in this book, whose value is quite unaffected by his defects—sentimentality and exaggerated adoration of Tennyson—would call for no remark had he not loaded his pages with a construction that must give pain to the sensitive reader.”
+ – Nation. 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 340w. N. Y. Times. 10: 835. D. 2, ’05. 210w. + Sat. R. 100: 728. D. 2, ’05. 60w.
“The descriptive letterpress, by Mr. Arthur Paterson, is worthy even of the work of Mrs. Allingham. He commands a style that is graphic in the best sense.”
+ + Spec. 96: sup. 648. Ap. 28, ’06. 280w.
Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton. Poems; with an introd. by Basil Champneys. $1.75. Macmillan.
“All the poems, with the latest changes in them (whether improvements or otherwise) are brought together in a single volume of clear and stately print. A remarkably faithful portrait is included in the six-shillings’ worth, and Mr. Basil Champneys adds an introductory discourse in which a sufficiency of biographical detail has place.”—Acad.
+ Acad. 71: 366. O. 13, ’06. 1640w. + Nation. 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 240w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 702. O. 27, ’06. 1250w. Putnam’s 1: 378. D. ’06. 90w.
Patrick, William. James, the Lord’s brother. **$2. Scribner.
The author stands on debatable ground in his monolog which aims to show that the author of the Epistle of James is the James whom St. Paul refers to as “the Lord’s brother” in Galatians i, 19. “His conclusion is the one that Christian men would naturally wish to be true but it must be confessed that serious difficulties are in the way. These Dr. Patrick combats with great ability, but with a success that seems somewhat contingent on the predilection of his readers.” (Outlook.)
“We welcome his volume as a scholarly and reasonable contribution to a clearer understanding of the forces at work during the apostolic age.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 138. Ap. 20, ’06. 930w. – Nation. 83: 152. Ag. 16, ’06. 430w.
“With ample learning makes a very plausible argument.”
+ Outlook. 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 130w.
Patten, Helen Philbrook. Music lovers’ treasury. **$1.20. Estes.
An anthology of poetry, ancient and modern, referring to music and musicians.
“A volume that certainly merits its title.”
+ + Dial. 39: 446. D. 16, ’05. 70w. Ind. 59: 1544. D. 28, ’05. 40w. N. Y. Times. 10: 645. S. 30, ’05. 80w.
“The compiler has generally succeeded in avoiding the merely commonplace or distinctly bad, and the anthology is pleasing.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 275. Ap. 28, ’06. 300w.
Paul, Herbert Woodfield. History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“The value of Mr. Paul’s history lies in its being a convenient record of events or, as we have said, above, an enlarged Annual register. It will be excellent material for the historian of the future, when he comes to deal with the time of which he treats.”
+ + Acad. 69: 1309. D. 16, ’05. 1550w. (Review of v. 4.)
“By judicious omission and emphasis, the author’s strong grasp of the subject as a whole and his sense of dramatic unity he has produced a sort of journalistic prose epic of the British Empire, centering about the two protagonists Beaconsfield and Gladstone. This volume seems in many ways the best of the four which have thus far appeared.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 898. Jl. ’06. 1930w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Fair-mindedness continues to be a marked feature of this able and lively work.”
+ + – Ath. 1905, 2: 892. D. 30. 560w. (Review of v. 4.)
“On the whole, Mr. Paul deserves warm congratulations on the last volume of his attractive history.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 860w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Mr. Paul writes entertainingly and satisfactorily, and as this information can be found nowhere else, except with great trouble in scattered special treatises or in voluminous biographies, his book will unquestionably be heartily welcomed by a large number of readers.”
+ + Critic. 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 390w. (Review of v. 4.)
“His work is everywhere compact, but his terse and vigorous style gives emphasis to what might otherwise easily read like a mere summary of political events.”
+ + Dial. 40: 95. F. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The effect on the mind is produced by the continual bias of the writer’s judgment, together with the bitter and ungracious way in which the judgment is expressed. We regret that so good a book should be marred by such tiresome defects, for Mr. Paul is interesting and painstaking and clear.” G. Townsend Warner.
+ – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 604. Jl. ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“It is entertaining even where most exasperating; its sharpness and color will not allow the interest to flag; in fact, there is nothing on modern history comparable to it unless it be Hanotaux’s recent work on ‘Contemporary France.’”
+ + – Ind. 61: 833. Ag. 9, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 4.) + + Lond. Times. 5: 14. Ja. 12, ’06. 840w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The book is not written by the Mr. Paul whom the House of Commons knows. But neither is it written by the delightful author of ‘Men and letters’ and ‘Stray leaves.’ It is written by that able and useful but less distinguished person, a daily journalist. There is nothing of great importance in it.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 660w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Here he is again bright, rapid, epigrammatic, free from all vagueness or hesitation, delivering positive and definite views, telling his story in short sentences, whose meaning no one can mistake. He is not a partisan in the sense of endeavoring to suppress the case for the side to which he does not belong while setting out the whole of his own. But he has strong opinions, and allows them to appear.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 120. F. 8, ’06. 2310w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“Alertness of mind and the ability to visualize and present pointedly are his to an extraordinary degree. They give his work all the sprightliness of a contemporary record. After the brave beginnings of his earlier volumes we are not quite satisfied with this one.” Christian Gauss.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 176. Mr. 24, ’06. 1750w. (Review of v. 4.)
“For him who wishes a brilliant account of English politics and the working of that great governmental machine, the English constitution, there is no better book.” Christian Gauss.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 845. D. 8, ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 5.) Outlook. 81: 1081. D. 30, ’05. 80w. (Review of v. 4.)
“It need hardly be added that his pages are distinguished by the ease, candor, honesty and incisiveness that gave such a charm to the earlier installments.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 5.) R. of Rs. 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Mr. Paul is a clever journalist whose fascinating style of writing and peculiar type of humour succeed in making the dullest subjects entertaining.”
+ Sat. R. 100: 215. Ag. 12, ’05. 1800w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This volume may be recommended as a work of reference and at the same time a very entertaining reading, for it is full of shrewd and philosophic sayings about political parties, is suffused with dry humor, and contains occasional flashes of wit.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 303. Mr. 10, ’06. 1410w. (Review of v. 4.)
“In many of the transactions described by him, Mr. Paul, as an active politician must have taken some part. During most of the period covered by this volume, Mr. Paul’s opponents were in power. Yet the story is told with scrupulous impartiality: nought is set down in malice: and though in so concise a work there must necessarily be much suppression, the perspective is admirably caught and maintained. An absence of picturesque detail is the price we have to pay for sober style, relieved by touches of caustic but not ill-natured humor.” Arthur A. Baumann.
+ + – Sat. R. 102: 477. O. 20, ’06. 1920w. (Review of v. 5.)
“He writes so well, his judgment is, on the whole, so sound, that we cannot but deplore the deficiencies of his narrative.”
+ + – Spec. 96: 345. Mr. 3, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The new volume, like the volumes which have preceded it, is brilliantly written. Whatever qualities or defects Mr. Paul may have as an historian, his style is, in the main, beyond criticism. His narrative may occasionally be inadequate, but it is never dull.”
+ + – Spec. 97: 726. N. 10, ’06. 1660w. (Review of v. 5.)
Paul, Herbert Woodfield. [Life of Froude.] **$4. Scribner.
Thru the personal assistance of Miss Froude and Ashley Froude, the historian’s only son, the biographer has gathered a generous amount of new and interesting material by means of which he traces Froude’s character and career. “He was one of England’s really great historians.... No historian has done so much as Mr. Froude to interpret aright the English reformation and its great characters, no one so much to explain Henry VIII, and no one so much to dispel the romantic mystery which has enveloped the character and career of Mary Queen of Scots, who deserves to be ranked, as Froude’s realistic portraiture has ranked her, with Jezebel of Israel, Lucretia Borgia of Italy, and Catherine de’ Medici of France.” (Outlook.)
“A book that from beginning to end is always attractive, although, for our part, we feel that the biographer has given too much attention to the controversies in which Froude was engaged.”
+ + – Acad. 69: 1217. N. 25, ’05. 1480w. Am. Hist. R. 11: 901. Jl. ’06. 750w.
“His book is a series of essays about Froude; It is in no sense a biography, like Froude’s own work on Carlyle.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 164. F. 10. 1470w.
“In Froude he has a spicy subject. He was sure to produce a lively book.” Goldwin Smith.
+ + Atlan. 97: 680. My. ’06. 5050w.
“Mr. Herbert Paul is well fitted to write a sympathetic life of Froude, both because, of his own historical studies and because, like Froude himself, he possesses imagination and a sense of style.” H. T. P.
+ + Bookm. 23: 529. Jl. ’06. 2420w.
Reviewed by George Louis Beer.
+ Critic. 49: 180. Ag. ’06. 1990w.
“Whether it be that sympathy with his subject has imparted to him something of Froude’s own consummate art as a literary craftsman, certain it is that he has produced a very readable account.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + Dial. 40: 80. F. 1, ’06. 2630w.
“The biography ... which has something of an ‘official’ character, is made subordinate to the description and estimate of his writings.” A.
+ – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 397. Ap. ’06. 1800w.
“No reader can finish Mr. Paul’s volume on Froude without a vivid impression of the life which it is written to commemorate. Had he contented himself with narration, and omitted the discussion of his hero’s merits as an historian, the volume would have been more useful and permanent.” Charles A. Beard.
+ + – Ind. 60: 683. Mr. 22, ’06. 1610w.
“A work whose biographical and critical sides are, however, very uneven.”
+ – Ind. 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
“If Mr. Paul has failed to produce a masterpiece, he has written what will be accepted as an adequate life, and perhaps it may prove to be the final one. It is an excellent piece of work, considering the limitations imposed.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 490w.
“Perhaps the most exact title for this interesting book would have been ‘Froude: a sketch.’ It is alive from the first page to the last. It is full of Froude and full of his biographer.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 4: 417. D. 1, ’05. 2270w.
“Marked by his usual force, point, and vivacity.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 452. My. 31, ’06. 2510w. + + – N. Y. Times. 10: 875. D. 9, ’05. 1670w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
“His admiration lends a charm to his volume, but also imparts to it its two chief defects: it could be lessened in bulk with advantage ... and its tone is throughout too much that of one who is retained to defend an accused from attack. But in the main we agree with Mr. Paul’s interpretation.”
+ + – Outlook. 82: 92. Ja. 13, ’06. 520w.
“There is, perhaps, nothing really new in the volume, but there is certainly a great deal of vigorous, pungent, and intellectually brilliant comment on the views and accomplishments of the late historian.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 118. Ja. ’06. 190w. + Sat. R. 101: 52. Ja. 13, ’06. 1530w.
“This is a very delightful and refreshing book. Is one of the best and happiest portraits we have seen painted with that most graphic of instruments, the pen, for a long time.”
+ + – Spec. 96: 148. Ja. 27, ’06. 1870w.
Paul, Herbert Woodfield. Stray leaves. **$1.50. Lane.
“Ten brilliant papers by Herbert Paul the accomplished critic and historian.... As characterizations the essays on Bishop Creighton and George Eliot are most stimulating.... In his book reviews Mr. Paul ... defends his point of view with nimble wit and careless confidence. He differs with Leslie Stephen in his estimate of George Eliot. He analyzes the essays and addresses of Mr. Balfour, touching upon the political position of the ex-leader with caustic irony.... The review of Lucas’s ‘Life of Charles Lamb’ is favorable and highly appreciative.... ‘The study of Greek’ and ‘The religion of the Greeks’ show the cleverness of the author from another point.”—Outlook.
“The main reason why Mr. Herbert Paul is not a great critic is that he is not fundamental. An agreeable, witty and learned writer, he still lacks the patient analytical power and penetration required for any true illumination of his subject.”
+ – Acad. 71: 278. S. 22, 06. 1470w.
“The articles reprinted by Mr. Herbert Paul under the title of ‘Stray leaves’ are pretty sure to repeat the success of his similar collection ‘Men and letters.’”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 364. S. 29. 580w.
“Apart from this absurd notion as to the uselessness of a little Greek, Mr. Paul has written a good book.”
+ + – Dial. 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 480w. + Lit. D. 33: 556. O. 20, ’06. 180w.
“Is as rich in pleasure-giving quality as its predecessor, ‘Men and letters.’”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 329. S. 28, ’06. 1070w.
“They are unfailingly pleasant reading. ‘Pleasant’ is exactly the adjective.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 814. D. 1, ’06. 108Ow.
