Volume 2 — Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines (continued 20)
Reading edition
“It is to be feared that Mr. Stephen Phillips will add little to his reputation by the latest of his dramatic poems.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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Ind. 61: 520. Ag. 30, ’06. 200w.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 173. Mr. 24. ’06. 1360w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16. ’06. 110w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
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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.”
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Spec. 96: 426. Mr. 17, ’06. 270w.
Phillips, Stephen. Sin of David. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
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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.
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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.”
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Bibliotheca Sacra. 63: 192. Ja. ’06. 220w.
Phillpotts, Eden. Knock at a venture. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 100w.
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Critic. 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 170w.
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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.”
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Acad. 70: 139. F. 10, ’06. 860w.
275“‘The portreeve’ is full of interesting material. But the composition seems to be sometimes at the sacrifice of verisimilitude.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dial. 40: 364. Je. 1, ’06. 210w.
Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.
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Ind. 60: 1041. My. 3, ’06. 340w.
“A turgid dark tale ending in madness and death.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 390w.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 60w.
“His book is a very agreeable excursion into a forgotten but curious field of enquiry.”
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 297. S. 15. 720w.
“He has failed to breathe into his characters the breath of life.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Outlook. 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 80w.
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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 276Batistilli 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).”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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Bookm. 22: 495. Ja. ’06. 380w.
“The book is an honest piece of work which one is the better for having read.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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 277bibliography, Mr. Robertson has brought together the most complete array of data on the subject yet available.” James A. LeRoy.
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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.”
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Nation. 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 240w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 649. O. 6, ’06. 630w.
“We have nothing but praise for this interesting and learned work.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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J. Philos. 3: 495. Ag. 30, ’06. 1790w.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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Sat. R. 101: 86. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.
“A little volume of decided merit.” Williston Walker.
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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.
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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 278as 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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 650. Ap. ’06. 680w.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 155. Ja. ’06. 1660w.
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Ind. 60: 800. Ap. 5, ’06. 530w.
“The cheaper edition may challenge the costlier on the scholarly plane.”
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Nation. 81: 402. N. 16, ’05. 130w.
“Is a careful and able narrative of one of the most vital periods of English history.”
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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.”
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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.
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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 279well 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.”
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Bookm. 23: 640. Ag. ’06. 850w.
“Ought to have been a fine novel. But somehow it is not.”
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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.”
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Ind. 60: 1546. Je. 28, ’06. 930w.
“Poole is too much influenced by the hysterical manner for his story to endure.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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“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.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 347. Mr. 17, ’06. 140w.
“Presenting a climax of ethical and practical significance.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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Nation. 83: 350. O. 25. ’06. 330w.
“The present volume contains many valuable and entertaining reminiscences.”
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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.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 667. O. 13, 06. 980w.
280“This is a book to interest laymen no less than the clergy.”
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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.
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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.”
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Critic. 48: 573. Je. ’06. 170w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
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“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.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 230w.
“The parts are greater than the whole.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Arena. 35: 330. Mr. ’06. 660w.
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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.”
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“Miss Powell has the story teller’s art of awakening interest in plot and characters, which is unsatisfied until the denouement is reached.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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Nation. 83: 210. S. 6, ’06. 670w.
“A book that is not only useful, but entertaining.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 511. O. ’06. 50w.
“This is an interesting book.”
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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.
281Powers, 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.”
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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.”
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Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
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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.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 134. Ap. 12, ’06. 340w.
Reviewed by Cyrus C. Adams.
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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.”
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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.”
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Pratt, Edwin A. Railways and their rates. Dutton.
“Although partisan in its character, the book contains much valuable information conveniently arranged.” William Hill.
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J. Pol. Econ. 14: 123. F. ’06. 220w.
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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.
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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.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 340. S. ’06. 120w.
“A convenient students’ manual of general history.”
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Dial. 41: 94. Ag. 16, ’06. 100w.
“Is a history on the lines of Myers, tho fuller and not so convenient.”
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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.”
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Nation. 83: 290. O. 4, ’06. 650w.
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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.”
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Outlook. 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 180w.
“A useful historical treatise.”
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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.”
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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.”
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282Preston, 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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Acad. 70: 449. My. 12, ’06. 870w.
