Chapter 92

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The White Moll is the name Rhoda Gray has earned for herself in New York’s East side district by always playing on the square with its denizens. So Gypsy Nan, when dying in a slightly penitent frame of mind, entrusts her with the secret of a crime about to be committed. Rhoda tries to stop it, but is arrested, charged with committing it. She escapes but her career of charity as the White Moll is thus wrecked and she is forced for safety to disguise herself as Gypsy Nan in which rôle she finds herself in the midst of a criminal gang. She resolves to circumvent their schemes, and so plays the double part of Gypsy Nan, who is hand in glove with them, and the White Moll, their bitterest enemy and a fugitive from justice. Her part is hard, but her luck is good, and with the “Adventurer” as her ally she finally, after many exciting experiences, breaks up the gang and brings it to punishment. Then she makes the gratifying discovery that the Adventurer is not the thief she had thought him and that they had been working for the same ends.

“If a thrill on every page is any consideration, here you have it.” H. W. Boynton

“As is usual in his stories of the underworld, Mr Packard’s tale is filled with exciting adventures. He has without doubt built a place for himself and his particular type of tale.”

“There is no need for anyone to find life unexciting so long as there are men in the world with imaginations like Frank L. Packard’s.”

“It is a clever, absorbing story, with a certain freshness in its theme.”

PACKARD, WINTHROP.Old Plymouth trails. il *$3 (4c) Small 917.4

20–26567

“He who would see Plymouth and the Pilgrim land about it as the Pilgrims saw it may do so. Nature holds grimly onto her own and sedulously heals the scars that man makes.... Plymouth is a manufacturing city, a residence town, a resort and a thriving business centre all in one ... but you have only to step out of town to find their very land all about you, traces of their occupancy, the very marks of their feet, worn in the earth itself.... Along the old Pilgrim trails you may step from modern culture and its acme of civilization through the pasture lands of the Pilgrims into glimpses of the forest primeval.” (Chapter I) A partial list of the contents is: Plymouth mayflowers; Nantucket in April; Footing it across the Cape; Along the salt marshes; Ghosts of the northeaster; White pine groves; The pasture in November; Coasting on Ponkapoag; Yule fires.

“Pleasant informal essay style with special appeal to the lover of the out-of-doors.”

Reviewed by W. A. Dyer

“As a prose technician, Mr Packard is, of course, inferior to W. H. Hudson, lacking both the English writer’s restraint and his sense of nervous rhythm. Yet he writes with great vividness at times, and his accuracy of observation is hardly less keen.” W. P. Eaton

Reviewed by C. L. Skinner

PAGE, GERTRUDE (MRS GEORGE ALEXANDER DOBBIN).[2]Paddy-the-next-best-thing. *$2 (2c) Stokes

20–18935

When Paddy Adair was born, her father had ardently wished for a boy, but as she grew up he had become quite contented with the “next-best-thing,” and Paddy, while longing herself to be a boy, had satisfied herself with being as hoydenish and wild as the “next-best-thing” could be. But for all that, she had a way with her with the opposite sex, a captivating Irish way which won and held the heart of Lawrence Blake, as her sister Eileen’s dreamy moods could never do. But Paddy, because she thought Eileen was breaking her heart over Lawrence’s defection, swore eternal hatred against him. Altho patience was far from natural to him, he cultivated it and in the end won out. The story in play form has had a successful run both in this country and England.

“As fiction of the very lightest sort this tale has its good points. Although over-played, its heroine, Paddy, is real and often behaves like a human sort.”

“The author does not rely on plot for the appeal of her book. What she does is to offer a pleasing, polite, mildly amusing sketch of certain phases of life in Ireland, with nothing to remind one of Sinn Fein uprising and hunger strikes, and this work she has done with commendable skill.”

PAGE, KIRBY.[2]Something more. *90c Assn. press 248

20–11091

The book, “a consideration of the vast, undeveloped resources of life” (Sub-title) is the first in the New generation series. It contains four essays enlarging respectively on the latent possibilities in God, in man, in Jesus Christ, in life—that are man’s for the searching. The last essay, Enemies of life, enumerates the negative factors, both material and spiritual, all rooted in ignorance, that keep man from entering into his true heritage.