“Altogether, one could not read a more entertaining and enlivening book than this collection of papers.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 290w.
“The ‘Stray leaves’ were worth gathering together and preserving.”
+ Putnam’s. 1: 384. D. ’06. 60w.
Paulsen, Friedrich. German universities and university study; authorized tr. by Frank Thilly and W: W. Elwang. **$3. Scribner.
Here “the German university is surveyed from every side—compared with the universities of other countries, with its old self in former ages, its relation to German national life, the instructors and their instruction, the students and their studying, and lastly the separate faculties as they prepare students for four professions. Altho his exposition of present conditions leaves no feature neglected, what interests one most in the present book is the practical aspect, the bearings of each feature of the university.”—Ind.
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 609. N. 17. 1780w.
“While useful and authoritative, the volume is not wholly suited to English readers.”
+ – Dial. 41: 19. Jl. 1, ’06. 310w.
“A volume might be written in praise of this admirable book. A second volume might be written on the thoughts concerning American higher education which it suggests. It will at once be accepted as the authoritative book on its subject. Fortunately the translation effectively preserves some of the best qualities of Paulsen’s very readable style.”
+ + + Educ. R. 32: 315. O. ’06. 1040w.
“An all-round presentation of the most satisfying completeness—historical, descriptive, practical.”
+ + + Ind. 60: 1103. My. 10, ’06. 580w.
“Fresh in the clear, forcible English of Professor Thilly.”
+ Nation. 83: 208. S. 6, ’06. 1250w.
“Such a volume as this, so rich both in information, and in suggestion, cannot be too strongly commended to the attention of American faculties and students.”
+ + + Outlook. 83: 285. Je. 2, ’06. 560w.
“This translation of the elaborate work of Professor Paulsen, the leading authority on the subject, will therefore be welcomed by all who are interested in the question of university education, for its historical retrospects throw light upon the causes which have given to the German universities their exceptional position.”
+ + Spec. 97: 577. O. 20, ’06. 1700w.
Payne, John. Selections from the poetry of John Payne made by Tracy and Lucy Robinson; with an introduction by Lucy Robinson. *$2.50. Lane.
Mrs. Robinson says in her introduction that this volume of poems is published as “an appeal to all lovers of poetry on behalf of one of its uncrowned kings—widely known, it is true, as a translator, but as a poet receiving less than insular recognition.” The selections include ballads, blank verse and sonnets, “they are exquisitely graceful, and yet profoundly impressive, pervaded by a moving undertone of sadness, which perhaps reaches its full expression in the beautiful poem ‘The grave of my songs.’ How the poet could have remained in comparative obscurity so long can only be explained by the pre-eminence of his translations, and his own exceeding modesty as to his original writings.” (Outlook.)
“These ‘Selections’ have been made with excellent taste and judgment by Tracy and Lucy Robinson, the latter furnishing the Introduction which is done with sympathetic insight and with fine appreciation of the subject.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ + Critic. 49: 141. Ag. ’06. 550w.
“Is supplied as an extremely interesting study of his work as a whole.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 40: 326. My. 16, ’06. 930w. + Ind. 61: 696. S. 20, ’06. 340w.
“The first impression made by the selection is that of a marvelous virtuosity, an amazing metrical and verbal ingenuity. Of the poeticalness, so to say, of Mr. Payne’s literary impulse there can be no doubt.”
+ Nation. 82: 327. Ap. 19, ’06. 750w.
“His inventive genius and remarkable use of melodious English give an unusual pleasure to the appreciative reader.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 220w.
Peabody, Francis Greenwood. Jesus Christ and the Christian character. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“This is a companion volume to “Jesus Christ and the social question.” It examines the teaching of Jesus concerning personal life, and the applicability of the Christian type to the conditions of the modern world.”—Bib. World.
“It is a most valuable addition to the literature of Christian ethics. It is an immensely fruitful book for all; but it has peculiar eye-opening value for the student afflicted with academic theological myopia.” Herbert A. Youtz.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 765. O. ’06. 700w.
“Here is learning and wisdom and perception of human need, and the word spoken in season, made attractive and convincing and vital by association with the Supreme Person.” George Hodges.
+ + Atlan. 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 250w. Bib. World. 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“The book embodies a clear insight into the fundamentals of the method and of the subject-matter of Christian ethics. And when to this high scholarly value one adds its extraordinary practical suggestiveness in the concrete problems of modern life, it is evident that the book is one which every pastor and teacher should read.” G. B. S.
+ + + Bib. World. 28: 428. D. ’06. 460w.
“The thinking is strong and clear, but somewhat conservative.” W. Jones Davies.
+ + Hibbert J. 5: 219. O. ’06. 840w.
“The lectures are full of power and present a study of Christian ethics which is truly inspiring.”
+ Ind. 60: 222. Ja. 25, ’06. 220w.
“The foot notes show a wide reading in modern studies upon the character of Jesus Christ. The body of the book shows large familiarity with the character and teaching of Jesus Christ.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 836. D. 2, ’05. 190w.
“Scholarly and yet simply phrased treatise.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 80w.
Pearse, Mark Guy. Pretty ways o’ Providence. *$1. Meth. bk.
A group of thirteen stories, simple possible tales, all bearing testimony to the kindly rift that lets the light of heaven thru. How definite good guided Henry Craze in his love-making, saved shy Man’el Hodge from his baneful love-coaching, and touched the heart of a hardened drunkard to transform his dreary cottage into a place fit for the home-coming of his little maid, are among the “pretty ways o’ Providence.”
+ Outlook. 83: 225. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.
“These are pretty little stories of excellent moral tone, a little over-sentimental and pious in a Methodist fashion, but pleasantly and simply written with appreciation of country atmosphere and rustic ways.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 150. Ag. 4, ’06. 30w.
Peck, Ellen Brainerd. Songs by the sedges. $1. Badger, R: G.
“Miss Peck has a pretty fancy and a light touch, which are just the qualities needed for this sort of reminiscent verse.” Wm. M. Payne
+ Dial. 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 150w. + N. Y. Times. 10: 925. D. 30, ’05. 40w.
Peck, Rev. George Clarke. Vision and task. $1. Meth. bk.
Fifteen sermons in which the task of Christian living is expressed in terms of life to-day, and is brought home with the force of current comparison. The titles include: The passing of mystery; The plain heroic breed; A vision for the wilderness; A lesson for the street; The biography of a back-slider; Doing good by proxy; The hindering God; The thorn as an asset; The paramount duty; and The divine dependence.
“These are strenuous sermons, clearly conceived, and delivered in clear and forcible English.” Edward Braislin.
+ Am. J. Theol. 10: 573. Jl. ’06. 180w.
“This is a collection of sermons eminently good. Their vision is clear.”
+ Outlook. 81: 892. D. 9, ’05. 60w.
Peck, Harry Thurston. William Hickling Prescott. **75c. Macmillan.
“If this were the only existing life of Prescott it would leave much to be desired; taken in connection with the lives by Ticknor and Mr. Rollo Ogden it will serve a genuinely useful purpose.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ – Atlan. 97: 117. Ja. ’06. 640w.
Peckham, George Williams, and Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford. [Wasps, social and solitary]; with an introd. by John Burroughs. **$1.50. Houghton.
“The book of the Peckhams is valuable as a whole because it gives us an accurate description of the types of behavior of many different genera and species of wasps.” J. B. W.
+ + Psychol. Bull. 3: 172. My. 15, ’06. 1160w.
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford. By Italian seas; il. by the author. **$2.50. Scribner.
“The interest of the book lies, of course, in the pictures rather than the text, altho the latter satisfactorily fills its function of supplying a running descriptive commentary enlivened by picturesque anecdotes and observations of peasant life on all sides of the Mediterranean. For the author fortunately interprets his title, liberally, and includes not only the overwritten Riviera, but Dalmatia, Malta and Tunis, which are still pervaded by Italian influences.”—Ind.
“Pleasant and informing book.” Wallace Rice.
+ Dial. 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“The sketches of the Austrian coast of the Adriatic are especially interesting, for strangely enough, it is rarely visited by the tourist. But the numerous pen drawings and half tones of this handsomely printed book will do something toward removing this ignorance, for after we have read it and looked at the pictures we shall know more about it than many who have been there.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1290. N. 20, ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Peixotto’s style is always clear, picturesque and mellow, and often poetic, and he draws his word-pictures with the same dexterous touch with which he sketches his pen-and-ink pictures of church spires, tall cypresses, or ruined monasteries.”
+ + Nation. 83: 512. D. 13, ’06. 450w.
“In publishing another edition of Mr. Peixotto’s book a few misspelt Italian and French words should be corrected, but in the present edition one hardly notices these rare errors in the enjoyment of the author’s straightforward, wholesome style whether he gives us a word-picture or an etching.”
+ + – Outlook. 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 130w.
“The book is really good reading, a capital record of travel for the stay-at-home, observant of the picturesque, appreciative of historical associations as of artistic beauties, and as for the illustrations, Mr. Peixotto long since passed the stage in his career where praise of his work was necessary.”
+ + Putnam’s. 1: 379. D. ’06. 180w.
“Mr. Peixotto’s descriptions of his wanderings through Italy and across the Adriatic have the fascination of a novel.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 753. D. ’06. 50w.
Pemberton, Max. My sword for Lafayette; being the story of a great friendship; and of certain episodes in the wars waged for liberty, both in France and America, by one who took no mean part therein. †$1.50. Dodd.
Zaida Kay is a young American who after the battle of Yorktown follows Lafayette to France. “There is mutiny on the high seas; there is a miraculous escape; there is an idyllic sojourn in a quaint little village on the coast of England, and a romantic marriage with a young French girl in hiding there from enemies at home.” (N. Y. Times.) And before a return to America is accomplished the two are led thru a maze of happenings precipitated by Frenchmen fighting for liberty.
“The author has a certain facility of invention, but his style is without flexibility, and his figures are rarely anything more than puppets.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + Dial. 41: 37. Jl. 16, ’06. 100w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 271. Ap. 28, ’06. 260w.
“For the most part the episodes are trite, and without exception the characters are lifeless puppets. But it is perhaps in dialogue that Mr. Pemberton fails most signally.”
– Sat. R. 101: 561. My. 5, ’06. 230w.
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell). Charles Godfrey Leland: a biography. 2v. **$5. Houghton.
“All who knew Charles Godfrey Leland knew that the man was stronger than his work. It is this man that Mrs. Pennell draws for us. From her pages radiates a personality that refreshes and rejoices, a vitality that heartens, and invigorates the reader. Not but that the biographer, proud of her brilliant uncle, does her best to give some account of what he achieved. And here she serves him truly.... The biography is mainly the work of Leland’s own pen. It consists almost entirely in transcripts from his memoranda, notes, and other papers, and of letters written to his family and to celebrities, American and English, with some of their replies. Mrs. Pennell furnishes the necessary links, transitions, and explanations, drawing upon her knowledge of the man and his ways, acquired during the period of her intimate companionship with him.... The illustrations consist of two frontispiece portraits of ‘the Rye,’ and facsimile reproductions of letters written to him by Lowell, Holmes, Tennyson, Browning, Bulwer-Lytton and many others.”—Nation.
“She has done ample justice to the fine traits in her uncle’s character, and has produced a biography which will be read with pleasure by all to whom his talents and achievements were known.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 686. D. 1. 1410w. Current Literature. 41: 648. D. ’06. 1220w.
“As a companion and supplement to the ‘Memoirs’ of 1839, it helps to furnish a full-length portrait of an unusually interesting man.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + Dial. 41: 198. O. 1, ’06. 1850w.
“A life absorbed in interests of so romantic a nature cannot fail to furnish a rich find to the biographer, and Mrs. Pennell has acquitted herself admirably of the task.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 556. O. 20. ’06. 370w.
“Is one of the really important books of the kind that have appeared this season.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“This readable biography, permeated with the strong personality of its subject has the shortcomings that Leland’s versatility made practically avoidable.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 262. S. 27, ’06. 1430w.
“This and other failings of his, Mrs. Pennell does not see; it is perhaps, not a part of her chosen task to see them. That she gives great charm to her record goes without saying; and that her estimate of her uncle as a person of importance is just, no reader will be disposed to deny.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 625. O. 6, ’06. 1580w.
“If the tone is rather more admiring than would be the case if it were not all in the family, is nevertheless an exceedingly readable book, full of letters and anecdotes of real intrinsic interest.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“The life and character of Charles Geoffrey Leland [are] sympathetically interpreted by his niece.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 553. N. 3, ’06. 2430w.
