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“His work is everywhere compact, but his terse and vigorous style
gives emphasis to what might otherwise easily read like a mere summary
of political events.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 95. F. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)

“The effect on the mind is produced by the continual bias of the
writer’s judgment, together with the bitter and ungracious way in
which the judgment is expressed. We regret that so good a book should
be marred by such tiresome defects, for Mr. Paul is interesting and
painstaking and clear.” G. Townsend Warner.

+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 604. Jl. ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

“It is entertaining even where most exasperating; its sharpness and
color will not allow the interest to flag; in fact, there is nothing
on modern history comparable to it unless it be Hanotaux’s recent work
on ‘Contemporary France.’”

+ + – =Ind.= 61: 833. Ag. 9, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 14. Ja. 12, ’06. 840w. (Review of v. 4.)

“The book is not written by the Mr. Paul whom the House of Commons
knows. But neither is it written by the delightful author of ‘Men and
letters’ and ‘Stray leaves.’ It is written by that able and useful but
less distinguished person, a daily journalist. There is nothing of
great importance in it.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 660w. (Review of v. 5.)

“Here he is again bright, rapid, epigrammatic, free from all vagueness
or hesitation, delivering positive and definite views, telling his
story in short sentences, whose meaning no one can mistake. He is not
a partisan in the sense of endeavoring to suppress the case for the
side to which he does not belong while setting out the whole of his
own. But he has strong opinions, and allows them to appear.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 120. F. 8, ’06. 2310w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

“Alertness of mind and the ability to visualize and present pointedly
are his to an extraordinary degree. They give his work all the
sprightliness of a contemporary record. After the brave beginnings of
his earlier volumes we are not quite satisfied with this one.”
Christian Gauss.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 176. Mr. 24, ’06. 1750w. (Review of v. 4.)

“For him who wishes a brilliant account of English politics and the
working of that great governmental machine, the English constitution,
there is no better book.” Christian Gauss.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 845. D. 8, ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 5.)

=Outlook.= 81: 1081. D. 30, ’05. 80w. (Review of v. 4.)

“It need hardly be added that his pages are distinguished by the ease,
candor, honesty and incisiveness that gave such a charm to the earlier
installments.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 5.)

=R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 4.)

“Mr. Paul is a clever journalist whose fascinating style of writing
and peculiar type of humour succeed in making the dullest subjects
entertaining.”

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 215. Ag. 12, ’05. 1800w. (Review of v. 3.)

“This volume may be recommended as a work of reference and at the same
time a very entertaining reading, for it is full of shrewd and
philosophic sayings about political parties, is suffused with dry
humor, and contains occasional flashes of wit.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 303. Mr. 10, ’06. 1410w. (Review of v. 4.)

“In many of the transactions described by him, Mr. Paul, as an active
politician must have taken some part. During most of the period
covered by this volume, Mr. Paul’s opponents were in power. Yet the
story is told with scrupulous impartiality: nought is set down in
malice: and though in so concise a work there must necessarily be much
suppression, the perspective is admirably caught and maintained. An
absence of picturesque detail is the price we have to pay for sober
style, relieved by touches of caustic but not ill-natured humor.”
Arthur A. Baumann.

+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 477. O. 20, ’06. 1920w. (Review of v. 5.)

“He writes so well, his judgment is, on the whole, so sound, that we
cannot but deplore the deficiencies of his narrative.”

+ + – =Spec.= 96: 345. Mr. 3, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 4.)

“The new volume, like the volumes which have preceded it, is
brilliantly written. Whatever qualities or defects Mr. Paul may have
as an historian, his style is, in the main, beyond criticism. His
narrative may occasionally be inadequate, but it is never dull.”

+ + – =Spec.= 97: 726. N. 10, ’06. 1660w. (Review of v. 5.)

=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= Life of Froude. **$4. Scribner.

Thru the personal assistance of Miss Froude and Ashley Froude, the
historian’s only son, the biographer has gathered a generous amount of
new and interesting material by means of which he traces Froude’s
character and career. “He was one of England’s really great
historians.... No historian has done so much as Mr. Froude to
interpret aright the English reformation and its great characters, no
one so much to explain Henry VIII, and no one so much to dispel the
romantic mystery which has enveloped the character and career of Mary
Queen of Scots, who deserves to be ranked, as Froude’s realistic
portraiture has ranked her, with Jezebel of Israel, Lucretia Borgia of
Italy, and Catherine de’ Medici of France.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“A book that from beginning to end is always attractive, although, for
our part, we feel that the biographer has given too much attention to
the controversies in which Froude was engaged.”

+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1217. N. 25, ’05. 1480w.

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 901. Jl. ’06. 750w.

