Chapter I
) A partial list of the contents is: Plymouth mayflowers; Nantucket in April; Footing it across the Cape; Along the salt marshes; Ghosts of the northeaster; White pine groves; The pasture in November; Coasting on Ponkapoag; Yule fires.
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“Pleasant informal essay style with special appeal to the lover of the out-of-doors.”
+ =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20
Reviewed by W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 30w
+ =Cath World= 112:257 N ’20 160w
“As a prose technician, Mr Packard is, of course, inferior to W. H. Hudson, lacking both the English writer’s restraint and his sense of nervous rhythm. Yet he writes with great vividness at times, and his accuracy of observation is hardly less keen.” W. P. Eaton
+ − =Freeman= 2:117 O 13 ’20 900w
+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 100w
+ =Outlook= 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 23 ’20 240w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 70w
Reviewed by C. L. Skinner
+ =Yale R= n s 10:181 O ’20 750w
=PAGE, GERTRUDE (MRS GEORGE ALEXANDER DOBBIN).=[2] Paddy-the-next-best-thing. *$2 (2c) Stokes
20–18935
When Paddy Adair was born, her father had ardently wished for a boy, but as she grew up he had become quite contented with the “next-best-thing,” and Paddy, while longing herself to be a boy, had satisfied herself with being as hoydenish and wild as the “next-best-thing” could be. But for all that, she had a way with her with the opposite sex, a captivating Irish way which won and held the heart of Lawrence Blake, as her sister Eileen’s dreamy moods could never do. But Paddy, because she thought Eileen was breaking her heart over Lawrence’s defection, swore eternal hatred against him. Altho patience was far from natural to him, he cultivated it and in the end won out. The story in play form has had a successful run both in this country and England.
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“As fiction of the very lightest sort this tale has its good points. Although over-played, its heroine, Paddy, is real and often behaves like a human sort.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 50w
“The author does not rely on plot for the appeal of her book. What she does is to offer a pleasing, polite, mildly amusing sketch of certain phases of life in Ireland, with nothing to remind one of Sinn Fein uprising and hunger strikes, and this work she has done with commendable skill.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 D 5 ’20 410w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 28 ’20 130w
=PAGE, KIRBY.=[2] Something more. *90c Assn. press 248
20–11091
The book, “a consideration of the vast, undeveloped resources of life” (Sub-title) is the first in the New generation series. It contains four essays enlarging respectively on the latent possibilities in God, in man, in Jesus Christ, in life—that are man’s for the searching. The last essay, Enemies of life, enumerates the negative factors, both material and spiritual, all rooted in ignorance, that keep man from entering into his true heritage.
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“An invigorating book.”
+ =Bib World= 54:645 N ’20 120w
=PAGE, THOMAS NELSON.= Italy and the world war. *$5 Scribner 940.345
20–21941
Ambassador Page was in Italy during the entire period of the war and followed sympathetically the part played therein by the Italian people. He holds that the key to Italy’s relation to the war is to be found in her traditions, her history and in her geographical and economic situation. Accordingly the book falls into three parts: “The first is introductory and contains in outline the history of the Italian people in the long period when they were included in and bound under the Holy Roman empire. The second contains the story of their evolution, from the conception of their national consciousness on through the long and bitter struggle with the Austrian empire for their liberty down to the time when ... they developed into a new and united Italy.... The third part contains the story of the diplomatic struggle to establish herself in a position to which Italy considers herself entitled as a great power.” (Preface) The book has six maps, appendices, giving the texts of the armistice with Austria and of the pact of London, and an index.
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“A much needed contribution to the political history of the war.”
+ =Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21
“It is not impertinent to say that an experienced newspaper man, equipped with a good encyclopædia, a good atlas, and the newspaper files for the past five years, could produce an excellent replica of ‘Italy and the world war’ without having crossed the Atlantic. Mr Page had an opportunity to write a very remarkable pamphlet, and he wrote instead a hurried, congested, and unnecessary hotch-potch history of the war.” W: McFee
− =N Y Evening Post= p4 Ja 29 ’21 1400w
“It is to be regretted that the American public could not have had the benefit of this unequaled book months ago. Mr Page smashes beyond recovery many illusions which, during and after the war, militated against the character of Italy, her people, her statesmen.” Walter Littlefield
+ =N Y Times= p3 N 28 ’20 2500w
=R of Rs= 63:222 F ’21 130w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 D 4 ’20 80w
=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED.= Automobile starting, lighting and ignition. 6th ed rev and enl il $3 Henley 629.2
20–9556
“Mr Pagé first explains the nature of electricity—how a current is produced—and then goes on to explain in general the systems used for ignition, starting and lighting. This is followed by a detailed explanation of the individual systems on various cars. Many illustrations and diagrams make this book easy to understand.” (R of Rs) “The sixth edition repeats the material of the second edition with the addition of eight new chapters on leading electrical ignition systems, design of electrical measuring instruments and use in testing, and wiring diagrams of popular cars.” (Booklist)
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=Booklist= 16:357 Jl ’20
=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 50w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 O 14 ’20 20w
=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED.= Model T Ford car. rev and enl il $1.50 Henley 629.2
20–4100
“Victor W. Pagé’s ‘Model T Ford car’ has appeared in its new and enlarged 1920 edition. This edition should be even more popular than the earlier editions, as it contains information and instructions for the Fordson farm tractor and the F. A. lighting and starting system, as well as all the principles and parts of the Ford. Numerous illustrations and diagrams make the instructions and explanations easily understood by a novice.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes
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=Booklist= 16:291 My ’20
=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:35 O 13 ’20 50w
=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 50w
=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED=, ed. Motor boats and boat motors. il $3 Henley 623.8
20–11842
“Mr Pagé has compiled a volume full of interest to the novice as well as to the experienced motor-boat enthusiast. It covers fully the design, construction, operation, and repair of boats and motors in general, including full instructions, with working drawings, for building five boats from tested designs by A. Clark Leitch, naval architect. A chapter on seaplanes and flying-boat construction gives both theory and practical application.”—R of Rs
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=Booklist= 17:100 D ’20
“Clearly written and has nearly 400 exceptionally good illustrations. Anyone contemplating the purchase of a boat should be guided by the excellent advice given in the first chapter.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p60 Jl ’20 80w
=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 70w
=PAGE, WILLIAM=, ed. Commerce and industry; with a preface by William Ashley. 2v il v 1 *$15 v 2 *$10 Dutton 330.9
(Eng ed 19–18954)
“In the twelve chapters that make up the main text of the first volume of this work, and the three appendices, an historical review of the economic conditions of the British empire for ninety-nine years, largely based upon parliamentary debates as reported by Hansard, is given. The second volume consists of statistical tables of the economic factors, such as population, taxation, imports and exports, production, finance, etc., in supplementation proof of the conditions as set forth in the text of the first volume. The subjects dealt with in the main portion of the work cover the Effects of war (1815 to 1820); Commercial reform (1820 to 1830); The reform Parliament (1830 to 1841); Repeal of the Corn laws (1841 to 1852); War and finance (1852 to 1859); Free trade (1859 to 1868); Retrenchment and reform (1869 to 1880); Organization (1880–1892); Foreign competition (1892 to 1900); The movement towards tariff reform (1900 to 1910); and Unrest (1910 to 1914). The three appendices discuss The Cabinet and Parliament, Ministries 1812 to 1912, and A chronicle of the British empire beyond the seas.”—Boston Transcript
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“The volume is a storehouse of facts for politicians and economists.”
+ =Ath= p745 Ag 15 ’19 1150w
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 720w
“Impartiality is a dominant quality of the work, as it ought to be.”
+ =Spec= 122:151 Ag 2 ’19 1050w
=PAGET, STEPHEN.= Sir Victor Horsley; a study of his life and work. il *$6 Harcourt
(Eng ed 19–18661)
“The life was well worth writing by so practised a biographer as Mr Stephen Paget of Sir Victor Horsley (1857–1916)—a surgeon of great distinction and a pioneer on the field of scientific medicine, a keen champion of temperance and woman suffrage, and a Liberal politician—who closed a great career by giving his life for his country in Mesopotamia, where he patriotically volunteered for service as medical consultant with the forces and where he died of heat stroke on July 16, 1916.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“Mr Paget has written in a calm, dispassionate manner without literary tricks or mannerisms.”
+ =Ath= p18 Ja 2 ’20 1900w
=Brooklyn= 12:132 My ’20 40w
“Admirable biography.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 240w
=Sat R= 128:513 N 29 ’19 700w
“No happier selection could have been made than that Mr Paget should become the biographer of Sir Victor Horsley. The author, a man of letters, also possesses the scientific and medical knowledge essential to the theme, and his enterprises in other fields of literature have preserved him from the besetting sins of the medical biographer who makes his book unduly technical, or even dull.”
+ =Spec= 122:894 D 27 ’19 1250w
“There is no doubt that this biography, in the full sense of an overworked word, is an ‘inspiring’ record of a man’s character and achievement; it is the more so because it is always straightforward and concrete, showing the man exactly as he was.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 1450w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p676 N 20 ’19 90w
“It is not too much to say that of the many services which this author has rendered to scientific medicine and surgery none is so important as his biography of Sir Victor Horsley.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 N 27 ’19 1650w
=PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW.= Short life of Mark Twain. il *$2.50 Harper
20–18960
In answer to the demand for a short life of Mark Twain, Mr Paine, his official biographer, has prepared a condensed version of his longer work. The story is told in brief chapters and in simple language and is adapted for young people’s reading. There are eighteen illustrations.
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=Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 40w
=PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.= Corsair in the war zone. il *$4 Houghton 940.45
20–14468
At a critical time in the submarine campaign a number of American pleasure yachts volunteered for service as French coast patrols. Their amateur crews had little naval training, and these yachts were dubbed the “Suicide fleet,” but they performed heroic service and played an important rôle in the war. The Corsair of whose exploits the book gives an account, was owned by J. Pierpont Morgan. Contents: The call of duty overseas; “Lafayette, we are here!”; At sea with the Breton patrol; Tragedies and rescues; When the Antilles went down; Admiral Wilson comes to Brest; Smashed by a hurricane; The pleasant interlude at Lisbon; Uncle Sam’s bridge of ships; The Corsair stands by; In the radioroom; The long road home; Honorably discharged; The ship’s company. There is a map showing the Corsair’s wanderings in the war zone and numerous illustrations.
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“The book is a welcome and valuable minor contribution to the history of the world war. The numerous and excellent illustrations greatly add to its attractiveness.” E: Breck
+ =Am Hist R= 26:371 Ja ’21 280w
=Booklist= 17:108 D ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ’20 600w
“The author has collected and selected his official and unofficial documents with praiseworthy skill, and the result is a swift-flowing narrative, written in an easy style, that will prove interesting to sailor and landsman alike.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p16 Ag 29 ’20 3200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 9 ’20 310w
=PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.= Fight for a free sea; a chronicle of the war of 1812. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 973.5
20–4767
“This volume is concerned with our War of 1812, the chief episodes of which are related by Ralph D. Paine under the title, ‘The fight for a free sea.’ The book has special chapters on Perry and Lake Erie, The navy on blue water, Matchless frigates and their duels, and Victory on Lake Champlain.”—R of Rs
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Reviewed by D. R. Anderson
+ =Am Hist R= 26:112 O ’20 300w
“It is of Perry on Lake Erie, of Macdonough on Lake Champlain, of Captain Bainbridge and of Captain Isaac Hull that Mr Paine writes charmingly, gloriously. Their brilliant deeds arouse his instinct for the sea, his hero-worship of sea-faring men. With them this writer of delightful sea stories is at home.”
+ =Cath World= 112:390 D ’20 270w
“Mr Paine writes splendidly of the sea and of ships, as readers of his stories know, and this is a subject that lends itself especially to his talents.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 50w
=PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.= Ships across the sea. il *$1.90 (2½c) Houghton 940.45
20–7139
The author of these stories of the American navy in the great war has firsthand knowledge of the navy and the life on board ship, and his fiction breathes real life. The first story is one of jealousy between two petty officers over a wee Scotch lassie, a war orphan, who came on board on occasion of the sailors’ Christmas party. On Jim Cooney’s side it was something of a lark for he loved to bully simple minded Henry Turnbull. With Henry it was a matter of the heart. But when Henry is washed overboard Jim’s remorse inspires a Henry Turnbull fund, to be raised among the crew for the education and up-bringing of little Mary MacDonald. The stories are: The orphan and the battle-wagon; Ten fathoms down; Too scared to run; The quiet life; On a lee shore; The net result; The last shot; The silent service; The red sector.
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+ =Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20
“The sense of the sea and ships is vividly conveyed. ‘Ships across the sea’ gives an excellent idea of what it was like to be a sailor in the United States navy during the great war.”