“Mrs. Pennell has very cleverly contrived in this way to make her brilliant uncle’s cheerful, enthusiastic personality pervade the book, and to give, at the same time, his own valuation of the different tasks to which his versatility applied itself during his long career.”
+ + Putnam’s. 1: 381. D. ’06. 390w. + + R. of Rs. 34: 639. N. ’06. 140w. + + – Sat. R. 102: sup. 3. D. 8, ’06. 1960w.
Pepper, Charles Melville. Panama to Patagonia: the Isthmian canal and the west coast countries of South America. **$2.50. McClurg.
The author, a member of the Permanent pan-American railway committee, dates his study from the year 1905. His lessons in physical and commercial geography show that the geographical sphere of the canal includes the Amazon basin, the Argentine wheat plains and the Andes treasure box of mines from Panama to Patagonia. The author analyzes the national tendencies, political history, governmental policies and the unfolding of industrial life among the inhabitants. He urges America to share in the opportunity which the canal enterprise has created for contributing to the civilization that comes thru the spread of commerce and industry.
“There are few matters treated in the volume which are of interest to the ordinary traveller or reader.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 364. S. 29. 590w.
“The book is timely, well written, and copiously equipped with maps and illustrations.”
+ + Critic. 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 200w.
“The book before us will be of value to every American who would keep in touch with our own commercial development; nor less does it deserve a place in the alcove devoted to books of travel.” Thomas H. MacBride.
+ + Dial. 40: 322. My. 16, ’06. 1160w.
“The book is a useful one for its descriptions of the countries and people which we ought to know much more about than we do and for the trade and industrial facts and figures it contains.”
+ + Ind. 60: 875. Ap. 12, ’06. 250w. + + Lond. Times. 5: 327. S. 28, ’06. 730w. + + N. Y. Times. 11: 291. My. 5, ’06. 270w.
“It embodies ... a serious and commendable effort to enlighten the American public as a matter of National concern.” George R. Bishop.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 333. My. 26, ’06. 3900w. + Outlook. 83: 672. Jl. 21, ’06. 390w.
Perez, Isaac Loeb. Stories and pictures; tr. from the Yiddish by Helena Frank. $1.50. Jewish pub.
The translator makes note of the fact that fully to understand these sketches one needs to know intimately the life of the Russian Jews who figure here, and to be familiar with the love of the Talmud and the Kabbalah which color their talk. These stories are “intensely Jewish” but are told in the spirit of the author’s broad views and wide sympathies.
“The author possesses the master-power which enables him to impart to commonplace and even sordid happenings that deep human interest which lifts his work above the plane of mediocrity to that of genius.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + Arena. 36: 684. D. ’06. 180w.
“Ought to be of interest to any one, regardless of creed, to whom a sympathetic study in human nature is always precious.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 657. O. 6, ’06. 330w.
“They are short in form, depending in the main upon a dramatic perception of character, having no narrative interest, or very little. The various difficulties confronting the translator have not been entirely overcome; but to reproduce a local dialect is almost as impossible as to reproduce the subtle qualities of style.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 432. O. 20, ’06. 190w.
Perkins, Mrs. Lucy (Fitch). Goose girl: a mother’s lap book of rhymes and pictures. †$1.25. McClurg.
A book of verse and pictures for little people.
“The simple little rhymes are quaint and pleasing, and the full page and smaller pictures, in black and white, are done with cleverness and charm.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 60w.
“A folio volume with a ‘stunning’ cover, and with rhymes and pictures above the average in effectiveness and genuine wit.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 766. D. ’06. 40w.
Perrigo, Charles Oscar Eugene. Machine shop construction, equipment and management. $5. Henley.
The author “attempts in this book to give a comprehensive didactic treatment of this subject. There are two main divisions of this subject which should be kept distinct; they discuss (1) The plant, or the producing implement, and (2) Operation, or the handling of this implement. They are just as separate and independent as are construction and operation in the case of railways: though inter-related at many points, they are the concern of different classes of men, based on wholly different sets of principles, and have to meet quite different conditions.” (Engin. N.)
“The work has much interest as a record, even though far from thorough or comprehensive, of the methods and object of laying out a machine shop and controlling its operation.”
+ Engin. N. 55: 194. F. 15, ’06. 1340W.
Perry, Bliss. Walt Whitman: his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.
“Confronted by a figure looming eccentrically large in its environment, as persistently and perversely suggestive of the picturesque as that of Carlyle, and equally rich in opportunities for misinterpretation, the author has set himself to depict it with much the thoroughness and anatomical accuracy shown by the old Dutch masters in the great period of Dutch painting.” (N. Y. Times.) “Mr. Perry’s work is modest in compass, but shows throughout that he has studied the documents with care and patience.... In general the narrative portions are well told and properly balanced.... Much the most important sections of the book deal with sources and here Mr. Perry has a field almost entirely his own.” (Nation.)
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ Atlan. 98: 853. D. ’06. 1530w. Current Literature. 41: 640. D. ’06. 950w.
“Mr. Perry’s critical judgment is calm, sane and discriminating. His attitude is friendly always, at times enthusiastic, although never that of an enthusiast: he never slips his moorings, critically.” W. E. Simonds.
+ + Dial. 41: 317. N. 16. ’06. 2060w.
“It is unusually well written. The materials for anything like a satisfactory estimate are wanting.”
+ – Ind. 61: 1231. N. 22. ’06. 660w.
“Altogether the volume will probably take its place as the sane and authoritative life of Whitman for many years to come.”
+ + Nation. 83: 306. O. 11, ’06. 1210w.
“His book throughout is a striking instance of the value of poise. No significant details are slurred over, no difficult passages are omitted, no grotesque features are softened, no preliminary effort has been considered superfluous, respect for ‘nature as she is’ reigns in the picture: yet the work complete is saved from any suspicion of the meticulous by a fusing glow of imaginative insight.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 717. N. 3, ’06. 1850w.
“Shunning partisanship as well as prejudice, Prof. Perry has been inclined to present a psychological rather than a material biography.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 800. D. ’06. 200w.
“Mr. Perry has made the first successful attempt to bring within a book of moderate compass a complete biography and critical study of that unique personage in American literature, Walt Whitman.”
+ + R. of Rs. 34: 758. D. ’06. 110w.
Perry, John G. Letters from a surgeon of the civil war; comp. by Martha Derby Perry; il. from photographs. **$1.75. Little.
Mrs. Perry has brought together her husband’s letters written during 1862–64 while he was serving as surgeon with the Twentieth Massachusetts volunteers. “His brief and modest letters, supplemented by a few editorial insertions, tell a story of hardship and danger, especially in the Wilderness campaign and before Petersburgh, that easily might have tempted another to essay a more ambitious style.” (Dial.)
+ Dial. 41: 71. Ag. 1, ’06. 310w. Nation. 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 50w.
“A new volume of considerable interest and some historical value.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 557. S. 8. ’06. 670w.
Perry, Ralph Barton. [Approach to philosophy.] **$1.50. Scribner.
To make the reader “more solicitously aware of the philosophy that is in him, or to provoke him to philosophy in his own interests” is the author’s aim in the present work. In the first part of the work the author establishes his approach to philosophy thru practical life, poetry, religion and science; the second part furnishes “‘the reader with a map of the country to which he has been led,’ to provide ‘a brief survey of the entire programme of philosophy.’” The third part “emphasizes the point of view, or the internal consistency that makes a system of philosophy out of certain answers to the special problems of philosophy.” (Philos. R.)
“Dr. Perry has compressed a wonderful amount of information into a short space. Nevertheless we are sorry for the beginner who approaches philosophy by way of such a wilderness of -isms.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 169. F. 10. 440w.
“One closes the book with the conviction of having enjoyed and profited by a gracefully written, a skillfully planned, and well-sustained discussion of the vital relationship of philosophy to practical interests, its inevitableness, its characteristic problems, and its representative systems. The non-technical will doubtless find this approach well designed to lead to intimacy.” Albert Lefevre.
+ Philos. R. 15: 204. Mr. ’06. 1810w.
“Dr Perry possesses the power of writing English that is lucid and distinguished—a rare gift in a philosopher—and this fact, combined with an extremely wide range of reading, enables him to display the historic field of philosophy in a manner that, so far as we are aware, has no precedent other than the famous work of Dean Mansel. This admirable work should be in the hands of every thinker.”
+ + Spec. 96: sup. 1012. Je. 30, ’06. 760w.
Perry, Thomas Sergeant. John Fiske. **75c. Small.
A late “Beacon biography” which presents the life of this worthy historian in summary form, comprehensively viewing the man’s life and labors, “and because the theme was a man of letters rather than affairs, the qualities of an extended essay are more conspicuous than those of biographical narrative.” (Atlan.)
“This brief biography cannot be commended for accuracy, abundance of information, discriminating judgment, or literary merit.” F. G. D.
– – Am. Hist. R. 11: 717. Ap. ’06. 170w.
“One feels in the spirit and outlook which form the background of the little book the peculiar qualifications of Mr. Perry for undertaking what he has performed so well.”
+ + Atlan. 97: 117. Ja. ’06. 360w.
“One turns from it with the feeling that the picture is drawn in bold, strong lines, regretting only that fuller detail was not attempted.”
+ + Dial. 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 250w. Ind. 60: 1548. Je. 28, ’06. 60w.
“Is one of the best, if not the best in the series.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 897. D. 16, ’05. 150w.
“This little biographical essay would make an excellent preface to the collected works of John Fiske. There is a great deal in it.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + + N. Y. Times. 11: 77. F. 10. ’06. 840w.
“He is, indeed inclined to be over-eulogistic, and his portrayal suffers from awkward phraseology. But in spite of this he contrives to convey a good idea of Mr. Fiske both as man and as writer.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 220w.
“A very excellent biography of John Fiske.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 60w.
Peters, Madison Clinton. Jews in America: a short story of their part in the building of the republic; commemorating the 250th anniversary of their settlement. $1. Winston.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 477. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“The results are so interesting that one cannot but wish that the work had been more thoroughly done.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ – Dial. 40: 260. Ap. 16, ’06. 1590w.
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders. History of Egypt from the XIXth to the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.
“It is rather a series of citations from original sources than a history in the modern sense of the term.”
+ + – Bib. World. 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“May be said to be almost a model of a presentative history as distinguished from a philosophical one.” L. H. Gray.
+ + Bookm. 22: 358. D. ’05. 350w.
“It is not history in the popular sense of that term, but it is rather a chronological arrangement of the materials out of which a running narrative could be constructed. As a compendium, it is invaluable to the scholar.” Ira Maurice Price.
+ + Dial. 41: 16. Jl. 1, ’06. 260w.
“He has made a book for students and for specialists, a book which enables us to say that the best and most inclusive history of Egypt is in English; but it is not one that can be read with ease or possesses literary merit.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 104. F. 1, ’06. 610w.
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders. Researches in Sinai. **$6. Dutton.
Dr. Petrie’s researches in the desert region to which Sinai belongs offer large returns to the student of archaeology. “On the way he picked up a few unconsidered trifles in the way of ancient remains; but his main work lay at Maghareh, where the turquois had been mined, and at neighboring Serabít, where was erected the temple to Hathor, the Lady of the Turquois. This temple Mr. Petrie’s party planned and excavated, with the results that, considering the remoteness of the region from Nilotic civilization and the frequency with which the spot has been researched, are truly amazing.” (N. Y. Times.)
Am. Hist. R. 11: 957. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“Its ingredients are excellent, stamped with the hall-mark of the author’s original and independent mind. We only sigh for a little more art in the concoction of them, a little more sense of the difference between a book and the rough notes for several books.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 231. Je. 29, ’06. 1250w. Nation. 83: 168. Ag. 23, ’06. 1620w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 440. Jl. 7, ’06. 870w. + + Outlook. 83: 816. Ag. 4, ’06. 660w. + + – Sat. R. 102: 81. Jl. 21, ’06. 1640w. + + Spec. 96: 986. Je. 23, ’06. 1580w.
Pfleiderer, Otto. Christian origins. *$1.75. Huebsch.
This book has grown out of a series of lectures delivered by the author at the University of Berlin, during the past winter. The viewpoint from which he treats the origin of Christianity is historical, and a complete interpretation of the meaning of his method with its relation to other methods is furnished in the introduction. The two main divisions of his study are Preparation and foundation of Christianity, and The evolution of early Christianity into the church.
