“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.”
“There has been no book on architecture before just like this one.” Fremont Rider
“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.”
“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.”
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)
“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.”
“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.”
“He makes particularly vivid, with both pencil and pen, the difficulties of warfare in the Alpine region.”
“A very graphic and faithful description and comment.”
“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.’”
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
“Mr Priestley’s description of the Spanish colonial system under Charles III is admirably complete.” G. B. H.
“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.”
“The book should have permanent value as a record of Mexican history and Spanish colonial administration.”
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
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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.”
“Fortunate those women into whose possession this book comes. For not only is its friendly advice practical. Its spirit is that which liftshousekeeping into that highest of all womanly avocations—homemaking. There is about it, moreover, a delicious sense of personality.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The directions are detailed but explicit. A book which can be unreservedly recommended for every library.”
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.”
“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
“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.”
“These lectures evince the new spirit gained by twentieth-century philosophy from biology.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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 onthe 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.”
“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.
“Her book is by all odds the most complete and detailed exposition of the subject which has yet appeared.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The whole volume constitutes an exceedingly valuable contribution to a field where clarifying discussion is much needed.” H. R. Walter
“Her treatment of the subject is dispassionate and scientific without being cold or dry. The weakest point is the comparatively small range of observation which forms the basis of her study. It is confined to Australia, New Zealand, England, and Scotland. We congratulate Miss Proud on a pioneer book of high quality and real value.”
PRÜM, ÉMILE.Pan-Germanism versus Christendom; the conversion of a neutral; ed. and with comments by René Johannet.*$1 (3c) Doran 940.91 17-15439
Part 1 of this volume is a reprint of the open letter by M. Émile Prüm, leader of the Catholic party of Luxembourg, to Herr Mathias Erzberger, member of the Reichstag and leader of the Catholic centre party of Germany. It was a protest against the invasion of Belgium and Luxembourg and was seized and prohibited in Germany. Part 2 is an account of The proceedings instituted against M. Prüm, and in an appendix there is a discussion of The evolution of the German Catholic centre.
“Its peculiar interest to-day comes from its account of the evolution of the Centre party and the light it throws on the Centrist leader.”
“We recommend it to the perusal of any still unconvinced pro-German if his mind is open to consider a plain narrative of those facts which have converted a former pro-German into a vigorous opponent of German imperialism and all its works.”
PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE.Bulletin. $15 (service basis) Wilson, H. W. (16-16611)
This is the second annual cumulation of the bulletins of the Public affairs information service, described as “a cooperative clearing house of public affairs information.” The work of the service is outlined in the preface. It is “not merely an information collecting and disseminating agency. Its primary aim is to be of concrete assistance in minimizing the task of the busy librarian, professor, social worker, business man, head of department or bureau. The service carries out its activities by means of the weekly bulletins, the bi-monthly cumulations and the annual number. It acts as agent for the distribution of both free material and material with a cost, desired by the cooperators. It extends the privilege of borrowing from the collection and supplies typewritten material for copying purposes. The Service may be freely used as an information bureau.” The annual volume consists of an alphabetical arrangement under subject headings of all the material (books, pamphlets, reports, magazine articles, etc.) indexed during the year.
PÜCKLER-MUSKAU, HERMANN LUDWIG HEINRICH, fürst von.Hints on landscape gardening; tr. by Bernhard Sickert and ed. by S: Parsons. il*$3.50 (8c) Houghton 710 17-19173
This volume, “which furnishes a natural sequence to ‘The art of landscape gardening,’ by Humphrey Repton [1907], is the second of a series of authoritative books to be brought out by the publishers,” says Mr John Nolen in his introductory note. In addition there is an introduction by the editor giving a sketch of Prince Pückler’s life and an estimate of the importance of his contributions to landscape art. The text itself consists of chapters on: The laying-out of a park; Size and extent; Enclosure; Grouping in general, and buildings; Parks and gardens; Concerning the laying-out of the lawns of parks, meadows, and gardens; Trees and shrubs and their grouping, and plantations in general; Roads and paths; Water; Islands; Rocks; Earthworks and esplanades; Maintenance; with a second part descriptive of Prince Pückler’s park in Muskau.
“Somewhat discursive but sound advice on the laying out of parks and estates.”
“In an admirable introduction, Mr Parsons gives many delightful extracts from Prince Pückler’s letters, showing what a romantic old idealist he was. The book itself is a treasure for anyone who loves nature. It ought to have a powerful influence here in America, where city planning (of which he was an early advocate) and the laying out of parks as well as of great private estates are destined to become more and more a feature of our civilization.” N. H. D.
