The book review digest, Volume 13, 1917
Part 2, “The king’s high way,” is made up of poems in which religious
sentiment predominates. Here too the influence of the war is evident. In the poems as in the foreword to the volume the author pleads for a future that shall repair the past.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 24 ‘17 520w
“A book of popular, sentimentally religious verse, a hymnal of consolation for those whom the war has stricken.”
=Ind= 90:217 Ap 28 ‘17 30w
“Among these poems is the famous ‘Hymn for the men at the front,’ of which over five million copies have been sold and the proceeds devoted to the various funds for wounded soldiers. The majority of the other poems are distinctly religious in character, full-bodied of faith and inspiring in triumphant spirituality.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:435 Ap ‘17 760w
=OXENHAM, JOHN.= Vision splendid. *$1 Doran 821 17-13962
The author of the hymn “For the men at the front,” whose verse has touched some millions of lives, sends out words of courage, comfort and consecration for those who are fighting for liberty, who “out there” “have been in the sweep of the Reaper’s scythe,—with God,—and Christ,—and hell.” The key-note of the volume is in its title poem:
“Here—or hereafter—you shall see it ended, This mighty work to which your souls are set; If from beyond—then, with the vision splendid, You shall smile back and never know regret.”
“The author of ‘Bees in amber’ and ‘All’s well’ has set before his numerous readers a series of poems with a predominantly religious tone. The ‘Vision splendid’ is of ‘a world in which God and Right shall reign supreme.’ The longest, and perhaps the most striking, piece in the book is ‘The ballad of Jim Baxter.’ ‘Promoted,’ ‘The cross-roads,’ and ‘Edith Cavell’ are other noteworthy poems.”
+ =Ath= p310 Je ‘17 60w
“It is for the most part insignificant as poetry, except that it is the medium to carry a certain vital sweep of optimism and of old-fashioned piety.” N. H. D.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 19 ‘17 650w
“These war poems have a sincerity and a vigor that command the attention and respect of the reader.”
+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 30w
“The ideas in the verse were thrown overboard by intelligent minds of the middle ages. They have little place today.” Clement Wood
— =N Y Call= p15 O 21 ‘17 270w
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 2 ‘17 350w
=OYEN, HENRY.= Gaston Olaf. *$1.35 (2c) Doran 17-25377
His full name, Gaston Olaf Francois Thorson, revealed his mixed French and Scandinavian parentage, and this joint heritage was apparent in his nature too. There were times when Gaston Olaf was wholly French, other times when he was all Norwegian. His entry into Havens Falls was spectacular. Gaston Olaf, arrived in the nick of time, to make himself, as he always seemed able to do, center of a dramatic little scene in which an attractive girl played the other part. Tom Pine, his woods partner, scenting danger, tried to guide Gaston Olaf out of town. It was Tom Pine’s fear that some day his friend would like a town so well that he would settle down and stay there. His fears seem for a time to be justified, for when Gaston learns of the plot of Dave Taggart, of the La Croix lumber company, to steal Rose Havens’s timber, he feels that this town is the place for him. He foils Taggart and helps to make Havens Falls a place fit to live in, and then the choice that Tom Pine has foreseen faces him: town or trail? And the instinct that is deepest seated within him wins.
=A L A Bkl= 14:171 F ‘18
“Sufficiently sincere and realistic to make good reading except when the author abandons his hand-to-hand battles and attempts to be humorous.”
+ — =Ind= 93:240 F 9 ‘18 40w
“There is fighting galore, of course, some entertaining descriptions, and an ending rather out of the ordinary, more reasonable and with more promise of real contentment to come than one usually finds in this kind of tale.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 260w
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=PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS.= Adventures of Jimmie Dale. *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-5814
He was a member of one of New York’s most exclusive clubs. He was known as an idle young man, but he had a complete and scientific knowledge of his father’s business, the manufacture of safes. There was nothing Jimmie Dale did not know about combinations and locks. So unknown to his society and club friends, he led a double, no, a triple life, acting now the part of the Gray Seal, a clever and mysterious cracksman who always leaves his mark, a gray seal, behind him, and again the part of Larry, the Bat, a denizen of the underworld. The chief mystery of the tale centers in the personality of the unknown woman whose commands Jimmie obeys, and who, whatever the means adopted, always has a worthy end in view.
“Those moralists who object to the introduction in motion pictures of stories which deal with crime and which make the varied infringements of the law appear easy and attractive, will have reason to be incensed by Mr Packard’s story. He makes burglary appear an interesting and even refined occupation. ... The story is interesting from start to finish.”
=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 400w
=N Y Times= 22:110 Mr 25 ‘17 340w
“Eventually, the episodes become more and more improbable, and finally descend to frank melodrama. Still the story is above the average of its kind, for, while the hero commits legal ‘crimes’ to right wrongs, his acts are free from taint of viciousness. The incidents are ingeniously conceived.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 180w
=PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS.=[2] Sin that was his. il *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-28602
His name was Raymond Chapelle, altho in different parts of Canada and Alaska he had been known as Arthur Leroy, and again as Three-Ace Artie. His reputation was none too savory, and the facts sustained it. His one good deed had reacted to his own loss and he had vowed never to commit another. Then fate compels him to assume a new name and to take on a new character. To save his life, he adopts the garb of a Catholic priest and poses as Father Aubert, while the real Father Aubert faces death in his place. The influence of the habiliment and position of priest works a change in his character, leading to regret, repentance and restitution; also to the winning of a girl’s love.
“The story is well constructed, and the chain of events made plausible, while the religious portion of it never falls into the gulf of the maudlin, though it must be admitted that there are times when it approaches perilously near the edge of that dread abyss. The dénouement, too, is satisfactory, though one cannot help wondering how the good people of St Marleau took the astonishing revelation of the truth about their ‘good young Father Aubert.’”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:468 N 11 ‘17 380w
“The plot is daring, and only by the most skillful handling is it possible to develop it without wounding the religious susceptibilities of many readers. It is Mr Packard’s most ambitious and also his best work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 460w
=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED.= How to run an automobile. 1917 ed il *$1 (2c) Henley 629.2 17-11228
The author points out that this is not an instruction book on the construction and repair of automobiles. It has been prepared “in answer to numerous requests for a concise exposition of the operating principles of modern gasoline automobiles.” It is intended as “an absolutely non-technical compilation of the operating instructions of leading automobile manufacturers with which the car owner should be familiar.” Contents: Automobile parts and their functions; General starting and driving instructions; Typical 1917 control systems; Care of automobiles. The book is well supplied with diagrams, etc.
“It is possible to immediately turn to your car and apply the knowledge.”
+ =Agricultural Digest= 2:506 Je ‘17 60w
“Instructions are plain and the text is well illustrated.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17
=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 40w
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17
=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED.= Storage batteries simplified, operating principles—care and industrial applications. il *$1.50 (2c) Henley 621.35 17-13513
“A complete, non-technical but authoritative treatise discussing the development of the modern storage battery, outlining the basic operation of the leading types; also the methods of construction, charging, maintenance and repair.” (Title-page) The book also includes special instructions for care and repair of automobile batteries and glossary of terms. It has been written with the cooperation of leading American storage battery makers.
=Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 10w
=Pittsburgh= 22:659 O ‘17
+ =Pratt= p22 O ‘17 40w
“A plainly written book understandable by the average reader.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:364 O ‘17 20w
=PAGET, STEPHEN.= I sometimes think. *$1.75 Macmillan 814 A17-1505
“‘I sometimes think’ is a series of essays for young people covering a varied number of topics. By far the most interesting are the witty one entitled ‘Unnatural selection,’ and the graver, keener one called ‘The next few years.’ In ‘Unnatural selection’ Mr Paget tells us how children should choose their parents—if this were possible. Of course, it is really a sermon to parents through their children.”—Springf’d Republican
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:86 Je ‘17 30w
“It is a beautiful book that Mr Paget has given us, and worthy of the subject. After all, his is the point of view that is desirable today. It is beautifulness that our men will need when they return from learning things and ‘seeing things ugly enough to drive you and me mad.’ These essays are of a spirit to produce the atmosphere that all desire to bring about for the refreshing of the men and the healing of the nation.”
+ =Sat R= 123:321 Ap 7 ‘17 870w
“Full of good sense and good humour. ... He ends on a grave note in ‘The next few years,’ hinting at the great problems which peace will set before us, and at the demands that will then be made on our loyalty and self-control.”
+ =Spec= 118:593 My 26 ‘17 80w
“The essays are quite English in atmosphere and tone, but they show a wide sympathy and are whole-souled and suggestive. Mr Paget is always a clear writer, and at times is keenly sarcastic. Older people, rather than the young people whom the author seeks to address, will probably turn to the book with most appreciation and interest.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 190w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p608 D 14 ‘16 1550w
=PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.=[2] Sons of Eli. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-24274
The first story in this collection is a story of twenty years ago, included with the more recent tales, perhaps, to show that the Yale spirit is the same yesterday and today. The remaining stories are loosely related in that they concern the same set of characters. Some of them have appeared in Scribner’s Magazine. Contents: A victory unforeseen; Follow the ball; “Sleepy” Jordan; The letter of the law; Getting his goat; The Indian; The vengeance of Antonia; A transaction with Shylock; His code of honor.
“[The tales are] crisp and humorous, and hold up high university ideals of sport and of student relations.”