“This volume is in our judgment the most important religious work that has appeared during the past year.”
+ + + Arena. 36: 97. Jl. ’06. 3100w.
“Brilliant though it is, needs to be corrected and restrained in its most important positions before it can be taken as a scientifically reliable narrative of the origins of the Christian faith.”
+ – Cath. World. 83: 554. Jl. ’06. 680w.
“The work is condensed and devoid of technicalities, and has been rendered into excellent English.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + Dial. 40: 323. My. 16, ’06. 980w. Ind. 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
“The work of this great scholar will be widely accepted as conclusive. It presents a serious challenge to the Church. To answer it effectively will require, besides equal genius, preparedness to make some concessions.”
+ Outlook. 82: 856. Ap. 14, ’06. 380w.
Phelps, Albert. Louisiana; a record of expansion. *$1.10. Houghton.
“The book as a whole, shows careful study of the sources, and its accuracy is commendable. There are, however, some errors, due partly to a failure to examine recently discovered documents and partly to other causes.” John R. Ficklen.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 408. Ja. ’06. 980w.
“The volume is among the most scholarly of the extensive literature called forth by the recent centennial anniversary of the acquisition of this vast territory.”
+ + Bookm. 22: 532. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“The work bears the stamp of originality, not that it offers any fresh facts to the student, but rather because of the appreciations which it gives of many events and movements.”
+ Cath. World. 82: 119. Ap. ’06. 140w.
“The account of the Reconstruction, though brief, is the first satisfactory treatment of that tumultuous epoch in Louisiana history.”
+ + Dial. 40: 157. Mr. 1, ’06. 470w.
“In accurate scholarship and depth of research it ranks well also, but the last third of the book,—concerning the Civil war, its cause and results—is unfortunately written in a controversial vein with strong Southern sympathies.”
+ + – Ind. 60: 630. Mr. 15, ’06. 440w.
“A narrative exhibiting unity and coherence, and dealing with large events in a large way. One of the best of the ‘Commonwealths’ histories.”
+ + Nation. 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 560w. R. of Rs. 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 60w.
Phelps, Idelle. Your health. **75c. Jacobs.
The colored drawings by Helen Alden Knipe which illustrate this little volume of toasts add much to its attractions. The toasts themselves are not wholly new but cover a broad field extending from “the world” to “babies,” and from “the Garden of Eden” to “a bird, a bottle and an open-work stocking.”
“Something of the champagne flavor belongs to the collection of toasts.”
+ Dial. 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 40w.
Philippi, Adolf. Florence; tr. from the German by P. G. Konody. *$1.50. Scribner.
“This is an excellent compendium of the art and, on the whole, of the history of Florence. Misprints are, unfortunately, rather numerous.”
+ + – Sat. R. 100: 851. D. 30, ’05. 520w.
Phillipps, L. March. In the desert. $4.20. Longmans.
“This interesting volume is a triumph of impressions.” (Ath.) “It is concerned with two unrelated topics; the French scheme of colonization in Algiers, and the influence of the Sahara desert on Arab life, architecture, religion, poetry, and philosophy.... In his thesis that the Arab character is the outcome of the influence of the desert, Mr. Phillipps gives us a sketch of the effect of the desert life on himself, and applies his experience to that of the Arab.” (Dial.)
“A vivid, plausible, and spirited piece of word-painting, which may safely be commended to all save the real student and the practised traveller in Africa.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 133. F. 3. 480w.
“The author has made an entertaining contribution to our knowledge of Arab life and art.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ Dial. 40: 233. Ap. 1, ’06. 470w.
“Would that Mr. Phillipps had never thought it his mission to simplify history! That omitted, he had written a very charming book.”
+ – Lond. Times. 4: 368. N. 3, ’05. 1110w.
“The book is interesting and suggestive, though the style is at times somewhat discursive and it is a little difficult to follow the author’s train of thought.”
+ – Nation. 82: 449. My. 31, ’06. 290w.
Phillips, David Graham. [Deluge.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
“It must rank as a conservative under-statement of conditions as they are now known to exist. As a romance this novel compares favorably with ‘The cost’ in human and love interest while as a section taken from present-day public life it is equal to ‘The plum-tree.’”
+ + + Arena. 35: 97. Ja. ’06. 2690w.
“His strongest piece of work up to the present time.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + Bookm. 22: 372. D. ’05. 520w.
Phillips, David Graham. [Fortune hunter]; il. by E. M. Ashe. †$1.25. Bobbs.
The fortune hunter of the title of Mr. Phillips’ latest story is an actor who spends his days in making love to girls of wealthy parents. In ever choosing, in going out of his way, in fact, for the course of least resistance he comes to well deserved grief. And the hearts that are broken do mend.
“The story ... has little plot, but is deeply interesting from cover to cover; and the closing half of the volume is especially admirable.”
+ – Arena. 36: 220. Ag. ’06. 380w.
“Mr. Phillips tantalizes us with the richness of his material and provokes us by the comparatively meagre use that he has made of it.” H. T. P.
+ – Bookm. 24: 179. O. ’06. 380w.
“Rather clever is this sketch of this type of social nuisance.”
+ Critic. 49: 286. S. ’06. 130w.
“The author of ‘The fortune hunter’ has added too much realism to his romantic compound.”
– Ind. 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 80w.
“Is but a slight tale, and one rather grudges its author’s very real powers to such ephemeral productions as are coming from his pen.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 520w. R. of Rs. 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 60w.
Phillips, David Graham. [Plum tree.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
“Story, in a sense, there is none; style, in a literary sense, there is none; merely a serviceable prose, straightforward and energetic.” Mary Moss.
+ + – Atlan. 97: 44. Ja. ’06. 470w.
Phillips, David Graham. [Social secretary.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
“An entertaining, breezy story.”
+ Critic. 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 140w.
Phillips, Henry Wallace. [Mr. Scraggs]: introduced by “Red Saunders.” †$1.25. Grafton press.
Ezekiel George Washington Scraggs is introduced by his friend Red Saunders. The incidents in his strenuous matrimonial career—eighteen marriages all told—are recounted with a humor that “has a suggestion of the slapstick, but like the slapstick it never fails to get a hand, and mixed with it now and then a little genuine wit and more than a little shrewd, practical frontier wisdom.” (Pub. Opin.)
“The stories are by no means dull and if they were not so obviously intended to be funny, if our smiles were not literally held up and challenged on every page, they could be read with real enjoyment.” Mary K. Ford.
+ – Bookm. 23: 197. Ap. ’06. 520w.
“There are seven stories in the book, and it would be hard to decide which is the funniest. The tales are not nearly as funny as the man who tells them, and his way of telling them.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 62. F. 3, ’06. 740w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“It cannot be denied that the travesty is lively and entertaining in a high degree.”
+ Outlook. 82: 375. F. 17. ’06. 90w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 220w.
Phillips, Stephen. [Nero.] **$1.25. Macmillan.
In this latest play of Mr. Phillips “the world is a picture, not a stage, and all the men and women not players, but talkers.” (Lond. Times.) “It is a play, because it shows a will conflict—the struggle between Nero and Agrippina, between natural affection and lust for power—but it is even more a spectacle, illustrating polychromatically the successive stages of Nero’s madness. It has fine poetic passages—appropriately ‘purple’—as we shall see; it has vivid studies of bed-rock character and fierce elemental passions. It blends the fragrance of rose-leaves with the scent of blood. It sates the eye with splendid pictures and the ear with voluptuous music of both verse and orchestra. At the end of it all one gasps and is a little dizzy, in short, it is a tremendous production.” (Lond. Times.)
“It is to be feared that Mr. Stephen Phillips will add little to his reputation by the latest of his dramatic poems.”
– Acad. 70: 223. Mr. 10, ’06. 720w.
“The action of the play does little but show us the different phases of character, but that it does with ingenuity and sufficiency.” Edward Everett Hale.
+ Bookm. 23: 291. My. ’06. 640w.
“It is a poor descent of the talents, from which one can only wish the author a speedy return upon himself to the promise of six years ago.” Arthur Waugh.
– Critic. 49: 20. Jl. ’06. 1050w.
“Artifice and rhetoric seem to be the chief ingredients of the work. The decline from ‘Paolo and Francesca,’ and ‘Ulysses’ is discouragingly marked.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 40: 326. My. 16, ’06. 360w.
“It contains a number of fine passages. But as a vision of life in action, it is feeble and ineffective. And the failing is not merely executive, it is fundamental; the piece is not conceived dramatically, but pictorially and emotionally.”
– + Ind. 61: 520. Ag. 30, ’06. 200w. + Ind. 61: 1164. N. 15, ’06. 50w. Lit. D. 32: 439. Mr. 24. ’06. 1440w.
“The defect of ‘Nero’ is the defect of all its author’s plays. Throughout it we are on the surface of things, never inside them.”
– Lond. Times. 5: 72. Mr. 2, ’06. 1260w.
“It proves him more conclusively than his previous plays did a talented writer of elegiac verse, and expert composer of cycloramic spectacle, who thinks habitually rather in terms of poetic phrase than, as has been the way of the true dramatist, in terms of character, of concerted situation, of human destiny as it is shaped from the clashing, fatal actions of men.”
+ – Nation. 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 710w.
“‘Nero.’ one judges, will not add to the author’s claims as a regenerator of the contemporary English-speaking stage. But it will not deprive him of his laurels as one of the very few contemporary English-writing poets.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 173. Mr. 24. ’06. 1360w. N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16. ’06. 110w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + – North American. 182: 749. My. ’06. 300w.
“The whole play has the air of being written for the stage with the effect of the stage accompaniments always before the writer’s mind. The versification has the grave fault of a lack of organic strength.”
+ – Spec. 96: 426. Mr. 17, ’06. 270w.
Phillips, Stephen. Sin of David. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – North American. 182: 749. My. ’06. 310w.
Phillips, Thomas W. Church of Christ, by a layman. *$1. Funk.
“The writer has little conception of the inwardness of religion, or the historic continuity and development of Judaism and Christianity. The book ‘fails to convince’ largely because the real issues are not touched.” Elbert Russell.
– Bib. World. 28: 77. Jl. ’06. 170w.
“The volume is well worth reading, though based, as we believe on exaggerated views of the evils of denominationalism, and of failure to appreciate the importance of the philosophical and systematic presentation of the underlying principles of the gospel plan of salvation.”
+ – Bibliotheca Sacra. 63: 192. Ja. ’06. 220w.
Phillpotts, Eden. Knock at a venture. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 100w. + Critic. 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 170w. + Ind. 59: 1348. D. 7, ’05. 170w.
Phillpotts, Eden. Portreeve. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Phillpotts has placed the spirit of the Greek Fate in the breast of the daughter of a Dartmoor farmer. Because the man whom she has tricked into making a half-proposal of marriage to her, married the woman he loved, she pursues him through life inexorably and without mercy, finally working his death.” (Pub. Opin.) “Fiendish pertinacity, fiendish coolness, fiendish ingenuity are hers. She is miasmatic ice with a heart of malignant fire. She gives her victim law; he climbs; she strikes ... leaving him once again a little further from his ideal and from happiness. Finally, all but robbed of his livelihood, robbed of his hopes of children, robbed of the simple faith of God that was his dearest possession, he breaks. A raving lunatic, he all but murders the woman’s foolish husband, and dies a horrible death in an attempt to murder the woman herself.” (Acad.)
“When all is said, this is a powerful, almost a great book. A full, wise and glowing piece of work.”
+ Acad. 70: 139. F. 10, ’06. 860w.
“‘The portreeve’ is full of interesting material. But the composition seems to be sometimes at the sacrifice of verisimilitude.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 194. F. 17. 430w.
“It lacks the grim tensity of ‘The secret woman,’ the lyric enthusiasm of ‘Children of the mist;’ but on the other hand, it has a more even strength, a greater dignity that comes from reserve force.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 23: 283. My. ’06. 760w.
“One lays down ‘The portreeve’ in astonishment at the inventiveness and ability that can use the same scenes and the same class of people so often, yet with increasing interest.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ Critic. 48: 433. My. ’06. 380w.
“Mr. Phillpotts comes nearer than anyone else to being the legitimate successor of Mr. Hardy as a rustic realist, and he has a considerable measure of the imaginative power which can invest a simple passionate complication with the severe attributes of high tragedy.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 364. Je. 1, ’06. 210w.
Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.
– Ind. 60: 1041. My. 3, ’06. 340w.
“A turgid dark tale ending in madness and death.”
