Volume three of the University debaters’ annual contains the

constructive and rebuttal speeches delivered in the intercollegiate debates of the following colleges and universities: Iowa, Ohio state, Coe, Oberlin, Western Reserve, Columbia and Chicago. The subjects debated are: Government ownership of railroads; Universal military service; Compulsory arbitration of railroad labor disputes; Chinese and Japanese immigration; Compulsory arbitration; Progressive inheritance tax. For each subject a brief and bibliography are provided. The book follows volumes one and two, edited by E. C. Mabie.

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=PHILLIPPS, LISLE MARCH.= Europe unbound. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner 940.9 17-4205

Mr Phillipps is author of “Form and colour,” and other works on art. In the collection of essays in this book, he examines some of the fundamental causes of the war and the ideals that support the different fighting nations. He says, “My purpose has been to deal, however inadequately, not with the outward circumstances or immediate causes of the war, but with what I cannot help thinking are its real causes. I mean those slowly developing, intensely hostile, eternally incompatible philosophies of life of which the two opposing groups of the free and unfree nations of Europe are to-day the representatives.” Contents: Ideals of the war; Liberty; Liberty and Christianity; The Prussian ideal; The British empire; Empires past and present; The influence of France; Modern liberalism; Modern conservatism; The future.

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“A book which shows more insight into the deeper issues of the war than any other, except Baron von Hügel’s ‘The German soul,’ that has appeared in England since 1914.”

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=Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 27 ‘17 250w

“Contains an impressive revelation of what the English masses are thinking.”

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+ =Int J Ethics= 27:535 Jl ‘17 280w

“Where I think Mr Phillipps is profoundly right is in his vigorous insistence on the authoritarian character of the German state and its dangers to the liberty of Europe. We badly need a book that would point out exactly what principles are involved in the exercise of political authority.” H. J. L.

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“It is characteristic—inevitable—that he should have studied the war as he has studied art and politics—as the expression of the great spiritual forces in the life of men and nations. ... On the need in England for realization, for clear thinking, for wise speech, and for democratic growth Mr Phillipps insists throughout his book. The volume as a whole is, in its study of ideals and ambitions, of pertinent interest to American students of the war.”

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“We commend the book especially to clergymen and teachers of the young.”

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“His conception and his presentation of the idea of liberty are noble and inspiring. ... He is a democrat who really trusts the people. ... However much readers may disagree with many of the author’s points of view, they would be dull of soul if they did not find these essays stimulating and purifying in a high degree.”

+ =Spec= 118:74 Ja 20 ‘17 3000w

“No part of his book will be read with more interest, and none is more valuable, than the frank criticism to which he submits not only the modern Conservative but also the modern Liberal party. Speaking as one who has done his part as a Liberal candidate for Parliament, he has the courage to say what innumerable men of all parties have thought.”

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=PHILLIPS, CHESTER ARTHUR.= Readings in money and banking. il *$2.10 Macmillan 332 16-19082

“Instead of taking a large number of selections merely illustrative of the principles involved and setting them down individually, Professor Phillips chose from different writers what seemed to him the best available discussions of the principles themselves, and these discussions with correlative descriptive matter he wove together into approximately complete chapters. Hence ... the book leaves the impression of an organized treatise.”—Am Econ R

“The reviewer believes that for class-room purposes the two books [Moulton: ‘Principles of money and banking’ and Phillips: ‘Readings in money and banking’] can be used with advantage to supplement each other. Outside of the class-room both would have to be used in connection with a good text.” E. E. Agger

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“The chapters on the foreign banking systems are very opportune.” T: Conway, jr.

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=PHILLIPS, DAVID GRAHAM.= Susan Lenox, her fall and rise. 2v il *$2.50 (1c) Appleton 17-6327

This two-volume novel is a study of prostitution and of a woman who rose to success after enduring degradation in all of its forms. Susan, an illegitimate child, grows up in the home of an uncle in a middle-western town. Denied a normal life by the stain of her birth, she is thrown out into the world at the age of seventeen. Economic pressure forces her on to the streets. She makes several efforts later to earn a living in legitimate ways, but always comes back to the one profession that seems to offer satisfactory compensation. In the end, thru the aid of a distinguished playwright, she wins success as an actress.

“That Mr Phillips was sincere, I do not doubt, but that he had any intimate knowledge of the life of the young girls who fill our factories and our shops, I do not for a moment believe. ... The conclusion of the story is merely laughable. That a woman so sodden with vice, so soaked with whisky and at last with opium, should escape all its physical penalties, and, without previous apprenticeship, become, almost in a day, a famous actress, contradicts every human experience.” J. T. Gerould

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“Based on uncompromising fact, stamped with an individuality that was in itself a hallmark of distinction, and illumined by an almost incomparable art, this story is invested with a significance that makes it a thing apart. ... Susan Lenox is more than a novel: it has a social, human and economic significance that lifts it to the high places.” I: F. Marcosson

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“Despite the attempts to prejudge Mr Phillips’s posthumous novel by frantic claims as to its high moral purpose and sincerity, it seems impossible for any unbiased reader of fiction to view it otherwise than as an extremely offensive addition to the literature of pornography. ... For Susan Lenox to have remained the acme of physical perfection after undergoing the horrors of the life that she deliberately sought and endured is impossible. Mr Phillips’s story may be realism, but it is certainly not reality.” E. F. E.

— =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ‘17 500w

“There is only one deadly charge to make against this story—it is an epic of feminine courage that required for its plausibility a consistent exaggeration of the difficulties of women in industry and a humorlessly romantic view of prostitution. ... Yet apart from these preposterous exaggerations, natural to a man who had no comedy, Susan Lenox is a story that moved and impressed this reader deeply. ... It is the great fortune of David Graham Phillips, if the enhancement of one’s memory is to be called fortunate, that the one big book he left unpublished was probably the best thing he ever did.” F. H.

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“He is not merely less selective than Flaubert; he is positively less selective than Arnold Bennett. It is precisely because he tells us so much about everybody that might equally be true of anybody else that his narrative is never intense and sometimes exceedingly dull.”

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“It would have been much better for Mr Phillips’s reputation and the repute of American letters if it had never been published. ... It is false at its core. ... Susan Lenox is dragged through all the grime and the abominations of the underworld. Mr Phillips spares neither her nor the reader any of its revolting filth.”

— =N Y Times= 22:62 F 25 ‘17 900w

“For Susan had neither social consciousness nor social conscience. ... We are told briefly in the last two chapters that Susan succeeds as an actress. A man dies and leaves her his money and an interest in his plays. She uses the money to produce the plays and becomes a well-known star. Without the money and the influence of the dead man’s name, Susan would have been nothing. She lacked two essentials to success—a conscious and sustained purpose and a capacity for hard work.” M. K. Reely

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“A novel that will excite diverse opinions, but it is sincere, and its frank pictures of degradation are informed with ethical purpose—which is not often the case in such stories.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 550w

=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Banks of Colne (the nursery). *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-13955

This is the fourth of Mr Phillpotts’ series of novels of British industry. A big nursery on the bank of the Colne gives the story its background, and there is some description also of the local oyster fisheries. Men and women more or less connected with these two industries are the characters of the story. They form a loosely-knit group, and so far as the story has plot, it concerns Peter Mistley, a landscape gardener at the gardens, and Aveline Brown, the woman he marries shortly after she has come to the town a stranger. Aveline was not free to marry, but this she does not tell Peter. Her attitude toward marriage is much the same as that of the two wandering vagabonds, William and Emma. She takes what is offered her of happiness and pays the price when the time comes without cringing. The war is in progress at the time, and more than one man of the story is claimed by it; Peter with the rest.

“Not one of Mr Phillpotts’ best works.”

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“It contains one rather interesting character, the vagabond brother of the rich nurseryman and mayor of Colchester, though he, like his grave brother, is a platitudinarian. The style is that of one who has not merely swallowed the dictionary, but also bolted an encyclopædia.”

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“‘The banks of Colne’ has not the atmosphere of its predecessors. There exists here no such close relation between the people and the soil, between their lives and their labors, as was to be found in ‘Brunel’s tower,’ in ‘Old Delabole’ or in ‘The green alleys.’ ... We do not mean thereby to imply that it is not a vital, a significant, a commanding piece of fiction. It is all these, for it is by Mr Phillpotts’s hand. ... Were all its other elements negligible, and they are not, we might read ‘The banks of Colne’ for joy of its style.” E. F. E.

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“As always, the women are alive and never stupid, however unmoral they may be.”

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“We used to accept him, perhaps, as a chronicler of ‘real life,’ an interpreter of character in the concrete. He is, rather, a teller of tales and a commentator upon human nature.”

=Nation= 105:69 Jl 19 ‘17 430w

“A novel of maturity and even tone.”

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“To us the book is the greatest piece of work Mr Phillpotts has yet written. ... Books like this will help America to understand the England of today in a way difficult to overestimate for its value to both nations.”

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+ =Outlook= 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 110w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 550w

“The pacifist Quaker-woman and the young men who enlist are treated with equal sympathy. All through the eventful and moving story, which looks at love from many angles and gives (or rather, perhaps, carefully makes) room for thoughts of many minds on many topics, nothing is condemned but lack of sincerity and lack of faith.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p296 Je 21 ‘17 600w

=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Plain song, 1914-1916. *$1.25 Macmillan 821 (Eng ed A17-1560)

“Through the thought of the poems—there are thirty-eight in the volume—two threads run: the first is abhorrence of what the German government has done, coupled with great pity, charity, a willingness to forgive, a scorn of being revenged upon, the German people; the second is the purpose of democracy in the world.”—N Y Times

“Mr Phillpotts has given us the war—one phase, and another, and still more—in living words.”

