PETERSON, ARTHUR EVERETT, and EDWARDS, GEORGE WILLIAM.[2]New York as an eighteenth century municipality. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law)*$5 Longmans 352
“If it is well for the office boy turned bank president to remember his obscure beginnings, so it may be well for a community. New York is reminded in these two monographs that once ‘ye cytie’ found it necessary to proclaim that ‘every seaventh house in the darke time of the moon should cause a lanthorne and candle to be hung out on a pole every night,’ One reads of a municipal budget of $3,000 and a police department of eight men.” (New Repub) “Part 1 of the volume, prepared by Mr Peterson, carries the study up to 1731; Mr Edwards deals with the period running from 1731 to 1776.” (N Y Times)
“All the germs of municipal institutions are here competently examined and arranged, with not a little spice of humor in the selection of quotations.”
“These minute and comprehensive accounts of the beginnings of a vast city might be called studies in evolution, so strikingly do they show how the municipal oak has grown from a tiny acorn. They will prove invaluable to students, but also entertaining to the general reader.”
PETERSSON, C. E. W.How to do business with Russia; with notes and additional chapters by W. Barnes Steveni.*$2.25 Pitman 382 17-28940
“This volume contains a summary of the experience and business methods of Mr C. E. W. Petersson, a merchant of Petrograd and Riga, who for many years successfully carried on a large trade in machinery and kindred goods with various Russian towns.” (Preface) The translator, W. Barnes Steveni, who has himself written several books on Russia, states that he has made “such additions and alterations as may cause the book to be of more value to British and American readers.” He says also, that while the Russian revolution will “modify considerably some of the questions dealt with in this work,” because the towns will change quickly, the “real Russia, which is mainly agricultural and pastoral, will alter but slowly” and therefore the hints of information here given will always be of value. Part 1 deals with “Russia as a field for business enterprise,” while part 2 gives “Hints and advice to business men dealing with Russia.” An appendix gives “Consular information and postal regulations.” The foreword is by Charles E. Musgrave, secretary to the London chamber of commerce. There is a map of Russia, but no index.
PETHERBRIDGE, F. R.Fungoid and insect pests of the farm. (Cambridge farm institute) il*$1.25 Putnam 632 Agr16-1262
“The author tells us this book has been written for those who wish to acquire some practical knowledge of farm and garden pests. It naturally does not aim at dealing with all the numerous enemies which affect crops, but rather at giving an accurate account of some of the commoner forms.”—Nature
“It is a pity a great many more of the common pests were not included, especially amongst the arthropods, for then it would have been of very considerably greater value. The accounts also of many of the pests treated in the book are far too short to be really helpful.”
“This little book is well printed and well illustrated but is not extensive enough as to the number of diseases and pests discussed to justify the title. It can hardly serve as a very general reference for farmers and market gardeners as the authors have hoped. ... As a short reading text or bulletin to familiarize the public with mycological methods and to indicate possible remedial measures for control of a few pests, it contains interesting matter. ... No mention is made of any diseases of small fruits or of orchard and shade trees and but slight attention is given to the commonest garden crops.” H. L. Bolley
PFISTER, OSKAR ROBERT.Psychoanalytic method; auth. tr. by Dr C: Rockwell Payne. il*$4 Moffat 130 17-4346
“Dr Pfister is a pastor and seminary teacher in Zurich and a disciple of Freud. His book includes the definition and history of psychoanalysis, discussions of its theory and technique, and reports of what he has accomplished by its use in cases of neurotic students. ... The conclusion gives summarized examples of the practical benefits of psychoanalysis and what education has to expect from it. ... There are introductions by Sigmund Freud and G. Stanley Hall.”—N Y Times
“Pfister’s book is designed to equip educators with the knowledge necessary to enable them to carry on psychoanalytic treatment of subnormal pupils as well as to foresee and prevent later abnormalities, the causes of which are operative, even in the earlier years, and may be detected only by means of the psychoanalytic technique. ... It is almost the only one that has a practical application to human problems outside of therapeutic ones. ... A part of Pfister’s treatise points out the applications of the Freudian theory to literature, art and religion ... and shows how the creative artist, is saved from his art by being a neurotic.” Wilfrid Lay
“A very technical presentation of psychoanalysis, used by Dr G. Stanley Hall as a textbook for his classes. The author’s method is to make a brief statement followed by a description of cases which illustrate his point.”
