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Ath. 1908, 1: 170. F. 8. 1450w.
“He has given a sympathetic account of Grillparzer’s rather meagre and unhappy life.” P. G. Hubert, jr.
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“He has written a sympathetic study of a character very difficult of comprehension if viewed apart from the circumstances of time and place. The metrical translations are an important feature of the book. With few exceptions they render with uncommon success the meaning and melody of the original.”
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“In the main, in its triple character of biography, criticism, and translation, it is an admirable piece of interpretation, and in view of the place which Grillparzer has come to hold in German literature, it can scarcely be doubted that M. Pollak, in introducing him more fully to the American public, has given us one of the most important books of the season.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 88. F. 15, ’08. 1300w.
“It is a piece of biographical criticism of exceptional value by reason of its sound scholarship, competent literary judgment, and thorough workmanship.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 114. Ja. ’08. 110w.
* Pollen, Mrs. John Hungerford. Seven centuries of lace. $9. Macmillan.
“Mrs. Pollen [owner of the La Primandaye lace collection and wife of the official editor of the South Kensington museum catalog of books in art] is an enthusiast on the subject of ancient needle and bobbin-made lace, and has added value to the fine series of plates in her book by an able introduction, in which she traces the evolution of the sister crafts, and defines the distinctive peculiarity of each variety, adding a complete glossary of technical terms, for some of which no adequate English equivalent had previously been given.”—Int. Studio.
“The earlier part of Mrs. Pollen’s book is naturally the more interesting.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 373. S. 26. 620w.
“All who delight in fine needlework have every reason to be grateful, so faithful are the interpretations given and so clearly do they bring out not only the exquisite symmetry and appropriateness of the designs, but also every minute detail of stitchery that contributes to the general effect.”
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Int. Studio. 35: 318. O. ’08. 300w.
“If supplemented by a good history, tracing the development of design and technique, its excellent plates would have genuine educational value, but in its present form its usefulness is practically limited to the collector or to those already somewhat familiar with the history of lace.”
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Nation. 87: 586. D. 10, ’08. 740w.
Polley, Joseph Benjamin. Soldier’s letters to charming Nellie. il. $2. Neale.
8–4889.
Letters written by a member of Hood’s Texas brigade to a loyal Southern girl. They tell of experiences which have since become a part of history; of personal observations and feelings on the march and in battle.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 500w.
Poor, Charles Lane. Solar system: a study of recent observations. **$2. Putnam.
8–5270.
A supplement to standard text-books and encyclopedia articles, whose aim is to show by means of untechnical language and without the use of mathematics by what steps the precise knowledge of to-day has been reached, and to explain the marvellous results of modern methods and modern observations. Here is set down what modern science has revealed concerning the sun, the moon, the earth and other 291bodies in our planetary system, concerning satellite systems, comets and meteors, tides and tidal evolution, and the evolution of the solar system.
“A book of average merit but with no distinguishing features that call for special commendation.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 203. Je. ’08.
“Can be most highly commended both as a text book and as a general exposition of the most important of astronomical phenomena.” W. S. Tower.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 458. S. ’08. 240w.
“Cannot fail to be read with avidity by the ever-increasing number of astronomical students.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 406. O. 3. 820w.
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Dial. 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Attractive and thoroly readable. He is rather severe, but not unduly so, upon the extraordinary views of Lowell in regard to Mars and its so-called ‘canals.’”
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Educ. R. 35: 422. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“It is descriptive and authoritative, recording salient facts in a simple and direct manner.”
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Ind. 64: 1402. Je. 18, ’08. 520w.
“It is not too abstruse, is thoroughly entertaining, and is timely.”
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Nation. 86: 495. My. 28, ’08. 70w.
“Its freedom from slips shows that the author has exercised the same minute care over the proofs that he has in the selection and exposition of the matter.” W: E. Rolston.
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Nature. 78: 629. O. 22, ’08. 670w.
“The work is compact, readable and instructive in just the points where one’s schoolboy ideas need readjustment.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.
“A very interesting and suggestive volume.” C. L. Doolittle.
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Science, n.s. 28: 56. Jl. 10, ’08. 600w.
