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A romance of ancient Assyria. “The figure of the warrior queen, half goddess, half mortal, stands out brilliantly wherever she is placed. Her love for the Assyrian prince, their adventures, her clever manipulation of the jealous King Ninus, and her final grim triumph, are vividly described.” (Outlook.)
“Like the vast majority of novels that would feign reincarnate a buried antiquity, the sense of actuality is ineffectual.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Whether he entertains or exasperates depends upon the character of the reader. To one acquainted with accepted profane and religious history the book is, to say the least of it, disconcerting. The story is written in a kind of delirious prose, that is to say it has the rigidity of poetry without its grace or high meaning, and the form of prose without its flexibility.”
“Imagination almost routs history, and the result is a highly entertaining story.”
Pepper, Charles Melville.Panama to Patagonia: the Isthmian canal and the west coast countries of South America. **$2.50. McClurg.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Our ignorance of the sister republics is so great that a work such as Mr. Pepper’s is to be welcomed as a contribution toward the enlightening of American public opinion.”
Pepys, Samuel.Pepys’ memoirs of the Royal navy; ed. by Jos. Robson Tanner. (Tudor and Stuart lib.) *$1.75. Oxford.
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Memoirs that were published originally by Pepys in June, 1690. They are a defense of his own naval administration prior to 1688, and a criticism of that of his opponents. Interesting details concerning the navy of this period are included.
Periam, Annina.Hebbel’s Nibelungen, its sources, method and style. *$1. Macmillan.
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“In her five chapters the author of these studies treats of the genesis of Hebbel’s ‘Nibelungen.’ Hebbel’s conception of his dramatic problem, the sources of the work and his use of them, his relation to predecessor’s and critics, particularly Raupach, Fouqué, Geibel, Wagner, and Vischer, and some special aspects of Hebbel’s work—inventions, treatment of women, of religion, and the mythical and mystical.”—N. Y. Times.
*Perkins, Lucy Fitch.Book of joys: the story of a New England summer. il. **$1.75. McClurg.
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A Chicagoan tells how she takes a new lease of life during a spring and summer spent in two New England villages. From the confusion of the city she turns to the joys of rural loneliness, and revels in turf-paved walks “spangled with buttercups and broidered with violets, with the shadow of apple boughs dancing over it, and living silence all about, the stillness of singing birds and humming bees.”
“Mrs. Perkins is keenly alive to both the delights and the limitations of the old-school New England life, seeing it with the clear eye of an alien who is sympathetic to its charm but fully conscious of its whimsicalities and oddities.”
“A book of special interest to feminine readers.”
Perkins, Mrs. Lucy (Fitch), comp. Robin Hood; his deeds and adventures as recounted in the old English ballads. †$1.50. Stokes.
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The compiler has prettily illustrated in color these ten Robin Hood ballads, which are based upon authoritative versions and retain their original form.
“The author-artist ... has not only shown judgment in her selections, but accuracy of costume in her attractive drawings.”
“The book shows good taste, and the illustrations—most of them done in color—are simple in outline and excellent In spirit.”
Perrigo, Charles Oscar E.Modern American lathe practice. $2.50. Henley.
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“This is a lathe book from beginning to end.... A few chapters are given up to the history and development of the lathe and also to lathe design.... A number of chapters are devoted to the description of the latest production of our prominent manufacturers.... There are also chapters on variable speed devices, lathe tools and attachments, turret lathes, special lathes and electrically-driven lathes. The book is well illustrated.”—Engin. N.
“Just the kind of a book which one delights to consult, a masterly treatment of the subject in hand.” Wm. W. Bird.
Perry, Bliss.Walt Whitman: his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“By all odds the most judicial and satisfactory account of that disconcerting genius yet published. A kind of indecision or hesitancy to pronounce a definitive Judgment makes his book a little disappointing to a reader who looks to his biographer for his opinions as well as for his information.”
“On the whole, Mr. Perry’s book is an exceedingly uncomfortable one to read. The virtues of an editor and a college professor are too widely different from those of a great original genius to admit of mutual comprehension.” Louise Collier Willcox.
