Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 34)
Reading edition
– + N Y Times 22:137 Ap 15 ‘17 320w
+ Outlook 116:32 My 2 ‘17 50w
“The latter part of the story is in obedience to the conventional requirement of a happy ending and is quite ordinary work. But the first two-thirds ring absolutely true, built from the storied memories of tense, full, eager, devouring youth. The vitality, the wonder, and the hope of immaturity are poured out for us.” M. A. Hopkins
+ — Pub W 91:1320 Ap 21 ‘17 430w
“It shows a great advance on Miss Paterson’s previous novel ‘The shadow riders’; and, moreover, it is by no means devoid of humour.”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p238 My 17 ‘17 230w
PATRI, ANGELO. Schoolmaster of the great city. *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 371 17-13273
A piece of autobiography and a study of educational conditions as they exist in New York city today. The author came to America from Italy when a boy. He was eleven years old when he entered an American school, and ten years later, having been sent thru college by a father who earned two dollars a day, he came back to the city schools as a teacher. In time, after another interval spent in study, he passed on to a principalship. In this book he writes of his association with the schools, as pupil, as teacher and as principal. He shows how the humanizing touch has made itself felt in spite of the big unwieldy educational system and how school has been linked with community as the first step toward making a new and a better America.
“As interesting to the parent as to the teacher.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:42 N ‘17
Cleveland p124 N ‘17 80w
“Mr Patri’s honest and unpretentious book contains both wisdom and inspiration for every teacher and every parent, everywhere.” Clyde Furst
+ Educ R 54:516 D ‘17 1000w
“The author knows how to tell a story and when he has told it his point needs no further enforcing. The issues which are so sacred to the old education seem trivial in the face of the realities of present day requirements.”
+ Ind 91:295 Ag 25 ‘17 200w
“It has the rare gift of unfolding, without consciousness, the real character of an uncommon man.”
+ Nation 104:738 Je 21 ‘17 470w
“The simple anecdotes introduce you to real people. That is what makes the book interesting reading, even if you are not concerned with schools and with children. This is a human document, not a pedagogical treatise.” B. C. G.
+ N Y Call p14 My 27 ‘17 800w
“Mr Patri’s vision of what the public school should be and should do in American life, in city and country, in rich neighborhoods and poor neighborhoods alike, is an inspiring and an aspiring vision.”
+ N Y Times 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 480w
“His book has in it entertainment and valuable suggestions also.”
+ Outlook 116:233 Je 6 ‘17 20w
Pittsburgh 22:692 O ‘17 90w
“Patri’s book has been compared to Jacob Riis’s portrayal of the lives of the common people in ‘How the other half lives.’ Like Riis, he sees the flaws of our social and educational systems more clearly because of his foreign birth. ... His work has been done in New York, but his experiments are of interest in all American cities. ... Mr Patri was given the principalship of school no. 45, in the Bronx, and he has made it into a model Gary school—one that is a real community center.”
+ R of Rs 56:73 Jl ‘17 2350w
“There is no theorizing or dogmatizing. You see the children and the mothers and the homes with his own eyes. You unravel the snarls and tangles with him. You marvel that the despised craft of teaching could be so dramatic, could call for such skill and talent. Schoolmasters like Mr Patri would make teaching the most important of professions, and education the finest of the arts.” Randolph Bourne
+ Survey 38:422 Ag 11 ‘17 650w
435PATTERSON, AUSTIN MCDOWELL. German-English dictionary for chemists. *$2 Wiley 540.3 17-6769
“The scope of the book is broader than the title would seem to indicate. It gives English meanings, not only of German words occurring in the literature of general and industrial chemistry, but includes words used in scientific and technical literature generally, as well as a good general German vocabulary.”—Quar List New Tech Bks
“Dr Patterson has filled what has long been an irritating lacuna in the average chemist’s library. ... The book should be eagerly welcomed by the steadily increasing number of young chemists in England and America and by those who, even if they have already a good working knowledge of the language, are occasionally at fault. The book is clearly printed, the German being in roman type.”
+ Nature 100:144 O 25 ‘17 220w
“‘The need of a book of this kind has been keenly felt by all scientific men.’”
+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p5 Ap ‘17 190w (Reprinted from India Rubber World My 1 ‘17)
“Dr Patterson has performed a public service in the compilation. ... His extended experience as editor of Chemical Abstracts has given him exceptional qualifications for such an undertaking and the work shows the same painstaking care which characterized his successful work as editor. ... The printing is good, the covers are flexible, and the size is suited to the coat pocket.” C: H. Herty
+ Pittsburgh 22:462 My ‘17 60w (Reprinted from Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry p422 Ap 1 ‘17)
“Includes valuable suggestions on nomenclature.”
+ Pittsburgh 22:835 D ‘17 20w
+ Pratt p14 Jl ‘17 20w
“Very useful to anyone who has occasion to read German scientific or technical books and periodicals.”
+ Quar List New Tech Bks Jl ‘17 70w
“Since its appearance in January it has been in constant use in the office of ‘Chemical Abstracts,’ where translating work involving every phase of theoretical and applied chemistry is done and it has stood this test of completeness in such a way as to justify the confidence with which it is used.” E. J. Crane
+ Science n s 46:414 O 26 ‘17 510w
PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD. Religious education of an American citizen. *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 204 17-20853
This book is “an attempt by the emeritus professor of Christian morals at Harvard to analyze the various influences which direct and go to make up the religious training of the average American.” (Springf’d Republican) Chapter eleven, The conversion of militarism, is reminiscent of William James’ “Moral equivalent for war.” The last chapter deals with The place of Jesus Christ in a religious experience.
“In vain do we look for any definite statement by the author as to the nature of Christ. And if he wavers in this fundamental belief, what light or leading can be expected from him on the momentous question of ‘The religious education of an American citizen?’”
— Cath World 106:113 O ‘17 700w
Cleveland p123 N ‘17 60w
“Some patent defects that one grieves so often to find in religious writers of prominence are an over-reliance on pretty verbosities, a habit of glib mosaic of biblical quotation designed to fit into modern problems (going back for its warrant to the infallibility of the scriptures), and a trait that naturally goes with the latter—an odd combination of sound and serious reflection with ramshackle logic. But there is plenty of meat in this book.”
+ — Dial 63:278 S 27 ‘17 350w
“The intimate and perplexing problems of the mind, in which faith, character and modern progress are factors, are dealt with helpfully. ... The chapter on the conversion of militarism is especially pertinent, but Dr Peabody almost seems to fall into the common failure to properly interpret Jesus Christ in relation to militarism. ... If we must have militarism a while longer, we wish that we might have the courage to possess it without torturing the teaching of Jesus to justify us.” L: A. Walker
+ — N Y Call p14 Ag 5 ‘17 300w
“An ideal work, the cream of long and rich experience.”
+ Outlook 117:26 S 5 ‘17 90w
“Particularly helpful at this time is the chapter on ‘The conversion of militarism.’ Dr Peabody thinks the youth of America should be given constructive social work to fill the place which some would gladly see assigned permanently to military training. ... The book is written with distinction of thought and style.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 12 ‘17 250w
PEABODY, JAMES. Railway organization and management. 2v il LaSalle extension univ. 385 17-689
“This is one of a series of books on interstate commerce and railway traffic. Its purpose is to explain the functions of the various departments of the railway and the duties of the officers and employees. ... Naturally the greater part of the book consists of a detailed analysis of the three great divisions of railroad organization—operating, traffic, and accounting; but brief mention is made of the corporate organization and of certain miscellaneous departments, such as relief, pensions, publicity. Some little attention is given to the valuation work which has been forced upon the railroads by the federal government.” (Am Econ R) The author has been statistician for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé railway.
“The arrangement of the book is somewhat faulty resulting in many needless repetitions. A fairly full index remedies this defect to some extent. There is also a noticeable lack of balance in the apportionment of space to the various topics. On the whole, however, the work affords the student of transportation and the layman a considerable amount of information concerning the organization and operation of a railway though it is too superficial to be of much use to a railroad man or to any one who desires an intimate knowledge of the subject.” C. W. Doten
+ — Am Econ R 7:121 Mr ‘17 250w
Ind 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 60w
“No such complete list and description of railway positions has been put into any previous work. Elaborate charts show the relations of the officials to each other and guide the reader through the almost infinite complexities of the organization.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 O 28 ‘16 250w
PEARS, SIR EDWIN. Life of Abdul Hamid. il *$2 (1½c) Holt 17-31756
“A word of apology on my part may, perhaps, be expected for having included this sorry creature, Abdul Hamid, among the ‘Makers of the nineteenth century,’” writes Basil Williams in his General editor’s preface, continuing, “and yet as an influence on the political thought and action of Europe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as one who has handed down that evil influence to the Europe of this century, Abdul Hamid may justly lay claim to be included among those who have helped in large measure to make or mar the world into which we were born.” It is in much the same spirit that the author takes up the career of “the greatest of the destroyers of the Turkish empire.” Sir Edwin Pears is author also of “The fall of Constantinople” and “The destruction of the Greek empire.”
“An authoritative and popular history. The chapters are topical, which makes useful the chronological table of events at the end of the book. The author weaves into the history the 436part played by British diplomacy. His estimate of the Sultan’s character is interesting and well balanced.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:167 F ‘18
Lit D 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 170w
“True, the result is a trifle disappointing, for Sir Edwin has treated his subject from a topical rather than a chronological standpoint, which frequently causes confusion and gives rise to the necessity for elaborate mental cross-referencing.”
+ — N Y Times 22:581 D 30 ‘17 520w
“Sir Edwin Pears has dealt with all these matters in a most competent fashion, and his book will be the standard biography of the worst of all the Sultans.”