“The book is unique. It is to be hoped that the series will be continued—and that without so long an interval as has passed between the appearance of the first two volumes.”
“The author’s style, which has been closely followed by the translator, is poetic and original, and his method of treating the subject so near his heart removes it altogether from the region of dry and academic treatises.”
“The illustrations and maps are a notable feature of the volume.”
PURINTON, EDWARD EARLE.Pétain, the prepared. il*50c (9c) Revell 17-26783
The author has written a brief sketch of General Pétain, who commanded the French at Verdun. The point of his story is that when General Pétain’s opportunity came to him at the age of sixty, he was ready to meet it, and the lesson the author draws from the story isgiven a wide application to American life. There is a one-page foreword by Major-General Leonard Wood.
“A book that can be read in less than an hour, containing a message of strength and cheer for all the years ahead, is surely worth reading. Such a book Mr Purinton has given us.”
PUTNAM, GEORGE ROCKWELL.Lighthouses and lightships of the United States. il*$2 (3c) Houghton 656 17-13732
“This book is planned to cover, in a general and rather non-technical way, a description of the lighthouses, especially in the United States, and a history of their development.” (Preface) The author has felt it a “pleasant obligation” to bring these facts together, and he has tried to include “enough of the personal deeds of the men and women who serve humanity in the lighthouses and on the lighthouse vessels to show the fine spirit which pervades them.” Among the chapters are: Boston light and the colonial lights; The lighthouses under the United States government; Lights in the approaches to New York; Lights of the Florida reefs and the gulf coast; Lights of the Pacific coast and Alaska; Lights of the Great Lakes and the rivers; Lightships and lighthouse tenders; The light-keepers. The book is well illustrated.
“The lighthouse service may fairly be called a model of competent administration and scientific ingenuity in the general staff and of faithfulness, endurance, and helpfulness in the rank and file; and Mr Putnam’s exposition of its history, plant, equipment, operations, and personnel is also a model.”
“The author of this valuable, fascinating and authoritative book is the United States Commissioner of lighthouses and he has the last word (up to June 30, 1916) on a subject of vital importance.” N. H. D.
“A story interesting to the engineer as a man and as a practitioner.”
“The book is written for the general reader, but one wonders whether the author would not have been well advised to assume in such readers the ability and willingness to penetrate a little deeper into the scientific phases of the subject, even at the expense of considerable mental effort. A glance at the new Encyclopædia Britannica article on lighthouses, and especially its illustrations, will suggest that the author might have greatly enhanced the value of this volume without taking it in any respect out of the mental reach of the great majority of those who were likely to read it.”
“While the great toil of the business machine necessary to maintain this work is not slighted, the romantic aspect of perpetual adventure with the sea fills this book with genuine thrills and recommends it to all classes of readers. The beautiful cuts of the lighthouses and life-saving stations past and present give vivid interest to this admirable record.”
“Particularly entertaining are the chapters which tell of the difficulties between our own independent colonial lighthouse keepers and the early national government, and the one which gives memoirs and annals of sundry keepers, both men and women.”
PYLE, JOSEPH GILPIN.Life of James J. Hill. 2v il*$5 Doubleday 17-15184
“In the list of great railroad men whom this country has produced the name of James J. Hill will always stand as one of the greatest of them all. ... It is only a little more than a year since Mr Hill died, at the age of 78. ... Mr Pyle took up his task as biographer with the best equipment. For Mr Hill had chosen him some years before to write the story of his finished life, had turned over to him letters and diaries and other documents, and had talked much with him for the purpose of giving him a true picture of himself, his works, and his surrounding conditions in his early years. In a little prefatory note Mr Pyle says that the only instruction Mr Hill ever gave him concerning this prospective biography was this one sentence: ‘Make it plain and simple and true.’”—N Y Times
“Without displaying many of them, Mr Pyle has had access to the letters and diaries of Mr Hill, and has freely used autobiographic dictations. Only Dr Oberholtzer’s ‘Jay Cooke’ gives financial history for the railroads with equal detail and accuracy. The point of view of Mr Pyle is disappointing. Instead of allowing his evidence to tell its own story, he lays down dicta.” F: L. Paxson
“Altogether this is a book that is thoroughly worth reading both as the life-story of a successful worker of a truly American type and also as an example of what can be accomplished by honesty, unremitting endeavor, and high ideals.”
“Mr Pyle has made a book that is worth while, so far as it goes. He has contrived to make a clear statement of many abstruse matters connected with the making of the Great Northern railway, and as a ‘source-book’ his biography will stand. And, upon reflection, it is only fair to admit that to put a man like ‘Jim Hill’ on paper is a task much easier to criticise than to perform. But—could there not have been a few more anecdotes, say, in the appendix?”
