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Packh, Baroness M. de. Twenty years in Siberia, and Leaves from my Russian diary. $1.25. Guarantee pub.
8–2942.
A human document describing the humiliation and suffering of undeserved exile in Siberia during twenty years, and the later exultation over the execution of plotted vengeance. The diary reflects upon the thraldom which Russia suffers in the throes of traditional inhumanity.
“A good deal of knowledge of the Russian people marks the book. It is sadly marred by an unbridled use of adjectives and exclamations.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
Pagani, Rev. G. B. Life of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati; tr. from the Italian. *$3. Dutton.
The biography of a man much persecuted by orthodox thinkers. Rosmini believed “that there was one absolute, indivisible, eternal, immutable Truth, which remained unaffected by the stupendous March of the Intellect of Man.” “The man Rosmini, with his wonderful gifts of grace and mind, is admirably portrayed; and the events of his life, both those of a public and those of a more personal or domestic character are related in that happy measure which is the mean between dry baldness and prolixity of detail.” (Cath. World.)
“We can heartily commend the translation of Father Pagani’s curiously naïve but devout and interesting life.”
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Acad. 73: 184. N. 30, ’07. 1150w.
“For all the interest of Rosmini’s personality, Father Pagani has succeeded in writing a dull book.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 340w.
“The task is one that called for no common measure of tact, prudence, and evangelical courage. All these qualities, as well as high literary talent, are evinced in this life.”
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Cath. World. 87: 553. Jl. ’08. 750w.
“The book, whatever its defects, has much that is valuable and instructive about it.”
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Spec. 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 330w.
Page, James Madison, and Haley, M. J. True story of Andersonville prison: a defense of Major Henry Wirz. *$2. Neale.
8–9498.
Written in the interest of truth and fair play this narrative aims to reduce friction between the North and the South, especially that caused by the exaggerated and often unjust reports of Major Wirz’s cruelty and inhumanity to the Union prisoners.
Nation. 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 300w.
R. of Rs. 37: 755. Je. ’08. 200w.
Page, Thomas Nelson. Old Dominion: her making and her manners. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–7373.
Twelve essays are included in this volume, taking up different phases and characteristics in the life of Virginia since its foundation, showing how great a part in the nation’s development is justly due to the heroic deeds and sublime fortitude and endeavor of the men of the Old Dominion. They are as follows: The beginning of America; Jamestown, the birthplace of the American people; Colonial life; The revolutionary movement; Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia; The southern people during reconstruction; The Old Dominion since the war; An old neighborhood in Virginia, and An old Virginia Sunday.
“A note which runs through all Mr. Page has ever written is evident here also: the judgment and the language are too frequently those of one who supposes character to be absolutely determined by status. All heroic characters are gentlemen; the villains are outside the charmed circle. This is not life; it is not even ante-bellum Virginia life.” W: E. Dodd.
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 182. O. ’08. 500w.
“Offers valuable material to the historical student and delightful essays to the general reader.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 201. Je. ’08.
“This volume has the usual literary charm of Mr. Page’s writings.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 627. N. ’08. 100w.
“The book is a good example of the service a practiced writer may perform in re-casting the work of scientific historians for the benefit of average readers.”
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Dial. 44: 382. Je. 16, ’08. 260w.
“The chapters on personal reminiscence ... show Mr. Page’s attractive personal touch, and are worth reading.”
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Ind. 65: 210. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Page constantly relates his narrative to larger events and keeps a moving background of world history insofar as it has connection with his subject. And if sometimes in his account of affairs in the Old Dominion he sees with a magnifying eye, the fault can be pardoned as only the manifestation of a loyal son’s loving pride in his native state.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 294. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Written with all the usual charm of Mr. Page’s style.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
“One of the most interesting histories of exploration and colonial times.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 508. Ap. ’08. 100w.
* Page, Thomas Nelson. Robert E. Lee: the Southerner. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–30716.
“Mr. Page’s book is not merely a biography of General Lee, altho it is a narrative of the career of the hero from two points of view—the man and the soldier. The biographical feature of the work, however, is secondary to what was evidently the author’s main purpose in writing—an analysis of General Lee’s military genius. Incidentally the author furnishes a succinct account of the battles fought in the Union war, finally leading up to a comparative estimate of the claims to military greatness made by the two contending generals in that war—Grant and Lee.”—Lit. D.
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Lit. D. 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
“It will delight Southern men, but in the North there will be sharp criticism of it, in which it will be contended that the pride of a Virginian in one of the noblest sons of Virginia has guided Mr. Page in the making of his book, so that he has written unqualified eulogy rather than cold, impartial history.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 640w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
* Page, Thomas Nelson. Tommie Trot’s visit to Santa Claus. †$1. Scribner.
8–35741.
The story of an indulged little boy who meets a street boy with a dog and a sled and starts on a trip with him to the north pole, the home of 277Santa Claus. Their adventures are wholesome and entertaining.
Reviewed by K. L. M.
Bookm. 25: 384. D. ’08. 100w.
“Wholly devoid of novelty or originality.” M. J. Moses.
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Ind. 65: 1472. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
“The events are too evidently constructed in a conventional manner to disguise the stilted moral of the rich little boy and the poor little boy.”
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Nation. 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The story is an exciting one.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
“It lacks vital interest.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 764. D. ’08. 80w.
Paget, Stephen. Confessio medici. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–5617.
The modesty of the author’s attitude is expressed in the statement, “I only want to confess what I have learned, so far as I have come, from my life, so far as it has gone.” The book may be regarded as a physician’s classic, and is made up of the mild, reflective observations of a physician who has lived and seen and believed.
“Full of a warm-hearted kindliness and a quiet humour that appeal directly to all who take an interest in suffering humanity.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 293. Mr. 7. 650w.
“It is written in many moods, sentimental, practical, reflective and pugnacious, and in a style that is brisk, sententious, a little too emphatic, but always readable.” C. M. F.
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Bookm. 27: 596. Ag. ’08. 1400w.
“Every page of the book ... is good reading, whether the reader be doctor or patient, or neither. The writer’s style will delight the connoisseur.”
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Dial. 44: 213. Ap. 1, ’08. 470w.
“It is agreeably free from technicalities, and it takes Stevenson’s view of the calling.”
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Ind. 65: 45. Jl. 2, ’08. 370w.
“A pleasant book.”
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Nation. 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 200w.
“We wish that every student of medicine during his student days would read, mark, learn and inwardly digest their practical wisdom and happy maxims, and many a practitioner whose finer feelings have perhaps become blunted by too close contact with a stringent life would rise up the better from their perusal.”
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Nature. 78: 54. My. 21, ’08. 120w.
“A capital book, none the worse, but all the better, for being written about the profession which ought to be, to him, the most interesting subject in the world. The book is a flower of ‘culture.’ This author’s style is so good that on almost every page it will remind the reader, in some turn or phrase, of Stevenson.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 115. F. 29, ’68. 1220w.
“It remains only to say as emphatically as possible that every one who knows the intellectual refreshment of clear, unconventional thought expressed with insight and wit will give this anonymous writer a cordial welcome.”
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Outlook. 88: 610. Mr. 14, ’08. 550w.
“Sometimes he writes as though he feared lest his work should smell too much of the lamp, and he throws in a few grains of jauntiness to show that no one could possibly hate elaboration or self-consciousness more than he; but he throws them in apologetically. At other times he is all jauntiness with no apology.”
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Spec. 101: 19. Jl. 4, ’08. 1700w.
Paine, Albert Bigelow. Tent dwellers. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–29352.
The story of a camping experience in the wilderness of Nova Scotia. The moving spirit of the company is a “cave-, a cliff- and a tree-dweller in his soul and the gods of his ancestors were not to be gainsaid.” The greater wilderness that welcomes, teaches and takes one to its heart is the wilderness portrayed here.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 293. D. ’08. ✠
“This is the rarest of things, a book of outdoor life written simply, swiftly, and honestly.”
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Nation. 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 380w.
“The author relates the story of their trip with a liveliness, a sense of humor, a notable faculty for humorous narrative, and an ability to put into words—and not too many words either—the fascination of the wilderness that give his book an unusual quality. Enjoying its savor so much one deplores all the more Mr. Paine’s sad habit of using singular verbs with plural subjects.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 300w.
Paine, John Knowles. History of music to the death of Schubert. *$2.40. Ginn.
7–35630.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“Scholarly and conservative in treatment, well proportioned and arranged, especially valuable for estimates of the great classics.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 81. Mr. ’08.
“The editor might by means of foot-notes have brought the book as much as possible up to date.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 549. My. 2. 400w.
“Though in a sense unfinished, the work is no mere torso. It is a dignified, lucid, and sympathetic account of the great steps in the development of the art, from the earliest music of the Greeks and Romans down to 1828, the year of Schubert’s death. Professor Howard’s task as editor has been carried out with discrimination and loving care.” J. R. Smith.
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Dial. 44: 100. F. 16, ’08. 430w.
“It is a genuine pleasure to have his lectures on the history of music in form for reading and use as a text-book. They may be unreservedly commended whether one is disposed to lay stress on breadth of view, splendid scholarship, or agreeable treatment.”
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Educ. R. 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“Of high excellence, as far as it goes, thoroly sane, careful and judicious in spirit.”
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Ind. 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 80w.
“Professor Howard ... has done his editorial work conscientiously.”
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Nation. 86: 87. Ja. 23, ’08. 500w.
“His work is well proportioned and well arranged in detail.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 865. D. 28, ’07. 220w.
R. of Rs. 37: 254. F. ’08. 80w.
* Paine, Ralph Delahaye. Stroke oar. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–33155.