+ |=N Y Times= 25:237 My 9 ’20 650w |=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 50w
=PALAMAS, KOSTÈS.= Life immovable. *$2 Harvard univ. press 889
19–19666
“A volume of translations is ‘Life immovable,’ from the modern Greek of Kostes Palamas by Professor Aristides Phoutrides, a former instructor at Harvard. Kostes Palamas, secretary to the University of Athens, was one of the first writers of contemporary Greece to gain recognition outside his own country, and Professor Phoutrides has the courage to call him ‘a new world-poet.’” (Bookm) “The translator furnishes a sketch of the poet and his work, and an analysis of the poems in this volume.” (Booklist)
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“It is reasonable to suppose that the unsatisfactory effect of the book before us cannot be entirely attributed to the defects either of the poet or the translator. It is tiresome to read these poems, where images rise and clash and fade in confusion, and to feel that in the original there may have existed harmony and emotional coherence where we are now oppressed by meaningless glitter and noise. Our annoyance is accentuated by the translator’s harsh and clumsy rhythms, and by an insensitiveness to word-values in the language into which he is translating, exemplified by the title ‘Life immovable.’” F. W. S.
− =Ath= p140 Jl 30 ’19 760w
“Too much of the symbolic, philosophical and mythological enter these pages to invite interest from any but the scholarly thinker.”
+ =Booklist= 16:162 F ’20
Reviewed by H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:214 Ap ’20 120w
“He deserves to be read widely beyond the confines of his own land and tongue; and Professor Phoutrides, with the Harvard press, deserves the cordial thanks of all lovers of life and letters for the present translation.” F. B. R. Hellems
+ =Class Philol= 15:205 Ap ’20 1600w
“His book, with its thoughtful, well-written introduction, will give much pleasure to the quiet lovers of the quiet poetry of meditation and sentiment.” Paul Shorey
+ =Review= 2:309 Mr 27 ’20 1200w
=PALMER, EDWIN JAMES, bp. of Bombay.= Great church awakes. *$2 Longmans 280
21–198
“The conception of ‘the great church’ which inspires this little volume may be described as a liberalized restatement of the traditional Anglo-Catholic position. In the first part of the work, called ‘Ideas,’ Dr Palmer insists strongly on the importance and force of the present desire for Christian unity, especially as it is manifested in India. The second section, entitled ‘Studies,’ is mainly devoted to the question of the Christian ministry. It opens with a careful study of the ‘Ministry in the primitive church.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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Reviewed by Lyman Abbott
+ =Outlook= 126:689 D 15 ’20 390w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p475 Jl 22 ’20 380w
=PANCHARD, EDOUARD.= Meats, poultry and game; with a preface by A. Louise Andrea. *$3 Dutton 641.5
20–2273
“The author of this volume is managing chef for the Hotel McAlpin, Waldorf-Astoria, Claridge, Café Savarin and Fifth avenue restaurant, New York, and Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, and honorary lecturer, Columbia university. He gives much valuable information about the buying, cooking and serving of meat, poultry and game, and as the book is illustrated even the amateur can learn readily from it. Not the least desirable part of the volume is a collection of choice recipes.”—Boston Transcript
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Reviewed by M. F. Egan
+ =Bookm= 52:30 S ’20 110w
“A book so simply and clearly planned and written that it must be a desirable acquisition.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 100w
“Part I is written very definitely and clearly but Part II, ‘A potpourri of recipes,’ would be rather difficult for an inexperienced cook to follow.” M. E. Dakin
+ =J Home Econ= 12:426 S ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 140w
=PANYITY, LOUIS S.=[2] Prospecting for oil and gas. il *$3.25 Wiley 622.1
20–2108
“This brief treatment of a large subject is designed to meet the needs of the practical oilman and the general reader. More than half of the text is devoted to surveying methods and geology, including general cross-sections of important districts. The rest of the book covers even more briefly: scouting, methods of locating wells, drilling methods, ‘bringing in,’ gauging, and leasing. Samples of forms and contracts are shown. Good illustrations and a number of mathematical and technical tables.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
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“Good book on a subject not heretofore well covered.”
+ =Booklist= 17:100 D ’20
“The first ten chapters of this book, comprising 134 pages in all, deal directly with the subject indicated by the title, and they are by far the most useful part of the volume. The remainder of the principal part of the book is disappointing. It attempts to cover so much that it covers nothing at all.”
+ − =Mining and Scientific Press= 120:554 Ap 10 ’20 210w
“It is undoubtedly an attractive and useful publication, which, by virtue of its clearness of diction, careful arrangement of subjectmatter, and freedom from ‘padding,’ should make an appeal to a very wide public.” H. B. Milner
+ =Nature= 106:625 Ja 13 ’21 580w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p35 Ap ’20 80w
=PARK, JOHN EDGAR.= Bad results of good habits and other lapses. *$1.50 (4½c) Houghton 814
20–7286
The contents of these essays all hinge on the distinction the author makes between two kinds of goodness; respectable goodness and adventurous goodness. It is the difference between a mummy and a living body. For the ten commandments he would substitute the golden rule, as including them all, and his parting words to the reader are: “Don’t be solemn. Don’t be staid and conventional. Get off your pedestal. Fool a little. Love much.” A partial list of the contents are: The disadvantages of being good; The folly of getting there; The world, the flesh, and the devil; What I would not that I do; Lies; The grammar of life; The secret of the moral training of children.
+ =Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20
“Altogether they are a very readable lot, and if most of them leave a moral truth behind, the reader will forget the preachment for the enjoying of his ideas.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 25 ’20 240w
+ =Cleveland= p85 S ’20 30w
“Mr Park’s relaxations avoid the too facile generalization which is the usual fault of the type. Yet they breathe a certain serene remoteness from dust and heat. In contrast with the good gigantic smile of Mark Twain, it lacks what closet wit must always lack, an earthly and living contact with men and women.”
+ − =Nation= 111:224 Ag 21 ’20 250w
=N Y Times= p15 O 10 ’20 80w
“It is bright, gay, and logically weak, with the useful knack of arraying a commonplace in the garb of a paradox.”
− + =Review= 3:133 Ag 11 ’20 290w
+ =St Louis= 18:248 O ’20 30w
“There is a vein of humor in Mr Park that makes him a delightful companion in print or in person.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 17 ’20 280w
=PARKER, CARLETON HUBBELL.= Casual laborer and other essays. *$1.75 (5½c) Harcourt 331
20–5645
This posthumous volume of essays by Professor Parker has an introduction by Mrs Cornelia Stratton Parker in which she points out the fundamental characteristics of her husband’s work, and through numerous quotations the importance in which he was held as one of the frontiersmen not along geographical but along economic lines. He was first in studying the labor problem from a psychological point of view. “What is the psychic balance sheet?” he asks. “It is a relation between a plastic, sensitive, easily degenerated nervous organism called ‘man’ and an environment. The product is human character. The labor problem is one of character-formation.” The essays are: Toward understanding labor unrest; The casual laborer; The I. W. W.; Motives in economic life. The appendix contains Professor Parker’s report on the Wheatland hop fields’ riot with a foreword by Mrs Parker. The second paper is reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the third from the Atlantic Monthly.
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=Am Econ R= 10:610 S ’20 80w
=Booklist= 16:263 My ’20
“In conclusion it may be said that the book is an interesting rather than a convincing one. The man really needs to be saved from his friends. The present book bears out the statement that when all is said and done, Professor Parker’s life was potential in promise and not in actual measurable performance.” G. M. J.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 1200w
“As his discussion stands and so far as it has been carried on it is so fragmentary and one-sided as to appear somewhat crude and far fetched.” Virgil Jordan
− =Dial= 69:96 Jl ’20 1150w
=Int J Ethics= 31:115 O ’20 130w
“In their present state the essays reveal a lack in the organization of his new ideas as well as a faulty perspective in the arrangement of his biological and psychological material. His purpose, however, is admirable, and has brought about an advance of the line he set upon, namely the study of human behavior, as such, where it assists in the understanding of economic conditions.” Florence Richardson
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:622 Jl ’20 600w
“For the economist, the book is like one of those impressive events that make history. It marks the closing of a chapter.” H. A. Overstreet
+ =Nation= 111:455 O 20 ’20 950w
Reviewed by C: Merz
+ =New Repub= 22:424 My 26 ’20 1200w
“The book is a useful record of an industrious and brilliant investigator who seems also to have been an unusually inspiring teacher. It is not too much to say that no man who has anything worth writing about should be allowed to write so badly as Professor Parker seems to have done when left to himself.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:324 Je 20 ’20 700w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 40w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 24 ’20 70w
“Those interested to know how this labor problem will be handled when those in authority have been educated will do well to read this delightful and illuminating book. It marks the road.” W: L. Chenery
+ =Survey= 45:26 O 2 ’20 540w
=PARKER, DEWITT HENRY.= Principles of æsthetics. *$2.50 (2½c) Silver 701
20–15459
The book has grown out of lectures to students at the University of Michigan but the author’s appeal is to all people who are interested in the intelligent appreciation of art. For his broader philosophy of art he declares himself indebted to the artists and philosophers of the period from Herder to Hegel, and among contemporaries to Croce and Lipps. Among the contents are: The analysis of the æsthetic experience; The problem of evil in æsthetics, and its solution through the tragic, pathetic, and comic; The standard of taste; The dominion of art over nature: painting, sculpture; Beauty in the industrial arts: architecture; The function of art: art and morality, art and religion; Bibliography.
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=Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21
=Boston Transcript= p5 O 23 ’20 480w
“For the beginner it is as satisfactory a work as has yet appeared.”
+ =Dial= 69:666 D ’20 50w
=PARKER, SIR GILBERT.= No defence. il *$2 Lippincott
20–17085
“The scene is laid first in Ireland at the close of the eighteenth century; and we are taken thence to the fleet at the time of the mutiny at the Nore, and later to Jamaica. The hero, Dyck Calhoun, is a young Irish gentleman, who falls innocently into disgrace. He becomes a common seaman and a mutineer; he escapes to Jamaica; and here he gradually achieves success, in spite of the persistent enmity of the governor, with whom he has fought a successful duel in his early days.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“The author seems well able to depict the English soldier and sailor of the day, but he knows nothing of the Irish soul or character.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:545 Ja ’21 230w
“To judge from internal evidence, ‘No defence’ was written simply and solely in order that it might eventually be turned into a motion picture, with little or no regard for literary excellence. From first to last, the book is carelessly written, and the tale is devoid of atmosphere, while the dialogue reveals very little effort to keep the speech of the different persons in character.”
− =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 900w
“The book has dash, fire, and romance.”
+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 450w
“It lacks something both of the ardour and of the fundamental gravity which make romance completely valid; but it has an undeniable sincerity which makes it very much more readable than most such works.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p617 S 23 ’20 460w
=PARKER, SAMUEL CHESTER.= Methods of teaching in high schools. il $2 Ginn 373
20–6653
“The printing of a new edition of the ‘Methods of teaching in high schools’ has given the author an opportunity to make a number of slight but important revisions. Some of these are necessitated by new scientific investigations, while others are merely improvements in the examples or the phrasing. References have also been inserted to the supplementary volume, ‘Exercises for “Methods of teaching in high schools.”’... The fundamental organization, however, has nowhere been changed.” (Preface to revised edition)
=PARKS, LEIGHTON.= English ways and byways. *$1.75 (3c) Scribner 914.2
20–19160
In the form of letters John and Ruth Dobson, an American clergyman and his wife, on a motoring tour in England, talk pleasantly of their experiences, which include unconventional glimpses of England and the English and much about the vicissitudes of motoring. Among the chapters on England are: The great North road; The England of Fielding; An English interior; Rural England; Education; A by-election; Sheep-dogs; The black country; The county families; The boat-race; Vested interests; Church and state.
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+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20
“All that is written is interesting and often it is amusing; but the wit is never biting, the story never cuts in the telling, and when all is told we really have gained a very agreeable idea of our English cousins.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 480w
“Add that both husband and wife are extremely clever with the pen, and rather impudent in their freedom of remark, and you have all the materials out of which Dr Leighton Parks has made as entertaining a little volume as one often meets with in these dull days.”
+ =Review= 3:563 D 8 ’20 280w
=PARRISH, RANDALL.= Mystery of the silver dagger. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–9714
Philip Severn, a secret service agent, is a collector of curios. An odd lacquer box in a New York shop attracts his attention and he buys it, altho all the proprietor can tell him is that it had been left in a hotel room and never claimed. After returning to his home he accidentally drops the box to the floor, unlooses a secret spring and picks up a folded bit of paper. But while the box itself was of undoubted antique origin, the paper is modern. It rouses Severn’s suspicion and he resolves to trace down the mystery at which it hints. His search leads him to Jersey City, a deserted factory building, a Polish saloon and a beautiful girl. The plot he uncovers involves a conspiracy against Chile, and the last bit of mystery cleared away is the relation of the beautiful girl to the band of plotters. After that comes the conventional ending.