+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 20w
=PALMER, FREDERICK.= My second year of the war. *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 940.91 17-6753
“My year of the great war” was published in 1915. This second volume by Mr Palmer covers the year 1916 and is concerned chiefly with the campaigns about Verdun and on the Somme. Mr Palmer’s articles have been appearing in Collier’s. He is said by the publishers to be “the only accredited American correspondent who had freedom of the field in the battles of the Somme.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:308 Ap ‘17
“Unfortunately, many of Mr Palmer’s descriptions lose effectiveness because they are very much like similar descriptions found in ‘My year of the great war.’ ... On the whole, the strongest appeal of the book is to the thoughtful mind.” A. R. Dodd
+ =Bookm= 45:195 Ap ‘17 720w
+ =Cath World= 105:538 Jl ‘17 270w
Reviewed by P. F. Bicknell
+ =Dial= 62:305 Ap 5 ‘17 320w
+ =Lit D= 54:1273 Ap 28 ‘17 250w
Reviewed by Harold Stearns
+ =New Repub= 10:sup16 Ap 21 ‘17 550w
“It is essentially a study of military events. That is not to say that it is not a very human record. It is human and dramatic and full of sympathy. But it is not emotional. ... It does not tell how men felt. It tells what they did. ... Another kind of importance the book possesses: it tells us something of what, in a purely military way, England has done.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:64 F 25 ‘17 600w
Reviewed by Robert Lynd
+ =Pub W= 91:975 Mr 17 ‘17 280w
“Mr Palmer has won a world-wide reputation for the vividness and accuracy of his descriptions.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 70w
“Perhaps the greatest value of the book is its human note. ... Dwelling on the initiative and bravery of the new British army, Mr Palmer says that ‘Tennyson’s “Light brigade” seems bombast and gallery play after July 1.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 24 ‘17 570w
“It is impossible to say after reading this book that you have a clear idea of the whole scheme of attack in the beginning, or any grasp of the principles that governed the advance when once the main attack was successful. One picture, or one side of the picture, he does convey well: the extraordinary amount of movement on the roads, the crowding up of batteries behind our lines, the ceaseless ebb and flow of transport of all kinds.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p170 Ap 12 ‘17 400w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 60w
=PALMER, FREDERICK.= With our faces in the light. *50c (3½c) Dodd 940.91 17-16213
“Mr Palmer recalls a luminous evening on the Somme, when he came upon a battalion of the New army halted and content, as their commander said meaningly, ‘with their faces in the light.’ The officer went on to predict to Mr Palmer that America, too, would come in, ‘because your faces are in the light ... because that thing which we are now about to attack will drive you, and the thing that is sending us to the attack is calling you.’” (Spec) This little book “illuminates the situation and the conditions in America and the meaning of the war for us,” (N Y Times) and expresses the conviction “that this country as a united nation will face the test in the spirit of the fathers.” (Springf’d Republican)
“A little sermon on patriotism.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17
=Ath= p532 O ‘17 80w
“Perhaps it is the sincerity, perhaps it is the style, but whatever the cause, Mr Palmer’s work remains a very stirring and invigorating piece of writing.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 260w
=Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 70w
+ =N Y Times= 22:344 S 16 ‘17 150w
=Pittsburgh= 22:685 O ‘17 20w
“This charming little book was written by the well-known American war correspondent for his own countrymen, but it will have an equal interest for English readers.”
+ =Spec= 119:249 S 8 ‘17 200w
“It represents the views of a man who knows war on many continents and is withal an intense American. The blatant tone of less worldly-wise men is refreshingly absent.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 90w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p410 Ag 30 ‘17 500w
=PALMER, FREDERICK E.= Milady’s house plants. il $1 De La Mare 716 17-13238
The author of this “complete instructor and guide to success with flowers and plants in the home” is an expert florist who has had many years experience in solving the problem of house plants. After a chapter on the “Companionship of flowers,” Mr Palmer discusses: Fundamental requirements of all plants; Foliage plants for house decoration; Flowering plants for house decoration; Bulbous plants; House plants out-of-doors in summer; Sowing of seeds and rooting of cuttings; Outside window boxes in winter; Insect pests and remedies; How to treat cut flowers; Sun parlors as plant rooms. “The illustrations are a considerable part of the book, many of the operations being pictured and most of the plants.” (Springf’d Republican)
“This valuable little book is compactly written and well illustrated.”
+ =Ind= 92:345 N 17 ‘17 40w
“The common plants, and some uncommon ones that a mere amateur may safely attempt are listed here with sufficient comment as to name, quality, treatment, etc., to insure their welfare under thoughtful care. ... The index is very full and helpful.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 300w
=PANI, ALBERTO J.= Hygiene in Mexico; a study of sanitary and educational problems; tr. by Ernest L. de Gogorza. *$1.50 (3½c) Putnam 614.09 17-6341
A report of a survey of health conditions made in Mexico City and the Federal district. The report is a frank revelation of evil conditions due to official carelessness and neglect, and is made in the hope of future betterment. The investigation was undertaken by the order of Carranza, and the author, who has held many posts of importance in Mexico, was a member of the joint Mexican-American commission of 1916.
“In a chapter devoted to public health of the City of Mexico, the author presents exhaustive and carefully prepared tables, showing a comparison of death rates in various cities, American and European, which approximate the City of Mexico in number of inhabitants.” H. S. K.
=Boston Transcript= p6 F 24 ‘17 400w
“A Gallic fervor for system and for a well-expanded and rounded-out scheme for the hygienic redemption of the state permeates the work.”
+ =Dial= 62:532 Je 14 ‘17 240w
=Int J Ethics= 27:403 Ap ‘17 140w
=N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 100w
=St Louis= 15:39 N ‘17 20w
“Interesting from an educational point of view.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Mr 30 ‘17 220w
“An ardent plea for public health in Mexico, and a vigorous statement of difficulties in the way thereof.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 38:551 S 22 ‘17 270w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p420 Ag 30 ‘17 120w
=PARIS, WILLIAM FRANCKLYN.= Decorative elements in architecture; random observations on the eternal fitness of things from a decorative point of view. il *$5 (19c) Lane 749 17-13254
A series of papers devoted largely to interior decoration and furnishing. The author says, “Too little stress has been laid upon the fact that as much skill and science and understanding of art is needed in the adornment of the inside of a palace as is required in the designing and embellishment of the outside.” Contents: Sunt lachrymæ rerum; Rationalism in art; Guessing and knowing; The inheritance of the past; Principles and essentials; The development of ornament; Decorative elements; The art of Penelope; Painted glass; Wrought iron. The book is handsomely illustrated.
“‘Decorative elements in architecture’ appeals to the layman as a gem. It is descriptive, historic, and didactic, and written in a style which a layman can understand. The illustrations, of which there are ninety and nine, really illustrate.”
+ =Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 140w
“As befits a book upon art by an artist, it is very finely produced and splendidly illustrated. A rich but not sumptuous cover, good paper, excellent typography and margins—these are, in themselves, details of an art which must be handed on, with the rest, to the waiting future—the art of the book. And a most refreshing thing about the illustrations should be welcomed—they are all of unusual works of art.”
+ =Int Studio= 62:sup24 Jl ‘17 1350w
“As a piece of book-making the work is altogether pleasing.”
+ =Lit D= 53:33 S 1 ‘17 270w
“His book is quite continental in quality; the reviewer, indeed, perhaps through insular prejudice, feels that an occasional illustration from English eighteenth-century ironwork or American colonial furniture would sometimes carry the desired points more tellingly than do the French and Spanish pieces chosen.”
+ — =Nation= 105:607 N 29 ‘17 560w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:110 Jl ‘17 30w
“It is difficult to say whether the book is more for decorators or for the public. Both will get from it inspiration and practical suggestion, but the public perhaps will profit most by having its bewildered face turned firmly, though with a delicate touch, in the right direction.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:531 D 2 ‘17 640w
+ =Outlook= 116:160 My 23 ‘17 130w
“Of special interest are the last three chapters on tapestry, ‘The art of Penelope,’ painted glass, and wrought iron.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 9 ‘17 270w
=PARKER, EDWARD HARPER.= China; her history, diplomacy, and commerce from the earliest times to the present day. 2d ed il *$2.50 Dutton 951 17-30891
“The first edition of this work was published in 1901. To the present (second) edition the author, who is professor of Chinese at the Victoria university of Manchester, has added three chapters, in the last of which he endeavours to describe succinctly how political reform in China arose out of foreign defeat, and how the spirit of democracy asserted itself.” (Ath) Other chapters have been brought down to date.
“Contains much information about a country of which Europeans are as a rule regrettably deficient in knowledge, and the numerous clear maps are of great assistance.”
+ =Ath= p474 S ‘17 170w
“It is a pity, however, that while the author has accumulated a vast store of first-hand knowledge, his style leaves much to be desired. It is also to be somewhat regretted that Mr Parker is interested more in men and their affairs than in nature and her products. Perhaps the least useful part of the book is the last chapter, which deals with the rise of the republic.”
+ — =Ath= p508 O ‘17 770w
“The dominant interest of these pages, which are written with a dry humour that finds expression even in the paginal headlines, lies in their exposure of Germany’s brief but eventful career in the Far East, a subject on which, thanks to his earlier consular experience, Professor Parker writes from inside information. ... Professor Parker’s book should be read by all who desire a closer acquaintance with a land that has suddenly emerged from the picturesque stagnation in which Marco Polo found it. The glossary alone is of great interest and practical use.”
