Volume 3 — P
Reading edition
Page, Thomas Nelson. Coast of Bohemia. **$1. Scribner.
Collected for the first time, Mr. Page’s poems could be launched with no better l’envoi than the author’s “fine confession of the faith of a minor poet:” “There is for a minor poet also a music that the outer world does not catch—an inner day which the outer world does not see. It is this music, this light, which, for the most part, is for the lesser poet his only reward.”
“So trained a hand as his could hardily fail to produce a creditable work, even in the unwonted medium of rhyme and rhythm.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 42: 252. Ap. 16, ’07. 290w.
“Poetic sensibility ... is very evident in Mr. Page’s verse, and he has an admirable command of traditional poetic tone.”
+ Nation. 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 280w.
“It is well modulated song, mellow as a Southern voice. While not varied in form nor experimental in meter, it is refined, smoothly textured, always melodious verse.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 480w.
“The poems ring true; they have the quality of sanity throughout; they are conspicuously free from self-consciousness; and they are often happy in the ease and freedom of their phrasing.”
+ Outlook. 87: 743. N. 30, ’07. 350w.
R. of Rs. 35: 254. F. ’07. 50w.
Page, Thomas Nelson. Novels, stories, sketches and poems. “Plantation ed.” 12v. $18. Scribner.
Twelve illustrated volumes make up this “plantation edition,” so called because all the stories, novels, verses and essays present phases of plantation life.
+ + Dial. 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 190w.
“What one might almost call definitive edition.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1351. D. 6, ’06. 480w.
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 27. Ja. 19, ’07. 780w.
Page, Thomas Nelson. On Newfound river. †$1.50. Scribner.
6–35938.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠
Ind. 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 100w.
* Page, Thomas Nelson. Under the crust. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–37269.
“In the seven stories which make up the volume of short tales, ‘Under the crust,’ the discerning reader will find the characteristic idealism of Mr. Page expressing itself in delicate and sympathetic studies of men and women to whom commercialism exists only to be resisted, and who live in the world as if life were still a matter of the spirit and not a matter of physical luxury.”—Outlook.
N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“The lack of distinction is made up for by a healthy, cheerful tone, and there is reality to the men and women the author depicts.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 826. D. 14, ’07. 120w.
“The stories in this volume are not of equal excellence, but it contains work which Mr. Page has never surpassed.”
+ + Outlook. 87: 742. N. 30, ’07. 1100w.
331Paine, Albert Bigelow. From van dweller to commuter. †$1.50. Harper.
A breezy account of the trials that overtook a man, his wife and the “Precious Ones” while moving from flat to flat in New York in quest of a really comfortable and livable place that they might call home. Comparative peace falls to their lot only when they enter upon the commuter’s life in a near-by suburb. The entire story is a “sort of general unburdening” of the troubles that haunt one during an attempted solution of the problem of living, with a view to “relief of spirit which is said to follow confession.”
“Though the narrative for the most part runs too familiarly along well-worn grooves, its facile humor and abundant sentiment may well afford some innocent diversion—especially to readers whose memory turns backward to adventures of kindred nature.”
+ Nation. 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 270w.
“It will find its clientele among those who enjoy Warner’s ‘My summer in a garden.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 631. O. 19, ’07. 220w.
“There is much humor of a popular kind, and many clever character sketches.”
+ Outlook. 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 70w.
* Paine, John K. History of music to the death of Schubert. $2.75. Ginn.
The posthumous work of Professor Paine which includes his lectures on the history of music to the death of Schubert. The lectures are arranged under the headings Ancient and mediaeval music and Origin of dramatic music, opera and oratorio.
Paine, Ralph Delahaye. Greater America. *$1.50. Outing.
7–14803.
A series of glimpses of the splendid activities of the American west of to-day. The author introduces the reader to numerous activities along the line of extension movement which show great creative and pioneering forces at work. Some of his chapters are as follows: Past and present of the “Soo,” The story of a copper mine, The magnet of the wheat, The cow puncher versus irrigation, The heart of the big timber country, A breath from Alaska, and Gold camps of the desert.
“To read the book is to get a new appreciation of the greatness of America, the greatness of her present and the possibilities of her future.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 599. N. ’07. 200w.
“Belongs to a class of books which may be called rare even in this age of print. It bears the same relation to the ordinary volume of travel and description that the realistic novel of actual events bears to the novel of romantic cast.”
+ + Lit. D. 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 430w.
“Mr. Paine has felt and has put into his book the very spirit of energy and enthusiasm and confidence and ambition and kindliness which fills the vast miles to the west of New York.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 520w.
Paine, Ralph Delahaye. Praying skipper and other stories. $1.50. Outing pub.
6–11303.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Uncommonly good tales of the straight-ahead sort.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
* Paine, Ralph Delahaye, ed. Romance of an old time shipmaster. *$1.25. Outing pub.
A collection of letters and Journals written by an American sea captain during the early part of the nineteenth century. “It reveals a most charming and lovable personality, a sort of Lord Chesterfield of the quarter-deck, and throws a curious light on life at sea at that time.”
Pais, Ettore. Ancient legends of Roman history; tr. by Mario E. Cosenza. *$4. Dodd.
5–33942.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Indeed every page of the book is full of illuminating and original ideas. For the most part the translation reads well, and a certain number of un-English expressions do not detract from its value, nor can we say that much is added by the greater part of the illustrations.” G. McN. Rushforth.
+ + Eng. Hist. R. 22: 556. Jl. ’07. 610w.
“Professor Pais is a difficult writer. There is much to be learned from his book. His notes cite the sources with considerable fulness, occasionally ... possessing an interest for students outside the narrower limits of the subject.”
+ − Sat. R. 103: 366. Mr. 23, ’07. 1510w.
Palgrave, Francis Turner. Treasury of sacred songs; selected from the English lyrical poetry of four centuries: with explanatory and biographical notes. *$1.15. Oxford.
3–25607.
A well chosen collection of sacred songs which includes many of our best sacred poems and such of our hymns as can be termed poetry.
“On the whole it is a good selection and gives a just idea of the quality of our sacred poetry.”
+ − Acad. 71:325. O. 6, ’06. 2290w.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 102. Ap. ’07. S.
Palmer, Frederick William, ed. With the sorrowing: a handbook of suggestions for the use of pastors, missionaries, and other visitors in the homes of sorrow. **75c. Revell.
5–41616.
“Appropriate prayers, hymns, and passages of Scripture for use at funerals.”—Bib. World.
Bib. World. 27: 480. Je. ’06. 10w.
“Most profitable for the avoidance of monotony and formalism in the effort to discharge a sacred duty.”
+ Outlook. 82: 278. F. 3, ’06. 110w.
Pardo Bazan, Emilia. Midsummer madness; tr. from the Spanish by Amparo Loring. $1.50. Clark.
7–11214.
“The story tells of a gentle flirtation, occasionally verging on the dangerous, and always inclining to the superficial. The book is readable, however, while not elevating. The best feature is the minute detail with which the story describes the everyday life of the characters, both nobility and peasantry.”—Ind.
“The English translation ... is well rendered, and follows the Spanish form of conversation with great conscientiousness. Of plot and counterplot there is very little.”
+ − Ind. 62: 915. Ap. 18, ’07. 150w.
“The little tale is conceived in a spirit of tender gayety which marks it for that rare thing, a work of true humor.”
+ Nation. 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 140w.
“The pages ... are full of the deplorable effects of rapid production, clever, vivid, and interesting picture of Spanish life though it is.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 178. Mr. 23, ’07. 500w.
“Besides, the translation, by Amparo Loring, fulfills the difficult task of conveying the original writer’s sprightly, animated style in a manner quite spontaneous and natural.”
+ R. of Rs. 35: 764. Je. ’07. 250w.
Pares, Bernard. Russia and reform. *$3. Dutton.
“Beginning with a rather impressionistic but distinctly readable sketch of the rise and advance 332of Russia from the earliest times, Mr. Pares, with the emancipation of the serfs, enters into a detailed study which is really worthy of comparison with Mackenzie Wallace’s great book. Like Wallace, Mr. Pares evidently knows his Russia thoroughly, and his Russian in every walk of life. The geographical and economic aspects of the country, the governmental system, the educational facilities, the home life of the noble and the peasant, the literature that has been produced and the men who have produced it—all this and much more is expounded by him in a way that is equally interesting and authoritative.”—Outlook.
“We have many faults to find, but they do not affect the value of the work.”
+ + − Ath. 1907, 1: 439. Ap. 13. 500w.
“In our opinion, Mr. Pares would have added to the value of his work by more concentration and by resolutely leaving on one side those matters which have already been adequately dealt with by other authorities.”
+ + − Lond. Times. 6: 131. Ap. 26, ’07. 1360w.
“On the whole, it may be said that he has succeeded in gaining a place close to Wallace and to Leroy-Beaulieu’s ‘Empire des Tsars.’ In its range, method, and adequacy of knowledge and insight, it is certainly the best account that the Russian liberation movement which began in 1904, has brought forth.”
+ + − Nation. 85: 332. O. 10, ’07. 680w.
“For all who wish to broaden their knowledge of a highly complex question Mr. Pares’s volume may be recommended as a safe guide.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 615. O. 12, ’07. 480w.
“The work is in reality encyclopedic. We feel that in some matters, particularly with respect to prison methods, Mr. Pares takes an over-roseate view.”
+ + − Outlook. 86: 971. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w.
“If Mr. Pares tells us nothing sensational in this stout volume, we are all the more ready to believe his word ... and if he tells us nothing exactly new, he at all events presents his points with a lucidity of the first order. Altogether, this book is valuable because it contains the comments and judgments of a competent and wise observer.”
+ + Spec. 98: 674. Ap. 27, ’07. 1960w.
Paret, William, bp. Place and function of the Sunday school in the church. *50c. Whittaker.
6–34266.
A discussion of the place and function of the Sunday school in relation to the greater subject on which it rests, namely, the duty and relation of the Church to children.
Park, James. Text book of mining geology, for the use of mining students and miners. *$2. Lippincott.
GS 7–1129.