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=Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
“The plot is ingenious and the story has the fascination of swift
## action.”
+ =Cleveland= p51 My ’20 60w
“A lively enough yarn.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 320w
“A murder mystery skillfully handled.”
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 20w
“Mr Parrish can always be depended upon for a breath-bating narrative.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 12 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p385 Je 17 ’20 100w
=PARRY, REGINALD ST JOHN.=[2] Pastoral epistles; with introduction, text and commentary. *$8 Macmillan 227
“The object of the author has been to inquire afresh into the critical and exegetical problems on which the question of the genuineness of I and II Timothy and Titus depends. The outcome is a vigorous defense of the Pauline authorship of all three letters.”—Bib World
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“Without disparaging the conscientious work in these notes, we must say that so far as the object of the monograph is concerned, Dr Parry would have done better to omit the commentary altogether—it is not any advance on earlier English work—and to discuss the partition theories of the epistles, a branch of criticism which he passes by.”
+ − =Ath= p45 Jl 9 ’20 720w
“All that can be said in favor of this opinion is here brought together probably in as convincing a form as is possible. Yet the presentation does not carry full conviction, for it treats far too lightly the objections which have been urged by other scholars against Pauline authorship.”
+ − =Bib World= 54:649 N ’20 110w
=PARSONS, JOHN.= Tour through Indiana in 1840; ed. by Kate Milner Rabb. il *$3.55 McBride 917.72
20–19355
The book contains the diary of John Parsons of Petersburg, Virginia, giving an account of a trip by railroad, by stage coach and by steamboat, and an intimate picture of the life of the then near west, in its political, geographical and social and family aspects ending with a personal romance. The illustrations are from old prints and drawings and from photographs.
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“There is a quaint and charming flavor in this diary.”
+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
“The book is of particular value to those interested in Indiana and surrounding country and in the lives of the great and soon-to-be-great men and women of the time. As such it holds rank as an unusual historic document, and is a quaint picture of the politics and life of the day.”
+ =Bookm= 52:173 O ’20 270w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 23 ’20 420w
“This book breathes the very spirit of the young West. It is a flowing and human story that takes one into the heart of the time it describes.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w
“The love story that is dragged in does not add to the credibility of the tale. If the volume is not an authentic record of the journey it pretends to chronicle, the deception is inexcusable. This does not mean that the book is a waste of time. On the contrary, it is a triumph of accuracy and readability. It lifts the curtain upon a most interesting scene and shows us a fairly typical American commonwealth at a definite stage of development.”
+ − =Review= 3:481 N 17 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 100w
“An altogether entertaining book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 760w
=PARSONS, SAM JONES.= Malleable cast iron. il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 672
In this second edition the author has “considered it advisable to revise the contents so as to include information concerning the more modern and scientific methods of production, thus bringing the book up to date and adding considerably to its practical value.” (Preface to the second edition) Two chapters are added on Mining by analysis and Measurement of temperature; there is also an addendum on Malleable cast steel.
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“It is somewhat surprising that in a book which is evidently designed to assist the malleable-iron industry to more scientific methods of production there is no mention of the light thrown by the microscope on the structural changes which occur in the malleablising process; nor is there any reference to the mechanical properties of the various types of iron produced.”
+ − =Nature= 105:290 My 6 ’20 430w
=PARSONS, WILLIAM BARCLAY.= American engineers in France. il *$4 Appleton 940.373
20–16507
The motif of the book is the work of the nine regiments of American engineers, with one of which the author served. “In the writing, it has been necessary to touch on all the fields of engineer activity, because these regiments came in contact with every field, even if they did not invade each one, from constructing ports to digging and holding trenches, in all parts of France from the Atlantic to the Vosges, from the Mediterranean to Flanders. Consequently there results a brief outline of what all engineers did.” (Preface) The contents are in part: The new military engineer; America’s problem; Engineer organization; Ports; French railways; American railway operations in France; Relations with the French; Forestry; Water supply; Chemical engineers; Camouflage and other fields of engineering; Maps; Flash and sound ranging and search light detection; Artillery; Light railways; Roads; Trenches and trench warfare. There are full page illustrations, figures, maps and an index.
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+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20
“He has covered the field in outline sufficient for the lay reader, and with an authority that will make this one of the lasting records of the war.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 140w
=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 170w
=PARTRIDGE, GEORGE EVERETT.= Psychology of nations; a contribution to the philosophy of history. *$2.50 Macmillan 901
19–19152
“This is a psychologist’s appeal for an understanding of what is fundamental in our national life and a warning against radical and superficial thinking; it was written during the closing months of the war and in the days that followed. The first part of the book is a study of the motives of war—an analysis of such motives in the light of the general principles of the development of society. The second part of the book is a study of the present situation as an educational problem, in which we have for the first time a problem of educating national consciousness as a whole, or the individuals of a nation with reference to a world-consciousness.”—N Y Times
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“Two chapters dealing with Internationalism and the School and two others on the Teaching of patriotism are especially sane and well-balanced and will be suggestive to teachers of American history who wish to base their influence for Americanization upon something less superficial than tradition and prejudice.” W: H. Allison
+ =Am Hist R= 25:740 Jl ’20 450w
Reviewed by C. G. Fenwick
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:340 My ’20 130w
“Part two, on education, offers many suggestions that should interest educators.”
+ =Booklist= 16:276 My ’20
=Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 13 ’20 420w
=Brooklyn= 12:95 Mr ’20 50w
“One’s total reaction to the book is emotional. It is impressive not as an argument or a scientific inquiry, but as a sermon. It is edifying rather than clarifying. One is swept along much as though one were reading a book of psalms; each sentence is an exhortation, and as one proceeds the exhortatory force accumulates until one ends in an ‘intoxication mood’ of edification. One can not emerge from the book without a feeling of enthusiasm for something which is critically important, but that something is intellectually elusive.” H. W. Schneider
+ − =J Philos= 17:441 Jl 29 ’20 3400w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
+ =Nation= 112:185 F 2 ’21 840w
“Mr Partridge has given to the public a book which doubtless will be, as it deserves to be, widely read.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:144 Mr 28 ’20 650w
=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 30w
“The large value of his book—which really ought to be called ‘The education of nations’—is that it presents, compiled and digested, the theories of many men who have dealt with a broad complex of problems.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p258 Ap 22 ’20 150w
=PATCH, EDITH MARION.= Little gateway to science. il $1 Atlantic monthly press 595.7
20–9285
Nature stories for young children. The author calls them “hexapod stories,” for they are all about six-footed insects, butterflies, bees, grasshoppers and the like. The titles are: Van, the sleepy butterfly, who was awakened by a January thaw; Old Bumble; The strange house of Cecid Cido Domy; Poly, the Easter butterfly; Jumping Jack; Nata, the nymph; Lampy’s Fourth o’ July; Carol; Ann Gusti’s circus; Gryl, the little black minstrel; Luna’s Thanksgiving; Keti-Abbot, the littlest Christmas guest. A word to the teacher follows and there are notes, with references to other books. The pictures are by Robert J. Sim.
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“They are simply told without any sentimentality or ‘writing down.’ Good for school libraries as well as public.”
+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
=PATERSON, WILLIAM PATERSON, and RUSSELL, DAVID=, eds.[2] Power of prayer. *$4 Macmillan 217
20–15946
“In May, 1916, the Walker trust of the University of St Andrews offered certain prizes on ‘the meaning, the reality and the power of prayer, its place and value to the individual, to the church, and to the state, in the everyday affairs of life, in the healing of sickness and disease, in times of distress and national danger, and in relation to national ideals and to world-progress.’ In response to this offer one thousand six hundred and sixty-seven essays were received, coming from all quarters of the world and written in nineteen languages. The first prize was awarded to Rev. Samuel McComb, of Baltimore, Maryland, and is printed as the first paper following an interesting essay by Dr Paterson entitled ‘Prayer and the contemporary mind.’ Twenty other papers of varying length of different aspects of the subject are also printed.”—Bib World
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“The quality of the essay by Dr McComb warrants the decision of the readers in his favor. This book is the most voluminous and satisfactory study of the subject that we know.”
+ =Bib World= 54:650 N ’20 320w
“Most appear to have read widely. They express themselves lucidly. They can give reasons, not unworthy of consideration, for the faith which is in them; though, with the exception of Canon McComb, no writer can be classed as a trained theologian of eminence. The volume has not, in consequence, the importance of the series of essays entitled ‘Concerning prayer,’ which Messrs Macmillan published a few years ago. The main value of the book consists in the light which it throws on the religious tendencies of the time.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 Ag 12 ’20 1400w
=PATON, STEWART.= Education in war and peace. *$1.50 Hoeber
20–3200
“In ‘Education in war and peace,’ the author makes an appeal for a united effort by physicians, psychologists, and educators to search out and develop appropriately the basic instincts and deep emotional undercurrents which have so much to do in shaping personality, determining character, and controlling conduct. The current tendency to try to ‘compensate for personal inadequacy in facing the real problems of life’ by various forms of ‘wishful thinking’ is examined and illustrated.”—Survey
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+ − =Dial= 69:213 Ag ’20 90w
“His treatment is stimulating, and any educator or social worker may read the book with the hope of receiving immediate profit from it.” F. G. Bonser
+ =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 270w
=PATRICK, DIANA.= Wider way. *$2 Dutton
20–11891
“Veronica Quening, with a dour and brutal market gardener (who is also a local preacher) for her father, but also with a devoted stepmother, entirely free from traditional stepmotherliness, is quite staggeringly fascinating, lovely, and magnetic. She has all our sympathy in her career as school teacher, as wife for a time—after another passionate love affair—of a German; and specially as friend of Lord Swathe, for there is evidently a kinship between the beautiful girl and the stately noble house. All ends well with Veronica.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“Harmless and pretty and silly.”
+ − =Ath= p258 F 20 ’20 80w
“Veronica, with her complexities, her ambitions, her mental and spiritual endowments, her surface froth and her profound depths, is a creation that would do credit to an older and more practiced hand. As a whole, the novel is an exceptionally good first book, which reveals a real gift for story telling and a marked faculty for producing the illusion of reality.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 11 ’20 550w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 F 5 ’20 110w
=PATRICK, GEORGE THOMAS WHITE.= Psychology of social reconstruction. *$2 Houghton 301
20–19443
In considering the dangers that threaten our present civilization—reversion to barbarism, decadence, ill-timed social reforms, et al.—the author maintains that he is not taking the usual attitude of either advocate or critic, but that of a student of ultimate values. He sees in our present awareness of social evils a hopeful sign, but insists on the inadequacy of all economic and political reforms that disregard the psychological and historical factors. No reform can endure whose psychological basis does not rest on human needs and does not conform to human nature. The three first chapters are devoted to the psychological factors in social reconstruction and the remaining four to: The psychology of work; Our centrifugal society; Social discipline; The next step in applied science. There is an index.
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=Boston Transcript= p7 N 13 ’20 620w
=N Y Evening Post= p23 D 4 ’20 240w
“The book is eminently readable and deserves a wide response.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 20 ’21 160w
=PATTERSON, FRANCES TAYLOR.= Cinema craftsmanship. il *$2 Harcourt 808.2
20–17895
The author, who is instructor in photoplay composition in Columbia university, recognizes that the moving picture art is still in its infancy, but says that her motive for writing this book is faith in its future and a desire to help awaken the public to its possibilities. Contents: The art and the science; The plot; The characters; The setting; Adaptation; Scenario technique; Writing a synopsis for the photoplay market; Cinema comedy; The critical angle; The photoplay market. The scenario for the photoplay “Witchcraft” by Margaret Turnbull, awarded a prize offered by the Famous Players-Lasky company, is appended, together with bibliography and index.
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“A model scenario and an excellent bibliography make the book a complete manual for all persons interested in photoplay writing.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 N 13 ’20 160w
=N Y Times= p25 N 7 ’20 90w
=PATTERSON, JOHN EDWARD.= Passage of the barque Sappho. *$2.50 Dutton
20–11150
“‘The passage of the barque Sappho’ portrays in minute detail the voyage of a sailing vessel from San Francisco around Cape Horn, homeward bound, to a British port. The author, J. E. Patterson, died before the book was published, and it was prepared for the press by his friend, C. E. Lawrence, who contributes a foreword. The narrative purports to be the work of two individuals, and is told in the first person. The joint contributions come from the two extremes of sea society—the cabin and the fo’castle. One is an officer and the other an ordinary seaman. When events are witnessed by both, it is from different points of view. The officer and sailor write alternately, and describe in detail all that went on above deck and in the forecastle during the long voyage. The story ends with shipwreck in the Sargasso sea.”—Springf’d Republican
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=Ath= p930 S 19 ’19 80w
“The style of the story, in so far as it may be detached from its substance, is (but for certain passages of description) homely enough, lacking in the ordinary ‘literary’ graces; but this in the end appears to be a part of virtue. Beside Conrad and Bullen my copy shall take its place with confidence.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:79 Mr ’20 700w
“The book has a historical as well as a literary value. Mr Patterson proves by this posthumous novel his understanding of character as well as his ability to write an impressive description. Each officer and man of the Sappho is a distinct individual possessed of his own little traits and peculiarities—traits and peculiarities which the author’s leisurely method enables him fully to illustrate.”