“Like most authorized biographies, Mr Pyle’s work suffers somewhat from the fact that it is all eulogium. Nevertheless, its value as the life story of one of our great nation builders is high and its interest unceasing. Young men just starting upon their careers ought to find in its pages inspiration and guidance. For, however much James J. Hill won for himself by his lifetime of work, the service he rendered his country was beyond valuation.”
“Excellent if sometimes a bit monotonously eulogistic biography, which, nevertheless, might well be in the hands of every young American.”
“Mr Pyle had a large subject and a wealth of material from which to select, and it probably seemed to him impossible to do justice to his theme in any smaller compass. Sometime, however, he should put this biography into about half the space at a popular price for popular consumption. It is well to have the larger work, although some parts of it seem needlessly long.”
PYM, THOMAS WENTWORTH, and GORDON, GEOFFREY.Papers from Picardy.*$1.50 (3c) Houghton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-89)
Two English chaplains discuss some of the moral and spiritual aspects of war. “The papers owe their title to the fact that they were written, for the most part, during the fighting on the Somme in the summer and autumn of 1916. They are, however, the result of experience gained not only there but in other parts of France, in Flanders, and in a soldiers’ hospital at home.” (Preface) In part1, Rev. T. W. Pym writes of the following: Some considerations as to the varying effects of war on the individual; A commentary on the soldier’s attitude to war; A study in contrasts and in the influence of reaction; Discipline—and after? Something definite; Postscript: an epitome of war. In part 2, Rev. Geoffrey Gordon writes of: The chaplain’s dilemma; Some prisoners; Active service; Honour where honour is due; In a regimental aid post; What is truth? etc.
“Part 1, by T. W. Pym, seems a more broad-minded, charitable, and human document than part 2, but even that looks life’s problems fairly in the face and acknowledges the inefficiency of the modern church to meet the present needs of men. In the chapter ‘Something definite,’ we have the strongest possible exposition of the fallacies that nurture dissipation of all kinds. ‘Papers from Picardy’ has a more universal appeal and meaning than most books of the kind.”
“Both authors are undeniably sincere and both have based their conclusions on facts that have come within their personal knowledge.”
QUICK, OLIVER CHASE.Essays in orthodoxy.*$2 Macmillan 230 17-24306
“The author of these essays is chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury.” (Int J Ethics) “His aim in these chapters discussing leading doctrines of the Christian faith is not primarily apologetic. His position is that what is needed is elucidation in the face of misunderstanding. His presentations of the orthodox doctrines—those of the atonement, of justification by faith, and of the Holy Spirit—are treated not as dogmas based on authority or on scriptural texts, but as reasonable and necessary solutions of the problems of life.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“A book which has the two merits of steadiness and frankness in its Anglican outlook.” James Moffat
“The chapters upon ‘The Holy Spirit as witness and sanctifier’ contain not a little good counsel upon practical problems of belief and conduct; and they are written with a freshness that makes their perusal a pleasure. In his discussion of some articles of the creed Mr Quick is, we think, less successful.”
“As a whole the book is certainly a singular illustration of the right method of presenting orthodoxy to a reflecting mind under the influence of the disintegrating tendencies of the day.”
“A book which is full of sound thought and always well expressed. ... These criticisms are offered just because the general argument of the book is so impressive, and is worked out with so much skill. Among the numerous theological discussions to which we have been invited lately this volume has a special claim to consideration.”
QUILLER-COUCH, SIR ARTHUR THOMAS.Notes on Shakespeare’s workmanship.*$2 Holt 822.3 17-14157
The papers in this volume are revised from lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge. The author says: “They seek to discover, in some of Shakespeare’s plays, just what he was trying to do as a playwright. This has always seemed to me a sensible way of approaching him, and one worth reverting to from time to time. For it is no disparagement to the erudition and scholarship that have so piously been heaped about Shakespeare to say that we shall sometimes find it salutary to disengage our minds from it all, and recollect that the poet was a playwright.” The plays studied in the first group include Macbeth, Midsummer-night’s dream, Merchant of Venice, As you like it, and Hamlet. A second group comprises plays representative of Shakespeare’s later workmanship and includes Pericles, King Henry VIII, Cymbeline, The winter’s tale and The tempest.
“A delightful addition to Shakespeare criticism.”
“Multitudes of books upon Shakespeare have been written, but we doubt if any of them contain as much undiluted common sense as is compressed by Sir Arthur into these pages.” E. F. E.
“It would not serve as a text for use with high school or college students but would enrich their knowledge and add to their interest if used as a supplement to their studies, and would delight any Shakespeare lover.”