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“The title of this book is the least successful part of it. We can imagine nothing less plain and nothing more unlike song than the poems it contains. They are war pieces garbed in rich, luxuriant phraseology, in which Mr Phillpotts appears less as the poet than the publicist and the preacher, hymning in sonorous lines the praises of the navy, the New army, France, and so on, and scourging the crimes of Germany, and the folly of the pacifists with trenchant rhetoric.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p311 Je 28 ‘17 70w

=PHOUTRIDES, ARISTIDES EVANGELUS.= Lights at dawn. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811 17-14981

Dr Phoutrides is an instructor in Greek and Latin at Harvard university. “The greater number of the poems were written before the present war. But in those written since, the war note is generally absent. The poem in ballad form, ‘Lord Kitchener,’ is one or the few exceptions.” (Boston Transcript) “The dawn from the west,” with which the volume opens, was written for the “Ancient and honorable artillery company of Massachusetts,” and published under the title of “America, the restorer.” The longest poem in the book “Ktaadn and Morning Dew,” tells the old Indian legend of our Mt. Katahdin.

“Dr Phoutrides writes with a fine scholarliness. Yet the distinct classicism of his verse never halts spontaneity. Many forms are used—the lyric, however, principally. His use of blank verse is especially felicitous, the lines often possessing a veritable singing quality. ... This Hellenic poet exalts his own land and ours, above all that ‘freedom’ which crowns America.” F. B.

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=PICKERING, JOHN CLARK.= Engineering analysis of a mining share. *$1.50 McGraw 332.6 17-5157

“The considerations entering into the analysis of a mining venture have been instructively set forth by Mr Pickering. There is little doubt that the great mass of ‘investors’ in mining stocks do not analyze their purchases very sharply. Mr Pickering, for the sake of simplicity, applies his analysis to a single share, stating that obviously the analysis by shares is equivalent to the analysis of the whole property. He endeavors to follow a line of investigation based on data available to the average share-holder. The discussion is confined to gold, copper, silver, lead and zinc.”—Engin N

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=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p18 Ap ‘17 190w

“‘An interesting and a useful book. It would have been better if it had been edited carefully and if a wider reference had been made to other writings on the subject. ... His style is pleasant, his judgment appears sound, and his whole treatment of the subject is well worthy of an experienced engineer.’” T. A. R.

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:345 Ap ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Mining and Scientific Press p394 Mr 17 ‘17)

“Based on twelve years’ experience in the United States, South America, Mexico, Canada and Africa.”

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=PIER, ARTHUR STANWOOD.= Jerry. il *$1.50 (1½c) Houghton 17-4313

Jerry, the young Irish hero, is one of the workers for an independent steel company when the story opens. He is doing well, supporting his mother and looking forward to marriage with his sweetheart, Nora Scanlan. But the independent company is swallowed up by a big corporation. A change of policy brings on a strike and Jerry finds himself out of a job. He also loses his sweetheart, for Nora doesn’t take kindly to adversity. Jerry and his mother move to the big city, taking with them the three orphaned children of one of Jerry’s fellow strikers. With this family to support, Jerry finds a place on the police force, studies law and is admitted to the bar. In the meantime Kate, the oldest of the three children, is growing up and helping Jerry to forget the fickle Nora.

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“To read Mr Pier’s story is the equivalent of seeing the scenes of a motion-picture film flash before one’s eyes. ... The substance of ‘Jerry’ is essentially that of the popular story for boys that Mr Pier is an adept at writing. In style, in character, in incident, it is reminiscent of this literary form, and we are certain that his latest novel will appeal readily to the many young readers who have taken pleasure in ‘Grannis of the fifth’ and ‘The new boy.’ If it helps them across the bridge between fiction for children and novels for grownups, it will serve an excellent purpose.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 1050w

“A good, satisfying fairy tale, set in a would-be modern city, with make believe graft and police scandals and murders. ... It is not rubbish, though it is a bit hard to say why it is not rubbish. It has all the earmarks of trash, and yet it fills the soul with a sort of self-satisfaction that all is well and that all will turn out fine.” W. M. Feigenbaum

– + =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 330w

“A pleasant story, quite interesting and with some cleverly drawn characters.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:69 F 25 ‘17 250w

“The story, which is told with spirit, is an appeal to young men to enter the fight for purer public service.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 200w

=PIER, ARTHUR STANWOOD.= Plattsburgers. il *$1.25 (3½c) Houghton 17-23757

A story of the experiences of some college boys at Plattsburg. “Life at the Plattsburg camp is very different to-day from what it was during the period covered by this story. ... The training of the boys was less intensive than that to which the recruits at the later camps were subjected. Instead of being drilled in only the infantry branch of the service, they were given an opportunity to get at least a smattering of knowledge about other branches. This story is generally true to the conditions that existed at the first camp; in minor details the routine that it describes does not correspond with the routine followed at the subsequent camps.” (Preface) The story is reprinted from the Youth’s Companion.

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“A clean-cut story of manly boys that will have much the same attraction for boys that the author’s St Timothy stories have.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 40w

+ =Lit D= 55:60 D 8 ‘17 60w

+ =N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:401 N ‘17 20w

=PINDAR, GEORGE N. and others.= Guide to the nature treasures of New York city. il *75c Scribner 507 17-5881

“A valuable and much needed manual entitled ‘Guide to the nature treasures of New York city’ has been prepared by George N. Pindar, Registrar of the American museum of natural history, with assistance from Mabel H. Pearson and G. Clyde Fisher. It deals with the collections in the American museum of natural history, the New York aquarium, The New York zoological park, the New York botanical garden, the Brooklyn museum, the Brooklyn botanical garden, and the Brooklyn children’s museum.”—N Y Times

=N Y Times= 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 120w

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=PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY).= Woodcraft for women. (Outing handbooks) *80c (2½c) Outing pub. 796 17-9692

The author finds the explanation of the difference in the lure that the outdoors holds for men and women in their different childhood activities. Natural instincts suppressed in young girlhood demand stimulation and development in adult life if women are to know the joys of an active outdoor life. She says, “In this book there has been no endeavor to set forth a distinct type of woodsmanship for women only, but rather to show the possibilities of an art which can be made common to the sexes.” Contents: Woman and the out of doors; Woods clothing; Clothing—continued; Packs and accessories; Packing and portaging; Tents and camp making; Cooking utensils, fires, and foods; Cooking expedients; Paddling; Hunting and fishing; The winter woods; Going alone; Camp courtesy; The first time out; The spirit of the open.

“Gives practical advice to women on all sorts of questions. Has a suggestive chapter on ‘camp courtesy.’”

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=PINTNER, RUDOLPH and PATERSON, DONALD GILDERSLEEVE.= Scale of performance tests. il *$2 Appleton 136.7 17-16883

A performance test is one which requires a response in action in place of the language response required in other intelligence tests. The work has grown directly out of attempts to grade deaf children, with whom the ordinary tests could not be used. The tests also meet the difficulty of dealing with foreign speaking children, since verbal directions are not essential. “The situation itself calls for some response without the necessity for any verbal instructions on the part of the examiner. ... Naturally in giving the test to hearing children the examiner will say something, but what he says is not essential for the understanding of the test.” (Introd.) The authors have assembled a group of tests of this kind and have attempted a standardization.

“The detailed description of the tests and the norms given make available and usable tests of a type that are much needed. Many workers who meet the difficult question of determining the mentality of those whose command of language is slight will value this work. The only drawback lies in the fact that most of the tests here included are so simple as to be significant only for individuals quite young in age.” A. F. Bronner

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+ =A L A Bkl= 14:74 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 10w

“The programme is admirably carried through, with abundance of well-arranged tables and sufficient interpretation to show the bearing of the results and warn against sources of error.”

+ =Dial= 63:399 O 25 ‘17 290w

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Reviewed by F. N. Freeman

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=Int J Ethics= 28:284 Ja ‘18 130w

“The authors have done a service that their colleagues in mental measurement will not estimate lightly.” F. L. Wells

+ =J Philos= 15:134 F 28 ‘18 1200w

“A few of the tests partake of the nature of a puzzle and hence are tests, not of general intelligence, but of the peculiar ingenuity that works by intuition or a fortunate chance, rather than by reasoned judgment. However, the book will be of help in certain cases that are embarrassing to the tester. The volume includes some useful criticisms of the Binet scale, the Yerkes point scale and others.” Alexander Johnson

+ — =Survey= 39:260 D 1 ‘17 220w

=PIPER, EDWIN FORD.= Barbed wire, and other poems. $1.25 Midland press, Moorhead, Minn. 811

The awakening self-consciousness of the Middle West, which is just beginning to express itself in literature, has produced in Mr Piper a new poet and social historian. The first half of “Barbed wire, and other poems” is made up of short unconnected poems which, taken together, tell the story of the patient conquest of the prairie and interpret the spirit of the adventurous, land-hungry band that has traveled steadily westward across our country. The slow upbuilding of civilization in a new land is followed in such poems as “The movers,” “Dry bones,” “The sod house,” “The drought,” “The grasshoppers,” “The schoolmistress,” “Ten cents a bushel,” “Meanwhile,” “The church.” The second section of the book, “The neighborhood,” is given to longer narrative poems. Both groups are reprinted from the Midland: a magazine of the Middle West.

“Precisely what Robert Frost has done for New England Mr Piper has done for the West from Illinois to the foothills of the Rocky mountains. ... One cannot with too much emphasis lay stress upon the social value of Mr Piper’s poems, for with a most vivid use of the imaginative faculty he weaves for us the fabric of a community rising on the bare breast of nature. ... ‘Barbed wire and other poems,’ is a very unusual collection, an important and distinctive contribution to American poetry.” W. S. B.

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“He writes with vigor and freedom and the quality of this one book is such as to assure instant success. Nothing so eloquent on the personality of neighborhoods as ‘The banded’ has come from American poets. Yet he can forsake commonplace phraseology to write lines of pure flowing melody, and a lyric as delicate as ‘Moon worship.’”