+ =N Y Times= 24:767 D 21 ’19 650w
“Quite at variance with the usual nautical romance, the chronicle is free from intrigues and brutality. The book is rather long (and expensive) and is likely to prove a bit tiring to all save those interested in the subject of seafaring.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 28 ’20 420w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p498 S 18 ’19 380w
=PAUL, EDEN, and PAUL, CEDAR.= Creative revolution. *$2 (*8s 6d) (4c) Seltzer 335
The authors subtitle their book “A study of communist ergatocracy,” using the newly coined word “ergatocracy” to signify workers’ rule. In the opening chapter they say, “This little volume has a twofold aim, theoretical and practical. In the theoretical field, we wish to effect an analysis of socialist trends and to attempt a synthesis of contemporary proletarian aims. In the sphere of practice we hope to intensify and to liberate the impulse towards a fresh creative effort.” Contents: Communist ergatocracy; Socialism through social solidarity; Socialism through the class struggle; The shop stewards’ movement; Historical significance of the great war; The Russian revolution; The third international; The dictatorship of the proletariat; The iron law of oligarchy; Socialism through parliament or soviet? Creative revolution; Freedom; Bibliography.
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“Do the gifted authors realize that the atmosphere of a Marxian library varied by stimulating conversations with trade union leaders, is not the same as the atmosphere of a bloody revolution? Do they clearly realize the difference? Do they, in fact, know what they are talking about?”
− =Ath= p145 Jl 30 ’20 290w
Reviewed by A. C. Freeman
=N Y Call= p11 Ja 16 ’21 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 150w
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p413 Jl 1 ’20 1350w
“After so much has been written, camouflaged and in equivocal language, it is a pleasure to find a book so clear-cut, so incisive and so direct in its wording and in its thought. I still believe as firmly as ever that the principles of pacifism represent the most workable social philosophy. I am therefore at total variance with the authors in their interpretation of the lessons which the Russian revolution has taught. At the same time, I am glad to welcome their contribution because of the splendid effect which it will have in clarifying issues that have puzzled and baffled so many earnest souls during the past few months.” Scott Nearing
+ − =World Tomorrow= 4:60 F ’21 420w
=PAYNE, FANNY URSULA.= Plays and pageants of citizenship. il *$1.50 Harper 792.6
20–18670
A new book of plays by the author of “Plays and pageants of democracy,” and “Plays for anychild.” Contents: Dekanawida; The triumph of democracy; The spirit of New England; The soap-box orator; The victory of the good citizen; Old Tight-wad and the victory dwarf; Rich citizens; Humane citizens.
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=Lit D= p99 D 4 ’20 60w
=PAYNE, GEORGE HENRY.= History of journalism in the United States. *$2.50 (2c) Appleton 071
20–10538
A short history of American journalism from the first newspaper to the present day, written by a man of wide newspaper experience. Among the early chapters are: Historic preparation for journalism; The first newspaper in America; The first journals and their editors; Philadelphia and the Bradfords; Printing in New York—the Zenger trial; Rise of the fourth estate; The assumption of political power; The “Boston Gazette” and Samuel Adams; Journalism and the Revolution; Adams and the alien and sedition laws. Other chapters cover the newspapers of the west, suffrage and slavery and the Civil war. Special chapters are also devoted to such great dailies as the Sun, the Herald and the Tribune. There are closing chapters on Editors of the new school; After-war problems and reform and The melodrama in the news. Interesting documents and statistics are given in appendices. There is a valuable bibliography of twenty-nine pages, followed by an index.
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“The story is compact, but it moves to a lively tune, and is widely allusive. The personal human interest is widely kept in the foreground, and Mr Payne reveals a keen perception of the dramatic values of his subject.” C: H. Levermore
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:107 O ’20 850w
“Will be useful to students of journalism, but it will have an interest of its own to the general reader as it traces the growth of journalism with the development of democracy.”
+ =Booklist= 17:47 N ’20
Reviewed by H: L. West
=Bookm= 52:116 O ’20 950w
“A swiftly written and vigorously phrased volume.” D. C. Seitz
+ =Freeman= 2:452 Ja 19 ’21 600w
“It is hard to tell which impresses one most in reading this book—the author’s sincerity or his thoroughness. The book is very valuable and intensely interesting.” C. W. T.
+ =N Y Times= 25:6 Jl 11 ’20 3150w
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 80w
“He has done a creditable piece of work, amassed adequate material, used it with discrimination and an excellent sense of selection, has not forgotten that he had a ‘story’ to tell, and that one of the prime requisites of a story is that it shall be interesting.” E. G. L.
+ =Review= 3:232 S 15 ’20 750w
“Mr Payne’s history of American newspaper publication is well written and well proportioned. He has made the story interesting from beginning to end.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 220w
“Mr Payne’s treatment of the press in the years before the Civil war is much the more satisfactory because, while involving little original research, it deals out information suggestively. The last part of the
## book is intelligent in general outlines, but is a brief and inadequate
summary and seems less frank in comment. The appendices are somewhat haphazard.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 1100w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w
=PEABODY, ROBERT SWAIN, and PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD.=[2] New England romance; the story of Ephraim and Mary Jane Peabody, 1807–1892. il *$2 Houghton
20–19929
“Aside from the interest it has of a faithful account by his sons of one of America’s earliest and most distinguished preachers, it possesses value as revealing the life and manner of a period. No conscious attempt has been made to do this, however, and whatever of history the reader may get comes to him as from between the lines and is therefore the more subtly impressed. The early eighties, prior to the Civil war, are revealed through the lives, ambitions, and struggles of the minister and his wife.”—N Y Evening Post
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“A quaint book for lovers of New England.”
+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
“Because of its very evident qualities of naturalness and sincerity this little volume should escape the limbo which awaits the major part of commemorative literature and be preserved among those works classed as human documents.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 N 6 ’20 160w
“Told with a simple and natural beauty of language fitting for such a theme. Incidentally it gives a graphic picture of revolutionary and pre-revolutionary days.”
+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 50w
+ =Survey= 45:329 N 27 ’20 180w
=PEAKE, C. M. A.= Eli of the downs. *$2 (2c) Doran
20–18768
The narrator of the story found Eli as an old man in his cottage, Beulah, on the downs, where he spends his last days carving fiddles, and surrounded by the few treasures he had garnered from his wanderings over the earth. He had always been a rare character, this shepherd, with a rich inner life. Early in life he had married a mate worthy of him, but it was a short happiness, and then the young widower took to wandering. For some eight years he followed the sea and saw many lands. Then it was surveying and ranching in Canada where an old Chinese cook instructed him in the wisdom of Confucius and Lao Tsu, but with failing health he turned his steps once more to England. At Beulah cottage, lonely to the last, but emanating a silent influence for good over the neighborhood, he ended his days in peace.
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“The author cannot leave his characters to speak their mind, he must speak it for them, and even reinforce their statements with a kind of running commentary and explanatory notes which are very tiring to keep up with.” K. M.
− =Ath= p211 F 13 ’20 280w
=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 60w
“It is, on the whole, well written, and while not a particularly engrossing volume, neither is it a dull one.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 170w
“Apart from its idea, or animus, this is a narrative of sincere and fresh quality, varied in substance and by no means artless, though it agreeably lacks the art of the professional story-teller.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:349 O 20 ’20 300w
“‘Eli of the downs’ is more than a work of promise: Mr Peake tells the life-history of one who was ‘a shepherd at heart as well as by profession’ with a wealth of illuminating detail, with a love of his subject and an intimate knowledge of Wessex country life that combine to make the story memorable and delightful.”
+ =Spec= 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 430w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p301 My 13 ’20 460w
=PEARCE, FRANCIS BARROW.= Zanzibar; the island metropolis of eastern Africa. il *$12 Dutton 967
(Eng ed 20–8651)
“A very substantial work by the British resident in Zanzibar, embracing the history, politics, anthropology, resources, and archæology of the island.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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+ =Ath= p431 Mr 26 ’20 60w
“For a leisurely pursuit of odds and ends of knowledge, or for the scholar, geographer, historian, or student of Arab dominion I recommend his volume. No thrills, few laughs, but the book marches on in a pleasant and profitable path of facts and comment.” F: O’Brien
+ =N Y Times= 25:4 Jl 18 ’20 1200w
+ =Spec= 125:311 S 4 ’20 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Mr 4 ’20 30w
“He has taken immense pains in the compilation of his book, he has ransacked the chronicles, consulted the retailers of legends, referred to modern authorities and drawn upon his own experiences to produce a well-constructed and agreeably written compendium of all that there is to be told of Zanzibar.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p165 Mr 11 ’20 1050w
=PEARL, BERTHA.= Sarah and her daughter. $2.25 (1½c) Seltzer
20–11892
The scene of the story opens on Henry street in the Ghetto and portrays the American Jew in every nuance of his racial peculiarities. The abject poverty and suffering, the breaking under suffering, the resiliency, the ethical slips in the fierce struggle for existence, the hysteria and nervous breakdowns, the seriousness and absence of a sense of humor and the fundamental goodness of heart that always has the last word to say, are all there and every type finds its place down to the tragic figure of the orthodox survivor of a dead religion. In Sarah and her daughter Minnie, the immigrant Jew and the first generation, with the resulting sad conflicts between parent and child, are represented.
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“Not a pleasant story, but worth while as a sincere interpretation of a type of life which the author understands intimately.”
+ =Booklist= 17:159 Ja ’21
“As a story it is very little more than a string of episodes reported with pitiless minuteness. If ruthless and harrowing verisimilitude is of service to you, accept it in this book. Why the publishers should assert that it is a new thing, is not clear.” H. W. Boynton
− =Bookm= 52:69 S ’20 880w
“There is real emotional power in the author’s handling of her calamitous theme. She seems to lose subtlety at times because of her very sincerity; the book is in spots too wooden in its realism, and there is some careless workmanship. But the characterization is acute.” F. E. H.
+ − =Freeman= 1:407 Jl 7 ’20 300w
“There is no relief, even in the scenes between the young children, and we wonder if the story is not too photographically realistic, missing some worth or beauty under the bald surface.” L. W. M.
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:259 O ’20 420w
“A rather amorphous but by no means talentless book. Miss Pearl has a very keen and clear eye for the physical conditions of her people’s lives—both in the Ghetto and beyond it—and a genuine gift, despite her blunt and sprawling style, for rendering the atmosphere of bleak and homeless places. There is no reason why Miss Pearl should not do admirable work as she grows in self-discipline of both style and feeling, and acquires a cooler spirit and a more tempered surface.”
+ − =Nation= 110:730 My 29 ’20 320w
“It does more than present a partially new viewpoint of matters with which we are familiar, it brings a new range of material within our understanding. Here is an American book with a straightforward story, in the main well told and without sentimentalism.” R. V. A. S.
+ =New Repub= 23:343 Ag 18 ’20 520w
“Her descriptions are so true that one can’t help but feel that the story is equally as true.” Rose Karsner
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 30 ’20 500w
“It is a work that is noteworthy in American literature, suggesting Dickens and De Morgan modernized and Americanized.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:253 My 16 ’20 550w
“To the American reader who has previously known little or nothing about that life, it is like the brilliant illumination from the inside of a dark room.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 Ja 16 ’21 80w
“Whatever criticism may be offered lies in the possibility that even tenement existence is not always as barren of sunshine and joys of life as the author would have us believe. But that is not sufficiently outstanding to detract from the authentic interest of the story.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 360w
=PEARL, RAYMOND.=[2] Nation’s food. il *$3.50 Saunders 338
20–4023
“Mr Pearl was chief of the statistical division of the Food administration, and as such presents ‘unbiased statistical data rather than my own opinion as to their interpretation.’ The book is made up for the greater part of clear classifications and tables.”—Survey
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+ =Booklist= 17:95 D ’20
“With his usual thoroughness and breadth of view he has included in his inquiry so many ramifications that his investigation covers Europe also. It thus possesses extraordinary interest at the present time.” E. J. Russell
+ =Nature= 106:305 N 4 ’20 850w
“As a source book, this volume is warmly recommended.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 500w
=PEARSON, EDMUND LESTER.= Theodore Roosevelt. il *$1.75 (5c) Macmillan
20–16084
The book is one of the series of “True stories of great Americans,” and is a brief biography intended to catch the interest of boys. Contents: The boy who collected animals; In college; In politics; “Ranch life and the hunting trail”; Two defeats; Fighting office-seekers; Police commissioner; The rough rider; Governor of New York; President of the United States; The lion hunter; Europe and America; The bull moose; The explorer; The man; The great American; Illustrations.