“His book is a series of essays about Froude; It is in no sense a
biography, like Froude’s own work on Carlyle.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 164. F. 10. 1470w.

“In Froude he has a spicy subject. He was sure to produce a lively
book.” Goldwin Smith.

+ + =Atlan.= 97: 680. My. ’06. 5050w.

“Mr. Herbert Paul is well fitted to write a sympathetic life of
Froude, both because, of his own historical studies and because, like
Froude himself, he possesses imagination and a sense of style.” H. T.
P.

+ + =Bookm.= 23: 529. Jl. ’06. 2420w.

Reviewed by George Louis Beer.

+ =Critic.= 49: 180. Ag. ’06. 1990w.

“Whether it be that sympathy with his subject has imparted to him
something of Froude’s own consummate art as a literary craftsman,
certain it is that he has produced a very readable account.” Percy F.
Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 80. F. 1, ’06. 2630w.

“The biography ... which has something of an ‘official’ character, is
made subordinate to the description and estimate of his writings.” A.

+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 397. Ap. ’06. 1800w.

“No reader can finish Mr. Paul’s volume on Froude without a vivid
impression of the life which it is written to commemorate. Had he
contented himself with narration, and omitted the discussion of his
hero’s merits as an historian, the volume would have been more useful
and permanent.” Charles A. Beard.

+ + – =Ind.= 60: 683. Mr. 22, ’06. 1610w.

“A work whose biographical and critical sides are, however, very
uneven.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 100w.

“If Mr. Paul has failed to produce a masterpiece, he has written what
will be accepted as an adequate life, and perhaps it may prove to be
the final one. It is an excellent piece of work, considering the
limitations imposed.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 490w.

“Perhaps the most exact title for this interesting book would have
been ‘Froude: a sketch.’ It is alive from the first page to the last.
It is full of Froude and full of his biographer.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 417. D. 1, ’05. 2270w.

“Marked by his usual force, point, and vivacity.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 452. My. 31, ’06. 2510w.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 875. D. 9, ’05. 1670w. (Reprinted from Lond.
Times.)

“His admiration lends a charm to his volume, but also imparts to it
its two chief defects: it could be lessened in bulk with advantage ...
and its tone is throughout too much that of one who is retained to
defend an accused from attack. But in the main we agree with Mr.
Paul’s interpretation.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 82: 92. Ja. 13, ’06. 520w.

“There is, perhaps, nothing really new in the volume, but there is
certainly a great deal of vigorous, pungent, and intellectually
brilliant comment on the views and accomplishments of the late
historian.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 118. Ja. ’06. 190w.

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 52. Ja. 13, ’06. 1530w.

“This is a very delightful and refreshing book. Is one of the best and
happiest portraits we have seen painted with that most graphic of
instruments, the pen, for a long time.”

+ + – =Spec.= 96: 148. Ja. 27, ’06. 1870w.

=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= Stray leaves. **$1.50. Lane.

“Ten brilliant papers by Herbert Paul the accomplished critic and
historian.... As characterizations the essays on Bishop Creighton and
George Eliot are most stimulating.... In his book reviews Mr. Paul ...
defends his point of view with nimble wit and careless confidence. He
differs with Leslie Stephen in his estimate of George Eliot. He
analyzes the essays and addresses of Mr. Balfour, touching upon the
political position of the ex-leader with caustic irony.... The review
of Lucas’s ‘Life of Charles Lamb’ is favorable and highly
appreciative.... ‘The study of Greek’ and ‘The religion of the Greeks’
show the cleverness of the author from another point.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“The main reason why Mr. Herbert Paul is not a great critic is that he
is not fundamental. An agreeable, witty and learned writer, he still
lacks the patient analytical power and penetration required for any
true illumination of his subject.”

+ – =Acad.= 71: 278. S. 22, 06. 1470w.

“The articles reprinted by Mr. Herbert Paul under the title of ‘Stray
leaves’ are pretty sure to repeat the success of his similar
collection ‘Men and letters.’”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 364. S. 29. 580w.

“Apart from this absurd notion as to the uselessness of a little
Greek, Mr. Paul has written a good book.”

+ + – =Dial.= 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 480w.

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20, ’06. 180w.

“Is as rich in pleasure-giving quality as its predecessor, ‘Men and
letters.’”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 329. S. 28, ’06. 1070w.

“They are unfailingly pleasant reading. ‘Pleasant’ is exactly the
adjective.” Montgomery Schuyler.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 814. D. 1, ’06. 108Ow.

“Altogether, one could not read a more entertaining and enlivening
book than this collection of papers.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 290w.

“The ‘Stray leaves’ were worth gathering together and preserving.”

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 384. D. ’06. 60w.

