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“Part 1, ‘Original works,’ is a chronological bibliography of books, giving the first edition.... Following this account of the first edition is a record of later editions and of translations.... In Part 2 are described books by other authors to which James contributed.... Part 3 is a very extended list of contributions to periodicals.... An appendix contains an account of two plays by James which have been staged in London.”—Nation.
“So far as we have been able to test it, Mr. Phillips’s work is admirably done, and the amount of research must have been very considerable.”
“Mr. Phillips ... seems to have done his work with satisfactory patience and care:” Edward Cary.
Phillips, Stephen.Nero.**$1.25. Macmillan.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The utmost that can be said of this play as a whole is that it will not detract from Mr. Phillips’s reputation.”
*Phillpotts, Eden.Folk afield. †$1.50. Putnam.
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Fourteen stories of love and adventure on sea and land which draw color from the sun, sea, and mountains of the South of France, of Italy and of North Africa. One of the best is “Souvenir de Maupassant” in which the heroine is the beautiful Kabyle girl pictured with all the fascination of her oriental heritage.
“We are glad to have this collection, as it exhibits the author in an unusual rôle, and gives us a larger impression of him.”
“In ‘Souvenir de Maupassant,’ Mr. Phillpotts offers most of that imaginative suggestion which is the short story’s highest merit; and here he shows himself not merely the patient and eclectic recorder of the scene and the hour, but the artist in description, whose words make nature live again.”
“Here is a miscellany of short stories, in various moods and keys, but of no marked power.”
“The backgrounds are vivid in color and very realistic.”
Phillpotts, Eden.My garden. (Country life lib.) *$3.75. Scribner.
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Enthusiasm abounds in Mr. Phillpotts’ garden book with prejudices born of individuality and experience. It demands that a real gardener shall love nurserymen’s catalogues and shall abhor butterflies. In his garden of only an acre he has a thousand genera from all parts of the world, and his Devonshire sunshine seems to foster their growth almost magically.
“He knows how to make a garden, and he knows how to write about it.”
“The whole book will signify nothing except to gardeners; but they will enjoy it.”
“Is certainly a pleasure to the eye, and we find its leaves besprinkled with a pleasant humor here and there. The general reader, however, will shy at the constant stream of technical botanical names. The book contains many valuable bits of information for the amateur, but it has no Index.”
Phillpotts, Eden.Whirlwind. †$1.50. McClure.
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Mr. Phillpotts’ “standard is a high one. His method is conceived on a large scale. It is no other than to bring all the aspects of nature—the changing sky, with its range of colours, the wind that blows across his Devon moors, the trees, the flowers, the animals, all the denizens of earth—into league with him in telling one great story of passion or love or disaster.” (Acad.) “In his theme Mr. Phillpotts has enlarged the ‘eternal triangle’ of one woman and two men into a case of one woman loved by three men and herself honestly loving two of the men and married to one of them. This must be admitted to be a new complication, warranted to tax even the ingenuities of as keen a student of human nature as Mr. Phillpotts, and requiring no little delicacy of perception and feeling for its acceptable solution.” (N. Y. Times.)
“There is a lack of inevitability about the final tragedy, and that lack lends to the tragedy an element of sordidness which is belittling.”
“It will be seen that while Mr. Phillpotts runs the risk, as often, of falling into melodrama, he keeps himself out of that pit by the artistry of his handling and the dignity of his characterization.”
“Mr. Phillpotts has never given us anything so effectively composed as the present novel. In its culminating situation the action moves serenely upon the heights of real tragedy, and leaves one with the same richly complex yet elevated sense of peace.” Harry James Smith.
“Is not to be numbered among his strongest books. There is less spontaneity of character drawing; his men and his women lack the vital individuality of the earlier volumes; they suggest something stereotyped and worked over from earlier impressions. The central plot is not merely repellent, but difficult of acceptance.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“It is a story that more than ever makes us feel that Mr. Hardy has found a worthy successor.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Attempts to put a halo of self-sacrifice around a woman’s frailty, and the result is one of the most unconvincing stories he ever wrote.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Eden Phillpotts’s new novel is his masterpiece.”
“Eden Phillpotts’ last epic of the Dartmoor is beyond question the greatest of his angry masterpieces of that region.”
“So long as their lives proceed quietly the book is delightful, and the true tragedy of its end is the tragedy of a fine novel spoilt.”
“It is to be regretted that the writer did not more nearly confine himself to the main theme. The supernumerary persons ... are too many and too much in the way.”
“Here is the ‘Whirlwind’ ... thrashing out the same familiar subjects with still enough of freshness and originality to make the reading of it an unexpectedly pleasing task.”
“At his best and at his worst—at his best in true and faithful presentation of the Dartmoor country and the Dartmoor rustics, at his worst because there are breaks in the psychology, inconsistencies between character and action, abrupt tragedy more startling than real.”
Phillpotts, Eden, and Bennett, Enoch Arnold.Doubloons. †$1.50. McClure.
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A joint “light-hearted, mile-a-minute detective story” (Nation) which abounds in the local color of the West Indies.
