“A scholarly study.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 757. Je. ’07. 100w. |
Phillipps, L. March. In the desert. $4.20. Longmans.
W 5–5.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Phillipps is no mere impressionist, and behind his charming pictures there is a wealth of sound and acute political thought, all the more valuable since it is rarely expressed in the conventional language of politics. His mind has brilliance and swiftness, but neither profundity nor coherence. Sometimes in his parallels Mr. Phillipps is far-fetched and fantastic, but in the main his brilliant analysis carries conviction.”
| + + − | Spec. 95: 1037. D. 16, ’05. 700w. |
Phillips, David Graham. [Light-fingered gentry], il. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–30833.
A novel based upon recent insurance exposures. The light-fingered gentry are captains of industry and big men in the financial world. The hero is an officer of an insurance company, and the interest of the book is maintained thru his moral regeneration, both the phase of it that affects his fight with corruption in business, and the side that deals with his domestic happiness—the reawakening of love for his divorced wife.