“Mr. Perry brought the methods of a scholar to his task, and for the first time the world has an adequate and candid account of Whitman’s antecedents and conditions, and of the outward happenings of his life. This record is not only more complete but it is more intelligent than any that has come from the Whitman cult.”
“In writing a perfectly sensible life of Whitman, Mr. Perry has performed a feat of which we may almost have despaired.” H. W. Boynton.
Perry, John G.Letters from a surgeon of the civil war. **$1.75. Little.
6–24566.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Perry, Thomas Sergeant.John Fiske. **75c. Small.
5–40797.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It describes a literary career to the neglect of character and personality. We miss a sympathetic portraiture of the man himself.”
Peters, Edward Dyer.Principles of copper smelting. $5. Hill pub. co.
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“This work is divided into fifteen chapters, which deal with Methods and collectors, First principles of smelting, Principles of roasting, Chemistry of smelting, Practice of roasting, Blast furnace smelting, Reverbatory smelting, Pyritic smelting, Practical study of slags, Matte, Production of metallic copper from matte, Refining of copper, Principles of furnace building, Applications of thermochemistry, Miscellaneous and commercial.”—Engin. N.
“The index is good, with plenty of cross-references, making it an easy matter to look up any section or subject. This book is a pioneer along the text-book line. The teaching of the principles, after all, is the most important, and Dr. Peters deserves hearty congratulations and thanks for producing such a clear, concise, and readable book.” Bradley Stoughton.
Peterson, Henry.Dulcibel: a tale of old Salem; il. by Howard Pyle. †$1.50. Winston.
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A story of the cruel persecution of the days of the Salem witchcraft, with much stress placed upon the spell of hypnotism and imposture. It mainly concerns a very charming girl who comes under the witchcraft ban and her stout-hearted lover whose efforts to have her released from prison prove effectual only when the spirited Lady Mary Phips lends her assistance.
“The tale is not without its credulities, but it is animated and full of zeal. With every allowance for partisanship it is a stirring recital, and pulls at the nerves of indignation as if the dreadful thing had not all happened two hundred years ago.”
“A really charming little story, which keeps the reader’s interest well sustained until the very end.”
Petre, F. Loraine.Napoleon’s campaign in Poland, 1806–1807. *$3.50. Lane.
“The book begins with a chapter on the state of Europe in 1805 and 1806, with a crisp sketch of the armies, the leaders and the lieutenants on both sides, and gives a careful description of the topographical features of the difficult theatre of war—its marshes and forests, its mud and snow, its summer heat and winter tempests. Then follow the several operations, from that beginning in November and culminating in the battles of Pultusk and Golymin at Christmastide, 1806, through the butchery of Eylau in February and its succeeding winter quarters, the siege of Danzig, and the ‘final triumph’ at Heilsburg and Friedland in June, 1807, followed by the treaty of Tilsit. At the end are three maps of the theatre of war, on two sheets, and seven battle-plans on a third sheet.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The style is simple and direct, with abundant foot-notes, the matter in some of which might be incorporated in the text, to save interruption of the narration by the reader. The detail is considerable, but not too great for a work dealing with a single campaign. We close Mr. Petre’s book with the feeling that he has done a good piece of work, filling a needed gap; and we welcome his forthcoming volume on ‘1806.’” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.
“This volume supplies a real want for the student of Napoleonic history.”
Petre, F. Loraine.Napoleon’s conquest of Prussia. *$5. Lane.
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A full account of Napoleon’s campaign of 1806 based upon all the information available. “Mr. Petre confines himself, after two interesting chapters on the origin of the war and the contending armies, to the purely military aspect of his period.” (Acad.)
“If a treatise on military history is to be placed in the first class, the style must be clear and the narrative not overloaded with details of secondary importance, the authorities should be quoted, and the maps must be clear and large: Mr. Petre’s book fails in all these respects.”
“The volume is easy to read. To a student already familiar with 1806, there are fewer causes of dissent than are usual.” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.
“The appearance of Mr. Petre’s book fills a gap which needed filling. In little matters Mr. Petre is sometimes irritating.”
“The most instructive passage of the book is the description of Napoleon’s army administration in the field and of the loose and ineffective organization of the Prussian staff.” Henry E. Bourne.