“There is much clever invention and some charming descriptions of nature, which are quite out of place, but the novel, as a whole, is a failure, and does not arrest the attention.”
“Despite Mr. Phillpotts’ spurt, we cannot follow the narrative so zealously as we should like, and the story drags out to a lame conclusion.”
“Some latent humor may be observed in the intense seriousness with which the wild piece of sensationalism is worked out.”
“The London part of the story is better than its sequel, and provides a thrill for every chapter. After a while the complication becomes so great that there is nothing for it but to cut loose and to take refuge in foreign parts. Meanwhile all sorts of loose ends are left hanging, and some of them are not gathered up at all.” Wm. M. Payne.
“The effect of such a skilful and enthralling plot is heightened by the other features of the story, especially by its delightful vein of satire.” Herbert W. Horwill.
“The story differs from the average detective mystery only in being quicker, more amusing, and in covering a wider geographical field.”
“It has achieved the difficult task of a thoroughly original plot with a unique criminal.”
“The authors seem to have fallen between two stools by combining an exciting tale of crime and treasure-seeking with a strain of burlesque.”
“The book is certainly a first-class detective story; but we miss from the mixture the peculiar qualities of Mr. Eden Phillpotts.”
Phyfe, William Henry P.Napoleon: the return from Saint Helena. 8 il. **$1. Putnam.
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An informing account of the removal of the Emperor’s remains from Saint Helena to France in 1840; together with a description of his tomb in theHôtel des invalidesin Paris.
Reviewed by Henry E. Bourne.
“The book is written in excellent taste, very simply and contains many facts which students of the Emperor’s career will find interesting.”
Pickering, Sidney.Basket of fate. †$1.50. Longmans.
“Mr. Pickering delineates no wonderful hero or heroine, but just ‘nice’ people, and people who are ‘not nice’ as we meet them in life. The middle-aged man who loves, almost against his will, the fresh English girl who can live near pitch, yet not allow the hem of her skirt to be soiled, supplies the interest, being backed by a scheming half-sister and her former lover.”—Ath.
“This is a book to be enjoyed at the fireside rather than criticised in serious style.”
“For the tale ... is constructed and told with much skill. The characters, even the minor ones, are cleverly drawn and made to reveal themselves by their speech and actions.”
“Not particularly remarkable for originality, but brisk and pleasant reading,”
Pickworth, Charles N.Slide rule. $1. Van Nostrand.
A tenth edition of a well known book in which “the text appears to be simplified and improved, there is a large number of illustrative examples from various phases of engineering calculation, and some few of the numerous modified and special slide rules are described.” (Engin. N.)
Pier, Arthur Stanwood.Harding of St. Timothy’s. †$1.50. Houghton.
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“A very good story of school life about boys in their middle and later teens.... The scene is laid in a big boys’ school ... in New England. The story is largely concerned with the athletic side of school life, and shows the influence which can be exerted unconsciously among a lot of boys by one who is always frank and manly and honorable.”—N. Y. Times.
“A novel ... with a wholesome flavor and a genuine appeal to boys.”
Pier, Arthur Stanwood.Young in heart. **$1.25. Houghton.
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“Comprises eight essays in observation of the writer’s fellow mortals, their excellences and defects, their successes and failures, their work and their play. Particularly strong has the author shown himself in what may be called the psychology of self-conceit.”—Dial.
“Enjoyment of these agreeable and often illuminating studies in human nature ... would be more nearly perfect did they reveal a finer sense of the niceties of language.”
“A delightful little book which justifies its title. The author is certainly young in heart, and his outlook on the world is hospitable and comprehensive.”
Pier, Garrett Chatfield.Egyptian antiquities in the Pier collection. *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
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pt. 1.“The first volume ... consists of specimens represented in twenty-two plates, and includes objects in glazed pottery, flint and other stones, ivory and other materials. There are pendants, ornaments, inlays, and amulets, but the chief place is given to more than two hundred scarabs, seals, and cylinders. The catalogue describes the articles which the plates picture.”—Nation.
“The whole is a conscientious and useful piece of work, free from ostentation and creditably performed. The value of the book is increased by the excellence of the reproduction of the legends and devices on the scarabs.”
“The disadvantages of the book are such as the author can easily remedy in the succeeding parts, and we hope that he will continue his plan to its end.” H. H.
Pierce, Ernest Frederic.Traveller’s Joy. †$1.50. Dutton.
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“The Traveller’s Joy” is an inn of the South Downs where a young writer, Anthony Penrose spends a summer and falls in love with Madge Weston, the sister of a college chum and the niece of his publisher. It is full of the wealth of summer and invincible youth.
“The book is as fresh and as wholesome as a spring morning; its worst faults are those of inexperience.”
Pierce, Franklin.Tariff and the trusts. **$1.50. Macmillan.
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In this treatise the author “attempts to show ... how the Dingley tariff has been the direct cause of the rise and growth of hundreds of oppressive capitalistic combinations. In the course of his argument he institutes comparisons with foreign governments and deduces many illustrations from the tariff history of those countries, particularly England and Germany.”—R. of Rs.