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=Booklist= 17:124 D ’20
“He has been unwise in trying to explain Roosevelt’s war-policies to the detriment of President Wilson, and to laud the efficiency of one party over another—especially in his capacity as writer for children who want the essential action of the man—Roosevelt—without the political struggles in which he was involved.”
+ − =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 150w
“One of the best short summaries of Roosevelt’s career that have yet appeared. The author’s treatment of the intimate, personal phases of his subject is especially felicitous.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 S 25 ’20 150w
“He has made excellent use of the new material about Mr Roosevelt which has been available since his death, and has brought out with skill and judgment the simplicity and singleness of Mr Roosevelt’s Americanism.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 120w
“Mr Pearson has perhaps had more than ordinary success in confining his story to the essential features, keeping a good sense of proportion and never letting go the central thread of the narrative. His book is workmanlike as well as entertaining.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 100w
“One cannot help feeling that the appeal would be stronger if the work were more graphic and less controversial and the author had seen fit to eliminate his attacks on the opponents of Roosevelt.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p800 D 2 ’20 20w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 40w
=PECK, LORA B.= Stories for good children. il *$1.50 Little
20–18926
These fairy and folk tales are collected from all countries. Some of them are very ancient, being traced back to the home of the Aryan race and all are so simple in their make-up and telling that they are offered as an aid to reading. The countries represented in the choice are: Ireland, Scotland, England, India, China, Japan, Mexico, Persia, Russia.
=PEDLER, MARGARET.= House of dreams-come-true. *$1.75 (1½c) Doran
19–17179
Jean, though English, has never seen England until she is twenty. Then her father, a prey to wanderlust, packs her off to some friends of his, while he goes roaming the world. Just before she goes to England, Jean has one magical day with an anonymous young Englishman, and to her surprise and his apparent dismay when she arrives at Lady Anne’s home where she is to stay she finds the elder son of the house to be her unknown companion of Montavan. The magic still holds for both of them, but there are many barriers between them and many bitter hours before they finally enter their “house of dreams-come-true,” a house “not built of stones and mortar, but just—where love is.”
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“Not ‘deep’ but entertaining.”
+ =Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 190w
“A fairly consistent and always readable book of fiction. The book, as a whole, is one that will give excellent entertainment, although it is impossible to assign it any important place in the contemporary output of fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 1 ’20 430w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 130w
“A thoroughly readable story, though inclining somewhat to the sentimental.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p717 D 4 ’19 140w
=PEEL, GEORGIANA ADELAIDE (RUSSELL), lady.= Recollections; comp. by Ethel Peel. il *$5 Lane
20–12214
Lady Georgiana Peel, whose recollections are compiled in the present volume by her daughter, is the daughter of Sir John Russell and her recollections cover the period from the early forties to the present time. She was intimately acquainted with all the eminent people in Queen Victoria’s reign of whom she has recorded pleasant memories with many historical events of importance. The book is illustrated and has an index.
* * * * *
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p4 S 5 ’20 2800w
“It is mainly a picture of the most attractive side of English social life. It gives to the American reader a much more intimate acquaintance with that life than he could possibly attain by any introductions.”
+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 180w
“It is a kindly book, written by a gracious lady, giving a picture of an age that has passed away.”
+ =Sat R= 129:333 Ap 3 ’20 1050w
“Lady Georgiana Peel’s engaging book of recollections ought to attract readers of many and varied tastes. The book is attractive in its frank simplicity.”
+ =Spec= 124:389 Mr 20 ’20 1200w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p102 F 12 ’20 1350w
=PENDEXTER, HUGH.= Red belts. il *$1.50 (1½c) Doubleday
20–2261
The time in which the story is placed is 1784, when the quondam colonies had not yet acquired the consciousness of a consolidated group of states. The scene is west of the Alleghanies in what was to be the state of Tennessee but where, at the time of the story, the white settlers were still fighting for their existence against the surrounding Indians aided by renegade white plotters in the interests of Spain. It is a tale of love and adventure in which the hero John Sevier, “Chucky Jack,” a pioneer of Americanism performs gallant deeds of heroism and daring and not only saves his state for the Union but lovely Elsie Tonpit from brutal outlaws and for her lover Kirk Jackson, another true American.
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“A stirring pioneer tale.”
+ =Booklist= 16:283 My ’20
“Taken on the whole, ‘Red belts’ is a good example of the real adventure story, with enough patriotic suggestion to render it of wholesome appeal.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:4 Mr 7 ’20 600w
=PENNELL, ELIZABETH (ROBINS) (MRS JOSEPH PENNELL) (N. N., pseud.), and PENNELL, JOSEPH.= Life of James McNeill Whistler. new and rev ed il *$6.50 Lippincott
“This is the revised sixth edition of the authorized biography of Whistler. Since the original publication in two volumes in 1908 the authors have been collecting and verifying documents, and have received numerous suggestions and statements of facts. The new edition, therefore, contains new materials in the text as well as new illustrations, which include more than one hundred reproductions of the artist’s works.”—R of Rs
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+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 21 ’20 640w
“The book, because of the treatment no less than because of the subject, is vastly entertaining.”
+ =Dial= 69:322 S ’20 60w
=Outlook= 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 50w
=R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 100w
=PEPPER, CHARLES MELVILLE.= Life and times of Henry Gassaway Davis, 1823–1916. il *$4 (4½c) Century
20–4454
The life of “the grand old man” of West Virginia is marked by two phases, says the biographer: “the romance of railway building, the development of natural resources, the creation of industrial communities” is the one, “public service, political leadership, citizenship in its highest sense,” the other. His many-sided character and activities were unusual. He was intensely practical and was also a man of vision. A partial list of the contents follows: Ancestry and youth; Pioneer railway days; International American conferences; The Pan-American railway; Vice-presidential nomination and after; Benefactions and philanthropies; Famous contemporaries; Personal characteristics. There is an index and illustrations.
=PERCIVAL, MACIVER.= Glass collector; a guide to old English glass. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (4c) Dodd 738.2
A20–905
“The collector who has been in my mind when writing this book has not very much money to spare, and none to waste. He wants to get full value when he makes a purchase, and if a bargain comes his way so much the better.” (Preface) To guide such a collector to know which to choose and how to distinguish the old from the new, the real from the sham is the object of the book. After an introductory chapter on drinking glasses in England to the end of the seventeenth century and seven chapters on the various kinds of wine glasses the contents are: Cut glass; Engraved glasses; Curios; Bottles, decanters, flasks and jugs; Opaque and coloured glass; Frauds, fakes and foreigners; Foreign glass; Manufacturing and decorative processes; Prices; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.
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“Will be helpful to the amateur since it is very well illustrated and contains hints on the detection of imitations.”
+ =Booklist= 16:335 Jl ’20
+ =Spec= 122:17 Ja 4 ’19 60w
=PERCIVAL, MACIVER.= Old English furniture and its surroundings. il *$7.50 Scribner 749
“The period Mr Percival covers in this work is from the restoration of the monarchy to the regency. This period he has divided into four sections: The restoration; The end of the 17th century and the early 18th; Early Georgian; Late Georgian. To each section he has given five chapters: Fittings and ornament decorations; Furniture; Upholstery, wall and floor coverings; Table appointments; Decorative adjuncts.”—Springf’d Republican
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=Int Studio= 72:164 D ’20 100w
“Mr Percival writes with unusual good sense. Moreover, he is firmly though not pedantically for unmixed style and speaks with authority. For the trained decorator, however, the book contains little that is actually new or in any way suggestive.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 150w
“If one can judge at all from some of the imposing Fifth avenue shops, people do enjoy living in period-houses, fitting up rooms in period-furniture, buying all manner of things antique. For these impassioned collectors, at least, Mr Percival’s book is unequivocally useful, being clearly written and having much practical information.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 9 ’20 330w
=PERCY, EUSTACE SUTHERLAND CAMPBELL, lord.= Responsibilities of the league. *$2 Doran 341.1
(Eng ed 20–5415)
“This is a book written in the interest of civilization. It is true that there have been civilizations, not altogether contemptible, without Christianity; and it is arguable that there may be civilizations hereafter not based on state sovereignty. But the author’s point is both true and indisputable that the revolution which threatens both of these institutions may drag all civilization with it unless a high intelligence commands and canalizes its forces. Lord Eustace considers the league of nations as the potential champion of the idea of the state and commonwealth, the possible medium by which we may come to the spirit of a united Christendom. That, no doubt, is his ideal: to set it off he offers a penetrating analysis of the past and makes the profound observation that the treaty of Versailles, which he does not defend, is the almost complete result of the two forces of nationalism and democracy.”—Dial
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“I do not understand all of it nor agree with all I understand, but I am fain to mark its superior importance.” Sganarelle
+ =Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 1150w
“His book will provoke much dissent, but it has the supreme merit of making its readers think on the great problems that face the world.”
+ − =Spec= 124:16 Ja 3 ’20 1400w
“The book fairly bristles with provocative suggestions. The treatment of the basis and mainsprings of American foreign policy makes an American gasp with envy at their insight and sympathy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5 Mr 29 ’20 800w
“A solution must answer the conditions of the problem proposed, and one has the feeling that Lord Eustace’s criticisms of recent policy do not always take account of that fact. But that is a matter of controversy. What is not a matter of controversy is the quality of Lord Eustace Percy’s book—its breadth of outlook, its richness of information, its penetrating candour, its analytic power, and, above all, its depth of conviction.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p780 D 25 ’19 650w
=PERCY, WILLIAM ALEXANDER.= In April once. *$1.50 Yale univ. press 811
20–15483
“Mr Percy’s book consists of a poetic drama in one act, about half a hundred lyrics, and a longish philosophical monologue entitled ‘An epistle from Corinth.’ The drama—‘In April once’—is a study of a renaissance youth, Guido, who sacrifices his life out of impetuous generosity that a leper and a jailer (though a very knightly jailer) might tempt death.”—Bookm
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+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20
“In his lyrics, Mr Percy tastes in some degree of the divine madness of Keats. Rare indeed is Mr Percy’s pure lyric gift: limpidity and strength of emotion and adequacy of art.” R. M. Weaver
+ =Bookm= 52:65 S ’20 400w
“He is by no means distinguished, and he is somewhat too fond of his literary good manners, but he has done some shapely, thoroughbred exercises in elegy and exultation.”
+ − =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 80w
“His work proves imitative in many ways.”
+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 50w
“Finer than his ‘Sappho in Levkas,’ with all its promise, is ‘In April once.’ This volume has all the charm and freshness of the earlier book, with a deeper and more appealing view of the world.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 10:204 O ’20 150w
=PÉREZ DE AYALA, RAMÓN.= Prometheus: The fall of the house of Limón; Sunday sunlight. *$3 Dutton
20–12561
“Under the threefold title, ‘Prometheus: The fall of the house of Limón; Sunday sunlight,’ the E. P. Dutton company publishes three novelettes of Spanish life by Ramón Pérez de Ayala, which Alice P. Hubbard has turned into English. ‘Prometheus,’ a modern tale which parallels or parodies a Greek legend, deals sunnily with a man who, seeking for perfect offspring, becomes the father of an oaf and hunchback. ‘Limón’ is a murder tale. ‘Sunday sunlight’ is a tale of ravishers which recites horrors which recall and surpass ‘Titus Andronicus.’”—Review
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“Those who enjoy artistry, intelligence and pages overflowing with the evidence of original and unique talent will welcome the book and will read it more than once.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:15 Jl 18 ’20 830w
“Señor de Ayala is all sprightliness and glow. He has a draughtsman eye, a colorist eye, an eye reminiscent of Gautier, and he scatters brilliancies with the prodigality of a man for whom splendor is the only warmth.”
+ =Review= 3:351 O 20 ’20 220w
=PERKINS, LUCY (FITCH) (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS).= Italian twins. il *$1.75 Houghton
20–15958
The Italian twins are Beppo and Beppina, who live in an old palace on the banks of the Arno. They are kidnapped by two vagabonds with a monkey and a performing bear and are made to sing and dance and entertain the country people and villagers. They are taken to Venice but finally make their escape and after more wandering adventures reach their home safely.
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“Beautiful makeup and sketches.”
+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
+ =Lit D= p94 D 4 ’20 160w
“One is always sorry when Mrs Perkins fails to reach her own high mark. But this incredible tale of the kidnapping of two little aristocrats shows no side of real Italian life.” M. H. B. Mussey
− + =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 110w
“‘The Italian twins’ is a wholesome stimulating book for children between eight and thirteen to read and own.” E. R. Burt
+ =Pub W= 98:1201 O 16 ’20 300w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 200w
=PERKINS, LUCY (FITCH) (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS).= Scotch twins. il *$1.50 Houghton
19–18221
Jock and Jean are the hero and heroine of this story, with its scenes laid in Scotland. The pictures as in other books of the series are from drawings by the author.