“The chapters are pleasantly written observations which retain the conversational flavor of their original form.”
“In the author’s discussion of these many-sided masterpieces there is, of course, a great deal that will provoke dissent. The assertion that there is no mystery in Hamlet’s character is a hard saying to digest. We prefer, however, to direct the attention of our readers to the fine critical analysis of ‘Macbeth.’”
“Endowed as he is with ripe scholarship, as well as discriminating knowledge of a subject in which he has specialized for many years, Sir Arthur is quite sure of himself when he tells us how the poet wrote his plays.”
QUIN, MALCOLM.Problem of human peace; studied from the standpoint of a scientific catholicism.*$1 Dutton 172.4 17-22690
“The author decides that a human peace can only come about through the operation of the modern mind. By an adequate scientific study of war this mind will realise that both causes and effects are hostile to that perfection in Christ which is the spiritual aim of Christendom. After a rapid elimination of alternatives Catholicism, which is said to include all that is best in eastern as well as western thought, is selected as the only antidote to the causes of war—a Catholicism, however, thoroughly overhauled by the modern mind, and then disseminated through the Roman organization. The peoples will thus be informed with the common national policy of perfection.”—Int J Ethics
“The insistence laid on the part that the church might play in relation to peace is valuable.” C. D. Burns
“The book should be read by thoughtful students of religious and social movements as an indication of ‘modernism’ inside as well as outside the Roman church.” A. G. Spencer
QUINN, ARTHUR HOBSON, ed. Representative American plays. il*$2.75 Century 812 ‘17-4225
“Twenty-five American plays, by the leading dramatists of the country, that show the development of the American drama from 1767 to the present time. Each play is prefaced by a short biographical sketch of the author, the cast of the first performance, and other interesting detail.”(R of Rs) “Opening with the first American tragedy, ‘The prince of Parthia’ (1767), and the first American comedy, ‘The contrast’ (1787), and including works of such early playwrights as William Dunlap, James Nelson Barker, Nathaniel Parker Willis and George Henry Boker, the collection includes ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ ‘Hazel Kirke,’ ‘The octoroon,’ Bronson Howard’s ‘Shenandoah,’ Gillette’s ‘Secret service,’ and even ‘Madame Butterfly’—here first published in dramatic form. ... As illustrations of contemporary tendencies in the theatre, the book includes plays by Clyde Fitch, Langdon Mitchell, Augustus Thomas, William Vaughn Moody, Percy MacKaye, Edward Sheldon and Rachel Crothers.” (Cath World)
“Presents in a convenient form material not otherwise easily accessible. Bibliography (8p.).”
“If the three latest productions—those by Mr MacKaye, Mr Sheldon and Miss Crothers—had been omitted, space might have been found for Burk’s ‘Battle of Bunker Hill,’ for Mrs Bateman’s ‘Self,’ for Hurlbert’s ‘Americans in Paris,’ and for the plays in which Solon Shingle and Bardwell Slote are the salient figures. Otherwise the selection is excellent, even if the plays chosen are, many of them, little better than curiosities.” Brander Matthews
“As valuable a single book for student use in the pursuit of American literature as has ever appeared. ... The material is ample and typical, the text is clear, the introductory matter is compact with discriminating information, and the whole is capped with a bibliography which is generous without being a wanton display of industry minus judgment.”
“Professor Quinn in his collection of these twenty-five representative plays, carefully and unobtrusively edited, has thrown more light on the state of public taste along the Atlantic seaboard in the last century than could be acquired from any other sort of collection.” R. E. Rogers
“This is the first collection of its kind and its significance and value will recommend it to all classes of readers.”
“A convenient collection of twenty-five of the best American plays, which will enable the student to follow the development of the American drama, and makes possible that special study of it which the Drama league is promoting this year.”
QUINN, ELISABETH VERNON, ed. Stokes’ wonder book of fairy tales. il*$2 (2c) Stokes 17-25356
This very beautifully illustrated volume contains a selection from the world’s best fairy tales, forty-two in number. An effort has been made to include all the most loved stories, among them Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding-hood, Three bears, Snow-white, Sleeping beauty, Aladdin, Ugly duckling, Cinderella, and Rapunzel. In addition two modern tales have been given the distinction of inclusion. These are “The tale of Peter Rabbit” and “The story of little black Sambo,” two stories “which have established themselves permanently in children’s hearts.” The pictures are by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis.
“The size will make it awkward for circulation but it is delightful for the children’s reading table, and for a gift book.”
“The selection of stories seems judicious, and the texts used are direct and simple.”