+ =Sat R= 124:190 S 8 ‘17 850w
“This is a book of observations, even more than a book of historical study or economic analysis, though there is enough history to supply a background for the observations. These are expressed in a breezy, buoyant style and are characterized by frankness and a disposition to make disconcerting, but highly amusing comparisons between the Chinese and the English.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 31 ‘18 700w
“His description of the rise of the Chinese republic is coherent and interesting; it bears evidence, however, of having been based to a very great extent upon the study of contemporary local journalism. Professor Parker’s work is at its best when he deals with those subjects which afford opportunity for the display of his wide range of ethnological, historical and etymological research.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p483 O 11 ‘17 710w
=PARKER, HORATIO NEWTON.= City milk supply. il *$5 McGraw 614.3 17-7831
“The volume opens with a discussion of milk and of the diseases which it may convey. The dairy cow and farm are next considered from various angles. Then come valuable chapters on the sanitary production of milk and on milk transportation. The importance of the milk contractor is duly recognized by a chapter of 142 pages. Nearly as much space is given to an able review of methods of public control of milk supplies, this subject having been wisely reserved to the last. Each chapter is supplied with a source reference list.”—Engin News-Rec
“The book is not entirely satisfactory, either in its analysis of production costs or of distribution costs. But as to other topics which the author presumes to cover, the book is most inclusive and authoritative, and will be a most valuable record for all those interested in accurate facts as to sanitary milk, its production, transportation, and inspection.” C. L. K.
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 74:300 N ‘17 150w
“Such a thoroughly up-to-date book on milk supply as this, written by a man who has dealt with the subject as inspector, health officer, analyst and teacher, should certainly make a broad and telling appeal to all who are concerned with public health and sanitation. ... The book deals adequately with its subject and might well serve as a model for writers who have not yet learned the knack of selecting the most essential facts from a vast amount of material and presenting them in concise, orderly, instructive and readable form.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:153 Ap 19 ‘17 170w
=Pittsburgh= 22:418 My ‘17
“A comprehensive, up-to-date discussion of milk production, distribution, and regulation by a man conversant with every aspect of the subject as inspector, health officer, analyst, and teacher.”
+ =Pratt= p20 O ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17
“No other book in English, at least, gives an equal amount of information regarding city milk supply.” Frank Schneider, jr.
+ =Survey= 39:72 O 20 ‘17 170w
=PARKER, LOUIS NAPOLEON.= Aristocrat. *$1 Lane 822 17-5392
The scenes of this three-act play are laid during and immediately following the French revolution. The first act opens on New Year’s eve, 1793, in the house of Louis of Olonzac. Refusing to recognize the existence of the republic, he is preparing to observe the occasion as always, with mass at midnight and a supper with his friends afterwards. The result is imprisonment for himself, his daughter Louise, and his guests. The trial scene takes up the second act, with the dramatic rescue of Louise, and the death of Robespierre as its climax. Act three is laid ten years later.
“Good for reading aloud.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:441 Jl ‘17
“‘The aristocrat’ is exceedingly good, and possesses many of the characteristics which make ‘Disraeli’ enjoyable.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ap 14 ‘17 800w
“A romantic glow envelops the action from beginning to end.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:663 Je ‘17 60w
=PARKER, RALPH MIDDLETON.= Officer’s notes; comp. by Lieut. C: C. Griffith. il *$2 G. U. Harvey, 109 Lafayette st., N.Y. 355 17-11226
“In compiling his notes Captain Parker has taken advantage of the experience gained by nearly twenty years active service with troops—as commandant of cadets at Norwich university, and as the officer detailed to instruct candidates for commissions in the reserve during the past winter. The book is a digest of the information given in the army regulations as to company administration; military law, as laid down in the manual of courts-martial; small-arm firing regulations, including the use and construction of the United States army service rifle; field service regulations, with particular reference to the gathering of information; security; distribution of troops; outposts and orders; marches and convoys, and the shelter of troops in the field.”—N Y Times
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:378 Je ‘17
+ =Ind= 90:127 Ap 14 ‘17 20w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:67 My ‘17 30w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:89 Je ‘17 30w
“Gives in small compass what the young officer should know.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Ap ‘17 60w
“Captain Parker and Lieutenant Griffith have performed a real service for the young officer and for the candidate for a commission in the Officers’ reserve corps by condensing into a little book of 204 pages that can readily be carried in the pocket the essential information from five or six service manuals, and presenting it in clear, everyday English that the average man without any knowledge of military phraseology can readily understand.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:116 Ap 1 ‘17 320w
“Perhaps the best evidence of its worth is furnished by the fact that one dealer in the Wall Street district is said to have sold a thousand copies in four days.” R. L.
=Pub W= 91:1326 Ap 21 ‘17 110w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 31 ‘17 90w
=PARKHURST, FREDERIC AUGUSTUS.= Predetermination of true costs and relatively true selling prices. il *$1.25 Wiley 657 16-14605
“A careful reading of this book suggests that it is fairer to judge it by the content than by the title. ... Seven eighths of the book deals with costs: the remainder with profit and selling prices. ... That the author has presented the subject in the usual manner will be seen from the chapter headings which are as follows: Importance of absolute control of all sources of information; Discussion of elements affecting true costs; Direct costs; Indirect costs; Recapitulation of costs; Estimating; Profit and relatively true selling prices; Conclusion. ... The closure is an appeal for greater consideration and better treatment of the workman, not only because of philanthropic motives but because it pays.”—Am Econ R
“It is a good book to which to refer a clerk in a cost department for a working manual or a student of the subject of cost accounting. To such persons it offers not only the principles of cost finding but unusually clear and complete illustrations of their application.” J: R. Wildman
+ =Am Econ R= 7:132 Mr ‘17 550w
=Cleveland= p152 D ‘16 15w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:122 Ag ‘16
“‘Greatest value of the book lies in the arguments brought out in the first chapter on the importance of absolute control of all sources of information. ... System explained in this book is a definite one for a given type of manufacture, and the forms shown are taken from the practice of two shops only.’”
=Pittsburgh= 22:462 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from American Machinist p572 Mr 29 ‘17)
=PARKMAN, MARY ROSETTA.= Heroes of today. il *$1.35 (2½c) Century 920 17-25610
The author has told the stories of some of the heroes “who are fighting ‘in the patient modern way,’ not against flesh and blood with sword and spear, but against the unseen enemies of disease and pestilence; against the monster evils of ignorance, poverty and injustice.” The heroes chosen are: John Muir, John Burroughs, Wilfred Grenfell, Captain Scott, Jacob Riis, Edward L. Trudeau, George Washington Goethals, Bishop Rowe, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Rupert Brooke, and Herbert C. Hoover. The book is illustrated with portraits and other pictures.
+ =Lit D= 55:56 D 8 ‘17 70w
+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 70w
=PARKMAN, MARY ROSETTA.= Heroines of service. il *$1.35 (2½c) Century 920 17-25609
The author has written sketches of the lives of eleven women: Mary Lyon; Alice Freeman Palmer; Clara Barton; Frances E. Willard; Julia Ward Howe; Anna Howard Shaw; Mary Antin; Alice C. Fletcher; Mary Slessor; Marie Sklodowska Curie, Jane Addams. Writing of the work of these women, she says, “The service of the true woman is always ‘womanly.’ She gives something of the fostering care of the mother, whether it be as nurse, like Clara Barton; as teacher, like Mary Lyon and Alice Freeman Palmer; or as social helper, like Jane Addams. So it is that the service of these ‘heroines’ is that which only women could have given to the world.” Each sketch is accompanied by a portrait and there are other illustrations.
“A timely book whose only fault is a happy one, a tendency to idealize.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 50w
“She makes an evident aim to avoid controversy regarding the comparative claims to greatness in each of her subjects. The style of narration is intimate and chatty.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 110w
+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 70w
=PARRISH, RANDALL.=[2] Devil’s own. il *$1.40 (2c) McClurg 17-28849
The time of the story is the year of the Black Hawk war, and that outbreak has a part in the climax of the tale. It is with one of the problems of slavery, however, that the plot is concerned. In journeying down the river, Lieutenant Knox falls in with Joe Kirby, the gambler. Kirby has been playing cards with Judge Beaucaire of Missouri and has taken from him his home and all his possessions, including his slaves. From Kirby himself, Lieutenant Knox learns that the gambler’s main motive is to gain possession of Rene Beaucaire, the girl reputed to be Judge Beaucaire’s daughter, altho in reality she is his granddaughter, the child of his son and a quadroon girl. Technically she is his slave. Moved by the tragic fate of this unknown girl, Knox sets out to save her; a task which involves the rescue also of Eloise Beaucaire, the judge’s real daughter.
“As is usual in Mr Parrish’s novels, the detail is conscientiously sketched, giving a vivid impression of the political and racial conditions in ‘Missury’ in 1832.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 N 28 ‘17 350w
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 40w
“The story is tedious in the telling, despite the fact that it brims with exciting adventures and dreadful experiences. Its most interesting feature is the description of the hidden trail whereby slaves escaped to freedom in the days before the war.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:518 D 2 ‘17 300w
“Tales of frontier and pioneer days will probably never lose their flavor with native Americans. The period was so dramatic a one in the history of the United States that it requires very little departure from established facts to make a story that stirs the imagination and arouses the liveliest interest from its first to last chapter.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 370w
=PARRY, THOMAS WOOD.= When Daddy was a boy. il *$1.25 (2½c) Little
A series of stories told by a father to his little son. They are sketches of boyhood on a Kentucky farm. Many of them are stories about animals. In others a black mammy and little negro playmates are introduced. One is a negro folk tale, included as typical of the many told to the author as a child.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:495 D ‘17 100w
“The fact that Daddy lived in a Kentucky home adds a delicious flavor. The book is well illustrated.”