+ Spec 119:717 D 15 ‘17 310w
“Abdul Hamid is the subject of just such an impartial, clear and comprehensive study as would be expected from a man of Sir Edwin Pears’s knowledge and profundity. If it is history more than it is biography, that fact is a natural consequence of the secrecy surrounding the life of the deposed emperor, and of the necessity of judging him by his public acts.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13 D 16 ‘17 1000w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p557 N 15 ‘17 50w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p592 D 6 ‘17 1750w
PEARSE, PADRAIC H. Collected works. il *7s 6d Maunsel, London 820.8
“Padraic Pearse was among the Irishmen executed after the outbreak in Dublin in the Easter of 1916. He was thirty-six years old; but already for twenty years and more he had been working for the Ireland that he saw in a vision. He learned the Gaelic language, and so well that, as ‘Padraic MacPiarais,’ he was able to write poems in it and plays and stories. At seventeen he founded the New Ireland society in Dublin. ... He edited the weekly organ of the Gaelic league. He conducted a secondary school as Gaelic in ‘atmosphere’ as he could make it.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The stories include the tale of “Iosagan” (Little Jesus), the mysterious, barefooted boy who came to play with the village boys, but disappeared when there were grown-ups about; of little Paraig, who used to play all alone at being a priest; of Brideen and her two dolls; of “The Dearg-Dool,” “in which the kindliest intentions seem hopelessly entangled with ancient doom”; of “The keening woman,” who came to London to plead with Queen Victoria on behalf of her son, imprisoned on suspicion of murder, etc. The plays all deal, directly or indirectly, with the history and politics of Ireland. The poems are filled with a confidence which contrasts strongly with the doubt expressed in the plays.
Ath p412 Ag ‘17 190w
“Those who look in the writings of Mr Pearse for that picturesque imagery which we are accustomed to find in the works of Irish authors will be disappointed, for there is little of it. There is a lack also of that humor, regarded as characteristically Irish, which by its piquant contrast adds poignancy to the homely tragedies of the Irish countryside.”
+ — Spec 119:272 S 15 ‘17 290w
“They are what literature ought to be. Their ‘literary’ beauty is patent, even in these English translations. ... They are very finely wrought; full of fancy, of passion, of tender humour; in the treatment of children they are rarely true and tender. But their special claim to notice is that they are the many times refined expression of their author’s spiritual life. ... To the seeker after literature, the purified and exalted expression of spiritual life, it matters not a jot whether the poet be politically right or wrong. He may be a rebel and a traitor; but, unless he be cowardly and mean of soul, his literature may be noble. And the literature left by Pearse is not the literature of a coward or a mean man. ... It is the more interesting because visionaries of this kind seldom have the power of expressing themselves through the art of letters.”
+ + The Times [London] Lit Sup p319 Jl 5 ‘17 1850w
PEARSON, CHARLES CHILTON. Readjuster movement in Virginia. (Yale historical publications) *$2 (4½c) Yale univ. press 975.5 17-24995
The movement which has been made the subject of this work represented a reaction against reconstruction. The author says of the book, “It is a chapter in the history of Virginia, from the Civil war to the first administration of Grover Cleveland, in which some of the forces that moulded the present state are shown in their operation; and in the showing the ‘Readjuster’ claim to liberalism, democracy, and progress is tested and due record made of the achievements and solid worth of those who stood for conservatism, aristocracy, and scrupulous honesty.” (Preface) A “bibliographical note” of six pages precedes the index. The author is professor of political science in Wake Forest college, North Carolina.
“Politics make strange bedfellows. On this score the reviewer might find a little fault with the author. For the book, while it does refer to the national bearings of his subject, does not make clear enough the entanglements and commitments of this bastard Virginia party. ... There is a fairness in the book and an appreciation of the difficulties of politicians in steering the course of any given ship of state that promise well for the future writings of the author.”
+ — Am Hist R 23:417 Ja ‘18 950w
Reviewed by S. C. Mitchell
+ Am Pol Sci R 12:140 F ‘18 500w
“There is a long and bald array of facts and figures; however the book shows scholarly research, is carefully written, is well provided with notes and bibliography, and should have lasting historical value.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p6 O 30 ‘17 450w
PEARSON, FRANCIS BAIL. Reveries of a schoolmaster. *$1 (2c) Scribner 814 17-9711
The author is State superintendent of public instruction in Ohio and has published books on “The evolution of the teacher,” “The high-school problem,” and other educational subjects. In this book he writes informally of the schoolmaster’s calling and of some of the problems of life in the light of his experience as a teacher. Homely analogies drawn from a country boyhood add an individual touch to the little essays. Among the subjects are: Retrospect; Lanterns; Complete living; Freedom; Things; Hoeing potatoes; Changing the mind; The point of view; Picnics; Make-believe; Story-telling.
+ A L A Bkl 13:392 Je ‘17
+ Boston Transcript p13 Ap 7 ‘17 470w
“Thirty-one well-organized little essays, full of kindly, homely wisdom based on both reading and human experience. ... The book will be of especial interest to those who have to deal with young people, or to students themselves.”
+ Cleveland p74 Je ‘17 50w
“Mr Francis B. Pearson has put much homely philosophy and the results of sound reflection in this little book.”
+ Educ R 54:208 S ‘17 30w
“In nearly all are one or more common sense suggestions on wise and tactful methods of boy training.”
+ Ind 91:295 Ag 25 ‘17 40w
“They are generally sensible, they are occasionally witty; but they abound in stale anecdotes and trite quotations, and they are prone to ‘announce commonplaces as if they were discoveries.’ All these are, of course, besetting sins of teachers. It is probably better to talk over your pupils’ (or readers’) heads than to talk under their feet. The latter is Mr Pearson’s danger.”
+ — Nation 105:259 S 6 ‘17 140w
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+ School R 25:303 Ap ‘17 10w
“Although the writer avoids technical cant and disclaims any assumption of authority, the morals of his parables are plain and enlightening. The critical reader, however, may find in Mr Pearson’s style blemishes which seriously mar the charm of the whole. Rather too often is the writer ingenuous, obtrusively rustic and facetious, which, in a book of this nature, may lead one to distrust the writer’s judgment.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p10 My 18 ‘17 430w
PEARSON, FRANCIS BAIL. Vitalized school. *$1.40 Macmillan 370 17-4795
“The ‘vitalized school,’ according to Mr Pearson (who is state superintendent of public instruction in Ohio) is nothing but a school with a vitalized teacher in charge. In general, his book is an attempt to bring together some of the fundamental modern implications of teaching in a way that will induce teachers to incorporate them into the practice of their profession. ... It consists of a series of short treatises, aiming to be both practical and inspirational, on teaching as related to life: on ‘the teacher,’ ‘the child,’ ‘democracy,’ ‘the artist teacher,’ ‘the socialized recitation,’ ‘the school and the community,’ ‘a sense of humor,’ ‘poetry and life,’ ‘examinations,’ etc.”—Survey
St Louis 15:171 Je ‘17
“An inspirational rather than an informational book. ... The style throughout is free and easy and especially adapted to the teacher of little training and experience. The questions and exercises at the end of each chapter suggest that the author expects his work to be used both as a text and as a reading-circle book. In either of these capacities it would be more valuable for what it suggests than for what it contains.”
School R 25:461 Je ‘17 200w
“There is much that teachers, and other people, too, will do well to ponder. ... The book suffers somewhat from its sustained effort to treat broad, elusive, ‘inspirational’ subjects and relationships as if they were matter for exact exposition and could be stated as facts to be acquired rather than feelings to be aroused. Perhaps (though we doubt it) this is suited to the intended audience. Then, too, Mr Pearson makes a bad guess occasionally in his illustrations: such as when he quotes a statement that the first purpose of the schools at Gary is to make efficient workers for the mills.” W. D. L.
+ Survey 38:422 Ag 11 ‘17 500w
PEARSON, THOMAS GILBERT. Bird study book. il *$1.25 (3½c) Doubleday 598.2 17-8225
This book is meant to serve as a guide to beginners in bird study. It is not a compendium of facts about birds and their habits. Facts are not lacking, but its primary purpose is to tell the student how to begin, where to look, and what to look for. There are chapters on: First acquaintance with the birds; The life about the nest: Domestic life of the birds; The migration of birds; The birds in winter; The economic value of birds; Civilization’s effect on the bird supply: The traffic in feathers; Bird-protective laws and their enforcement; Bird reservations; Making bird sanctuaries; Teaching bird study. There are illustrations from photographs and drawings. The author is secretary of the National association of Audubon societies.
A L A Bkl 14:11 O ‘17
“Presents briefly much information that would be overwhelming in formidable scientific publications; and is intended to stimulate rather than to satisfy. Those who are disposed to cultivate an intelligent interest in the habits of their bird neighbors, will find the necessary help and inspiration for beginners in the matter here presented for their guidance.”
+ Cath World 105:684 Ag ‘17 100w
Cleveland p69 My ‘17 30w
“The last chapter, Teaching bird study, will be of specific value to teachers, to whom, rather than to the novice in field study, the whole book will be of considerable general value.”
+ — Nation 105:130 Ag 2 ‘17 270w
Pittsburgh 22:414 My ‘17 50w
St Louis 15:141 My ‘17
PEARY, ROBERT EDWIN. Secrets of polar travel. il *$2.50 (5c) Century 919.8 17-30385
A book devoted to what might be termed the technique of polar exploration. In his former book, “The north pole,” the author gave a brief summary of his methods. In this work he has elaborated that brief account, giving details of the system which, evolving gradually thru his years of endeavor, enabled him finally to reach the pole. Contents: Building a polar ship; Selecting men; Supplies and equipment; Ice navigation; Winter quarters; Polar clothing; Utilization of Eskimos and dogs; Utilizing the resources of the country; Sledge equipment; Sledge-traveling. In a brief conclusion, he touches on air travel as a possible means of arctic exploration.
A L A Bkl 14:126 Ja ‘18
“A notable book on arctic journeys ... by the man who is more competent than any other in the world to discuss the subject.” A. M. Chase
+ Bookm 46:334 N ‘17 150w
Boston Transcript p6 D 1 ‘17 420w
“It presents the conclusions as to the best methods of exploration in polar regions which the author has worked out during his years of arctic journeyings, and presents them with such constant and varied illustration of incidents and facts and personal observations as to make the narrative far more interesting than the account of a single expedition.”
+ N Y Times 22:449 N 4 ‘17 1100w
“It is a book for every explorer and every lover of high adventure.”