A college story which turns on the rivalry between the captain and the stroke oar of a Yale crew. At a critical moment the stroke oar is kidnapped and carried thousands of miles away. His adventures while attempting to get back to New Haven in time for the Yale-Harvard race, insure only a suggestion of the thrills to be experienced in the race itself with the stroke oar back to win the day.
Pais, Ettore. Ancient Italy: historical and geographical investigations in Central Italy, Magna Graecia, Sicily and Sardinia; tr. from the Italian by C. Densmore Curtis. *$5. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–5246.
A series of articles which has resulted from an exhaustive study of the ancient history of the Italian tribes. The review embraces the relations of these peoples with the surrounding nations and throws light on the history of Greece.
“In these papers we must recognize that there is a large amount of constructive work 278of a high order; it is the more to be regretted that many of the conclusions seem at best but probabilities.” C. H. Moore.
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 95. O. ’08. 800w.
Class. J. 3: 208. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Notwithstanding some inconsistencies and an occasional mistake, the work certainly adds new interest as well as fresh knowledge to early Italian and Sicilian history.” G: W. Botsford.
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Class. Philol. 3: 451. O. ’08. 840w.
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Ind. 65: 263. Jl. 30, ’08. 440w.
“Minor criticisms should not detract from the sincere appreciation of the profound knowledge and the intellectual keenness of the author. The translator has been faithful; but he has left an excessive number of misprints; and still more unfortunately, his English is defective in grammar as well as in general smoothness and lucidity.”
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Nation. 86: 493. My. 28, ’08. 700w.
“A work of remarkable scholarship. Is for students only, for it is written without a trace of vivifying imagination or of attractiveness in style.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
Outlook. 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 40w.
Palmedo, D. Petri-. How to use slide rules. 50c. Kolesch & co.
8–12802.
A labor-saving device designed for the engineer. It describes the construction and the uses to which the slide rule may be put.
“The author’s style is clear and his expositions will be easily understood.”
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Engin. D. 3: 652. Je. ’08. 150w.
“The little book noted above is more compact than the usual treatise, but otherwise is like many others in its contents.”
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Engin. N. 59: 439. Ap. 16, ’08. 130w.
“An unusually satisfactory little book.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 390. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
Palmer, Frederick. The big fellow. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–25371.
The portrayal of a splendid type of American. The story shows many parallels with incidents in the career of Mr. Taft. “The big fellow is a genial, indefatigable, big-hearted, clear-headed giant. He begins his career on leaving college by working in a pick-and-shovel gang, becomes a lawyer and a judge, and is finally made governor of one of the islands in our Far Eastern possessions. His experiences there illustrate the difficulties of the task we undertook when we accepted the Philippines, and the spirit of unselfishness in which on the whole that task has been carried out.” (Outlook.)
“The narrative is wholesome and interesting though crude in places.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Palmer’s envisagement of the whole problem is essentially superficial, and his mouthings about duty and destiny will ring hollow to readers who have followed with anything like close attention the history of our unfortunate experiment on imperialism.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45. 455. D. 16, ’08. 480w.
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Nation. 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 420w.
“A novel, yea, even a love story, whose chief interest—and it is exceptionally interesting—does not lie in its story and not at all in its love element. It is well worth reading by anyone who wants to get inside knowledge of our problems in the Pacific.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 496. S. 12, ’08. 480w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“The tale is first of all a readable, entertaining story; secondarily a kind of defense of what Mr. Bryan calls imperialism.”
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Outlook. 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 170w.
Palmer, George Herbert. Life of Alice Freeman Palmer. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–12560.
This biography becomes at once a work of love, a portrait of a notable woman, and a historical sketch of leadership in college reconstruction. Professor Palmer writes intimately of his wife’s life, work and character, especially emphasizing the years during which she occupied the president’s chair at Wellesley. Simplicity and indefinable charm of manner characterized a woman whose life testified to essential womanhood’s fundamental and intuitional philosophy.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 202. Je. ’08. ✠
“It is, however, not so much the record of and finish that combine to make it almost an ideal book of its kind.” P. F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 44: 372. Je. 16, ’08. 2000w.
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Ind. 65: 611. S. 10, ’08. 600w.
“The inspiration her memory gave is present and potent on every page.”
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Lit. D. 37: 28. Jl. 4, ’08. 700w.
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Lit. D. 37: 124. Jl. 25, ’08. 1400w.
“It may well be doubted if any man ever before wrote for the general public so charming and acceptable a book about his own wife.”
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Lit. D. 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 180w.
“The tone of panegyric, however legitimate, becomes cloying in a short time. The important question raised, and perhaps solved, by the book is the adjusting of two busy lives in marriage.”
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Nation. 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 300w.
“Rarely if ever has an unattainable ideal of combined reticence and frankness been more closely approximated. Prof. Palmer is far from lacking appreciation for the eminence of his wife either in character or in achievement, but he also has and exercises in due measure a keen sense of proportion.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 276. My. 16, ’08. 800w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“To those who knew and loved Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer this book will be a friend; to those who knew her not it will be a revelation of a great soul and an inspiration to noble living.”
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Outlook. 89: 262. My. 30, ’08. 600w.
“It is, however, not so much the record of Mrs. Palmer’s public services as the intimate study of the woman herself that gives this biography its distinction and ranks it among the vividly human books of the season.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 754. Je. ’08. 150w.
“This is one of the rare books which one wishes to share with many others.” F. A. Manny.
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School. R. 16: 687. D. ’08. 680w.
* Palmer, George Herbert, and Palmer, Alice Freeman. The teacher: essays and addresses on education. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–32424.
Three groups of papers: problems of school and college, and Harvard papers contributed by Professor Palmer; and Papers by Alice Freeman Palmer. The first group evolves a philosophy of education thru dealing with the practical problems of teaching: the second discusses The new education, Erroneous and necessary limitations of the elective system, College expenses, and The teacher of the olden time; the third deals with Three types of women’s colleges, Women’s education in the nineteenth century, Women’s education at the World’s fair, and Why go to college?
Palmer, William Scott. Church and modern men. *$1.20. Longmans.
“The central underlying thought of these essays is the active immanence of the self-limiting Infinite in man, giving rise to revelation from within outward, in a growing religious 279experience, and a consequently growing theology, changing as it grows, while ever at the root the same.”—Outlook.
“The style of the book, its subtle and elastic use of language, its delicacy and breadth, alone make it worth reading. But the real value of the volume lies in its appeal to the leaders of the English church to look beyond their own borders.”
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Ath. 1908. 1: 346. Mr. 21. 750w.
“These pages may be cordially commended both to shepherds and sheep.” G. Tyrrell.
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Hibbert J. 6: 707. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“In this small volume of thoughtful essays a cultured and religious layman reasons with the reactionaries and obscurantists among the Anglican clergy.”
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Outlook. 88: 612. Mr. 14, ’08. 250w.
Park, Joseph C. Educational woodworking for home and school. *$1. Macmillan.
8–10294.
Deals with (1) The enumeration, description, and illustration of woodworking tools; (2) woodworking machinery; (3) classification, description and properties of various woods; (4) fastenings; (5) the finishing of wood surfaces; (6) examples of suitable objects to make; (7) instruction in woodturning, with examples for practice.
“Under a capable instructor the work should prove of undoubted educational value.”
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Engin. D. 3: 652. Je. ’08. 140w.
“Teachers in this country will be well advised in consulting this excellent text-book.”
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Nature. 78: 630. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
Parker, Theodore. American scholar; ed. with notes by George Willis Cooke. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–39034.
A collection of essays written by Theodore Parker in the forties and fifties of the past century. Mr. Parker shows what a debt to the whole community men of superior culture owe, a debt which is discharged in representing the higher facts of human consciousness to the people, expressed in the speech of the people, in thinking with the sage and saint, but talking with common men. There follow critical essays on Emerson, Channing, Prescott, Hildreth’s “United States,” Macaulay’s “History of England,” Buckle’s “History of civilization,” Henry Ward Beecher, Dr. Follen and German literature.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
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Outlook. 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
Parker, Theodore. Discourse of matters pertaining to religion; ed. with a preface by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. *$1. Am. Unitar.
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A reprint of the work written more than a half century ago “by which the author will be most permanently remembered.” The author stated in his preface that “it is the design of this work to recall men from the transient shows of time to the permanent substance of religion; from a worship of creeds and empty belief, to a worship in the spirit and in life.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
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Outlook. 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
Parker, Theodore. World of matter and the spirit of man: latest discourses of religion, ed. with notes by George Willis Cooke. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–39391.
Of the sixteen pieces in this volume, the six sermons on “The revelation of God in the world of matter and mind,” and the two on “The theological and philosophical development of New England” have never been in print. The other eight appeared in tract and pamphlet form but have never previously found their way into any American volume.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
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Outlook. 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
Parker, Thomas Valentine. Cherokee Indians, with special reference to their relations with the United States government. (Grafton historical ser.) **$1.25. Grafton press.
7–38633.
Based chiefly upon printed official sources, Dr. Parker tells the story of the Cherokees, giving “a most interesting and unprejudiced narrative of the Cherokee history in the West, covering the dissensions that arose between the earlier and later immigrants, the divided attitude toward the civil war, the reconstruction principles of the Treaty of 1866, and finally the events that led to the opening of Oklahoma.” (Am. Hist. R.) “The author is critical of the government’s attitude toward the Indians, which he says has been ‘one of treaties violated, of promises broken, and of partisan prejudice where there should have been judicial fairness.’” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“The rhetorical form of the latter part of the book is seriously affected by the insertion of extraneous material, the subject-matter proper being very much condensed. On the whole, however, the work is worthy of very favorable comment. It is practically free from historical errors, and those that do occur are of slight importance. The book is a fair illustration of what ought to be done for every Indian tribe within the limits of the United States.” A. H. Abel.
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 184. O. ’08. 870w.