“The author deals with the subject in nine chapters. The first contains a brief summary of geological principles, and the following chapters are devoted respectively to the classification of mineral deposits, ore veins, the dynamics of lodes and beds, ore deposits considered genetically, the theories of vein formation, ores and minerals considered economically, mine sampling, and the examination and valuation of mines.”—Nature.
“The chapter dealing with the genesis of ore deposits is of special interest. The perplexing problems by which the subject is surrounded are judicially dealt with.”
+ Nature. 74: 520. S. 20, ’06. 540w.
Parker, Gilbert. Weavers. †$1.50. Harper.
7–30167.
A finely wrought tapestry reproducing the house builded upon a rock. David Claridge, a sturdy English Quaker carries the new civilization of the West to the Egyptian East. He becomes counsellor and confident of Prince Kaïd and fights his battles for him. The story is a reënactment of the terrors of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace, and of Daniel in the lions’ den; for David, invincible in the might of truth, is unharmed by the fire which is the consuming traditional and superstitional heathenism and the lions which are treacherous oriental trickery and love of revenge.
“Is an excellent book and splendid reading. Alike in the manner and matter of the story, there are the ease and fulness that come of both the writer’s and the reader’s assured interest in the career of David Claridge.”
+ + Acad. 73: sup. 116. N. 9, ’07. 640w.
“Not so artistic as the author’s earlier work, and rather long drawn out, but holding the interest, without question, to the end.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 179. O. ’07.
“He spoils his material by wilfully romanticizing it; nevertheless he produces an interesting tale, set forth with such a serious air that we are bound to take it seriously.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 399. O. 5. 190w.
“The truth is that Sir Gilbert has tried to write a story without first thinking it out clearly to the end; he has tried to make his readers realise characters which he has never successfully projected in his own imagination; and the result, with all allowance made for good intention and a certain amount of good workmanship, cannot be called a success.” Ward Clark.
− + Bookm. 26: 169. O. ’07. 1000w.
“A work that, despite certain quite obvious faults, is nevertheless endowed with unity of design and fine idealism.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + − Dial. 43: 319. N. 16, ’07. 400w.
“The whole conception is as dead as any mummy in Egypt, the chief difference being that it is embalmed in an excellent literary style.”
+ − Ind. 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 550w.
“Sir Gilbert Parker’s book is not lacking in well-drawn, dramatic scenes growing out of the conflict between Oriental subtlety and the straightforward Quakerism of David; and the picture of Egypt, although possibly not an altogether accurate one, emerging from its centuries of political darkness, is an interesting contribution to the romance of history.”
+ + − Lit. D. 35: 695. N. 9, ’07. 650w.
“Deserves and has achieved a place among the leading novels of the year.”
+ Lit. D. 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Ungrateful though it may seem it is not easy to follow this long drama with any keen interest or to feel that the people in it are any more sensitive than the props that sustain old-fashioned cumbersome draperies. It is ungrateful because the purpose of the book is earnest, and Sir Gilbert evidently writes with knowledge and from his own observation.”
+ − Lond. Times. 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 450w.
“Although Sir Gilbert Parker uses a civilized if somewhat heavy English, and puts his book together in practised fashion, his treatment of Egyptian troubles ... on the whole lacks the brilliancy given to the same event by the late Archibald Clavering Gunter. It is hard to believe that ‘The weavers’ comes from the same hand which once gave so thoughtful and sincere a study of character as Charley in ‘The right of way.’”
+ − Nation. 85: 806. O. 3, ’07. 140w.
“The idea has obtained very generally of late that the good old three-volume novel of the mid-Victorian age was forever extinct, like the dodo or the drama in blank verse. There were to be no more wronged or missing heirs, no more ‘papers’ turning up in old cabinets, no more ‘heavy’ old men telling their stories in quavering voices with the lights burning low and the violins going soft, no more benevolent low-comedy gents coming in slapdash at the critical moments, no more singularly fatuous villains getting caught in their own toils. It is a mistake; read ‘The weavers’ and be convinced. All, all are here, the old familiar 333faces. The book is written with the author’s usual facility and command of English.”
− + N. Y. Times. 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 1000w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Is full of brilliant and striking passages, but the parts of the story do not perfectly cohere, and the tale is a series of dramatic episodes rather than a well-knit narrative of action.”
+ − Outlook. 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 150w.
Putnam’s. 3: 368. D. ’07. 1460w.
“Much practice has made Sir Gilbert Parker a skilful weaver of a kind of plot which has no relation to reality, or even to probability, but which always fascinates a large novel-reading public. Sir Gilbert Parker writes about society and politics as if he were an outsider.”
+ − Sat. R. 104: sup. 8. O. 19, ’07. 450w.
“Whatever fault may be found with the novel, it certainly shows no sign of scamped work or perfunctory handling. In every sense in which the phrase is applicable to a novel, the author has given us full measure,—length, wealth of colour and exciting incident, careful portraiture, minute character analysis. It may not be unfairly urged that Sir Gilbert Parker has been too lavish of his materials, and that his book loses in directness of appeal from the complexity of his theme, the kaleidoscopic nature of the narrative, and the widely divergent phases of life which he essays to depict. Yet of its picturesqueness, its eloquence, and its exciting quality there can be no doubt.”
+ − Spec. 99: 533. O. 12, ’07. 1140w.
Parr, G. D. Aspinall. Electrical engineering in theory and practice. *$3.25. Macmillan.
6–36474.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Although the book is generally quite readable, the English is by no means perfect throughout. The reasoning is here and there unsatisfactory, loose language creeps in, or the style becomes diffuse. The descriptive portion of the work is throughout very carefully written and illustrated.” D. K. M.
+ − Nation. 74: 581. O. 11, ’06. 1200w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 332. My. 19, ’06. 280w.
Parrish, Randall. Beth Norvell. †$1.50. McClurg.
7–30865.
Again the West furnishes the setting of Mr. Parrish’s story. An ambitious young actress, with a past that has linked her with an adventurer and gambler, and a young mining engineer meet in a small town of Colorado. Their romance is brought well into the foreground of the story while western color is provided by the sturdy miners of the Little Yankee whose claims the young engineer defends against the aforementioned gambler. Tragedy, misunderstanding and years of waiting precede the wholly satisfactory dénouement.
“It is occasionally amateurish as to the manner of telling but absorbing as to incident and plot.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3. 203. N. ’07.
“Here is the good old style of western melodrama, which, we suppose and hope, will never die out.”
+ Ath. 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 130w.
“The story itself fairly revels in the old familiar conventions.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− + Bookm. 26: 270. N. ’07. 320w.
“It is all melodrama of a rather preposterous sort, and the hero’s conversation is a little more preposterous than anything else in the book.” Wm. M. Payne.
− Dial. 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 130w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 570. S. 21, ’07. 170w.
“He wallows in adjectives, his conversations are stilted, and the actions and motives of his characters are unconvincing.”
− N. Y. Times. 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 560w.
“Some striking situations are evolved, but the high-flown language of the hero and heroine when in peril of their lives on various occasions seems unnatural and detracts from the effect of several strong scenes.”
+ − Outlook. 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 90w.
Parrish, Randall. Bob Hampton of Placer. †$1.50. McClurg.
6–34646.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“One would like to see the same quality of narration expended upon a simpler and more natural plot.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − Bookm. 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 330w.
“Mr. Randall Parrish has mastered the trick of popular narrative after a comparatively brief apprenticeship to the trade, and is to-day one of the most effective of our story-tellers.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 330w.
Parrish, Randall. Great plains. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–29851.
To write accurate history so clothed as to appeal to the imagination has been Mr. Parrish’s aim. He tells how the stretch of country between the valley of the Missouri and the foothills of the Rockies was discovered and settled, emphasizes its possibilities and picturesque wonders, and dwells upon the characteristics of men and customs of the frontier towns.
“The choice of material is commendable, the weaving skilful, and the interest well sustained.” Edwin Erle Sparks.
+ + Dial. 43: 283. N. 1, ’07. 780w.
“He shows care and judgment in the balancing of contradictory accounts. And he has told the story well and in interesting style. But he has missed not a little of the high spirit, the valiant courage, the dauntless expectations of the men who conquered the plains.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 530w.
“Much of the narrative is avowedly based on the work of others, but he has combined and arranged the material in such a way as to produce a well-proportioned historical sketch. The book is alive with incident, adventure, and odd happenings in the days of Indian trappers, army camps, and frontier scouts.”
+ Outlook. 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 120w.
“A book of far more than ordinary interest. Whatever else is attempted, Mr. Parrish has at least set forth the romantic aspects of the story in a most vivid and fascinating way.”
+ R. of Rs. 36: 637. N. ’07. 90w.
Parshall, Horace Field, and Hobart, Henry Metcalfe. Electric railway engineering. *$10. Van Nostrand.
W 7–100.
“This book concerns itself mainly with the application of electricity to heavy traction as distinguished from tramway work, and gives an exceedingly comprehensive view of the progress which the new motive power has made up to the present time, besides containing a great store of collected data regarding the results obtained in representative examples of its application.”—Ath.
“A high standard of excellence has been maintained in the preparation of the volume.”
+ − Ath. 1907. 1: 385. Mr. 30. 1130w.
“The most comprehensive book on electric railway practice which has yet appeared.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + Engin. N. 57: 663. Je. 13, ’07. 1130w.
“The present volume endeavors, not unsuccessfully, to combine [the practical and technical phases] and to give the reader a clear knowledge of the fundamental principles that underlie the application of electricity to haulage.”
+ − Nature. 75: 531. Ap. 4. ’07. 1080w.
Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews. Family. **$3. Putnam.
6–42901.
An ethnographical and historical outline, with descriptive notes, planned as a text-book 334for the use of college lectures and directors of home-reading clubs.
“The best book yet prepared for the student, whether in school or at home.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 185. Jl. ’07. 820w.
“Mrs. Parsons has written a most valuable contribution to sociological study. She has pursued the scientific and not the theologic method, and therein lies her sole offense. This world will be a better one to live in because of this thought-stimulating and exhaustive guide to the scientific study of the family.” Theodore Schroeder.