“An invigorating book.”

PAGE, THOMAS NELSON.Italy and the world war. *$5 Scribner 940.345

20–21941

Ambassador Page was in Italy during the entire period of the war and followed sympathetically the part played therein by the Italian people. He holds that the key to Italy’s relation to the war is to be found in her traditions, her history and in her geographical and economic situation. Accordingly the book falls into three parts: “The first is introductory and contains in outline the history of the Italian people in the long period when they were included in and bound under the Holy Roman empire. The second contains the story of their evolution, from the conception of their national consciousness on through the long and bitter struggle with the Austrian empire for their liberty down to the time when ... they developed into a new and united Italy.... The third part contains the story of the diplomatic struggle to establish herself in a position to which Italy considers herself entitled as a great power.” (Preface) The book has six maps, appendices, giving the texts of the armistice with Austria and of the pact of London, and an index.

“A much needed contribution to the political history of the war.”

“It is not impertinent to say that an experienced newspaper man, equipped with a good encyclopædia, a good atlas, and the newspaper files for the past five years, could produce an excellent replica of ‘Italy and the world war’ without having crossed the Atlantic. Mr Page had an opportunity to write a very remarkable pamphlet, and he wrote instead a hurried, congested, and unnecessary hotch-potch history of the war.” W: McFee

“It is to be regretted that the American public could not have had the benefit of this unequaled book months ago. Mr Page smashes beyond recovery many illusions which, during and after the war, militated against the character of Italy, her people, her statesmen.” Walter Littlefield

PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED.Automobile starting, lighting and ignition. 6th ed rev and enl il $3 Henley 629.2

20–9556

“Mr Pagé first explains the nature of electricity—how a current is produced—and then goes on to explain in general the systems used for ignition, starting and lighting. This is followed by a detailed explanation of the individual systems on various cars. Many illustrations and diagrams make this book easy to understand.” (R of Rs) “The sixth edition repeats the material of the second edition with the addition of eight new chapters on leading electrical ignition systems, design of electrical measuring instruments and use in testing, and wiring diagrams of popular cars.” (Booklist)

PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED.Model T Ford car. rev and enl il $1.50 Henley 629.2

20–4100

“Victor W. Pagé’s ‘Model T Ford car’ has appeared in its new and enlarged 1920 edition. This edition should be even more popular than the earlier editions, as it contains information and instructions for the Fordson farm tractor and the F. A. lighting and starting system, as well as all the principles and parts of the Ford. Numerous illustrations and diagrams make the instructions and explanations easily understood by a novice.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes

PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED, ed. Motor boats and boat motors. il $3 Henley 623.8

20–11842

“Mr Pagé has compiled a volume full of interest to the novice as well as to the experienced motor-boat enthusiast. It covers fully the design, construction, operation, and repair of boats and motors in general, including full instructions, with working drawings, for building five boats from tested designs by A. Clark Leitch, naval architect. A chapter on seaplanes and flying-boat construction gives both theory and practical application.”—R of Rs

“Clearly written and has nearly 400 exceptionally good illustrations. Anyone contemplating the purchase of a boat should be guided by the excellent advice given in the first chapter.”

PAGE, WILLIAM, ed. Commerce and industry; with a preface by William Ashley. 2v il v 1 *$15 v 2 *$10 Dutton 330.9

(Eng ed 19–18954)