+ Outlook 117:433 N 14 ‘17 50w
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ja 21 ‘18 360w
PEASE, MARGARET. Jean Jaurès, socialist and humanitarian; with an introd. by J. Ramsay Macdonald. *$1 (3½c) Huebsch. 17-26782
This book has been written to acquaint English readers with the socialist editor, author, orator and parliamentary leader whom J. Ramsay Macdonald, in his introduction, calls “the greatest democratic personal force in Europe—even in the world,” and who, after having spent the last day of his life in a vain effort to avert the war, was assassinated on July 31, 1914. Chapter 1 gives “a short sketch of the man and his career.” Succeeding chapters on Socialism, Jaurès and the Dreyfus case, Socialist methods, “The new army,” and International peace, while giving Jaurès’s views and actions, necessarily also contribute much to the history of French socialism.
+ A L A Bkl 14:42 N ‘17
Reviewed by H. A. Yeomans
Am Pol Sci R 12:154 F ‘18 170w
“This book is cursorily written and, though laudatory, is far from making out the ‘greatness’ of its hero. As is to be expected, many hoary old calumnies are brought forward against Catholicism. Yet in reality it is not Catholicism which Mrs Pease so bitterly attacks, but something quite other, that ancient and fanciful monster we had long since thought deceased, ‘the Romish church.’ That the authoress resurrects the word is sufficient comment on the intellectual quality of her book.”
— Cath World 106:395 D ‘17 520w
“Of particular interest at present is the discussion of the opinions of Jaurès on military policy.”
+ Ind 92:56 O 6 ‘17 80w
438 + R of Rs 56:439 O ‘17 70w
“The French accused Jaurès, more particularly in his later years, of pro-German sympathies. ‘M. Jaurès, c’est l’Allemagne,’ wrote M. Charles Maurras about a fortnight before the war; and it has not unnaturally been assumed that this was the charge which loaded the pistol of the assassin. His firm article of faith was that the German ‘comrades’ did not want war, and that war might be prevented by the open-hearted appeal of a French socialist whom they trusted. ... Mrs Pease’s volume will help readers to understand his place in recent history, though her exposition of his ideas is more enthusiastic than critical.”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p497 O 19 ‘16 870w
PEASE, THEODORE CALVIN. Leveller movement; a study in the history and political theory of the English great civil war. (Prize essays, 1915) $1.50 Am. hist. assn. 942.06 17-9688
“Dr Pease, of Illinois university, has made a careful study of the Leveller movement led by John Lilburne during the civil war. He emphasizes the Levellers’ demand for a supreme law which neither king nor Parliament could override, because in this respect they anticipated the founders of the American constitution. Dr Pease is unusually sympathetic towards Lilburne, though he does not vouch for the honesty of that clever but unattractive man, and sees that if the Levellers had shattered the discipline of the army Charles II would have come back in 1649 and crushed Presbyterians, Independents, and Levellers alike.”—Spec
“It is unfortunate that space limitations prevented the inclusion of the bibliography in full, for which many students of the period would have been very grateful. Finally, Mr Pease is quite right in his admission that his study is ‘avowedly sympathetic.’ Whatever the admirable qualities of Lilburne and his fellow-Levellers, however glad one may be that such doctrines as they advocated found voice, it still remains a question whether, in their own day, they helped or hindered real progress. It is to be hoped that Mr Pease will add to his excellent study a supplementary treatise on their relations to every-day affairs, apart from the realm of political theory. For such a study no one is so well qualified.” W. C. Abbott
+ Am Hist R 22:900 Jl ‘17 550w
“A very solid and valuable contribution to history and political science, and much the most detailed and thorough study we have of the political theory of probably the most interesting group in a most momentous period.” C. H. McIlwain
+ — Am Pol Sci R 11:584 Ag ‘17 600w
“Reveals research work of value and importance.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 My 9 ‘17 300w
“The book is written with strict attention to the rules of sound historical workmanship and embodies the result of patient research in materials of unquestioned trustworthiness.”
+ Nation 106:120 Ja 31 ‘18 220w
+ Spec 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 130w
“Mr Pease includes in the volume a bibliography as painstaking and thorough as his text.”
* + Springf’d Republican p19 My 13 ‘17 4200w
“This book, which won the Herbert Baxter Adams prize in European history in 1915, appears at a fortunate, or at least an appropriate, moment. It tells of a struggle between Moderates and Extremists in the course of a great revolution, and, though it would be very difficult to construct an historical parallel between events in England from 1647 to 1649 and events in Russia in 1917, there is a certain element of similarity in the applications of enthusiastic idealism to new conditions.”
* + The Times [London] Lit Sup p248 My 24 ‘17 1800w
PEAT, HAROLD R.[2] Private Peat. il *$1.50 (3c) Bobbs 940.91 17-29848
Private Peat is a Canadian soldier who experienced the whole gamut of war sensations from the thrill of enlistment to the loss of consciousness “out there” when he lay in the open two nights and a day before the stretcher bearers found him. His narrative is full of the grimness and humor of life in the trenches and behind the lines. But most of all he shows the soldier’s clear quality of courage to live because he must through an inferno of destruction and death, of murder and horror. Romance is a part of the story. The last chapter is written by the girl herself—a free lance of Fleet street—whose advertisement concerning a lost cousin was the beginning of a hospital acquaintance with the disabled private which ended in marriage after his return to Canada for discharge. The writer is on a successful lecture tour in America now.
“It is for the most part more serious than ‘Over the top,’ yet it also reflects the indomitable humor of the ‘Tommy’ and it is entertainingly written.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:124 Ja ‘18
“He gives a colorful, varied picture of life at the front in all its aspects.”
+ N Y Times 22:546 D 9 ‘17 830w
“If a person has ever felt a strong desire to talk with one of the boys who has been in the thick of it on the western front, let him get ‘Private Peat.’” Joseph Mosher
+ Pub W 92:2025 D 8 ‘17 290w
PEATTIE, ELIA (WILKINSON) (MRS ROBERT BURNS PEATTIE). Newcomers. il *$1.25 (4c) Houghton 17-24275
This story for older girls has appeared as a serial in the Youth’s Companion. The Wardells come to Dalroy, Illinois, as strangers. Robert Wardell has been offered his first position as an engineer on the dam which is to be built on the Rock river. His mother and two sisters accompany him. Dalroy is a sorry enough looking town at first sight, but, resolved to make the best of it, the Wardells enter wholeheartedly into its life. The tact and sympathy of the mother and the kindness and high spirits of the young people make friends for them all and several blighted lives—like that of the old school teacher who has lost his position, and of the girl who is paying for her mother’s failings—are set in happier lines by their companionship. The touch of love interest blends unobtrusively into the narrative.
“A pleasant story.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:137 Ja ‘18
“A good love story for girls, lively, entertaining and with frequent touches of keen humor.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 N 10 ‘17 30w
Lit D 55:59 D 8 ‘17 70w
PEDDIE, ROBERT ALEXANDER. Outline of the history of printing. 2s 6d Grafton & co., London 655.1
The author is Cantor lecturer on the history of printing and librarian of the St Bride typographical library. This volume is a revised and enlarged edition of lectures delivered before the Royal society of arts in 1914. The first six chapters take up the history of printing by centuries, two chapters being given to The nineteenth century and after. Six chapters on the history of printing in colors follow.
“Mr Peddie’s volume—it reaches scarcely more than fifty pages—contains much in little about the printer and printing.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Jl 28 ‘17 820w
PEIXOTTO, ERNEST CLIFFORD. Revolutionary pilgrimage. il *$2.50 Scribner 973.3 17-28097
“To the many American people who never visit or think of their historic places this volume will be a picturesque lesson in American history. Starting in Boston, we are shown by pen and picture the important buildings and places 439connected with the War of the revolution. From Boston we are taken over pleasant roads to Lexington and Concord, then to Lake Champlain, Saratoga, New York, New Jersey, the Carolinas, Virginia and Washington. One of the features of the book is that Mr Peixotto, by letter and document, lets many of the noted characters tell their own story. Paul Revere, Ethan Allen, and Major André all recount their own adventures. ... The illustrations are in black and white from Mr Piexotto’s own hand.”—Boston Transcript
A L A Bkl 14:90 D ‘17
Boston Transcript p6 D 1 ‘17 130w
“Will appeal to all patriotic Americans, especially those contemplating a motor trip a little out of the ordinary.”
+ Cleveland p138 D ‘17 60w
+ Outlook 117:350 O 31 ‘17 40w
PELLETT, FRANK CHAPMAN. Our backdoor neighbors. il *$1.50 Abingdon press 590 17-30148
“These backdoor neighbors are the red tails and cooper hawks with a taste for chicken meat; ‘Foxy’ Squirrel, who likes any kind of table dainties; the screech owls, partial to mice; ... and many other little creatures not always received in polite society. ... The Naturalist, as Mr Pellett designates himself, lives in a modest Iowa farmhouse among surroundings which he has left ‘uncultivated’ to a degree deplored by his human neighbors. ... His story proves that he has had unlimited enjoyment from association with his backdoor neighbors. Quite regardless of propriety he pries into their most intimate and private affairs.”—Pub W
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“They will appeal to those who are either afraid of the over-technical ‘nature book’ or are skeptical of ‘nature faking.’ There is no trace of the latter in ‘Backdoor neighbors.’ It radiates sincerity nor is there any nauseating sentimentality.” R. D. Moore
+ Pub W 92:1385 O 20 ‘17 420w
“The stories are told in a way to hold the reader’s attention, and at the same time furnish facts of value.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 8 ‘17 60w
PENNELL, ELIZABETH (ROBINS) (MRS JOSEPH PENNELL) (N. N., pseud.). Lovers. *$1 Lippincott (Eng ed 17-26658)
“Like ‘Our house’ and ‘Nights,’ ‘The lovers’ is largely autobiographical, and like them it is written in Mrs Pennell’s own intimate manner that brings to its pages all the graces and imagination of fiction. Its action takes its beginning just outside the windows of Mrs Pennell’s own home in the heart of London, and although it carries us to the battlefields of France, her own part in the story and her commentary upon it adds to its persistent flavor of romance, and gives it a distinctive atmosphere of reality. ... As long ago as June, 1911, there appeared in the Century a short story by Mrs Pennell called ‘Les amoureux.’ It now forms, under title of ‘In the garret,’ the first chapter of the four chapters that make up ‘The lovers,’ for what Mrs Pennell thought was a complete story was merely its beginning.”—Boston Transcript
+ A L A Bkl 14:98 D ‘17
“One of the few enduring books that have come or that are to come out of the great conflict.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 20 ‘17 1550w
“One of the few bits of real literature dealing with the war.”