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“A good picture of national life and customs with a rather more dramatic plot than that of former volumes of the series.”
+ =Booklist= 16:176 F ’20
=Boston Transcript= p9 D 20 ’19 300w
“Jock and Jean have, perhaps, the most exciting and amusing adventures of any of the twins, but, as a small boy critic said, ‘They have an absent-minded way of using occasional Scottish words and then relapsing into plain American talk.’”
+ − =Nation= 109:780 D 13 ’19 140w
+ =Outlook= 124:29 Ja 7 ’20 40w
“‘The Scotch twins,’ Jock, the sleepy-head, and Jean, the canny little polisher and scrubber, are just as lovable as any of their predecessors. There is a nice little surprise, too, in the last chapter.”
+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 120w
“Anyone who has never before understood the claims of a clan will find this and other peculiarities of Scotch life thoroughly explained.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 D 19 ’19 100w
=PERRY, ALLEN MASON=, comp. Electrical aids to greater production. il *$2 McGraw 621.3
19–10529
“Based upon a series of articles in the Electrical World, of which the author is engineering editor. The best of practice, as developed by the war, is presented as a practical handbook, rather than as a text-book, full of suggestions for the installation, operation, and maintenance, as well as the problems of layout and control. The eight chapters cover: General power problems of industrial plants; Distribution, transformation, switching and protection; Motors, control, specific applications, troubles and remedies; Illumination, selection of equipment, economies, and specific applications; Electric furnaces, welding, etc.; Meters and measurements as applied to industries; Handling material in industrial plants with electric tractors; Outdoor substations.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
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=Booklist= 16:159 F ’20
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p47 Jl ’19 120w
=Pratt= p20 Ja ’20 30w
=PERRY, BLISS.= Study of poetry. *$3.25 Houghton 808.1
20–9853
In attempting “to set forth in decent prose some of the strange potencies of verse” the author has given but little space to the epic and drama and has devoted himself more especially to the various forms of the lyric, which to him seems to hold the future of poetry. “The folk-epic is gone, the art-epic has been outstripped by prose fiction, and the drama needs a theatre. But the lyric needs only a poet, who can compose in any of its myriad forms.... Through it today, as never before in the history of civilization, the heart of a man can reach the heart of mankind.” Accordingly the book falls into two parts. Part I, Poetry in general, treats of poetry in retrospect, of the province of poetry and the poet, of rhythm and metre, rhyme, stanza and free verse. Part II, The lyric in particular, contains: The field of lyric poetry; Relationships and types of the lyric; Race, epoch and individual; The present status of the lyric. There are also Notes and illustrations, an appendix, a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:106 D ’20
“While it has a genuine interest for the creator and critical interpreter of poetry, its specific value is for that very large body of readers who are between these two groups.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 30 ’20 2100w
“The book is avowedly written with the classroom’s needs in view, as well as those of the inquiring general reader, and the former aim to some extent vitiates the author’s treatment by imposing too eclectic an ideal upon him. The book is a résumé of poetics rather than a personal confession.” Llewellyn Jones
+ − =Freeman= 2:235 N 17 ’20 1500w
“No critic since Matthew Arnold seems to us to have so positively as Mr Perry the capacity to make us see more clearly and think more accurately and sensibly about poetry and at the same time make the seeing and the thinking increase our enthusiasm for the vital things.” C. F. L.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:308 D ’20 640w
“In the long run his book is not simple enough. He will be useful to a certain kind of teacher; but he will move few students and he will enkindle no poets.” Mark Van Doren
− + =Nation= 112:sup241 F 9 ’21 120w
“The fault of the book is that it contains too many long quotations from other critics. But this very fault, in the present instance, makes the book a presentation of the best modern critical thought on the lyric. He will be a bold man who attempts to cover Professor Perry’s field for many years to come.” C. E. Andrews
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 O 23 ’20 1100w
“Professor Perry’s volume is suggestive and stimulating. It will be useful to the classroom teacher, to the solitary student and to the average reader, who will gain from it knowledge certain to increase his enjoyment of verse.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p6 S 12 ’20 2000w
“He gives an unusually clear analysis, supported by rich and apt quotation, of the effects of poetry upon the reader. The value of his essay lies in its vivid ability to provide us with those moments of lucid understanding in which poetic experience is restored to us.” L. R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 126:377 O 27 ’20 400w
“He is first of all a collector, secondly, an assayer, thirdly, and a little less willingly, an arbiter, and, only incidentally and reluctantly, a reasoner or controversialist.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:501 N 24 ’20 2000w
=PERRY, LAWRENCE.= For the game’s sake. (Fair play ser.) il *$1.65 Scribner
20–15706
“Half a dozen tales, each having to do with some special form of athletics, make up Mr Lawrence Perry’s little volume entitled ‘For the game’s sake.’ The first tells of a football ‘star’ who, being also ‘The spoiled boy,’ broke training and misbehaved himself until the coach found it necessary to put him off the team. But there was a sensible and eloquent girl in the case, who brought the culprit to
## book in a manner which convinced him of the error of his ways. Another
tale has to do with an international tennis tournament. Baseball of course is not neglected. Each of the tales presupposes a fairly close acquaintance on the reader’s part with that particular game with which it has to do.”—N Y Times
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+ =N Y Times= p27 S 26 ’20 230w
“The book stands for clean playing in every sport. Each story works up thrillingly to a dramatic climax where victory comes by the narrowest of margins.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 200w
=PERRY, STELLA GEORGE (STERN) (MRS GEORGE HOUGH PERRY).= Palmetto. *$1.90 (1c) Stokes
20–15507
Palmetto, as a child of thirteen, runs away from the only parents she has ever known, but whom she instinctively feels are only foster parents. She finds a refuge in New Orleans with a kindly fisherman who adopts her and brings her up as his own daughter. Associated with him is David Cantrelle, a lad of good birth whose family is genuinely shocked at his choice of occupation. He loves Palmetto from the first, and when her heart awakens and responds to his, they become engaged. But his family objects to the match, on account of the mystery of her birth and she determines to show them she is worth while. So she goes to New York where she makes a conspicuous success as an actress. One of her southern admirers follows her there, makes ardent love to her and almost succeeds in replacing David in her heart. But she learns in time that her love for David is deeper than any Hartley can command. The mystery of her birth is eventually cleared up and she finds she has as good blood in her veins as either David or Hartley.
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“The greatest defect in this romance of the bayou region of Louisiana is that it is somewhat overlong. Individual sentences and paragraphs are frequently overgrown with too rank a growth of adjectives.”
+ − =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 500w
=PETERSON, SAMUEL.= Democracy and government. *$2 Knopf 321.8
20–104
According to the author’s initial assumption that “a government carries into effect ideas,” the book naturally falls into two parts: What persons should have the legal right to determine finally the ideas to be carried into effect; and in what manner the ideas to be carried into effect should be selected, and how they should be carried into effect. Accordingly part 1, The ruling power of the state, discusses the difference between autocracy, oligarchy and democracy as one of conditions rather than of law, and defines a democratic government as a government of the intelligent members of the ruling race. Part 2, The organization of the government, is an inquiry into how the ideas to be carried into effect may be selected as reliably and carried into effect as certainly and efficiently as possible. The contents under part 2 are: Governmental functions; Legislative organization; Administrative organization; Judicial organization; Direct legislation. There is an index.
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=Booklist= 16:331 Jl ’20
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:39 O 20 ’20 60w
=Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 180w
=R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 50w
=R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 30w
“A book which, while blazing no new paths, is well designed to assist the reader in forming a reasonably critical view of the state is Samuel Peterson’s ‘Democracy and government’ which treats fundamental political theories with knowledge of their historical importance, yet with hard-headed sociological insight. The author is always frank, and, while he has pronounced views of his own, he cannot be called a doctrinaire.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 13 ’20 400w
“His criticisms of the present governmental machinery are generally just, but the remedies suggested might prove to be worse than the disease. The book shows hard work and earnestness throughout, however, and should prove a valuable contribution to the literature on the subject.” A. G. Dehly
+ − =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 200w
=PETRUCCI, RAPHAËL.= Chinese painters; a critical study; tr. by Frances Seaver; with a biographical note by Lawrence Binyon. il *$2 Brentano’s 759.9
20–7443
“The book comprises a comprehensive and yet compact study of painting in China. His survey takes us back to the dim ages long before the appearance of Buddhism in China, and then brings the reader to the present time.” (Outlook) “It explains briefly the principles of technique and then, as it sketches the historical evolution of painting, reveals its dominating philosophical idea, the search for abstract form. The author was an authority on oriental art. There are numerous pleasing reproductions, bibliography, index of painters and periods.” (Booklist)
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“Concise and illuminating volume.”
+ =Booklist= 16:336 Jl ’20
“Happily the author writes for the general reader and the lover of art rather than for the elect; his treatment of a large theme shows the advantage of one who has a gift for luminous condensation.”
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 170w
“For the uninitiated in these matters, ‘Chinese painters’ is a necessary education. For him who understands already the beauty of the masters of China, the book is valuable.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 26 ’20 280w
=PETTIGREW, RICHARD FRANKLIN.= Course of empire; introd. by Scott Nearing. il *$4.50 Boni & Liveright 815
20–12790
“The author of this volume held a seat in the United States senate during the ’90s of the last century. He was active in the senate at a turning point in the career of the nation, a period when the frontier was disappearing, when the great oligarchies of capital were organizing, and when the United States became a colonial power. In short, his public career is identical with the origin of imperialism in the United States. The book consists of a compilation of the speeches of ex-Senator Pettigrew in the senate on these imperialist policies as they were forming. They fall into three groups—those dealing with the annexation of the Hawaiian islands; those dealing with the conquest of the Philippines; and those dealing with the antagonism of the West to the banking and trust groups of the East. Accompanying the addresses which reveal a wide variety of information on the part of the author, are many documents of much historical value to the reader.”—N Y Call
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“These speeches, both concerning Hawaiian affairs and those in the Philippines, are useful as a matter of record; they will be very valuable to the future historian, who desires to understand the obstacles encountered by the nation in its movement toward an expanded civilization and world power.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 660w
“The addresses show that the author during his public career had that capacity which is so rare in the men of a later generation who have served in Congress. His mind was always open, and he advanced with the progress of his time.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p10 N 21 ’20 940w
“Although the book comprises a vivid study of the development of imperial policy in the United States it might better have been compressed into half the size for the benefit of the general reader. There are too many and too liberal quotations from Mr Pettigrew’s own speeches.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 27 ’20 570w
=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, comp. Selected articles on the American merchant marine. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.50 Wilson, H. W. 387
20–4721
To this second edition of a handbook published in 1916 nearly one hundred pages of reprinted matter have been added. This matter is designed to cover events since the publication of the first edition, including the assembling of a large merchant fleet and the question of its disposal, together with arguments for and against government ownership and operation. The bibliography has been enlarged and brought down to date, and the introduction and briefs have been rewritten.
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=Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 40w
=Booklist= 16:291 My ’20
“A volume covering intelligently and with reasonable fulness the history and present status of the commercial fleet of the United States.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 30 ’20 280w
=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, ed. University debaters’ annual; constructive and rebuttal speeches delivered in debates of American colleges and universities during the college year, 1919–1920. v 6 *$2.25 Wilson, H. W.
808.5
Seven subjects of timely importance are included in this volume of the debaters’ annual: Government ownership and operation of coal mines; The Cummins plan for the control of railroads; Affiliation of teachers with the American federation of labor; Compulsory arbitration of railway labor disputes; Compulsory arbitration of labor disputes; The closed shop; Suppression of propaganda for the overthrow of the United States government (two debates). Each debate is accompanied by briefs and a selected bibliography. “The bibliographies have been compiled mostly by the editor, and are not limited to the material actually used in the debate, as their main purpose is helpfulness to the prospective debater.” (Preface) The volume is indexed.
=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= As the wind blows. *$1.50 Macmillan 821
20–18071
“Mr Phillpotts sings a good deal about his beloved Dartmoor, but he tells of other subjects, too—Gallipoli, the grave of Keats, etc.—and he has one descriptive piece from the jungle called ‘Tiger,’ and a longish blank verse poem staging Adam and Eve in Paradise.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“Of some of his pieces one has the impression that they were written as an exercise in verse. But in others a genuine inspiration is apparent. ‘The neolith’ and ‘Tiger’ contain fine things.”