+ + Arena. 37: 105. Ja. ’07. 1690w.
Ath. 1907, 1: 445. Ap. 13. 720w.
Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.
Charities. 17: 475. D. 15. ’06. 1200w.
“A better book to put into the hands of the mature person looking for trustworthy information and judicious guidance of his thinking upon the family problem, it would be hard to find.” Franklin H. Giddings.
+ + Educ. R. 34: 202. S. ’07. 670w.
“Outline notes constitute the greater portion and the chief value of the work. The fact that the author is not obsessed by a novel theory of her own, like some of her more original predecessors, makes the book more useful to the elementary student.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1348. D. 6, ’06. 780w.
+ + J. Philos. 4: 467. Ag. 15, ’07. 440w.
“It is scholarly, abounds with references to authorities and to text-books for the student’s reading, but deals almost wholly with the family in its primitive forms. In our judgment it is wholly inadequate as a text-book for the study of the family, because it practically ignores the nature, origin, function, and laws of the modern Christian family, which is what the student most needs to comprehend.”
+ − Outlook. 85: 899. Ap. 20, ’07. 120w.
“The attempt of the author to subject the family to careful scientific examination is exceedingly praiseworthy and altogether helpful. And there will be no question in the mind of the reader that the work has been courageously and honestly done. As a broad-minded piece of inductive research it is worthy of imitation in other fields. The book will probably stand as one of the many single and helpful pieces of inductive sociological study.” Frederick Morgan Davenport.
+ + Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 744. D. ’07. 1750w.
“Is essentially a work for students of sociology, teachers, and men of temperate and studious minds, and takes its place, for instance, with such books as Stanley Hall’s ‘Adolescence,’ which, by the way, it surpasses in original research.” Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton.
+ + Putnam’s. 1: 557. F. ’07. 1850w.
“Judging from the scope of the book and the method of instruction recommended, the author imposes no bounds to the subject to be studied by these young people, and it is on this point that she is most open to adverse criticism. Whatever may be the criticism to which her conclusions are subjected, no one can object to the tone of the book or doubt the courage and transparent honesty of the writer.”
+ − Sat. R. 103: 689. Je. 1, ’07. 1310w.
Parsons, Florence Mary (Mrs. Clement Parsons). Garrick and his circle; il. **$2.75. Putnam.
6–45350.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 85. Mr. ’07.
“Not only does she appear to have read—and to have mastered—everything the most exacting could require; but she has shown excellent judgment as to fact and fable, essentials and non-essentials.” S. M. Francis.
+ + Atlan. 100: 489. O. ’07. 290w.
“Her portraits have that fulness and unity which impart a conclusive notion of personality, set with a due sense of perspective against a well-balanced background.”
+ + Dial. 42: 18. Ja. 1, ’07. 390w.
Parsons, Frank. Heart of the railroad problem: the history of railway discrimination in the United States, with efforts at control, remedies proposed, and hints from other countries. **$1.50. Little.
6–13090.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Vivid, concrete, interesting; covers with great detail one problem only, that of discrimination and its remedy.”
+ + − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 102. Ap. ’07.
Reviewed by Emory R. Johnson.
Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 617. N. ’07. 560w.
“While he occasionally disturbs the reader’s confidence by basing his charges upon rumors and hearsay evidence, after the manner of the newspaper reporter, he relies principally upon official investigations, hearings and reports, and in his handling of this material he shows a thorough familiarity with his subject.” Frank Haigh Dixon.
+ + − Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 156. Mr. ’07. 270w.
Parsons, Frank. Railways, the trusts, and the people. 25c. Taylor, C. F.
6–46268.
“A comprehensive work on the political, industrial, and social effects of different systems of railway control.... The work is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the relations of the railways to the public, ... and the second analyzing the railway problems.”—R. of Rs.
“As a source of information Professor Parsons’s volume is a rich mine. It is unfortunate that so valuable a work should suffer so from the author’s lack of literary discretion.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 617. N. ’07. 360w.
“As far as bulk and comprehensiveness are concerned, all previous contributions are outdone. Despite the many facts and figures presented by Professor Parsons, there is still wanting a comprehensive and scientific study of the railroad problem.”
+ − Ind. 62: 387. F. 14, ’07. 720w.
+ R. of Rs. 34: 760. D. ’06. 210w.
* Pasteur, Violet M. Gods and heroes of old Japan; decorated by Ada Galton. *$3.50 Lippincott.
7–18124.
Faint gray drawings of Japanese plants and flowers furnish marginal decoration while the text consists of “short stories taken from the sacred writings and ancient histories of Japan. Some are legendary and miraculous; others correspond to the tales of our own age of chivalry.” (Dial.)
“Interesting, to those especially who have a real sympathy with old Japan.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 838. D. 29. 170w.
“Simply and gracefully told, with a quaintness that suits the primitive type of the stories.”
+ Dial. 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 190w.
“The work should appeal to young and old readers alike.”
+ Outlook. 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 90w.
“There is much that is beautiful and poetic in these heroic legends, but the story gets frequently very involved, and the names are most confusing.”
+ − Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“The stories ... are well told, and Miss Pasteur cleverly brings before us the strange far Eastern outlook on life.”
+ Spec. 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 50w.
Paston, George, pseud. (Miss E. M. Symonds). Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her times. *$4.50. Putnam.
“This is, for three reasons, a very interesting book. In the first place Lady Mary is herself a woman who claims attention.... She 335became a national benefactress, and her character deserves to be studied. Secondly, the times in which Lady Mary lived, though different from our own in many respects, were in some ways alarmingly like them.... In the third place, Lady Mary knew well enough that she was an excellent letter-writer.” (Lond. Times.) The sketch is keenly alive to her learning, her fascination, her eccentricities and her wit.
“There are but slight deductions to be made from our praise of this excellent piece of biography. The notes are numerous and informing, and the few errata are chiefly to be found in the text.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 568. My. 11. 1710w.
“It is because of her letters almost exclusively that we now feel much interest in Lady Mary, and in her letters from Constantinople we have the best of her.”
+ Dial. 43: 96. Ag. 16, ’07. 250w.
“By some lack Mr. Paston fails to show the charm that Lady Mary’s contemporaries for the most part cordially owned, and that the reader of her letters feel, today.”
+ − Ind. 63: 343. Ag. 8, ’07. 390w.
“The book is written with great discretion, with a certain reticence, for which in these days we cannot be too grateful.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 140. My. 3, ’07. 2550w.
“We feel we have been ‘personally conducted’ over an interesting tract of time.”
+ − Nation. 84: 589. Je. 27, ’07. 1970w.
“When the author speaks herself, she does so with delightful appreciation of the whole business, and links the mass of manuscripts into a coherent and agreeable book.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 313. My. 18, ’07. 2380w.
“The true significance of Lady Mary’s life story, that which gives it value to readers of to-day, is the light it throws on the period in which it was lived, and the fact that ... Lady Mary herself was par excellence a product of her times.”
+ Outlook. 87: 80. S. 14, ’07. 3700w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
+ Putnam’s. 3: 235. N. ’07. 1030w.
+ Spec. 98: 901. Je. 8, ’07. 2140w.
Paternoster, George Sidney. Lady of the blue motor. $1.50. Page.
7–16942.
An automobile story which does not content itself with the gentle excitements incident to motoring, but which involves a young Englishman, who undertakes to champion a mysterious lady who drives a blue car, in a series of strange complications which do not stop short of murder. The villain, also equipped with a car, is as diabolical as any of his class and the whole story moves at third speed along a highway bristling with dangers to a conventionally happy ending.
“The misprints are sometimes serious. Apart from this, the story is a well-constructed melodrama, interesting in its own way, and with less hysteria and more character-study than one usually finds in books of this type.”
+ − Acad. 73: 43. O. 19, ’07. 220w.
“The character of this delectable volume is that of the ‘shilling shocker.’ It is an ordinary sensational story of the stereotyped sort.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 70w.
“While audacious and seemingly rather bold in the beginning of Sydney Pasternoster’s new motor car story, is proved in the end to be courageous and loving.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.
Paterson, Arthur Henry. John Glynn; a novel of social work. †$1.50. Holt.
7–14252.
John Glynn is an Englishman who has made a fortune in America on her rough frontier and goes back to London to do settlement work in that unlovely quarter known as The Nile. Here he works side by side with a young woman who is secretary of his district and this, of course, furnishes the romance of the book, but its vital interest lies in the life of the criminal quarter in which they labor and in the strong characters, both good and evil, which they encounter.
“The more serious will welcome a book which contains more than a mere love-story, while those who do not care for too thoughtful fiction will find an exciting and convincing novel, in which the characters are alive, and the interest is sustained to the end.”
+ − Acad. 72: 414. Ap. 27, ’07. 400w.
“The characters are well drawn and, on the whole, convincing. What is lacking in literary merit is overlooked in the swift succession of incidents.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 156. My. ’07.
“The characterization is stereotyped, each figure being plainly labelled, good or evil, and painted in bold colours. Plot and general treatment are in keeping with this class of work; but the book is not without its instructive side, and despite occasional tendencies to claptrap, and frequent exaggeration, has here and there touches of genuine human wisdom, and indications of sincere thought regarding some of the problems which face the worker among the poor.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 502. Ap. 27. 130w.
“The book holds more entertainment—if only you can forget that first chapter—than many a better one.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ − Bookm. 25: 520. Jl. ’07. 930w.
+ − Ind. 63: 97. Jl. 11, ’07. 130w.
“The pictures of the seamy side of London life are said to be true without being unwholesomely realistic.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
“The author evidently knows thoroughly the region he describes. He is less happy, however, in his allusions to the western United States, whence his hero has just come with a fortune made in the cattle business.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 457. Jl. 20. ’07. 340w.
“The tone throughout is frankly and conventionally sentimental and emotional, and though ‘John Glynn’ is a well-intentioned and even entertaining story, it can hardly be considered as a serious attempt to add to our knowledge of criminology or of the best methods of social reform.”
+ − Sat. R. 103: 722. Je. 8, ’07. 290w.