Pope, Amy Elizabeth, and Carpenter, Mary L. Essentials of dietetics in health and disease: a text-book for nurses, and a practical dietary guide for the household. *$1. Putnam.
8–22245.
A text book designed to be of use in the teaching of dietetics in schools of nursing, and also of use as a dietary guide for the home. The first part deals with the principles of dietetics, and the second, with recipes.
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Ind. 65: 439. Ag. 20, ’08. 70w.
“Much is exceedingly good, despite a confusing inconsistent use of calculations and chemical terms.”
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Nation. 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
Popplewell, William Charles. Strength of materials; a manual for students of engineering. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–13630.
A book intended for students of engineering who are desirous of obtaining a working knowledge of the fundamental principles involved in problems of machine and structural design. Special attention has been paid to the unequal distribution of stress and to the limits of elasticity in iron and steel.
“We already have a number of much better works, and there seems to be no place in the American field for this newcomer.”
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Engin. N. 59: 205. F. 20, ’08. 280w.
“Though prepared for English students, [this book] will prove of equal value to Americans who wish a short, correct, and vigorous treatment of the subject.”
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Nation. 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 100w.
Nature. 77: 412. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
Porter, Charles Talbot. Engineering reminiscences contributed to “Power” and “American machinist”; rev. and enl. il. *$3. Wiley.
8–9539.
The articles contributed to “Power” and “American machinist” have been revised and expanded and have been collected here for an addition to the history of American engineering. “It must be borne in mind, of course, that the book makes no pretence to be an impartial and complete history of the field of engineering to which it refers. Mr. Porter has merely set down his personal experiences and those of his associates and contemporaries from his own personal viewpoint.” (Engin. N.)
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Engin. D. 3: 528. My. ’08. 250w.
“The book is written in conversational style and with a frank recital of successes and failures which make it highly entertaining. The young engineer can learn many lessons in practical business.”
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Engin. N. 59: 433. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The book is a model of its kind, written with very many humorous comments and full of the charm of scholarship tempered by the broad views that come only with intimate acquaintance with men of all degrees in many countries.”
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Engin. Rec. 57: 386. Mr. 28, ’08. 600w.
* Porter, Eleanor H. Turn of the tide. †$1.25. Wilde.
The sequel to “Cross currents” which follows the development of Margaret Kendall, lost in the slums for four years, from the time when she is restored to her home.
Porter, Gene Stratton. At the foot of the rainbow. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–978.
Central Indiana furnishes the rural scene of a story whose characters—two men, and a woman—constitute the modern-drama triangle. It is a tale of a heroic Scotchman’s friendship for a dissipated Irishman who had played the former false when entrusted with a message to the girl both loved.
“A light, cheerful and, at the same time, pathetic, little story. A breezy, fresh, out-of-doors atmosphere is its chief characteristic. Similar in this respect to the author’s ‘Freckles,’ but better done in every way.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 87. Mr. ’08. ✠
“The story has the same outdoor quality that ‘Freckles’ has, by the same author, but it makes less of an appeal to the sympathies.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 95. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“If it is worth reading at all (and let us give the author the benefit of the doubt), is so because of the background of outdoor life, nature, and the changing pageant of the seasons.”
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Outlook. 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
Porter, Mary Winearls. What Rome was built with: a description of the stones employed in ancient times for its building and decoration. *$1.25. Oxford.
8–13631.
The knowledge of antiquary and geologist has been drawn upon to furnish to inquirers this description of the stones used in building ancient Rome. The kinds of stone are identified and traced to their home quarries, and historical and mythological details are included.
Class. J. 3: 208. Mr. ’08. 17w.
“A little more care might also have been well spent in the arrangement of the matter. Only trifling blemishes, detract from the value of an interesting compilation. It is difficult to point to any other work on the subject equally convenient and trustworthy.”
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Nature. 77: 196. Ja. 2, ’08. 400w.
“A highly interesting book.”
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Spec. 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 170w.
292Post, Emily (Mrs. Edwyn Main Post). Woven in the tapestry. **$1. Moffat.
8–9525.