“Most excellent reading for the layman, the physiologist, and the student of psychology.”
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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.
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Cath. World. 83: 272. My. ’06. 620w.
“A distinctly notable contribution to our comprehension of the vicissitudes of personality.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Nation. 82: 282. Ap. 5, ’06. 1690w.
“The facts of the case are told in a very direct and interesting way.” A. D. L.
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 270w.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 280w.
“A good account, with interesting illustration.”
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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.”
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Critic. 48: 471. My. ’06. 90w.
“He speaks as a scientist without dogmatic prejudices, and in a free, outspoken and brotherly manner.”
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283Proctor, 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.”
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Nation. 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 220w.
“Its spirit is purely American, and it is written in pure English.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 768. N. 11, ’05. 80w.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“There is almost nothing new in the book.”
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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.
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Lit. D. 31: 983. D. 30, ’05. 1300w.
Purchas, Samuel. Hakluytus posthumous; or Purchas his pilgrimes. *$3.25. Macmillan.
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“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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“The book will interest other than medical men.”
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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.
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“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.
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“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.”
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Pyle, Howard. Story of champions of the round table. **$2.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Pyle Writes as fascinatingly as he illustrates.”
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284Pyle, Katharine. Nancy Rutledge. †$1.25. Little.
All about the work and play of a group of children who attend a Quaker school.
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Quayle, William Alfred. Prairie and the sea. *$2. Meth. bk.
“This is a series of pleasing out-of-door talks and rambles. The author, Mr. William A. Quayle, is always sympathetic in his moods, is an ardent worshiper at the shrine of nature, and is at times playful, at other times ecstatic. The book is made beautiful by a very large number of altogether charming photographs and marginal drawings.”—Outlook.
“His work belongs to the great average output of nature essays—not striking, but thoroughly readable on the whole, and, together with the accompanying pictures, making up an attractive volume.”
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“It is not original and it is not all worthy, it is not all in the best taste—but there’s undoubtedly a charm about both pictures and text.”
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Quick, Herbert. Double trouble; or, Every hero his own villain. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale which substitutes hypnotic power for the potion of Stevenson’s story. Florian Amidon, an educated upright young banker, wakes up one morning to make the startling discovery that he has lost five years of his life to another personality—to Eugene Brassfield, of whom Amidon has not the slightest consciousness. The trouble for Amidon which grows out of the anything but irreproachable life of Brassfield furnishes the motif of the story, and introduces a series of novel situations.
“This novel has two legitimate claims to public interest. It is a pleasing love-story quite out of the ordinary beaten path of fiction, and it is a popular study of one of the latest assured results of modern psychology—the subliminal self or double personality.”
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Critic. 48: 476. My. ’06. 180w.
“The story, moreover has a crisp and animated style that adds greatly to the charm. We can assure the reader of this tale much satisfaction.” Wm. M. Payne.
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“The tale moves with alacrity and is never dull.”
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“A capital story of strange happenings most convincingly told.”
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“A pervading sense of humor, reminiscent of Stockton, sheds an air of plausibility over the situation.”
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Racster, Olga. Chats on violins. *$1.25. Lippincott.
“Space hardly permits detailed examination, but what she does present in the way of history and theory she sets forth clearly and in a form well adapted to meet the approval of the casual reader upon such a subject.”
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Rae, John. Sociological theory of capital: being a complete reprint of the New principles of political economy, 1834; ed. with biographical sketch and notes by C: Whitney Mixter. **$4. Macmillan.
“Concerning the present reprint, Professor Mixter deserves much credit for the labor he has bestowed on the original work to make it more readable.” Lester W. Zartman.
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“In preparing for publication a reconstructed edition of ‘The new principles of political economy’ by John Rae, the editor has rendered economic science a real service.” Isaac A. Loos.
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Nation. 81: 504. D. 21, ’05. 250w.
“Neither as radical nor as original as it was in 1834. Professor Mixter ought not to have given to the public such a volume as this without adding an index.”
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Raine, Allen, pseud. (Mrs. Beynon Puddicombe). Queen of the rushes, a romance of the Welsh country. †$1.50. Jacobs.