“Like many stories with a purpose. ‘John Glynn’ would be very much better without the love interest which Mr. Paterson has thought it necessary to introduce, and perhaps it would be truer to life but for a certain melodramatic tendency which he has not been able to keep out of its pages.”
+ − Spec. 98: 722. My. 4, 07. 270w.
Paterson, William Romaine. Nemesis of nations: studies in history: the ancient world, Hindustan, Babylon, Greece, Rome. *$3. Dutton.
W 7–123.
“The first of a series of studies analyzing the causes why civilizations—ancient, mediaeval, modern—have broken down, and the manner in which national sins ... have avenged themselves by bringing retribution on the sinners.” (Ath.) “In each of these studies the method pursued is substantially the same: There is an examination of the origin of the race in question: an effort to trace its affiliations with other races; a sketch of the salient features of the land. The religion, laws, politics, and social customs of the people are then considered; and, finally, we are given a comprehensive account of that slavery which was at the base of all these civilizations.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Throughout this learned book, covering an immense range, and parading a large bibliography, 336there are hardly any citations to verify the assertions of the text; yet these are often, to our knowledge, loose or inaccurate.”
− + Ath. 1907, 1: 346. Mr. 23. 1440w.
“It is no common piece of work dreamed out without labor—but betrays on every page an intimate acquaintance with the best modern literature on antiquity and also with the original sources themselves.”
+ + Ind. 63: 1315. N. 28, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Paterson’s book is on the whole too audacious. He admits the complexity of the subject, and yet practically he writes as though the fall of his four great empires could be explained by the same simple causes acting in the same simple way.” F. Melian Stawell.
+ − Int. J. Ethics. 18: 121. O. ’07. 600w.
“Thoughtful and scholarly essays.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 305. My. 11, ’07. 490w.
“Viewed not as a philosophical interpretation of the downfall of ancient civilizations, but as a history of their slavery systems, it is clearly a product of thoughtful and painstaking research, and contains much that is informing to a high degree. The reader, however, cannot be too strongly warned against unreserved acceptance of the sweeping conclusions Mr. Paterson would draw from his investigations.”
+ − Outlook. 86: 472. Je. 29, ’07. 580w.
“Remarkable book.”
+ + Spec. 98: 834. My. 25, ’07. 2000w.
Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton. Poems; with an introd. by Basil Champneys. $1.75. Macmillan.
7–2591.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ Cath. World. 85: 407. Je. ’07. 350w.
“It is fitting that there should be a definitive edition of his poetical work, and nothing could be in better taste than the volume ‘Poems.’”
+ + Ind. 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 180w.
Spec. 98: 17. Ja. 5, ’07. 1420w.
Patten, Gilbert (Burt L. Standish, pseud.). Frank Merriwell at Yale. 75c. McKay.
Little that fills the life of a college youth of to-day is missing from this spirited tale. Frank Merriwell is made of true stuff, and with manly courage dominates every situation unexpected and prearranged that confronts him during his four years.
Patten, Helen Philbrook, comp. Intimations of immortality: significant thoughts on the future life. **$1.50. Small.
7–2422.
An anthology which aims not so much to present an orderly, rhetorical argument for any theory of immortality as to bring before the reader a composite picture of the spiritual intentions of mankind thru the ages.
“This is the best work of the kind that has appeared in anything like the same compass. The compiler has displayed rare judgment and discrimination in her selections. Should be found in every well-ordered library.”
+ + Arena. 38: 213. Ag. ’07. 680w.
Patten, Simon Nelson. New basis of civilization. (American social progress series.) **$1. Macmillan.
7–18589.
A book designed for collateral reading and class discussion which “interprets in a specially suggestive and stimulating way the meaning and significance of recent social changes with which the practical social worker is so actively engaged and to which he is so close in point of time and contact that he may well fail to secure for himself the stimulus of the larger outlook upon the events in which he is a participant.” It discusses the basis in resources, heredity, family life, social classes, social consciousness, amusement, character and social control.
“Prof. Patten ... too often obscures his meaning to the common mind by expressing perfectly sensible observations and conclusions in the formulae they frequently employ to conceal lack of thought, but he has nevertheless an astonishing number of really vital and suggestive things to say. In short, in many points, at least, he has hold of the truth.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 347. Je. 1, ’07. 2000w.
Outlook. 86: 765. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.
“Even if some of these things seem utopian, no fair-minded thinker can deny that Professor Patten has vividly brought out important differences between our civilization and any past régime, has called attention to the inevitableness of readjustment, has offered illuminating interpretations of our standards and ideals, and has made many wise and stimulating suggestions for practical effort.” George E. Vincent.
+ − Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 741. D. ’07. 1330w.
Patterson, Annie W. Chats with music lovers. **$1.25. Lippincott.
Miss Patterson talks illuminatingly on such subjects as the following: How to enjoy music; How to practice; How to sing; How to compose; How to read text-books; How to be an organist; How to conduct; Preparing for examinations; How to get engagements; How to appear in public; How to organize musical entertainments; and How to publish music.
“It is a compendium of really practical hints in almost every branch of music, expressed with great shrewdness, and in a way that carries weight.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 240w.
“Covering so much ground, she has necessarily covered it very thinly.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 270w.
Pattison, James William. World’s painters since Leonardo. *$4. Duffield.
“The author has taken up the long succession of artists of whom he treats in chronological order, without regard to nationality, schools or character of work. In this he has sought to present the influence exerted by contemporaries upon one another, even at great distances.... It is as though he had produced an abridged Bryan’s Dictionary of painters, arranging by date instead of alphabet, and giving the whole affair the lively inspiration of alert thought and ready sympathy.”—Int. Studio.
“The student who uses it merely as a court of last resort on minutiae will have missed its import, which consists rather in its spirit of sincere conviction and its direct delight in men rather than theories.”
+ − Int. Studio. 30: sup. 24. N. ’06. 720w.
Patton, John Shelton, and Doswell, Sallie J. University of Virginia: glimpses of its past and present. 25c. Bell.
5–39859.
“An account, based on the correspondence of Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, of the founding of the university, a sketch of the institution’s early history, a description of the Jeffersonian buildings, and accounts of the various phases of the university’s development, together with lists of honor and prize students, orators, participants in the civil war, etc.”—Am. Hist. R.
Am. Hist. R. 12: 473. Ja. ’07. 80w.
“Notwithstanding oversights, the volume contains much information that an alumnus may be glad to have in convenient compass.”
+ − Nation. 83: 466. N. 29, ’06. 370w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
Paul, Herbert Woodfield. History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.
4–2649.
Descriptive note of v. 1–3 in Annual, 1906.
v. 4 and 5. Volume 4 opens with the Turkish troubles of 1876 and closes with the defeat 337of the Gladstone government in 1885. The closing volume begins with June 8, 1885, “a memorable day in English history ... from [which] all subsequent events in this history take in some degree their colour,” and closes with the events that led up to the defeat of the Liberal party in 1895.
“The weakest part of the whole work is the conclusion. We have to thank Mr. Paul for a book which, if not profound, has at least the merit of putting great matters clearly, attractively and simply, of being at once instructive and entertaining.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + − Am. Hist. R. 12: 385. Ja. ’07. 1420w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 48. F. ’07. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Mr. Paul’s comments on public men and parties are keen and incisive: his narrative vivid, terse and clear. The general style is midway between the severe classic stateliness of Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone’, and the easy gossipy style of Justin McCarthy’s ‘History of our own times.’ With very little dissertation, no rhetoric, a good sprinkling of wit, recorded and first hand, this history may be read for enjoyment as well as for information.”
+ + + Cath. World. 84: 829. Mr. ’07. 980w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Mr. Paul’s work, is, in brief, a readable journalistic enterprise, sufficiently accurate in details, but lacking in study, in erudition, and in thought, and largely deficient in all save avowed political information.”
+ − Dial. 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 290w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Surely Mr. Paul’s wisdom and foresight must have fallen short when he accords such a high place to the man [Mr. Balfour] whom both Conservatives and Liberals now realize to be a failure as the leader of a modern political party and whose successor is being discussed in his own political camp. ‘The history of modern England’ will certainly not hold its own either as history or as literature.”
− + Ind. 63: 454. Ag. 22, ’07. 570w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Giving always a picturesque and interesting narrative of contemporary events, not always, it is true, without prejudice and bias, but possessing all the virtues of an honest account by an intelligent participant.”
+ + Ind. 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 70w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
+ + Nation. 84: 177. F. 21, ’07. 2240w. (Review of v. 5.)
“No one can question the breeziness and vigor of his style or the cleverness of his epigrams; but however successful the work may be as literature, as history it leaves much to be desired.” W. Roy Smith.
+ − Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 129. Mr. ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“The present volume is distinctly inferior to its predecessors, both in arrangement and form, and in the objectivity of its criticisms.” George Louis Beer.
+ − Putnam’s. 1: 760. Mr. ’07. 1240w. (Review of v. 5.)
Paullin, Charles O. Navy of the American revolution. *$1.25. Burrows.
6–42974.
“A small well-printed duodecimo, into whose narrow compass the author has packed an astonishingly succinct and trustworthy account of the administration of the maritime forces of the revolted colonies. Dealing with the creation, organization, and control of the Continental navy and the various state navies in turn, he has emphasized that neglected page of our history rather than the well-known brilliant exploits of a few popular heroes.”—Nation.
“It is in fact a masterly little book, well conceived, thoroughly studied, and judiciously written. It is a real contribution to the study of the American revolution.” C. H. Van Tyne.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 12: 666. Ap. ’07. 720w.
“This book is in all respects admirable, and the author may be congratulated upon the possession of the painstaking industry and ripeness of judgment which disarm the most captious of critics.” Herbert C. Bell.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 614. N. ’07. 530w.
Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“Dr. Paullin’s references to authorities are so frequent and scrupulous that his book becomes an indispensable guide to the student of this epoch.”
+ + Nation. 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 170w.
“Details of a number of actions unknown to the general reader are given, and all together it is a valuable work of reference.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 903. D. 29. ’06. 70w.
Paulsen, Friedrich. German universities and university study; authorized tr. by Frank Thilly and W: W. Elwang. **$3. Scribner.