“These are the tales of Ateria, a country which long ago lay on the distant borderlands; of the pagan king, Thyaterion, and his daughter, the princess Alacia; of the Hermit in the forest, and of the stranger who came to live for a while as the Hermit’s disciple.” “The nosegay of chapters from the life of a fairylike princess holds allegories that trace the growth of her mind, soul, and heart. Side by side with these are cameo portraits of her lowlier neighbors, of her courtiers and counsellors, and of the true and only prince.” (Nation.)
Bookm. 27: 240. My. ’08. 150w.
“The soul not dead to the whisperings of poetry, may pleasurably walk in this pretty garden of fantasies.”
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Nation. 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 80w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“It is a gracious little book; and perhaps there may be a truth in its flowery pages which the plainer story of real life overlooks.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 363. Je. 27, ’08. 220w.
* Post, Melville Davisson. Corrector of destinies: being tales of Randolph Mason as related by his private secretary Courtlandt Parks. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
8–25120.
A group of mystery stories containing legal tangles which Randolph Mason, wizard of the law, straightens thru a maze of technicalities. “Randolph Mason may not be humanly possible—an embodied characteristic is rarely so; but there is a certain stern charm in so austere a conception as the incarnate essence of justice untinctured with sympathy.” (Nation.)
“Most of the stories hang upon points of law more interesting to the technician than to the outsider.”
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Nation. 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 230w.
“The book is well written, and is sure to be of interest both to old friends of Randolph Mason and to those who meet him now for the first time.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 610. O. 24, ’08. 160w.
Post, Van Zo. Retz. †$1.50. McClure.
8–16717.
A young nobleman of Flanders goes forth to adventure and achievement uncertain whether the power that moves the world is money, knowledge or love. The gift of Venus—as old as time—is accepted after daring deeds prove the worthiness of the hero.
“Structurally, it is incoherent, but its episodes are exciting enough to make us condone the fault of amorphous plan.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 150w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
Potter, Cora Brown. The secrets of beauty and mysteries of health. **$1.75. Elder.
8–10640.
A practical guide to beauty which gives suggestions for the right care of the skin, hair, nails, eyes, nose, ears, face, mouth, teeth, hands and feet. Valuable formulas are interspersed for the compounding of aids to beauty and health.
N. Y. Times. 13: 218. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“She has given to the world of woman a very sensible and thorough study of the methods in vogue all over the world for the promotion of good looks and good health.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The volume contains all sorts of good advice, based on the author’s stage experiences and travel.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 30w.
Potter, Margaret. Golden ladder. †$1.50. Harper.
8–12224.
The story of a wanton young woman who treads the broad way just because she wants all of the tinsel of life and none of its serious joy. On the rounds of the “golden ladder” the hero—who in truth does not deserve the name—sacrifices his manhood, but still climbs, by the Wall street way, to his millions.
“The story is made both unattractive and ineffective by the ostentatious desire of the author to point its moral.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 204. Ag. 22. 180w.
“The volume undoubtedly has good material in it; Margaret Potter sees life on a rather big scale, and she uses verbal colour in a way that forces the reader to see what she wants him to see.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 399. Je. ’08. 400w.
“Some of her bits of description and dialogue are calculated to bring a blush not to maiden cheeks alone. We are inclined to think that ‘The golden ladder’ has done a thing well worth doing after a fashion in which it distinctly ought not to be done.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 91. Ag. 16, ’08. 330w.
Ind. 65: 156. Jl. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Except for the Briand family, and an occasional lapse from egotism on the part of the hero, the novel is unjustifiably repulsive.”
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Nation. 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“Most of the characters are crude in conception and are not made credible in development.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 180w.
“The book is, of course, designed to show up the terrible hunger for riches that possesses the land; but we fail to see that it will turn any young man from attempting the ascent of the perilous ladder.” Charlotte Harwood.
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Putnam’s. 4: 620. Ag. ’08. 400w.
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R. of Rs. 37: 763. Je. ’08. 70w.
“The novel, if a little long, is decidedly clever, but it is by no means pleasant reading.”
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Spec. 100: 980. Je. 20, ’08. 270w.
Pottle, Emery Bemsley. Handicapped. †$1.50. Lane.
8–17789.