The drowning of Jonathan Rees of Scethryg and his band of reapers forms the tragic opening of this story of the Welsh country and the Welsh country people. Little Gwenifer, watching for her mother on the shore, sees her go down when the boat is overturned and is struck dumb by the shock. Gildas, the young son of the old mishteer, takes his father’s place on the estate, and cares for the little dumb girl who is known thruout the neighborhood as queen of the rushes. She loves Gildas with a mute devotion, and on the night when his wife leaves him, pleads dumbly with her to return, is thrown upon the rocks, and, in the shock of it, recovers her speech. This of course, opens the way for her happiness and that of her benefactor.
Ramanathan, Ponnambalam. Culture of the soul among western nations. **$1.25. Putnam.
“The author of this book is Solicitor General for Ceylon. His recent visit to this country will be recalled in many cultured centers—in colleges, churches, and the better class of clubs. His aim here is to show that, in the Western countries, people have wandered far away from the early conceptions of Christianity when chief importance was attached to oral teachings of the faith by men who had reached perfection or sanctification, through the development of perfect love in the soul.”—Lit. D.
Lit. D. 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 100w.
“The little book may be recommended to those who wish to become acquainted with the higher religious life of present-day India. They will find little to surprise or repel them; a good deal to attract.”
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Nation. 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 220w.
“The spirit of Mr. Rámanáthan’s teaching is admirable, and his use of the Scriptures for confirmation is ingenious. What he speaks from a profound spiritual experience is incontestable. His doctrine that the knowledge of God reaches its acme in a state of feeling disjunct from thought and will is psychologically impossible, as well as rationally untenable.”
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Ranck, George Washington. Bivouac of the dead, and its author. **$1. Grafton press.
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285Randall, Edward C. Life’s progression: research in metaphysics. *$1.60. Henry B. Brown co., 496–8 Main st., Buffalo, N. Y.
A book which makes no use of creeds nor faith, which believes that positive knowledge has displaced them both and also the idea of death, that origin and destiny are not beyond the grasp of mortals, that in the spirit world laws are fixed and are immutable, that dissolution is not annihilation but liberation and opportunity and that God is universal good and dwells in the heart of all mankind.
Rankin, Carroll Watson. Girls of Gardenville. †$1.50. Holt.
“The sweet sixteen,” club and the doings of its sixteen girlish members, the three Stones counted as one because they were triplets and couldn’t all leave home at once, fill this book with wholesome young life from cover to cover. How two of them tried to paper a room so as to give their mother something which she could not give away, how one of them played fireman; how they held a rummage sale; how they secured a Hallowe’en pumpkin; all this and more is told in the course of the story.
“The tone of the book is commendable; it teaches sound principles without being priggish.”
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“The tales are not vigorous or interesting enough either in content or in style to have other than the negative value of supplying harmless and diluted amusement to young readers.”
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Ransom, Caroline Louise. Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. *$4.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
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Raper, Charles Lee. Principles of wealth and welfare; economics for high schools. *$1.10. Macmillan.
Professor Raper says in the preface of his book: “It is only a simple and elementary discussion of the more important principles which are involved in the consumption, production and distribution of wealth ... as a means to an end—a means to human welfare in all of its manifold aspects.”
“It appears to the reviewer that the author fails to put in a clear light the principle of decreasing returns in relation to land. The best part of this volume is found in its descriptions, as description is ordinarily understood; however, in the higher realm of description, where description resumes under the briefest formulæ the widest range of facts, the work is not strong.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 341. S. ’06. 490w.
“A more distinctly American book has hardly ever come into our hands. Not only the spelling, but also the mode of regarding events, the standpoint from which the different aspects of life are viewed, is distinctly that of the other side of the Atlantic. Besides stimulating our thoughts, the work has also the advantage of being written throughout in a simple and easy style.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 402. O. 6. 1390w.
“By way of special criticism of ‘Wealth and welfare,’ it may be noted that economic terms are used without sufficient accuracy of definition. The text is happily written, less in the once-upon-a-time style than much high-school economics, and does in fact give a ‘simple and elementary discussion of the more important principles’ of the science.”
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J. Pol. Econ. 14: 521. O. ’06. 310w.
“The style is clear, if sometimes oracular; and the doctrine generally sound.”
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Rashdall, Rev. Hastings. Christus in ecclesia. *$1.50. Scribner.
Reviewed by Clarence Augustine Beckwith.
