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“In many respects it is an extraordinarily good translation—spirited, idiomatic, and even racy—but it contains some queer words and some awkward constructions. The weakest things are the references to the English universities, which Professor Paulsen evidently knows only at second hand and comprehends very imperfectly.”
“I know of no book discussing university problems and their solving which I can more heartily commend to others who are working at these same problems.” J. H. Finley.
*Paulus Diaconus.History of the Langobards, by Paul, the Deacon; tr. by William D. Foulke, with explanatory and critical notes, a biography of the author, and an account of the sources of the history. (Translations and reprints. N. S. v. 3.) $1.50. Dept, of history, Univ. of Pa., Phil. (Sold by Longmans.)
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The first English version of Paul’s history. The introduction, notes and appendices are a compilation from modern writers.
“The translation is on the whole well done, but the constant introduction of ‘indeed’ is not English, it is comical to find Plinius Secundus appearing as ‘Pliny the Second,’ and ‘quite distinguished’ does not translate ‘eminentiores’ (p. 142). Commas are strewn about in profusion, with the odd result that on p. 380 Paul is quoted as the authority for the fact that Kiepert made a map for Mommsen.” E. W. B.
“This account of his own people by one of the most learned of medieval historians will be a pleasant surprise to the English reader who has hitherto had no opportunity to put this vivacious chronicle of the seventh century on the shelf with his Herodotus and Froissart.”
Payne, Will.When love speaks. †$1.50. Macmillan.
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A novel with a Middle West town for the setting portrays the conflict between two civic standards, the one absolute, invincible against bribery and graft, the other, avowedly stamped by a leaning toward “big game” methods. The strife between the two men who have adopted these standards respectively is further complicated by their close domestic relations, the wife of one being the sister of the other. “The problem of the book, as implied in the title, of course, is whether, whenever the inevitable clash comes, the voice of love will speak strongly enough to outweigh the voice of the wife’s inherited convictions.” (Bookm.)
“It worked out with Mr. Payne’s usually strong grasp of the affairs of men and the emotions of women.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Truthfulness rather than idealism is the note of the book, although it has latent idealism a-plenty.” Wm. M. Payne.
“The whole tone of the book is wise, tolerant, and unimpeachably sincere. [Grammatical] blemishes are few and trifling, only noticeable because they are growing so rife in Western fiction as to create a menace.”
“The tale is told with directness and strength. The incidents are dramatically handled, and throughout Mr. Payne writes with vigor and is in close touch with human nature.”
Payne, William Morton.Greater English poets of the nineteenth century. **$2. Holt.
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A study of a group of English writers including Keats, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne. The aim of the work is not to consider these men in their characters as poetic artists so much as to view them in their relations to the world of thought and action, to examine their poetry with respect to intellectual content, to set forth their ideas upon religious and philosophic subjects, and to discuss their attitude toward the political and social conditions of their time.
“They deserve wide reading.”
“His best chapters are on Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold; the treatment of Coleridge and Morris cannot be regarded as adequate.”
*Peabody, Francis Greenwood.Mornings in the college chapel: short addresses to young men on personal religion.Second ser. **$1.25. Houghton.
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Short chapel talks to students which are intended to point out the way of life and to stimulate a desire to have a living faith.
Peake, Elmore Elliott.Little king of Angel’s Landing. †$1.25. Appleton.
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“A pathetic story with a happy ending about a little cripple who had been blown up when a baby in a steamboat explosion, and had grown into such a quaint, elflike, lovable child that he fairly dominated the little town on the Ohio river where he lived.”—N. Y. Times.
“The study is keen as well as tender, and there is something peculiarly American in the traits revealed—a material shrewdness coupled with an idealism unusually pure.”
Pearson, Elizabeth Ware, ed.Letters from Port Royal, written at the time of the civil war.*$2. Clarke.