+ Cleveland p3 Ja ‘18 50w
“‘The lovers’ is a book to bring the huge, wasteful tragedy of war strongly home to its readers.”
+ Dial 63:165 Ag 30 ‘17 420w
+ Nation 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 200w
“Because it is so simple, so tender, so human, so true, so absolutely of the stuff of life in wartime days, Mrs Pennell’s little tale deserves wide reading. The mere story of the story is a romance in itself.”
+ N Y Times 22:231 Je 17 ‘17 600w
Pittsburgh 22:650 O ‘17 40w
+ St Louis 15:417 D ‘17 30w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p215 My 5 ‘17 120w
“Among the best descriptions known to us of life under training in England and of certain sides of life at the front. Harold Chapin’s are not so vivid, so perceptive, nor so thoughtful. And the consolation is the ‘splendidness’ of this artist, lover, mystic, who could keep the flame of his spirit burning through all the drudgery, horror, and filth in which he had chosen gallantly to pass his days for his soul’s sake. Mrs Pennell has done her work with fine judgment.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p232 My 17 ‘17 530w
PENNELL, JOSEPH. Joseph Pennell’s pictures of war work in England; with an introd. by H. G. Wells. il *$1.50 Lippincott 940.91 17-26395
“Reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of munitions works, made by Mr Pennell with the permission of the British government, and accompanied by notes by the artist.” (Ath) “The drawings, etchings, and lithographs describe the activity of workshops, furnaces, forges, mine shafts, cranes, in time of war. The book really represents an apotheosis of machinery. Mere man is at a discount. When he does appear in these pages, he is but an elusive, fleeting figure.” (Outlook)
A L A Bkl 13:388 Je ‘17
+ Ath p54 Ja ‘17 50w
“These pictures are splendid, they are noble, they are victorious, they are inspired. The balance of light and shade, the sureness of the drawing, the keenness of observation betrayed by hundreds of valid details that have their due effect, make this book one of the most valuable documents of the great war.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 My 29 ‘17 380w
Cleveland p97 Jl ‘17 60w
“That is his interpretation of the present war—a battle of the mechanical genii which have been evolved by human ingenuity, now become our masters—and destroyers. This interpretation is borne out by the brusque words commenting upon each drawing. There is much in this volume which it would be well for every American to ponder.”
+ Dial 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 200w
“There are fifty-one full-page reproductions of Mr Pennell’s sketches, and for each the briefest of descriptions in choice and impressive language, sometimes tinged with laughter, oftener with tears. Every picture accents the terrible grimness of war.”
+ Lit D 55:48 D 8 ‘17 190w
“Mr Pennell has had exceptional facilities afforded him for obtaining these pictures. No such opportunity is available to the ordinary citizen, and next to the privilege of actually visiting the works themselves, no more effective means are available for obtaining a clear and vivid idea of all that is meant by the manufacture of munitions of war than that provided in this most interesting collection of drawings.” W. Ripper
+ Nature 98:385 Ja 18 ‘17 250w
“Something of that strange anthropomorphic life with which Hardy can imbue even an ordinary cross-road, over which dead autumn leaves are swirling as if caressingly Mr Pennell lets be conveyed through his sketches of these new and tireless industrial giants.”
+ New Repub 12:141 S 1 ‘17 330w
“Pennell’s book is one of the most valuable contributions to the literature of the present war, inasmuch as he gets closer to the truth than the writers of most of the nationalist publications with which the market is flooded.” L. G.
+ N Y Call p15 O 28 ‘17 430w
440“That these industrial subjects should be identified with a world war is not an inspiration to him, for he puts himself on record as not believing in war.”
N Y Times 22:252 Jl 1 ‘17 200w
+ Outlook 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w
+ R of Rs 55:548 My ‘17 120w
“Mr Pennell works with such facility and industry that his drawings are open to the charge of superficiality. There is a sameness of emphasis and diffuseness of treatment which would not perhaps be observable in a smaller number of works.”
Spec 118:644 Je 9 ‘17 170w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p8 Ja 4 ‘17 680w
PENNY, FANNY EMILY (FARR) (MRS FRANK PENNY). Love tangle. *$1.50 Dutton
A novel the scene of which is laid in southern India. “The wide divergence of oriental and English ideals in general is emphasized here in two particulars: in ethics the problem of a police official’s duty when one of his kinsmen is a prisoner; and in marriage the impossibility of courtship under the existing native etiquet, and the hazards of interracial unions. The story involves three couples, two English sisters, a judge and a soldier, and two young Indians educated in England and moving in the same set with the others, but oriental at heart.” (Springf’d Republican)
“The author of ‘A love tangle’ has written many romances of Anglo-Indian life. ... This one is a piece of amiable, feminine writing, relieved, for the occidental reader, by freshness of setting and motive.”
+ — Nation 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 550w
+ N Y Times 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 350w
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 15 ‘17 260w
PERKINS, LUCY FITCH (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS).[2] Belgian twins. il *$1.25 (5½c) Houghton 17-29863
The author has made Belgium in the early days of the war the scene of her latest “twin” book. In the end Jan and Marie, the Belgian twins, find a haven in New York. The author says that the story is based on the actual experience of two children.
“Mrs Perkins has done well to introduce into the nursery some account of Belgian atrocities, not so gruesome that they will frighten the young reader, but sufficiently strong to leave a proper feeling in the minds of boys and girls regarding the unpardonable attack on a smaller country.”
+ Lit D 55:60 D 8 ‘17 70w
“One reads real war history in the many things that happen to them. The author has made the most delightful sketches to illustrate the book.”
+ N Y Times 22:547 D 9 ‘17 60w
+ Outlook 117:574 D 5 ‘17 60w
PERRY, CLARENCE ARTHUR. Community center activities. (Dept. of recreation) *35c Russell Sage foundation 371.6 17-1504
A handbook for community center directors. Its purpose is “to suggest activities for after-school occasions and to indicate sources of information about them.” The material in the main body of the book is arranged under such headings as: Civic occasions; Educational occasions; Entertainments; Handicrafts; Mental contests; Neighborhood service; Physical activities; etc. Preceding this is a classified index in which the various activities suitable for stated spaces, assembly room, kindergarten, gymnasium, etc., are grouped together. At the close a number of sample programs are given.
“A suggestive handbook for parent-teacher associations.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:333 My ‘17
“The material is unusually well organized in this report, and the activities and suggested literature so arranged that the reader can quickly find the desired information.”
+ El School J 17:532 Mr ‘17 220w
“Should be of constant aid to social workers, teachers and others engaged in community organization.”
+ Ind 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 60w
“Probably the greatest obstacle to the rapid development of social centers is a lack of leaders who know how to make them go. The Department of recreation of the Russell Sage foundation has offered one big means of equipping workers in public-school social centers in this little service-manual and reference book of something over 100 pages.” R. N. Baldwin
+ Survey 38:175 My 19 ‘17 200w
PERRY, L. DAY. Seat weaving. il $1 Manual arts press 689 17-13349
An elementary text-book for manual training classes, fully illustrated, which explains the processes of weaving cane, rush, reed or splint seats for chairs and stools. The author is supervisor of manual training in Joliet, Illinois.
A L A Bkl 14:117 Ja ‘18
N Y Br Lib News 4:106 Jl ‘17
“The clearly written directions are supplemented by seventy excellent photographs and line drawings.”
+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p20 Jl ‘17 40w
Pratt p27 O ‘17 10w
“Would also be a satisfactory guide to amateurs interested in this kind of work.”
+ Quar List New Tech Bks Jl ‘17 50w
PETERSON, ARTHUR. Andvari’s ring. *$1.25 Putnam 811 16-25216
The story of Sigurd retold in blank verse. The narrative is marked by a few innovations. Sigurd is pictured as a Norse rover by sea as well as by land. The action is placed near the middle of the fifth century, and into the second part of the narrative, after the death of Sigurd, Attila the Hun is introduced.
“An old-fashioned poem well worth reading.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 Mr 24 ‘17 380w
St Louis 15:151 My ‘17 10w
PETERSON, ARTHUR EVERETT, and EDWARDS, GEORGE WILLIAM.[2] New York as an eighteenth century municipality. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) *$5 Longmans 352
“If it is well for the office boy turned bank president to remember his obscure beginnings, so it may be well for a community. New York is reminded in these two monographs that once ‘ye cytie’ found it necessary to proclaim that ‘every seaventh house in the darke time of the moon should cause a lanthorne and candle to be hung out on a pole every night,’ One reads of a municipal budget of $3,000 and a police department of eight men.” (New Repub) “Part 1 of the volume, prepared by Mr Peterson, carries the study up to 1731; Mr Edwards deals with the period running from 1731 to 1776.” (N Y Times)
“All the germs of municipal institutions are here competently examined and arranged, with not a little spice of humor in the selection of quotations.”
+ New Repub 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 120w
N Y Times 23:21 Ja 20 ‘18 60w
“These minute and comprehensive accounts of the beginnings of a vast city might be called studies in evolution, so strikingly do they show how the municipal oak has grown from a tiny acorn. They will prove invaluable to students, but also entertaining to the general reader.”
+ Outlook 117:433 N 14 ‘17 70w
441PETERSSON, C. E. W. How to do business with Russia; with notes and additional chapters by W. Barnes Steveni. *$2.25 Pitman 382 17-28940
“This volume contains a summary of the experience and business methods of Mr C. E. W. Petersson, a merchant of Petrograd and Riga, who for many years successfully carried on a large trade in machinery and kindred goods with various Russian towns.” (Preface) The translator, W. Barnes Steveni, who has himself written several books on Russia, states that he has made “such additions and alterations as may cause the book to be of more value to British and American readers.” He says also, that while the Russian revolution will “modify considerably some of the questions dealt with in this work,” because the towns will change quickly, the “real Russia, which is mainly agricultural and pastoral, will alter but slowly” and therefore the hints of information here given will always be of value. Part 1 deals with “Russia as a field for business enterprise,” while part 2 gives “Hints and advice to business men dealing with Russia.” An appendix gives “Consular information and postal regulations.” The foreword is by Charles E. Musgrave, secretary to the London chamber of commerce. There is a map of Russia, but no index.