“The author finds the tariff the chief cause for the oppression of corporate monopoly. It is here that the logic is weak; the analysis of the inconsistencies of the tariff is keen, and for the most part justified, but little evidence is given of the causal relation between the tariff and the great trusts which defy competition.” D. R. D.
“Clear, forceful, controversial.”
“The book contains the most startling array of facts.”
“The argument is very one-sided, but is so well put together that the stand-patters cannot well afford to neglect it.” Max West.
“The author’s arguments based upon the comparison of the volume of exports and imports at different periods and of different countries should accordingly not be accepted as conclusive of the economic evils of the protective system.”
“The book is frankly based on secondary sources, apparently not on very many, and is written for the general public, not for the student. We conclude that even among the staunchest of free-traders a book of this character could be welcomed only by the most shortsighted.” Chester W. Wright.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Pierce’s book is of great value to the student, but for the general reader it should serve a useful purpose. The author is at his best in the chapter which discusses the relation of protective tariffs to public morals.”
“Mr. Pierce has not written a book to class with Prof. Taussig’s, but it will serve a purpose for which the academic treatises are unsuited.” Edward A. Bradford.
Pierce, James Oscar.Studies in constitutional history. *$1.50. Wilson, H. W.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Discusses in a clear and interesting way, and with a deep conviction that the hand of an ‘Overruling Providence’ can be detected in the development of our country.”
*Pierson, Clara Dillingham.Millers at Pencroft. †$1. Dutton.
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A bright wholesome story of “a nice family with three children, who do the interesting things most children do. They send valentines, go out to tea and have cream puffs for desert, and once the boys sailed the kittens until they fell into the water. Buttercup had only to be dried, but Blackie was restored by means of artificial respiration. The children fed a party in a snow-stalled train, and that was great fun. too.” (N. Y. Times.)
“We would strongly recommend ‘The Millers at Pencroft.’”
Pierson, Delevan Leonard, ed. Pacific Islanders; from savages to saints. **$1. Funk.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We could wish that there might have been somewhat less insistence upon the differences between Catholic and Protestant missionaries—differences which do not make very edifying reading.”
Pirscher, Johanna.Growth without end: a popular exposition of some current ethical and religious views. **30c. Crowell.
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One of the year’s additions to the “What is worth while series.” An optimistic discussion of the good resulting from the active principle of evolution and the work of modern sociology—good that shows itself in courtesy and generosity in daily intercourse, strength of purpose, devotion to duty and in a simple practical faith in God.
Pitman, Isaac.Pitman’s dictionary of commercial correspondence in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. $2.25. Pitman.
A valuable aid to the foreign correspondent. It gives the most common commercial terms and phrases. It does not attempt to displace, but rather to supplement other dictionaries, and it presupposes some knowledge of the grammar and construction of the different languages.
Pitt, William, 1st earl of Chatham.Correspondence of William Pitt when secretary of state, with colonial governors and military and naval commissioners in America; ed. under the auspices of the National society of colonial dames of America, by Gertrude S. Kimball. 2v. **$6. Macmillan.
“This publication in two volumes contains the official correspondence of William Pitt, when secretary of state, 1756–1761, with the colonial governors and the naval and, military commanders in America. These were the years of Great Britain’s glory, when, under the inspiring genius of Pitt, her arms were successful in all corners of the globe, and when the British navy attained an unquestioned command of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.”—Putnam’s.
“Valuable documentary publication.”
“The letters may be read with special advantage by those who are taking up the study of the campaigns of 1756–1760, and they are full of interest to the average reader, since they contain much of the thought of the greatest statesman England can claim for three hundred years. The books are well printed and are unusually free from typographical errors, although there are one or two slight topographical slips in the volumes, such as placing Bic off the Saguenay river.”
“Teachers and students of early American history owe to the patriotic society women, and to Miss Kimball, their thanks for making available these interesting records.” Edwin Erle Sparks.
“The introduction is lucid and the notes admirably brief and painted; while the material collected gives a picture of Pitt’s powers of practical administration which is an absolute revelation.” Basil Williams.
“Miss Kimball was fortunate in finding nearly all her material ready arranged in the series of American and West Indian state papers preserved in the Record office, but a debt of gratitude is none the less due to her for bringing it to the notice of the English-speaking public in this clear and readable form.”
“The documents in these volumes have been well edited, but Miss Kimball’s preface hardly meets the demands of the occasion.”
“Carefully edited.” Herbert L. Osgood.
“It seems ungracious to find fault when so much that is valuable is presented in these volumes, yet the collection would have been far completer, though much bulkier, if the enclosures in the dispatches had also been printed. The availability of such material cannot, however, compensate for an adequate biography.” George Louis Beer.
“It is a great boon to the student of history to have valuable documentary material of this character printed in this convenient and accessible form.”
“The Society of the colonial dames of America has performed a pious task in collecting a correspondence which covers the origins of their nation, and in Miss Kimball they have found a competent editor. The book is interesting mainly as the raw material of history.”
Plantz, Samuel.Church and the social problem: a study in applied Christianity. *$1.25. Meth. bk.