“If he has nothing very novel to offer he is generally safe to follow.”
“This is an exhaustive first hand account from a military point of view, and the result of careful study of the subject.”
“The work has been so thoroughly done that this book is likely to become the definitive authority upon the subject.”
“Mr. F. L. Petre has described, with a technical completeness hitherto not available in the English language, Napoleon’s brilliantly successful campaign of 1806, in which Prussia was so completely humiliated.” G: Louis Beer.
“We must dissent from Mr. Petre’s discovery that incorporation of footnotes in the text saves the reader ‘annoyance,’ for his habit in this respect often distorts his narrative. Then the chief actors of the ‘débâcle’ are not individualized.”
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.History of Egypt from the XIXth to the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.
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Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Solidly packed with facts.”
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.Janus in modern life. (Questions of the day, no. 106.) *$1. Putnam.
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A development in some measure from Professor Petrie’s recent Huxley lecture. The study looks before and behind and deals with such present day problems as race and immigration, communism, philanthropy, and individualism in relation to historical philosophy. The burden of what the author has to say is “that all our modern efforts for the betteringof the race by saving the weaker individual rigors of competition tend to degrade the race.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Janus, indeed, is a clever double-headed professor, who treats rather amateurishly—that is to say, confidently and assertively—many subjects as to which we suspect that his knowledge is not very profound.”
“Dr. Petrie commands respectful attention when he writes upon archeology but when he turns to sociology, the subject of this little book, he writes as an amateur and must be weighed dispassionately.”
“His chapters are well worth reading. They are always suggestive; we may differ from their conclusions, but we cannot help thinking about them, and are sure to get some profit from them. Sometimes, we think, Dr. Flinders Petrie exaggerates.”
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.Researches in Sinai. *$6. Dutton.
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6–40918.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Pfleiderer, Otto.Christian origins. *$1.50. Huebsch.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The value of the work is especially in the references to facts and tendencies in other religions than Christianity as illustrating features in the growth of the Christian faith and partly contributing to this growth.”
Pfleiderer, Otto.Primitive Christianity; its writings and teachings in their historical connections; tr. by W. Montgomery; ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. 4v. *$3. Putnam.
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v. 1.“In this revised and enlarged edition a veteran theologian has availed himself of the latest fruits of learned research. The present volume, after a chapter on the first Christian community, is occupied with the Apostle Paul, his writings, and his theology.”—Outlook.
“A good translation. The lectures present, in a clear and interesting way, the author’s well-known views.”
“While Prof. Pfleiderer is a mere theorist when dealing with records and traditions of supernatural events, he is a skilled and learned critic when he discusses the ordinary experience of a man like St. Paul.”
Pfleiderer, Otto.Religion and historic faiths; tr. from the German by Daniel A. Huebsch. *$1.50. Huebsch.
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A series of lectures delivered at the University of Berlin. The author defines the essence of religion, the ethics and science of it and the beginnings of religion; he discusses the Chinese, Egyptian, Babylonian systems, Brahmanism, Buddhism, the religion of the Greeks, and of Israel down to Christianity.
“The brief accounts of the various religions are clear and good. The translation is only fair, clear, but often awkward.”
“His just emphasis on the ethical element in the New Testament does not make full amends for an over-emphasis on the legendary.”
Phelps, Mrs. Elizabeth Steward.(Leigh North, pseud.). Predecessors of Cleopatra. $1.50. Broadway pub.
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A compilation of what is known of the queens of Egypt who reigned during the four thousand years preceding the reign of Cleopatra. The volume is illustrated by five drawings.
“She does not indicate what ... are [her sources], nor does she handle her material critically.”
Phelps, William Lyon.Pure gold of nineteenth century literature. **75c. Crowell.
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A summary of the vital forces in nineteenth century literature as embodied in the following authors destined to live: Keats, Wordsworth. Browning, Byron, Shelley, Tennyson, Stevenson, Thackeray, Austin, Eliot and Hardy.
“There is no alloy in his criticism.”
Philipson, David.Reform movement in Judaism. **$2. Macmillan.