“Donovan O’Hara, who came of a well-bred mother, was handicapped by having a horse-trainer for a father. He had the bringing-up, the associates, and, on the whole, the tastes and morals of a horse-trainer.” (Nation.) How his heritage operates against him in matters of love forms the main theme of the book. “The group of people who appear in these pages is united by a common love of horse flesh.” (Nation.)
“Does not at any point gain much hold upon the reader’s attention.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 140w.
“When the book is not horsy it is ‘sexy.’ It it also rather dull.”
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Nation. 87: 13. Jl. 2, ’08. 200w.
“An eloquent little romance, vibrant with plenty of wholesome activity, and with a pathetic love story.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 297. My. 23, ’08. 140w.
Poulton, Edward Bagnall. Essays on evolution, 1889–1907. *$4. Oxford.
Contains a series of ten essays on various aspects of the Darwinian theory and is introduced by a chapter entitled Mutation, Mendelism, and natural selection.
“Our first thought on reading these essays is one of regret that their author did not rewrite them entirely and give his matter in a 293new form. By the present arrangement the book appeals much more to the entomologist than to the general reader. Perhaps their main fault is a certain pedagogic flavour, and hence an impatience of views not entirely in consonance with those of the author.”
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Ath. 1908. 2: 157. Ag. 8. 900w.
“This introduction, together, with the last three or four chapters, should have formed an independent volume on natural selection and mimicry.”
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Nation. 87: 167. Ag. 20, ’08. 400w.
“We dare not find fault with it, save indeed to wish its treatment had been even more encyclopaedic.”
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Sat. R. 106: 336. S. 12, ’08. 1600w.
Powell, Frances, pseud. (Frances Powell Case). Old Mr. Davenant’s money. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–10860.
A story with a subtly handled mystery concealed by an avaricious mother and a faithful servant. A mother had managed with skilful manœuvring to secure old Mr. Davenant’s money for her son. The boy dies and the mother rather than lose the fortune slips a twin sister into his shoes and brings the child up as the son and heir. The east end of Long Island furnishes the setting for the story which sketches a fascinating group of characters and is rich in local color.
“The sugaring of the pill is so well done that the story may well enough be read for its interest.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 400. Jl. 18, ’08. 400w.
* Powell, Lyman Pierson. Art of natural sleep, with definite directions for the wholesome cure of sleeplessness, illustrated by cases treated in Northampton and elsewhere. **90c. Putnam.
8–32345.
A little book prompted by the author’s experience in overcoming insomnia which is designed to help physicians, Emmanuel workers, and others who believe in the art of natural sleep to aid those committed to their care. The method is auto-suggestion reinforced by faith.
“The tiny book is written in the simplest and most practical style, and its definite directions for the cure of sleeplessness are such as any person can follow with very little trouble.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 723. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
Powell, Lyman Pierson. Christian science: the faith and its founder. *$1.25. Putnam.
7–40519.
An interpretation of the facts of Christian science, its tenets and its founder written by one who is neither a defender nor an assailant.
“A careful, painstaking exposition, manifesting a thorough knowledge of the subject.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 147. My. ’08. ✠
“The volume should have careful consideration from all who are interested in the phenomenon.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 719. My. ’08. 130w.
“A very careful and painstaking examination.”
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Educ. R. 35: 206. F. ’08. 40w.
Ind. 65: 432. Ag. 20, ’08. 220w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 264. Ap. 20, ’07. 80w.
“The author is frank and impartial with Eddyites and their opponents.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“A scathing indictment, all the more scathing because of the dispassionate form in which it is presented.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 250w.
“It ought to be satisfactory to those who wish a fair-minded and judicial interpretation of Christian science.”
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Outlook. 88: 565. Mr. 7, ’08. 180w.
Poyser, Arthur. Tower of London; painted by John Fulleylove, described by Arthur Poyser. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The text, beautifully printed on thick paper with wide margins, consists of an historical sketch, and then descriptions of walks through the Tower, round the Tower, about Tower hill, and Allhallows Barking by the Tower. This part of the work is competently done, but without special distinction of style. The pictures are pretty, fortunately in rather subdued colors, but without notable excellence.”—Nation.
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Int. Studio. 35: 318. O. ’08. 300w.
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Nation. 87: 286. S. 24, ’08. 120w.