+ =Ind= 92:446 D 1 ‘17 30w
“Every one will like ‘When Daddy was a boy.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 120w
“The incidents are such as a child likes to hear, and the negroes are well portrayed.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 80w
=PARSONS, CARL COPELAND.= Office organization and management. (Business administration, section 18) il $2.50 La Salle extension univ. 658 17-8877
The author’s aim has been to supply a broad view of all phases of office management. The work is based on observation of the principles employed in such offices as those of the National cloak and suit company, Sherwin-Williams company, National cash register company, and others. The author, who is now manager of the Shaw-Walker company of New York, was formerly lecturer in business administration at the University of Michigan. Contents; Organization; Laying out the office; Office employees; Office training; Rules and regulations; Discipline; Methods of payment; Promotions; Increasing efficiency; Suggestions and ideas; Esprit de corps; Vacations; Encouragement of savings; Making employees stockholders; Pension systems; Machinery of the office; etc. The volume is provided with various forms by way of illustration, is fully indexed, and made more useful as a text by the inclusion of test questions for students.
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 90w
“By introducing many extracts from the manuals of business houses and by concerning himself entirely with the most practical problems of modern business, Carl C. Parsons makes his ‘Office organization and management’ a valuable piece of work. These things also make an intentionally technical work vastly more interesting than a purely theoretical discussion.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 3 ‘17 150w
=PARTRIDGE, EDWARD BELLAMY.= Sube Cane. il *$1.35 Penn 17-13316
“The ten-years-old hero of ‘Sube Cane’ enjoys a series of adventures which Edward Bellamy Partridge relates for grown-ups. Sube’s escapades are very like those engaged in by other mischievous boys who have broken into fiction.” (Springf’d Republican) “‘Sube’ is ‘all boy.’ His is the ingenuity and ingenuousness of adolescence and those who have a furtive sympathy with the innate genius for mischief which characterizes youth will find a humor which does not tax their credulity or patience.” (Dial)
=A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17
“An authentic story of boyhood.”
+ =Dial= 63:118 Ag 16 ‘17 110w
“The book is something on the ‘Penrod’ order; not perhaps so gifted with real humor, but certainly full of fun and comic incidents.”
+ =Outlook= 116:522 Ag 1 ‘17 50w
“Sube is either less inventive, or the author sees him with a less humorous eye than Mr Tarkington’s, for his adventures arouse comparatively few smiles. But in spite of that, he is natural, and has little of the offensive precociousness often lavished upon boys whose activities form the basis of such a story.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 100w
=PATERNOSTER, GEORGE SIDNEY.= Great gift. *$1.40 (2c) Lane 17-28803
To Hugh Standish has come the crowning honor of his career. At forty-six he is to enter the British cabinet. But it is at this moment that he begins to realize the emptiness of his life. Love, home, family affection for the first time seem to him desirable. In Olive Ingstrom, a girl of twenty, he believes that he has found the fulfilment of his new ideal, and for a time he deludes himself, mistaking her respect and youthful admiration for love. Fortunately he comes to see the truth before two young lives have been blighted. The war menace is gathering at the story’s close, promising to Hugh new activities and opportunities for service.
“The business ethics of the hero, and his attitude to life generally, will not appeal to those whose outlook is more spiritual, but the fact that he recognized that he had missed the best in life ... will cause them to close the book with feelings of sympathy dominating those of criticism.”
+ — =Ath= p471 S ‘17 90w
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 360w
“The book offers one of those English half-and-half politics and society novels for which Mrs Humphry Ward long ago set the standard. But Mr Paternoster does not follow Mrs Ward’s pattern. He has his own pattern, which is simpler than hers and has fewer of the trimmings of sentiment.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:413 O 21 ‘17 300w
“The hero is just a little too successful to be realistic. ... It is in the last third of the book, when war is about to break out ... that the novelist begins to show his power.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:90 Ag 4 ‘17 330w
=PATERSON, MRS ISABEL.= Magpie’s nest. *$1.40 (2c) Lane 17-9810
The author is a young Canadian novelist and this is the second book in which she pictures life in the big Canadian northwest. Hope Fielding, born on the prairies, demands that life give her happiness, and because she does not find it near at hand, she goes far in search of it. But the French have a saying that happiness is to be found in a magpie’s nest; because the magpie always builds out of reach. It is only when Hope has given up looking for it, that happiness overtakes her. One of the new and growing cities of Alberta is the scene of the greater part of the story, but at one time Hope’s quest takes her to Seattle, at another to New York.
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 330w
“Isabel Paterson’s heroine reminds one of Owen Johnson’s ‘Salamander,’ a fact which will doubtless recommend the book to many.”
— =Dial= 62:483 My 31 ‘17 90w
“As in Mrs Paterson’s former novel, ‘The shadow riders,’ the scene of a part of the story is in the Canadian northwest, the descriptions of which are fresh and vivid. The book is remarkably well written, and holds the reader’s interest in spite of its reprehensible characters and very unpleasant situations.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:137 Ap 15 ‘17 320w
+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 50w
“The latter part of the story is in obedience to the conventional requirement of a happy ending and is quite ordinary work. But the first two-thirds ring absolutely true, built from the storied memories of tense, full, eager, devouring youth. The vitality, the wonder, and the hope of immaturity are poured out for us.” M. A. Hopkins
+ — =Pub W= 91:1320 Ap 21 ‘17 430w
“It shows a great advance on Miss Paterson’s previous novel ‘The shadow riders’; and, moreover, it is by no means devoid of humour.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p238 My 17 ‘17 230w
=PATRI, ANGELO.= Schoolmaster of the great city. *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 371 17-13273
A piece of autobiography and a study of educational conditions as they exist in New York city today. The author came to America from Italy when a boy. He was eleven years old when he entered an American school, and ten years later, having been sent thru college by a father who earned two dollars a day, he came back to the city schools as a teacher. In time, after another interval spent in study, he passed on to a principalship. In this book he writes of his association with the schools, as pupil, as teacher and as principal. He shows how the humanizing touch has made itself felt in spite of the big unwieldy educational system and how school has been linked with community as the first step toward making a new and a better America.
“As interesting to the parent as to the teacher.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17
=Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 80w
“Mr Patri’s honest and unpretentious book contains both wisdom and inspiration for every teacher and every parent, everywhere.” Clyde Furst
+ =Educ R= 54:516 D ‘17 1000w
“The author knows how to tell a story and when he has told it his point needs no further enforcing. The issues which are so sacred to the old education seem trivial in the face of the realities of present day requirements.”
+ =Ind= 91:295 Ag 25 ‘17 200w
“It has the rare gift of unfolding, without consciousness, the real character of an uncommon man.”
+ =Nation= 104:738 Je 21 ‘17 470w
“The simple anecdotes introduce you to real people. That is what makes the book interesting reading, even if you are not concerned with schools and with children. This is a human document, not a pedagogical treatise.” B. C. G.
+ =N Y Call= p14 My 27 ‘17 800w
“Mr Patri’s vision of what the public school should be and should do in American life, in city and country, in rich neighborhoods and poor neighborhoods alike, is an inspiring and an aspiring vision.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 480w
“His book has in it entertainment and valuable suggestions also.”
+ =Outlook= 116:233 Je 6 ‘17 20w
=Pittsburgh= 22:692 O ‘17 90w
“Patri’s book has been compared to Jacob Riis’s portrayal of the lives of the common people in ‘How the other half lives.’ Like Riis, he sees the flaws of our social and educational systems more clearly because of his foreign birth. ... His work has been done in New York, but his experiments are of interest in all American cities. ... Mr Patri was given the principalship of school no. 45, in the Bronx, and he has made it into a model Gary school—one that is a real community center.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:73 Jl ‘17 2350w
“There is no theorizing or dogmatizing. You see the children and the mothers and the homes with his own eyes. You unravel the snarls and tangles with him. You marvel that the despised craft of teaching could be so dramatic, could call for such skill and talent. Schoolmasters like Mr Patri would make teaching the most important of professions, and education the finest of the arts.” Randolph Bourne
+ =Survey= 38:422 Ag 11 ‘17 650w
=PATTERSON, AUSTIN MCDOWELL.= German-English dictionary for chemists. *$2 Wiley 540.3 17-6769
“The scope of the book is broader than the title would seem to indicate. It gives English meanings, not only of German words occurring in the literature of general and industrial chemistry, but includes words used in scientific and technical literature generally, as well as a good general German vocabulary.”—Quar List New Tech Bks
“Dr Patterson has filled what has long been an irritating lacuna in the average chemist’s library. ... The book should be eagerly welcomed by the steadily increasing number of young chemists in England and America and by those who, even if they have already a good working knowledge of the language, are occasionally at fault. The book is clearly printed, the German being in roman type.”
+ =Nature= 100:144 O 25 ‘17 220w
“‘The need of a book of this kind has been keenly felt by all scientific men.’”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p5 Ap ‘17 190w (Reprinted from India Rubber World My 1 ‘17)
“Dr Patterson has performed a public service in the compilation. ... His extended experience as editor of Chemical Abstracts has given him exceptional qualifications for such an undertaking and the work shows the same painstaking care which characterized his successful work as editor. ... The printing is good, the covers are flexible, and the size is suited to the coat pocket.” C: H. Herty
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:462 My ‘17 60w (Reprinted from Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry p422 Ap 1 ‘17)
“Includes valuable suggestions on nomenclature.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:835 D ‘17 20w
+ =Pratt= p14 Jl ‘17 20w
“Very useful to anyone who has occasion to read German scientific or technical books and periodicals.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 70w
“Since its appearance in January it has been in constant use in the office of ‘Chemical Abstracts,’ where translating work involving every phase of theoretical and applied chemistry is done and it has stood this test of completeness in such a way as to justify the confidence with which it is used.” E. J. Crane
+ =Science= n s 46:414 O 26 ‘17 510w
=PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD.= Religious education of an American citizen. *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 204 17-20853
This book is “an attempt by the emeritus professor of Christian morals at Harvard to analyze the various influences which direct and go to make up the religious training of the average American.” (Springf’d Republican) Chapter eleven, The conversion of militarism, is reminiscent of William James’ “Moral equivalent for war.” The last chapter deals with The place of Jesus Christ in a religious experience.