– Ind. 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
“For all the strain it may put upon our belief, has in it much of its author’s sense of natural beauty and fine sense of sincerity of purpose, and a sympathy with the poor and the oppressed that is not exceeded by any living novelist.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 45. F. 9, ’06. 580w.
“‘The portreeve,’ far nearer the Hardy level than he has ever reached before, is undoubtedly the best work Mr. Phillpotts has done so far.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 192. Mr. 31, ’06. 1160w.
“Mr. Phillpotts has never sketched the loveliness and majesty of the Dartmoor country with a surer hand. The motive is one of the most repellent within reach of the novelist, and is worked out with unsparing boldness.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 756. Mr. 31, ’06. 230w.
“It is a grim, hopeless tragedy woven out of the hard lives and plain, simple speech of the Dartmoor people.”
+ – Pub. Opin. 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 390w. + R. of Rs. 33: 756. Je. ’06. 130w.
Phillpotts, Eden. Secret woman. $1.50. Macmillan.
“A striking example of fine character-drawing revealed through a highly trying medium.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 34. Ja. ’06. 240w.
Phin, John. [Seven follies of science: a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them], to which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions, and marvels. *$1.25. Van Nostrand.
The seven follies discussed are squaring the circle, the duplication of the cube, the trisection of an angle, perpetual motion, the transmutation of metals—alchemy, the fixation of mercury, the universal medicine and the elixir of life.
+ Engin. N. 55: 677. Je. 14, ’06. 220w. Ind. 60: 988. Ap. 26, ’06. 120w.
“He writes for the man in the street, and we can give no higher praise than to say that the man in the street will understand him.” J. P.
+ + Nature. 75: 25. N. 8, ’06. 1110w. Outlook. 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 50w.
“An absorbingly interesting discussion of a subject of no particular value.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 60w.
“His book is a very agreeable excursion into a forgotten but curious field of enquiry.”
+ Spec. 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 470w.
Phythian, J. Ernest. Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood; a short biographical sketch by the author, and 56 full-page reproductions in hf.-tone and a photogravure front. *$1.25. Warne.
The latest issue in the “Newnes’ art library” “deals in a large way with the group of men among whom Dante Gabriel Rossetti made so distinct a name. The author covers his ground by chronicling the history of the movement with little or no personal comment.” (Critic.)
“Writes with a sober accuracy.” Ford Madox Hueffer.
+ Acad. 69: 1296. D. 9, ’05. 110w. Critic. 48: 377. Ap. ’06. 60w. Dial. 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 90w. N. Y. Times. 11: 245. Ap. 14, ’06. 330w.
Pickthall, Marmaduke. House of Islam. †$1.50. Appleton.
“An imaginative picture of the curious Mohammedan world on the fringe of the Sultan’s domain.... The benighted, barbaric, yet intensely human, house of Islam.... Mr. Pickthall’s plan has been to set a saintly, almost Biblical Sheykh in the midst of ambitious men, relying upon the vividness of this presentation and the conflict of character for the interest of his work. Plot there is, but it is unsymmetrical, unimportant. The important thing is that all the machinery of the East is set in motion and for a while the reader is transported to the desert and the mosque, to the wineshop and the bazar.”—Lond. Times.
“Mr. Pickthall rouses our interest and respect; he is as yet without that last touch of inspiration, which rouses enthusiastic conviction.”
+ – Acad. 71: 311. S. 29, ’06. 220w.
“Our only objections are that Mr. Pickthall is at times too resolutely Oriental for the ordinary reader to follow him easily, and that he would gain occasionally by straightforward narrative where facts are conveyed by brief allusion only.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 297. S. 15. 720w.
“He has failed to breathe into his characters the breath of life.”
+ – Lit. D. 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 130w.
“‘Saïd the fisherman,’ it is true remains his masterpiece, but ‘The house of Islam’ has very great merits.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 290w.
“The geography, architecture, and figures are in admirable proportion: the characters stand out and live; the style is swift, pictorial, and amiably cynical, fitting its theme.”
+ Nation. 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 300w.
“The strength of the book lies not so much in the story—although it is an extremely human one—but in the struggles and bloodshed of religious strife, the superstitions of the various sects, and the author’s delicate brush upon these things and upon picturesque Asia.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 530w.
“The author has excellent command of his subject, but he writes with little consideration for his hearers, never appealing to their experience with that instinctive sympathy which helps to bring home to them the episodes of so foreign a narrative. As a result the characters are peculiarly remote, and the story is difficult to follow; although a series of admirable pictures impresses itself upon the mind.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 80w. + Spec. 97: 891. D. 1, ’06. 730w.
Pidgin, Charles Felton. Corsican lovers; a story of the vendetta. $1.50. Dodge.
A Corsican vendetta forms the basis of this adventurous tale in which the fate of many people and two large estates, one Corsican and one English, are involved. The heroine, Vivienne Batistilli wipes out the vendetta by marrying her family’s enemy, Bertha Renville, the heiress, marries the friend of her guardian’s son, and by this arrangement the good and bad receive their just deserts; but there are many wild adventures before all this is safely brought about, and there are many interesting characters involved, perhaps the most truly Corsican being Cromillian, the moral bandit.
“Is amusing (in its way).”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 199. Mr. 31, ’06. 300w.
Pidgin, Charles Felton. Sarah Bernhardt Brown and what she did in a country town. $1.50. Waters.
The heroine of Mr. Pidgin’s new story is a poor girl of obscure family who achieves by sure and steady progress the lady bountiful plane. There are arrayed in the background no less than well to the fore a variety of characters drawn from rural New Hampshire. The plot itself, which travels from Dolby City, Montana, to Snickersville, New Hampshire, must of necessity lose force in transit. The story may be called a companion volume to “Quincy Adams Sawyer.”
“If Mr. Pidgin’s humor is very primitive his supply of talk and narrative (such as it is) is apparently limitless.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w.
“Combines a rather sensational plot with somewhat too extended and thinly drawn out descriptions of country character and rustic pranks.”
– Outlook. 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 80w.
Pier, Arthur Stanwood. Ancient grudge. †$1.50. Houghton.
“While lacking the swing and vitality to animate large issues, he possesses, perhaps unknown to himself, a fine personal gift. This is a delicate sensitiveness to the feelings of very young people.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 110w.
“It is a pleasure, occasionally, to take up a book written with the ability, the intelligent sympathy, the serious purpose that stamp the new volume by Arthur Stanwood Pier.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + Bookm. 22: 495. Ja. ’06. 380w.
“The book is an honest piece of work which one is the better for having read.”
+ Reader. 71: 453. Mr. ’06. 220w.
Pierce, Rev. Charles Campbell. Hunger of the heart for faith, and other sermons. *$1. Young ch.
A series of sermons delivered at the Cathedral open-air services in Washington, D. C. There is an introduction by Bishop Satterlee.
Pierce, James O. Studies in constitutional history. *$1.50. Wilson, H. W.
Beginning with the spirit of ’76, these studies treat of American constitutional history in a clear concise manner which will appeal to both the student and the man of affairs. Such subjects as The United States a nation from the Declaration of independence, The beginnings of American institutions, The ethics of secession, The American and French revolutions compared, The beneficiaries of the federal constitution, Slavery in its constitutional relations, A century of the American constitution, Our unwritten constitution, America’s leadership, The American empire, Righteousness exalteth a nation, and America’s place in history are treated in the light of eighteen years of active lecture work upon kindred subjects.
“The lectures or addresses are pitched in a somewhat exalted key, and are calculated to stimulate patriotism and extol the progress of America. Judge Pierce has not always been careful in the use of authorities. On the whole we must conclude that the volume has no peculiar interest and makes no special appeal to the specialist, the student, or the general reader. The reviews and addresses on the whole well adapted for their purpose, do not make an indispensable volume for the library.”
+ – – Am. Hist. R. 12: 172. O. ’06. 480w.
“A series of studies of value to the careful delver into the facts of American constitutional history is to be found in Mr. Pierce’s book. It is typical of the lawyer mind that created it. Cautious, conservative, and never going beyond the evidence, but here and there is very suggestive.”
+ + Ind. 61: 257. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“We do not always agree with the views expressed, and occasionally we feel that where the views are sound (as they usually are) Mr. Pierce has failed to support them by the strongest arguments. But on the whole, there is remarkably little to criticise in his pages which convey in small compass a large amount of information useful alike to the student of constitutional history and the general reader anxious to improve his acquaintance with the circumstances attending the political, social, intellectual, and religious growth of the United States.”
+ + – Outlook. 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 200w.
Pierson, Arthur Tappan. Bible and spiritual criticism; being the second series of the Exeter Hall lectures on the Bible delivered in London, England, February, March, and April, 1904. **$1. Baker.
A companion volume to “God’s living oracles.” There are twelve lectures treating spiritual faculties, methods, organism, structure, progress, symmetry, types, wisdom, verdicts and verities. They are a defence of the inspiration and integrity of the Holy Scriptures—the discussion of which theme is “a solemn business,” says the author.
“Under the blinding influence of a false theory of inspiration this book presents a strange jumble of gold, silver, and precious stones with wood, hay, and stubble.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 374. F. 17, ’06. 220w.
Pierson, Delevan Leonard, ed. Pacific Islanders: from savages to saints; chapters from the life stories of famous missionaries and native converts. **$1. Funk.
The taming and Christianizing of cannibal tribes make a record of remarkable conquests for the churches. This narrative extols the fearless initiative of missionaries in entering these fields and arousing its people from a state of man-eating savagery. It records the history of missionary work, the resources of the islands, and future possibilities of the natives.
Pigafetta, Antonio. Magellan’s voyage around the world; the original text of the Ambrosian ms., with Eng. translation, notes, bibliography and index, by James Alexander Robertson; with portrait, and facsimiles of the original maps and plates. 2v. *$7.50. Clark, A. H.
An accurate transcription from the sixteenth-century Ambrosian manuscript of Milan appears in these volumes with a page-for-page translation into English. “Pigafetta is the best and fullest authority for Magellan’s voyage which is here completely presented in English for the first time.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
Am. Hist. R. 11: 478. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“The most complete and accurate presentation of the Pigafetta manuscript and the data appertaining to it that has ever been made in any language. In the introduction and his excellent bibliography, Mr. Robertson has brought together the most complete array of data on the subject yet available.” James A. LeRoy.
+ + + Am. Hist. R. 12: 125. O. ’06. 880w. Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 751. N. ’05. 60w.
“A work of laborious and admirable scholarship which should prove of interest both to professional students of history and ethnology and to the curious reader of travellers’ tales.”
+ + Nation. 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 240w. + + N. Y. Times. 11: 649. O. 6, ’06. 630w.
“We have nothing but praise for this interesting and learned work.”
+ + + Spec. 97: 400. S. 22, ’06. 1310w.
Pigou, Arthur Cecil. Principles and methods of industrial peace. *$1.10. Macmillan.
“Mr. Pigou has given us a study that will command admiration for the closeness of his reasoning no less than for the power with which a vast mass of material has been used.” C. J. Hamilton.
+ + Int. J. Ethics. 16: 247. Ja. ’06. 850w.
Pittman, Captain Philip. Present state of the European settlements on the Mississippi, with a geographical description of that river illustrated by plans and draughts; ed. by Frank H. Hodder. *$3. Clark, A. H.
An exact reprint of the original edition, London, 1770, with facsimiles of the original maps and plans. An introduction, notes, and index have been furnished by the editor, making the volume valuable to historical students. “It is a comprehensive account of the Illinois country and its inhabitants, with sketches in detail of the several French posts and villages situated therein, as personally viewed by him in 1766–67.... It contains, in a compact form, much useful and reliable information (nowhere else to be found) concerning the Mississippi valley and its people at that transition period.”
“The notes made for this edition while not voluminous are of decided value.” Edwin E. Sparks.
– – Am. Hist. R. 12: 150. O. ’06. 260w. Dial. 39: 315. N. 16, ’05. 50w. R. of Rs. 34: 511. O. ’06. 80w.
Plantz, Samuel. Church and the social problem: a study in applied Christianity. *$1.25. Meth. bk.
With the aim of assisting in bringing Christian ideals into the domain of our social and industrial life, this discussion presents the present situation of social reconstruction, considers whether the church has a special mission to society as well as to the individual, and brings forward some things the church can and ought to do in order to meet the obligations which the problems of the hour impose upon her.
Plato. Myths of Plato; text and translation; with introductory and other observations by J. A. Stewart. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“This book is likely to prove more stirring, and more lasting, in its appeal, than many a piece of scholar’s work, no less learned, perhaps. but with less of the whole man in it.” R. R. Marett.