“There is sufficient in the way of historical sketch, of description of the several towers, chapels, and chambers, and of anecdote about famous prisoners to make the work valuable without overloading it with detail.”
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Outlook. 90: 229. S. 26, ’08. 150w.
“If Mr. Poyser sees more imaginative possibilities in the Tower than the great writers themselves appear to have seen, we must say that he himself has cast little of charm over his descriptions.”
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Sat. R. 106: 119. Jl. 25, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Fulleylove’s pictures have all the charm which we are accustomed to find in his work. Mr. Poyser’s description is satisfactory on the whole.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 712. N. 7, ’08. 240w.
Praed, Rosa Caroline (Mrs. Campbell M. Praed). By their fruits. $1.50. Cassell.
“A story with twin sisters as the central figures. Dual personalities, so alike that they easily pass for each other when apart, equally beautiful in physical appearance, they are yet opposites in temperament and character; Aglaia-Pascaline, frivolous, a victim to the drug habit; Pascaline-Aglaia, pure, spiritual, would-be savior of her sister. Around these two characters the story is woven.”—N. Y. Times.
“Though it can scarcely be called probable, is highly ingenious, and through four hundred odd pages the interest never flags.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 474. Ap. 18. 140w.
“According to my thinking, it is, on the whole, the most remarkable and the most original novel Mrs. Praed has yet brought out, and its heroine is certainly one of the most charming, noble-minded woman figures in our recent literature, at once poetically ideal and yet thoroly lifelike and real.” Justin McCarthy.
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Ind. 64: 1339. Je. 11, ’08. 350w.
“The interest never flags for one moment.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
Pratt, Waldo Selden. History of music. *$3. Schirmer.
7–38011.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“The book becomes unbalanced towards the end.” O. G. Sonneck.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 828. Jl. ’08. 800w.
“Particularly useful for small libraries with few reference books. The illustrations are interesting, but not finely executed.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 47. F. ’08. ✠
“He has increased the literature of music by a contribution of permanent value.” J. R. Smith.
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Dial. 44: 99. F. 16, ’08. 850w.
“By the painstaking care with which he has selected his material, and the clear, succinct, straightforward method of its presentation, without waste of words, his book is an important contribution to the literature of music, and it makes interesting reading for layman and musical student alike.”
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Ind. 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
294“It may be said that too many minor names are included among the numerous sketches of composers. By omitting such trivial information, room might have been provided for references to the more important books in which the subject of each chapter can be studied in detail. Apart from this, it would be difficult to suggest a way in which this book might have been improved. Is a marvel of industrious research and exceptional usefulness.”
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Nation. 86: 87. Ja. 23, ’08. 250w.
“The book is far from being a mere compilation. It is not lacking the personal point of view, and the flavor of the personal criticism. The arrangement is admirable, with its division into large and small type; and the index is very full.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 865. D. 28, ’07. 320w.
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R. of Rs. 37: 254. F. ’08. 50w.
Pratt, Walter Merriam. Burning of Chelsea. $1.50. Sampson pub.
8–19884.
A contribution to local history based on personal knowledge and observation. It gives a volunteer fireman’s story of the great conflagration of last April with additional chapters on the history of Chelsea. Fully illustrated from photographs.
Presbrey, Frank. Motoring abroad. *$2. Outing pub.
8–16437.
The account of a two months’ automobile trip thru Normandy, Brittany, the chateau country of Touraine, England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales made by an enthusiastic automobilist and his wife. The volume is instructively written and profusely illustrated. It closes with a chapter on “Practical suggestions” in which the author gives other automobilists the benefit of all the means adopted to reduce discomfort and annoyance to a minimum.
“Is notable apart from the descriptions he gives of the countries.”
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Lit. D. 37: 60. Jl. 11, ’08. 1350w.
“We can confidently recommend [it] to the stay-at-home who is afflicted with the somewhat prevalent desire to see Europe from an automobile.”
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Nation. 87: 93. Jl. 30, ’08. 300w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 376. Jl. 4. ’08. 270w.
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Outlook. 89: 866. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“The author knows how to enjoy himself thoroughly and he understands how to tell in crisp, entertaining fashion, what he has seen.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 100w.