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Raven, John Howard. Old Testament introduction, general and special. **$2. Revell.
“An introduction written from the traditional point of view, dating the Pentateuch, e.g., from 1300 B. C., Job, Proverbs, and Song of Songs from 1000 B. C., and the Psalms from 1075–425 B. C.”—Bib. World.
“The conservatism of this book is of an extreme type and lacks good scholarly foundation.”
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“The book is antiquated in its methods as well as in its results.” L. W. Batten.
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Bib. World. 28: 73. Jl. ’06. 510w.
“A fair and manly argument, to which is appended a select bibliography impartially referring both to allies and adversaries.”
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Rawling, C. G. Great plateau. $5. Longmans.
“An excellent record of two remarkable expeditions, one in company with his friend Captain Hargreaves to central Tibet in 1903.... The other through eastern Tibet after the British Indian force had occupied Lhassa. The first journey was undertaken at a time when Tibet was rigidly closed to foreigners; the second was rendered possible by the success of the Younghusband mission.... After the occupation of Lhassa, Captain Rawling travelled with Captain O’Connor, the agent of the Indian government, through Shigatse and Holy Manasarowar to Gartok. Armed with orders from the Tibetan authorities they were admitted to audiences and places that would otherwise have been impossible. The hardships and inconveniences were many but the expedition was unique and of considerable scientific importance.... His volume is fully illustrated.”—Sat. R.
“The reader in search of novelty will hardly fail to obtain a book of travel among people who for the most part had never seen a European before, and Capt. Rawling’s modest narrative will be found full of interest and variety.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 19. Ja. 6. 1540w.
“To those who are interested in the development and the geography of Tibet the volume will contain some new features, but the general reader will find small profit in the book. The story of the first expedition is a weary tale of countless marches and camps, but the account of the Gartok expedition has at least the grace of vivacity and freshness.” H. E. Coblentz.
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“The story of the journey through the villages and among the fruitful fields could scarcely be spoiled even by dull narration, and this book is brightly written.” Cyrus C. Adams.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 141. Mr. 10, ’06. 1420w.
“To all who are interested in Tibet in particular and geography in general, Captain Rawling’s book makes strong appeal.”
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Sat. R. 101: 23. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.
“The style of the book is throughout clear and modest, the descriptions are full of vigour, and the interest of the subject is of the highest.”
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Rawnsley, Rev. Hardwicke Drummond. Months at the lakes. $1.75. Macmillan.
“Canon Rawnsley gives the impressions he has derived from his study for twenty years of ‘the changes in the face and mood of Nature.’” 286(Ath.) “Although the Canon devotes a chapter to every month, the dazzling colors in which he sees them prevent us from realizing which stage of the year we have reached, and the individual features of plant and tree are wholly lost in a shower of light. If there are any dark days they are cheered by ‘Bands of hope meetings, parish room concerts, magic lantern entertainments, and tea drinkings.’ In December, finally, we feel that we have passed a very innocent and brightly coloured year, although we are not quite sure that we have been at the lakes.” (Lond. Times.)
“Canon Rawnsley is an amiable observer of men and manners; he has an eye for natural beauty, and an ear for every echo of folk-tale or tradition that lingers in the dale; but he seems to be almost incapable of expressing himself in precise and straightforward English.”
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“If we are inclined to ‘skip’ some of his descriptive matter, we read with pleasure every word concerning local tradition and custom, of which the Canon is evidently a master.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 637. My. 26. 110w.
“The Canon’s style, moreover, starred as it is with a great variety of pretty words, and fashioned into innumerable conceits, seems, if not impertinent, at least irrelevant when you remember the respect with which Wordsworth subordinated his pen to the truth.”
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Nation. 83: 11. Jl. 5, ’06. 160w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 420. Je. 30, ’06. 570w.
“Canon Rawnsley’s volume will be a delight to many readers,—to those who may yet test the truth of his pictures, and to those who must be content with using them to call back the past.”
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Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.). Hearts and creeds. †$1.50. Little.
There is real strength in this story of an English-Protestant girl who marries a French-Catholic. Both are typical of their race and creed, altho both are extremists and both have strong personality. The scene is laid in Quebec, where the two races abide like oil and water, and the love which brought Arline and Armédie together, the prejudices which all but wrecked their married life, and the epidemic which thrust aside all barriers and by leaving them face to face with death brought them together again are strongly drawn. The social and political life of Quebec is well handled and there are many interesting characters.