+ Hibbert J. 3: 839. Jl. ’05. 1700w.
“The whole book is certainly full of suggestion: even if we must add—as I think we must—that the view of Plato’s attitude here taken is a little unhistorical, and that the metaphysical doctrines here suggested are a little crude.” J. S. Mackenzie.
+ + – Int. J. Ethics. 16: 242. Ja. ’06. 1370w.
“A useful book. The translation is excellently executed in the pseudo-archaic Biblical ‘Morte d’Arthur’ style, which is distasteful to many critics, but which on the whole is better suited to the myths than is the easy colloquialism of Jowett. It is substantially correct.” Paul Shorey.
+ + – J. Philos. 3: 495. Ag. 30, ’06. 1790w. + – Quarterly R. 204: 68. Ja. ’06. 480w.
Platt, Isaac Hull. Bacon cryptograms in Shakespeare and other studies. **$1. Small.
The author says: “I wish distinctly to deny that what I am about to present proves Bacon’s authorship of the plays. What I do claim, and I think in reason, is that they seem to constitute grounds for a very strong suspicion that he was in some manner concerned in their production or associated with them.” “The book consists of eight more or less connected papers, the most important of which are The Bacon cryptograms in Love’s labour’s lost, which deals with the Latin of Act. V., Scene I., The Bacon cryptograms in the Shakespeare quartos, and The testimony of the first folio.” (Dial.)
“Sundry old fooleries in the ‘cipher’ line, with a few new ones of the same sort set forth in better typography than such stuff deserves.”
+ + Critic. 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 20w.
“The Shakespearians may breathe a sigh of relief, and resume their immemorial repose. Mr. Platt, at any rate, cannot break their sleep.” Charles H. A. Wager.
– – Dial. 40: 90. D. 1, ’06. 1230w.
Plummer, Alfred. English church history from the death of King Henry VII to the death of Archbishop Parker. *$1. Scribner.
“These lectures are not intended for experts, and, in the first instance, were not intended for publication. They were written for popular audiences in connection with the Exeter Diocesan church reading society; and their object was, and is, to stimulate interest in the fortunes of the Church of England at a very critical period of its history.” “The main interest of Dr. Plummer’s lecture lies, naturally, in their account of the fortunes of the Church of England in the period under review, and it is as a succinct epitome of that story that the little sketch is chiefly valuable, though the author’s judgment of political events and the men of action in them is often very happily expressed.” (Yale R.)
“We regret that he is so swayed by ecclesiastical prepossessions as to descend to the arts of special pleader.” Eri B. Hulbert.
– Am. J. Theol. 10: 352. Ap. ’06. 340w.
“Many will dissent from Professor Plummer’s judgments, and regret the scant courtesy shown to all opponents of the Establishment. But for all that, he has given in these lectures a suggestive and thorough-going treatment of the period under review.” J. F. Vichert.
+ – Bib. World. 28: 76. Jl. 28, ’06. 530w.
“He knows how to be severe to both sides when they deserve it, is unfavorable in his estimation of Wolsey, and not too hard on Henry VIII.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 86. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.
“A little volume of decided merit.” Williston Walker.
+ + Yale R. 15: 95. My. ’06. 490w.
Plunkett, Sir Horace Curzon. [Ireland in the new century.] *60c. Dutton.
“The appreciative student of social and economic problems will welcome this very readable and inciting book.” J. Dorum.
+ + Westminster R. 164: 525. N. ’05. 3250w.
Plympton, Almira George. Old home day at Hazeltown. $1.25. Little.
The trials of Roxy, a brave hearted little maid, and her grandmother who are looked upon as encumbrances in a cross daughter-in-law’s household furnish the first part of this story. The second part tells how Roxy’s long absent father returns during “old home day,” buys grandmother’s old estate, and heaps coals of fire upon the head of the relative who had grudgingly housed the two.
+ R. of Rs. 34: 767. D. ’06. 40w.
Pocock, Roger. [Curly, a tale of the Arizona desert.] †$1.50. Little.
“The fact that the story is told in a vivid and spirited manner and that it is crowded with exciting and melodramatic incidents only makes its potential influence for harm all the greater.”
– + Arena. 35: 111. Ja. ’06. 280w.
Poincare (Jules) Henri. Science and hypothesis: with a preface by J. Larmor. *$1.50. Science press.
“Professor Poincaré is one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of our day.... And withal, being a Frenchman, he is able to write in a vivacious style.... The secrets of the trade of the man of science have never before been exposed so frankly. He shows how the progress of science has been at times impeded by too much knowledge.... A false hypothesis is often of more service than a true one, because it leads to new discoveries.... And Professor Poincaré’s main object is to show how hypotheses are useful and why they are justifiably held to have more value and precision than the experiments which served to demonstrate them.”—Ind.
“It is a book which ought to be much more widely read than it is likely to be.”
+ Ind. 61: 458. Ag. 23, ’06. 340w.
“We really cannot recommend this translation. But every one who is interested in these subjects should read M. Poincaré in the original.”
– + Lond. Times. 4: 233. Jl. 21, ’06. 1480w.
“There is certainly no one with the same intimate knowledge of mathematical and physical science who could have written with the same authority and produced a volume in which so much charm and originality are condensed. The wealth of his store of illustration is boundless, and the stringency of his logic leaves us without answer. Even in cases where our instincts rebel, we are carried away by the fascination of the language, which in each subdivision of the subject takes us with dramatic power to its artistic dénouement. The English translation errs, perhaps, on the side of following too literally every sentence, and sometimes even every word in the sentence, of the French original.” Arthur Schuster.
+ + – Nature. 73: 313. F. 1, ’06. 2260w.
“Certain defects in his equipment are, however, quite prominent. In the first place, he lacks psychological training. M. Poincaré is handicapped by the lack of a general logical theory upon which to base his special logical investigations. Our author has no general theory of knowledge; and he passes by the most obvious epistemological considerations without so much as a nod of recognition. I fear that the reader has been given but a slight notion of the exceeding interest and suggestiveness of this work. If there is much that should awaken caution, there is also a fund of wise and penetrating observations. Those who are least attracted by the author’s conclusions may well be repaid for the reading by the impressive survey which he gives of the present state of mathematical and physical science.” Theodore de Laguna.
+ – Philos. R. 15: 634. N. ’06. 3380w.
Pollard, Albert Frederick. [Henry VIII.] *$2.60. Longmans.
The magnificent Goupil-Scribner edition of 1902 makes its re-appearance in a modest two-volume reprint shorn of its glory and portraits save for the frontispiece, Holbein’s chalk drawing of King Henry.
“The new edition, which is neat, serviceable and well printed, will enable the ordinary reader to make acquaintance with a most valuable contribution to the historical study of a vexed time and a disputed character.”
+ Acad. 09: 1111. O. 21, ’05. 70w.
“There can be no doubt that the present compact volume will prove far more useful for purposes of historical study than its bulkier and far more expensive predecessor. As far as the present reviewer is able to discover the volume is entirely free from misprints and minor errors.” Roger Bigelow Merriman.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 650. Ap. ’06. 680w. + Ath. 1905, 2: 506. O. 14. 60w.
“A model biography of its kind. It is well proportioned throughout, and its literary style is excellent.” Edward Fuller.
+ + Bookm. 23: 288. My. ’06. 370w.
“Perhaps the strangest part of Professor Pollard’s work is his account of the origin and progress of the movement that separated England from Rome. It seems that the author’s view of Henry’s character as man and monarch is entirely too favorable.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ – Dial. 40: 291. My. 1, ’06. 1590w.
“For the use of the student the present form is decidedly preferable, and it does better justice to the author himself, as we know now exactly the evidences on which each particular statement rests. The book certainly is the result of great industry and very high ability.” James Gairdner.
+ + Eng. Hist. R. 21: 155. Ja. ’06. 1660w. + – Ind. 60: 800. Ap. 5, ’06. 530w.
“The cheaper edition may challenge the costlier on the scholarly plane.”
+ Nation. 81: 402. N. 16, ’05. 130w.
“Is a careful and able narrative of one of the most vital periods of English history.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 896. D. 16, ’05. 170w.
“Has been reissued in a less expensive and more convenient form and with revisions and additions that greatly increase its value.”
+ + Outlook. 82. 135. Ja. 20, ’06. 2360w.
Pollard, Albert Frederick. Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation, 1489–1556. *$1.35. Putnam.
“Pollard’s biography is fuller than that of Canon Mason, and it is very fortunately, for the ordinary reader, free from the high church prejudices of Jenkyns and Dixon.” John McLaughlan.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 352. Ap. ’06. 260w.
Pollock, Frank Lillie. Treasure trail. $1.25. Page.
An exciting narrative of the efforts of two rival search parties to locate certain gold bullion stolen from a Boer government and stored in a steamer sunk somewhere in the Mozambique channel. It is a tale of chance, of daring, with adventure no whit below the spirit of its eager gold hunters.
Poole, Ernest. Voice of the street; a story of temptation. †$1.50. Barnes.
“The story of a young street Arab, Jim, possessed of a splendid voice, who emancipates himself from all those deteriorating influences which Mr. Poole calls the ‘street,’ and finally becomes a great singer. At the same time it is the story of self-sacrificing love on the part of a young girl who in order to support ‘Lucky Jim’ and her father turns thief. The book is not intended for mere entertainment. It is the portrayal of the better and the lower influences at work among the poor of the East End of New York. Mr. Poole knows these people well and he has spoken for them as their interpreter.”—World To-Day.
“While admitting the book’s uncommon quality, one may question whether the ending is, in the truest sense, a happy one.”
+ – Bookm. 23: 640. Ag. ’06. 850w.
“Ought to have been a fine novel. But somehow it is not.”
+ – Critic. 49: 287. S. ’06. 100w.
“In short, the thing which pleases and satisfies the critical sense in this book is the approach it makes toward interpretation and presentation of the life of the poor according to the modern conscience, while at the same time giving it the form and dignity of real literature.”
+ + Ind. 60: 1546. Je. 28, ’06. 930w.
“Poole is too much influenced by the hysterical manner for his story to endure.”
– Ind. 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 40w.
“Here the situations depicted are so poignant and yet natural, the characters are so lifelike that we almost forget the crudities in the manner of telling and the general commonplaceness in the make-up of this very human little story.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 320w.
“Though there is never relief from movement, there is often a drag in the process of the tale. Vigor, directness, and the absence of mock sentimentality, however, weigh heavily on the other side.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 674. Jl. 21, ’06. 260w.
“He has dramatic insight, an unsensational realism and a downright sympathy for those who struggle for the better.”
+ World To-Day. 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 150w.
Pope, Jesse Eliphalet. Clothing industry in New York. $1.25. Univ. of Mo.
“This book is Volume I of the ‘Social science series’ of the University of Missouri.... The study was made at first hand in New York City and is restricted to men’s and children’s outside wearing apparel and to women’s cloaks. The history of the clothing industry is traced, showing how the change was gradually made from custom to ready-made work, the development of the sweating and factory systems. The questions of wages, hours of employment, systems of production and of payment are described at length. Then the author turns to the conditions of employment at home, sanitation, income and expenditures, passing to regulation by law, trade unions, etc.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The work has been well done, and the result is not merely a good history of a special trade, but it teems with social facts of great value.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 240. Ja. ’06. 160w.
“Much research has evidently gone to the making of this bulky volume and its results are summed up with great clearness.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 327. Mr. 17. 350w.
“Throughout the volume, however, there is lacking the scientific accuracy of the trained statistician and the scholarly background of the student well read in economic history.” Edith Abbott.
+ – J. Pol. Econ. 14: 252. Ap. ’06. 810w. Outlook. 81: 631. N. 11, ’05. 60w.
“The slenderness of the author’s acquaintance with the actual conditions obtaining in the clothing industry in New York, is indicated by the omission of all reference to the decision of the Court of Appeals, in the case in re Jacobs, promulgated in 1885.” Florence Kelley.
– Yale R. 14: 433. F. ’06. 340w.
Porter, General Horace. Campaigning with Grant. *$1.80. Century.
An intimate record of Grant’s movements during the Civil war, made up from General Porter’s careful and elaborate notes taken on the scene of action. The aim has been to “recount the daily acts of General Grant in the field, to describe minutely his personal traits and habits, and to explain the motives which actuated him in important crises by giving his criticisms upon events in the language employed by him at the time they took place.” There are numerous illustrations, maps and a facsimile of the letter containing the oft quoted “I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”
“The book is undeniably entertaining, and in its present attractive dress should have a new lease of life.”