Prescott, Samuel Cate, and Winslow, Charles E. A. Elements of water bacteriology, with special reference to sanitary water analysis. 2d ed. $1.50. Wiley.
8–9036.
A new edition rewritten to cover the progress during the past four years. “Particular mention is made of addition to the chapters on Self-purification, on the Isolation of the typhoid bacillus, on Colon tests, and a new chapter has been provided on the Bacteriology of sewage and sewage effluents. A quite extended bibliography is provided.” (Engin. N.)
Engin. N. 60: 80. Jl. 16, ’08. 90w.
“In its practical applications the book is an excellent compendium of data bearing on the bacteriological conditions of normal waters, the self-purification of streams, the efficiency of sand and mechanical filters and the relation of bacteriology to sewage purification.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 420w.
“The book can be recommended as a very useful one and a great improvement on the first edition.” R. T. Hewlett.
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Nature. 79: 6. N. 5, ’08. 300w.
Preuss, Arthur. Fundamental fallacies of socialism: an exposition of the question of landownership; comprising an authentic account of the famous McGlynn case. *$1. Herder.
“Written by a Catholic who seeks to prove that the public ownership of land is contrary to the teaching of the Catholic church, especially that embodied in the encyclicals of Leo XIII. These encyclicals and Henry George’s open letter to the pope are discussed in detail. The author then seeks to prove that the removal of the ban of excommunication which had been pronounced against McGlynn because of his advocacy of Henry George’s theories did not mean, as it was commonly supposed, that the single tax was not contrary to Catholic doctrine.... The final conclusion is that public ownership of land being wrong, similar arguments will prove the error of public ownership of other agents of production—hence the fallacy of socialism.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“When Mr. Preuss will have dealt intelligently with the crux of the situation hinted at in his observations, he may, with more propriety than at present, claim to have produced ‘the first and only adequate presentation, in English, of the important question of landownership.’”
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Ind. 86: 637. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.
J. Pol. Econ. 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 180w.
Nation. 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 100w.
* Preyer, David C. Art of the Netherland galleries. (Art galleries of Europe ser.) *$2. Page.
8–30912.
“Written not for the professional, whether painter or critic or student, but rather for the reader who is interested in art for the beauty of it and for the tourist who is looking for information. While the greater part of the volume is given over to Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Hals, Memling, the Van Eycks, Teniers, Jan Steen, Van Ostrade, and the other great painters, much space is devoted to the modern Dutch artists, Israels, the Maris brothers, Neuhuys, &c.”—N. Y. Times.
“Such a history has not before appeared in English, nor in Dutch in the same completeness. Mr. Preyer’s account of the lesser men, as well as of their more noted fellows, is written with intelligence and discrimination.”
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Dial. 45: 407. D. 1, ’08. 280w.
“Is sufficiently enthusiastic about his subject to impart some of his appreciation to the reader.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
Price, Eleanor C. Princess of the old world [Anne Marie Louise d’Orleans]. (Memoir ser.) *$3. Putnam.
8–10260.
The biography of Louis XIV’s wayward and eccentric cousin who “next to Queen Elizabeth is perhaps the most interesting spinster in history.” (Spec.) “The life of Mademoiselle covers a great part of the seventeenth century, a very interesting period in the history of France, seeing that it includes the wars of the Fronde and such personalities as Conde—perhaps the most brilliant of all French soldiers before Napoleon—and Mazarin. Anne Marie Louise d’Orleans mixed, of course, with these men and engaged in the politics of their time.” (Sat. R.)
“The author has used contemporary sources with taste and discretion, and has supplemented them with the best modern authorities.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 508. Ap. 25. 1400w.
“An exceedingly finished and accurate presentation.”
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Nation. 86: 238. Mr. 12, ’08. 250w.
295“The author has the knack of making her people seem very real and very much alive.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 270w.
“A very readable book.”
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Sat. R. 104: sup. 10. N. 16, ’07. 100w.
“A picturesque and highly readable study.”
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Spec. 99: 779. N. 16, ’07. 600w.
Price, William Thompson. Analysis of play construction and dramatic principle. $5. W: T. Price, 1440 Broadway, N. Y.
8–23870.