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“For once, Miss Ray’s usual brisk fashion of telling a story has apparently deserted her.”
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“For readers whose imaginations are not abreast with the times this is a good story, and it is exceedingly well delivered.”
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“An unusually good story.”
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“An attractive love story.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 757. Je. ’06. 40w.
Ray, Anna Chapin. Janet: her winter in Quebec. †$1.50. Little.
Ronald Leslie and his sister Janet, on whom has suddenly fallen the care of their mother thru the wreck of their father’s mind and fortune, become fast friends of Day Argyle, a New York girl and her brother Rob, invalided from Exeter by an accident at foot-ball. Together, in spite of their troubles, they spend a delightful winter in Quebec, and thru Mrs. Argyle and Sir George Porteous, a most amusing Englishman of much heart and money if little brain, Janet and Ronald become self-supporting.
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Raymond, Evelyn (Hunt) (Mrs. John Bradford Raymond). Sunny little lass. †$1. Jacobs.
Glory Beck, her blind grandfather, and Bo’sn, the dog, lived happily together in “the littlest house in New York” and did many odd jobs, until one day Glory heard that her grandfather was to be taken to “Snug Harbor,” the seamen’s home, where they never took little girls. But she went bravely on serving and peddling peanuts with this fear in her heart until one day Bo’sn came home without her grandfather. Then she set out to find him, and the story is not allowed to end unhappily for either the old sailor or his sunny grandchild.
Rea, Hope. Peter Paul Rubens. $1.75. Macmillan.
The latest volume of the “Great masters series,” edited by G. C. Williamson furnishes a fifty-page life of Rubens with another hundred pages devoted to a critical estimate of his paintings. There is a well selected and carefully reproduced group of illustrations.
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Read, Carveth. Metaphysics of nature. *$2.75. Macmillan.
“The work, may be classed with the most important works published in this generation.” David Phillips.
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“No short notice like this can do justice to the closeness of the argument, the soundness and comprehensiveness of a book which must be ranked with the most important of recent years.”
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“I have found it the most stimulating and entertaining work in philosophy that I have read for some time, and this in spite of the fact that I find its most ambitious undertaking unsupported by argument, vague and futile.” Charles M. Bakewell.
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Readers’ Guide to periodical literature, 1900–1904, cumulated; ed. by Anna Lorraine Guthrie. $16. Wilson, H. W.
The cumulative system of indexes, which resulted from the consolidation of the Cumulative index to a selected list of periodicals and the Readers’ guide to periodical literature begins with this volume a series of five year indexes. It is a 1640 page volume indexing sixty-seven magazines. Since an index to periodicals is used primarily to find out what the magazines contain on a particular subject and is less frequently consulted for questions of authorship and title, this index is first of all a subject index. An author entry is given to each article, and title entries have also been given in the case of fiction, unusually distinctive titles, and sometimes poetry. Book reviews are indexed under the name of the author of the book and are usually given a subject entry also.
“The scope of the work is so extensive that it well deserves its name, and should prove of perennial usefulness to the writer, the clergyman, the debater—in fine, to all who have occasion or desire to enlarge their understanding of any subject.”
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“We have always used Poole, and were prepared to swear by it. But the new volume absolutely 287discounts the older as a book of reference.”
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“The ‘monthly guide’ and the cumulated annual volumes are in constant use in this office, and are highly valued for their comprehensiveness, accuracy, and general mechanical excellence.”
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Reagan, John Henninger. Memoirs with special reference to secession and the Civil war. $3. Neale.
By offering his memoirs to the public Judge Reagan is but discharging what he believes to be a duty to brave, self-sacrificing and patriotic people. His growth along the lines of rugged self-dependence has made him an honest, unprejudiced interpreter. He hopes by example to stimulate young readers to honorable aspirations, and further to show by authentic documents, Confederate and Federal, the justice of the cause of the late Confederate states.
R. of Rs. 34: 756. D. ’06. 210w.
Reddall, Henry Frederic (Frederic Reddale, pseud.). Wit and humor of the physician, a collection from various sources classified under appropriate subject headings. **50c. Jacobs.