+ + Nation. 83: 392. N. 30, ’06. 150w.
“Will long maintain its place as one of the best books about the Civil war, not only because it is authoritative, but more especially because it is full of human and personal interest, and it is written with animation and with compelling descriptive power.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 60w.
Potter, Mrs. Frances B. (Squire). Ballingtons. †$1.50. Little.
“As a literary production the story deserves high praise. It is realistic in the best sense of that much-abused term, and the depressing effect of the story is at times counteracted by an underlying vein of humor which permeates much of the dialogue. Yet it is a book that we cannot find it in our heart to recommend, as it does not solve the problem and the general effect upon the reader’s mind is decidedly depressing.” Amy C. Rich.
+ – Arena. 35: 447. Ap. ’06. 290w.
“What gives the book its uncommon distinction is the sense that you get everywhere in it of the far-reaching effect of human passions; the sense of how love and sorrow, cruelty and unkindness, even such a negative quality as indifference, extend their silent influence to every hour of the day, every relation of life.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + – Bookm. 22: 371. D. ’05. 520w.
“Perhaps in the very fullness of its pain, in the intensity of its message in the searching cry of the book, lie the value and significance of the story.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 347. Mr. 17, ’06. 140w.
“Presenting a climax of ethical and practical significance.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 60w.
Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Codman. Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops. **$2. Putnam.
“The bishops and archbishops of whom Bishop Potter writes are thirteen in number, the bishops being all Americans; the archbishops of course, are Englishmen. The reminiscences embrace exactly forty years, beginning as they do in 1866, when the author was chosen secretary of the House of bishops. It is the personal note that the author aims to sound, rather than the professional or biographical.”—Lit. D.
“Fails to gratify the expectations created by its title or to fulfil the promises of its preface. Fully a third of the matter comprised in the ten biographies is quoted.”
– + Dial. 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 180w. + Lit. D. 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 190w.
“The net result of the book is to prove that ecclesiastics are like other men, in having a saving sense of humor, in regard for substance rather than for form in religion, and in emphasis upon character rather than on possessions.”
+ Nation. 83: 350. O. 25. ’06. 330w.
“The present volume contains many valuable and entertaining reminiscences.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, 06. 170w.
“Bishop Potter has an enviable reputation as a talker, and these pages will not diminish that reputation.” Cameron Mann.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 667. O. 13, 06. 980w.
“This is a book to interest laymen no less than the clergy.”
+ Putnam’s. 1: 382. D. ’06. 150w. + R. of Rs. 34: 758. D. ’06. 60w.
Potter, Margaret Horton (Mrs. J. D. Black). [Genius.] †$1.50. Harper.
This story is the first of the author’s proposed “Trilogy of destiny,” three stories of Russian life. It follows the career of a famous Russian composer who was destined by a cruel unscrupulous, iron-handed father for the army and intrigue. How he slips thru the clutches of what seemed inevitable fate and is saved to a life which develops the artist’s temperament in him is presented with a free stroke in keeping with the rapid action.
“The book is not without some strong pages. But as a picture of Russian life it is not to be taken seriously.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 23: 283. My. ’06. 360w.
“This is the best written and the sanest of any of Miss Potter’s books. It is impossible, however, to approve such liberties as she has taken with the lives of men so lately dead.”
+ – Critic. 48: 573. Je. ’06. 170w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 280w.
“A book in certain qualities rather above the average, but its ambitiously cultivated style is a fair example of the way in which English should not be written.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 230w.
“The parts are greater than the whole.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 177. Mr. 24, ’06. 460w.
“There is an irresistible fascination about the great grey land which captivates the imagination and proves an endless treasure to both writer and reader alike.”
+ Outlook. 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 120w. R. of Rs. 33: 759. Je. ’06. 80w.
Potter, Mary Knight. Art of the Venice academy, containing a brief history of the building and its collection of paintings as well as descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their artists. **$2. Page.
Int. Studio. 29: 183. Ag. ’06. 110w.
“The work is appreciatively and sympathetically written.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 40w.
Pottinger, Sir Henry. Flood, fell and forest: a book of sport in Norway. 2v. $8.40. Longmans.
“We note some repetition and overlapping of matter, but all things considered, the tales are well told, if occasionally with some pardonable complacency.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 682. N. 18. 280w.
“Though we could have spared some digressions from his portly volumes, we have not found a page too long.”
+ Lond. Times. 4: 350. O. 20, ’05. 740w.
“But there is little in Sir Henry’s two volumes to make them worth printing. We hardly think that even professionally inclined outdoor people will find much amusement in these books.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 73. F. 3, ’06. 550w.
“Every lover of Norwegian sport will be grateful to an author who can revive for him a host of pleasant memories.”
+ Spec. 95: 868. N. 25, ’05. 410w.
Powell, Edward Payson. Orchard and fruit garden. **$1.50. McClure.
“This book should be possessed by every farmer in the Republic and by all persons who have land for a few trees and berry bushes.”
+ + Arena. 35: 330. Mr. ’06. 660w. + Reader. 6: 727. N. ’05. 180w.
Powell, Frances. Prisoner of Ornith farm. †$1.50. Scribner.
“The startling abduction of Hope Carmichael from her own wealthy family and luxurious surroundings to the mysterious farm in Connecticut where she is held a prisoner in a barred room on the plea of insanity, her numberless wild and futile attempts at escape and the power over every one with whom he comes in contact of the villainous counterfeiter Lannion—these things combine to make a more than thrilling narrative.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Is melodrama of the baldest sort.”
– Critic. 48: 573. Je. ’06. 70w.
“Miss Powell has the story teller’s art of awakening interest in plot and characters, which is unsatisfied until the denouement is reached.”
+ – Ind. 40: 931. Ap. 19, ’06. 160w.
“There is no doubt this is sensationalism of a successful sort. It is exciting enough to make one forget even the toothache.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 185. Mr. 24, ’06. 230w.
“[Has] vividness and suspense and [shows] considerable ingenuity in sustaining the reader’s attention in the main situation by the dramatic way in which the successive incidents are managed ... weak as to the motive for action.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w. World To-Day. 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 80w.
Powell, Mary Elizabeth. Dying musician. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
A poem filled with pathos and longing which is the anguish of unrealized happiness. For the musician has loved and suffered:
“Then should thy judgment move
To censure harsh, for having dared to love
(E’en as great Tasso) one above me far
And hopeless of attainment as a star—
My one defense,—even as his—must be
Because I loved, what not to love and see
Was more or less than mortal and than me.”
Power, John O’Connor. Making of an orator. **$1.35. Putnam.
In his suggestions to young orators. Mr. Power emphasizes the value of individuality. While obeying certain structural principles he advises the student to encourage his natural freedom of speech and to learn that rhetoric “was designed as an aid to speakers and writers, and not as a means of bettering their natural ability.”
“The book has many valuable suggestions, and will repay all who are ambitious to excel in any branch of oratory.”
+ Cath. World. 84: 416. D. ’06. 140w.
“It contains a number of excellent hints and suggestions to the public speaker of any sort, conceived and presented in a simple and unpretentious fashion.”
+ Ind. 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“This book is undoubtedly interesting and valuable; yet it is not entirely obvious who will most appreciate its interest and value.”
+ – Nation. 83: 210. S. 6, ’06. 670w.
“A book that is not only useful, but entertaining.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 413. Je. 23, ’06. 330w. + Outlook. 83: 767. Jl. 28, ’06. 300w. R. of Rs. 34: 511. O. ’06. 50w.
“This is an interesting book.”
+ Spec. 96: 990. Je. 23, ’06. 240w.
Powers, Harry Huntington. Art of travel: the laboratory study of civilization. 2d ed. 50c. Bureau of University travel, Trinity place, Boston.
Some of the topics discussed by way of valuable suggestion to the prospective traveller are the art, purpose, method and means of travel, university travel, outfit and travel in different countries.
Powers, Harry Huntington, and Powe, Louise M. Outlines for the study of art. v. 2. $1.50. Bureau of university travel, Trinity place, Boston.
An outline for the later period of Italian art beginning with Leonardo and ending with the decadence. The text furnishes a guide for the laboratory study of the period and is written to accompany a collection of reproductions.
Powles, H. H. P. Steam boilers, their history and development. *$6.50. Lippincott.
About one-third of the work is devoted to the work of old-time engineers in boiler design beginning with the spherical boiler made by Hero of Alexandria in 150 B. C. Then follow chapters in plain, cylindrical, Cornish and Lancashire boilers, water-tube boilers, and motor-car boilers. His closing chapters compare various types of boilers, and discuss boiler development in general.
“We do not see that the book will be of any particular use to an engineer familiar with boiler design and construction; but it may possibly find a useful place on the shelves of public libraries, where there is a constant demand for popular information on technical subjects. Its chief value is as a history, but it is far from complete.”
– + Engin. N. 55: 192. F. 15, ’06. 330w.
Pratt, Agnes Louise. Aunt Sarah, a mother of New England. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
Sarah Marsh, dubbed Aunt Sarah by her friends, is a typical example of an undemonstrative, stoical, but, withal, motherly New England woman of the Civil war times. She has two sons. Francis, the younger, leaves home to study. While away he discovers that his pledge of love to Hope Hamilton was a mistake. Hope, with true heroism, releases the student, to the relief of Philip, the elder son, a serious-minded manly young fellow who silently cherished a love for Hope. When the war summons comes the mother bravely speeds her sons on their way to the front, both of whom return; one to die, the other to find his happiness.
Pratt, Antwerp Edgar. Two years among New Guinea cannibals: a naturalist’s sojourn among the aborigines of unexplored New Guinea; with notes and observations by his son, Henry Pratt, and appendices on the scientific results of the expedition. *$4. Lippincott.
The title would suggest that the explorer of the volume went armed for such frays as Rider Haggard’s “She” depicts. On the contrary he is occupied with the inoffensive pursuit of birds and plants, butterflies and moths. The bower bird, the blue bird of paradise, a new variety of orchid, a magnificent scarlet creeper, spider’s webs and wonderful butterflies are of vastly more interest to Mr. Pratt and hence to his readers than the surrounding cannibals. “The scientific results of the expedition were a new reptile, a new fish, and a number of new lepidoptera.” (Lond. Times.)
“The reader who cares for chronicles of forest life will find many pleasant pages.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 76. Jl. 21. 930w.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
+ Dial. 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 360w.
“His anthropological notes are meagre, and if he had observed the natives more closely he would not have called them ‘cannibals’ even to provide himself with a grim and awe-inspiring title.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 134. Ap. 12, ’06. 340w.
Reviewed by Cyrus C. Adams.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 734. N. 10, ’06. 660w.
“Mr. Pratt is, however, a naturalist, and it is in this capacity he should be mainly judged. But on the whole the book is somewhat disappointing from this point of view as well.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 660. My. 26, ’06. 1130w.
“We cannot here follow Mr. Pratt’s wanderings in search of his prey, but we can assure our readers that he makes a very entertaining narrative out of them.”
+ Spec. 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 310w.
Pratt, Edwin A. Railways and their rates. Dutton.
“Although partisan in its character, the book contains much valuable information conveniently arranged.” William Hill.
+ – J. Pol. Econ. 14: 123. F. ’06. 220w. + Nation. 83: 288. O. 4, ’06. 720w.
“Mr. Pratt’s book is not exactly light literature, but his style commends itself to serious readers. Especially we commend his serenity of temper. We commend Mr. Pratt’s book to those who prefer to follow their judgments rather than their feelings in a complex situation.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 589. S. 22, ’06. 1610w. R. of Rs. 33: 768. Je. ’06. 100w.
Preissig, Edward. Notes on the history and political institutions of the old world. **$2.50. Putnam.
“A series of notes on the history of the countries of the old world from the earliest times, supplemented by notes on their institutions, religions, literature, art, and geographical features, and by a number of maps.”—Outlook.
“A text book of rather unusual scope which promises to be of considerable value.”
+ – Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 340. S. ’06. 120w.
“A convenient students’ manual of general history.”
+ Dial. 41: 94. Ag. 16, ’06. 100w.
“Is a history on the lines of Myers, tho fuller and not so convenient.”
+ Ind. 61: 237. Ag. 2, ’06. 16w.
“As there is little promise of a short cut in this portly octavo we fear it will be avoided by the retarded freshman or sophomore. Unfortunately it is not well adapted for the use of other readers.”