“This is a very good, brief, historical account of the Cherokee Indians, especially as concerns their relation to the United States government.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 449. S. ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
Bookm. 26: 514. Ja. ’08. 160w.
“The narrative is interesting, if somewhat annalistic; and the facts are generally accurate. In the broader relations of the Indian question, the book is very weak.”
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Dial. 46: 256. O. 16, ’08. 320w.
Parmelee, Maurice. Principles of anthropology and sociology in their relations to criminal procedure. (Citizens lib. of economics, politics, and sociology.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–22622.
Gives “clear and reliable summary of the theories of criminology of the Italian school, and especially of Lambroso, Garofalo and Ferri.... The central idea of the book is the superior importance of procedure, as compared with the penal code. The author recommends the abolition of the law jury except for political offences; the appointment of trained judges and prosecutors, both to be educated in criminology and sociology as well as in law; the indeterminate sentence, with scientific study of the criminal at the trial and afterward, with a judicial board to revise the sentences periodically; scientific methods of dealing with evidence, as suggested also by Professor Münsterberg; and the use of experts employed by the state, and not representing private parties, during the trial.”—Dial.
“The discussion is in every way strong and clear, and deserves the careful study of all intelligent citizens.”
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Dial. 45: 349. N. 16, ’08. 230w.
“Tho American judges and lawyers may look with cynicism and skepticism on such a volume, students of sociology will find it helpful in working toward a loftier basis of treatment for the criminal.”
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Ind. 65: 1123. N. 12, ’08. 270w.
280“Mr. Parmelee’s book is notably concise, direct, and logical in statement, and gives in compact form a fairly complete view of this important subject.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 671. N. 14, ’08. 1050w.
Parrish, Randall. Last voyage of the Donna Isabel: a romance of the sea. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–26195.
A tale of thrilling sea adventure which follows the search for a Spanish treasure ship that sailed from Guayaquil for Cadiz in 1753. The time of the story is the year 1879, and the Antarctic’s “heaving leagues of watery solitude” furnish the setting; while chief among the searching party are the hero whom strange circumstances had made leader, and the wife of a British lord. The love interest vies with the wonders of sky and sea and the thrill of perilous adventure.
“A good sea yarn told with considerable spirit.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 246. O. ’08.
“It must be reckoned among the most successful of Mr. Randall Parrish’s inventions.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 220w.
“This is a good yarn, reeled off with considerable spirit. Its characters are hardly more than the good old stock-puppets.”
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Nation. 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 170w.
“In our view the proper thing is to take Mr. Parrish’s story in the spirit in which he offers it, and enjoy it, and not worry over the fact that there are some unheard of and undreamed of things in it.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 700w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
Parrish, Randall. Prisoners of chance: the story of what befell Geoffrey Benteen, borderman, through his love for a lady of France. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–9526.
A story reproduced from an old manuscript which has a historic basis. It is set in the Louisiana province in the sixties of the eighteenth century and follows the mighty efforts of one Geoffrey Benteen to save from the fate of death the husband of the woman he loves.
“Though carelessly written ... it shows an advance upon his previous work.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“A facile, stirring book.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 120w.
“It is an excellent example of the sort of romantic narrative which Mr. Parrish has cultivated with marked success, and upon which he has brought to bear the fruits of much serious historical investigation.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 44: 351. Je. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The book, in a word, is nothing if not ample in reach and thoroughgoing in invention.”
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Nation. 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 250w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“Randall Parrish’s former stories, although they proved him to be of the stuff of which good novelists are made, were marred by such crudity of style and method as made them rather a promise than an achievement. But in every respect ‘Prisoners of chance’ is a notable advance upon his previous work.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 269. My. 9, ’08. 600w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
Reviewed by E. L. Cary.
Putnam’s. 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 70w.
Parsons, John Denham. Nature and purpose of the universe. *$6. Wessels.
Deals with the much debated question of human immortality. Discusses soul, body, matter, Buddhism, psychical research, spiritualism, incarnation, theology, the Bible, life, and death.
“Although it is clear that Mr. Parsons has read widely and thought for himself, it does not seem likely to us that any considerable number of persons will be physically or mentally able to follow his reasonings in all their sinuous windings by means of such a volume as the present.”
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Ath. 1907, 1: 14. Ja. 5. 200w.
“The worst thing, perhaps, about the work is its style, which does the treatment grave injustice. In a work of this kind, it has seemed more desirable to give some insight into the real scope and design of the work, rather than deal mainly with matters of criticism. But its manifold points of learning and interest can scarcely be set forth in a review.” James Lindsay.
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Int. J. Ethics. 18: 260. Ja. ’08. 900w.
“It would perhaps be easier to discover the nature and purpose of the universe than the nature and purpose of this book. It has been vouchsafed to only a few to have definite information on this subject, and Mr. Parsons has been even less successful than others in his attempt to solve this riddle.”
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Nation. 86: 108. Ja. 30, ’08. 380w.
“If the author knows what he means, and he cannot possibly, no other human being will have the slightest glimmering of it.”
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Sat. R. 102: 618. N. 17, ’06. 180w.
Partridge, Anthony. The distributors. †$1.50. McClure.
8–28064.
The author offers a diversion quite unparalleled in fiction in the doings of a polite and exclusive circle known as “The ghosts.” Exhausting what their friends called “esoteric rubbish,” but craving amusement, the members of this group enter upon a series of bold robberies and turn the spoils over to charitable institutions. After they run their daring course they are steered back into normal channels and the curtain falls upon a serene, apparently unscathed, circle.
N. Y. Times. 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 80w.
“A weird sort of novel, and one that leaves a distinctly bad taste in the mind. It is a daring and uncanny theme, and one that invites to discussion of its psychological possibility. But the author offends against both probability and the instinctive sense of human justice in his resolution of the problem.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 250w.
Partsch, Herman. Messages to mothers: a protest against artificial methods. **$1.50. Elder.
8–14355.
The collected utilitarian results of a series of vital human nature studies undertaken during twenty-three years of medical practice. With a view to eliminating preventable ills he presents a simple scheme for right diet, care and treatment of mother and child, and for the conservation of power in physiological functions.
Pastores, Los. Los pastores, a Mexican play of the nativity; tr., introd. and notes by M. R. Cole; with illustrations and music. (Memoirs of the American folk-lore society, v. 9, 1907.) *$4. Houghton.
7–11974.
Carefully edited to show comparison of various accessible versions, this play is of “interest as a survival on American soil of a form of drama which we usually associate with Europe in the Middle ages.” (Am. Hist. R.) “It is probably a seventeenth century production. It varies in style ‘from doggerel to the distinction of good Spanish models.’ The actors are the shepherds, the hermit, Lucifer, and the archangel Michael. The message of the nativity 281is announced, producing varying effects upon the different actors. The shepherds seek the babe and render adoration to him. A combat takes place between Michael and Lucifer, in which the latter is finally subdued.” (Dial.)
“The subject-matter ... is of very uneven literary merit and contains frequent inconsistencies, and an unexpected amount of humor. The introduction, notes, music of the songs, and photographs of the actors in costume add much to the value of the work.”
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 935. Jl. ’07. 250w.
“The spirit of the play is on the whole good. There are fine passages, but there is also a good deal of coarse by-play.” Frederick Starr.
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Dial. 44: 244. Ap. 16, ’08. 1100w.
Paternoster, George Sidney. The master criminal. 75c. Cupples & L.
7–42014.
The “master criminal” is a man who devotes his intellectuality, strong character and courage to the furthering of crime. “His morbid, perverted nature causes him to hate all his fellowmen and to injure them in every possible way.” (N. Y. Times.) “He has planned to strike a father thru his son, but love interferes, the love that purifies and ennobles. It may interest the reader to know that it was this master criminal who planned the theft of the antique snuffboxes from the London home of Mr. Wertheim—Floerscheim he is called in the story.” (Ind.)
“The book will furnish rather entertaining occupation for an hour or two.”
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Ind. 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“For all who are fond of the hectic flush in fiction the story, whose scene is laid in London, will be an entertaining tale.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
Paton, Lewis Bayles. Jerusalem in Bible times. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–26700.
A handbook giving in convenient form the results of the latest archaeological researches. The author gives carefully sorted facts concerning the sites, archaeology, and the history of Jerusalem, accompanied by numerous illustrations and maps.
“An excellent handbook for students and travelers. The book not only evinces familiarity with the results of recent investigation, but itself makes a worthy contribution to the sum of existing knowledge about Jerusalem.”
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Bib. World. 32: 365. N. ’08. 60w.
Patterson, John Henry. Man-eaters of Tsavo and other East African adventures; with a foreword by F: Courteney Selous. $2.50. Macmillan.
8–4611.
The thrilling experiences of Col. Patterson among the man-eating lions of Tsavo become an “epic of terrible tragedies.” How he succeeded in bringing to an end these savage depredations by killing eight lions constitutes a most intense story of adventure.
“It should prove intensely attractive to boys, and not less so to their elders. It is strange, however, that a writer who evidently knows Swahili should adhere to the obsolete method of writing an apostrophe after initial m and n.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 570w.
“The story he tells us is given very simply and quietly, with no aiming whatever at effect. It does not need it; the facts are overpoweringly dramatic by themselves.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 338. N. 8. ’07. 610w.
“Col. Patterson is an engineer and a sportsman rather than a man of letters but his book is full of interest.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“No boy’s book of imaginary adventures published at this season is likely to make its reader hold his breath more frequently than this modest but veracious record. There is a good deal else in the book which will interest the sportsman as well as the general reader, though if the book were fiction we should be inclined to describe those parts which do not deal with the man-eaters as an anti-climax.”
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Sat. R. 104: 459. O. 12, ’07. 220w.