+ =R of Rs= 57:106 Ja ‘18 180w

=PLATNER, JOHN WINTHROP=, and others. Religious history of New England. (King’s chapel lectures 1914-1915, 1915-1916) *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 277.4 17-15979

“A series of King’s chapel lectures delivered by eight men—each a representative of the communion about which he speaks. ... The story of the Congregationalists is told ... by Prof. John W. Platner. Geniality and humor enrich the pages in which Dean William W. Fenn describes the revolt of the Free Will Baptists and Christians against the standing order and the intellectual and academic counterpart of this popular movement which resulted in the founding of the Unitarian churches. Dean George Hodges tells with kindly humor and sound historical judgment the dramatic story of the implanting of the episcopate in hostile New England. The almost equally hostile reception met with by the Methodists ... is recounted in a painstaking and picturesque manner by Dr W. E. Huntington. President George E. Horr of the Newton theological institution treats the history of the Baptists. The position of the Quakers in New England is considered by Prof. Rufus M. Jones, that of the Universalists by Rev. John Coleman Adams, and that of the Swedenborgians by Dr William L. Worcester. The history of the Roman Catholics is omitted with regret, as it was impossible to secure for the lectures an historical narrative from a member of the Roman Catholic communion.”—Springf’d Republican

“Profitable as these surveys are, it is to be regretted that certain questions concerning this group life have not been more distinctly considered. How, for example, did the Calvinist system begin to lose its hold even in the days of its ablest and most vigorous exposition? The remarkable growth of the Baptists at the end of the eighteenth century is mentioned without explanation. If one asks how denominational organization came out of autonomous congregations, satisfaction is again denied.” F. A. Christie

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:415 Ja ‘18 590w

+ =Ath= p519 O ‘17 300w

“The title of the volume indeed is hardly justified by its contents, for it contains denominational history only and not the general religious history of New England, except for the earliest days when there was nothing but Congregationalism there. Having filed this caveat it is only right to say that the limited purpose of the series is admirably fulfilled. The treatment of the several denominations, being in each case by an adherent, is sympathetic but as a rule entirely fair, and only now and then unduly laudatory.”

+ =Nation= 105:100 Jl 26 ‘17 900w

“So interwoven are religious and political ideas, and so large has been New England’s share in shaping American ideals, that this history is one of national interest. It is a history of the rise and progress of religious liberty. A single lapse from historical justice needs pointing out. The Quaker ranters persecuted by the Puritans were not, as any reader would infer, the same sort of people as the estimable Friends of to-day. The volume needs an index.”

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 170w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 1250w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 S 6 ‘17 100w

“These lectures provide entertaining reading, and the English student will gain much knowledge set out with the warmth of feeling felt by men dealing with subjects dear to their hearts, but with no pride of sect or narrowness of outlook.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p486 O 11 ‘17 940w

=PLUCKNETT, FRANK.= Introduction to the theory and practice of boot and shoe manufacture. (Longmans’ technical handicraft ser.) il *$2 Longmans 685 A16-1147

“The author, who has had considerable experience in teaching this subject in England, states that the book is intended not only for technical students, but also for a ‘large circle of those who are interested in the rapid modern developments of the industry, and who have not the advantages of technical instruction.’ Scope is limited to the usual lines of work, omitting hand operations when the corresponding operations are more efficiently performed by a machine. There are chapters on the anatomy of the foot, foot measurements, lasts, and a comparison of English, French and American measurements.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:141 S ‘16

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p22 N ‘16 90w

=Pittsburgh= 22:519 Je ‘17

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 70w

=PLUMON, EUGÈNE.= Vade-mecum for the use of officers and interpreters in the present campaign, new and rev ed *75c Brentano’s 448 17-16324

“The result of actual work in interpreting for the British forces in France. Gives French words and phrases with their English equivalents arranged in the natural order of need under, marching order, from landing place to front, the field, the rear, tables of measures, money, distances, abbreviations, map signs, etc. Does not mark pronunciation.”—A L A Bkl

“Useful to the man who has even a slight knowledge of French.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:9 O ‘17

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=POE, EDGAR ALLAN.=[2] Poems; ed. by Killis Campbell. il $1.50 Ginn 811 17-24169

“Professor Campbell is a member of the English faculty of the University of Texas and his study of Poe’s life and work has been long and enthusiastic. He has included in the volume all the poems collected by the poet himself or by his literary executor, Rufus S. Griswold, while in separate sections are several early poems and a dozen others of doubtful authenticity. The introductory section contains the story of Poe’s life, followed by a brief discussion of the text of his poems and of his habits of punctuation and revision. ... Through the body of the book Professor Campbell gives on each page the variant readings for the version he has selected. An important feature is afforded by the very copious notes filling nearly 200 pages which explain every obscurity of the text and set forth the details of composition, probability of source, and other matters of interest.”—N Y Times

=Boston Transcript= p7 O 27 ‘17 590w

“One need not accept all Professor Campbell’s judgment’s in detail to pronounce this new edition of the ‘Poems’ the most important contribution to Poe scholarship that has appeared for some years. Perhaps the greatest merit of the book is its sobriety and sanity. In the section of ‘The canon of Poe’s poems’ Professor Campbell treats a subject on which he has made valuable researches; and his brief comments on the poems doubtfully attributed to Poe are admirable. The résumé of opinion in ‘The clash of the critics with respect to Poe’s poems,’ though brief, is excellently presented.”

+ =Dial= 63:595 D 6 ‘17 330w

“A most scholarly edition. Perhaps the most notable feature of the book is the full use of references to the Poe literature, the volume of which will probably surprise even those who thought themselves well versed in this study.”

+ =Nation= 106:97 Ja 24 ‘18 250w

“A careful and scholarly work showing diligent research and discrimination.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:567 D 16 ‘17 260w

=POLLAK, GUSTAV.= House of Hohenzollern and the Hapsburg monarchy. 50c N.Y. Evening Post co., 20 Vesey st. 940.91 17-27945

The seven articles contained in this book were published in the New York Nation and the New York Evening Post between the dates of March 22 and July 5, 1917. To these papers the author has been a contributor since 1874 and 1881 respectively. He was born and educated in Vienna. Of the house of Hohenzollern he says: “Not all that can be said, and must justly be said, of Prussian leadership in the intellectual and material development of Germany can obscure the patent failure of the Hohenzollern dynasty.” Other titles are: Bismarck’s neglected policies; The vision of a Central Europe; Austria’s opportunity; The future of Bohemia; Hungary and the fall of Tisza; The Poles of Austria.

“Trenchant and vigorously-written little book.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:156 F ‘18 50w

=N Y Call= p14 S 16 ‘17 410w

=POLLARD, ALBERT FREDERICK.=[2] Commonwealth at war. *$2.25 (3c) Longmans 940.91 18-1123

Half of the papers that make up this book are reprinted from The Times [London] Literary Supplement. Others have appeared in the Contemporary Review, Yale Review, and other periodicals. Each article is dated so that the bearing of the time of writing on the views presented is made evident. The dates range from October, 1914 to August, 1917. The author is professor of English history in the University of London. Among other subjects he considers: Rumour and historical science in time of war; The length of wars; The freedom of the seas; The war and the British realms; British idealism and its cost in war; The growth of an imperial parliament: The temptation of peace; The prevention or war.

=Spec= 120:41 Ja 12 ‘18 160w

“One cannot logically complain that Prof. Pollard too often in this book writes as an advocate rather than a historian, for the articles were largely published to explain the British mind to itself; but it is fair to note that this attitude detracts from the permanent value of the book. The strongest chapter of the book is Prof. Pollard’s argument against a British imperial federation.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 7 ‘18 500w

“There might have been more appearance of unity in the contents if certain pages had been omitted or altered; but, as Professor Pollard, enunciating a canon of literary probity apt to be forgotten, says, ‘to modify the record of expressed opinion in the light of later events indicates a dishonest assertion of consistency or prescience, and is one of the most insidious forms of historical forgery.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p590 D 6 ‘17 1000w

=POLLARD, HUGH B. C.=[2] Story of Ypres. il *75c (5c) McBride 940.91 17-19406

“There is no name connected with the European war that will live longer in men’s minds than that of Ypres,” writes the author in beginning his story. He describes the two battles, illustrating his account with sketch maps. The pictures are by Thomas Derrick.

“The author graphically describes the flight of the population on both occasions, the latter being a terribly lurid picture, its horror increased by the then new German device of gas fumes.”

+ =Ind= 90:472 Je 9 ‘17 120w

“The condition of the famous cloth hall after each bombardment is well pictured in the pen and ink drawings of Thomas Derrick.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 23 ‘17 150w

=POLLOCK, FRANK LILLIE.= Northern diamonds. il *$1.25 (2c) Houghton 17-24854

This story, which appeared in the Youth’s Companion as a serial and its sequel, recounts the adventures of three Canadian boys on two trips into the north in search of diamonds. The first trip, taken in winter on skates and snow shoes, is successful. The boys find what they are in search of—a little sack of precious stones reported to be hidden in a deserted cabin. The stones prove to be of inferior value—but they are diamonds for all that, and the next journey is taken in hope of finding the source. This trip has a different, tho not a wholly disappointing, outcome.

“An exciting, well told adventure story for boys and girls about twelve or thirteen.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:173 F ‘18

Reviewed by J: Walcott

=Bookm= 46:498 D ‘17 40w

=N Y Times= 22:565 D 16 ‘17 50w

=POLLOCK, FRANK LILLIE.= Wilderness honey. il *$1.25 (2c) Century 17-24398

A story for boys and girls. Alice, Bob and Carl Harman are three young Canadians dependent on their own resources. The general store that has been the family source of income for three generations no longer pays and the young people are faced with the necessity of selling out. Alice has already had some experience with bee keeping, and, hearing of a large apiary for sale in the northern part of the province, they decide to stake their all on this venture. The story of their plucky and successful fight against such enemies as timber wolves, bears, and an ill-natured squatter follows. The story was published in the Youth’s Companion.