“In the twelve chapters that make up the main text of the first volume of this work, and the three appendices, an historical review of the economic conditions of the British empire for ninety-nine years, largely based upon parliamentary debates as reported by Hansard, is given. The second volume consists of statistical tables of the economic factors, such as population, taxation, imports and exports, production, finance, etc., in supplementation proof of the conditions as set forth in the text of the first volume. The subjects dealt with in the main portion of the work cover the Effects of war (1815 to 1820); Commercial reform (1820 to 1830); The reform Parliament (1830 to 1841); Repeal of the Corn laws (1841 to 1852); War and finance (1852 to 1859); Free trade (1859 to 1868); Retrenchment and reform (1869 to 1880); Organization (1880–1892); Foreign competition (1892 to 1900); The movement towards tariff reform (1900 to 1910); and Unrest (1910 to 1914). The three appendices discuss The Cabinet and Parliament, Ministries 1812 to 1912, and A chronicle of the British empire beyond the seas.”—Boston Transcript

“The volume is a storehouse of facts for politicians and economists.”

“Impartiality is a dominant quality of the work, as it ought to be.”

PAGET, STEPHEN.Sir Victor Horsley; a study of his life and work. il *$6 Harcourt

(Eng ed 19–18661)

“The life was well worth writing by so practised a biographer as Mr Stephen Paget of Sir Victor Horsley (1857–1916)—a surgeon of great distinction and a pioneer on the field of scientific medicine, a keen champion of temperance and woman suffrage, and a Liberal politician—who closed a great career by giving his life for his country in Mesopotamia, where he patriotically volunteered for service as medical consultant with the forces and where he died of heat stroke on July 16, 1916.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Mr Paget has written in a calm, dispassionate manner without literary tricks or mannerisms.”

“Admirable biography.”

“No happier selection could have been made than that Mr Paget should become the biographer of Sir Victor Horsley. The author, a man of letters, also possesses the scientific and medical knowledge essential to the theme, and his enterprises in other fields of literature have preserved him from the besetting sins of the medical biographer who makes his book unduly technical, or even dull.”

“There is no doubt that this biography, in the full sense of an overworked word, is an ‘inspiring’ record of a man’s character and achievement; it is the more so because it is always straightforward and concrete, showing the man exactly as he was.”

“It is not too much to say that of the many services which this author has rendered to scientific medicine and surgery none is so important as his biography of Sir Victor Horsley.”

PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW.Short life of Mark Twain. il *$2.50 Harper

20–18960

In answer to the demand for a short life of Mark Twain, Mr Paine, his official biographer, has prepared a condensed version of his longer work. The story is told in brief chapters and in simple language and is adapted for young people’s reading. There are eighteen illustrations.

PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.Corsair in the war zone. il *$4 Houghton 940.45

20–14468

At a critical time in the submarine campaign a number of American pleasure yachts volunteered for service as French coast patrols. Their amateur crews had little naval training, and these yachts were dubbed the “Suicide fleet,” but they performed heroic service and played an important rôle in the war. The Corsair of whose exploits the book gives an account, was owned by J. Pierpont Morgan. Contents: The call of duty overseas; “Lafayette, we are here!”; At sea with the Breton patrol; Tragedies and rescues; When the Antilles went down; Admiral Wilson comes to Brest; Smashed by a hurricane; The pleasant interlude at Lisbon; Uncle Sam’s bridge of ships; The Corsair stands by; In the radioroom; The long road home; Honorably discharged; The ship’s company. There is a map showing the Corsair’s wanderings in the war zone and numerous illustrations.

“The book is a welcome and valuable minor contribution to the history of the world war. The numerous and excellent illustrations greatly add to its attractiveness.” E: Breck

“The author has collected and selected his official and unofficial documents with praiseworthy skill, and the result is a swift-flowing narrative, written in an easy style, that will prove interesting to sailor and landsman alike.” B. R. Redman

PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.Fight for a free sea; a chronicle of the war of 1812. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 973.5

20–4767

“This volume is concerned with our War of 1812, the chief episodes of which are related by Ralph D. Paine under the title, ‘The fight for a free sea.’ The book has special chapters on Perry and Lake Erie, The navy on blue water, Matchless frigates and their duels, and Victory on Lake Champlain.”—R of Rs

Reviewed by D. R. Anderson

“It is of Perry on Lake Erie, of Macdonough on Lake Champlain, of Captain Bainbridge and of Captain Isaac Hull that Mr Paine writes charmingly, gloriously. Their brilliant deeds arouse his instinct for the sea, his hero-worship of sea-faring men. With them this writer of delightful sea stories is at home.”