“The story, indeed, is so amazing that the reader might at first suppose it to be exaggerated. But quite apart from the entire absence of artifice in Colonel Patterson’s style, which is itself an evidence of truth, an overwhelming amount of independent testimony supports the genuineness of all the details.”
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Spec. 99: 669. N. 2, ’07. 2450w.
Patterson, Joseph Medill. Little brother of the rich: a novel. $1.50. Reilly & B.
8–23548.
“The story concerns a young man, son of a country parson in Indiana, who won his way by his athletic prowess into the selected and richest set of Yale undergraduates, and afterward, with the help of these same young men, rose by way of a broker’s office to affluence and a position in society in New York.” (N. Y. Times.) Sordid facts of fashionable social life in New York are exploited.
“It would not be worth while to take this novel seriously enough to laugh at it, were it not put forth, like Mr. Sinclair’s fustian, as socialistic or the work of a socialist.” J: Macy.
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Bookm. 28: 279. N. ’08. 1300w.
“In the judgment of the intelligent reader, has little excuse for being.”
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Lit. D. 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 230w.
Nation. 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 320w.
“The workmanship of the story is distinctly amateurish, and the matter fails to carry conviction. Also the theme is somewhat threadbare and the details are more so. But the book is readable.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Patterson has delivered a telling blow at the evils that he uncovers.”
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Paulin, George. No struggle for existence, no natural selection. *$1.75. Scribner.
A critical examination of the fundamental principles of the Darwinian theory. “This is a book by a mature scholar written for the purpose of establishing the Lamarckian theory against the Darwinian. The second part of the book is devoted to a reactionary refutation of the Malthusian doctrine of population.” (Am. J. Theol.)
Am. J. Theol. 12: 674. O. ’08. 40w.
“The book before us is altogether interesting, although it mainly consists of an attack on well-known theories. His views are open to serious criticism. The book is written in a pleasant style, and contains much food for thought.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 187. Ag. 15. 700w.
Payson, William Farquhar. Barry Gordon. †$1.50. McClure.
8–27100.
The fiery blood of undisciplined southern ancestors is in Barry Gordon’s veins, which uncurbed, causes expulsion from college and rejection at the hands of the girl he loves. During a period of wandering he gathers courage for a great sacrifice from which he emerges a conquered self, and is restored to his early forfeited happiness.
“So amateurish a writer as Mr. Payson can awaken no belief in the reality either of the gallant Col. Gordon or of his son.”
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Nation. 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 200w.
“A good story, written with vigor and skill and dash.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 280w.
“Exciting tale.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 100w.
“The story is not of especial value, but it. is entertaining.”
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Outlook. 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 100w.
282Peabody, Josephine Preston. Book of the little past. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–24442.
A book of child verse full of child problems and child-philosophy. A note of the seriousness with which children are wont to interpret all play as work is suggested in the lines:
“And now I have the boat to mend
And all our supper to pretend.
I am so Busy, all the day,
I haven’t any time to play.”
The illustrations are done by Elizabeth Shippen Greene.
“She sometimes strains to copy Stevenson, without quite approaching him.”
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Nation. 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 70w.
“Some really deserve to rank with Stevenson’s melodies in his ‘Child’s garden of verses.’”
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R. of Rs. 38: 511. O. ’08. 30w.
Pearson, Charles William. Literary and biographical essays: a volume of papers by the way. *$1.25. Sherman, French & co.
8–19169.
Essays in the following subjects: Poetry, Early American poetry, The art of poetry, The English language, Alexander Pope, Macaulay, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Ruskin, James Martineau, Longfellow, Washington, and Lincoln.
“The biographical essays are as a rule excellent. In the case of John Ruskin, we think the author has slighted the subject and failed properly to interpret the great philosopher, critic and teacher.”
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Arena. 40: 478. N. ’08. 260w.
“While the essays lean a little to the pulpit treatment, they are wholly and wholesomely adapted to the general reader who may happen to take a lively interest in the best literature of our time. There is here and there an oversight in the proofreading.”
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Ind. 65: 1069. N. 5, ’08. 470w.
“One of those unnecessary books which the world will willingly let die.”
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Nation. 87: 71. Jl: 23, ’08. 320w.
Pearson, Robert Hooper. Book of garden pests. (Handbooks of practical gardening.) *$1. Lane.
8–8130.
An English work designed for English cultivators. Here are “set forth in clear language, devoid of unnecessary scientific terms, the evils to which garden and orchard are subject—and they are not few—and also how to deal with each pest as it occurs.” (Ath.)
“It is a book which we recommend all gardeners, amateur or professional, to purchase, and keep for reference in the day of trouble.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 766. Je. 20. 130w.
“Mr. Pearson’s book will supplement some excellent American treatises, especially those which have been given out by our experiment stations and in our garden libraries.”
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Nation. 87: 191. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“The American gardener will find its chapters suggestive and in some instances distinctly useful.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 60w.
Peck, George Record. Kingdom of light. **$1. Putnam.
7–21301.
A corporation attorney’s confession. “Mr. Peck tells us that Concord ‘was in its day, and will long continue to be, a greater force in this nation than New York and Chicago added to each other.’ In that elevated spirit his little book is written. The pity of it is that means will never be found for giving it such wide distribution among those who need its philosophy, as the help of a great railroad gave to ‘A message to Garcia.’” (Lit. D.)
“As captivating and convincing a plea for devotion to the ideal in the midst of common life as one often runs across.”
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Ind. 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 90w.
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Lit. D. 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 140w.
Peck, Theodora. Sword of Dundee: a tale of “bonnie Prince Charlie.” †$1.50. Duffield.
8–17830.
A sprightly tale set in Jacobite times in which the representatives of two Scottish clans are rivals for the hand of spirited Agnes of Anchnacarry, with Stuart loyalty, who devotes her wit and courage to the cause of Prince Charlie all the while proving true to her lover of Clan Cameron.
“The loyal young heroine’s adventures are many and exciting, and in following them the reader so far catches the spirit of that eventful period as to be willing to overlook the author’s occasional failure to keep the machinery running smoothly and noiselessly.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 304. D. ’08. ✠
“She has evidently studied the period. It is the more pity that her work should be marred by incongruities.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 504. O. 24. 180w.
“An interesting romance based on one of the most romantic episodes in Scottish history.”
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Outlook. 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 230w.
Peele, Robert. Compressed air plant for mines: the production, transmission, and use of compressed air, with special reference to mine service. $3. Wiley.
8–24250.
In which “all the well-known makes of air compressors are described, their principles of operation and details of construction are discussed, and their good and their not so good features are pointed out with such impartiality that those most numerously employed in actual work find no more favor than those which are less frequently met.”—Engin. Rec.
“The book is a useful presentment of its subject in many respects, and offers a safe guide to the practitioner, as far as it goes. It is only occasionally marred by minor defects.”
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Engin. N. 60: 319. S. 17, ’08. 560w.
“A very complete and convenient summary, at once useful and usable with not the slightest suggestion of padding. The author quotes authorities quite profusely and perhaps not always after sufficient scrutiny.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
Peile, James H. F. Reproach of the gospel: being the Bampton lectures for the year 1907. *$1.80. Longmans.
7–42089.
Professor Peile states that “The influence of Christianity on mankind at large is, and has been, strangely disproportionate alike to its high claims and to the reasonable expectation of those who saw its beginnings.” This conviction, the cause, and the remedy constitute the subject of a discussion which places its emphasis upon the conduct rather than the creed of Christianity.
“Though Mr. Peile’s book is in no sense great, and does not stimulate thinking like Dr. Bussell’s more valuable work, it is an impressive appeal to the Christian world to take its Christianity as seriously as its worldliness.... As a volume addressed, not to the academic, but the ‘respectable’ world, this book could hardly be surpassed.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 665. My. 30. 520w.
Reviewed by G. Hodges.
Atlan. 102: 124. Jl. ’08. 500w.
Reviewed by James Seth.
Hibbert, J. 6: 910. Jl. ’08. 1450w.
283“Professor Peile tells us that the true object of his lectures was to make his hearers think, and in this he has succeeded.”
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Spec. 100: 464. Mr. 21, ’08. 1350w.
Pell, Albert. Reminiscences of Albert Pell, sometime M. P. for South Leicestershire; ed. with introd by Thomas Mackay; with an appreciation by the Right Hon. James Bryce. *$5. Dutton.
8–32328.
Albert Pell was a man of rugged independence, a practical and skilful farmer, a Tory of prominence in the party ranks, tho an avowed Free Trader, and a philanthropist in spirit, while sincerely showing his detestation of its cant. This book records his views and includes his collection of good stories told about political personages of importance.
“The book is remarkable in the way it endears the author to us.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 192. F. 15. 1100w.
“Certainly nothing so distinctly good in English non-political autobiography has found its way into ‘The Independent’ office for the last twenty years.”
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Ind. 65: 438. Ag. 20, ’08. 280w.
“In his racy, unaffected language he offers a series of pictures of English life in hall, farmhouse, and cottage, which are a real addition to the literature of social England.”
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Nation. 87: 93. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 160w.
“This volume is as full of good stories, well told, as an egg of meat; and everyone should read it who wishes to travel from George IV to Edward VII and to laugh by the way.”
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Sat. R. 105: 758. Je. 13, ’08. 1350w.
“This is a book which should not be missed by any one who enjoys racy humour and a genuine revelation of character.”
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Spec. 100: 422. Mr. 14, ’08. 1450w.
Pemberton, Max. Amateur motorist. **$3.75. McClurg.
“A book for amateur motorists, written by an amateur motorist, relating his experiences in the hope that others may profit thereby.... The 70 pages given to a description of the leading cars, with illustrations and prices, flavor somewhat of a catalog.”—Ind.