6–12846.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In many respects it is an extraordinarily good translation—spirited, idiomatic, and even racy—but it contains some queer words and some awkward constructions. The weakest things are the references to the English universities, which Professor Paulsen evidently knows only at second hand and comprehends very imperfectly.”
+ + − Lond. Times. 6: 34. F. 1, ’07. 2450w.
+ + + Nature. 75: 338. F. 7, ’07. 1340w.
“I know of no book discussing university problems and their solving which I can more heartily commend to others who are working at these same problems.” J. H. Finley.
+ + No. Am. 183: 410. S. 7, ’06. 1450w.
* Paulus Diaconus. History of the Langobards, by Paul, the Deacon; tr. by William D. Foulke, with explanatory and critical notes, a biography of the author, and an account of the sources of the history. (Translations and reprints. N. S. v. 3.) $1.50. Dept, of history, Univ. of Pa., Phil. (Sold by Longmans.)
7–20902.
The first English version of Paul’s history. The introduction, notes and appendices are a compilation from modern writers.
“The translation is on the whole well done, but the constant introduction of ‘indeed’ is not English, it is comical to find Plinius Secundus appearing as ‘Pliny the Second,’ and ‘quite distinguished’ does not translate ‘eminentiores’ (p. 142). Commas are strewn about in profusion, with the odd result that on p. 380 Paul is quoted as the authority for the fact that Kiepert made a map for Mommsen.” E. W. B.
+ − Eng. Hist. R. 22: 826. O. ’07. 230w.
“This account of his own people by one of the most learned of medieval historians will be a pleasant surprise to the English reader who has hitherto had no opportunity to put this vivacious chronicle of the seventh century on the shelf with his Herodotus and Froissart.”
+ Ind. 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 90w.
Payne, Will. When love speaks. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–40589.
A novel with a Middle West town for the setting portrays the conflict between two civic standards, the one absolute, invincible against bribery and graft, the other, avowedly stamped by a leaning toward “big game” methods. The strife between the two men who have adopted these standards respectively is further complicated by their close domestic relations, the wife of one being the sister of the other. “The problem of the book, as implied in the title, of course, is whether, whenever the inevitable clash comes, the voice of love will speak strongly enough to outweigh the voice of the wife’s inherited convictions.” (Bookm.)
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠
338“It worked out with Mr. Payne’s usually strong grasp of the affairs of men and the emotions of women.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + Bookm. 24: 490. Ja. ’07. 390w.
“Truthfulness rather than idealism is the note of the book, although it has latent idealism a-plenty.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 260w.
“The whole tone of the book is wise, tolerant, and unimpeachably sincere. [Grammatical] blemishes are few and trifling, only noticeable because they are growing so rife in Western fiction as to create a menace.”
+ + − Nation. 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 450w.
“The tale is told with directness and strength. The incidents are dramatically handled, and throughout Mr. Payne writes with vigor and is in close touch with human nature.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 942. D. 16, ’06. 250w.
Payne, William Morton. Greater English poets of the nineteenth century. **$2. Holt.
7–32172.
A study of a group of English writers including Keats, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne. The aim of the work is not to consider these men in their characters as poetic artists so much as to view them in their relations to the world of thought and action, to examine their poetry with respect to intellectual content, to set forth their ideas upon religious and philosophic subjects, and to discuss their attitude toward the political and social conditions of their time.
“They deserve wide reading.”
+ Educ. R. 34: 536. D. ’07. 30w.
“His best chapters are on Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold; the treatment of Coleridge and Morris cannot be regarded as adequate.”
+ − Nation. 85: 491. N. 28, ’07. 310w.
* Peabody, Francis Greenwood. Mornings in the college chapel: short addresses to young men on personal religion. Second ser. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–37984.
Short chapel talks to students which are intended to point out the way of life and to stimulate a desire to have a living faith.
Peake, Elmore Elliott. Little king of Angel’s Landing. †$1.25. Appleton.
6–34050.
“A pathetic story with a happy ending about a little cripple who had been blown up when a baby in a steamboat explosion, and had grown into such a quaint, elflike, lovable child that he fairly dominated the little town on the Ohio river where he lived.”—N. Y. Times.
N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
“The study is keen as well as tender, and there is something peculiarly American in the traits revealed—a material shrewdness coupled with an idealism unusually pure.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 531. O. 27. ’06. 160w.
Pearson, Elizabeth Ware, ed. Letters from Port Royal, written at the time of the civil war. *$2. Clarke.
6–46220.
These letters set forth the experiences of the colony of Northerners who were delegated to take charge of the negroes and the cotton crop of 1862 when, after the capture of the forts at Hilton Head and Bay Point, South Carolina, the Sea Island region fell into the hands of the federals. “How they blundered and struggled on to very considerable success, and how their military superiors seemed in league to ruin their whole undertaking, because of poor judgment, or jealousy, or intrigue, is set forth in the volume before us in their own simple, unaffected words.” (Nation.)
Am. Hist. R. 12: 932. Jl. ’07. 280w.
Atlan. 99: 868. Je. ’07. 970w.
“The ‘Letters from Port Royal’ have been painstakingly edited and elucidated by Mrs. Pearson.”
+ Nation. 84: 203. F. 28. ’07. 860w.
Pearson, Norman. Some problems of existence. *$2.10. Longmans.
7–32165.
“This little book sketches a philosophy of religion from the standpoint of theistic evolution. The questions discussed are such as ‘inevitably present themselves to anyone who seriously considers the problem of human existence.’ The postulates—or conclusions?—of the author’s theory are: ‘(1) The existence of a Deity; (2) the immortality of man; (3) a Divine scheme of evolution of which we form a part, and which, as expressing the purpose of the Deity, proceeds under the sway of an inflexible order’ (p. 2). With these principles in hand, Mr. Pearson finds singularly facile answers to the question of the mind.”—Philos. R.
“If one overlooks its crudities of method and its scientific and philosophical dilettanteism, the book as a whole impresses one as rather a happy blend of naturalism and theism, reflecting both an attractive personality and a broad tendency characteristic of the age.”
+ − Nation. 85; 125. Ag. 8. ’07. 600w.
“More instructive than the author’s conclusions are the spirit in which he has approached his subject and the intellectual weapons with which he attacks his task.” A. C. Armstrong.
+ Philos. R. 16: 550. S. ’07. 360w.
Peary, Robert Edwin. Nearest the pole. **$4.80. Doubleday.
7–35225.
A narrative of the Polar expedition of the Peary Arctic club in the S. S. Roosevelt 1905–6, being Peary’s own account of his achievement, the dangers encountered, and the problems solved. The volume is well illustrated.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 126. My. ’07.
+ + − Ath. 1907, 2: 118. Ag. 3. 1900w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
Atlan. 100: 260. Jl. 11. ’07. 190w.
“Is an energising book. It is a story of achievement, the kind of story that appeals to what is called the American appreciation of success. It is distinctly a personal work.” Albert White Vorse.
+ + Bookm. 25: 424. Je. ’07. 1800w.
“A very readable record of a heroic achievement.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + Dial. 42: 304. My. 16, ’07. 1890w.
“For American readers it is the most important book on Arctic exploration that we have had for many years.”
+ + Ind. 62: 1147. My. 16, ’07. 890w.
“Peary’s volume will be accepted as the best and most authoritative account of polar exploration that has in many years appeared.”
+ + Lit. D. 34: 962. Je. 15. ’07. 380w.
+ Lond. Times. 6: 227. Jl. 19, ’07. 760w.
+ + Nation. 85: 41. Jl. 11, ’07. 900w.
“He knows his field as no other man knows it, and his methods of work are the outcome of his own originality and experience. There is charm, too, in his way of telling things; nervous energy in his written records. The dramatic element is strong in many a situation that confronts him, and it does not evaporate when he tries to put it on paper.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 297. My. 11, ’07. 1790w.
“He writes rather as a scientist than as an adventurer. His journal of necessity deals with adventure, and yet the spirit of the analyst is the scientific spirit.”
+ R. of Rs. 35: 757. Je. ’07. 130w.
“The story of the journey must be read at length to be appreciated.”
+ Spec. 99: 435. S. 28, ’07. 750w.
339* Peck, Harry Thurston. Hilda and the wishes, il. †$1. Dodd.
7–36100.
The story of a little girl and her five wishes which a fairy godmother gave her the power to make.
N. Y. Times. 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“No children can resist it, and grown people will add to their enjoyment of the pretty tale the amusement they find in noting the especial characteristics of the author, which they are accustomed to find in writing of a very different style.”
+ Outlook. 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
Peck, Harry Thurston. Twenty years of the republic. **$2.50. Dodd.
6–39787.
A summary of the most significant events occurring in our country’s history from President Cleveland’s inauguration in 1885, to the end of the McKinley-Roosevelt administration, in 1905.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 70. Mr. ’07. S.
Ath. 1907, 1: 253. Mr. 2. 250w.
“To tell the story of such a period so that its significance shall be plain to the uncritical reader requires evidently two gifts, of both of which Dr. Peck is possessed, the gift of analysing and picturing a personality, and the gift of tracing and describing the slow working of those social forces whose evolution may be recognized only after its results are accomplished—in short, to trace and describe ‘history in the making.’ Dr. Peck has also the gift of a lively narrative style, and he is not deterred by a false sense of the dignity of history from making use of any lively anecdotes which have come his way.” Arthur Reed Kimball.
+ + Bookm. 24: 473. Ja. ’07. 3080w.
“Sensational episodes, up-to-date pictures, and journalistic spellbinding are absent. No perversion of historiography is attempted; instead appears a series of short stories, delightfully told, with now and then a thoughtful word of comment, about men, women, and things as they are depicted on the shifting panorama of two decades of a nation’s life.” William R. Shepherd.
+ + − Educ. R. 33: 313. Mr. ’07. 1020w.
“Professor Peck’s annals are as good as we can hope for today. We find no intentional bias in them and some excellent portrayals. We cannot hope for the present, to have our immediate needs better met.”
+ + − Ind. 62: 1469. Je. 20, ’07. 630w.