The Times [London] Lit Sup p286 Je 14 ‘17 60w
PETHERBRIDGE, F. R. Fungoid and insect pests of the farm. (Cambridge farm institute) il *$1.25 Putnam 632 Agr16-1262
“The author tells us this book has been written for those who wish to acquire some practical knowledge of farm and garden pests. It naturally does not aim at dealing with all the numerous enemies which affect crops, but rather at giving an accurate account of some of the commoner forms.”—Nature
“It is a pity a great many more of the common pests were not included, especially amongst the arthropods, for then it would have been of very considerably greater value. The accounts also of many of the pests treated in the book are far too short to be really helpful.”
+ — Nature 99:144 Ap 19 ‘17 300w
“This little book is well printed and well illustrated but is not extensive enough as to the number of diseases and pests discussed to justify the title. It can hardly serve as a very general reference for farmers and market gardeners as the authors have hoped. ... As a short reading text or bulletin to familiarize the public with mycological methods and to indicate possible remedial measures for control of a few pests, it contains interesting matter. ... No mention is made of any diseases of small fruits or of orchard and shade trees and but slight attention is given to the commonest garden crops.” H. L. Bolley
+ — Science n s 45:191 F 23 ‘17 370w
PFISTER, OSKAR ROBERT. Psychoanalytic method; auth. tr. by Dr C: Rockwell Payne. il *$4 Moffat 130 17-4346
“Dr Pfister is a pastor and seminary teacher in Zurich and a disciple of Freud. His book includes the definition and history of psychoanalysis, discussions of its theory and technique, and reports of what he has accomplished by its use in cases of neurotic students. ... The conclusion gives summarized examples of the practical benefits of psychoanalysis and what education has to expect from it. ... There are introductions by Sigmund Freud and G. Stanley Hall.”—N Y Times
“Pfister’s book is designed to equip educators with the knowledge necessary to enable them to carry on psychoanalytic treatment of subnormal pupils as well as to foresee and prevent later abnormalities, the causes of which are operative, even in the earlier years, and may be detected only by means of the psychoanalytic technique. ... It is almost the only one that has a practical application to human problems outside of therapeutic ones. ... A part of Pfister’s treatise points out the applications of the Freudian theory to literature, art and religion ... and shows how the creative artist, is saved from his art by being a neurotic.” Wilfrid Lay
Bookm 45:199 Ap ‘17 840w
Boston Transcript p8 Mr 28 ‘17 530w
“A very technical presentation of psychoanalysis, used by Dr G. Stanley Hall as a textbook for his classes. The author’s method is to make a brief statement followed by a description of cases which illustrate his point.”
Cleveland p91 Jl ‘17 40w
“The book, while nowhere rising to the brilliance of some of the Freudian writings themselves, is probably the most careful and inclusive presentation yet published in English of the results attained and the theories elaborated by Freud and his followers. It excels in this respect such works as Brill’s ‘Psychanalysis’ and Hitschmann’s ‘Freud’s theories of the neuroses.’ Unfortunately, Dr Payne’s translation can claim only a moderate measure of success. The over-literalness of the renderings has given numerous passages an irksome awkwardness and, occasionally, obscurity. One needs sometimes to translate back to the German to arrive at the intended nuance of meaning.” E: Sapir
+ Dial 63:267 S 27 ‘17 2000w
“The 588 pages of this book show what has actually been done through this psychological method. They contain most inspiring suggestions for the physician, theologian, and the pedagogue. Dr Pfister has made a comprehensive study of all the analytic methods which have been developed from Freud’s original theories, and any one reading his work will get a fair idea of the whole stretch of this rapidly growing field of psycho-therapeutics.”
+ N Y Times 22:325 S 2 ‘17 320w
Springf’d Republican p6 F 20 ‘17 150w
PHELPS, EDITH M., comp. Selected articles on the income tax; with special reference to graduation and exemption. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) 3d and enl ed *$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 336.2 17-27760
For this third edition of the Debater’s handbook on income tax all the material of the second edition has been retained and the volume has been brought up to date by the addition of new articles and references. As the preface states, the new edition is timely, in view of pending legislation for an increased income tax as part of the war revenue bill. Two features of the proposed law, the graduation of the tax and the exemption of incomes under a certain amount have been given special attention. Material is also provided covering recent state legislation.
PHELPS, EDITH M., ed. University debaters’ annual. *$1.80 Wilson, H. W. 808.5
Volume three of the University debaters’ annual contains the constructive and rebuttal speeches delivered in the intercollegiate debates of the following colleges and universities: Iowa, Ohio state, Coe, Oberlin, Western Reserve, Columbia and Chicago. The subjects debated are: Government ownership of railroads; Universal military service; Compulsory arbitration of railroad labor disputes; Chinese and Japanese immigration; Compulsory arbitration; Progressive inheritance tax. For each subject a brief and bibliography are provided. The book follows volumes one and two, edited by E. C. Mabie.
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N Y Br Lib News 5:14 Ja ‘18 20w
PHILLIPPS, LISLE MARCH. Europe unbound. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner 940.9 17-4205
Mr Phillipps is author of “Form and colour,” and other works on art. In the collection of essays in this book, he examines some of the fundamental causes of the war and the ideals that support the different fighting nations. He says, “My purpose has been to deal, however inadequately, not with the outward circumstances or immediate causes of the war, but 442with what I cannot help thinking are its real causes. I mean those slowly developing, intensely hostile, eternally incompatible philosophies of life of which the two opposing groups of the free and unfree nations of Europe are to-day the representatives.” Contents: Ideals of the war; Liberty; Liberty and Christianity; The Prussian ideal; The British empire; Empires past and present; The influence of France; Modern liberalism; Modern conservatism; The future.
+ A L A Bkl 13:347 My ‘17
“A book which shows more insight into the deeper issues of the war than any other, except Baron von Hügel’s ‘The German soul,’ that has appeared in England since 1914.”
+ Ath p143 Mr ‘17 1700w
Boston Transcript p8 Ja 27 ‘17 250w
“Contains an impressive revelation of what the English masses are thinking.”
+ Ind 90:382 My 26 ‘17 70w
+ Int J Ethics 27:535 Jl ‘17 280w
“Where I think Mr Phillipps is profoundly right is in his vigorous insistence on the authoritarian character of the German state and its dangers to the liberty of Europe. We badly need a book that would point out exactly what principles are involved in the exercise of political authority.” H. J. L.
+ New Repub 12:195 S 15 ‘17 1850w
“It is characteristic—inevitable—that he should have studied the war as he has studied art and politics—as the expression of the great spiritual forces in the life of men and nations. ... On the need in England for realization, for clear thinking, for wise speech, and for democratic growth Mr Phillipps insists throughout his book. The volume as a whole is, in its study of ideals and ambitions, of pertinent interest to American students of the war.”
+ N Y Times 22:27 Ja 28 ‘17 1000w
“We commend the book especially to clergymen and teachers of the young.”
+ Outlook 116:161 My 23 ‘17 100w
Pratt p41 O ‘17 50w
“His conception and his presentation of the idea of liberty are noble and inspiring. ... He is a democrat who really trusts the people. ... However much readers may disagree with many of the author’s points of view, they would be dull of soul if they did not find these essays stimulating and purifying in a high degree.”
+ Spec 118:74 Ja 20 ‘17 3000w
“No part of his book will be read with more interest, and none is more valuable, than the frank criticism to which he submits not only the modern Conservative but also the modern Liberal party. Speaking as one who has done his part as a Liberal candidate for Parliament, he has the courage to say what innumerable men of all parties have thought.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p567 N 30 ‘16 1950w
PHILLIPS, CHESTER ARTHUR. Readings in money and banking. il *$2.10 Macmillan 332 16-19082
“Instead of taking a large number of selections merely illustrative of the principles involved and setting them down individually, Professor Phillips chose from different writers what seemed to him the best available discussions of the principles themselves, and these discussions with correlative descriptive matter he wove together into approximately complete chapters. Hence ... the book leaves the impression of an organized treatise.”—Am Econ R
“The reviewer believes that for class-room purposes the two books [Moulton: ‘Principles of money and banking’ and Phillips: ‘Readings in money and banking’] can be used with advantage to supplement each other. Outside of the class-room both would have to be used in connection with a good text.” E. E. Agger
+ Am Econ R 6:924 D ‘16 160w
+ A L A Bkl 13:333 My ‘17
“The chapters on the foreign banking systems are very opportune.” T: Conway, jr.
+ Ann Am Acad 71:227 My ‘17 120w
N Y Br Lib News 3:172 N ‘16
Pittsburgh 21:591 D ‘16
+ Pol Sci Q 31:650 D ‘16 60w
+ R of Rs 55:221 F ‘17 20w
PHILLIPS, DAVID GRAHAM. Susan Lenox, her fall and rise. 2v il *$2.50 (1c) Appleton 17-6327
This two-volume novel is a study of prostitution and of a woman who rose to success after enduring degradation in all of its forms. Susan, an illegitimate child, grows up in the home of an uncle in a middle-western town. Denied a normal life by the stain of her birth, she is thrown out into the world at the age of seventeen. Economic pressure forces her on to the streets. She makes several efforts later to earn a living in legitimate ways, but always comes back to the one profession that seems to offer satisfactory compensation. In the end, thru the aid of a distinguished playwright, she wins success as an actress.
“That Mr Phillips was sincere, I do not doubt, but that he had any intimate knowledge of the life of the young girls who fill our factories and our shops, I do not for a moment believe. ... The conclusion of the story is merely laughable. That a woman so sodden with vice, so soaked with whisky and at last with opium, should escape all its physical penalties, and, without previous apprenticeship, become, almost in a day, a famous actress, contradicts every human experience.” J. T. Gerould
— Bellman 22:385 Ap 7 ‘17 650w
“Based on uncompromising fact, stamped with an individuality that was in itself a hallmark of distinction, and illumined by an almost incomparable art, this story is invested with a significance that makes it a thing apart. ... Susan Lenox is more than a novel: it has a social, human and economic significance that lifts it to the high places.” I: F. Marcosson
+ Bookm 45:26 Mr ‘17 4300w
“Despite the attempts to prejudge Mr Phillips’s posthumous novel by frantic claims as to its high moral purpose and sincerity, it seems impossible for any unbiased reader of fiction to view it otherwise than as an extremely offensive addition to the literature of pornography. ... For Susan Lenox to have remained the acme of physical perfection after undergoing the horrors of the life that she deliberately sought and endured is impossible. Mr Phillips’s story may be realism, but it is certainly not reality.” E. F. E.