“Mr. Price’s theory is that dramatic genius, unsupported by mastery of technical laws, is comparatively powerless to make a good play—which has a certain measure of truth in it—and that the requisite technical knowledge must be obtained by minute analysis of standard pieces in order to discover their constructive principles. As models for dissection he selects five plays, ‘Ingomar,’ ‘Lady of Lyons,’ ‘Camille,’ ‘Still waters run deep,’ and ‘A new way to pay old debts’—of which only one, ‘Camille,’ is really notable for artistic composition.”—Nation.
“His unworthiness as a teacher is manifested, not so much in his exaggeration of the importance of mere mechanism as compared with that of matter—much of what he says about technique is sound enough, though tediously trite—but in his utter failure to offer any suggestions of practical value to the budding dramatist. All the real instruction in his ponderous volume could be put with better effect into a thin pamphlet for use as a primer.”
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Nation. 87: 269. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
“There are no better books on this subject than Mr. Price’s.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 482. S. 5, ’08. 970w.
* Priestman, Mabel Tuke. Art and economy in home decoration. **$1.50. Lane.
8–27401.
The author, a practical interior decorator, presents a study of house decoration in which color is the keynote. “Suggestions are given how to treat our walls, what curtain material is best, what to choose as floor-covering, and how much ornament is admissible on our furniture, besides many other points of vital importance to the young housekeeper, or the older one whose eyes are being opened to possible beauty. The illustrations in the book are excellent as aids to the text.” (Outlook.)
“More inclusive than Daniel’s ‘Furnishing a modest home,’ but is on different lines and will appeal to a different class of readers.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 264. N. ’06. ✠
“The subjects are treated with the knowledge that comes of long study of interior decoration, and in a simple, untechnical way that will appeal to the average home-maker.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 522. S. 26, ’08. 250w.
“The clear classification of subjects in this manual will be appreciated by those who use it.”
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Outlook. 90: 752. N. 28, ’08. 160w.
Prior, James. Walking gentleman. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–23524.
On the day preceding his marriage, Lord Beiley, immensely bored with life, wanders away and yields to the temptation of vagabondage. His itinerary takes him among people with whom rank counts for nothing, where he learns to value essential manhood. And “the Lady Sarah comes to feel that his desertion of her was a blessing to them both, because it taught each of them that life was not quite worth while without the other.... It gives a series of vivid pictures of rural England, a succession of carefully studied types of middleclass lower-class men and women, of the scum and riff-raff of society, all admirable in their own special way.” (Bookm.)
“In the general scheme of his work—its inconsequence, its whole-hearted love of the open road, and, above all, its wide sympathy with all sorts and conditions of men—Mr. Prior reminds us irresistibly of George Borrow.”
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Acad. 73: 951. S. 28, ’07. 350w.
“For a novel with no plot it is astonishing how interesting this itinerary is; the book will dwell in the memory when most novels have faded from it.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 200w.
“The story not only has a clever theme, well handled, but better yet, it is delightfully written.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 184. Ap. ’08. 600w.
“With the exception of ... a precocious but lovable child, it is in the minor characters that Mr. Prior shows his finest art. The story in itself is not strikingly original; its value lies in its flashes of human insight.”
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Nation. 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 450w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 276. My. 16, ’08. 150w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. James Prior possesses an exceptional wealth of juicy humor; he pours forth the wine of mirth that gladdens the heart in liberal measure.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 767. Je. ’08. 80w.
Programme of modernism: a reply to the Encyclical of Pius X., Pascendi dominici gregis; with the text of the Encyclical in an English version, tr. by Rev. Father George Tyrrell, with an introd. by A. Leslie Lilley. (Crown theological lib., no. 25.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–15499.
The fault of “Modernism” for which the authors of this volume have suffered excommunication is that of regarding Christianity as transcending the outward doctrinal and ecclesiastical expression of it and daring to submit these externals to historical criticism. The reply includes a most lucid and concise presentation of the results of the “Higher criticism,” states wherein the Encyclical has misrepresented the “modernists.” and explains and justifies their position, maintaining that it is in accord with the best Catholic traditions.
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Ath. 1908, 1: 346. Mr. 21. 1200w.
Reviewed by H. C. Corrance.
Hibbert J. 6: 930. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“It is a very remarkable book.”