“The book contains practical hints of a sound character, but it would not be easy to say precisely what good end it is destined to serve. Its disadvantages are these: from the standpoint of the experienced motorist, it offers nothing new; from the standpoint of the novice, it is needlessly verbose in some directions, and, upon the whole, neither explicit nor comprehensive.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 685. N. 30. 460w.
Ind. 65: 950. O. 22, ’08. 120w.
Pemberton, Max. Sir Richard Escombe: a romance. †$1.50. Harper.
8–18372.
A story of the ruined Medmanham Abbey and the famous Society of St. Francis founded there during the stirring days of Sir Francis Dashwood, John Wilkes, Churchill, the poet Whitehead and the villainous Lord Harborne. It concerns mainly the relations of Sir Richard Escombe with the society, his efforts to end it, and his relations thru trial and misunderstanding with Kitty Dulcimore of Sherbourn in the county of Warwickshire.
“Despite its staginess, it is a fairly brisk and cheery story.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 716. D. 5. 130w.
“Melodrama of the carefully matured, carefully selected variety, that with a judicious blending of realistic detail may be warranted not to offend the sensitive literary palate.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 28: 66. S. ’08. 580w.
“A highly readable piece of work.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 455. D. 16, ’08. 220w.
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Ind. 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 50w.
“There is an ingenious story, there are court portraits, social caricatures, wild Irish extravaganza, even idyllic patches. The language fairly wallows in artificiality.”
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Nation. 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 340w.
“If it does not endure much thinking or analysis, that is no great fault, since its readers will be disposed to little of either.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 398. Jl. 18, ’08. 420w.
Pendleton, Louis Beauregard. Alexander H. Stephens. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–11395.
From sources new and old the author has gathered together material for this biography which follows a great life full of tragedy both public and private as well as full of triumph and usefulness. It is suited to the modern reader and is desirable “not only because of the peculiar personality of one of the ablest of the southern statesmen of the old régime, and because of his association with great events as vice-president of the southern confederacy, but because he was one of the most consistent figures in the long struggle between the champions of state sovereignty and the supporters of federal supremacy.” (Preface.)
“A book to be taken rather seriously. Mr. Pendleton is weakest, I think, in his discussion of the question of the right of secession.” W. G. Brown.
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 155. O. ’08. 860w.
“The best available book on the subject.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 240. O. ’08.
“Mr. Pendleton’s life of Stephens is less partisan and better informed than some of the southern biographies that have recently appeared.”
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Ind. 64: 1146. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“Without adding anything valuable to the printed materials, Mr. Pendleton has given a good popular account of this pathetic career.”
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Nation. 86: 556. Je. 18, ’08. 750w.
“A comprehensive and interesting life.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 800w.
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Outlook. 89: 860. Ag. 15, ’08. 920w.
R. of Rs. 38: 122. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“This life is worth reading first as a study of the man, secondly for the light it throws on the struggle between North and South.”
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Sat. R. 106: 372. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
Penhallow, David Pearce. Manual of the North American gymnosperms, exclusive of the cycadales but together with certain exotic species. *$4.50. Ginn.
7–23272.
“The book is divided into two parts, the first entitled “Anatomy,” the second “Systematic.” Under anatomy (192pp.) a detailed account of the regions and elements of mature gymnosperm wood is given, including discussions of durability, decay, and general phylogeny. In the systematic part (157pp.) a synopsis of the genera and species of cordaitales, ginkgoales, and coniferales is presented, based entirely on wood characters, and including so far as possible the economic values.”—Bot. Gaz.
“A very painstaking and a unique book. The book will certainly be highly useful in its practical applications and also as a great assistance in the recognition of fossil material.” J. M. C.
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Bot. Gaz. 45: 417. Je. ’08. 620w.
Reviewed by C: E. Bessey.
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Science, n.s. 28: 609. O. 30, ’08. 600w.
284* Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell), and Pennell, Joseph. Life of James McNeill Whistler. 2v. *$10. Lippincott.
Whistler who authorized the Pennells to write his biography, during a number of years before his death furnished them with personal reminiscences, anecdotes, correspondence, and various other data. This material with the addition of other first hand facts gathered from his family after his death is ample for the complete intimate, sympathetic biography which has been produced. “As a collection of Whistler pictures, also, the work is of remarkable value, the reproductions made for the Pennells, at Whistler’s order, bringing to light etchings and drawings which have not before been made public.” (Lit. D.)
“The book is a conscientious endeavor to put before the reader Whistler as he really was—as he appeared to those privileged to know him intimately. A few inaccuracies have crept in. The numerous illustrations constitute a feature of great interest. Taken together they afford a more extended glimpse of the range and character of Whistler’s art than has hitherto been available.” F: W. Gookin.
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Dial. 45: 448. D. 16, ’08. 2000w.
“The Pennells appear to have maintained a balance both of judgment and taste that fully justifies the artist’s choice and designation of them.”
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Int. Studio. 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 300w.
“Is unusually complete, supplying many details regarding the famous, eccentric artist which have hitherto been lost in obscurity.”
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Lit. D. 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
“One may sometimes take exception to the particular form of praise indulged in.”
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Nation. 87: 532. N. 26, ’08. 2000w.
“The pattern of intercourse and incident is intricate enough, and the background of misunderstanding and injustice that frequently appears is, of course, sombre, but the harmony of the whole is marvelously kept, and the reader sees a Whistler of many sides but of one inspiration.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 682. N. 21, ’08. 2200w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“One of the most interesting chapters in Mr. and Mrs. Pennell’s book is the account of Whistler’s experiment in teaching, the ‘Académie Carmen.’” Laurence Binyon.
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Sat. R. 106: 571. N. 7, ’08. 1800w.
“The book is a sympathetic record rather than an impartial criticism, and the painter’s personality, no less than his art, is treated with loving approbation.”
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Spec. 101: 779. N. 14, ’08. 1700w.
Peple, Edward Henry. Spitfire. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–24456.
An “ingenious yarn of the sea and stolen jewels and characters at cross purposes.... ‘The Spitfire’ is a yacht, and it is strongly suggested by several people, beside the author, that the name describes the heroine of the yacht’s log for its last eventful voyage.”—Ind.
“A good story, of the kind which does not depend upon minute analysis or subtile psychology for its interest.”
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Ind. 65: 786. O. 1, ’08. 280w.
“There is plenty of action in the plot, and if occasionally the author permits himself a certain amount of license in grammatical construction, and loads his descriptive passages with colloquialisms, he no doubt hopes thus to preserve the atmosphere of the story, which is not that of the classics.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 260w.
Perry, Arthur Cecil, jr. Management of a city school. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–10626.
Here are discussed the problems of public school administration from the standpoint of the principal, rather than that of the superintendent or the teacher. The author sets forth the work of the principal; his duties; his responsibilities to the state, public, authorities, and pupils; his problems; and the principles which should direct his administrative work.
“Suggestive and helpful.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 202. Je. ’08.
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Ind. 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“The book should be helpful to young principals and to those who are fitting themselves for such work; and it can be read with profit by all who are concerned in the work of the public schools.”
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Nation. 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 140w.
Perry, Bliss. Park-Street papers. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–28842.
Five papers concerned with the Atlantic monthly, with its Park street home, and with some of its distinguished writers of the past. The contents are: Atlantic prologues, (five toastmaster addresses); The centenary of Hawthorne, The centenary of Longfellow, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Whittier for to-day; and The editor who was never an editor.
“Graceful essays.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 263. N. ’08.
“Marked by his customary geniality of temper and lightness of touch, with just enough of artistic detachment to lend grace and freedom to his style without rendering it too coldly impersonal, ‘Park-Street papers’ maintain the high standard of their author’s work as essayist and literary critic.”
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Dial. 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Those who read the sober little volume will feel nearer, kinder to that dignified periodical, the ‘Atlantic monthly,’ just as they might feel more intimate with any other old ‘grande dame’ after looking at her family album and the skeletons in her closet.”
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Ind. 65: 1244. N. 26, ’08. 160w.
“He has the ‘toastmaster’s’ fondness for life under its social, cultivated, and genial aspects, and, having a genuine esteem for the characters of his guests, displays at times a toastmasterly indulgence to their literary deficiencies.”
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Nation. 87: 437. N. 5, ’08. 430w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 785. D. 19, ’08. 430w.
Person, Harlow Stafford. Industrial education: a system of training for men entering upon trade and commerce. (Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays.) **$1. Houghton.
7–22413.
“The volume deals with the training required by young men who would fit themselves for the higher positions in industry or commerce, and the need of providing such training in the United States.... His opinion clearly is that while commercial training should be offered in high schools, collegiate courses, and professional departments, the ideal conditions can be found, only in distinctly professional instruction, open solely to those who have already completed a liberal education.”—Nation.
“Admirable brief discussion entirely from viewpoint of higher education.”
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Cath. World. 87: 112. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“We disagree strenuously with the implication in the author’s statement that ‘the training for work should not be weakened by having to carry the burden of training for culture.’ The monograph is an interesting and valuable study.” David Kinley.
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 115. F. ’08. 500w.
“His book is a useful contribution to an important branch of educational discussion.”
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Nation. 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 190w.
“The book is suggestive rather than exhaustive.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 600w.
285Peters, Rev. John Punnett, ed. Annals of St. Michael’s; being the history of St. Michael’s Protestant Episcopal church, New York, for one hundred years, 1807–1907. **$3.50. Putnam.
7–31234.
“The history of St. Michael’s church of this city is more than an account of the founding and growth of a particular parish, with its petty trials, its varying fortunes according to the abilities of its leaders, and its trivial enterprises of merely parochial significance.... It constitutes an important part of the history of the development of the upper part of New York city, its old families, its marvelous material changes, its schools, hospitals, orphanages, and institutions for the variously afflicted.”—Nation.
“A model of what a history of an important church should be.”
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Ind. 64: 321. F. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The story is told with fidelity to fact, skill in narration, and with an enthusiasm that sustains the reader’s attention throughout.”