“The book, while nowhere rising to the brilliance of some of the Freudian writings themselves, is probably the most careful and inclusive presentation yet published in English of the results attained and the theories elaborated by Freud and his followers. It excels in this respect such works as Brill’s ‘Psychanalysis’ and Hitschmann’s ‘Freud’s theories of the neuroses.’ Unfortunately, Dr Payne’s translation can claim only a moderate measure of success. The over-literalness of the renderings has given numerous passages an irksome awkwardness and, occasionally, obscurity. One needs sometimes to translate back to the German to arrive at the intended nuance of meaning.” E: Sapir
“The 588 pages of this book show what has actually been done through this psychological method. They contain most inspiring suggestions for the physician, theologian, and the pedagogue. Dr Pfister has made a comprehensive study of all the analytic methods which have been developed from Freud’s original theories, and any one reading his work will get a fair idea of the whole stretch of this rapidly growing field of psycho-therapeutics.”
PHELPS, EDITH M., comp. Selected articles on the income tax; with special reference to graduation and exemption. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) 3d and enl ed*$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 336.2 17-27760
For this third edition of the Debater’s handbook on income tax all the material of the second edition has been retained and the volume has been brought up to date by the addition of new articles and references. As the preface states, the new edition is timely, in view of pending legislation for an increased income tax as part of the war revenue bill. Two features of the proposed law, the graduation of the tax and the exemption of incomes under a certain amount have been given special attention. Material is also provided covering recent state legislation.
PHELPS, EDITH M., ed. University debaters’ annual.*$1.80 Wilson, H. W. 808.5
Volume three of the University debaters’ annual contains the constructive and rebuttal speeches delivered in the intercollegiate debates of the following colleges and universities: Iowa, Ohio state, Coe, Oberlin, Western Reserve, Columbia and Chicago. The subjects debated are: Government ownership of railroads; Universal military service; Compulsory arbitration of railroad labor disputes; Chinese and Japanese immigration; Compulsory arbitration; Progressive inheritance tax. For each subject a brief and bibliography are provided. The book follows volumes one and two, edited by E. C. Mabie.
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, butwith what I cannot help thinking are its real causes. I mean those slowly developing, intensely hostile, eternally incompatible philosophies of life of which the two opposing groups of the free and unfree nations of Europe are to-day the representatives.” Contents: Ideals of the war; Liberty; Liberty and Christianity; The Prussian ideal; The British empire; Empires past and present; The influence of France; Modern liberalism; Modern conservatism; The future.
“A 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.”
“Contains an impressive revelation of what the English masses are thinking.”
“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.
“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.”
“We commend the book especially to clergymen and teachers of the young.”
“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.”
“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.”
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
“The chapters on the foreign banking systems are very opportune.” T: Conway, jr.
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
“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
“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.
“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.
“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.”
“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 abominationsof the underworld. Mr Phillips spares neither her nor the reader any of its revolting filth.”
“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
“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.”
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.”
“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.”
“‘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.
“As always, the women are alive and never stupid, however unmoral they may be.”
“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.”
“A novel of maturity and even tone.”
“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.”
“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.”
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.”
“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.”
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.
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
“‘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 otherwritings 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.
“Based on twelve years’ experience in the United States, South America, Mexico, Canada and Africa.”
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.
“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.
“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
“A pleasant story, quite interesting and with some cleverly drawn characters.”
“The story, which is told with spirit, is an appeal to young men to enter the fight for purer public service.”
PIER, ARTHUR STANWOOD.Plattsburgers. il*$1.25 (3½c) Houghton 17-23757
A story of the experiences of some college boys at Plattsburg. “Life at the Plattsburg camp is very different to-day from what it was during the period covered by this story. ... The training of the boys was less intensive than that to which the recruits at the later camps were subjected. Instead of being drilled in only the infantry branch of the service, they were given an opportunity to get at least a smattering of knowledge about other branches. This story is generally true to the conditions that existed at the first camp; in minor details the routine that it describes does not correspond with the routine followed at the subsequent camps.” (Preface) The story is reprinted from the Youth’s Companion.
“A clean-cut story of manly boys that will have much the same attraction for boys that the author’s St Timothy stories have.”
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
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.’”
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
“The programme is admirably carried through, with abundance of well-arranged tablesand sufficient interpretation to show the bearing of the results and warn against sources of error.”
Reviewed by F. N. Freeman
“The authors have done a service that their colleagues in mental measurement will not estimate lightly.” F. L. Wells
“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
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.
“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.’”
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
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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
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 equivalentsarranged 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.”
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
“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.”
“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.”
“A careful and scholarly work showing diligent research and discrimination.”
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.”
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.
“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.”
“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.’”
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.”
“The condition of the famous cloth hall after each bombardment is well pictured in the pen and ink drawings of Thomas Derrick.”
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.”
Reviewed by J: Walcott
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 incomefor 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.
“Excellent pictures are drawn of life in the wilderness, and of the methods of bee culture.”
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