— Boston Transcript p6 Mr 3 ‘17 500w
“There is only one deadly charge to make against this story—it is an epic of feminine courage that required for its plausibility a consistent exaggeration of the difficulties of women in industry and a humorlessly romantic view of prostitution. ... Yet apart from these preposterous exaggerations, natural to a man who had no comedy, Susan Lenox is a story that moved and impressed this reader deeply. ... It is the great fortune of David Graham Phillips, if the enhancement of one’s memory is to be called fortunate, that the one big book he left unpublished was probably the best thing he ever did.” F. H.
New Repub 10:167 Mr 10 ‘17 1700w
“He is not merely less selective than Flaubert; he is positively less selective than Arnold Bennett. It is precisely because he tells us so much about everybody that might equally be true of anybody else that his narrative is never intense and sometimes exceedingly dull.”
— N Y Sun Ap 8 ‘17 580w
“It would have been much better for Mr Phillips’s reputation and the repute of American letters if it had never been published. ... It is false at its core. ... Susan Lenox is dragged through all the grime and the abominations 443of the underworld. Mr Phillips spares neither her nor the reader any of its revolting filth.”
— N Y Times 22:62 F 25 ‘17 900w
“For Susan had neither social consciousness nor social conscience. ... We are told briefly in the last two chapters that Susan succeeds as an actress. A man dies and leaves her his money and an interest in his plays. She uses the money to produce the plays and becomes a well-known star. Without the money and the influence of the dead man’s name, Susan would have been nothing. She lacked two essentials to success—a conscious and sustained purpose and a capacity for hard work.” M. K. Reely
— Pub W 91:588 F 17 ‘17 1000w
“A novel that will excite diverse opinions, but it is sincere, and its frank pictures of degradation are informed with ethical purpose—which is not often the case in such stories.”
Springf’d Republican p15 F 25 ‘17 550w
PHILLPOTTS, EDEN. Banks of Colne (the nursery). *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-13955
This is the fourth of Mr Phillpotts’ series of novels of British industry. A big nursery on the bank of the Colne gives the story its background, and there is some description also of the local oyster fisheries. Men and women more or less connected with these two industries are the characters of the story. They form a loosely-knit group, and so far as the story has plot, it concerns Peter Mistley, a landscape gardener at the gardens, and Aveline Brown, the woman he marries shortly after she has come to the town a stranger. Aveline was not free to marry, but this she does not tell Peter. Her attitude toward marriage is much the same as that of the two wandering vagabonds, William and Emma. She takes what is offered her of happiness and pays the price when the time comes without cringing. The war is in progress at the time, and more than one man of the story is claimed by it; Peter with the rest.
“Not one of Mr Phillpotts’ best works.”
+ — A L A Bkl 14:28 O ‘17
“It contains one rather interesting character, the vagabond brother of the rich nurseryman and mayor of Colchester, though he, like his grave brother, is a platitudinarian. The style is that of one who has not merely swallowed the dictionary, but also bolted an encyclopædia.”
– + Ath p363 Jl ‘17 140w
“‘The banks of Colne’ has not the atmosphere of its predecessors. There exists here no such close relation between the people and the soil, between their lives and their labors, as was to be found in ‘Brunel’s tower,’ in ‘Old Delabole’ or in ‘The green alleys.’ ... We do not mean thereby to imply that it is not a vital, a significant, a commanding piece of fiction. It is all these, for it is by Mr Phillpotts’s hand. ... Were all its other elements negligible, and they are not, we might read ‘The banks of Colne’ for joy of its style.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 6 ‘17 1650w
“As always, the women are alive and never stupid, however unmoral they may be.”
Ind 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 370w
“We used to accept him, perhaps, as a chronicler of ‘real life,’ an interpreter of character in the concrete. He is, rather, a teller of tales and a commentator upon human nature.”
Nation 105:69 Jl 19 ‘17 430w
“A novel of maturity and even tone.”
+ New Repub 12:198 S 15 ‘17 400w
“To us the book is the greatest piece of work Mr Phillpotts has yet written. ... Books like this will help America to understand the England of today in a way difficult to overestimate for its value to both nations.”
+ N Y Times 22:213 Je 3 ‘17 770w
+ Outlook 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 110w
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 22 ‘17 550w
“The pacifist Quaker-woman and the young men who enlist are treated with equal sympathy. All through the eventful and moving story, which looks at love from many angles and gives (or rather, perhaps, carefully makes) room for thoughts of many minds on many topics, nothing is condemned but lack of sincerity and lack of faith.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p296 Je 21 ‘17 600w
PHILLPOTTS, EDEN. Plain song, 1914-1916. *$1.25 Macmillan 821 (Eng ed A17-1560)
“Through the thought of the poems—there are thirty-eight in the volume—two threads run: the first is abhorrence of what the German government has done, coupled with great pity, charity, a willingness to forgive, a scorn of being revenged upon, the German people; the second is the purpose of democracy in the world.”—N Y Times
“Mr Phillpotts has given us the war—one phase, and another, and still more—in living words.”
+ N Y Times 22:371 S 30 ‘17 820w
“The title of this book is the least successful part of it. We can imagine nothing less plain and nothing more unlike song than the poems it contains. They are war pieces garbed in rich, luxuriant phraseology, in which Mr Phillpotts appears less as the poet than the publicist and the preacher, hymning in sonorous lines the praises of the navy, the New army, France, and so on, and scourging the crimes of Germany, and the folly of the pacifists with trenchant rhetoric.”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p311 Je 28 ‘17 70w
PHOUTRIDES, ARISTIDES EVANGELUS. Lights at dawn. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811 17-14981
Dr Phoutrides is an instructor in Greek and Latin at Harvard university. “The greater number of the poems were written before the present war. But in those written since, the war note is generally absent. The poem in ballad form, ‘Lord Kitchener,’ is one or the few exceptions.” (Boston Transcript) “The dawn from the west,” with which the volume opens, was written for the “Ancient and honorable artillery company of Massachusetts,” and published under the title of “America, the restorer.” The longest poem in the book “Ktaadn and Morning Dew,” tells the old Indian legend of our Mt. Katahdin.
“Dr Phoutrides writes with a fine scholarliness. Yet the distinct classicism of his verse never halts spontaneity. Many forms are used—the lyric, however, principally. His use of blank verse is especially felicitous, the lines often possessing a veritable singing quality. ... This Hellenic poet exalts his own land and ours, above all that ‘freedom’ which crowns America.” F. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 30 ‘17 720w
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PICKERING, JOHN CLARK. Engineering analysis of a mining share. *$1.50 McGraw 332.6 17-5157
“The considerations entering into the analysis of a mining venture have been instructively set forth by Mr Pickering. There is little doubt that the great mass of ‘investors’ in mining stocks do not analyze their purchases very sharply. Mr Pickering, for the sake of simplicity, applies his analysis to a single share, stating that obviously the analysis by shares is equivalent to the analysis of the whole property. He endeavors to follow a line of investigation based on data available to the average share-holder. The discussion is confined to gold, copper, silver, lead and zinc.”—Engin N
+ Engin N 77:436 Mr 15 ‘17 130w
N Y P L New Tech Bks p18 Ap ‘17 190w
“‘An interesting and a useful book. It would have been better if it had been edited carefully and if a wider reference had been made to other 444writings on the subject. ... His style is pleasant, his judgment appears sound, and his whole treatment of the subject is well worthy of an experienced engineer.’” T. A. R.
+ Pittsburgh 22:345 Ap ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Mining and Scientific Press p394 Mr 17 ‘17)
“Based on twelve years’ experience in the United States, South America, Mexico, Canada and Africa.”
Pittsburgh 22:522 Je ‘17 30w
PIER, ARTHUR STANWOOD. Jerry. il *$1.50 (1½c) Houghton 17-4313
Jerry, the young Irish hero, is one of the workers for an independent steel company when the story opens. He is doing well, supporting his mother and looking forward to marriage with his sweetheart, Nora Scanlan. But the independent company is swallowed up by a big corporation. A change of policy brings on a strike and Jerry finds himself out of a job. He also loses his sweetheart, for Nora doesn’t take kindly to adversity. Jerry and his mother move to the big city, taking with them the three orphaned children of one of Jerry’s fellow strikers. With this family to support, Jerry finds a place on the police force, studies law and is admitted to the bar. In the meantime Kate, the oldest of the three children, is growing up and helping Jerry to forget the fickle Nora.
A L A Bkl 13:356 My ‘17
“To read Mr Pier’s story is the equivalent of seeing the scenes of a motion-picture film flash before one’s eyes. ... The substance of ‘Jerry’ is essentially that of the popular story for boys that Mr Pier is an adept at writing. In style, in character, in incident, it is reminiscent of this literary form, and we are certain that his latest novel will appeal readily to the many young readers who have taken pleasure in ‘Grannis of the fifth’ and ‘The new boy.’ If it helps them across the bridge between fiction for children and novels for grownups, it will serve an excellent purpose.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p8 F 7 ‘17 1050w
“A good, satisfying fairy tale, set in a would-be modern city, with make believe graft and police scandals and murders. ... It is not rubbish, though it is a bit hard to say why it is not rubbish. It has all the earmarks of trash, and yet it fills the soul with a sort of self-satisfaction that all is well and that all will turn out fine.” W. M. Feigenbaum
– + N Y Call p15 Ap 15 ‘17 330w
“A pleasant story, quite interesting and with some cleverly drawn characters.”