=A L A Bkl= 14:137 Ja ‘18

=Ind= 92:449 D 1 ‘17 40w

“Excellent pictures are drawn of life in the wilderness, and of the methods of bee culture.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 130w

=POLLOCK, HESTER MCLEAN.= Our Minnesota; a history for children. il *$1.60 Dutton 977.6 17-11001

“After a brief survey of the beautiful land itself, a study of its copper-colored ‘first inhabitants,’ and of their memorials existing today, Miss Pollock tells how the English gained the land by exploration, colonization, war, purchase from the French and treaties with the Indians. Then follow the story of the explorers, French, English and Italian; Radisson and Grosvilliers, Du Luth and Father Hennepin, La Salle, Carver, Long, Beltrami and Nicollet. ... Transportation, education, mines, minerals, landmarks and famous men are in turn briefly studied.”—Boston Transcript

“The account of the development of its vast natural resources forms a marvelous record of which not only all Minnesotans but all Americans should be proud.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 270w

“The book is somewhat marred for the reviewer by the author’s naïve assumption that all the acts of the early pioneers were virtuous, and that the Indian was cruel and crafty in opposing the seizure of his land. Although the growth of industries is dwelt upon, no mention, as far as could be found, was made of the passing of the wonderful resources of the state, its virgin timber and its mines, into the hands of the few. On the whole, however, the book is an interesting and faithful presentation of the life story of Minnesota.” P. L. Benjamin

+ — =Survey= 38:370 Jl 28 ‘17 370w

=POOLE, ERNEST.= His family. *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-13623

A deep sense of the continuity of life, as it is handed on from generation to generation, pervades this thoughtful novel. Roger Gale, close on to sixty years old, living in the New York house that has been his home since his early marriage, tries to understand the new and bewildering currents of modern life as they are reflected in his three daughters. These three represent distinct types. Edith is the domestic and maternal woman, fiercely absorbed in her children. Deborah is the active woman, spending herself on social movements. Laura is the modern woman of society, living life gladly, throwing away old conventions and breaking into new paths, without fear and without regret. In each of them Roger sees his own life repeated. Each of the three has something of himself. It is the second daughter, Deborah, who is nearest to her father’s heart. With her passion for mothering the world at war with her instinct for personal motherhood, she is the most interesting study in this worth while book.

=A L A Bkl= 13:451 Jl ‘17

“The one story of this month, beyond doubt, is ‘His family.’” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:532 Jl ‘17 800w

“The most striking and appealing feature of the story is its absolute sincerity and plausibility. ... If English or French readers, or readers of any other nation, wish to gain an accurate knowledge of life as it is lived in an American family and an American community, they need only read Mr Poole’s novel.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 1550w

“Roger is not a sufficiently vivid personality to carry the burden of the book, and this defect will prevent it from making a permanent impression.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:540 Jl ‘17 250w

“Roger Gale is the finest old father of a family since Silas Lapham, of whom in many ways he reminds me. And the resemblance, or, if the resemblance is not as close as I think, the recollection is a compliment to Mr Poole. For Mr Howells is a master in the portrayal of elderly men.” J: Macy

+ — =Dial= 63:113 Ag 16 ‘17 480w

“The book is bigger than the ordinary novel, more far-reaching in its meaning, more deeply rooted in human experiences.”

+ =Lit D= 55:34 Ag 18 ‘17 290w

“We find it happily difficult to put in the familiar measured terms our impression of such a book as this. In its mass, its solidity, its noble and simple contour, it rises like a shining peak above the high, and flat, plateaus of our ‘average workmanship.’”

+ =Nation= 104:680 Je 7 ‘17 1300w

“If Mr Poole were primarily an artist, writing a novel for the sake of giving such emotion as a work of art can convey, his insistence would not be nearly so great on his specific idea of the family. But the thing that seems to lead Mr Poole to write a novel is the same thing that led Zola to write novels—the desire to illustrate a large group-idea by the processes of fiction. It is really the way of the scientist as against the way of the artist. ... There is no ultimate recompense for the solemn theme that runs through ‘His family.’ Beginning with its pernicious enunciation on page 6, it comes back on pages 18, 25, 45, 85, 95, 118, 123, 149, 161, 196, 236, 268, 286, and heaven knows in how many other places—the theme that people live on in their children’s lives.” F. H.

=New Repub= 11:164 Je 9 ‘17 1450w

“A book full of truth, power and beauty.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p15 Je 24 ‘17 670w

“Told simply and sincerely, with careful craftsmanship, this book is worthy of the best traditions in American fiction. It touches on many vital problems of our modern life, but the problems are never emphasized at the expense of character.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:194 My 20 ‘17 1050w

“This book is chiefly to be prized as a picture of Mr Poole’s own soul. ... It rewards the best that one can bring to it. ... It has spiritual penetration and latitude and elevation. It is filled throughout with a deep and intimate consciousness of the reality of other souls.” Lawrence Gilman

+ =No Am= 205:943 Je ‘17 1500w

“A novel of admirable poise and of quiet but deep-lying social import.”

+ =Outlook= 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 200w

“Appeared in Everybody’s Magazine, v. 35-36, Sept. 1916-May 1917.”

=Pittsburgh= 22:510 Je ‘17 70w

+ =R of Rs= 56:102 Jl ‘17 270w

“Compared with ‘The harbor,’ ‘His family’ is analytical in even greater degree. It is not unjust to say that the second novel does not grip as did the first. It is perhaps more polished, and Mr Poole undoubtedly reveals a more pronounced grasp of the technique of the novel; but it lacks something of the enthusiasm, the vividness and the freshness of discovery which made ‘The harbor’ the immediate success it was. This is not to say, however, that ‘His family’ is not one of the notable novels of the season.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 1150w

=POOLEY, ANDREW MELVILLE.= Japan at the cross roads. *$3.50 (2½c) Dodd 952 (Eng ed 17-27871)

First hand facts about Japan brought together to delineate the real state of affairs in Japan and to indicate the forces which are at work moulding public opinion and the directions in which they are leading. Politics, finance, social conditions and religion are the interests that chiefly occupy the writer’s attention. “Mr Pooley pays tribute to the rapid progress Japan has made, and to the vigor and energy of her statesmanship, but he does not disguise his belief that radical improvement must be effected before Japan can claim of right a position as a first-class power. ... Mr Pooley’s discussion of Japan’s foreign relations, particularly those with the United States, will do much to clear up a lot of misinformation about this matter which exists in America.” (Publishers’ note)

“The cumulative effect of all the criticism in the book is considerable; and, even assuming that some of the shadows in Mr Pooley’s picture are as dark as he paints them, we doubt whether the present is the best time to draw up so unflattering an account, and so sweeping an indictment, of our allies.”

– + =Ath= p682 D ‘17 250w

“The author sums up the Japanese in a manner which clearly points out their weak as well as their strong characteristics.” H. S. K.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 800w

“The book would gain somewhat if the author conceded more frequent summaries of his facts and more emphatic statements of his conclusions; these the reader must carefully elicit for himself. So comprehensive a study should have an index appended. But these minor faults are insignificant in Mr Pooley’s illuminating achievement.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 610w

“His chapters on ‘Social conditions,’ and on Japanese methods in Korea and Formosa, deserve attention. He shows how the war has benefited Japanese industry.”

+ =Spec= 119:774 D 29 ‘17 150w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p543 N 8 ‘17 60w

=POORE, IDA MARGARET (GRAVES) lady.= Admiral’s wife in the making, 1860-1903. *$3 Dutton (Eng ed 17-20978)

“Lady Poore has written a very charming book on her girlhood and early married life, completing the autobiography which she began at the end, so to say, in her ‘Recollections of an admiral’s wife.’ The daughter of Dr Graves, Bishop of Limerick, she spent a happy youth in Dublin, Limerick, and County Kerry, with less happy intervals at an English school. She married in 1885, soon after Commander Poore had won great distinction by his work in the Nile expedition. ... As the wife of a naval officer with modest means, Lady Poore seems to have enjoyed life heartily in Bermuda, Halifax, Jamaica, Malta, Alexandria, and other stations whither her husband was sent, as well as in France and Italy for periods of unemployment.”—Spec

“A sense of humour and an element of delightful frankness are two factors helping to make Lady Poore’s book very pleasant reading.”

+ =Ath= p256 My ‘17 90w

“The spirit not only of a very gracious and plucky British gentlewoman infuses it, but the spirit of Britain itself.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ‘17 650w

“A few of these memoirs, a blessed few, are well worth reading, because their authors can write and ought to write. Among this last select class is Lady Poore.”

+ =Sat R= 123:343 Ap 14 ‘17 1850w

+ =Spec= 118:493 Ap 28 ‘17 240w

“This is a jolly book. It reads like the letter of an intimate friend who has snatched a spare moment to tell you the many things she has seen to interest her in her travels, because you are sure to understand the point of it all without expecting her to labour it.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p162 Ap 5 ‘17 1050w

=POORMAN, ALFRED PETER.= Applied mechanics. il *$2 McGraw 620.1 17-17214

“A knowledge of general physics and of the calculus is assumed for the study of this undergraduate text-book, which aims to develop basic principles in a way which the average student can easily follow. Two unusual features are claimed: (1), the extended use of the graphic method; (2), the large number of illustrative examples which have been solved in detail. Numerous practical problems with answers are also given. The author is associate professor of applied mechanics in Purdue university.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

“The book is a fine example of effective, interest-arousing presentation. Instead of dealing with abstract principles, the strong psychological appeal of a single engineering problem is used. Some of the principles in which many graduates are especially weak have been given exceptionally clear and satisfactory treatment. The typographical work, the drawings and reproductions are also distinctly superior to previous standards.” J. P. J. Williams

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:131 Jl 19 ‘17 380w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p13 Jl ‘17 80w

=PORTER, ARTHUR KINGSLEY.= Lombard architecture. 4v v 1-3 ea *$12, v 4 *$15; set *$50 Yale univ. press 723 (17-9830)

Professor Porter describes his book as “a definite synthetic analysis of Lombard architecture.” Volume 1 traces its growth from its Byzantine beginnings in the sixth century to the end of the twelfth century. “More than half of this volume is given to the discussion of ornament and the arts accessory to architecture.” “Part 4 of volume 1 is given to iconography. Volumes 2 and 3 take up in detail the study of the multitudes of edifices which, often hidden away in remote villages and cities, have been up to now scarcely even a name and which, nevertheless, preserve precious remains, full of interest to the student of religion, of architecture and of other arts. These volumes are printed in a smaller type and are extraordinarily rich in legendary and historic lore.” (Boston Transcript) The fourth volume consists of a series of 244 plates with from two to ten half-tones each. The bibliography gives an idea of the author’s wide reading. “Only 750 copies are printed from type.”