“We are inclined to believe the book will be accepted as the best contribution its author has made to contemporary literature.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
“Professor Peck writes entertainingly. He has woven the events of five presidential terms into a racy and eminently readable narrative—qualities not impaired by a tendency to snap judgment, a habit of rather sweeping generalization, and a love for unusual words. Mistakes which crept into this history as published serially have been corrected. There remain slips which seem to show lack of familiarity with the minutiæ of government machinery rather than downright blundering.”
+ + − Nation. 84: 15. Ja. 3, ’07. 440w.
“Such a history is of particular value to put on record in a country which is passing through a transitory stage of eager endeavor and unattained ideals.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“Professor Peck speaks his mind more freely than does Mr. Paul, and occasionally with undue warmth. Sometimes, too, he writes with an air of finality that is unwarranted in view of the fact that all the evidence is not yet at hand. And now and again his pen portraits are hardly fair to their historic subjects. For all of this, we have read his work with satisfaction, recognizing that in more than one important way it is soundly informative.”
+ + − Outlook. 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.
“Although on ... [some] matters—mostly trivial—the reader will feel an occasional impulse to rise up and disagree, there can be no question that the author has succeeded in what he has undertaken. His characters appear as living and breathing human beings; his story is told with genuine literary skill.” Paul Leland Haworth.
+ + − Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 331. Je. ’07. 1050w.
“For Americans who like hearty distribution of praise and condemnation he will be a pleasant and satisfactory authority. In the mere matter of narration his book contains many points which the more stately writers would do well to study.” John Spencer Bassett.
+ Putnam’s. 2: 255. My. ’07. 140w.
R. of Rs. 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 60w.
Spec. 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 260w.
Peck, Theodora. Hester of the Grants: a romance of old Bennington. **$2.50. Duffield.
7–23717.
A special Vermont edition of a novel first issued two years ago, illustrated with pictures of Green mountain localities and characters. The new dress enhances the historical flavor of this tale of revolutionary times in Vermont when it was still a part of the Hampshire grants, and adds interest to the romantic story of the patriotic heroine, her lovers, and her turncoat father.
“There are many evidences of youth in the composition of the narrative, but on the whole it is a surprising piece of work for a young author, and furnishes very pleasing and satisfactory reading to all interested in the events and spirit of our country’s most romantic days.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 80w.
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford. By Italian seas. **$2.50. Scribner.
6–37648.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Peixotto is a very excellent artist, but as a writer he leaves much to be desired.”
+ − Acad. 73: 969. O. 5, ’07. 170w.
“The text is clear and only less charming than the exquisite pictures by the author.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 70. Mr. ’07.
“The text is to be read rather as a commentary upon the many excellent drawings than for its own sake. Even so it seems rather shallow and superficial.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 290w.
“The word-painting is exactly as good, in its way, as the penciling, and so curiously like it in style that the two seem to make upon the reader’s mind a single harmonious impression.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ + Atlan. 99: 423. Mr. ’07. 560w.
Lit. D. 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 220w.
Peloubet, Francis N. Studies in the Book of Job: a Biblical drama illuminating the problem of the ages. **$1. Scribner.
6–32405.
For advanced classes in Sunday-school, for Biblical literature courses in high schools and colleges, for evening service and for individual use.
“The critical standpoint of the author is uncertain, and his estimate of the literature on Job is in many points at fault, but the interpretation of Job is affected by errors of this kind perhaps less than that of any other Old Testament writing.”
+ − Am. J. Theol. 11: 184. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“There was need of just such a book as this, which is not inferior to Moulton or Genung in its powers to bring to the ordinary Bible-reader a new and vivid realization of the treasure hidden in this Arabian ash-field, while for teachers it is of unique value.” Camden M. Cobern.
+ + Bib. World. 29: 235. Mr. 07. 910w.
340“A real vade mecum on this most troublesome but fascinating book of the Old Testament.”
+ + Dial. 42: 318. My. 16, ’07. 250w.
Pemberton, Max. Diamond ship. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–28763.
“Another machine-made yarn of crime and alleged mystery. The diamond ship is a huge floating repository of the booty collected by an organized band of jewel-thieves. The leader employs the method of a captain of industry, and his operations are conducted upon a vast scale.... The usually helpless maiden is involved.”—Nation.
“It is all very interesting, if somewhat ingenuous, and those in search of a well-written book of adventure are recommended to buy it.”
+ − Acad. 73: 42. O. 19, ’07. 320w.
“Max Pemberton is usually a fairly safe choice, if your ideal of hammock fiction requires abundance of sensation and not too much literary quality.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − Bookm. 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 210w.
“Rather above the average of his later work. It escapes his besetting tendency to be over-fantastic, and tells a reasonably straightforward tale of villainy unearthed and virtue rewarded. It is, of course, cheaply melodramatic throughout, but the excitement is well-contrived.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − Dial. 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 180w.
“A veritable pot-boiler of the poorest quality.”
− Ind. 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 100w.
Nation. 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 240w.
“The most that can be said in the book’s favor is that the author has shown a good deal of ingenuity in the invention of incident. For the rest it is an illy-done piece of novel writing, clumsy in the construction, and in the telling splotched all over with the discredited tinsel and gew-gaws of melodrama.”
− + N. Y. Times. 12: 119. F. 23, ’07. 370w.
Pendexter, Hugh. Tiberius Smith: as chronicled by his right-hand man Billy Campbell. †$1.50. Harper.
7–11207.
A new edition of the adventures of Tiberius Smith, the clever showman, who never faces a situation so perilous that his quick wit and keen sense of humor cannot effect a way of escape. Even lunatics and lions do not daunt him.
“For the lover of the circus in literature here are thoughts that breathe; for the collector of the ultra modern and vaudevillainous in slang, words that burn; remain, for the lover of a book in the accepted sense of that word, feelings not fit for publication.”
− Nation. 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 250w.
“The rough and ready conversational style of the narrative and the grotesque humor of its similes and comparisons ... make a fitting garb for the breezy, absurd, amusing tale.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 360w.
* Penfield, Edward. Holland sketches, il. **$2.50. Scribner.
7–36404.
Entire sympathy exists between the illustrations and text as both are the work of Mr. Penfield. “Nothing could be better suited to his style than the quaint Dutch peasants in their baggy trousers or voluminous skirts, picturesque caps, and clumsy wooden sabots. Queer little by-streets, flapping windmills on the banks of quiet canals, fishing smacks with patched brown sails, ‘interiors’ hung with Delft and old brasses,—these are the things that Mr. Penfield paints and writes about.... He never has a beaten-track experience.” (Dial.)
“It is seldom, even in these days of unique and beautiful travel books, that anything so thoroughly delightful as ‘Holland sketches’ is published.”
+ + Dial. 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 310w.
Outlook. 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 130w.
Penfield, Frederic Courtland. East of Suez, Ceylon, India, China and Japan; il. from drawings and photographs. **$2. Century.
7–8551.
“The world’s turnstile at Suez” is the heading of the opening chapter of a book of “journeyings loaded with gentle preachment.” After a brief survey of the history and of the utilitarian phases of the great marine highway, the author becomes a very informing guide thru Colombo, the Ceylon hill country and Bombay, on to sluggish China and to Japan where the “old is being supplanted by the new with amazing rapidity.”
“He has assimilated much useful information, many statistics, and not a few superficial impressions. These he has clothed in picturesque language, decorated here and there with such gems as ‘truthlet’ for a little truth.”
+ − Acad. 72: 507. My. 25, ’07. 350w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 103. Ap. ’07. S.
Ann. Am. Acad. 29. 644. My. ’07. 450w.
“It is one of the best books of travel of the year.”
+ + Arena. 86: 672. Je. ’07. 280w.
“The clear manner in which Mr. Penfield presents his ideas and the fact that he has had such excellent opportunities to know whereof he speaks should entitle his opinions to serious consideration.” Elizabeth Kendall.
+ Bookm. 25: 301. My. ’07. 890w.
“Few books of travel lately written in this country excel it, and we predict it will be more than a book of an hour.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ Dial. 42: 371. Je. 16, ’07. 480w.
“Throughout the whole of this portion of the East there is an almost total lack of American products. This state of things is regarded by the author as wholly inexcusable. His views upon the subject are timely and deserving of general attention.”
+ Lit. D. 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.
“Most of these spots are familiar, but described from his point of view in an attractive, often humorous way, they acquire a fresh interest.”
+ Nation. 84: 289. Mr. 28, ’07. 370w.
“It is well worth while to travel in Mr. Penfield’s company, and look at unfamiliar scenes with his fresh yet experienced eyes.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 1390w.
+ Outlook. 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 110w.
“The book is mere journalism and, though interesting, is by no means trustworthy.” G: Louis Beer.
− + Putnam’s. 2: 745. S. ’07. 130w.
“An excellent book of travels unusually well told.”
+ R. of Rs. 36: 639. N. ’07. 40w.
“This is an eminently readable book.”
+ Spec. 98: 948. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell). Charles Godfrey Leland: a biography. 2v. **$5. Houghton.
6–31406.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Only for the larger library.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 14. Ja. ’07.
Atlan. 99: 429. Mr. ’07. 980w.
“In spite of much that is delightful, the book is longer than discretion would have dictated.” Elizabeth Kendall.
+ + − Bookm. 24: 593. F. ’07. 1080w.
“A graceful writer of unerring taste.”
+ + Ind. 62: 914. Ap. 18, ’07. 730w.
“Her ready pen runs away with her, and she employs in expansion the time which would have been more profitably devoted to condensation.”
− + Lond. Times. 5: 416. D. 14, ’06. 1460w.
341“It must be conceded at the outset that these absorbing volumes do not offer a uniformly analytical or judicial estimate of the picturesque and magnetic ‘Hans Breitmann.’” Christian Brinton.
+ − No. Am. 183: 1299. D. 21, ’06. 1780w.
Peple, Edward Henry. Semiramis: a tale of battle and of love. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–26347.
A romance of ancient Assyria. “The figure of the warrior queen, half goddess, half mortal, stands out brilliantly wherever she is placed. Her love for the Assyrian prince, their adventures, her clever manipulation of the jealous King Ninus, and her final grim triumph, are vividly described.” (Outlook.)