=Paulsen, Friedrich.= German universities and university study; authorized tr. by Frank Thilly and W: W. Elwang. **$3. Scribner.

Here “the German university is surveyed from every side—compared with
the universities of other countries, with its old self in former ages,
its relation to German national life, the instructors and their
instruction, the students and their studying, and lastly the separate
faculties as they prepare students for four professions. Altho his
exposition of present conditions leaves no feature neglected, what
interests one most in the present book is the practical aspect, the
bearings of each feature of the university.”—Ind.

* * * * *

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 609. N. 17. 1780w.

“While useful and authoritative, the volume is not wholly suited to
English readers.”

+ – =Dial.= 41: 19. Jl. 1, ’06. 310w.

“A volume might be written in praise of this admirable book. A second
volume might be written on the thoughts concerning American higher
education which it suggests. It will at once be accepted as the
authoritative book on its subject. Fortunately the translation
effectively preserves some of the best qualities of Paulsen’s very
readable style.”

+ + + =Educ. R.= 32: 315. O. ’06. 1040w.

“An all-round presentation of the most satisfying
completeness—historical, descriptive, practical.”

+ + + =Ind.= 60: 1103. My. 10, ’06. 580w.

“Fresh in the clear, forcible English of Professor Thilly.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 208. S. 6, ’06. 1250w.

“Such a volume as this, so rich both in information, and in
suggestion, cannot be too strongly commended to the attention of
American faculties and students.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 83: 285. Je. 2, ’06. 560w.

“This translation of the elaborate work of Professor Paulsen, the
leading authority on the subject, will therefore be welcomed by all
who are interested in the question of university education, for its
historical retrospects throw light upon the causes which have given to
the German universities their exceptional position.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 577. O. 20, ’06. 1700w.

=Payne, John.= Selections from the poetry of John Payne made by Tracy and Lucy Robinson; with an introduction by Lucy Robinson. *$2.50. Lane.

Mrs. Robinson says in her introduction that this volume of poems is
published as “an appeal to all lovers of poetry on behalf of one of
its uncrowned kings—widely known, it is true, as a translator, but as
a poet receiving less than insular recognition.” The selections
include ballads, blank verse and sonnets, “they are exquisitely
graceful, and yet profoundly impressive, pervaded by a moving
undertone of sadness, which perhaps reaches its full expression in the
beautiful poem ‘The grave of my songs.’ How the poet could have
remained in comparative obscurity so long can only be explained by the
pre-eminence of his translations, and his own exceeding modesty as to
his original writings.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“These ‘Selections’ have been made with excellent taste and judgment
by Tracy and Lucy Robinson, the latter furnishing the Introduction
which is done with sympathetic insight and with fine appreciation of
the subject.” Edith M. Thomas.

+ + =Critic.= 49: 141. Ag. ’06. 550w.

“Is supplied as an extremely interesting study of his work as a
whole.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 326. My. 16, ’06. 930w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 696. S. 20, ’06. 340w.

“The first impression made by the selection is that of a marvelous
virtuosity, an amazing metrical and verbal ingenuity. Of the
poeticalness, so to say, of Mr. Payne’s literary impulse there can be
no doubt.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 327. Ap. 19, ’06. 750w.

“His inventive genius and remarkable use of melodious English give an
unusual pleasure to the appreciative reader.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 220w.

=Peabody, Francis Greenwood.= Jesus Christ and the Christian character. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“This is a companion volume to “Jesus Christ and the social question.”
It examines the teaching of Jesus concerning personal life, and the
applicability of the Christian type to the conditions of the modern
world.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“It is a most valuable addition to the literature of Christian ethics.
It is an immensely fruitful book for all; but it has peculiar
eye-opening value for the student afflicted with academic theological
myopia.” Herbert A. Youtz.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 765. O. ’06. 700w.

“Here is learning and wisdom and perception of human need, and the
word spoken in season, made attractive and convincing and vital by
association with the Supreme Person.” George Hodges.

+ + =Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 250w.

=Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.

“The book embodies a clear insight into the fundamentals of the method
and of the subject-matter of Christian ethics. And when to this high
scholarly value one adds its extraordinary practical suggestiveness in
the concrete problems of modern life, it is evident that the book is
one which every pastor and teacher should read.” G. B. S.

+ + + =Bib. World.= 28: 428. D. ’06. 460w.

“The thinking is strong and clear, but somewhat conservative.” W.
Jones Davies.

+ + =Hibbert J.= 5: 219. O. ’06. 840w.

“The lectures are full of power and present a study of Christian
ethics which is truly inspiring.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 222. Ja. 25, ’06. 220w.

“The foot notes show a wide reading in modern studies upon the
character of Jesus Christ. The body of the book shows large
familiarity with the character and teaching of Jesus Christ.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ’05. 190w.