“For the architect these superb volumes will be of the utmost importance; the general reader will find in them an enormous amount of information presented in a clear and fascinating style. The portfolio of illustrations, many of them from pictures taken with the magical telephotographic lens, will appeal to anyone who delights in rare views. The typography is faultless.” N. H. D.

+ + =Boston Transcript= p7 My 29 ‘17 1000w

“The amount of careful erudition, of often eloquent description, of sound judgment and accurate criticism is bewildering. The translations of justifying text in Latin and Italian must in themselves have taken months of labor; the searching out of authorities and the balancing of contrary views, resulting frequently in the rectification of dates and the discovery of unknown or wholly forgotten artists and architects, the knowledge of history involved and the breadth of architectural comprehension make the work of first importance.” N. H. D.

+ + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 230w

“Of that most important element in Lombard ornament, the grotesque, the author writes with convincing common sense.”

+ + =N Y Times= 22:270 Jl 22 ‘17 950w

“The most careful, scholarly, and learned work dealing with architecture that has thus far been produced in America. Only one criticism is possible, and that is on the presentation of the plates; these, which consist of a great mass of folio sheets, unbound, each containing four or five illustrations, bear numbers only, and the task of sorting them out as one reads, identifying them from a key sheet, and getting them back again into the box, is almost insuperable.” R. A. Cram

+ + — =Yale R= n s 7:420 Ja ‘18 3350w

=PORTER, MRS ELEANOR (HODGMAN) (ELEANOR STUART, pseud.).= Road to understanding. il *$1.40 (1c) Houghton 17-9250

The story opens with an unfortunate marriage. Helen and Burke were alike in one thing only; each was self-centered and spoiled. Attracted by Helen’s pretty face, Burke defied his father and gave up his home to marry her. Trouble followed shortly and a separation. Left with her baby daughter, Helen begins to think things out. She decides to make of herself the kind of woman Burke could respect. She is very ignorant but she is willing to learn. With the help of good friends, she does so. Many years pass and Betty, the daughter, is a grownup girl before the three are again brought together.

“Will be popular, specially with inexperienced girls.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:406 Je ‘17

“One or two situations which are well worked out make the book worth reading.”

+ =Ath= p471 S ‘17 60w

“The book is without doubt decidedly different from Mrs Porter’s previous work. ... As an artist Mrs Porter shows both more power and more restraint in this new novel.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 700w

“Of the light and shade and depth of true characterization she has hardly an inkling. She has that plentiful lack of humour which seems almost an asset with the best-buying public. ... We note that this preposterous story stands second to ‘Mr Britling’ upon the bestselling lists for April. It would be interesting to know how many readers of either can have endured the other.”

— =Nation= 104:736 Je 21 ‘17 300w

“We find ourselves always objecting to the situations as more than improbable and to the characters as not consistent with themselves. Besides, life is short, and the road Mrs Porter’s heroine elects is unconscionably long. Still, the book is so well written and holds so much of truth that it must be ranked among the really good stories of the day, well worth the reading.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:186 My 13 ‘17 500w

“Take it from a pessimist, this new book by Eleanor H. Porter will be among the six best sellers within a month and it really is much more of a book than ‘Pollyanna.’” Robert Lynd

=Pub W= 91:974 Mr 17 ‘17 250w

=Spec= 119:221 S 1 ‘17 20w

=PORTER, GENE (STRATTON) (MRS CHARLES DARWIN PORTER).= Friends in feathers. il *$3.50 (4c) Doubleday 598.2 17-15687

A revised and enlarged edition of “What I have done with birds,” published in 1907. It is primarily a book on bird photography. It is illustrated with the author’s own remarkable photographs and the text is made up largely of an account of experiences while obtaining these pictures.

=A L A Bkl= 14:67 N ‘17

“The illustrations, showing various birds never before photographed in their natural positions are uniquely fascinating.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 260w

“One of the most fascinating of bird books.”

+ =Ind= 91:110 Jl 21 ‘17 50w

“Though a student of bird-life would look in vain for any new observations of importance, and though the natural history to which the author frequently appeals is of a very thin quality, her work, nevertheless, is worthy of high praise for the excellence of many of her photographic studies; only a field student who is an adept with the camera can appreciate how fine some of these pictures really are.”

+ — =Nation= 105:317 S 20 ‘17 490w

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 80w

=PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.).= Dormie one, and other golf stories. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-24401

A collection of golf stories, reprinted from Collier’s, Every Week, and other magazines. Contents: Alibi; If you don’t mind my telling you; The runner-up; The luck of the devil; The last round; If it interferes with business; Dormie one; “Consolation.” In the preface which he adds gratuitously the author touches on the difficulties involved in writing stories about golf. “I know of only one other sport,” he says, “which offers fewer possibilities for a red-blooded story of nerve and skill and stamina—and that’s billiards!”

“A collection of excellent stories. ... But good as they all are, well written technically, and often bubbling over with shrewd dialogue, we rather doubt their holding readers to whom the revered game of golf is an unknown quantity.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 250w

“This collection of tales, none of which is impossible (if indeed any is improbable), will be the joy of many a golfer second only to playing the game.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 O 27 ‘17 300w

“The eight tales comprise a sort of anthology of the links; in deft plot construction, in sharp character sketching in every attribute that goes to the making of a good story, the author has succeeded admirably.” C. W.

+ =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 100w

“You need not be necessarily a golfer to appreciate the stories, for though a golf course is invariably employed as a setting, there is in each story a perspicacious study of human temperaments, together with a literary finish, which gives it a value entirely independent of its eighteen-hole environment.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:400 O 14 ‘17 750w

“They are so rich in human nature that the subject-matter is merely incidental.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 350w

=PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.).= What he least expected. il *$1.50 (2c) Bobbs 17-8466

The hero is a young Harvard man who at the beginning of the story is down on his luck. The European war has just closed the New York Stock exchange and deprived him of his job. He answers a “help wanted” advertisement and after a rigid cross examination finds himself engaged at a high salary. What his work is to be remains a mystery. He is sent to one of the best hotels and told to wait further orders. The action begins almost immediately, following his introduction to two attractive girls. New York and Bermuda are the scenes of the story. “Help wanted,” was its title during serial publication in Collier’s.

=A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17

“Mr Hall’s books and stories belong to the harmless group. ... The public is said to like love stories, real or false, hackneyed or original, and Mr Hall believes we must feed the public what we think it wants.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 300w

“Who says that grown-up Americans don’t believe in fairies?... Mr Holworthy Hall turns raw mythologic ore into the pure gold of that kind of installment novel which keeps its readers infantile.”

=New Repub= 11:142 Je 2 ‘17 180w

“The liveliest kind of a lively yarn, with all sorts of entanglements and cross-purposes that thoroughly accomplish their manifest destiny—which is to bewilder and interest the reader.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 200w

“The author always makes his characters talk easily and amusingly, but his plot is too complicated and unreal to rivet attention.”

– + =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 20w

“A love story which has married a detective story. The union has its points.” M. A. Hopkins

=Pub W= 91:972 Mr 17 ‘17 250w

“A light story which moves at a rapid pace, with a liberal sprinkling of colloquial slang and humor.”

=Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 150w

=POUND, EZRA LOOMIS.=[2] Lustra of Ezra Pound, with earlier poems. *$1.50 Knopf 811 17-31072

The first book of Mr Pound’s poetry to appear in this country since 1912. The first group contains about eighty short pieces whose themes range from “The tea shop” to “The study in aesthetics.” In the second group are translations from the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the Professors Mori and Ariga. The last thirty are poems published before 1911.

“No one challenges the poet’s right to draw his materials from any source that he chooses. No one cares how far into the past he penetrates, so that he brings back something of beauty and value, something that he has revitalized and made his own. But when from these excursions into the antique he brings back chiefly what is inconsequent and often repulsive, one sees no particular reason for going so far afield for material.” J. B. Rittenhouse

– + =Bookm= 46:577 Ja ‘18 450w

“His poems are too complicated for hasty judgment. One must read—and read again a week later. They are ironical, jeering and intolerant, they are lonely, contemplative, searching, carefully formed and firmly living. Perhaps you hate Ezra Pound. He says many of us have the manner. Perhaps you like him, but whatever else you do you cannot ignore him. He has an individual fashion of saying things and he is without fear.” K. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 6 ‘16 700w

“Its range and variety are its most outstanding quality and its chief defect. The volume seems a catch-all for Pound’s slightest utterance. What makes this lust for print the more puzzling is the fact that Mr Pound has not only a critical but a selective gift. But ‘Lustra’ is something more than a haphazard and too inclusive collection; it is the record of a retreat, a gradual withdrawal from life.” L: Untermeyer

– + =Dial= 63:634 D 20 ‘17 980w

“In this book we have no signs of those graceful medieval verses that Mr Pound used to write so perfectly. Sometimes Mr Pound is so modern as to be incomprehensible.”

— =Lit D= 55:38 D 15 ‘17 140w

=Lit D= 55:51 D 29 ‘17 630w

“‘Lustra’ does more than force the painful conclusion of deterioration: it reveals the actual process, the poems written before 1911 being separated from those composed later. Rarely is it possible to see in one book so sharp a line of cleavage, so complete a superiority of periods as Mr Pound lets us witness by his act of separation. Before 1911 life still stung Mr Pound.” M. T.