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Ind. 64: 1349. Je. 11, ’08. 300w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 221. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
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Outlook. 89: 364. Je. 20, ’08. 700w.
Prothero, Rowland Edmund. Pleasant land of France. *$3.50. Dutton.
W8–121.
“Seven sketches and studies, ranging over agriculture, folklore, history, and literature, with the one common attribute of an all but exclusive bearing on provincial conditions of life and thought in France.” (Nation.) “For American readers the essay on Fontainebleau will probably hold the greatest share of interest.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is a pity he did not expand the two essays [on French agrarian subjects] into a small volume, bringing the facts under consideration down to the present day, and elucidating his pages with foot-notes.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 37. Jl. 11. 630w.
“Most important are two practical discussions of French farming and tenant-right, together with an elaborate contribution to the appreciation of Rabelais.”
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Nation. 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 450w.
296“For the thousands of Americans who annually make their holiday in France one would not do better than recommend this essay.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 650w.
“Whether courting the muse of history ... or drawing a humorous philosophy from the gudgeon-fishing which is the national pastime of provincial France, Mr. Prothero is wholly delightful here.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
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Putnam’s. 4: 745. S. ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Prothero’s delightful book on France covers a variety of subjects, on each and all of which he speaks with authority.”
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Spec. 101: 408. S. 19, ’08. 1500w.
Putnam, George Palmer. Tabular views of universal history; originally compiled by G. P. Putnam, and continued to the year 1907 by Lynds E. Jones and Simeon Strunsky. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–39021.
A series of chronological tables presenting in parallel columns, a record of more noteworthy events in the history of the world from the earliest times down to 1907.
“A laborious undertaking which we are bound to say hardly seems to us to have paid for the doing.”
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Educ. R. 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 30w.
“For the layman studying universal history some such arrangement is a godsend wellnigh indispensable.”
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Ind. 65: 320. Ag. 6. ’08. 150w.
“So far as we have tested the dates for various periods we find no reason to doubt the general accuracy of the book.”
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Nation. 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 120w.
“The new edition contains a number of important features.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 255. F. ’08. 50w.
“On the whole, the book seems to be carefully compiled.”
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Spec. 100: 836. My. 23, ’08. 160w.
Putnam, Ruth. Charles the Bold; last duke of Burgundy, 1433–1477. (Heroes of the nations.) **$1.35. Putnam.
8–6627.
A biography whose importance grows out of the last duke of Burgundy’s relation to events rather than out of any patriotic or heroic qualities. The author has condensed a vast amount of reliable material in her sketch, making use of the later results of historical investigation. She says, “The veracity attained is only that of a mosaic of bits; each with its morsel of truth.” She emphasizes the insufficiency of the duke’s mental equipment to cope with the forces of his age, and further believes that his chiefest happiness lay in his unconsciousness of his shortcomings.
“Accurate as to facts, and good in style.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 203. Je. ’08. ✠
“An interesting account of a most interesting career.”
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Dial. 45: 170. S. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Particular attention should be called to the well-selected illustrations. Miss Putnam tells in an attractive and authentic fashion the life of the last Duke of Burgundy.”
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Educ. R. 35: 423. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“Will surely take first rank in the series to which it belongs.”
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Ind. 65: 265. Jl. 30, ’08. 350w.
“A brilliant miniature.”
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Lit. D. 36: 656. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
“It is written with perhaps more dash and fervor than both the hero and the subject warrant.”
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Nation. 87: 140. Ag. 13, ’08. 260w.
Sat. R. 106: 306. S. 5, ’08. 370w.
* Pyle, Howard. Ruby of Kishmoor. †$1. Harper.
8–31166.
A story of adventure set in the island of Jamaica which introduces a pirate, his allies, his daughter, and the hero, a tall, lean, loose-jointed Quaker. Before his death the pirate turns over the famous Kishmoor ruby to his daughter, and the Quaker plays the hero in defending her against the father’s confederates, who, separately, in the act of securing the ruby, bring death upon themselves.
Dial. 45: 463. D. 16, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by W: G. Bowdoin.
Ind. 65: 1464. D. 17, ’08. 100w.
“The artist-author is an admirable raconteur.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 100w.