+ − =Ath= p718 My 28 ’20 70w
“It is the reality of the atmosphere rather than the circumstance that gives Mr Phillpotts’s verse its individuality; the taste, smell, contour of locality, rather than the sharp and sudden force of either crisis or event in human action that gives the unique character to his rhythmic expression.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 1750w
“He writes in the great English tradition, but brings a note that is essentially his own at the same time.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 290w
“It is always difficult to analyse charm, but in this instance the effect of the attraction is that we are apt to like poems that have very palpable faults.”
+ − =Spec= 124:86 Jl 17 ’20 430w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p443 Jl 8 ’20 60w
=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Evander. *$2 Macmillan
20–4895
“Evander is an apostle of plain living and high thinking in the early days when the gods of Olympus had not settled their respective rights in the hierarchy of worship and when marriage was still a rare thing among humble folk. Festus and Livia were perhaps the first among their neighbours to wed, under the auspices of Bacchus, while Evander, as the votary of Apollo, endeavours to convert her to the higher worship of his god. He succeeds for a time in gaining her allegiance, and she leaves her husband to follow him, but finds the mental atmosphere too rarefied for her, and finally returns to her home and husband, Bacchus being able to show his half-brother the unwisdom of vengeance on Festus.”—Sat R
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“The delicate, bright atmosphere in which this enchanting book is bathed must be left for the reader to enjoy.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p15 Ja 2 ’20 650w
“The dialogue is full of witty and amiable satire of our own times, the barb being especially sharp for the ‘intelligentzia’ of all times.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:340 My ’20 460w
“It is impossible to overlook the roguish satire upon social affairs of the present day that Mr Phillpotts has woven into his story. The very presence and name of Bacchus proves that he has reference to the immediate present in writing of the far-away past.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 18 ’20 1600w
+ =Dial= 68:664 My ’20 80w
“The trouble with the book is the same as with all of Mr Phillpotts’s books—a lack of felicity which is not compensated for, as it is in the case of his master, Hardy, by a dour grandeur. ‘Evander’ particularly needed grace and there is none.”
− + =Nation= 110:304 Mr 6 ’20 400w
“The tale would, indeed, be worth reading merely for the grace and charm of its style, and its flexible, deft, and effective phrasing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:89 F 15 ’20 900w
“A bit of irony impishly humorous, entirely delightful.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 20w
“The vein is one of mild social satire; the touch is light and easy; and here also is the charm of imagination and fancy.”
+ =Outlook= 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 80w
“We should like to congratulate the author on his success in a rather limited style of fiction. We can remember nothing in English at all equal to it since Dr Garnett’s ‘Twilight of the gods,’ while it has much in common with Anatole France in the satire of the foibles of the philosopher which lies at its root. It may be perceived we are giving Mr Phillpotts high praise.”
+ =Sat R= 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 150w
“A pretty, though often rather cheap, little story.”
+ − |=Spec= 123:822 D 13 ’19 100w
“Mr Phillpotts’s literary cunning makes an agreeable tale out of all this—picturesque and quietly humorous.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p697 N 27 ’19 100w
=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Miser’s money. *$2 Macmillan
20–3882
“The characters [of this novel] are drawn with realism and subtlety. More especially that of David Mortimer, the hard-bitten old miser, whose cheese-paring, hatred of women, and cynical disbelief in everybody and everything are so cleverly defended that they almost capture the young soul of his nephew Barry Worth, who lives with him and works his farm. David leaves his money to Barry on condition that he doesn’t marry, the fact that Barry was ‘tokened’ to a buxom barmaid having been concealed from him. Barry is true to Marian; the will is void; and the money divided between the miser’s brother and two sisters. But the lawyer who handed the will to Barry delivered at the same time a bulky letter from David to be read in solitude. In that letter is contained the mystery, the heart of the matter which makes the novel.”—Sat R
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“The characters are interesting and the story moves along pleasantly and very calmly. There is less humor than in some of the earlier work.”
+ =Booklist= 16:283 My ’20
“After all, Mr Phillpotts has said his say about human nature on Dartmoor, and he has little new to offer in type or situation. It is pleasant and comfortable to meet some more of his people now and then—and that is all.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Bookm= 51:339 My ’20 520w
“The story as a whole is an excellent example of Mr Phillpotts’s style at its best.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Mr 17 ’20 1200w
“The novel is beautifully written. All Mr Phillpotts’s readers know how fine are his descriptions of his dearly loved Dartmoor, though there are fewer of them in this his latest novel than in the majority of his Dartmoor books.”
+ =N Y Times= p116 Mr 14 ’20 1150w
“An excellent example of the author’s quiet, subtle, and humorous exposition of contrasted character.”
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 100w
“It is as charming a novel, and as telling a picture of family life on ‘Dartymoor’ as we ever read, or as Mr Phillpotts has ever written. Worthy to rank with the best of his many delightful novels.”
+ =Sat R= 129:333 Ap 3 ’20 440w
“The different veins of his talent, tragic and humorous, are here fused with happy results. ‘Miser’s money’ shows him at his mellowest and best as artist and observer.”
+ =Spec= 125:215 Ag 14 ’20 530w
“The plot is simple and rather erratic, but taken as a whole the story displays that excellence of craftsmanship which long since placed the author in the forefront of his peculiar field.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 750w
“Mr Phillpotts keeps us almost too near to life. He presents us with one more faithful and consistent study of Dartmoor people, but of Dartmoor people principally in their heavier and less significant moments. The plot, though simple and pastoral, is a very good plot; but no plot could survive this flood of conversation.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p186 Mr 18 ’30 400w
=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.=[2] West country pilgrimage. il *$9 Macmillan 914.2
“A by-product of Mr Phillpotts’s researches into the lore of Devonshire has been put together in a volume entitled ‘A west country pilgrimage,’ with sixteen illustrations in color by A. T. Benthall. Here he sketches in a series of sixteen essays the scenes of heath and river, of village and shore as they meet the eye of the traveller through or the sojourner in that corner of England.”—Boston Transcript
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“The book represents the happiest combining of language, printing, and art.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 130w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 260w
“Some of the water colors by A. T. Benthall are unusually fine, and they all display a decided originality of talent. To many, perhaps, the illustrations will seem preferable to the text, for they achieve their intended result with less effort.” B. R. Redman
+ − =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 140w
“An attractive book for lovers of Devon and Cornwall.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 90w
=PICKARD, BERTRAM.= Reasonable revolution. *$1.25 Macmillan 336.2
(Eng ed 19–12869)
“A thin blue volume entitled ‘A reasonable revolution,’ filled with economic principles and suggestions, has just been brought out by Macmillan company. It is an ardent and eager defense of the state bonus for motherhood and national minimum income scheme as evolved by Dennis Milner, the head of the state bonus league of England. This
## book is written by Bertram Pickard, who has been a co-worker with
Milner for some time.” (Springf’d Republican) “Briefly, the scheme is for a national appropriation of 20 per cent of all incomes, without consideration of other taxes or burdens on them; the resulting fund to be pooled and redistributed in such a way as to provide every individual and family with a national minimum sufficient to sustain national standards of comfort, health, education and other essentials of a full and efficient life.” (Survey)
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=Ath= p570 Jl 4 ’19 50w
“Mr Pickard is thoroughly conversant with his subject, looks at it tirelessly from every point of view and appears to answer every possible question with which a careful student of economics might attack the scheme.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 12 ’20 220w
=Survey= 43:194 N 29 ’19 440w
=PILLSBURY, WALTER BOWERS.= Psychology of nationality and internationalism. *$2.50 (3½c) Appleton 321
20–458
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
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“The argument is well-reasoned throughout.” C. G. Fenwick
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:340 My ’20 90w
“Following upon much political disputation on nationality and internationality, it is very clarifying to follow this psychologist through his discussion of the mentality of nations.”
+ =Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20
“His belief in the integrity of the national state does not take into account that growing regionalism which challenges the authority of the state at the same time that it denies the false unity of belligerent nationalism. And the temperate lucidity of the author’s psychological exposition does not equate his superficial examination of the historical groundwork of nationality and internationalism.”
− + =Dial= 68:404 Mr ’20 150w
“The reviewer found the most interesting chapter the one on Hate as a social force.” Ellsworth Faris
+ =Int J Ethics= 30:339 Ap ’20 330w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
+ =Nation= 112:185 F 2 ’21 450w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 300w
“Dr Pillsbury’s chapter on Hate as a social force is very apposite and suggestive. The chapter on The nation and mob consciousness is an excellent criticism of LeBon’s group psychology. The chapter on Nationality and the League of nations is the least satisfactory.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 500w
=PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY), and PINKERTON, ROBERT EUGENE.= Long traverse. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–12811
When Bruce Rochette comes into the northland he comes with a deadly hatred of the Hudson’s Bay Company and a determination to avenge his mother’s death which he holds the fur trading company responsible for. He wins the confidence of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s manager, Herbert Morley, and then uses every trick and stratagem at his command to establish a rival post at Fort Mystery. Everything is going well, until he meets Evelyn Morley, and falls in love with her. Judged by her absolute standards of right and wrong, his policy of all’s fair in war condemns him in his own eyes as well as hers. In an endeavor to straighten matters out, he very nearly loses his self respect, his girl, his job, and even his life. But finally everything is restored to him that is necessary for his happiness and Evelyn’s.
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“A pleasantly written tale.”
+ =Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
=PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY), and PINKERTON, ROBERT EUGENE.= Penitentiary Post. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–10313
A story of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Phil Boynton is sent to take charge of the fort known as Penitentiary Post, a place with an evil reputation. Behind him at Savant House, he leaves the girl he loves, knowing that John Wickson, the man who is sending him north, also loves her and is determined to win her, and half suspecting that personal motives were back of the appointment. At Penitentiary Post he finds himself fully occupied with the mystery of the “weeteego,” or evil spirit, that haunts it. His Indians desert the place in fear and the fur hunters refuse to come near it. Joyce Plummer, hearing tales of what he is undergoing, comes alone through the storm to find him, and Wickson follows. The three, who are forced to make common cause against hunger, come to an understanding, and the poor, crazed Indian who had watched his family die of starvation and is taking a weird revenge on the white man, meets his own fate.
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=Booklist= 17:35 O ’20
=PINOCHET, TANCREDO.= Gulf of misunderstanding; or, North and South America as seen by each other. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 917.3
20–17985
“This book first appeared serially in El Norte Americano. Mr Pinochet is a Chilean and the author of seven books on government and kindred subjects. He came to this country some years ago for the expressed object of learning to understand the United States that he might tell his countrymen about us. He has selected an entertaining manner of setting forth the views of the two Americas. He has made no attempt to make a story of his book, yet he has introduced two distinct characters. The first is a Latin-American man, who, being in the United States, writes letters to his wife at home about whatever interests him in this country. The woman is an American, a member of the censor’s department during the war. She reads the letters of the husband and in her turn writes an accompanying letter, discussing the same subject.”—Boston Transcript
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“The surprising thing about the book is that Mr Pinochet should so have entered into the United States point of view as to make one believe, while reading his instructive volume, that a native of this country had risen in its defense.”
+ =Bookm= 52:368 D ’20 300w
“The book should prove a link in the chain which should finally bind closer the two continents, so many of whose interests are the same.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 390w
“Both the imaginary writers are interesting and neither writes a page that one can go to sleep over.”
+ − =N Y Times= p7 Ja 9 ’21 1750w
“The book has a temporary flavor, being written before the adoption of the suffrage amendment and more recent events. But it will prove interesting to anyone who wishes to know how a highly intelligent ‘foreigner’ judges our country from the front it presents to him.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 290w
=PINSKI, DAVID.= Ten plays. *$2 Huebsch 892.4
20–9850
These ten one-act plays have been translated from the Yiddish by Isaac Goldberg. They depict the various weaknesses and passions of men: greed, selfishness, war hysteria, lust, war’s devastation, with at the end a dramatization of the Midrash legend. The titles are: The phonograph; The god of the newly rich wool merchant; A dollar; The cripples; The Inventor and the king’s daughter; Diplomacy; Little heroes; The beautiful nun; Poland—1919; The stranger.
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“Plays which are often unpleasantly grim though not sordid. There is the same keen analysis of human nature as in earlier plays. The method is symbolic rather than literal, and sometimes the meaning is blurred.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20
“Brilliant but not always clear.”
+ − =Cleveland= p87 S ’20 20w
“There are few of his ‘Ten plays’ which can wholly escape the murkiness of inferior translation.” K. M.
+ − =Freeman= 1:548 Ag 18 ’20 450w
“Mr Pinski has become an unswerving symbolist. He has deliberately silenced the voice of nature that sounded so clearly in his earlier plays. He still cultivates the ironic anecdote in dramatic form but his mind is more fixed on the bare intention than on the stuff of life. His peculiar dangers are the fantastic and the obscure, and these make several of his plays ineffectual.”