– + =New Repub= 13:352 Ja 19 ‘18 1300w

“The ‘Lustra’ is bookish; instead of revealing further heights or depths of existence, it bears the echoes of dead literature. Personally, I would rather have one of Arturo Giovanetti’s things, such as ‘The last nickel’ or ‘The walker,’ or one of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago poems than the whole volume called ‘Lustra,’ in spite of the embroidered gorgeousness of the Cathay translations, contained therein.” G: W. Cronyn

– + =N Y Call= p18 D 20 ‘17 750w

“The only healthy pages are entitled ‘Poems published before 1911.’”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 25 ‘18 300w

“The form which Mr Pound has chosen gives brevity, and that is enough. The richness of content compensates for its looseness. But in Mr Pound’s original poems there is seldom this compensation. It is poetry made too easy. As you read it you feel as if you had tried to sneeze and failed. There is a titillation, the promise of something about to happen, but at the end nothing has happened, not even a well-turned verse. That is the fault we have to find with most of these poems; too little happens in them. When Mr Pound is serious there is promise in his seriousness.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p545 N 16 ‘16 900w

=POWELL, CHILTON LATHAM.= English domestic relations, 1487-1653. (Studies in English and comparative literature) *$1.50 (2½c) Columbia univ. press 392 17-11684

The author calls this “a study of matrimony and family life in theory and practice as revealed by the literature, law, and history of the period,” and states in his preface that he has tried “to make the field of investigation within these limits as all-inclusive as possible.” “Four appendixes are added to the book, in the first of which a complete account is given for the first time of the divorce suit of Henry VIII, and in the second, a new conception of the married life of Milton and the cause of his famous divorce tracts is advanced.” (Am Hist R) There are fourteen pages of bibliography.

“Perhaps the most valuable portions of Dr Powell’s book are the chapters describing and analyzing the domestic conduct book of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the contemporary attitudes towards woman and the wider ranges of domestic literature. ... Such a careful and detailed study as Dr Powell’s should be sincerely welcomed by every student of the family. The fresh material it assembles and the painstaking way in which it traces the evolution of new ideas concerning marriage and divorce make it a genuine contribution to the growing body of literature on this subject.” Willystine Goodsell

+ =Am Hist R= 23:142 O ‘17 500w

“The author’s interests—and his style—are not literary, but the book will be useful to the student of literature as well as of social history.”

+ =Ath= p353 Jl ‘17 80w

=Cleveland= p10 Ja ‘18 120w

“The performance is scarcely equal to the promise. The second half of the volume deals with the literature of the subject and, though the author discusses a number of important but little-known writings, this part of the work is scarcely more than a critical bibliography. The important part of the study comprises the first three chapters. ... The field was harvested a dozen years ago with some thoroughness by Professor Howard in his monumental ‘History of matrimonial institutions’; but Dr Powell has discovered several unused literary sources and has been able to correct Professor Howard’s conclusions on various important points.”

+ — =Dial= 63:351 O 11 ‘17 370w

“It is included in the ‘Studies in English and comparative literature,’ but is of wider scope than most books so classified. There is a good deal here that will be of interest to the student of ‘kulturgeschichte’ or to the sociologist, for the author has very carefully assembled a good body of information respecting marriage and the family, from sources not ordinarily open to the non-expert in the period’s literature.”

+ =Nation= 105:375 O 4 ‘17 600w

“Dr Powell’s method, if it yields little to our actual knowledge, certainly gives a useful summary of contemporary opinion.”

+ =Spec= 119:sup547 N 17 ‘17 850w

=POWELL, E. ALEXANDER.= Brothers in arms. *50c (7c) Houghton 940.91 17-17404

A tribute to the French, written on the occasion of the visit of the French mission to America by a well-known war correspondent who has marched with the armies of France, and who wishes those of his country-people who have not had the same opportunity as he of knowing the French “to understand what manner of men are these our brothers in arms.” He does for our relations with France what Captain Ian Hay Beith has done for our relations with England in “Getting together.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17

“The first twenty pages is fulsome in style. The writer is so eager to excel in description that his work becomes monotonous and devoid of interest. Beginning with the twenty-ninth page comes a change. Mr Powell swings into his best stride.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 260w

=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 50w

=Ind= 91:352 S 1 ‘17 60w

“Might suitably serve as a memorial of the visit of Marshall Joffre and the other French commissioners to this country. Moreover, it is worth reading on its own account.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 50w

=POWELL, E. ALEXANDER.= Italy at war and the Allies in the west. il *$1.50 (3c) Scribner 940.91 17-14525

This is the author’s third book on the war. “Fighting in Flanders” and “Vive la France” have preceded it. The first four chapters are devoted to Italy’s part. He says, “It is no exaggeration to say that not one American in a thousand has any adequate conception of what Italy is fighting for, nor any appreciation of the splendid part she is playing in the war.” Contents: The way to the war; Why Italy went to war; Fighting on the roof of Europe; The road to Trieste; With the Russians in Champagne; “They shall not pass”; “That contemptible little army”; With the Belgians on the Yser.

“More descriptive of actual fighting conditions and less of a political interpretation than Bainville (Booklist 13:442 Jl ‘17).”

=A L A Bkl= 13:446 Jl ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 270w

=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 90w

“He has a talent for collecting interesting scraps of information and adapting technical details of artillery or aviation to the comprehension of the uninitiated.”

+ =Dial= 63:212 S 13 ‘17 270w

“If his visits to the Champagne, Verdun and the Somme front are less impressive, it is because what is comprized within the title of his book, ‘Italy at war,’ today is the best first hand record of that war region.”

+ =Ind= 91:475 S 22 ‘17 150w

“The chapter on ‘Why Italy went to war’ is of particular value. For that question is perhaps the one of the whole war concerning which Americans in general have felt most uncertainty and about which they had the least information.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 180w

=Pratt= p42 O ‘17 30w

=POWELL, OLA.= Successful canning and preserving. (Lippincott’s home manuals) il *$2 Lippincott 664 17-26659

This is a “practical handbook for schools, clubs and home use,” by an assistant in the home demonstration work of the United States Department of agriculture. It covers the history of scientific canning, the equipment, canning in tin and glass, the description of the processes necessary for canning fruits and vegetables, with suggestions for their use in the diet, the drying of fruits, vegetables and herbs, the preservation of meat, canning club organization, the business side of canning, teaching canning and related activities. Questions and bibliographies are given at the ends of the chapters. The appendix gives an “Address list of state institutions from which agricultural extension work under the Smith-Lever act is directed” and an “Address list of firms furnishing supplies for canning and preserving.”

“The most complete manual to date, for a textbook or for scientific canning at home on a small or large scale.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17

“The title does not do full justice to the extent and value of the information contained.”

+ =Cath World= 106:268 N ‘17 180w

+ =Ind= 92:344 N 17 ‘17 50w

“With the help of many illustrations, proper preparation and equipment are presented. The unfortunate part of it is that few can afford such a complete and adequate paraphernalia as is here advised.”

+ — =Lit D= 56:39 Ja 26 ‘18 130w

“The author has done a remarkably thorough bit of work.” M. G. S.

+ =N Y Call= p15 N 4 ‘17 210w

“The directions for each method are carefully given and the recipes varied.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 4 ‘17 360w

=POWELL, MRS SOPHIA HILL (HULSIZER).= Children’s library; a dynamic factor in education; with an introd. by J: Cotton Dana. *$1.75 (2c) Wilson, H. W. 028.5 17-13388

A discussion of the relation of the children’s library to the school from the modern educational point of view. As the author points out in her first chapter, the attitude of modern educators toward the place of books in the child’s early school life has undergone a change. She writes of: The place of books in education; Early libraries for children; The elementary-school library; The high-school library; The library resources of country children; Public library relations with public schools; The public library an integral part of the public education; The children’s room; The children’s librarian and her training; Aids to library work with children; Book selection; Some social aspects of library work with children. An extensive bibliography follows. John Cotton Dana in his introduction says, “A careful study of the relations of children’s reading to teachers, parents and librarians has long been needed, and this is precisely what Mrs Powell has given us.” The author is a graduate of the Pratt institute library school, and her library experience has included work in Cleveland and New York.

“This book is unexpectedly interesting and thought-provoking. An example of the critical method of the author is her discussion of the much-lauded children’s room, which, it appears upon careful examination, neither meets an otherwise unmet educational need nor does it properly meet a real recreational need. The last chapter, on ‘Some social aspects of library work with children,’ suggests a number of possibilities for the library in a wider social field.” F. F. Bernard

+ =Am J Soc= 23:276 S ‘17 720w

“Sensible, interesting, compact and inclusive—should be used in every library.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:422 Jl ‘17

“A book which all school administrators and those charged with instruction in English ought to read.”

+ =English Journal= 6:513 S ‘17 50w

“A study of its sane pages will help both teacher and librarian, and thereby, incidentally, the children.”

+ =Ind= 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 60w

“Some well-considered and apparently sound conclusions concerning the place of reading in education and the use of cultural books in elementary schools are set forth.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:338 S 9 ‘17 60w

“A revelation of the development and the possibilities of this educational agency. All who are interested in the possibilities of the library will find the entire book very helpful and the bibliographies highly useful.”

+ =Religious Education= 12:395 O ‘17 80w

=St Louis= 15:385 N ‘17 10w

“This book deserves the attention of all who direct the study of English in either elementary or high school.”

+ =School and Society= 5:711 Je 16 ‘17 90w

“The book under review will do much to unify the work of the public school and the public library. The book is certain to find an important place in all libraries as a general-reference book and as a text in library-training schools.”