Anecdotes, jokes and jingles concerning the profession of medicine. Such things as a doctor and his friends would enjoy, after dinner stories which would bear fruit in “that reminds me.” They are classified under such headings as: Some neat replies, The ignorant patient, Peculiar cases, Strange situations and Hospital anecdotes.
Redesdale of Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st baron. Garter mission to Japan. $1.75. Macmillan.
In passing from the Old Japan which filled the author’s “Tales” fifty years ago to the New Japan of the present volume the author says: “As for me, when I see these things I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I have been asleep and centuries have passed over my head.” The record deals principally with the chief object of the expedition which was that of carrying the insignia of a Knight of the garter to the Emperor of Japan. “To live as a youth in feudal Japan and to gather up the lore about tycoons, ronins, etc., and of gods, men and things which have utterly vanished, and then again in life’s afternoon and as a king’s envoy, to enter the same land when panoplied in modern steel and machinery, is a rare privilege.” (Ind.)
“The narrative is one of sustained interest. The circumstances and environment are described with the grace and restraint proper to a record of what took place on Japanese soil. Lord Redesdale’s hand has lost none of its cunning.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 122. Ag. 4. 1020w.
“The author’s pages have a richness of suggestion and interpretation which is absent from those of most writers on Japan.”
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Ind. 61: 1114. N. 8, ’06. 420w.
“Most wonderful of all, and most to be commended to those of our readers who have never seen Japan, is the picture which Lord Redesdale conjures with singular vividness and convincing force, of a people trained to greatness, because trained to the pursuit of great ideals, under a code of national ethics unique in the history of the whole world, of which the first and last commandment is that where Japan is concerned ‘self entirely disappears.’”
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Lond. Times. 5: 232. Je. 29, ’06. 2640w.
“With such companions as Kuroki, Togo and Asano, and with sport, travel and novel experiences with people, country gentlemen and palace occupants, all told of so pleasantly, one must call this little book a garden of delights.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 473. Jl. 28, ’06. 2640w.
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“There is a great deal more in Lord Redesdale’s book than a mere account of ceremonials and the general doings of the mission. It is an impressionist sketch of the difference between the old and the new in Japan, written by one who is no mere globe-trotter but has seen both.”
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“Lord Redesdale’s account of the Garter mission to Japan is interesting for more reasons than one. In the first place it describes a ceremony unique in history. In the second place ... is interesting because the author is better able than most living Englishmen to compare the new Japan with the old.”
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Reed, Helen Leah. Amy in Acadia. †$1.50. Little.
“The travellers are not very attractive in themselves, but their conversation is often full of interest.”
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Reed, Helen Leah. Brenda’s ward; il. †$1.50. Little.
Brenda now becomes mistress of her own manse which is no more pretentious than a charming Boston flat where she houses and looks after the welfare of a bright lovable Western girl.
“A readable story.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
Reed, John Calvin. Brothers’ war. **$2. Little.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 480. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“It is a valuable contribution to its subject, in both philosophy and fact, and it deserves a wide circulation.” F. E. Chadwick.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 927. Jl. ’06. 680w.
“This book should have a large place in the thought of the future historian.”
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Arena. 36: 106. Jl. ’06. 280w.
“A wealth of personal reminiscences helps to render his discussion of topics fresh and original, though, it must be said, too, somewhat desultory.”
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Cath. World. 82: 833. Mr. ’06. 340w.
“Certainly the book deserves attention, whether the proposed solution does or not. It is not exactly well written, but it is distinctly impressionistic and first-hand.”
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Critic. 48: 192. F. ’06. 490w.
“The book is valuable because it is written by one who is familiar with much that he writes about; but there are many who will hardly agree with some of the conclusions presented.”
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Dial. 40: 92. F. 1, ’06. 610w.
“Its economic bases are usually sound, tho they serve too frequently as starting points for extravagant assumptions; there are shrewd judgments set off against mere collocations of words, and there is restrained and measured expression mingled with wild hyperbole. Yet for all its shortcomings, it is a book well worthy a larger audience in the North.”
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Ind. 60: 340. F. 8. ’06. 600w.
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Nation. 82: 348. Ap. 26, ’06. 1840w.