“Like the vast majority of novels that would feign reincarnate a buried antiquity, the sense of actuality is ineffectual.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− Bookm. 26: 269. N. ’07. 330w.
“Whether he entertains or exasperates depends upon the character of the reader. To one acquainted with accepted profane and religious history the book is, to say the least of it, disconcerting. The story is written in a kind of delirious prose, that is to say it has the rigidity of poetry without its grace or high meaning, and the form of prose without its flexibility.”
− Ind. 63: 946. O. 17, ’07. 130w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 470w.
“Imagination almost routs history, and the result is a highly entertaining story.”
+ Outlook. 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 80w.
Pepper, Charles Melville. Panama to Patagonia: the Isthmian canal and the west coast countries of South America. **$2.50. McClurg.
6–10671.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 148. My. ’07.
“Our ignorance of the sister republics is so great that a work such as Mr. Pepper’s is to be welcomed as a contribution toward the enlightening of American public opinion.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 468. N. ’06. 160w.
Pepys, Samuel. Pepys’ memoirs of the Royal navy; ed. by Jos. Robson Tanner. (Tudor and Stuart lib.) *$1.75. Oxford.
7–29045.
Memoirs that were published originally by Pepys in June, 1690. They are a defense of his own naval administration prior to 1688, and a criticism of that of his opponents. Interesting details concerning the navy of this period are included.
Am. Hist. R. 12: 689. Ap. ’07. 160w.
+ Nation. 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w.
Periam, Annina. Hebbel’s Nibelungen, its sources, method and style. *$1. Macmillan.
6–24558.
“In her five chapters the author of these studies treats of the genesis of Hebbel’s ‘Nibelungen.’ Hebbel’s conception of his dramatic problem, the sources of the work and his use of them, his relation to predecessor’s and critics, particularly Raupach, Fouqué, Geibel, Wagner, and Vischer, and some special aspects of Hebbel’s work—inventions, treatment of women, of religion, and the mythical and mystical.”—N. Y. Times.
Nation. 83: 186. Ag. 30, ’06. 90w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 456. Jl. 14, ’06. 310w.
* Perkins, Lucy Fitch. Book of joys: the story of a New England summer. il. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–34806.
A Chicagoan tells how she takes a new lease of life during a spring and summer spent in two New England villages. From the confusion of the city she turns to the joys of rural loneliness, and revels in turf-paved walks “spangled with buttercups and broidered with violets, with the shadow of apple boughs dancing over it, and living silence all about, the stillness of singing birds and humming bees.”
“Mrs. Perkins is keenly alive to both the delights and the limitations of the old-school New England life, seeing it with the clear eye of an alien who is sympathetic to its charm but fully conscious of its whimsicalities and oddities.”
+ Dial. 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 320w.
“A book of special interest to feminine readers.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
Perkins, Mrs. Lucy (Fitch), comp. Robin Hood; his deeds and adventures as recounted in the old English ballads. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–32850.
The compiler has prettily illustrated in color these ten Robin Hood ballads, which are based upon authoritative versions and retain their original form.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 111. Ap. ’07.
“The author-artist ... has not only shown judgment in her selections, but accuracy of costume in her attractive drawings.”
+ Ind. 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
“The book shows good taste, and the illustrations—most of them done in color—are simple in outline and excellent In spirit.”
+ Nation. 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 110w.
Perrigo, Charles Oscar E. Modern American lathe practice. $2.50. Henley.
7–4843.
“This is a lathe book from beginning to end.... A few chapters are given up to the history and development of the lathe and also to lathe design.... A number of chapters are devoted to the description of the latest production of our prominent manufacturers.... There are also chapters on variable speed devices, lathe tools and attachments, turret lathes, special lathes and electrically-driven lathes. The book is well illustrated.”—Engin. N.
“Just the kind of a book which one delights to consult, a masterly treatment of the subject in hand.” Wm. W. Bird.
+ Engin. N. 57: 443. Ap. 16, ’07. 210w.
Perry, Bliss. Walt Whitman: his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–35721.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“By all odds the most judicial and satisfactory account of that disconcerting genius yet published. A kind of indecision or hesitancy to pronounce a definitive Judgment makes his book a little disappointing to a reader who looks to his biographer for his opinions as well as for his information.”
+ + − Ind. 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 110w.
“On the whole, Mr. Perry’s book is an exceedingly uncomfortable one to read. The virtues of an editor and a college professor are too widely different from those of a great original genius to admit of mutual comprehension.” Louise Collier Willcox.
− No. Am. 185: 221. My. 17, ’07. 990w.
“Mr. Perry brought the methods of a scholar to his task, and for the first time the world has an adequate and candid account of Whitman’s antecedents and conditions, and of the outward happenings of his life. This record is not only more complete but it is more intelligent than any that has come from the Whitman cult.”
+ + + Outlook. 85: 278. F. 2, ’07. 1920w.
“In writing a perfectly sensible life of Whitman, Mr. Perry has performed a feat of which we may almost have despaired.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + Putnam’s. 1: 635. F. ’07. 510w.
342Perry, John G. Letters from a surgeon of the civil war. **$1.75. Little.
6–24566.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 103. Ap. ’07.
Perry, Thomas Sergeant. John Fiske. **75c. Small.
5–40797.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It describes a literary career to the neglect of character and personality. We miss a sympathetic portraiture of the man himself.”
+ − Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 190. Mr. ’07. 120w.
Peters, Edward Dyer. Principles of copper smelting. $5. Hill pub. co.
7–12991.
“This work is divided into fifteen chapters, which deal with Methods and collectors, First principles of smelting, Principles of roasting, Chemistry of smelting, Practice of roasting, Blast furnace smelting, Reverbatory smelting, Pyritic smelting, Practical study of slags, Matte, Production of metallic copper from matte, Refining of copper, Principles of furnace building, Applications of thermochemistry, Miscellaneous and commercial.”—Engin. N.
“The index is good, with plenty of cross-references, making it an easy matter to look up any section or subject. This book is a pioneer along the text-book line. The teaching of the principles, after all, is the most important, and Dr. Peters deserves hearty congratulations and thanks for producing such a clear, concise, and readable book.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ Engin. N. 57: 662. Je. 13, ’07. 1370w.
Peterson, Henry. Dulcibel: a tale of old Salem; il. by Howard Pyle. †$1.50. Winston.
7–12980.
A story of the cruel persecution of the days of the Salem witchcraft, with much stress placed upon the spell of hypnotism and imposture. It mainly concerns a very charming girl who comes under the witchcraft ban and her stout-hearted lover whose efforts to have her released from prison prove effectual only when the spirited Lady Mary Phips lends her assistance.
“The tale is not without its credulities, but it is animated and full of zeal. With every allowance for partisanship it is a stirring recital, and pulls at the nerves of indignation as if the dreadful thing had not all happened two hundred years ago.”
+ − Nation. 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 100w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“A really charming little story, which keeps the reader’s interest well sustained until the very end.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 80w.
Petre, F. Loraine. Napoleon’s campaign in Poland, 1806–1807. *$3.50. Lane.
“The book begins with a chapter on the state of Europe in 1805 and 1806, with a crisp sketch of the armies, the leaders and the lieutenants on both sides, and gives a careful description of the topographical features of the difficult theatre of war—its marshes and forests, its mud and snow, its summer heat and winter tempests. Then follow the several operations, from that beginning in November and culminating in the battles of Pultusk and Golymin at Christmastide, 1806, through the butchery of Eylau in February and its succeeding winter quarters, the siege of Danzig, and the ‘final triumph’ at Heilsburg and Friedland in June, 1807, followed by the treaty of Tilsit. At the end are three maps of the theatre of war, on two sheets, and seven battle-plans on a third sheet.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The style is simple and direct, with abundant foot-notes, the matter in some of which might be incorporated in the text, to save interruption of the narration by the reader. The detail is considerable, but not too great for a work dealing with a single campaign. We close Mr. Petre’s book with the feeling that he has done a good piece of work, filling a needed gap; and we welcome his forthcoming volume on ‘1806.’” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.
+ + − Am. Hist. R. 12: 888. Jl. ’07. 820w.
“This volume supplies a real want for the student of Napoleonic history.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.
Petre, F. Loraine. Napoleon’s conquest of Prussia. *$5. Lane.
7–25140.
A full account of Napoleon’s campaign of 1806 based upon all the information available. “Mr. Petre confines himself, after two interesting chapters on the origin of the war and the contending armies, to the purely military aspect of his period.” (Acad.)
“If a treatise on military history is to be placed in the first class, the style must be clear and the narrative not overloaded with details of secondary importance, the authorities should be quoted, and the maps must be clear and large: Mr. Petre’s book fails in all these respects.”
− Acad. 72: 385. Ap. 20, ’07. 760w.
“The volume is easy to read. To a student already familiar with 1806, there are fewer causes of dissent than are usual.” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.
+ Am. Hist. R. 13: 140. O. ’07. 770w.
“The appearance of Mr. Petre’s book fills a gap which needed filling. In little matters Mr. Petre is sometimes irritating.”
+ + − Ath. 1907, 1: 597. My. 18. 1660w.
“The most instructive passage of the book is the description of Napoleon’s army administration in the field and of the loose and ineffective organization of the Prussian staff.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ Dial. 43: 90. Ag. 16, ’07. 340w.
“If he has nothing very novel to offer he is generally safe to follow.”
+ Nation. 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 110w.
“This is an exhaustive first hand account from a military point of view, and the result of careful study of the subject.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 270w.
“The work has been so thoroughly done that this book is likely to become the definitive authority upon the subject.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. F. L. Petre has described, with a technical completeness hitherto not available in the English language, Napoleon’s brilliantly successful campaign of 1806, in which Prussia was so completely humiliated.” G: Louis Beer.
+ + Putnam’s. 2: 743. S. ’07. 180w.
“We must dissent from Mr. Petre’s discovery that incorporation of footnotes in the text saves the reader ‘annoyance,’ for his habit in this respect often distorts his narrative. Then the chief actors of the ‘débâcle’ are not individualized.”