+ N Y Times 22:69 F 25 ‘17 250w
“The story, which is told with spirit, is an appeal to young men to enter the fight for purer public service.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 F 18 ‘17 200w
PIER, ARTHUR STANWOOD. Plattsburgers. il *$1.25 (3½c) Houghton 17-23757
A story of the experiences of some college boys at Plattsburg. “Life at the Plattsburg camp is very different to-day from what it was during the period covered by this story. ... The training of the boys was less intensive than that to which the recruits at the later camps were subjected. Instead of being drilled in only the infantry branch of the service, they were given an opportunity to get at least a smattering of knowledge about other branches. This story is generally true to the conditions that existed at the first camp; in minor details the routine that it describes does not correspond with the routine followed at the subsequent camps.” (Preface) The story is reprinted from the Youth’s Companion.
A L A Bkl 14:101 D ‘17
“A clean-cut story of manly boys that will have much the same attraction for boys that the author’s St Timothy stories have.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 N 10 ‘17 30w
Cleveland p3 Ja ‘18 40w
+ Lit D 55:60 D 8 ‘17 60w
+ N Y Times 22:389 O 7 ‘17 100w
St Louis 15:401 N ‘17 20w
PINDAR, GEORGE N. and others. Guide to the nature treasures of New York city. il *75c Scribner 507 17-5881
“A valuable and much needed manual entitled ‘Guide to the nature treasures of New York city’ has been prepared by George N. Pindar, Registrar of the American museum of natural history, with assistance from Mabel H. Pearson and G. Clyde Fisher. It deals with the collections in the American museum of natural history, the New York aquarium, The New York zoological park, the New York botanical garden, the Brooklyn museum, the Brooklyn botanical garden, and the Brooklyn children’s museum.”—N Y Times
N Y Times 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 120w
Pratt p13 Jl ‘17 30w
PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY). Woodcraft for women. (Outing handbooks) *80c (2½c) Outing pub. 796 17-9692
The author finds the explanation of the difference in the lure that the outdoors holds for men and women in their different childhood activities. Natural instincts suppressed in young girlhood demand stimulation and development in adult life if women are to know the joys of an active outdoor life. She says, “In this book there has been no endeavor to set forth a distinct type of woodsmanship for women only, but rather to show the possibilities of an art which can be made common to the sexes.” Contents: Woman and the out of doors; Woods clothing; Clothing—continued; Packs and accessories; Packing and portaging; Tents and camp making; Cooking utensils, fires, and foods; Cooking expedients; Paddling; Hunting and fishing; The winter woods; Going alone; Camp courtesy; The first time out; The spirit of the open.
“Gives practical advice to women on all sorts of questions. Has a suggestive chapter on ‘camp courtesy.’”
+ A L A Bkl 14:13 O ‘17
Cleveland p126 N ‘17 80w
PINTNER, RUDOLPH and PATERSON, DONALD GILDERSLEEVE. Scale of performance tests. il *$2 Appleton 136.7 17-16883
A performance test is one which requires a response in action in place of the language response required in other intelligence tests. The work has grown directly out of attempts to grade deaf children, with whom the ordinary tests could not be used. The tests also meet the difficulty of dealing with foreign speaking children, since verbal directions are not essential. “The situation itself calls for some response without the necessity for any verbal instructions on the part of the examiner. ... Naturally in giving the test to hearing children the examiner will say something, but what he says is not essential for the understanding of the test.” (Introd.) The authors have assembled a group of tests of this kind and have attempted a standardization.
“The detailed description of the tests and the norms given make available and usable tests of a type that are much needed. Many workers who meet the difficult question of determining the mentality of those whose command of language is slight will value this work. The only drawback lies in the fact that most of the tests here included are so simple as to be significant only for individuals quite young in age.” A. F. Bronner
+ — Am J Soc 23:546 Ja ‘18 350w
+ A L A Bkl 14:74 D ‘17
Cleveland p105 S ‘17 10w
“The programme is admirably carried through, with abundance of well-arranged tables 445and sufficient interpretation to show the bearing of the results and warn against sources of error.”
+ Dial 63:399 O 25 ‘17 290w
El School J 18:75 S ‘17 400w
Reviewed by F. N. Freeman
+ El School J 18:148 O ‘17 120w
Int J Ethics 28:284 Ja ‘18 130w
“The authors have done a service that their colleagues in mental measurement will not estimate lightly.” F. L. Wells
+ J Philos 15:134 F 28 ‘18 1200w
“A few of the tests partake of the nature of a puzzle and hence are tests, not of general intelligence, but of the peculiar ingenuity that works by intuition or a fortunate chance, rather than by reasoned judgment. However, the book will be of help in certain cases that are embarrassing to the tester. The volume includes some useful criticisms of the Binet scale, the Yerkes point scale and others.” Alexander Johnson
+ — Survey 39:260 D 1 ‘17 220w
PIPER, EDWIN FORD. Barbed wire, and other poems. $1.25 Midland press, Moorhead, Minn. 811
The awakening self-consciousness of the Middle West, which is just beginning to express itself in literature, has produced in Mr Piper a new poet and social historian. The first half of “Barbed wire, and other poems” is made up of short unconnected poems which, taken together, tell the story of the patient conquest of the prairie and interpret the spirit of the adventurous, land-hungry band that has traveled steadily westward across our country. The slow upbuilding of civilization in a new land is followed in such poems as “The movers,” “Dry bones,” “The sod house,” “The drought,” “The grasshoppers,” “The schoolmistress,” “Ten cents a bushel,” “Meanwhile,” “The church.” The second section of the book, “The neighborhood,” is given to longer narrative poems. Both groups are reprinted from the Midland: a magazine of the Middle West.
“Precisely what Robert Frost has done for New England Mr Piper has done for the West from Illinois to the foothills of the Rocky mountains. ... One cannot with too much emphasis lay stress upon the social value of Mr Piper’s poems, for with a most vivid use of the imaginative faculty he weaves for us the fabric of a community rising on the bare breast of nature. ... ‘Barbed wire and other poems,’ is a very unusual collection, an important and distinctive contribution to American poetry.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p7 N 24 ‘17 1450w
“He writes with vigor and freedom and the quality of this one book is such as to assure instant success. Nothing so eloquent on the personality of neighborhoods as ‘The banded’ has come from American poets. Yet he can forsake commonplace phraseology to write lines of pure flowing melody, and a lyric as delicate as ‘Moon worship.’”
+ R of Rs 57:106 Ja ‘18 180w
PLATNER, JOHN WINTHROP, and others. Religious history of New England. (King’s chapel lectures 1914-1915, 1915-1916) *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 277.4 17-15979
“A series of King’s chapel lectures delivered by eight men—each a representative of the communion about which he speaks. ... The story of the Congregationalists is told ... by Prof. John W. Platner. Geniality and humor enrich the pages in which Dean William W. Fenn describes the revolt of the Free Will Baptists and Christians against the standing order and the intellectual and academic counterpart of this popular movement which resulted in the founding of the Unitarian churches. Dean George Hodges tells with kindly humor and sound historical judgment the dramatic story of the implanting of the episcopate in hostile New England. The almost equally hostile reception met with by the Methodists ... is recounted in a painstaking and picturesque manner by Dr W. E. Huntington. President George E. Horr of the Newton theological institution treats the history of the Baptists. The position of the Quakers in New England is considered by Prof. Rufus M. Jones, that of the Universalists by Rev. John Coleman Adams, and that of the Swedenborgians by Dr William L. Worcester. The history of the Roman Catholics is omitted with regret, as it was impossible to secure for the lectures an historical narrative from a member of the Roman Catholic communion.”—Springf’d Republican
“Profitable as these surveys are, it is to be regretted that certain questions concerning this group life have not been more distinctly considered. How, for example, did the Calvinist system begin to lose its hold even in the days of its ablest and most vigorous exposition? The remarkable growth of the Baptists at the end of the eighteenth century is mentioned without explanation. If one asks how denominational organization came out of autonomous congregations, satisfaction is again denied.” F. A. Christie
+ — Am Hist R 23:415 Ja ‘18 590w
+ Ath p519 O ‘17 300w
“The title of the volume indeed is hardly justified by its contents, for it contains denominational history only and not the general religious history of New England, except for the earliest days when there was nothing but Congregationalism there. Having filed this caveat it is only right to say that the limited purpose of the series is admirably fulfilled. The treatment of the several denominations, being in each case by an adherent, is sympathetic but as a rule entirely fair, and only now and then unduly laudatory.”
+ Nation 105:100 Jl 26 ‘17 900w
“So interwoven are religious and political ideas, and so large has been New England’s share in shaping American ideals, that this history is one of national interest. It is a history of the rise and progress of religious liberty. A single lapse from historical justice needs pointing out. The Quaker ranters persecuted by the Puritans were not, as any reader would infer, the same sort of people as the estimable Friends of to-day. The volume needs an index.”
+ Outlook 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 170w
+ Springf’d Republican p13 Je 17 ‘17 1250w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p431 S 6 ‘17 100w
“These lectures provide entertaining reading, and the English student will gain much knowledge set out with the warmth of feeling felt by men dealing with subjects dear to their hearts, but with no pride of sect or narrowness of outlook.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p486 O 11 ‘17 940w
PLUCKNETT, FRANK. Introduction to the theory and practice of boot and shoe manufacture. (Longmans’ technical handicraft ser.) il *$2 Longmans 685 A16-1147
“The author, who has had considerable experience in teaching this subject in England, states that the book is intended not only for technical students, but also for a ‘large circle of those who are interested in the rapid modern developments of the industry, and who have not the advantages of technical instruction.’ Scope is limited to the usual lines of work, omitting hand operations when the corresponding operations are more efficiently performed by a machine. There are chapters on the anatomy of the foot, foot measurements, lasts, and a comparison of English, French and American measurements.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
N Y Br Lib News 3:141 S ‘16
N Y P L New Tech Bks p22 N ‘16 90w
Pittsburgh 22:519 Je ‘17
+ Quar List New Tech Bks Ap ‘17 70w
PLUMON, EUGÈNE. Vade-mecum for the use of officers and interpreters in the present campaign, new and rev ed *75c Brentano’s 448 17-16324
“The result of actual work in interpreting for the British forces in France. Gives French words and phrases with their English equivalents 446arranged in the natural order of need under, marching order, from landing place to front, the field, the rear, tables of measures, money, distances, abbreviations, map signs, etc. Does not mark pronunciation.”—A L A Bkl
“Useful to the man who has even a slight knowledge of French.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:9 O ‘17
St Louis 15:323 S ‘17
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.[2] Poems; ed. by Killis Campbell. il $1.50 Ginn 811 17-24169
“Professor Campbell is a member of the English faculty of the University of Texas and his study of Poe’s life and work has been long and enthusiastic. He has included in the volume all the poems collected by the poet himself or by his literary executor, Rufus S. Griswold, while in separate sections are several early poems and a dozen others of doubtful authenticity. The introductory section contains the story of Poe’s life, followed by a brief discussion of the text of his poems and of his habits of punctuation and revision. ... Through the body of the book Professor Campbell gives on each page the variant readings for the version he has selected. An important feature is afforded by the very copious notes filling nearly 200 pages which explain every obscurity of the text and set forth the details of composition, probability of source, and other matters of interest.”—N Y Times
Boston Transcript p7 O 27 ‘17 590w
“One need not accept all Professor Campbell’s judgment’s in detail to pronounce this new edition of the ‘Poems’ the most important contribution to Poe scholarship that has appeared for some years. Perhaps the greatest merit of the book is its sobriety and sanity. In the section of ‘The canon of Poe’s poems’ Professor Campbell treats a subject on which he has made valuable researches; and his brief comments on the poems doubtfully attributed to Poe are admirable. The résumé of opinion in ‘The clash of the critics with respect to Poe’s poems,’ though brief, is excellently presented.”