“Mr Paine writes splendidly of the sea and of ships, as readers of his stories know, and this is a subject that lends itself especially to his talents.”

PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.Ships across the sea. il *$1.90 (2½c) Houghton 940.45

20–7139

The author of these stories of the American navy in the great war has firsthand knowledge of the navy and the life on board ship, and his fiction breathes real life. The first story is one of jealousy between two petty officers over a wee Scotch lassie, a war orphan, who came on board on occasion of the sailors’ Christmas party. On Jim Cooney’s side it was something of a lark for he loved to bully simple minded Henry Turnbull. With Henry it was a matter of the heart. But when Henry is washed overboard Jim’s remorse inspires a Henry Turnbull fund, to be raised among the crew for the education and up-bringing of little Mary MacDonald. The stories are: The orphan and the battle-wagon; Ten fathoms down; Too scared to run; The quiet life; On a lee shore; The net result; The last shot; The silent service; The red sector.

“The sense of the sea and ships is vividly conveyed. ‘Ships across the sea’ gives an excellent idea of what it was like to be a sailor in the United States navy during the great war.”

+ |N Y Times25:237 My 9 ’20 650w |Wis Lib Bul16:195 N ’20 50w

PALAMAS, KOSTÈS.Life immovable. *$2 Harvard univ. press 889

19–19666

“A volume of translations is ‘Life immovable,’ from the modern Greek of Kostes Palamas by Professor Aristides Phoutrides, a former instructor at Harvard. Kostes Palamas, secretary to the University of Athens, was one of the first writers of contemporary Greece to gain recognition outside his own country, and Professor Phoutrides has the courage to call him ‘a new world-poet.’” (Bookm) “The translator furnishes a sketch of the poet and his work, and an analysis of the poems in this volume.” (Booklist)

“It is reasonable to suppose that the unsatisfactory effect of the book before us cannot be entirely attributed to the defects either of the poet or the translator. It is tiresome to read these poems, where images rise and clash and fade in confusion, and to feel that in the original there may have existed harmony and emotional coherence where we are now oppressed by meaningless glitter and noise. Our annoyance is accentuated by the translator’s harsh and clumsy rhythms, and by an insensitiveness to word-values in the language into which he is translating, exemplified by the title ‘Life immovable.’” F. W. S.

“Too much of the symbolic, philosophical and mythological enter these pages to invite interest from any but the scholarly thinker.”

Reviewed by H: A. Lappin

“He deserves to be read widely beyond the confines of his own land and tongue; and Professor Phoutrides, with the Harvard press, deserves the cordial thanks of all lovers of life and letters for the present translation.” F. B. R. Hellems

“His book, with its thoughtful, well-written introduction, will give much pleasure to the quiet lovers of the quiet poetry of meditation and sentiment.” Paul Shorey

PALMER, EDWIN JAMES, bp. of Bombay.Great church awakes. *$2 Longmans 280

21–198

“The conception of ‘the great church’ which inspires this little volume may be described as a liberalized restatement of the traditional Anglo-Catholic position. In the first part of the work, called ‘Ideas,’ Dr Palmer insists strongly on the importance and force of the present desire for Christian unity, especially as it is manifested in India. The second section, entitled ‘Studies,’ is mainly devoted to the question of the Christian ministry. It opens with a careful study of the ‘Ministry in the primitive church.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

Reviewed by Lyman Abbott

PANCHARD, EDOUARD.Meats, poultry and game; with a preface by A. Louise Andrea. *$3 Dutton 641.5

20–2273

“The author of this volume is managing chef for the Hotel McAlpin, Waldorf-Astoria, Claridge, Café Savarin and Fifth avenue restaurant, New York, and Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, and honorary lecturer, Columbia university. He gives much valuable information about the buying, cooking and serving of meat, poultry and game, and as the book is illustrated even the amateur can learn readily from it. Not the least desirable part of the volume is a collection of choice recipes.”—Boston Transcript

Reviewed by M. F. Egan

“A book so simply and clearly planned and written that it must be a desirable acquisition.”