+ =School R= 25:533 S ‘17 180w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 29 ‘17 220w

=POWERS, HARRY HUNTINGTON.=[2] America among the nations. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 327.73 18-669

In some sense a sequel to the work published a year ago, “The things men fight for.” The aim of the writer is to furnish an historic interpretation of our national character and our relation to other nations; to supply the “family point of view” from which America was obliged to look forth when she entered the war and so became a member of the European family. The first part of the text is devoted to a consideration of “America at home,” including among the chapters: The first Americans, The struggle for the Pacific; Despoiling the Latin, The break with tradition, The aftermath of Panama, and Pan-Americanism; the second part treats “America among the world powers,” with chapters on: The great powers, The Mongolian menace, Greater Japan, The unfeared Powers, The background of Europe, Germany, the storm centre, The storm area, The greatest empire, The great fellowship, and Forecast.

=PRATT, HENRY SHERRING.= Manual of the common invertebrate animals, exclusive of insects. il *$3.50 McClurg 592 16-17348

“As the author remarks in his preface, there has been no lack of manuals relating to the common insects, but hitherto a person wishing to identify animals of the other invertebrate groups has had to go to technical papers and treatises which, in many cases, have been inaccessible to all except specialists. Professor Pratt’s manual follows that of Leunis’s ‘Zoologie,’ a standard German work dealing with the animals of Europe; it is intended especially, for use in the eastern and central portions of the United States and Canada.”—N Y Times

“Needed only in large, school, and college libraries.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:338 My ‘17

“It will be a useful book for the reference shelves of biological laboratories, for general libraries, and for students of zoology. It does not replace special monographs.”

+ =Dial= 62:109 F 8 ‘17 200w

“There is a good glossary and a thorough index. The thousand-odd illustrations are all familiar line cuts of textbook style, well chosen and clearly reproduced. The faults are almost altogether those due to the condensation necessary to the limits of a single volume. The uncoated paper does away with extra weight. The most serious lack is the absence of all common names, except in the case of groups.”

+ — =Nation= 105:275 S 6 ‘17 430w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:154 O ‘16

=N Y Times= 22:8 Ja 7 ‘17 80w

“The author is professor of biology in Haverford college.”

=St Louis= 15:12 Ja ‘17 9w

=PREEV, ZINOVY N.= Russian revolution and Who’s who in Russia. *2s Bale & Danielsson, London 947 (Eng ed 17-20023)

“This little book, by the editor of the Twentieth Century Russian and Anglo-Russian Review, contains first an account of the revolution (19pp.) and then a ‘Who’s who,’ not confined to persons but containing explanations of phrases like ‘Constitutional Democrats,’ ‘Intelligentsia,’ ‘Zemstvo union,’ &c.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“The brief biographies, beginning with the Tsaritsa, speak freely about the persons they deal with.”

=Sat R= 123:604 Je 30 ‘17 230w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p239 My 17 ‘17 40w

=PREVITÉ ORTON, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Outlines of medieval history. maps *$2.75 (2c) Putnam 940 (Eng ed 17-21845)

A history of medieval Europe, embracing the period from 895 to 1492 A.D. The author says, “In the choice of events to narrate I have been guided by their far-off results, rather than by their immediate éclat in their own time, and have tried to indicate how in the middle ages were accomplished the growth of modern man and the life and attitude to life of modern times.” Contents: The barbarian migrations; The Eastern empire and the Saracens; The fusion of races in western Europe; The development of feudalism; The papal monarchy; The East and the crusades; The fall of the Western empire and of the papal theocracy; France and England; The councils and the Italian renaissance; The East and the Turks; The despotic monarchies.

“Mr Orton fairly accomplishes his aim of indicating ‘how in the middle ages were accomplished the growth of modern man and the life and attitude to life of modern times.’ As this involves some loss of local colour and a style which, though clear and well balanced, is usually a little bare and restrained, the book will probably be more appreciated by older than younger students, but this must be accounted a defect of its quality.” J. T.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:616 O ‘17 280w

“This is a lucid and scholarly sketch of a vast subject which is by no means remote from practical politics, though it nominally closed with the fifteenth century. ... Mr Previté Orton has to deal with masses of facts and dates, but he writes very well and is full of ideas, so that his book is easy to read.”

+ =Spec= 118:441 Ap 14 ‘17 200w

“The want of a satisfactory guide to medieval history has long been felt. Hallam’s work is no longer adequate, and more recent books dealing with the subject do not cover the whole ground. Students have been thrown back, therefore, on treatises having a wider range, such as Lavisse and Rambaud’s ‘Histoire générale,’ of which medieval history forms only a part. Mr Previté Orton’s ‘Outlines’ satisfies the conditions desired by giving within reasonable limits a comprehensive survey of the middle ages as a distinct historical subject. The success he has achieved in this difficult task is very great.”

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p137 Mr 22 ‘17 1150w

=PRICE, CHARLES MATLACK.= Practical book of architecture. il *$6 Lippincott 720 16-24966

“The purpose of this handsomely made and compactly written volume is simple but very much worth while; to state in untechnical language the sources of our present day architecture. Not so much regarding the details of classic architecture as it appears in the Parthenon or the mysteries of Gothic architecture woven into a fabric like Notre Dame; but rather a clear statement of just what distinguishes classic and Gothic architecture respectively, how much of its ‘indicia’ are practically applicable to the needs of to-day. ... Most interesting perhaps are the two chapters on Native American architecture and on such special topics as ‘l’art nouveau’ and ‘modernist’ architecture, as well as the office building, modern hotel and railroad terminal. ... The second part of the book, ‘A practical guide to building,’ discusses sanely such questions for the prospective house builder as the selection of site, style and materials to be used, the choice of and relations with the architect, comparative costs of various styles and materials, and plans and interior details.”—Pub W

“A popular treatment of interest to those intending to build, to beginners in the study of architecture, and to the general reader. Covers the subject fully as an art and a science and yet may be understood by the layman. ... Has excellent illustrations, many of modern work.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:254 Mr ‘17

“The illustrations, 255 in number, are particularly good.”

+ =Ath= p197 Ap ‘17 90w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 3 ‘17 300w

+ =Cath World= 105:836 S ‘17 210w

“The reader gets unusual delight from the illustrations, which are mainly chosen from well-known buildings in big cities, thereby making them more vital and understandable.”

+ =Lit D= 54:770 Mr 17 ‘17 300w

+ =N Y Times= 22:58 F 18 ‘17 200w

“Like Mr Talbot Hamlin’s book, which also appears at this time, Mr Price’s makes its own individual, educative appeal. Surely the man in the street as well as the trained critic should find much of practical value in such volumes.”

+ =Outlook= 115:116 Ja 17 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:120 F ‘17 50w

“There has been no book on architecture before just like this one.” Fremont Rider

+ =Pub W= 91:211 Ja 20 ‘17 350w

=R of Rs= 55:218 F ‘17 90w

“Mr Price gives a great deal of extremely sound instruction and advice, and that with convincing point and clarity. Admirable theories or principles are eloquently argued or presented; but the unworthy, and even second-rate, examples with which he sometimes seeks to illustrate them, tend rather to damp one’s latent enthusiasm and to check one’s conversion. His English ‘typicals’ are for the most part peculiarly ill chosen and unfortunate.”

+ — =Spec= 119:14 Jl 7 ‘17 1700w

“A work which aims at and renders a service popular rather than professional. ... The public has been slow to realize that architecture is the one art from which it can not escape even if it desires to do so.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 19 ‘16 450w

=PRICE, JULIUS MENDES.= Six months on the Italian front. il *$3.50 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-88)

“Mr Price’s book deals with the operations of the Italian army from the Stelvio to the Adriatic (1915-1916). Mr Price is the wellknown war artist correspondent of the Illustrated London News, and he had the privilege of following the Italian armies all along their five hundred miles long front in the period which might be rightly called preparatory in their hard war.” (Sat R) “He was actually present at the capture of Gorizia and Monfalcone in 1916.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

+ =Ath= p260 My ‘17 50w

“This book is wholly reportorial and free of discussions of international questions. ... The illustrations can be endorsed without quibbling as among the best of the war yet published, when the giving of true ensemble is considered. They are rich in minutely faithful sketches of the equipment of the Italian army, and frequently achieve marked excellence in their graphic portrayals of the troops of Cadorna scaling precipitous Alpine cliffs.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 170w

“It is journalistic and impressionistic in the bad sense. It is a pity to waste such excellent yellowish white thick paper and fine type, when the few really great books of the war are huddled into their cramped volumes with myopic print.”

— =New Repub= 13:224 D 22 ‘17 250w

“He makes particularly vivid, with both pencil and pen, the difficulties of warfare in the Alpine region.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:382 O 7 ‘17 500w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:763 N ‘17 40w

“A very graphic and faithful description and comment.”

+ =Sat R= 123:413 My 5 ‘17 850w

“Mr Price is primarily an artist, not a journalist. ... He is quite frank about his qualifications as a war correspondent: an amateur at the game, knowing no Italian, not even enough to venture on an Italian phrase in his book without stumbling. ... There are a certain amount of tirades in this book against Austrian ‘frightfulness.’ ... This continual search for evidences of what we have learnt to call ‘kultur’ results often in the digging up of facts which, judged by any reasonable standard of a man accustomed to the necessities of modern warfare, are no more evidences of ‘frightfulness’ than our similar methods are evidences of excessive ‘humanity.’”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p188 Ap 19 ‘17 450w

=PRIESTLEY, HERBERT INGRAM.= José de Gálvez, visitor-general of New Spain (1765-1771). il $3 (2c) Univ. of Cal. 906 A16-1488

José de Gálvez, visitor-general of New Spain, 1765-1771, and later appointed minister of the Indies, was, says the author “with the possible exception of the second Revillagigedo, the most able representative of the Spanish crown in New Spain during the eighteenth century. He certainly was the most competent minister of the Indies during the Bourbon régime.” This study is limited to his years of service as visitor-general, since it was in this period, the author points out, that he gained the practical knowledge that shaped his later policy as minister. The author is assistant curator of the Bancroft library, University of California, and the work is issued as one of the University of California publications in history.