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Nation. 86: 220. Mr. 5, ’08. 470w.
“Mr. Peters has assembled much that is of great interest in the development of New York.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 729. N. 16, ’07. 170w.
* Peters, Rev. Madison Clinton. Justice to the Jew; new ed. rev. **75c. McClure.
8–9751.
“The present edition of a work published nine years ago, and now re-written, is a strong statement of facts which demonstrate the irrationality of prejudice against any Jew because he is a Jew. It comes with peculiar force from one who confesses that he himself was once blinded by such prejudice.”—Outlook.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 278. N. ’08.
“Dr. Peters is not always duly careful in statement or temperate in language, but blemishes of such sort are venial in comparison with the unreason and inhumanity at which he strikes.”
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Outlook. 88: 884. Ap. 18, ’08. 100w.
* Peters, Rev. Madison Clinton. Strenuous career, or Short steps to success. *$1.25. Laird.
8–17545.
“The volume is packed with edifying examples of worldly success attained in the face of obstacles; and these are strung together on a thread of good common-sense moralizing. The author warns his readers that the fruits of success turn to ashes in the mouth unless the success sought be a high and worthy one. True success, he points out, ‘lies not in getting what you desire, but in achieving that which will elevate and ennoble yourself and at the same time confer some benefit on your kind,—a success which will be measured by its contribution to the world’s welfare and happiness.’”—Dial.
“It is characteristic of the country.” F. M. Colby.
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Bookm. 28: 20. S. ’08. 800w.
“The combination of worldly wisdom with sound moral standards, which the author shows, makes the book a safe and helpful one to put in the hands of aspiring youths.”
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Dial. 45: 257. O. 16, ’08. 170w.
Phillips, Alfred E. Surveying. $1.50. Am. school of correspondence.
8–8482.
“Gives in clear form practical instruction in the use of surveying-instruments and the method of plain surveying, including plotting, levelling, triangulation, line running, cross sectioning, traversing and other details of field work.”—Engin. Rec.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 294. D. ’08.
“While it has little to distinguish it from any one of many similar works, yet it seems to be well adapted to the purposes of a correspondence school.”
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Engin. N. 58: 659. D. 12, ’07. 50w.
“The information is given in a clear manner.”
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Engin. Rec. 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 60w.
Phillips, David Graham. Old wives for new. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–8091.
The story of a man who weds a thin slip of a maiden. “Sophy, the slip grows fat—and grows fat with all the pomp and circumstance of flesh. No details are spared. Meanwhile Sophy’s husband (who herds railways like sheep) grows ever more natty and fastidious.” (N. Y. Times.) “By this time neither loves the other, so they obtain new partners without disgrace or even embarrassment.” (Ind.)
“It is a powerful story, as unpleasant as it is vividly faithful to conditions as they exist.”
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Arena. 39: 509. Ap. ’08. 750w.
“As vigorous and straightforward a story as we have now come to expect from this writer.” G. I. Colbron.
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Bookm. 27: 495. Jl. ’08. 700w.
“It would be useless to try to find a moral in this incoherent fabrication, which is one of the most revolting books, in both incident and general plan, that we have ever read.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“In making so much of the purely physical attractions and repulsions between unhappily mated characters, Mr. Phillips offended the instinct for decency of the sounder millions of Americans.”
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Ind. 64: 808. Ap. 9, ’08. 750w.
“Setting out with a theme which is ignoble in most of its external aspects, he has not a touch to refine or even to lighten it.”
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Nation. 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.
“Substance is furnished by some very truthful pictures of real every-day America—good and bad—but the author has depended—like the makers of many modern plays—upon his ‘specialties’ to catch the public.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 20w.
“There are introduced scenes and incidents that are far from nice reading, that are vulgar and disgusting in themselves, whatever may have been the author’s moral purpose.”
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Outlook. 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Phillips has lavished paint on his picture to a degree approaching vulgarity.” Charlotte Harwood.
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Putnam’s. 4: 621. Ag. ’08. 130w.
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R. of Rs. 37: 762. Je. ’08. 70w.
Phillips, Henry Wallace. Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–30248.
A slight story that tells how a maltreated little waif darted into the life of a dispirited gold hunter, and how the lad’s coming was the beginning of happier days at the Gulch tho not until a severe test of courage proved the boy’s metal.
Phillips, Stephen. New poems. **$1.25. Lane.
7–34791.
A group of poems including practical pieces, and verse that appeals to the emotions and to the sense of beauty.
“Not up to the average of the author’s earlier work, but the large libraries will want it for the student and lover of English literature.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 82. Mr. ’08.
“We fear that Mr. Phillips’s reputation will gain but little by this volume. Good lines—indebted for their charm, in great measure, to hints of Tennyson—stand out from the ruck 286with an added prominence; and, on the other hand, lines are not lacking which are noteworthy by reason of their inferiority.”
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Ath. 1908. 1: 156. F. 8. 1100w.
“Left entirely to his own resources, Mr. Phillips does not seem to us a vertebrate poet, but he can drape the limbs of old romance in very graceful folds.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 44: 74. F. 1, ’08. 320w.
“If this were the author’s first volume, one would call it promising; from a proved craftsman it is merely slovenly.” Brian Hooker.
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Forum. 39: 527. Ap. ’08. 400w.
“The best of Mr. Phillips is not his thought nor his emotion, nor the interaction of both; it is his expression. He is content, as a rule, to take a good story or a respectable idea, and tell it with all the resources at his command. The new book as a whole, gives the impression that the poet has come to a pause in his development. The old qualities are here, with a finer feeling than before for the point where enough has been said.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 364. N. 29, ’07. 1150w.
“Like most of the lesser versifiers of the day, his virtue is in the sensuous, unthinking perception of beauty.”
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Nation. 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 280w.
“The present volume is very well worth reading as an exemplification of his skill, and especially as showing, upon the whole, a distinct advance upon the ‘Poems’ of 1900.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 460w.
“There are good lines in Mr. Phillips’s poem, but there is very little uplift of vision, and sometimes his verse drops to a level of commonplace prose.”
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Outlook. 88: 142. Ja. 18, ’08. 370w.
“He is now a deft workman in his own spacious vein. These verses for the most part have a fluent tinkle, a kind of obvious succulence, which makes them in a way readable. Such readability, however, is more remote from true standards of poetry than any amount of frankly bad verse.”
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Sat. R. 104: 637. N. 23, ’07. 280w.
“The poems almost without exception are characteristic of Mr. Phillips’s best work.”
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Spec. 99: 709. N. 9, ’07. 1770w.
Phillips, Stephen, and Carr, J. Comyns. Faust; freely adapted from Goethe’s dramatic poem. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–24861.
A free paraphrase of Goethe’s poem which “presents the main events of the legend with a more narrow continuity of narrative; compresses into comparatively few scenes the unrestrained sweep of Goethe’s epical inventiveness; discards the subtler phases of the world-poet’s philosophy, and reduces his main ideas to the simplicity demanded by a theatre-going public that yawns while it asks to be amused.... The authors have cut out and thrown away many passages of their original; they have rearranged the order of the passages retained; but beyond this they have set themselves scarcely any exercise of the imagination.” (Forum.)
“The great departure from Goethe is, in my humble opinion, an absolutely fatal mistake.” F: B. R. Hellems.
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Atlan. 102: 812. D. ’08. 3700w.
“Their task was special, and they have performed it admirably.” Philip Littell.
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Bookm. 28: 363. D. ’08. 800w.
“Considered merely as an adaption of Goethe’s poem to the uses of the stage, this latest ‘Faust’ is thoroughly commendable. The present work is largely a dilution of previous rendering of the great original.” Walter Clayton.
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Forum. 40: 221. S. ’08. 1350w.
“Is worth reading for its own sake and for the sake of the comparison that it invites with the huge masterpiece on which it is based.”
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Ind. 65: 1179. N. 19, ’08. 130w.
“In mere style and rhythm and facility Messrs. Phillips and Carr ... have thus been able to produce the best version in English of Goethe’s work. The condemnation and adaption of the poem to a workable drama have been skilfully managed, though not always to our taste.”
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Nation. 87: 294. S. 24, ’08. 730w.
“It is not a translation, and yet it has all the awkwardness of one—the phrases that suggest imperfect understanding of the original or the carelessness natural in handling ideas not our own. Indeed, of carelessness there is more than enough.”
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Sat. R. 106: 611. N. 14, ’08. 130w.
Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell. History of transportation in the eastern cotton belt to 1860. *$2.75. Macmillan.
8–1482.
“The present volume is concerned almost entirely with the development of transportation in South Carolina and Georgia.... After an introduction of twenty pages giving a general survey of the transportation problems in the South, Professor Phillips devotes two chapters to highway and canal development in lowland and upland South Carolina prior to 1830. Then follow accounts of the Charleston and Hamburg railroad and the premature Charleston project, the Georgia railroad and banking company, the Central of Georgia system, the Western and Atlantic (built by Georgia) and various minor branch roads. The concluding chapter describes the beginning made during the five years before the war in the integration and co-operation of the hitherto independent roads, and summarizes the effects of the railways upon social and economic organization.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“Professor Phillips has written a scholarly book rich in detail. He has placed students of social as well as economic history under lasting obligations.” E. R. Johnson.
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 539. O. ’08. 650w.
“The investigation is both thoro and interesting, and the relations of transportation to the wider economic interests are never lost sight of.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 562. S. ’08. 140w.
Phillpotts, Eden. Mother of the man. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–4037.
Such a mother as Ibsen foresaw for the rearing of sturdy sons is portrayed in this peculiarly strong tale with its convincing men and women. The hero is a hot-headed, untamed youth, restless with the surging of warring elemental passions. The mother’s wisdom and justice apparent in her swift play of mind offer the restraining and developing influences that finally bring the son thru pain and turmoil to the light.