“Part I is written very definitely and clearly but Part II, ‘A potpourri of recipes,’ would be rather difficult for an inexperienced cook to follow.” M. E. Dakin

PANYITY, LOUIS S.[2]Prospecting for oil and gas. il *$3.25 Wiley 622.1

20–2108

“This brief treatment of a large subject is designed to meet the needs of the practical oilman and the general reader. More than half of the text is devoted to surveying methods and geology, including general cross-sections of important districts. The rest of the book covers even more briefly: scouting, methods of locating wells, drilling methods, ‘bringing in,’ gauging, and leasing. Samples of forms and contracts are shown. Good illustrations and a number of mathematical and technical tables.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

“Good book on a subject not heretofore well covered.”

“The first ten chapters of this book, comprising 134 pages in all, deal directly with the subject indicated by the title, and they are by far the most useful part of the volume. The remainder of the principal part of the book is disappointing. It attempts to cover so much that it covers nothing at all.”

“It is undoubtedly an attractive and useful publication, which, by virtue of its clearness of diction, careful arrangement of subjectmatter, and freedom from ‘padding,’ should make an appeal to a very wide public.” H. B. Milner

PARK, JOHN EDGAR.Bad results of good habits and other lapses. *$1.50 (4½c) Houghton 814

20–7286

The contents of these essays all hinge on the distinction the author makes between two kinds of goodness; respectable goodness and adventurous goodness. It is the difference between a mummy and a living body. For the ten commandments he would substitute the golden rule, as including them all, and his parting words to the reader are: “Don’t be solemn. Don’t be staid and conventional. Get off your pedestal. Fool a little. Love much.” A partial list of the contents are: The disadvantages of being good; The folly of getting there; The world, the flesh, and the devil; What I would not that I do; Lies; The grammar of life; The secret of the moral training of children.

“Altogether they are a very readable lot, and if most of them leave a moral truth behind, the reader will forget the preachment for the enjoying of his ideas.”

“Mr Park’s relaxations avoid the too facile generalization which is the usual fault of the type. Yet they breathe a certain serene remoteness from dust and heat. In contrast with the good gigantic smile of Mark Twain, it lacks what closet wit must always lack, an earthly and living contact with men and women.”

“It is bright, gay, and logically weak, with the useful knack of arraying a commonplace in the garb of a paradox.”

“There is a vein of humor in Mr Park that makes him a delightful companion in print or in person.”

PARKER, CARLETON HUBBELL.Casual laborer and other essays. *$1.75 (5½c) Harcourt 331

20–5645

This posthumous volume of essays by Professor Parker has an introduction by Mrs Cornelia Stratton Parker in which she points out the fundamental characteristics of her husband’s work, and through numerous quotations the importance in which he was held as one of the frontiersmen not along geographical but along economic lines. He was first in studying the labor problem from a psychological point of view. “What is the psychic balance sheet?” he asks. “It is a relation between a plastic, sensitive, easily degenerated nervous organism called ‘man’ and an environment. The product is human character. The labor problem is one of character-formation.” The essays are: Toward understanding labor unrest; The casual laborer; The I. W. W.; Motives in economic life. The appendix contains Professor Parker’s report on the Wheatland hop fields’ riot with a foreword by Mrs Parker. The second paper is reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the third from the Atlantic Monthly.

“In conclusion it may be said that the book is an interesting rather than a convincing one. The man really needs to be saved from his friends. The present book bears out the statement that when all is said and done, Professor Parker’s life was potential in promise and not in actual measurable performance.” G. M. J.