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These letters set forth the experiences of the colony of Northerners who were delegated to take charge of the negroes and the cotton crop of 1862 when, after the capture of the forts at Hilton Head and Bay Point, South Carolina, the Sea Island region fell into the hands of the federals. “How they blundered and struggled on to very considerable success, and how their military superiors seemed in league to ruin their whole undertaking, because of poor judgment, or jealousy, or intrigue, is set forth in the volume before us in their own simple, unaffected words.” (Nation.)
“The ‘Letters from Port Royal’ have been painstakingly edited and elucidated by Mrs. Pearson.”
Pearson, Norman.Some problems of existence. *$2.10. Longmans.
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“This little book sketches a philosophy of religion from the standpoint of theistic evolution. The questions discussed are such as ‘inevitably present themselves to anyone who seriously considers the problem of human existence.’ The postulates—or conclusions?—of the author’s theory are: ‘(1) The existence of a Deity; (2) the immortality of man; (3) a Divine scheme of evolution of which we form a part, and which, as expressing the purpose of the Deity, proceeds under the sway of an inflexible order’ (p. 2). With these principles in hand, Mr. Pearson finds singularly facile answers to the question of the mind.”—Philos. R.
“If one overlooks its crudities of method and its scientific and philosophical dilettanteism, the book as a whole impresses one as rather a happy blend of naturalism and theism, reflecting both an attractive personality and a broad tendency characteristic of the age.”
“More instructive than the author’s conclusions are the spirit in which he has approached his subject and the intellectual weapons with which he attacks his task.” A. C. Armstrong.
Peary, Robert Edwin.Nearest the pole. **$4.80. Doubleday.
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A narrative of the Polar expedition of the Peary Arctic club in the S. S. Roosevelt 1905–6, being Peary’s own account of his achievement, the dangers encountered, and the problems solved. The volume is well illustrated.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
“Is an energising book. It is a story of achievement, the kind of story that appeals to what is called the American appreciation of success. It is distinctly a personal work.” Albert White Vorse.
“A very readable record of a heroic achievement.” Percy F. Bicknell.
“For American readers it is the most important book on Arctic exploration that we have had for many years.”
“Peary’s volume will be accepted as the best and most authoritative account of polar exploration that has in many years appeared.”
“He knows his field as no other man knows it, and his methods of work are the outcome of his own originality and experience. There is charm, too, in his way of telling things; nervous energy in his written records. The dramatic element is strong in many a situation that confronts him, and it does not evaporate when he tries to put it on paper.” Cyrus C. Adams.
“He writes rather as a scientist than as an adventurer. His journal of necessity deals with adventure, and yet the spirit of the analyst is the scientific spirit.”
“The story of the journey must be read at length to be appreciated.”
*Peck, Harry Thurston.Hilda and the wishes, il. †$1. Dodd.
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The story of a little girl and her five wishes which a fairy godmother gave her the power to make.
“No children can resist it, and grown people will add to their enjoyment of the pretty tale the amusement they find in noting the especial characteristics of the author, which they are accustomed to find in writing of a very different style.”
Peck, Harry Thurston.Twenty years of the republic. **$2.50. Dodd.
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A summary of the most significant events occurring in our country’s history from President Cleveland’s inauguration in 1885, to the end of the McKinley-Roosevelt administration, in 1905.
“To tell the story of such a period so that its significance shall be plain to the uncritical reader requires evidently two gifts, of both of which Dr. Peck is possessed, the gift of analysing and picturing a personality, and the gift of tracing and describing the slow working of those social forces whose evolution may be recognized only after its results are accomplished—in short, to trace and describe ‘history in the making.’ Dr. Peck has also the gift of a lively narrative style, and he is not deterred by a false sense of the dignity of history from making use of any lively anecdotes which have come his way.” Arthur Reed Kimball.
“Sensational episodes, up-to-date pictures, and journalistic spellbinding are absent. No perversion of historiography is attempted; instead appears a series of short stories, delightfully told, with now and then a thoughtful word of comment, about men, women, and things as they are depicted on the shifting panorama of two decades of a nation’s life.” William R. Shepherd.
“Professor Peck’s annals are as good as we can hope for today. We find no intentional bias in them and some excellent portrayals. We cannot hope for the present, to have our immediate needs better met.”