“The author has made ample use of new sources from the archives of Spain and Mexico and, in addition, has made available in English much material already published in Spanish. The volume shows a vast amount of painstaking labor and is readable and interesting throughout. It is a valuable contribution to the study of Spanish colonial institutions.” R. R. Hill

+ =Am Hist R= 23:199 O ‘17 550w

“Mr Priestley’s description of the Spanish colonial system under Charles III is admirably complete.” G. B. H.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:459 Jl ‘17 230w

“A sketch map that might profitably have contained more names, the instructions to Gálvez, a full bibliography, and adequate index complete the volume, and with ample footnotes make it a desirable contribution to Latin-American institutional history.”

+ =Nation= 105:490 N 1 ‘17 410w

“The book should have permanent value as a record of Mexican history and Spanish colonial administration.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 20 ‘17 500w

=PRIESTMANN, EDMUND YERBURY.= With a B.-P. scout in Gallipoli; a record of the Belton bulldogs; with a foreword by Sir Robert Baden-Powell. 2d ed il *$1.75 Dutton 940.91 17-21842

“This is a collection of letters written home by a scoutmaster serving as a subaltern who was killed in action in November, 1915. There is much humor in the book, and the author’s quick perception of the grotesque is evidenced by many of his drawings, which are reproduced in connection with the text.”—R of Rs

+ =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 60w

+ =Ind= 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 140w

“A bubbling sense of humor characterizes them throughout and he has always a keen eye for interesting little incidents, whether comic, pathetic, or tragic, and a clever pen in describing them.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:382 O 7 ‘17 180w

+ =R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 50w

“The little sketches of life on the bloody peninsula are written with a sureness that commends the book to a far larger audience than the intimate one for which they were intended.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 110w

“The racy, cheery letters home which make up this volume show the Boy scout ideal at its best. ... The book is full of clever humorous little drawings by Lieutenant Priestmann himself.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 N 2 ‘16 110w

=PRINCE, JANE.= Letters to a young housekeeper. *$1.35 (6c) Houghton 640 17-4601

Housekeeping ways and means are here discussed in the form of letters. The letters are in fact essays on the following subjects: Economy in the household; The budget; Servants; Maid of all work; Weekly cleaning; Family meals; Duties of servants; Behind the scenes at a dinner.

“The chapters on duties of servants and serving a dinner are specially good.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:435 Jl ‘17

“Fortunate those women into whose possession this book comes. For not only is its friendly advice practical. Its spirit is that which lifts housekeeping into that highest of all womanly avocations—homemaking. There is about it, moreover, a delicious sense of personality.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 300w

+ =Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 50w

“This little volume contains facts—general and particular—on household economy and the household budget. ... and finally the vexing matter of a ‘dinner party.’ It is a readable and valuable book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:191 My 13 ‘17 180w

“Even to the woman who has no servants and who may be disposed to class the book as useless in her circumstances, there is more or less of helpful suggestion in matters like table arrangements, how to sweep a room properly, etc. Type and binding add to the attractiveness and value.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 13 ‘17 200w

“The directions are detailed but explicit. A book which can be unreservedly recommended for every library.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:155 My ‘17 70w

=PRINGLE-PATTISON, ANDREW SETH (ANDREW SETH).= Idea of God in the light of recent philosophy. *$3.50 Oxford 201 17-24221

This volume is based upon the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in 1912 and 1913. The author is professor of logic and metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. In philosophy he is an idealist. “The twenty lectures are grouped in two series. Beginning with commentaries upon Hume’s ‘Dialogues concerning natural religion,’ the author proceeds to discuss critically and fully the views of Kant, Ritschl, Locke, Berkeley, Comte, Spencer, William James, Bergson, Prof. Bosanquet, and many others.” (Ath) “Most of the chief points of metaphysics and ethics come under review.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Dr Pringle-Pattison concludes, among other things, that “for a metaphysic which has emancipated itself from physical categories, the ultimate conception of God is not that of a pre-existent creator but, as it is for religion, that of the eternal redeemer of the world.”

=Ath= p246 My ‘17 180w

“In the use he makes of the principles of continuity of process and the emergence of real differences, in his insistence on the reality of appearances and his account of the finite individual in relation to the Absolute, in his treatment of the idea of creation and his elucidation of teleology as a cosmic principle, Professor Pringle-Pattison has made an illuminating advance in the study and discussion of his subject.” R. Latta

+ =Hibbert J= 16:153 O ‘17 4850w

“The chief criticism upon Professor Pringle-Pattison’s work is rather the vagueness with which he almost invariably expounds his position. On the majority of the issues of contemporary philosophical controversy relevant to his subject it is well-nigh impossible to say exactly what his position is. ... In spite of these shortcomings Professor Pringle-Pattison’s book will be of considerable value to all interested in the perennial problem of the Divine and the human.”

+ — =Nation= 105:457 O 25 ‘17 1000w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:139 S ‘17 100w

“These lectures evince the new spirit gained by twentieth-century philosophy from biology.”

+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 120w

“An able philosophic exposition of the fundamental tenet of Christianity. ... We may draw attention to his sensible and—if we may use the word—manly treatment of the problem of evil.”

+ =Spec= 119:40 Jl 14 ‘17 120w

“The reader will feel a deep delight in Prof. Pringle-Pattison’s ability to handle ideal clearly, in the breadth and eclecticism of his speculation, in his feeling for the realities of poetry, and in his determination to impart to philosophy a human and practical aspect as well as metaphysical consistency.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 1300w

“Dr Pringle-Pattison’s volume will find readers in classes which in the so-called ages of faith would have turned away from it either because discussion of it seemed profanation or—what was more often the explanation of the mood of estrangement—because it was not for them a living, ever-present question. ... Each age desires its own ‘Théodicée,’ and ours is still unwritten. It will borrow, when it is composed, not a little from the pages of Dr Pringle-Pattison. ... We miss in this volume a certain unity of purpose. The author strays here and there according as the thought of the moment suggests. But, if too much a collection of episodes, the book is what it claims to be, constructive.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p184 Ap 19 ‘17 2250w

=PROTHERO, GEORGE WALTER.= German policy before the war. *$1 Dutton 327.43 (Eng ed 16-13631)

“An address given before the Royal historical society, Jan. 21, 1915. It is concerned (1) with the ideas and principles, the ambitions and motives which have produced in Germany a state of mind favorable to war; (2) with the historical events and the economic conditions which have strengthened this tendency; and (3) with the course of international politics which rendered an armed conflict difficult to avoid.” Condensed from introductory note—Pittsburgh

“Interesting but highly inconclusive is the author’s development of the militaristic theory of the state. ... In spite of its fairness of tone, the work bears the marks of special pleading, and is, as was perhaps inevitable, a partizan interpretation of history. ... The weakest point is the author’s failure to appreciate the German attitude toward the alliance with Austria.” R. H. Fife, jr.

– + =Am Hist R= 22:200 O ‘16 320w

=A L A Bkl= 13:261 Mr ‘17

+ — =Eng Hist R= 21:674 O ‘16 370w

“The introductory chapter contains the best brief statement we have seen of the development of German philosophic thought and teaching into potent ideas which are believed to influence Germans at present.”

+ =Nation= 103:444 N 9 ‘16 1150w

=N Y Times= 22:110 Mr 25 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 21:508 N ‘16 70w

“Where changing circumstances and personalities in power count for so much, it is impossible to assert positively that this or that policy was dominant at all times, and probably Mr Prothero, to prove his case, lays too much emphasis on the consistency of German intentions. He might have expanded his brief remarks upon the social and financial conditions inside Germany, and we should have welcomed his fuller views on some other points; for instance, the effects of Italy’s Tripolitan war. But he has certainly given us a concise and most readable and informing chapter of absorbing European history.”

+ =Spec= 117:160 Ag 5 ‘16 880w

“While the analysis as a whole is sound enough without being particularly new, it is open to weighty objection just at the points which seem most fatal to Mr Prothero’s ‘main thesis.’ That applies perhaps most of all to the treatment of the question of Morocco, and of Franco-German relations generally.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 My 25 ‘16 1100w

=PROUD, EMILY DOROTHEA.= Welfare work: employers’ experiments for improving working conditions in factories: with a foreword by D: Lloyd-George. *7s 6d Bell, London 331.8 (Eng ed 17-4011)

“An ably written volume, dealing with means of preserving the health and promoting the happiness of workers in factories. ‘Welfare work’ is defined as consisting of ‘voluntary efforts on the part of employers to improve, within the existing industrial system, the conditions of employment in their own factories.’ Factory welfare departments and the duties of a welfare secretary are described.”—Ath

“The treatment of the subject is practical and sympathetic. Especially interesting chapters are those dealing with the industrial environment, wages and hours, and incidental aids to welfare, such as the provision of baths, gymnasia, means of recreation, and the like.”

+ =Ath= p427 S ‘16 100w

“The matter is well and methodically arranged, with copious foot notes containing extracts from both American and English authorities, and has an excellent index. There is, however, no bibliography. This would have been a valuable addition. ... Together with Mr Lloyd-George we warmly commend this book to employers, factory superintendents, and to all members of the general public interested in the future and well being of their respective countries.” G. K. S.

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:250 Ja ‘17 600w

“Her book is by all odds the most complete and detailed exposition of the subject which has yet appeared.”

+ =Nation= 105:272 S 6 ‘17 210w

“The author is an Australian of wide experience in factory investigation both in Australia and England. At present she is connected with the British ministry of munitions.”

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:8 Ja ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:345 Ap ‘17 30w

=Pratt= p8 Jl ‘17 10w

“Miss Proud is certainly moderate as a radical economist, dealing with things as they are, and trying to be a peacemaker in her chapters. But yet her radicalism shows itself, and takes her away from some questions of essential importance.”

+ — =Sat R= 122:229 S 2 ‘16 1350w

=Spec= 117:556 N 4 ‘16 130w

“The whole volume constitutes an exceedingly valuable contribution to a field where clarifying discussion is much needed.” H. R. Walter

=Survey= 37:671 Mr 10 ‘17 550w

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