“As his discussion stands and so far as it has been carried on it is so fragmentary and one-sided as to appear somewhat crude and far fetched.” Virgil Jordan

“In their present state the essays reveal a lack in the organization of his new ideas as well as a faulty perspective in the arrangement of his biological and psychological material. His purpose, however, is admirable, and has brought about an advance of the line he set upon, namely the study of human behavior, as such, where it assists in the understanding of economic conditions.” Florence Richardson

“For the economist, the book is like one of those impressive events that make history. It marks the closing of a chapter.” H. A. Overstreet

Reviewed by C: Merz

“The book is a useful record of an industrious and brilliant investigator who seems also to have been an unusually inspiring teacher. It is not too much to say that no man who has anything worth writing about should be allowed to write so badly as Professor Parker seems to have done when left to himself.”

“Those interested to know how this labor problem will be handled when those in authority have been educated will do well to read this delightful and illuminating book. It marks the road.” W: L. Chenery

PARKER, DEWITT HENRY.Principles of æsthetics. *$2.50 (2½c) Silver 701

20–15459

The book has grown out of lectures to students at the University of Michigan but the author’s appeal is to all people who are interested in the intelligent appreciation of art. For his broader philosophy of art he declares himself indebted to the artists and philosophers of the period from Herder to Hegel, and among contemporaries to Croce and Lipps. Among the contents are: The analysis of the æsthetic experience; The problem of evil in æsthetics, and its solution through the tragic, pathetic, and comic; The standard of taste; The dominion of art over nature: painting, sculpture; Beauty in the industrial arts: architecture; The function of art: art and morality, art and religion; Bibliography.

“For the beginner it is as satisfactory a work as has yet appeared.”

PARKER, SIR GILBERT.No defence. il *$2 Lippincott

20–17085

“The scene is laid first in Ireland at the close of the eighteenth century; and we are taken thence to the fleet at the time of the mutiny at the Nore, and later to Jamaica. The hero, Dyck Calhoun, is a young Irish gentleman, who falls innocently into disgrace. He becomes a common seaman and a mutineer; he escapes to Jamaica; and here he gradually achieves success, in spite of the persistent enmity of the governor, with whom he has fought a successful duel in his early days.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“The author seems well able to depict the English soldier and sailor of the day, but he knows nothing of the Irish soul or character.”

“To judge from internal evidence, ‘No defence’ was written simply and solely in order that it might eventually be turned into a motion picture, with little or no regard for literary excellence. From first to last, the book is carelessly written, and the tale is devoid of atmosphere, while the dialogue reveals very little effort to keep the speech of the different persons in character.”

“The book has dash, fire, and romance.”

“It lacks something both of the ardour and of the fundamental gravity which make romance completely valid; but it has an undeniable sincerity which makes it very much more readable than most such works.”

PARKER, SAMUEL CHESTER.Methods of teaching in high schools. il $2 Ginn 373

20–6653

“The printing of a new edition of the ‘Methods of teaching in high schools’ has given the author an opportunity to make a number of slight but important revisions. Some of these are necessitated by new scientific investigations, while others are merely improvements in the examples or the phrasing. References have also been inserted to the supplementary volume, ‘Exercises for “Methods of teaching in high schools.”’... The fundamental organization, however, has nowhere been changed.” (Preface to revised edition)

PARKS, LEIGHTON.English ways and byways. *$1.75 (3c) Scribner 914.2

20–19160

In the form of letters John and Ruth Dobson, an American clergyman and his wife, on a motoring tour in England, talk pleasantly of their experiences, which include unconventional glimpses of England and the English and much about the vicissitudes of motoring. Among the chapters on England are: The great North road; The England of Fielding; An English interior; Rural England; Education; A by-election; Sheep-dogs; The black country; The county families; The boat-race; Vested interests; Church and state.

“All that is written is interesting and often it is amusing; but the wit is never biting, the story never cuts in the telling, and when all is told we really have gained a very agreeable idea of our English cousins.”

“Add that both husband and wife are extremely clever with the pen, and rather impudent in their freedom of remark, and you have all the materials out of which Dr Leighton Parks has made as entertaining a little volume as one often meets with in these dull days.”

PARRISH, RANDALL.Mystery of the silver dagger. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

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