“We are inclined to believe the book will be accepted as the best contribution its author has made to contemporary literature.”
“Professor Peck writes entertainingly. He has woven the events of five presidential terms into a racy and eminently readable narrative—qualities not impaired by a tendency to snap judgment, a habit of rather sweeping generalization, and a love for unusual words. Mistakes which crept into this history as published serially have been corrected. There remain slips which seem to show lack of familiarity with the minutiæ of government machinery rather than downright blundering.”
“Such a history is of particular value to put on record in a country which is passing through a transitory stage of eager endeavor and unattained ideals.”
“Professor Peck speaks his mind more freely than does Mr. Paul, and occasionally with undue warmth. Sometimes, too, he writes with an air of finality that is unwarranted in view of the fact that all the evidence is not yet at hand. And now and again his pen portraits are hardly fair to their historic subjects. For all of this, we have read his work with satisfaction, recognizing that in more than one important way it is soundly informative.”
“Although on ... [some] matters—mostly trivial—the reader will feel an occasional impulse to rise up and disagree, there can be no question that the author has succeeded in what he has undertaken. His characters appear as living and breathing human beings; his story is told with genuine literary skill.” Paul Leland Haworth.
“For Americans who like hearty distribution of praise and condemnation he will be a pleasant and satisfactory authority. In the mere matter of narration his book contains many points which the more stately writers would do well to study.” John Spencer Bassett.
Peck, Theodora.Hester of the Grants: a romance of old Bennington. **$2.50. Duffield.
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A special Vermont edition of a novel first issued two years ago, illustrated with pictures of Green mountain localities and characters. The new dress enhances the historical flavor of this tale of revolutionary times in Vermont when it was still a part of the Hampshire grants, and adds interest to the romantic story of the patriotic heroine, her lovers, and her turncoat father.
“There are many evidences of youth in the composition of the narrative, but on the whole it is a surprising piece of work for a young author, and furnishes very pleasing and satisfactory reading to all interested in the events and spirit of our country’s most romantic days.”
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford.By Italian seas. **$2.50. Scribner.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Peixotto is a very excellent artist, but as a writer he leaves much to be desired.”
“The text is clear and only less charming than the exquisite pictures by the author.”
“The text is to be read rather as a commentary upon the many excellent drawings than for its own sake. Even so it seems rather shallow and superficial.”
“The word-painting is exactly as good, in its way, as the penciling, and so curiously like it in style that the two seem to make upon the reader’s mind a single harmonious impression.” Harriet Waters Preston.
Peloubet, Francis N.Studies in the Book of Job: a Biblical drama illuminating the problem of the ages. **$1. Scribner.
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For advanced classes in Sunday-school, for Biblical literature courses in high schools and colleges, for evening service and for individual use.
“The critical standpoint of the author is uncertain, and his estimate of the literature on Job is in many points at fault, but the interpretation of Job is affected by errors of this kind perhaps less than that of any other Old Testament writing.”
“There was need of just such a book as this, which is not inferior to Moulton or Genung in its powers to bring to the ordinary Bible-reader a new and vivid realization of the treasure hidden in this Arabian ash-field, while for teachers it is of unique value.” Camden M. Cobern.
“A real vade mecum on this most troublesome but fascinating book of the Old Testament.”
Pemberton, Max.Diamond ship.†$1.50. Appleton.
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“Another machine-made yarn of crime and alleged mystery. The diamond ship is a huge floating repository of the booty collected by an organized band of jewel-thieves. The leader employs the method of a captain of industry, and his operations are conducted upon a vast scale.... The usually helpless maiden is involved.”—Nation.
“It is all very interesting, if somewhat ingenuous, and those in search of a well-written book of adventure are recommended to buy it.”
“Max Pemberton is usually a fairly safe choice, if your ideal of hammock fiction requires abundance of sensation and not too much literary quality.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Rather above the average of his later work. It escapes his besetting tendency to be over-fantastic, and tells a reasonably straightforward tale of villainy unearthed and virtue rewarded. It is, of course, cheaply melodramatic throughout, but the excitement is well-contrived.” Wm. M. Payne.