“In vain do we look for any definite statement by the author as to the nature of Christ. And if he wavers in this fundamental belief, what light or leading can be expected from him on the momentous question of ‘The religious education of an American citizen?’”
— =Cath World= 106:113 O ‘17 700w
=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 60w
“Some patent defects that one grieves so often to find in religious writers of prominence are an over-reliance on pretty verbosities, a habit of glib mosaic of biblical quotation designed to fit into modern problems (going back for its warrant to the infallibility of the scriptures), and a trait that naturally goes with the latter—an odd combination of sound and serious reflection with ramshackle logic. But there is plenty of meat in this book.”
+ — =Dial= 63:278 S 27 ‘17 350w
“The intimate and perplexing problems of the mind, in which faith, character and modern progress are factors, are dealt with helpfully. ... The chapter on the conversion of militarism is especially pertinent, but Dr Peabody almost seems to fall into the common failure to properly interpret Jesus Christ in relation to militarism. ... If we must have militarism a while longer, we wish that we might have the courage to possess it without torturing the teaching of Jesus to justify us.” L: A. Walker
+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ag 5 ‘17 300w
“An ideal work, the cream of long and rich experience.”
+ =Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 90w
“Particularly helpful at this time is the chapter on ‘The conversion of militarism.’ Dr Peabody thinks the youth of America should be given constructive social work to fill the place which some would gladly see assigned permanently to military training. ... The book is written with distinction of thought and style.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 12 ‘17 250w
=PEABODY, JAMES.= Railway organization and management. 2v il LaSalle extension univ. 385 17-689
“This is one of a series of books on interstate commerce and railway traffic. Its purpose is to explain the functions of the various departments of the railway and the duties of the officers and employees. ... Naturally the greater part of the book consists of a detailed analysis of the three great divisions of railroad organization—operating, traffic, and accounting; but brief mention is made of the corporate organization and of certain miscellaneous departments, such as relief, pensions, publicity. Some little attention is given to the valuation work which has been forced upon the railroads by the federal government.” (Am Econ R) The author has been statistician for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé railway.
“The arrangement of the book is somewhat faulty resulting in many needless repetitions. A fairly full index remedies this defect to some extent. There is also a noticeable lack of balance in the apportionment of space to the various topics. On the whole, however, the work affords the student of transportation and the layman a considerable amount of information concerning the organization and operation of a railway though it is too superficial to be of much use to a railroad man or to any one who desires an intimate knowledge of the subject.” C. W. Doten
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:121 Mr ‘17 250w
=Ind= 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 60w
“No such complete list and description of railway positions has been put into any previous work. Elaborate charts show the relations of the officials to each other and guide the reader through the almost infinite complexities of the organization.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 28 ‘16 250w
=PEARS, SIR EDWIN.= Life of Abdul Hamid. il *$2 (1½c) Holt 17-31756
“A word of apology on my part may, perhaps, be expected for having included this sorry creature, Abdul Hamid, among the ‘Makers of the nineteenth century,’” writes Basil Williams in his General editor’s preface, continuing, “and yet as an influence on the political thought and action of Europe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as one who has handed down that evil influence to the Europe of this century, Abdul Hamid may justly lay claim to be included among those who have helped in large measure to make or mar the world into which we were born.” It is in much the same spirit that the author takes up the career of “the greatest of the destroyers of the Turkish empire.” Sir Edwin Pears is author also of “The fall of Constantinople” and “The destruction of the Greek empire.”
“An authoritative and popular history. The chapters are topical, which makes useful the chronological table of events at the end of the book. The author weaves into the history the part played by British diplomacy. His estimate of the Sultan’s character is interesting and well balanced.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:167 F ‘18
=Lit D= 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 170w
“True, the result is a trifle disappointing, for Sir Edwin has treated his subject from a topical rather than a chronological standpoint, which frequently causes confusion and gives rise to the necessity for elaborate mental cross-referencing.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:581 D 30 ‘17 520w
“Sir Edwin Pears has dealt with all these matters in a most competent fashion, and his book will be the standard biography of the worst of all the Sultans.”
+ =Spec= 119:717 D 15 ‘17 310w
“Abdul Hamid is the subject of just such an impartial, clear and comprehensive study as would be expected from a man of Sir Edwin Pears’s knowledge and profundity. If it is history more than it is biography, that fact is a natural consequence of the secrecy surrounding the life of the deposed emperor, and of the necessity of judging him by his public acts.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 1000w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 N 15 ‘17 50w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p592 D 6 ‘17 1750w
=PEARSE, PADRAIC H.= Collected works. il *7s 6d Maunsel, London 820.8
“Padraic Pearse was among the Irishmen executed after the outbreak in Dublin in the Easter of 1916. He was thirty-six years old; but already for twenty years and more he had been working for the Ireland that he saw in a vision. He learned the Gaelic language, and so well that, as ‘Padraic MacPiarais,’ he was able to write poems in it and plays and stories. At seventeen he founded the New Ireland society in Dublin. ... He edited the weekly organ of the Gaelic league. He conducted a secondary school as Gaelic in ‘atmosphere’ as he could make it.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The stories include the tale of “Iosagan” (Little Jesus), the mysterious, barefooted boy who came to play with the village boys, but disappeared when there were grown-ups about; of little Paraig, who used to play all alone at being a priest; of Brideen and her two dolls; of “The Dearg-Dool,” “in which the kindliest intentions seem hopelessly entangled with ancient doom”; of “The keening woman,” who came to London to plead with Queen Victoria on behalf of her son, imprisoned on suspicion of murder, etc. The plays all deal, directly or indirectly, with the history and politics of Ireland. The poems are filled with a confidence which contrasts strongly with the doubt expressed in the plays.
=Ath= p412 Ag ‘17 190w
“Those who look in the writings of Mr Pearse for that picturesque imagery which we are accustomed to find in the works of Irish authors will be disappointed, for there is little of it. There is a lack also of that humor, regarded as characteristically Irish, which by its piquant contrast adds poignancy to the homely tragedies of the Irish countryside.”
+ — =Spec= 119:272 S 15 ‘17 290w
“They are what literature ought to be. Their ‘literary’ beauty is patent, even in these English translations. ... They are very finely wrought; full of fancy, of passion, of tender humour; in the treatment of children they are rarely true and tender. But their special claim to notice is that they are the many times refined expression of their author’s spiritual life. ... To the seeker after literature, the purified and exalted expression of spiritual life, it matters not a jot whether the poet be politically right or wrong. He may be a rebel and a traitor; but, unless he be cowardly and mean of soul, his literature may be noble. And the literature left by Pearse is not the literature of a coward or a mean man. ... It is the more interesting because visionaries of this kind seldom have the power of expressing themselves through the art of letters.”
+ + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p319 Jl 5 ‘17 1850w
=PEARSON, CHARLES CHILTON.= Readjuster movement in Virginia. (Yale historical publications) *$2 (4½c) Yale univ. press 975.5 17-24995
The movement which has been made the subject of this work represented a reaction against reconstruction. The author says of the book, “It is a chapter in the history of Virginia, from the Civil war to the first administration of Grover Cleveland, in which some of the forces that moulded the present state are shown in their operation; and in the showing the ‘Readjuster’ claim to liberalism, democracy, and progress is tested and due record made of the achievements and solid worth of those who stood for conservatism, aristocracy, and scrupulous honesty.” (Preface) A “bibliographical note” of six pages precedes the index. The author is professor of political science in Wake Forest college, North Carolina.
“Politics make strange bedfellows. On this score the reviewer might find a little fault with the author. For the book, while it does refer to the national bearings of his subject, does not make clear enough the entanglements and commitments of this bastard Virginia party. ... There is a fairness in the book and an appreciation of the difficulties of politicians in steering the course of any given ship of state that promise well for the future writings of the author.”
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:417 Ja ‘18 950w
Reviewed by S. C. Mitchell
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:140 F ‘18 500w
“There is a long and bald array of facts and figures; however the book shows scholarly research, is carefully written, is well provided with notes and bibliography, and should have lasting historical value.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 30 ‘17 450w
=PEARSON, FRANCIS BAIL.= Reveries of a schoolmaster. *$1 (2c) Scribner 814 17-9711
The author is State superintendent of public instruction in Ohio and has published books on “The evolution of the teacher,” “The high-school problem,” and other educational subjects. In this book he writes informally of the schoolmaster’s calling and of some of the problems of life in the light of his experience as a teacher. Homely analogies drawn from a country boyhood add an individual touch to the little essays. Among the subjects are: Retrospect; Lanterns; Complete living; Freedom; Things; Hoeing potatoes; Changing the mind; The point of view; Picnics; Make-believe; Story-telling.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:392 Je ‘17
+ =Boston= Transcript p13 Ap 7 ‘17 470w
“Thirty-one well-organized little essays, full of kindly, homely wisdom based on both reading and human experience. ... The book will be of especial interest to those who have to deal with young people, or to students themselves.”
+ =Cleveland= p74 Je ‘17 50w
“Mr Francis B. Pearson has put much homely philosophy and the results of sound reflection in this little book.”
+ =Educ R= 54:208 S ‘17 30w
“In nearly all are one or more common sense suggestions on wise and tactful methods of boy training.”
+ =Ind= 91:295 Ag 25 ‘17 40w
“They are generally sensible, they are occasionally witty; but they abound in stale anecdotes and trite quotations, and they are prone to ‘announce commonplaces as if they were discoveries.’ All these are, of course, besetting sins of teachers. It is probably better to talk over your pupils’ (or readers’) heads than to talk under their feet. The latter is Mr Pearson’s danger.”