“The plot is simple, the delineation of character masterly and delicate, the descriptions of the enchanting moors exquisite.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Phillpotts has a famous style, rich and generous, and his moor draws the best out of him. His pictures of nature are singularly vivid and delectable. The most notable point in this book is the greater ease and quietness which his methods have acquired.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 221. F. 22. 350w.
“A book which is hard to discuss in terms of calm, every-day criticism. It is the sort of novel the thoughtful reader will want to keep, that he may return to it again and again, to browse here and there upon its pages. In a word, this novel is that rare and beautiful thing, the work of a poet who has something to say.” J. Marchand.
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Bookm. 27: 60. Mr. ’08. 320w.
287“The most human, the most appealing, the wisest and the most lovable of mothers in recent fiction. Eden Phillpotts has written his strongest book, so far, in ‘The mother of the man’ with a ripeness and restrained power rarely excelled.”
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Ind. 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“None of these people have ‘cultivated’ minds. We have not to solve them as intricate puzzles, but to watch them unfold in character and meaning, simply and beautifully, by what they say and do—rather than like Mr. James’s people, complexly and often beautifully, by the play of his fancy about them.”
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Nation. 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 700w.
“This last is perhaps his finest work; it moves with greater freedom, and gives evidence that the writer is growing with each book he gives us.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 580w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“The plot is slight and the action far too sluggish, but the workmanship and the intellectual quality are of the best.”
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Outlook. 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 160w.
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R. of Rs. 37: 767. Je. ’08. 150w.
Phillpotts, Eden. Virgin in judgment. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–29741.
“This story contains a dozen capital portraits of rural men and women, dwellers on Dartmoor some half-century ago. The lives of the three protagonists culminate in tragedy, the legitimate outcome of clashing temperaments. Rhoda Bowden’s affections are all centered in her brother David.... David has married Madge, who is Rhoda’s antithesis, a woman compact of sympathy and love. Jealous for her brother’s honour, Rhoda charges Madge with unfaithfulness to him. Madge is innocent, but unlucky circumstances lend colour to the accusation, and Rhoda’s harshness drives her to self-destruction. Rhoda learns the truth too late and loses her brother’s love.”—Sat. R.
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Ind. 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“The principal charm of this book will lie for many readers in its picture of the rustic community as a whole. The writer’s chief distinction lies, perhaps, in his well-nigh Shakespearean respect and liking for simple and dull people.”
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Nation. 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 540w.
“The end is so sudden, so unexplained, and so unnecessary. It is pathetic, but it lacks justification; pathos is a mere trick of technique, but tragedy is proof of the artist.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“It is doubtful whether Phillpotts has surpassed ‘The virgin in judgment’ in any of his previous novels. He lies full length upon Mother Earth, but he gazes up into the depths of the sky.”
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Outlook. 90: 749. N. 28, ’08. 330w.
“Here is a matter for sadness, but there is mirth too, for the author gives us pages of humorous dialogue, as well as glimpses of content in many a cottage. We feel, as we read, that his touch in characterisation is sure and his outlook upon life is sane.”
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Sat. R. 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 180w.
Phillpotts, Eden, and Bennett, Enoch Arnold. The statue: a story of international intrigue and mystery. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–22564.
A story which “centers about a gigantic and mysterious statue built in the grounds of his country place by a financier of international reputation. A loan to the government of Morocco, which involves the possibility of a European war and survival or downfall of an English ministry, the murder of the great financier at the foot of his statue, a dramatic trial, an escape from prison, and the final revelation of the secret of the statue, provide ample complications and incidents.” (Outlook.)
“Is no more than a melodramatic tale of ingenious intrigue, of mysterious crime, and of detection and retribution. Taking it upon this low level, the story is effective.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 130w.
“It is the kind of thing the cheap magazines print—a tale of murder and supposed mystery, with suitable embellishment of ‘love interest.’”
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Nation. 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 240w.
“Too serious development of an ingenious tangle of circumstances. The end is surprising in its hopelessly improbable character.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 488. S. 5, ’08. 280w.
“The secret is ingenious, but as a dénouement it is disappointing.”
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Outlook. 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 120w.
Phyfe, William H. P. Twelve thousand words often mispronounced. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–16935.
A revised and enlarged edition of “10,000 words often mispronounced” with a supplement of two thousand additional words. It is a complete hand-book of difficulties in English pronounciation, including an unusually large number of proper names and words and phrases from foreign languages.
Phythian, John Ernest. Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent; with 8 il. in colour and 32 in half-tone. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–17199.
Written from the English point of view this study follows the progress made in the field of art during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Preraphaelites and the impressionists figure largely in the treatment, with mainly such phases of other artists’ work as have contributed directly or indirectly to the success of these two schools.
“A useful compilation covering subjects difficult to get in one volume.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 202. Je. ’08.
“The book cannot be regarded as important, but it is conscientious, and as original as is required by its purpose.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 548. O. 31. 230w.
“The title is misleading and untrue as an indication of what the book really is. ‘Modern painting’ is not English painting alone. It would almost seem as if the two parts had been written at different times and put together without any proper relation to each other.” W. C. Larned.
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Dial. 45: 340. N. 16, ’08. 1100w.
“Is not a well-proportioned book. The book is of no importance, critically, but may have its uses as a popular account of the art of the last half of the nineteenth century.”
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Nation. 86: 542. Je. 11, ’08. 230w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 233 Ap. 18, ’08. 220w.
“Is at times characteristically British and insular in tone.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 440w.
“The review is inadequate in its comprehension of what America has done for modern painting.”
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Outlook. 89: 863. Ag. 15, ’08. 300w.
“A readable, well-informed, and eminently fair-minded book.” Laurence Binyon.
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Sat. R. 105: 527. Ap. 25, ’08. 1050w.
Phythian, John Ernest. Trees in nature, myth and art. il. **$1.50. Jacobs.
W 8–60.
“A book which tells what men have thought and said about trees, how artists have painted them, rather than a discussion of trees themselves. Mr. Phythian talks in a pleasant leisurely 288way about myths and artists and art and the more or less scientific fancies of unscientific observers.”—Dial.
“On account of its weakness in originality and insufficient power of expression, we fear that we must place it too near the category of those books to the writing of which there is no end.”
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Acad. 73: 86. N. 2, ’07. 1500w.
“The worst point about the book is that the author is always throwing off suggestions more interesting than his main argument.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 696. N. 30. 400w.
“Mr. Phythian’s book will interest those who, less active, still love to lounge in grove or glade and dream of the stately procession of the friendly trees.” T: H. Macbride.
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Dial. 44: 342. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Phythian is at his best when he treats of trees in art, and is least satisfying in the chapters which describe them in nature.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 348. N. 15. ’07. 1000w.
Pier, Garrett Chatfield. Inscriptions of the Nile monuments: a book of reference for tourists. **$5. Putnam.
8–19581.
“The translations here presented of the more important and interesting inscriptions that challenge the traveler’s curiosity recall the vanished life of that once mighty kingdom in clear reality—the Pharaohs and priests, the conquerors and magicians, the beliefs and customs, of three and four thousand years ago. These inscriptions, together with the photographs accompanying the text, make up a rare ‘book of remembrance’ for the returned traveler, as well as a guide and interpreter for the tourist. The translated inscriptions are accompanied with adequate historical and other notes and comments, and the photographs are of superior quality.”—Outlook.
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Ind. 65: 783. O. 1, ’08. 140w.
“Occasionally he has done violence to English construction by following very closely the Egyptian order of words; at times, however, this method adds to the picturesqueness of the versions. Printed on thinner paper and in smaller type, some of the 130 illustrations might suffer, but the book would gain, and it would certainly prove not only a practicable, but an interesting and a profitable companion on a Nile voyage and on a temple pilgrimage.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 200w.
“The selection is made with good judgment, and the author’s long residence in Egypt makes him fully competent for his task.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 2000w.
“A more welcome companion-book for the visitor to ‘Egypt’s land of memory’ than this finely illustrated volume could hardly be produced.”
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Outlook. 89: 866. Ag. 15. ’08. 120w.
Pierce, Franklin. Federal usurpation. **$1.50. Appleton.
8–4348.
“A plea for the sacredness of the constitution of the United States,” called forth by President Roosevelt’s suggestion for an increase of Federal power “thru executive action—and thru judicial interpretation and construction of law.” “The author arraigns Mr. Roosevelt for attempting to destroy the State government, imperialize the national government and convert the presidency into a dictatorship.” (Ind.)
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 240. O. ’08.
“This is a vigorous and well-written, tho somewhat polemic, constitutional study.”
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Ind. 65: 155. Jl. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Whatever one may think of Mr. Pierce’s methods or conclusions, it cannot be denied that his vigorous plea for state rights ... is worthy of thoughtful consideration. Neither the facts nor the tendencies which they show are, of course, new, although no recent writer has so carefully collected them.”
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Nation. 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“Cannot be taken by the student very seriously. It is a view of the constitution much more ably presented by Professor Stimson. It is accurate neither in its facts nor in its law.”
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Outlook. 90: 314. O. 10, ’08. 500w.
Pierce, Ulysses G. B., comp. Soul of the Bible: being selections from the Old and the New Testaments and the Apocrypha, arranged as synthetic readings; introd. by Edward Everett Hale. *$1.25. Am. Unitar.
7–32351.
Here are brought together passages which explain and supplement each other and which are of permanent worth. “The readings are synthetic. In each selection the whole Bible has been drawn upon, as needed to develop the subject or to supplement the thought. Isolated passages have been brought into relation with the larger thought of which they are generic parts, thus utilizing many short passages which would otherwise be overlooked because of their fragmentary character.”