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A series of studies which “aim to present a connected story of the progressive movement in Judaism ... setting forth the purposes and accomplishments of the reform movement.” The beginnings of the reform are discussed and chapters are devoted to: The Geiger-Tiktin affair, The Hamburg Temple prayer-book controversy, Reform in England, Rabbinical conferences, 1844–6, Reform Congregation or Berlin, The Breslau “Friends of reform,” Reform in Hungary, The Leipzig and Augsburg synods, Reform in the United States and Recent developments in Europe.
“The author is to be commended for his careful and scholarly work, and his book is eminently readable.”
“The present volume, relating the struggle and advance of the reformers during the last century, is of peculiar interest and importance to Christians as well as to the Jews.”
“A scholarly study.”
Phillipps, L. March.In the desert. $4.20. Longmans.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Phillipps is no mere impressionist, and behind his charming pictures there is a wealth of sound and acute political thought, all the more valuable since it is rarely expressed in the conventional language of politics. His mind has brilliance and swiftness, but neither profundity nor coherence. Sometimes in his parallels Mr. Phillipps is far-fetched and fantastic, but in the main his brilliant analysis carries conviction.”
Phillips, David Graham.Light-fingered gentry, il. †$1.50. Appleton.
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A novel based upon recent insurance exposures. The light-fingered gentry are captains of industry and big men in the financial world. The hero is an officer of an insurance company, and the interest of the book is maintained thru his moral regeneration, both the phase of it that affects his fight with corruption in business, and the side that deals with his domestic happiness—the reawakening of love for his divorced wife.
“Crude in style, but interesting in plot and character delineation.”
“Considering the possibilities of sensationalism inherent in the theme, he has avoided the extremer forms of overstatement. The private interest of the story is inconsiderable.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Has many clever features, and now and then passages of real power. But as a whole it is the sort of novel which is own cousin to the special article of the monthly magazine and the work of the star reporter on the daily newspaper.”
“The colors—the lurid yellow of the sensational journalist and the dismal black of the chronic pessimist—are laid on with a prodigal brush.”
Phillips, David Graham.Second generation.†$1.50. Appleton.
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Hiram Ranger is a wealthy western manufacturer who deplores the idleness into which his two children lapse after a lavish eastern education. His conscience forbids bequeathing them any of his money, and their struggles to work out their own salvation form the burden of Mr. Phillips’ preachment.
“Written in a hasty, crude style, but the story is forceful, absorbing, and timely.”
“‘The second generation’ is not only Mr. Phillips’ strongest and best novel; it is the most virile and vital romance of the present year.”
“Unfortunately, Mr. Phillips has no style, and thus his management of a strongly-conceived situation becomes bald and unconvincing. The moral of the story is so fine and true despite a slight tincture of unwholesome socialism, that we could wish the author’s literary gift were in proportion to his ethical insight.” Wm. M. Payne.
“On the whole the book teaches us to be thankful that the social and industrial salvation of the country is not in the hands of these ingenious fiction makers, particularly those who have a socialistic heaven in view which none of us are fit by nature or grace to enter.”
“So long as he wrote to prove the evil effects of wealth upon the children of rich parents, he expressed his ideas with power and a certain fierce distinction. But when he attempts to show how wealth may be disposed of for the good of society, he offers a Munchausen system of finance wearisome to read about.”
“Mr. Phillips has written a strong wholesome story of contemporaneous American life.”
“There is quite enough importance in the tendency which Mr. Phillips has in mind to make one wish that he might have painted it as tendency rather than as inevitable fact. He has written a forcible tract, however, and this is what we suppose he intended.”
“The story exhibits all of Mr. Phillips’s strong qualities, it is interesting, and the characters are for the most part forcefully drawn. Its weakness lies in his treating a tendency as if it were an accomplished and universal fact of life.”
“The many entanglements in the plot are skillfully straightened out in the end.”
“The whole book, although sober-minded and excellent in many ways, is too long-drawn-out and somewhat stolid.”
“I cannot imagine anybody but a walking delegate of the most exclamatory type taking pleasure in the ‘Second generation,’ and yet I am sure the author is guilty of most excellent intentions.” Vernon Atwood.
Phillips, Le Roy.Bibliography of the writings of Henry James. **$3. Houghton.