+ — =Nation= 105:259 S 6 ‘17 140w
+ =School R= 25:303 Ap ‘17 10w
“Although the writer avoids technical cant and disclaims any assumption of authority, the morals of his parables are plain and enlightening. The critical reader, however, may find in Mr Pearson’s style blemishes which seriously mar the charm of the whole. Rather too often is the writer ingenuous, obtrusively rustic and facetious, which, in a book of this nature, may lead one to distrust the writer’s judgment.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 18 ‘17 430w
=PEARSON, FRANCIS BAIL.= Vitalized school. *$1.40 Macmillan 370 17-4795
“The ‘vitalized school,’ according to Mr Pearson (who is state superintendent of public instruction in Ohio) is nothing but a school with a vitalized teacher in charge. In general, his book is an attempt to bring together some of the fundamental modern implications of teaching in a way that will induce teachers to incorporate them into the practice of their profession. ... It consists of a series of short treatises, aiming to be both practical and inspirational, on teaching as related to life: on ‘the teacher,’ ‘the child,’ ‘democracy,’ ‘the artist teacher,’ ‘the socialized recitation,’ ‘the school and the community,’ ‘a sense of humor,’ ‘poetry and life,’ ‘examinations,’ etc.”—Survey
=St Louis= 15:171 Je ‘17
“An inspirational rather than an informational book. ... The style throughout is free and easy and especially adapted to the teacher of little training and experience. The questions and exercises at the end of each chapter suggest that the author expects his work to be used both as a text and as a reading-circle book. In either of these capacities it would be more valuable for what it suggests than for what it contains.”
=School R= 25:461 Je ‘17 200w
“There is much that teachers, and other people, too, will do well to ponder. ... The book suffers somewhat from its sustained effort to treat broad, elusive, ‘inspirational’ subjects and relationships as if they were matter for exact exposition and could be stated as facts to be acquired rather than feelings to be aroused. Perhaps (though we doubt it) this is suited to the intended audience. Then, too, Mr Pearson makes a bad guess occasionally in his illustrations: such as when he quotes a statement that the first purpose of the schools at Gary is to make efficient workers for the mills.” W. D. L.
+ =Survey= 38:422 Ag 11 ‘17 500w
=PEARSON, THOMAS GILBERT.= Bird study book. il *$1.25 (3½c) Doubleday 598.2 17-8225
This book is meant to serve as a guide to beginners in bird study. It is not a compendium of facts about birds and their habits. Facts are not lacking, but its primary purpose is to tell the student how to begin, where to look, and what to look for. There are chapters on: First acquaintance with the birds; The life about the nest: Domestic life of the birds; The migration of birds; The birds in winter; The economic value of birds; Civilization’s effect on the bird supply: The traffic in feathers; Bird-protective laws and their enforcement; Bird reservations; Making bird sanctuaries; Teaching bird study. There are illustrations from photographs and drawings. The author is secretary of the National association of Audubon societies.
=A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17
“Presents briefly much information that would be overwhelming in formidable scientific publications; and is intended to stimulate rather than to satisfy. Those who are disposed to cultivate an intelligent interest in the habits of their bird neighbors, will find the necessary help and inspiration for beginners in the matter here presented for their guidance.”
+ =Cath World= 105:684 Ag ‘17 100w
=Cleveland= p69 My ‘17 30w
“The last chapter, Teaching bird study, will be of specific value to teachers, to whom, rather than to the novice in field study, the whole book will be of considerable general value.”
+ — =Nation= 105:130 Ag 2 ‘17 270w
=Pittsburgh= 22:414 My ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:141 My ‘17
=PEARY, ROBERT EDWIN.= Secrets of polar travel. il *$2.50 (5c) Century 919.8 17-30385
A book devoted to what might be termed the technique of polar exploration. In his former book, “The north pole,” the author gave a brief summary of his methods. In this work he has elaborated that brief account, giving details of the system which, evolving gradually thru his years of endeavor, enabled him finally to reach the pole. Contents: Building a polar ship; Selecting men; Supplies and equipment; Ice navigation; Winter quarters; Polar clothing; Utilization of Eskimos and dogs; Utilizing the resources of the country; Sledge equipment; Sledge-traveling. In a brief conclusion, he touches on air travel as a possible means of arctic exploration.
=A L A Bkl= 14:126 Ja ‘18
“A notable book on arctic journeys ... by the man who is more competent than any other in the world to discuss the subject.” A. M. Chase
+ =Bookm= 46:334 N ‘17 150w
=Boston Transcript= p6 D 1 ‘17 420w
“It presents the conclusions as to the best methods of exploration in polar regions which the author has worked out during his years of arctic journeyings, and presents them with such constant and varied illustration of incidents and facts and personal observations as to make the narrative far more interesting than the account of a single expedition.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:449 N 4 ‘17 1100w
“It is a book for every explorer and every lover of high adventure.”
+ =Outlook= 117:433 N 14 ‘17 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 21 ‘18 360w
=PEASE, MARGARET.= Jean Jaurès, socialist and humanitarian; with an introd. by J. Ramsay Macdonald. *$1 (3½c) Huebsch. 17-26782
This book has been written to acquaint English readers with the socialist editor, author, orator and parliamentary leader whom J. Ramsay Macdonald, in his introduction, calls “the greatest democratic personal force in Europe—even in the world,” and who, after having spent the last day of his life in a vain effort to avert the war, was assassinated on July 31, 1914. Chapter 1 gives “a short sketch of the man and his career.” Succeeding chapters on Socialism, Jaurès and the Dreyfus case, Socialist methods, “The new army,” and International peace, while giving Jaurès’s views and actions, necessarily also contribute much to the history of French socialism.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17
Reviewed by H. A. Yeomans
=Am Pol Sci R= 12:154 F ‘18 170w
“This book is cursorily written and, though laudatory, is far from making out the ‘greatness’ of its hero. As is to be expected, many hoary old calumnies are brought forward against Catholicism. Yet in reality it is not Catholicism which Mrs Pease so bitterly attacks, but something quite other, that ancient and fanciful monster we had long since thought deceased, ‘the Romish church.’ That the authoress resurrects the word is sufficient comment on the intellectual quality of her book.”
— =Cath World= 106:395 D ‘17 520w
“Of particular interest at present is the discussion of the opinions of Jaurès on military policy.”
+ =Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 80w + =R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 70w
“The French accused Jaurès, more particularly in his later years, of pro-German sympathies. ‘M. Jaurès, c’est l’Allemagne,’ wrote M. Charles Maurras about a fortnight before the war; and it has not unnaturally been assumed that this was the charge which loaded the pistol of the assassin. His firm article of faith was that the German ‘comrades’ did not want war, and that war might be prevented by the open-hearted appeal of a French socialist whom they trusted. ... Mrs Pease’s volume will help readers to understand his place in recent history, though her exposition of his ideas is more enthusiastic than critical.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p497 O 19 ‘16 870w
=PEASE, THEODORE CALVIN.= Leveller movement; a study in the history and political theory of the English great civil war. (Prize essays, 1915) $1.50 Am. hist. assn. 942.06 17-9688
“Dr Pease, of Illinois university, has made a careful study of the Leveller movement led by John Lilburne during the civil war. He emphasizes the Levellers’ demand for a supreme law which neither king nor Parliament could override, because in this respect they anticipated the founders of the American constitution. Dr Pease is unusually sympathetic towards Lilburne, though he does not vouch for the honesty of that clever but unattractive man, and sees that if the Levellers had shattered the discipline of the army Charles II would have come back in 1649 and crushed Presbyterians, Independents, and Levellers alike.”—Spec
“It is unfortunate that space limitations prevented the inclusion of the bibliography in full, for which many students of the period would have been very grateful. Finally, Mr Pease is quite right in his admission that his study is ‘avowedly sympathetic.’ Whatever the admirable qualities of Lilburne and his fellow-Levellers, however glad one may be that such doctrines as they advocated found voice, it still remains a question whether, in their own day, they helped or hindered real progress. It is to be hoped that Mr Pease will add to his excellent study a supplementary treatise on their relations to every-day affairs, apart from the realm of political theory. For such a study no one is so well qualified.” W. C. Abbott
+ =Am Hist R= 22:900 Jl ‘17 550w
“A very solid and valuable contribution to history and political science, and much the most detailed and thorough study we have of the political theory of probably the most interesting group in a most momentous period.” C. H. McIlwain
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:584 Ag ‘17 600w
“Reveals research work of value and importance.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 9 ‘17 300w
“The book is written with strict attention to the rules of sound historical workmanship and embodies the result of patient research in materials of unquestioned trustworthiness.”
+ =Nation= 106:120 Ja 31 ‘18 220w
+ =Spec= 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 130w
“Mr Pease includes in the volume a bibliography as painstaking and thorough as his text.”
* + =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 4200w
“This book, which won the Herbert Baxter Adams prize in European history in 1915, appears at a fortunate, or at least an appropriate, moment. It tells of a struggle between Moderates and Extremists in the course of a great revolution, and, though it would be very difficult to construct an historical parallel between events in England from 1647 to 1649 and events in Russia in 1917, there is a certain element of similarity in the applications of enthusiastic idealism to new conditions.”
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 My 24 ‘17 1800w
=PEAT, HAROLD R.=[2] Private Peat. il *$1.50 (3c) Bobbs 940.91 17-29848
Private Peat is a Canadian soldier who experienced the whole gamut of war sensations from the thrill of enlistment to the loss of consciousness “out there” when he lay in the open two nights and a day before the stretcher bearers found him. His narrative is full of the grimness and humor of life in the trenches and behind the lines. But most of all he shows the soldier’s clear quality of courage to live because he must through an inferno of destruction and death, of murder and horror. Romance is a part of the story. The last chapter is written by the girl herself—a free lance of Fleet street—whose advertisement concerning a lost cousin was the beginning of a hospital acquaintance with the disabled private which ended in marriage after his return to Canada for discharge. The writer is on a successful lecture tour in America now.