+ − =Nation= 110:693 My 22 ’20 250w
“Pinski may lack certain graces, especially graces of lightness and saving humor. But passion and power he does not lack, whether he writes in one-act or three. No American dramatist today gives such an effect of surging vitality. It will be a great pity if he does not identify himself more closely with American life and write ultimately for English-speaking audiences direct.” W. P. Eaton
+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 350w
“The shortest of the ten plays, ‘Cripples,’ is the strongest. Force, indeed, gnarled and ungainly, is characteristic of Mr Pinski’s drama at its best. This force, however, is accompanied by a heaviness of tread and a density of fibre which are prolific of trials for the sensitive reader.”
− + =Review= 3:133 Ag 11 ’20 320w
“Every play in the volume is readable, most of them are actable. It would, in fact, be safe to say that they would all be actable if they were in the hand of the players of the Jewish art theatre, who know as well as Pinski does how to make the quick transitions—native to the Jewish mind and heart—from tragedy to comedy, from irony to philippic, from joy to the depths of sorrow.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:225 Jl ’20 310w
=PITT, FRANCES.= Wild creatures of garden and hedgerow. il *$4 (7c) Dodd 590.4
20–27527
A collection of papers by an English naturalist, who says, “The following account of some of the commoner birds and beasts around us is written in the hope of interesting boys and girls, and some of the older people too if possible, in the wild life of garden, hedgerow, and field.” (Preface) Contents: Bats; The bank vole; Two common birds (blackbird and thrush); Shrews; Toads and frogs; The longtailed field mouse; ‘The little gentleman in the black velvet coat’; Thieves of the night; Some garden birds; The hedgehog; Three common reptiles; The short-tailed field vole. The illustrations are from photographs.
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“Her first-hand records are set out in an easy unpretentious style, and on obscure points she makes suggestions as illuminating as they are modest.” E. B.
+ =Ath= p303 S 3 ’20 720w
+ =Booklist= 17:100 D ’20
“Miss Pitt’s book is beautifully printed and handsomely illustrated and is especially of value for the reading of young people, many of whom are glad to make friends with the living things of the world about them.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 11 ’20 400w
“Miss Pitt is to be congratulated on a book which takes its place in the first rank of works on field natural history. It is a personal record of clever, patient, and sympathetic observation.” J. A. T.
+ =Nature= 106:246 O 21 ’20 1700w
“The author’s work is not inspired or inspiring, but it is clean of sentimentality and of spurious nature philosophy, pleasant reading, and informative.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p29 O 23 ’20 130w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 50w
+ =Spec= 125:710 N 27 ’20 30w
“The photographs of the little creatures in their haunts are most cleverly taken.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 60w
“Even if they sometimes carry a rather too large conclusion, these histories of birds and beasts and creeping things are full of fine insight and the right enthusiasm.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p563 S 2 ’20 600w
=PLATT, AGNES.= Practical hints on playwriting. il *$1.50 (5c) Dodd 808.2
20–17152
A book of advice on writing for the professional stage. The author says “I do most fervently believe that the dry bones of stage technique can be taught—in fact, all my personal experience goes to prove this. I have been handling plays now for more years than I care to remember, and have found in case after case that a little technical adjustment will turn an unmarketable play into a commercial proposition.” Among the topics covered are: What the public want; Things that are essential in a good play; How to choose a plot; How to select and differentiate the characters; Humour; How to sell a play when finished; Casting and production. A glossary of stage terms comes at the end. The author is an English woman writing with London conditions in mind but most of her discussion is general in nature.
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+ =Ath= p384 Mr 19 ’20 50w
“A beginner, provided he were only a beginner with no idea of the drama, would do well to read this book.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 180w
=PLUMB, CHARLES SUMNER.= Types and breeds of farm animals. (Country life educ. ser.) rev ed il *$3.80 Ginn 636
20–8897
A revision of a work published in 1906. The new edition contains “a more detailed discussion relative to the great breeds, and considerable space is devoted to families of importance and to noted individuals. A large amount of new data has been collected relating to various phases of production, although it is a hopeless task to bring such records down to date.... The number of chapters remains the same, but several obsolete breeds have been omitted and other new and more important ones have been substituted. Maps and many illustrations have been added.” (Foreword)
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“The book gives probably the best account published of modern farm animals and there are good illustrations. Another very interesting feature is the history of the families which the author has diligently worked out.” E. J. R.
+ =Nature= 106:659 Ja 20 ’21 210w
=POLLAK, GUSTAV.= International minds and the search for the restful. $1.50 Nation press 814
19–16675
The collection of essays in this book are gathered from articles contributed to the Evening Post and the Nation before the war. As the title indicates, they fall into two groups. The first group bears out the author’s claim “that intellect recognizes no distinctions of nationality, race, or religion.” He has selected a representative of each, from the literatures of Germany, Austria, France and America in the persons of Goethe, Grillparzer, Sainte-Beuve and Lowell and points out a certain similarity of attitude toward life and literature, of perception of the dignity of literary achievement, of keen-eyed observation and of a self-contained repose. The second group of essays is devoted to Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben, and his book on the “Hygiene of the soul” which of late years has achieved a new fame. One of the essays gives a resumé of the book. The titles of the essays are: Literature and patriotism; Goethe’s universal interests; Grillparzer’s originality; Sainte-Beuve’s unique position; Lowell: patriot and cosmopolitan; Permanent literary standards; Feuchtersleben the philosopher; The hygiene of the soul; Feuchtersleben’s aphorisms; Feuchtersleben’s influence.
=POLLARD, ALBERT FREDERICK.= Short history of the great war. *$3.25 Harcourt 940.3
20–26545
“Although several histories of the war have already appeared, only a few of them have been written by men who had an ante-war historical reputation. Dr Pollard is one of this small group. For many years he has held the chair of English history in the University of London, and is the author of numerous historical works, besides having served as assistant editor of the ‘Dictionary of national biography.’ His record of the war is chronologically complete, and includes the work of the peace conference.”—R of Rs
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“Simply as an account of military events the volume leaves something to be desired, in spite however of what the book does not contain—and one cannot say everything in four hundred pages—the volume is well worth reading.” A. P. Scott
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:331 Ja ’21 470w
“An excellent feature of Professor Pollard’s evenly balanced and temperately written narrative is that it corrects several popular misapprehensions.”
+ =Ath= p431 Mr 26 ’20 260w
=Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20
“An excellent record of the facts, combined with a true representation of their relative importance. Some of his opinions will not be generally accepted, and he has a strong prejudice against the present prime minister. Original views will not, however, detract from the great and patriotic interest of the book. The style is vigorous and sometimes eloquent.” G. B. H.
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:477 Jl ’20 190w
“In contrast with some other writers on the subject, he has succeeded in being more historical than hysterical. Having mastered the sources, as far as they are available, he presents his conclusions with admirable impartiality. But his book is conclusive proof that the true history of the war will not be written in this generation.” Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 110:804 Je 12 ’20 800w
“It is written from the British rather than from the world’s point of view.” Walter Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w
“He has vision, he has perspective, and almost more, he has style. In reading this book, we are clearly conscious that a discriminating spirit of power and clearness is ever preserving a proper balance, and so resisting the temptation of overcoloring and undercoloring. Professor Pollard has written a capital book, packed with common sense; it will be hard to surpass it.”
+ =Review= 3:423 N 3 ’20 650w
“His book undoubtedly represents the best that English historical scholarship can do at this stage by way of outlining the five-years’ struggle.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 120w
“Professor Pollard’s lucid narrative and caustic comments are highly interesting. His very able and stimulating book deserves careful reading.”
+ =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w
“Professor Pollard’s is a notable achievement; and he who has been looking for the one small volume which shall tell him what innumerable more bulky ones have failed to impart may be confidently recommended to purchase this short history. We cannot, however, invariably follow Professor Pollard in his military appreciations.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p133 F 26 ’20 1050w
=POLLEN, JOHN HUNGERFORD.= English Catholics in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1558 to 1580; a study of their politics, civil life and government. *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans 282
20–7672
“Father Pollen has written a history of the English Catholics under Elizabeth from the fall of the old church to the advent of the counter-reformation (1558–1580). He himself gives us the reasons of his beginning with the reign of Elizabeth; ‘Henry’s revolt is indeed the proper starting-point for a history of the reformation taken as a whole; but Elizabeth’s accession is better, if one is primarily considering the political and civil life of the post-reformation Catholics. Reform and counter-reform under Henry, Edward and Mary were transitory. The constructive work of each was immediately undone by their successor. But the work done by Queen Elizabeth, whether by Catholic or Protestant, lasted a long time. There have, of course, been many developments since, but they have proceeded on the lines then laid down. On the Catholic side the work of reorganization began almost immediately after the first crash, though it was only in the middle of the reign that the vitality and permanence of the new measures became evident.’”—Cath World
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“The soundness of his assumptions, the critical value of his judgments, are certainly for us to consider. An internal history of Catholic organization such as Father Pollen might write would be exceptionally valuable, but this book does not contain it.” R. G. Usher
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:84 O ’20 1250w
+ =Cath World= 111:534 Jl ’20 1050w
“Father Pollen has written an interesting and scholarly work on a critical period of our island history. The book is written, on the whole, with tact and discrimination: the author holds the scales more evenly than most Catholic historians do between the warring creeds and factions.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:55 Ag 17 ’20 1200w
“His present volume is well documented with printed and unprinted material. He is somewhat sparing in his references to other scholars who have laboured in the same field.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 S 2 ’20 1400w
=POLLOCK, SIR FREDERICK.= League of nations. *$4 (*10s 6d) Macmillan 341.1
20–14891
“The author’s purpose is to give a practical exposition of the covenant of the League of nations, ‘with so much introduction as appears proper for enabling the reader to understand the conditions under which the League was formed and has to commence its work.’ The references to authentic documents and to other publications, which are given at the heads of some of the chapters, are of material assistance to the reader.”—Ath
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=Ath= p462 Ap 2 ’20 130w
“A valuable reference and guide to further reading written for the layman.”
+ =Booklist= 17:55 N ’20
“The veteran jurist’s exposition of the text of the covenant is lucidity itself.”
+ =Spec= 124:215 F 14 ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p39 Ja 15 ’20 330w
=POLLOCK, JOHN.=[2] Bolshevik adventure. *$2.50 Dutton 914.7
20–1771
“Mr Pollock was in Russia from 1915 to 1919, and his book pretends to be nothing more than a calm statement of facts as he saw them.” (Ath) “We gather that until the revolution of November, the author worked on the Red cross committee: when the others left the country, however, he stayed on, though he should have left with them. One day in the summer of 1918, he was told by a friend that the Red guards were in possession of his rooms at the hotel. From that date he lived under a disguise and an assumed name. He got employment as a producer of plays, and to attain membership in the second food category he joined the ‘Professional union of workers in theatrical undertakings.’ He worked in this capacity first at Moscow, and afterwards at Petrograd until January, 1919, when he decided to risk an attempt at escape into Finland.” (Sat R)
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=Ath= p32 Ja 2 ’20 150w
“‘The entire upper class’ is Mr Pollock’s chief concern throughout his book. Everything else in Russia is anathema, to be damned in eternity. Especially the Jews. There are so many Jews in the ‘Bolshevik adventure’ that in reading the book one has the impression that Mr Pollock uses Russia as a misnomer for Jewry.” S. K.
− =Ath= p111 Ja 23 ’20 1250w
“The like of his book for misstatement, weakness of thought, and excited imagination is not to be found even among books on Russia.” Jacob Zeitlin
− =Nation= 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 240w
“This book should have been written in two parts, the first containing Chapters I to VI and the second Chapters VII, VIII, and IX. Then the first part should have been filed with the Minister of propaganda at London and pigeonholed in an asbestos-lined receptacle. This treatment would have left us with eighty pages of rather vivid narrative by an English eye-witness.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 31 ’20 780w
“It is a pity that Mr Pollock’s style of writing is not better: some of the confusion of Russia appears to have crept into the construction of his sentences. Apart from such minor defects as these, the book is a magnificent and crushing indictment of the Bolsheviks by one who has lived under their misrule for nearly sixteen months. No other work on the subject has conjured up for us such a vivid picture of the loathsome misery and degradation to which communism can drag a country.”
+ =Sat R= 129:211 F 28 ’20 550w
“Where Mr Pollock tells his own story he does succeed in adding to the volume of evidence against them. But the other portions of the book, written in the early days of the bolshevik régime, are too violent and too superficial to be convincing.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p2 Ja 1 ’20 1050w
=POLLOCK, WALTER.= Hot bulb oil engines and suitable vessels. il *$10 Van Nostrand 621.4
(Eng ed 20–10619)
“The objects of this book are: (1) To popularise the engine, to explain what it has done and what it is capable of doing; (2) To enable those interested to appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of the various designs; (3) To facilitate the study, and add to the general knowledge of this form of prime mover and its application to vessels of various types.” (