Pillsbury, Walter Bowers. Attention. (Lib. of philosophy.) *$2.75. Macmillan.
8–19132.
The English edition of a work which in 1906 appeared in French as a volume of the Library of experimental psychology. “The English volume is an expansion of the former work and increases notably the value of this contribution to psychology. There is an additional chapter on measurements of the attention, a very important topic; a similar addition treating of the relation of attention to the feelings and to the self, and a useful practical chapter upon the educational aspects of attention. What appeared as a single chapter in the earlier publication on memory, will and reason, is now amplified into three separate chapters.” (Science.)
“The work is marked throughout by accuracy of statement, wide familiarity with the literature of the subject, and fairness and discrimination in criticism.”
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Nation. 86: 406. Ap. 30, ’08. 1500w.
“It may be true that the functional view is not adequately worked out, but it has been expressed a sufficient number of times to deserve, some of us believe, a respectful hearing. As an example of structural psychology, Professor Pillsbury’s work will command instant recognition. He will probably be satisfied to answer that this was all he intended.” C: H. Judd.
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Philos. R. 17: 651. N. ’08. 2300w.
“The volume may be emphatically commended.” J. J.
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Science, n.s. 27: 819. My. 22, ’08. 200w.
Pinkham, Edwin George. Fate’s a fiddler. †$1.50. Small.
8–18409.
One Bermondsey Bibbus, the keeper of a second-hand book shop in Boston, his wife, addicted to lachrymose poetry, and his son, the hero and narrator of this story, constitute the chief group of characters. The father camps on the trail of the rainbow until he really finds a reasonable pot of gold in a newspaper office in Missouri. The son goes to school and enjoys the wealth of the cousin who inherited an uncle’s fortune instead of himself.
“A confused story, with a somewhat foolish plot, but two characters who might almost have stepped out of Dickens redeem it from commonplaceness.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 304. D. ’08.
289“The story is not told in a way to appeal to mature minds, and however much it may please young people accustomed to the stories of Oliver Optic and writers of that class, it is not a book that will, we think, be prized by most novel readers.”
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Arena. 40: 486. N. ’08. 200w.
“A very readable novel with a distinct flavor of Dickens in it.”
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Cath. World. 88: 407. D. ’08. 240w.
“The book is rather well done, but one doubts if it is particularly worth doing.”
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Ind. 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“To revive a wholesome type of story even on a reduced scale is a thankworthy deed. Mr. Pinkham has done so, and has suitably, humorously, and cleverly added of his own.”
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Nation. 87: 265. S. 17, ’08. 430w.
“Had the excellence of the first chapters been sustained throughout, the book would be a noteworthy one instead of merely above the average.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 426. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
Platt, Dan Fellows. Through Italy with car and camera. il. **$5. Putnam.
7–42023.
Mr. Platt’s itinerary “covers not only the well-beaten roads, but many byways—from Castelfranco and San Daniele in the north to San Galgano, Montefalco, and Jesi in the centre. Most remarkable are his illustrations, which have three merits—they are very numerous, more than 200 in all; they are uncommonly well done; and they include many out-of-the-way scenes and bits of native life and costume.” (Nation.)
“With that touch-and-go spirit which the motor-car encourages, and the Italian scenery in the latter part of the year intensifies, [the author] devotes his energies to the criticism of art. As a critic of art Mr. Platt is by no means commonplace and conventional. He does, indeed, cast down some of the ancient idols, but he is not a destroyer of all the cherished images.” H. E. Coblentz.
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Dial. 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 400w.
“The bars should never be lowered to admit the perpetrators of such banalities in text and ‘illustration.’”
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Ind. 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 140w.
“After one has read the letter-press, these half-tones will serve as a sort of album of Italian subjects, to be returned to again and again.”
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Nation. 86: 103. Ja 30, ’08. 130w.
“A most readable record of the journey to the centres, great and small, of Italy’s past artistic activity. His style is simple, there is no attempt at fine writing.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 47. Ja. 25, ’08. 420w.
“The lover of Italy, if he does not expect an elaborate work, will find here much worth having and preserving.”
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Outlook. 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
“Is in effect a glorified guide-book to the wonders of nature and beauties of art, which were the objective of each day’s outing.”
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Putnam’s. 3: 624. F. ’08. 360w.
Player, Preston. Notes on hydro-electric developments. *$1. McGraw.
8–21048.
A discussion whose object is to furnish information to the water power promoter which shall enable him to determine accurately the merits of a proposed undertaking.
“The information given is valuable and worth the consideration of anyone at all interested in the subject.”
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Engin. D. 4: 306. S. ’08. 160w.
“This book should be particularly interesting to younger men in electrical and hydraulic work.”
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Engin. N. 60: 191. Ag. 13, ’08. 400w.
“This side of hydro-electric work has never been taken up so authoritatively before, and the manual is to be commended as answering a real need.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 335. S. 19, ’08. 260w.
Plechanoff, George. Anarchism and socialism; tr. with the permission of the author by Eleanor Marx Aveling; with an introd. by Robert Rives La Monte. 50c. Kerr.
W8–79.
“One of a series of reprints of socialistic literature published for the purposes of propaganda. The treatment is a well reasoned defense of Marxian socialism as over against utopian socialism on the one hand and nihilism and anarchism on the other hand.”—Am. J. Soc.
“The treatment is conventional, and the chapters on Proudhon and Bakounine are especially readable.” C. R. H.
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Am. J. Soc. 14: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.
“Taken as a whole this volume is a masterpiece that surpasses every other work on these subjects. It contains the quintessence of the progressive thought of the past two centuries. It is an invaluable contribution to art and literature.” Saul Beaumont.
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Arena. 40: 386. O. ’08. 800w.
Plummer, Mary Wright. Roy and Ray in Canada. **$1.75. Holt.
8–26881.
Roy and Ray whose journey thru Mexico taught many things historical and geographical to young readers, are equally alert in the present volume devoted to Canadian history, scenery, manners and customs. The book offers valuable supplementary reading for schools.
“Clear, well-written and accurate, the book will prove especially useful in connection with school work.”
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Bookm. 28: 386. D. ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
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“However excellent the material, we cannot overcome our dislike of the cross-question. Miss Plummer, who has done her work carefully is a trained observer.”
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Nation. 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 60w.
“An excellent travel book for children.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 140w.
“A book sure of a welcome from bright boys and girls.”
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Outlook. 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 80w.
Podmore, Frank. Naturalisation of the supernatural. **$2. Putnam.
8–22271.
Traces the history of spiritualistic movements, and from the published and unpublished investigations of the Society for psychical research produces material that on the one hand exposes fraud and on the other scientifically substantiates certain marvellous occurrences of psychic phenomena. “The author is convinced of the reality of telepathy, including the production of hallucinations by spontaneous thought transference, but is skeptical of the physical manifestations of spiritism which are now returning to popularity.” (Ind.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 294. D. ’08.
“Altho it follows the lines of his earlier works and contains little that is essentially new or different, and altho he is disappointingly inclusive in summing up the argument and stating his own opinion of it, yet his care in collecting his evidence and fairness in discussing it make the volume useful to those who wish to form their own opinions.”
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Ind. 65: 488. Ag. 27, ’08. 730w.
Nation. 87: 239. S. 10, ’08. 500w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 300w.
290“A really helpful addition to the rapidly growing literature dealing with the work that is being done in the debatable field of spiritistic phenomena, apparitions, hauntings, and kindred manifestations of a supposedly supernatural character.”
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Outlook. 90: 317. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
Sat. R. 106: 334. S. 12, ’08. 1050w.
“Though there is nothing very new or sensational in the volume, there is plenty of evidence of careful work, and of a refusal to rush into a spiritualistic explanation of unknown phenomena while any other explanation remains possible.”
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Spec. 101: 744. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
* Poincaré, Lucien. New physics and its evolution; being the authorized translation of “La physique moderne, son evolution.” (International scientific ser.) *$1.75. Appleton.
“The keynote of the book is the remark that physical science progresses by evolution rather than by revolution; and that science in general is in some sort a living organism which gives birth to an indefinite series of new beings which take the place of the old. The author shows how the science of mechanics and the mechanical hypotheses of Newton, Descartes, and La Place have been modified by recent discoveries, and he explains the limits of metaphysics and philosophy in dealing with the laws of nature.”—Nation.
“Although it is short and clear, it will not be found easy reading, and some of it will not be followed without consultation of other works, save by those to whom the methods of research as well as the broad principles of physics are already familiar.” S. S. Sprigge.
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Acad. 73: 885. S. 14, ’07. 1900w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 295. D. ’08.
“The compression of so many subjects into a space of little more than 300 pages is in itself a feat of which few living men would be capable; but our wonder at this deepens when we observe the means by which it is effected. The editor of the series has done his work with discretion, and his comparatively few notes are useful in supplying needed definitions and in bringing the book up to date.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 275. S. 7. 940w.
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Nation. 87: 583. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“It is a scholarly production which can be confidently recommended to all who are interested in the development of physics.”
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Nature. 79: 121. D. 3, ’08. 800w.
Pollak, Gustave. Franz Grillparzer and the Austrian drama. **$2.50. Dodd.
7–38906.
In which Franz Grillparzer, the typical Austrian of the Metternich period, is introduced to American readers. The sketch gives an intimate insight into the life and times of the playwright and also translates “freely the best of the plays, thus affording, besides the synopsis of each drama, a taste of the atmosphere of the work that nothing short of the actual text can provide.” (Bookm.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 147. My. ’08.
“Mr. Pollak, who writes with a sound knowledge of the facts and a genuine enthusiasm for his subject, is hardly, we think, a sufficiently acute psychologist to make an ideal biographer of Grillparzer. But the narrative is clearly and pleasantly told, and English readers will gain from it a good general idea of Grillparzer’s life and work.”