“Is most remarkable for the large modern view which informs it as a whole.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 302. My. 12, ’06. 1070w.
“Its most noteworthy contribution to the subject is the clear and illuminating exposition of ‘national’ feeling in the South before the war.”
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Outlook. 83: 89. My. 12, ’06. 160w.
288“Taken all in all, it is a fair, informing, and impressive presentation of the southern attitude.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 27. Ja. 6, ’06. 180w.
“The tendency of his book is to make each section more fully recognize the other’s point of view.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 230w.
R. of Rs. 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 80w.
Reed, Myrtle. Spinner in the sun. **$1.50. Putnam.
There is a mystery in Miss Reed’s new story. “It is a tale of village tragedy working out the purification and redemption of its actors” (Lit. D.) among whom are the woman who behind a chiffon veil had for twenty-five years brooded over her wrongs and unhappiness, a “whimsical old maid with a sour hatred of all men-kind” and Piper Tom, who pipes love notes in the wood.
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Acad. 71: 503. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
“Nothing but humor could redeem the extravagant, sentimental presentment offered as a reading of life. But humor is nowhere present.”
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Lit. D. 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 190w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 674. O. 13, ’06. 350w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 797. D. 1. ’06. 150w.
“We prefer the author as she showed her wit in ‘The book of clever beasts.’”
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Outlook. 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 100w.
Reeve, Sidney Armor. Cost of competition: an effort at the understanding of familiar facts. **$2. McClure.
The theory that competition is the one great curse of to-day is vigorously advanced in this volume. “As a remedy Mr. Reeve puts forward the abolition of all rent, all interest, all commercial competition and barter, and the return to first principles, when friendly savages exchange fish for hare without regard to profit or cost.... The chapters upon sweatshops and prostitution, upon congestion in great cities with the resultant evils of landlordism, upon the effect of competition in debasing the pulpit, the stage, and literature will fix the attention even of those who dissent from some conclusions.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Its social vision may be astigmatic, but it is unmistakably penetrating.” Winthrop More Daniels.
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Atlan. 97: 845. Je. ’06. 730w.
“It is written with all the zeal of a missionary, and upholds the cause of socialism with vigor and earnestness.”
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Dial. 41: 19. Jl. 1, ’06. 370w.
“We commend it to all who are interested in the grave economic, labor and humanitarian problems of the day, and who are possessed of time and courage sufficient to follow through what for these busy days is a long and somewhat technical discussion.”
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Engin. N. 55: 564. My. 17, ’06. 610w.
Lit. D. 32: 359. Mr. 10, ’06. 1100w.
“His book is worth attention by students of our social pathology, and deserves a sympathetic reception as a sign of the times and as a contribution toward their amendment.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 96. F. 17, ’06. 710w.
“The economist, concerning whom a good deal that is disparaging is here said, will not be hard put to expose the fallacies underlying the structure so laboriously erected, while the ‘non-technical’ reader is likely to beat a hasty retreat before the heavy artillery of mathematical formulae with which the argument is supported.”
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Outlook. 82: 323. F. 10, ’06. 280w.
R. of Rs. 33: 382. Mr. ’06. 130w.
Reeves, Jesse Siddall. Napoleonic exiles in America: a study in American diplomatic history, 1815–1819. pa. 50c. Hopkins.
Review by Kendric Charles Babcock.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 441. Ja. ’06. 350w.
Reich, Emil. Failure of the “higher criticism” of the Bible. *$1. Meth. bk.
Critical articles written during the past two years, and lectures delivered during a recent tour thru England and Scotland appear here in book form for the purpose of destroying the scientific support of higher criticism, and of constructing “the right method of comprehending the Bible.”
“He resorts to rhetoric and claptrap, and appeals less to reason than to ignorance and prejudice.”
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Acad. 69: 1221. N. 25, ’05. 720w.
“Dr. Reich is quite ignorant of his subject, he is unacquainted with the objects, methods, and views of higher criticism, and admittedly considers it unnecessary to treat the study seriously.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 403. N. 24, ’05. 1500w.
R. of Rs. 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 180w.
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Sat. R. 101: 86. Ja. 20, ’06. 300w.
“We cannot congratulate the anti-critics on their new ally.”
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Spec. 93: 62. Ja. 12, ’06. 1260w.