+ − Spec. 99: sup. 455. O. 5, ’07. 2270w.
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders. History of Egypt from the XIXth to the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.
5–26752.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Solidly packed with facts.”
+ Am. Hist. R. 12: 706. Ap. ’07. 30w.
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders. Janus in modern life. (Questions of the day, no. 106.) *$1. Putnam.
7–37957.
A development in some measure from Professor Petrie’s recent Huxley lecture. The study looks before and behind and deals with such present day problems as race and immigration, communism, philanthropy, and individualism in relation to historical philosophy. The burden of what the author has to say is “that all our modern efforts for the bettering 343of the race by saving the weaker individual rigors of competition tend to degrade the race.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Janus, indeed, is a clever double-headed professor, who treats rather amateurishly—that is to say, confidently and assertively—many subjects as to which we suspect that his knowledge is not very profound.”
− Acad. 73: 185. N. 30, ’07. 1440w.
“Dr. Petrie commands respectful attention when he writes upon archeology but when he turns to sociology, the subject of this little book, he writes as an amateur and must be weighed dispassionately.”
− Ind. 63: 1315. N. 28, ’07. 460w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 501. S. 21, ’07. 1180w.
“His chapters are well worth reading. They are always suggestive; we may differ from their conclusions, but we cannot help thinking about them, and are sure to get some profit from them. Sometimes, we think, Dr. Flinders Petrie exaggerates.”
+ − Spec. 99: 299. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w.
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders. Researches in Sinai. *$6. Dutton.
6–40918.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Ind. 62: 216. Ja. 24, ’07. 410w.
Pfleiderer, Otto. Christian origins. *$1.50. Huebsch.
6–9289.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 132. F. 2. 590w.
“The value of the work is especially in the references to facts and tendencies in other religions than Christianity as illustrating features in the growth of the Christian faith and partly contributing to this growth.”
+ + Ind. 62: 388. F. 14, ’07. 240w.
Pfleiderer, Otto. Primitive Christianity; its writings and teachings in their historical connections; tr. by W. Montgomery; ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. 4v. *$3. Putnam.
7–16364.
v. 1. “In this revised and enlarged edition a veteran theologian has availed himself of the latest fruits of learned research. The present volume, after a chapter on the first Christian community, is occupied with the Apostle Paul, his writings, and his theology.”—Outlook.
“A good translation. The lectures present, in a clear and interesting way, the author’s well-known views.”
+ + Am. J. Theol. 11: 531. Jl. ’07. 470w.
“While Prof. Pfleiderer is a mere theorist when dealing with records and traditions of supernatural events, he is a skilled and learned critic when he discusses the ordinary experience of a man like St. Paul.”
+ Ath. 1907, 1: 631. My. 25. 540w. (Review of v. 1.)
Ind. 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ Nation. 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)
Outlook. 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)
Pfleiderer, Otto. Religion and historic faiths; tr. from the German by Daniel A. Huebsch. *$1.50. Huebsch.
7–29077.
A series of lectures delivered at the University of Berlin. The author defines the essence of religion, the ethics and science of it and the beginnings of religion; he discusses the Chinese, Egyptian, Babylonian systems, Brahmanism, Buddhism, the religion of the Greeks, and of Israel down to Christianity.
“The brief accounts of the various religions are clear and good. The translation is only fair, clear, but often awkward.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 586. S. 28, ’07. 360w.
“His just emphasis on the ethical element in the New Testament does not make full amends for an over-emphasis on the legendary.”
+ − Outlook. 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 220w.
Phelps, Mrs. Elizabeth Steward. (Leigh North, pseud.). Predecessors of Cleopatra. $1.50. Broadway pub.
6–45018.
A compilation of what is known of the queens of Egypt who reigned during the four thousand years preceding the reign of Cleopatra. The volume is illustrated by five drawings.
“She does not indicate what ... are [her sources], nor does she handle her material critically.”
− Ind. 62: 276. Ja. 31, ’07. 50w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 293. My. 4, ’07. 140w.
Phelps, William Lyon. Pure gold of nineteenth century literature. **75c. Crowell.
7–25233.
A summary of the vital forces in nineteenth century literature as embodied in the following authors destined to live: Keats, Wordsworth. Browning, Byron, Shelley, Tennyson, Stevenson, Thackeray, Austin, Eliot and Hardy.
“There is no alloy in his criticism.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 626. O. 19, ’07. 160w.
Philipson, David. Reform movement in Judaism. **$2. Macmillan.
7–15617.
A series of studies which “aim to present a connected story of the progressive movement in Judaism ... setting forth the purposes and accomplishments of the reform movement.” The beginnings of the reform are discussed and chapters are devoted to: The Geiger-Tiktin affair, The Hamburg Temple prayer-book controversy, Reform in England, Rabbinical conferences, 1844–6, Reform Congregation or Berlin, The Breslau “Friends of reform,” Reform in Hungary, The Leipzig and Augsburg synods, Reform in the United States and Recent developments in Europe.
“The author is to be commended for his careful and scholarly work, and his book is eminently readable.”
+ + Nation. 84: 503. My. 30, ’07. 390w.
“The present volume, relating the struggle and advance of the reformers during the last century, is of peculiar interest and importance to Christians as well as to the Jews.”
+ Outlook. 86: 43. Jl. 20, ’07. 250w.
“A scholarly study.”
+ R. of Rs. 35: 757. Je. ’07. 100w.
Phillipps, L. March. In the desert. $4.20. Longmans.
W 5–5.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Phillipps is no mere impressionist, and behind his charming pictures there is a wealth of sound and acute political thought, all the more valuable since it is rarely expressed in the conventional language of politics. His mind has brilliance and swiftness, but neither profundity nor coherence. Sometimes in his parallels Mr. Phillipps is far-fetched and fantastic, but in the main his brilliant analysis carries conviction.”
+ + − Spec. 95: 1037. D. 16, ’05. 700w.
Phillips, David Graham. Light-fingered gentry, il. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–30833.
A novel based upon recent insurance exposures. The light-fingered gentry are captains of industry and big men in the financial world. The hero is an officer of an insurance company, and the interest of the book is maintained thru his moral regeneration, both the phase of it that affects his fight with corruption in business, and the side that deals with his domestic happiness—the reawakening of love for his divorced wife.
344“Crude in style, but interesting in plot and character delineation.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 203. N. ’07. ✠
“Considering the possibilities of sensationalism inherent in the theme, he has avoided the extremer forms of overstatement. The private interest of the story is inconsiderable.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − Dial. 43: 253. O. 16, ’07. 280w.
“Has many clever features, and now and then passages of real power. But as a whole it is the sort of novel which is own cousin to the special article of the monthly magazine and the work of the star reporter on the daily newspaper.”
− + N. Y. Times. 12: 615. O. 12, ’07. 430w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“The colors—the lurid yellow of the sensational journalist and the dismal black of the chronic pessimist—are laid on with a prodigal brush.”
− Outlook. 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
Phillips, David Graham. Second generation. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–4160.
Hiram Ranger is a wealthy western manufacturer who deplores the idleness into which his two children lapse after a lavish eastern education. His conscience forbids bequeathing them any of his money, and their struggles to work out their own salvation form the burden of Mr. Phillips’ preachment.
“Written in a hasty, crude style, but the story is forceful, absorbing, and timely.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 51. F. ’07. ✠
“‘The second generation’ is not only Mr. Phillips’ strongest and best novel; it is the most virile and vital romance of the present year.”
+ + Arena. 37: 438. Ap. ’07. 3710w.
Current Literature. 42: 459. Ap. ’07. 690w.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Phillips has no style, and thus his management of a strongly-conceived situation becomes bald and unconvincing. The moral of the story is so fine and true despite a slight tincture of unwholesome socialism, that we could wish the author’s literary gift were in proportion to his ethical insight.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − Dial. 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 250w.
“On the whole the book teaches us to be thankful that the social and industrial salvation of the country is not in the hands of these ingenious fiction makers, particularly those who have a socialistic heaven in view which none of us are fit by nature or grace to enter.”
− + Ind. 62: 1415. Je. 13, ’07. 340w.
“So long as he wrote to prove the evil effects of wealth upon the children of rich parents, he expressed his ideas with power and a certain fierce distinction. But when he attempts to show how wealth may be disposed of for the good of society, he offers a Munchausen system of finance wearisome to read about.”
+ − Ind. 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 80w.
“Mr. Phillips has written a strong wholesome story of contemporaneous American life.”
+ Lit. D. 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w.
“There is quite enough importance in the tendency which Mr. Phillips has in mind to make one wish that he might have painted it as tendency rather than as inevitable fact. He has written a forcible tract, however, and this is what we suppose he intended.”
− + Nation. 84: 85. Ja. 24, ’07. 450w.
“The story exhibits all of Mr. Phillips’s strong qualities, it is interesting, and the characters are for the most part forcefully drawn. Its weakness lies in his treating a tendency as if it were an accomplished and universal fact of life.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 157. Mr. 16, ’07. 720w.
“The many entanglements in the plot are skillfully straightened out in the end.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
“The whole book, although sober-minded and excellent in many ways, is too long-drawn-out and somewhat stolid.”
+ − Outlook. 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 100w.
“I cannot imagine anybody but a walking delegate of the most exclamatory type taking pleasure in the ‘Second generation,’ and yet I am sure the author is guilty of most excellent intentions.” Vernon Atwood.
− Putnam’s. 2: 218. Ag. ’07. 190w.
Phillips, Le Roy. Bibliography of the writings of Henry James. **$3. Houghton.
6–43541.
“Part 1, ‘Original works,’ is a chronological bibliography of books, giving the first edition.... Following this account of the first edition is a record of later editions and of translations.... In Part 2 are described books by other authors to which James contributed.... Part 3 is a very extended list of contributions to periodicals.... An appendix contains an account of two plays by James which have been staged in London.”—Nation.
“So far as we have been able to test it, Mr. Phillips’s work is admirably done, and the amount of research must have been very considerable.”
+ + Nation. 84: 37. Ja. 10, ’07. 560w.