“A veritable pot-boiler of the poorest quality.”
“The most that can be said in the book’s favor is that the author has shown a good deal of ingenuity in the invention of incident. For the rest it is an illy-done piece of novel writing, clumsy in the construction, and in the telling splotched all over with the discredited tinsel and gew-gaws of melodrama.”
Pendexter, Hugh.Tiberius Smith: as chronicled by his right-hand man Billy Campbell. †$1.50. Harper.
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A new edition of the adventures of Tiberius Smith, the clever showman, who never faces a situation so perilous that his quick wit and keen sense of humor cannot effect a way of escape. Even lunatics and lions do not daunt him.
“For the lover of the circus in literature here are thoughts that breathe; for the collector of the ultra modern and vaudevillainous in slang, words that burn; remain, for the lover of a book in the accepted sense of that word, feelings not fit for publication.”
“The rough and ready conversational style of the narrative and the grotesque humor of its similes and comparisons ... make a fitting garb for the breezy, absurd, amusing tale.”
*Penfield, Edward.Holland sketches, il. **$2.50. Scribner.
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Entire sympathy exists between the illustrations and text as both are the work of Mr. Penfield. “Nothing could be better suited to his style than the quaint Dutch peasants in their baggy trousers or voluminous skirts, picturesque caps, and clumsy wooden sabots. Queer little by-streets, flapping windmills on the banks of quiet canals, fishing smacks with patched brown sails, ‘interiors’ hung with Delft and old brasses,—these are the things that Mr. Penfield paints and writes about.... He never has a beaten-track experience.” (Dial.)
“It is seldom, even in these days of unique and beautiful travel books, that anything so thoroughly delightful as ‘Holland sketches’ is published.”
Penfield, Frederic Courtland.East of Suez, Ceylon, India, China and Japan; il. from drawings and photographs. **$2. Century.
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“The world’s turnstile at Suez” is the heading of the opening chapter of a book of “journeyings loaded with gentle preachment.” After a brief survey of the history and of the utilitarian phases of the great marine highway, the author becomes a very informing guide thru Colombo, the Ceylon hill country and Bombay, on to sluggish China and to Japan where the “old is being supplanted by the new with amazing rapidity.”
“He has assimilated much useful information, many statistics, and not a few superficial impressions. These he has clothed in picturesque language, decorated here and there with such gems as ‘truthlet’ for a little truth.”
“It is one of the best books of travel of the year.”
“The clear manner in which Mr. Penfield presents his ideas and the fact that he has had such excellent opportunities to know whereof he speaks should entitle his opinions to serious consideration.” Elizabeth Kendall.
“Few books of travel lately written in this country excel it, and we predict it will be more than a book of an hour.” H. E. Coblentz.
“Throughout the whole of this portion of the East there is an almost total lack of American products. This state of things is regarded by the author as wholly inexcusable. His views upon the subject are timely and deserving of general attention.”
“Most of these spots are familiar, but described from his point of view in an attractive, often humorous way, they acquire a fresh interest.”
“It is well worth while to travel in Mr. Penfield’s company, and look at unfamiliar scenes with his fresh yet experienced eyes.” Edward A. Bradford.
“The book is mere journalism and, though interesting, is by no means trustworthy.” G: Louis Beer.
“An excellent book of travels unusually well told.”
“This is an eminently readable book.”
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell).Charles Godfrey Leland: a biography. 2v. **$5. Houghton.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Only for the larger library.”
“In spite of much that is delightful, the book is longer than discretion would have dictated.” Elizabeth Kendall.
“A graceful writer of unerring taste.”
“Her ready pen runs away with her, and she employs in expansion the time which would have been more profitably devoted to condensation.”
“It must be conceded at the outset that these absorbing volumes do not offer a uniformly analytical or judicial estimate of the picturesque and magnetic ‘Hans Breitmann.’” Christian Brinton.
Peple, Edward Henry.Semiramis: a tale of battle and of love.†$1.50. Moffat.