– + Nation. 83: 290. O. 4, ’06. 650w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 459. Jl. 21, ’06. 280w.
“For advanced study the work is of little value, but it is distinctly meritorious as a compact presentation of salient facts, dates, etc., and should prove popular both as an aid to the beginner and as a handy reference work for the library, the study, and the newspaper office. For purposes of consultation, however, it would have been improved by more exhaustive indexing.”
+ + – Outlook. 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 180w.
“A useful historical treatise.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 50w.
Prescott, William Hickling. Complete works. Lib. ed. 12v. $12. Crowell.
A complete library edition of Prescott’s works and in addition the authorized “Life of Prescott” by George Ticknor. It represents the best workmanship of the times, and contains illustrations which are the result of special research including reproductions of portraits, maps and paintings. Each volume is supplied with an index as well as a synoptical list of contents.
“In general the edition is a desirable one.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 100w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 878. D. 15, ’06. 460w.
“The present edition has been carefully edited as to text, is printed from new type, and has many well chosen illustrations. May be commended to all those who wish to have a complete library edition.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 100w.
Preston, Sydney Herman. On common ground. †$1.50. Holt.
The man who goes “Back to nature” to rejuvenate himself, succeeding “without either the morbid egotism or illusive susceptibility” of his teens, keeps a diary. It is this from-day-to-day record that tells of his farm occupations, of the shortcomings of Joseph, his man-of-all-work, and of the garrulity of Mrs. Biggles, his housekeeper. In tales of this kind the Ponce de Leon quest is never unaccompanied with a romance. Olivia Humphrey is near by, is engaging, is a musician. The wooing is natural even to the prosaic.
“A very ordinary sort of book, and highbrowed intellectuals have no right to find the slightest enjoyment in reading it. There is therefore a lurking sense of shame in the necessity I feel for confessing to a genuine enjoyment in its perusal.” Edward Clark Marsh.
– + Bookm. 24: 56. S. ’06. 1010w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 347. My. 26, ’06. 390w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
“This sort of writing is becoming too easy for the author, and too tedious for the long-suffering reader.”
– Outlook. 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 50w.
Prichard, Kate O’Brien Hesketh, and Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh (E. and H. Heron, pseud.). Don Q. in the Sierra. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Don Q. has abstracted the qualities of his birthright chivalry and has employed them strangely enough in his fearless bandit adventures. Relentless and merciless with the unworthy wayfarer who happened to fall into his clutches, he was equally remarkable for “the splendour, of his generosities, his almost diabolic courage, his spirit of chivalry, and, perhaps most of all, his unswerving fidelity to the poorest who served him.” Here are more tales to delight the admirers of the invincible Don Q.
“In spite of the sameness, they are eminently readable. You sit down with the book and find yourself unable to put it aside until you have finished it.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 500w.
Prince, Morton. Dissociation of a personality: a biographical study in abnormal psychology. *$2.80. Longmans.
The subject described in this study is Miss Christina L. Beauchamp, a patient of Dr. Morton’s whose three personalities struggled with each other for the control of the body and brain. They were “the saint, the woman, and the devil. The Saint, the typical saint of literature ... may fairly be said, without exaggeration to personify those traits which expounders of various religions ... have held up as the ideals to be attained by human nature.... The Woman personifies the frailties of temper ... ambition.... Sally is the Devil, not an immoral devil ... but rather a mischievous imp.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is not easy for the amateur to estimate the value of this work to the members of the healing profession, but every one must recognize that it is most conscientiously done.”
+ Acad. 70: 449. My. 12, ’06. 870w.
“Most excellent reading for the layman, the physiologist, and the student of psychology.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 549. My. 5. 550w.
“If ‘The dissociation of a personality’ were a work of the imagination, it would be a noteworthy production. That it is, instead, the latest work of science concerning the human soul shows how far we have traveled from the invisible Ego of our fathers.” E. T. Brewster.
+ + Atlan. 98: 425. S. ’06. 910w. + Cath. World. 83: 272. My. ’06. 620w.
“A distinctly notable contribution to our comprehension of the vicissitudes of personality.”
+ Dial. 40: 266. Ap. 16, ’06. 430w.
“This humorous, pathetic and tragic story is written with the vivacity of a romance and apparently without sacrificing scientific accuracy.”
+ Ind. 60: 165. Ja. 18, ’06. 890w. Lit. D. 32: 531. Ap. 7, ’06. 1260w.
“Well written, and, despite its length and some little repetition, of absorbing interest, even to such as usually confine their reading to lighter literature.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 282. Ap. 5, ’06. 1690w.
“The facts of the case are told in a very direct and interesting way.” A. D. L.
+ + Nature. 75: 102. N. 29, ’06. 430w.
“The specific value of the present work lies in the exhaustive circumstantial, and reliable account of the physical, social, moral, and intellectual habits, attainments, etc., of the various personalities assumed by the patient, in relation to her own proper selfhood and to the external society in which she moved.” Edgar C. Beall, M. D.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 548. S. 8, ’06. 680w.
“As a scientific study in an obscure field of research now being actively explored, Dr. Prince’s work is one of interest.”
+ Outlook. 82: 230. Ja. 27, ’06. 210w.
Prior, Edward S. Cathedral builders in England. *$2. Dutton.
Mr. Prior tells the story of mediaeval churches, monastic, secular, collegiate and parochial, whether built for monks, canons, or parish use, whether they were designed as cathedrals, or have now come to have a bishop’s chair. The author begins with the year 1066 and covers the time to the present century. Each of the nine periods into which the book is divided opens with a list of cathedrals discussed in the chapter devoted to that time. There are ample illustrations in black and white.
“It is satisfactory to find the subject approached after a masterly and in many respects an original fashion.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 143. F. 3. 1430w.
“The book is full of vital interest, and should be put into the hands of all young students of the history of their native land.”
+ Int. Studio. 27: 371. Je. ’06. 150w. + + Nation. 82: 434. My. 24, ’06. 1510w. N. Y. Times. 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 270w. + N. Y. Times. 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 280w.
“A good account, with interesting illustration.”
+ Outlook. 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w. + Spec. 96: 423. Mr. 17, ’06. 1390w.
Pritchett, Henry Smith. What is religion? and other student questions: talks to college students. **$1. Houghton.
President Pritchett’s sound advice to young men is along the lines of the science of religion, the significance of prayer, joining a church, etc. He answers the question “What is truth?” and “What is religion?” “in a practical manner far more likely to influence young men in the right direction than more eloquent addresses which depart more from the vital questions to be discussed.” (Critic.)
“Many persons more than students will find food for thought in the little volume.”
+ + Critic. 48: 471. My. ’06. 90w.
“He speaks as a scientist without dogmatic prejudices, and in a free, outspoken and brotherly manner.”
+ + Ind. 61: 824. O. 4, ’06. 210w. + + Outlook. 82: 572. Mr. 10, ’06. 180w.
Proctor, Edna Dean. Songs of America and other poems. **$1.25. Houghton.
Aside from her patriotic numbers including poems for Flag day and Columbus day, and her Indian legends, Miss Proctor offers a group of memorial verses the best of which are those on Emerson and Whittier.
“Patriotic pieces conceived with an admirable seriousness of mood, and elaborated with a good command of poetic materials, but without any very fresh distinctions of inspiration.”
+ Nation. 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 220w.
“Its spirit is purely American, and it is written in pure English.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 768. N. 11, ’05. 80w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 370w.
Prouty, Charles A. and others. President Roosevelt’s railroad policy. 50c. Ginn.
“The book has a certain ephemeral value, although the views of all four of the participants may be found more adequately expressed elsewhere.”
+ – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 174. Mr. ’06. 140w.
Prudden, Theodore Philander. Congregationalists: who they are and what they do. 40c. Pilgrim press.
“A little book whose aim is to make known the wide influence of the Congregational churches and their relation to national development and institutions.”
“He has made a comprehensive and convenient book of reference and instruction.”
+ Outlook. 82: 1004. Ap. 28, ’06. 60w.
Pryings among private papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by the author of “A life of Sir Kenelm Digby.” *$2.50. Longmans.
The compiler has gleaned from the Reports of the Royal historical commission “anecdotes and odds and ends, carefully eschewing everything biographical, historical, political, or instructive.” The result is a pot-pourri which illustrates the social life of English ancestors from the “cradle to the grave.”
“Altogether this is a good book for an unoccupied hour, especially as it contains interesting allusions to famous individuals.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 862. D. 23. 100w. + Cath. World. 83: 396. Je. ’06. 150w.
“There is almost nothing new in the book.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 63. F. 3, ’06. 530w. + Spec. 96: 29. Ja. 6, ’06. 240w.
Puffer, Ethel D. Psychology of beauty. *$1.25. Houghton.
“The truth is, there is a prime defect in Miss Puffer’s theory—a somewhat zealous unwillingness to allow for ideal significance in beauty. Yet the book is not one with which the critic can dispense. The psycho-physical factors are justly apportioned, the main theory is at least a right account of important elements; and the concrete applications are a distinct advance on the road towards an efficient science.” H. B. Alexander.
+ – Bookm. 23: 215. Ap. ’06. 910w. Lit. D. 31: 983. D. 30, ’05. 1300w.
Purchas, Samuel. Hakluytus posthumous; or Purchas his pilgrimes. *$3.25. Macmillan.
+ + Acad. 71: 155. Ag. 18, ’06. 1060w. (Review of v. 13 and 14.)
“Messrs. MacLehose are indeed to be congratulated on the successful issue, now arrived at its sixteenth volume, of this noble addition to the history of the conquest of the earth by modern commerce. We say addition, for Purchas is so rare a volume, that the work comes to most of us as new.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 438. O. 13. 760w. (Review of v. 16.) N. Y. Times. 11: 893. D. 22, ’06. 220w. (Review of v. 17 and 18.)
“The record here given is delightfully full of surprising incidents, and it will be a queasy taste that will not find much in these two volumes to charm a leisure hour and stimulate thought.”
+ + Sat. R. 100: 851. D. 30, ’05. 480w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.) + + Sat. R. 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
Putnam, James Jackson. Memoir of Dr. James Jackson; with sketches of his father, Hon. Jonathan Jackson, and his brothers, Robert, Henry, Charles, and Patrick Tracy Jackson; and some account of their ancestry. **$2.50. Houghton.
Dr. Jackson was a Boston physician of note in the first part of the last century, his brother was on the supreme bench of Massachusetts from 1813 to 1824, and his father, Jonathan Jackson, a Newburyport merchant, was a delegate to congress and held various state offices. The sketch reminds the present generation of its debt to Dr. Jackson “for the establishment on sound foundations of the medical learning still growing to more and more.” (Outlook.)
“Will be of general interest, as well as of moment to Bostonians.”
+ Am. Hist. R. 11: 483. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“The book will interest other than medical men.”
+ Critic. 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 290w.
“Is in many respects an ideal biography, not only because it presents a most attractive character satisfactorily, but because it makes the background of people and places, from which that character emerged, just clear enough.”
+ + Dial. 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 290w.
“Dr. Putnam’s memoir is prepared with great good taste and modesty.”
+ + Nation. 82: 124. F. 8, ’06. 1340w. + N. Y. Times. 10: 786. N. 18, ’05. 100w. + Outlook. 81: 890. D. 9, ’05. 130w.
Pyle, Edmund. Memoirs of a royal chaplain. *$4. Lane.
“The fullness and accuracy of Mr. Hartshorne’s dates and the excellent index add immensely to the value of this volume ... incidentally the letters throw considerable light on English manners and mode of life, and on the condition of medicine during the reign of George II.” A. G. Porritt.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 381. Ja. ’06. 790w.
“Every mention of a celebrity produces a small biography. Not content with this, he digresses, on the smallest provocation, into all sorts of matters which have no connection whatever with the text. But with all its faults students of the eighteenth century must feel grateful to Mr. Hartshorne for the publication of this volume.” H. M’N. Rushforth.
+ + – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 172. Ja. ’06. 910w.
“These letters are not pleasant reading. As part of the history of the Church of England in what were perhaps its most degenerate days these letters have an obvious value.”
+ – Ind. 61: 158. Jl. 19, ’06. 310w.
Pyle, Howard. [Story of champions of the round table.] **$2.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Pyle Writes as fascinatingly as he illustrates.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 60w.
Pyle, Katharine. Nancy Rutledge. †$1.25. Little.
All about the work and play of a group of children who attend a Quaker school.
R. of Rs. 34: 767. D. ’06. 20w.