“It is for the most part more serious than ‘Over the top,’ yet it also reflects the indomitable humor of the ‘Tommy’ and it is entertainingly written.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:124 Ja ‘18
“He gives a colorful, varied picture of life at the front in all its aspects.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:546 D 9 ‘17 830w
“If a person has ever felt a strong desire to talk with one of the boys who has been in the thick of it on the western front, let him get ‘Private Peat.’” Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 92:2025 D 8 ‘17 290w
=PEATTIE, ELIA (WILKINSON) (MRS ROBERT BURNS PEATTIE).= Newcomers. il *$1.25 (4c) Houghton 17-24275
This story for older girls has appeared as a serial in the Youth’s Companion. The Wardells come to Dalroy, Illinois, as strangers. Robert Wardell has been offered his first position as an engineer on the dam which is to be built on the Rock river. His mother and two sisters accompany him. Dalroy is a sorry enough looking town at first sight, but, resolved to make the best of it, the Wardells enter wholeheartedly into its life. The tact and sympathy of the mother and the kindness and high spirits of the young people make friends for them all and several blighted lives—like that of the old school teacher who has lost his position, and of the girl who is paying for her mother’s failings—are set in happier lines by their companionship. The touch of love interest blends unobtrusively into the narrative.
“A pleasant story.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:137 Ja ‘18
“A good love story for girls, lively, entertaining and with frequent touches of keen humor.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w
=Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 70w
=PEDDIE, ROBERT ALEXANDER.= Outline of the history of printing. 2s 6d Grafton & co., London 655.1
The author is Cantor lecturer on the history of printing and librarian of the St Bride typographical library. This volume is a revised and enlarged edition of lectures delivered before the Royal society of arts in 1914. The first six chapters take up the history of printing by centuries, two chapters being given to The nineteenth century and after. Six chapters on the history of printing in colors follow.
“Mr Peddie’s volume—it reaches scarcely more than fifty pages—contains much in little about the printer and printing.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 28 ‘17 820w
=PEIXOTTO, ERNEST CLIFFORD.= Revolutionary pilgrimage. il *$2.50 Scribner 973.3 17-28097
“To the many American people who never visit or think of their historic places this volume will be a picturesque lesson in American history. Starting in Boston, we are shown by pen and picture the important buildings and places connected with the War of the revolution. From Boston we are taken over pleasant roads to Lexington and Concord, then to Lake Champlain, Saratoga, New York, New Jersey, the Carolinas, Virginia and Washington. One of the features of the book is that Mr Peixotto, by letter and document, lets many of the noted characters tell their own story. Paul Revere, Ethan Allen, and Major André all recount their own adventures. ... The illustrations are in black and white from Mr Piexotto’s own hand.”—Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p6 D 1 ‘17 130w
“Will appeal to all patriotic Americans, especially those contemplating a motor trip a little out of the ordinary.”
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 60w
+ =Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 40w
=PELLETT, FRANK CHAPMAN.= Our backdoor neighbors. il *$1.50 Abingdon press 590 17-30148
“These backdoor neighbors are the red tails and cooper hawks with a taste for chicken meat; ‘Foxy’ Squirrel, who likes any kind of table dainties; the screech owls, partial to mice; ... and many other little creatures not always received in polite society. ... The Naturalist, as Mr Pellett designates himself, lives in a modest Iowa farmhouse among surroundings which he has left ‘uncultivated’ to a degree deplored by his human neighbors. ... His story proves that he has had unlimited enjoyment from association with his backdoor neighbors. Quite regardless of propriety he pries into their most intimate and private affairs.”—Pub W
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:191 D ‘17 40w
“They will appeal to those who are either afraid of the over-technical ‘nature book’ or are skeptical of ‘nature faking.’ There is no trace of the latter in ‘Backdoor neighbors.’ It radiates sincerity nor is there any nauseating sentimentality.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 92:1385 O 20 ‘17 420w
“The stories are told in a way to hold the reader’s attention, and at the same time furnish facts of value.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 60w
=PENNELL, ELIZABETH (ROBINS) (MRS JOSEPH PENNELL) (N. N., pseud.).= Lovers. *$1 Lippincott (Eng ed 17-26658)
“Like ‘Our house’ and ‘Nights,’ ‘The lovers’ is largely autobiographical, and like them it is written in Mrs Pennell’s own intimate manner that brings to its pages all the graces and imagination of fiction. Its action takes its beginning just outside the windows of Mrs Pennell’s own home in the heart of London, and although it carries us to the battlefields of France, her own part in the story and her commentary upon it adds to its persistent flavor of romance, and gives it a distinctive atmosphere of reality. ... As long ago as June, 1911, there appeared in the Century a short story by Mrs Pennell called ‘Les amoureux.’ It now forms, under title of ‘In the garret,’ the first chapter of the four chapters that make up ‘The lovers,’ for what Mrs Pennell thought was a complete story was merely its beginning.”—Boston Transcript
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17
“One of the few enduring books that have come or that are to come out of the great conflict.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 1550w
“One of the few bits of real literature dealing with the war.”
+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 50w
“‘The lovers’ is a book to bring the huge, wasteful tragedy of war strongly home to its readers.”
+ =Dial= 63:165 Ag 30 ‘17 420w
+ =Nation= 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 200w
“Because it is so simple, so tender, so human, so true, so absolutely of the stuff of life in wartime days, Mrs Pennell’s little tale deserves wide reading. The mere story of the story is a romance in itself.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:231 Je 17 ‘17 600w
=Pittsburgh= 22:650 O ‘17 40w
+ =St Louis= 15:417 D ‘17 30w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 My 5 ‘17 120w
“Among the best descriptions known to us of life under training in England and of certain sides of life at the front. Harold Chapin’s are not so vivid, so perceptive, nor so thoughtful. And the consolation is the ‘splendidness’ of this artist, lover, mystic, who could keep the flame of his spirit burning through all the drudgery, horror, and filth in which he had chosen gallantly to pass his days for his soul’s sake. Mrs Pennell has done her work with fine judgment.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p232 My 17 ‘17 530w
=PENNELL, JOSEPH.= Joseph Pennell’s pictures of war work in England; with an introd. by H. G. Wells. il *$1.50 Lippincott 940.91 17-26395
“Reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of munitions works, made by Mr Pennell with the permission of the British government, and accompanied by notes by the artist.” (Ath) “The drawings, etchings, and lithographs describe the activity of workshops, furnaces, forges, mine shafts, cranes, in time of war. The book really represents an apotheosis of machinery. Mere man is at a discount. When he does appear in these pages, he is but an elusive, fleeting figure.” (Outlook)
=A L A Bkl= 13:388 Je ‘17
+ =Ath= p54 Ja ‘17 50w
“These pictures are splendid, they are noble, they are victorious, they are inspired. The balance of light and shade, the sureness of the drawing, the keenness of observation betrayed by hundreds of valid details that have their due effect, make this book one of the most valuable documents of the great war.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 380w
=Cleveland= p97 Jl ‘17 60w
“That is his interpretation of the present war—a battle of the mechanical genii which have been evolved by human ingenuity, now become our masters—and destroyers. This interpretation is borne out by the brusque words commenting upon each drawing. There is much in this volume which it would be well for every American to ponder.”
+ =Dial= 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 200w
“There are fifty-one full-page reproductions of Mr Pennell’s sketches, and for each the briefest of descriptions in choice and impressive language, sometimes tinged with laughter, oftener with tears. Every picture accents the terrible grimness of war.”
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 8 ‘17 190w
“Mr Pennell has had exceptional facilities afforded him for obtaining these pictures. No such opportunity is available to the ordinary citizen, and next to the privilege of actually visiting the works themselves, no more effective means are available for obtaining a clear and vivid idea of all that is meant by the manufacture of munitions of war than that provided in this most interesting collection of drawings.” W. Ripper
+ =Nature= 98:385 Ja 18 ‘17 250w
“Something of that strange anthropomorphic life with which Hardy can imbue even an ordinary cross-road, over which dead autumn leaves are swirling as if caressingly Mr Pennell lets be conveyed through his sketches of these new and tireless industrial giants.”
+ =New Repub= 12:141 S 1 ‘17 330w
“Pennell’s book is one of the most valuable contributions to the literature of the present war, inasmuch as he gets closer to the truth than the writers of most of the nationalist publications with which the market is flooded.” L. G.
+ =N Y Call= p15 O 28 ‘17 430w
“That these industrial subjects should be identified with a world war is not an inspiration to him, for he puts himself on record as not believing in war.”
=N Y Times= 22:252 Jl 1 ‘17 200w
+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w
+ =R of Rs= 55:548 My ‘17 120w
“Mr Pennell works with such facility and industry that his drawings are open to the charge of superficiality. There is a sameness of emphasis and diffuseness of treatment which would not perhaps be observable in a smaller number of works.”
=Spec= 118:644 Je 9 ‘17 170w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p8 Ja 4 ‘17 680w
=PENNY, FANNY EMILY (FARR) (MRS FRANK PENNY).= Love tangle. *$1.50 Dutton
A novel the scene of which is laid in southern India. “The wide divergence of oriental and English ideals in general is emphasized here in two particulars: in ethics the problem of a police official’s duty when one of his kinsmen is a prisoner; and in marriage the impossibility of courtship under the existing native etiquet, and the hazards of interracial unions. The story involves three couples, two English sisters, a judge and a soldier, and two young Indians educated in England and moving in the same set with the others, but oriental at heart.” (Springf’d Republican)
“The author of ‘A love tangle’ has written many romances of Anglo-Indian life. ... This one is a piece of amiable, feminine writing, relieved, for the occidental reader, by freshness of setting and motive.”