+ Dial 63:595 D 6 ‘17 330w
“A most scholarly edition. Perhaps the most notable feature of the book is the full use of references to the Poe literature, the volume of which will probably surprise even those who thought themselves well versed in this study.”
+ Nation 106:97 Ja 24 ‘18 250w
“A careful and scholarly work showing diligent research and discrimination.”
+ N Y Times 22:567 D 16 ‘17 260w
POLLAK, GUSTAV. House of Hohenzollern and the Hapsburg monarchy. 50c N.Y. Evening Post co., 20 Vesey st. 940.91 17-27945
The seven articles contained in this book were published in the New York Nation and the New York Evening Post between the dates of March 22 and July 5, 1917. To these papers the author has been a contributor since 1874 and 1881 respectively. He was born and educated in Vienna. Of the house of Hohenzollern he says: “Not all that can be said, and must justly be said, of Prussian leadership in the intellectual and material development of Germany can obscure the patent failure of the Hohenzollern dynasty.” Other titles are: Bismarck’s neglected policies; The vision of a Central Europe; Austria’s opportunity; The future of Bohemia; Hungary and the fall of Tisza; The Poles of Austria.
“Trenchant and vigorously-written little book.”
+ Am Pol Sci R 12:156 F ‘18 50w
N Y Call p14 S 16 ‘17 410w
POLLARD, ALBERT FREDERICK.[2] Commonwealth at war. *$2.25 (3c) Longmans 940.91 18-1123
Half of the papers that make up this book are reprinted from The Times [London] Literary Supplement. Others have appeared in the Contemporary Review, Yale Review, and other periodicals. Each article is dated so that the bearing of the time of writing on the views presented is made evident. The dates range from October, 1914 to August, 1917. The author is professor of English history in the University of London. Among other subjects he considers: Rumour and historical science in time of war; The length of wars; The freedom of the seas; The war and the British realms; British idealism and its cost in war; The growth of an imperial parliament: The temptation of peace; The prevention or war.
Spec 120:41 Ja 12 ‘18 160w
“One cannot logically complain that Prof. Pollard too often in this book writes as an advocate rather than a historian, for the articles were largely published to explain the British mind to itself; but it is fair to note that this attitude detracts from the permanent value of the book. The strongest chapter of the book is Prof. Pollard’s argument against a British imperial federation.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p6 F 7 ‘18 500w
“There might have been more appearance of unity in the contents if certain pages had been omitted or altered; but, as Professor Pollard, enunciating a canon of literary probity apt to be forgotten, says, ‘to modify the record of expressed opinion in the light of later events indicates a dishonest assertion of consistency or prescience, and is one of the most insidious forms of historical forgery.’”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p590 D 6 ‘17 1000w
POLLARD, HUGH B. C.[2] Story of Ypres. il *75c (5c) McBride 940.91 17-19406
“There is no name connected with the European war that will live longer in men’s minds than that of Ypres,” writes the author in beginning his story. He describes the two battles, illustrating his account with sketch maps. The pictures are by Thomas Derrick.
“The author graphically describes the flight of the population on both occasions, the latter being a terribly lurid picture, its horror increased by the then new German device of gas fumes.”
+ Ind 90:472 Je 9 ‘17 120w
“The condition of the famous cloth hall after each bombardment is well pictured in the pen and ink drawings of Thomas Derrick.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ap 23 ‘17 150w
POLLOCK, FRANK LILLIE. Northern diamonds. il *$1.25 (2c) Houghton 17-24854
This story, which appeared in the Youth’s Companion as a serial and its sequel, recounts the adventures of three Canadian boys on two trips into the north in search of diamonds. The first trip, taken in winter on skates and snow shoes, is successful. The boys find what they are in search of—a little sack of precious stones reported to be hidden in a deserted cabin. The stones prove to be of inferior value—but they are diamonds for all that, and the next journey is taken in hope of finding the source. This trip has a different, tho not a wholly disappointing, outcome.
“An exciting, well told adventure story for boys and girls about twelve or thirteen.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:173 F ‘18
Reviewed by J: Walcott
Bookm 46:498 D ‘17 40w
N Y Times 22:565 D 16 ‘17 50w
POLLOCK, FRANK LILLIE. Wilderness honey. il *$1.25 (2c) Century 17-24398
A story for boys and girls. Alice, Bob and Carl Harman are three young Canadians dependent on their own resources. The general store that has been the family source of income 447for three generations no longer pays and the young people are faced with the necessity of selling out. Alice has already had some experience with bee keeping, and, hearing of a large apiary for sale in the northern part of the province, they decide to stake their all on this venture. The story of their plucky and successful fight against such enemies as timber wolves, bears, and an ill-natured squatter follows. The story was published in the Youth’s Companion.
A L A Bkl 14:137 Ja ‘18
Ind 92:449 D 1 ‘17 40w
“Excellent pictures are drawn of life in the wilderness, and of the methods of bee culture.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13 D 16 ‘17 130w
POLLOCK, HESTER MCLEAN. Our Minnesota; a history for children. il *$1.60 Dutton 977.6 17-11001
“After a brief survey of the beautiful land itself, a study of its copper-colored ‘first inhabitants,’ and of their memorials existing today, Miss Pollock tells how the English gained the land by exploration, colonization, war, purchase from the French and treaties with the Indians. Then follow the story of the explorers, French, English and Italian; Radisson and Grosvilliers, Du Luth and Father Hennepin, La Salle, Carver, Long, Beltrami and Nicollet. ... Transportation, education, mines, minerals, landmarks and famous men are in turn briefly studied.”—Boston Transcript
“The account of the development of its vast natural resources forms a marvelous record of which not only all Minnesotans but all Americans should be proud.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 My 29 ‘17 270w
“The book is somewhat marred for the reviewer by the author’s naïve assumption that all the acts of the early pioneers were virtuous, and that the Indian was cruel and crafty in opposing the seizure of his land. Although the growth of industries is dwelt upon, no mention, as far as could be found, was made of the passing of the wonderful resources of the state, its virgin timber and its mines, into the hands of the few. On the whole, however, the book is an interesting and faithful presentation of the life story of Minnesota.” P. L. Benjamin
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POOLE, ERNEST. His family. *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-13623
A deep sense of the continuity of life, as it is handed on from generation to generation, pervades this thoughtful novel. Roger Gale, close on to sixty years old, living in the New York house that has been his home since his early marriage, tries to understand the new and bewildering currents of modern life as they are reflected in his three daughters. These three represent distinct types. Edith is the domestic and maternal woman, fiercely absorbed in her children. Deborah is the active woman, spending herself on social movements. Laura is the modern woman of society, living life gladly, throwing away old conventions and breaking into new paths, without fear and without regret. In each of them Roger sees his own life repeated. Each of the three has something of himself. It is the second daughter, Deborah, who is nearest to her father’s heart. With her passion for mothering the world at war with her instinct for personal motherhood, she is the most interesting study in this worth while book.
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“The one story of this month, beyond doubt, is ‘His family.’” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 45:532 Jl ‘17 800w
“The most striking and appealing feature of the story is its absolute sincerity and plausibility. ... If English or French readers, or readers of any other nation, wish to gain an accurate knowledge of life as it is lived in an American family and an American community, they need only read Mr Poole’s novel.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p8 My 19 ‘17 1550w
“Roger is not a sufficiently vivid personality to carry the burden of the book, and this defect will prevent it from making a permanent impression.”
+ — Cath World 105:540 Jl ‘17 250w
“Roger Gale is the finest old father of a family since Silas Lapham, of whom in many ways he reminds me. And the resemblance, or, if the resemblance is not as close as I think, the recollection is a compliment to Mr Poole. For Mr Howells is a master in the portrayal of elderly men.” J: Macy
+ — Dial 63:113 Ag 16 ‘17 480w
“The book is bigger than the ordinary novel, more far-reaching in its meaning, more deeply rooted in human experiences.”
+ Lit D 55:34 Ag 18 ‘17 290w
“We find it happily difficult to put in the familiar measured terms our impression of such a book as this. In its mass, its solidity, its noble and simple contour, it rises like a shining peak above the high, and flat, plateaus of our ‘average workmanship.’”
+ Nation 104:680 Je 7 ‘17 1300w
“If Mr Poole were primarily an artist, writing a novel for the sake of giving such emotion as a work of art can convey, his insistence would not be nearly so great on his specific idea of the family. But the thing that seems to lead Mr Poole to write a novel is the same thing that led Zola to write novels—the desire to illustrate a large group-idea by the processes of fiction. It is really the way of the scientist as against the way of the artist. ... There is no ultimate recompense for the solemn theme that runs through ‘His family.’ Beginning with its pernicious enunciation on page 6, it comes back on pages 18, 25, 45, 85, 95, 118, 123, 149, 161, 196, 236, 268, 286, and heaven knows in how many other places—the theme that people live on in their children’s lives.” F. H.