+ — =Nation= 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 550w
+ =N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 260w
=PERKINS, LUCY FITCH (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS).=[2] Belgian twins. il *$1.25 (5½c) Houghton 17-29863
The author has made Belgium in the early days of the war the scene of her latest “twin” book. In the end Jan and Marie, the Belgian twins, find a haven in New York. The author says that the story is based on the actual experience of two children.
“Mrs Perkins has done well to introduce into the nursery some account of Belgian atrocities, not so gruesome that they will frighten the young reader, but sufficiently strong to leave a proper feeling in the minds of boys and girls regarding the unpardonable attack on a smaller country.”
+ =Lit D= 55:60 D 8 ‘17 70w
“One reads real war history in the many things that happen to them. The author has made the most delightful sketches to illustrate the book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:547 D 9 ‘17 60w
+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 60w
=PERRY, CLARENCE ARTHUR.= Community center activities. (Dept. of recreation) *35c Russell Sage foundation 371.6 17-1504
A handbook for community center directors. Its purpose is “to suggest activities for after-school occasions and to indicate sources of information about them.” The material in the main body of the book is arranged under such headings as: Civic occasions; Educational occasions; Entertainments; Handicrafts; Mental contests; Neighborhood service; Physical activities; etc. Preceding this is a classified index in which the various activities suitable for stated spaces, assembly room, kindergarten, gymnasium, etc., are grouped together. At the close a number of sample programs are given.
“A suggestive handbook for parent-teacher associations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:333 My ‘17
“The material is unusually well organized in this report, and the activities and suggested literature so arranged that the reader can quickly find the desired information.”
+ =El School J= 17:532 Mr ‘17 220w
“Should be of constant aid to social workers, teachers and others engaged in community organization.”
+ =Ind= 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 60w
“Probably the greatest obstacle to the rapid development of social centers is a lack of leaders who know how to make them go. The Department of recreation of the Russell Sage foundation has offered one big means of equipping workers in public-school social centers in this little service-manual and reference book of something over 100 pages.” R. N. Baldwin
+ =Survey= 38:175 My 19 ‘17 200w
=PERRY, L. DAY.= Seat weaving. il $1 Manual arts press 689 17-13349
An elementary text-book for manual training classes, fully illustrated, which explains the processes of weaving cane, rush, reed or splint seats for chairs and stools. The author is supervisor of manual training in Joliet, Illinois.
=A L A Bkl= 14:117 Ja ‘18
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:106 Jl ‘17
“The clearly written directions are supplemented by seventy excellent photographs and line drawings.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p20 Jl ‘17 40w
=Pratt= p27 O ‘17 10w
“Would also be a satisfactory guide to amateurs interested in this kind of work.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 50w
=PETERSON, ARTHUR.= Andvari’s ring. *$1.25 Putnam 811 16-25216
The story of Sigurd retold in blank verse. The narrative is marked by a few innovations. Sigurd is pictured as a Norse rover by sea as well as by land. The action is placed near the middle of the fifth century, and into the second part of the narrative, after the death of Sigurd, Attila the Hun is introduced.
“An old-fashioned poem well worth reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 24 ‘17 380w
=St Louis= 15:151 My ‘17 10w
=PETERSON, ARTHUR EVERETT, and EDWARDS, GEORGE WILLIAM.=[2] New York as an eighteenth century municipality. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) *$5 Longmans 352
“If it is well for the office boy turned bank president to remember his obscure beginnings, so it may be well for a community. New York is reminded in these two monographs that once ‘ye cytie’ found it necessary to proclaim that ‘every seaventh house in the darke time of the moon should cause a lanthorne and candle to be hung out on a pole every night,’ One reads of a municipal budget of $3,000 and a police department of eight men.” (New Repub) “Part 1 of the volume, prepared by Mr Peterson, carries the study up to 1731; Mr Edwards deals with the period running from 1731 to 1776.” (N Y Times)
“All the germs of municipal institutions are here competently examined and arranged, with not a little spice of humor in the selection of quotations.”
+ =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 120w
=N Y Times= 23:21 Ja 20 ‘18 60w
“These minute and comprehensive accounts of the beginnings of a vast city might be called studies in evolution, so strikingly do they show how the municipal oak has grown from a tiny acorn. They will prove invaluable to students, but also entertaining to the general reader.”
+ =Outlook= 117:433 N 14 ‘17 70w
=PETERSSON, C. E. W.= How to do business with Russia; with notes and additional chapters by W. Barnes Steveni. *$2.25 Pitman 382 17-28940
“This volume contains a summary of the experience and business methods of Mr C. E. W. Petersson, a merchant of Petrograd and Riga, who for many years successfully carried on a large trade in machinery and kindred goods with various Russian towns.” (Preface) The translator, W. Barnes Steveni, who has himself written several books on Russia, states that he has made “such additions and alterations as may cause the book to be of more value to British and American readers.” He says also, that while the Russian revolution will “modify considerably some of the questions dealt with in this work,” because the towns will change quickly, the “real Russia, which is mainly agricultural and pastoral, will alter but slowly” and therefore the hints of information here given will always be of value. Part 1 deals with “Russia as a field for business enterprise,” while part 2 gives “Hints and advice to business men dealing with Russia.” An appendix gives “Consular information and postal regulations.” The foreword is by Charles E. Musgrave, secretary to the London chamber of commerce. There is a map of Russia, but no index.
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p286 Je 14 ‘17 60w
=PETHERBRIDGE, F. R.= Fungoid and insect pests of the farm. (Cambridge farm institute) il *$1.25 Putnam 632 Agr16-1262
“The author tells us this book has been written for those who wish to acquire some practical knowledge of farm and garden pests. It naturally does not aim at dealing with all the numerous enemies which affect crops, but rather at giving an accurate account of some of the commoner forms.”—Nature
“It is a pity a great many more of the common pests were not included, especially amongst the arthropods, for then it would have been of very considerably greater value. The accounts also of many of the pests treated in the book are far too short to be really helpful.”
+ — =Nature= 99:144 Ap 19 ‘17 300w
“This little book is well printed and well illustrated but is not extensive enough as to the number of diseases and pests discussed to justify the title. It can hardly serve as a very general reference for farmers and market gardeners as the authors have hoped. ... As a short reading text or bulletin to familiarize the public with mycological methods and to indicate possible remedial measures for control of a few pests, it contains interesting matter. ... No mention is made of any diseases of small fruits or of orchard and shade trees and but slight attention is given to the commonest garden crops.” H. L. Bolley
+ — =Science= n s 45:191 F 23 ‘17 370w
=PFISTER, OSKAR ROBERT.= Psychoanalytic method; auth. tr. by Dr C: Rockwell Payne. il *$4 Moffat 130 17-4346
“Dr Pfister is a pastor and seminary teacher in Zurich and a disciple of Freud. His book includes the definition and history of psychoanalysis, discussions of its theory and technique, and reports of what he has accomplished by its use in cases of neurotic students. ... The conclusion gives summarized examples of the practical benefits of psychoanalysis and what education has to expect from it. ... There are introductions by Sigmund Freud and G. Stanley Hall.”—N Y Times
“Pfister’s book is designed to equip educators with the knowledge necessary to enable them to carry on psychoanalytic treatment of subnormal pupils as well as to foresee and prevent later abnormalities, the causes of which are operative, even in the earlier years, and may be detected only by means of the psychoanalytic technique. ... It is almost the only one that has a practical application to human problems outside of therapeutic ones. ... A part of Pfister’s treatise points out the applications of the Freudian theory to literature, art and religion ... and shows how the creative artist, is saved from his art by being a neurotic.” Wilfrid Lay
=Bookm= 45:199 Ap ‘17 840w
=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 530w
“A very technical presentation of psychoanalysis, used by Dr G. Stanley Hall as a textbook for his classes. The author’s method is to make a brief statement followed by a description of cases which illustrate his point.”
=Cleveland= p91 Jl ‘17 40w
“The book, while nowhere rising to the brilliance of some of the Freudian writings themselves, is probably the most careful and inclusive presentation yet published in English of the results attained and the theories elaborated by Freud and his followers. It excels in this respect such works as Brill’s ‘Psychanalysis’ and Hitschmann’s ‘Freud’s theories of the neuroses.’ Unfortunately, Dr Payne’s translation can claim only a moderate measure of success. The over-literalness of the renderings has given numerous passages an irksome awkwardness and, occasionally, obscurity. One needs sometimes to translate back to the German to arrive at the intended nuance of meaning.” E: Sapir
+ =Dial= 63:267 S 27 ‘17 2000w
“The 588 pages of this book show what has actually been done through this psychological method. They contain most inspiring suggestions for the physician, theologian, and the pedagogue. Dr Pfister has made a comprehensive study of all the analytic methods which have been developed from Freud’s original theories, and any one reading his work will get a fair idea of the whole stretch of this rapidly growing field of psycho-therapeutics.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:325 S 2 ‘17 320w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 20 ‘17 150w
=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, comp. Selected articles on the income tax; with special reference to graduation and exemption. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) 3d and enl ed *$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 336.2 17-27760
For this third edition of the Debater’s handbook on income tax all the material of the second edition has been retained and the volume has been brought up to date by the addition of new articles and references. As the preface states, the new edition is timely, in view of pending legislation for an increased income tax as part of the war revenue bill. Two features of the proposed law, the graduation of the tax and the exemption of incomes under a certain amount have been given special attention. Material is also provided covering recent state legislation.
=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, ed. University debaters’ annual. *$1.80 Wilson, H. W. 808.5