“Scholarly and yet simply phrased treatise.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 80w.

=Pearse, Mark Guy.= Pretty ways o’ Providence. *$1. Meth. bk.

A group of thirteen stories, simple possible tales, all bearing
testimony to the kindly rift that lets the light of heaven thru. How
definite good guided Henry Craze in his love-making, saved shy Man’el
Hodge from his baneful love-coaching, and touched the heart of a
hardened drunkard to transform his dreary cottage into a place fit for
the home-coming of his little maid, are among the “pretty ways o’
Providence.”

* * * * *

+ =Outlook.= 83: 225. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.

“These are pretty little stories of excellent moral tone, a little
over-sentimental and pious in a Methodist fashion, but pleasantly and
simply written with appreciation of country atmosphere and rustic
ways.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 150. Ag. 4, ’06. 30w.

=Peck, Ellen Brainerd.= Songs by the sedges. $1. Badger, R: G.

“Miss Peck has a pretty fancy and a light touch, which are just the
qualities needed for this sort of reminiscent verse.” Wm. M. Payne

+ =Dial.= 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 150w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 925. D. 30, ’05. 40w.

=Peck, Rev. George Clarke.= Vision and task. $1. Meth. bk.

Fifteen sermons in which the task of Christian living is expressed in
terms of life to-day, and is brought home with the force of current
comparison. The titles include: The passing of mystery; The plain
heroic breed; A vision for the wilderness; A lesson for the street;
The biography of a back-slider; Doing good by proxy; The hindering
God; The thorn as an asset; The paramount duty; and The divine
dependence.

* * * * *

“These are strenuous sermons, clearly conceived, and delivered in
clear and forcible English.” Edward Braislin.

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 573. Jl. ’06. 180w.

“This is a collection of sermons eminently good. Their vision is
clear.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 892. D. 9, ’05. 60w.

=Peck, Harry Thurston.= William Hickling Prescott. **75c. Macmillan.

“If this were the only existing life of Prescott it would leave much
to be desired; taken in connection with the lives by Ticknor and Mr.
Rollo Ogden it will serve a genuinely useful purpose.” M. A. De Wolfe
Howe.

+ – =Atlan.= 97: 117. Ja. ’06. 640w.

=Peckham, George Williams, and Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford.= Wasps, social and solitary; with an introd. by John Burroughs. **$1.50. Houghton.

“The book of the Peckhams is valuable as a whole because it gives us
an accurate description of the types of behavior of many different
genera and species of wasps.” J. B. W.

+ + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 172. My. 15, ’06. 1160w.

=Peixotto, Ernest Clifford.= By Italian seas; il. by the author. **$2.50. Scribner.

“The interest of the book lies, of course, in the pictures rather than
the text, altho the latter satisfactorily fills its function of
supplying a running descriptive commentary enlivened by picturesque
anecdotes and observations of peasant life on all sides of the
Mediterranean. For the author fortunately interprets his title,
liberally, and includes not only the overwritten Riviera, but
Dalmatia, Malta and Tunis, which are still pervaded by Italian
influences.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“Pleasant and informing book.” Wallace Rice.

+ =Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

“The sketches of the Austrian coast of the Adriatic are especially
interesting, for strangely enough, it is rarely visited by the
tourist. But the numerous pen drawings and half tones of this
handsomely printed book will do something toward removing this
ignorance, for after we have read it and looked at the pictures we
shall know more about it than many who have been there.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1290. N. 20, ’06. 170w.

“Mr. Peixotto’s style is always clear, picturesque and mellow, and
often poetic, and he draws his word-pictures with the same dexterous
touch with which he sketches his pen-and-ink pictures of church
spires, tall cypresses, or ruined monasteries.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 512. D. 13, ’06. 450w.

“In publishing another edition of Mr. Peixotto’s book a few misspelt
Italian and French words should be corrected, but in the present
edition one hardly notices these rare errors in the enjoyment of the
author’s straightforward, wholesome style whether he gives us a
word-picture or an etching.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 130w.

“The book is really good reading, a capital record of travel for the
stay-at-home, observant of the picturesque, appreciative of historical
associations as of artistic beauties, and as for the illustrations,
Mr. Peixotto long since passed the stage in his career where praise of
his work was necessary.”

+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 379. D. ’06. 180w.

“Mr. Peixotto’s descriptions of his wanderings through Italy and
across the Adriatic have the fascination of a novel.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 50w.

=Pemberton, Max.= My sword for Lafayette; being the story of a great friendship; and of certain episodes in the wars waged for liberty, both in France and America, by one who took no mean part therein. †$1.50. Dodd.

Zaida Kay is a young American who after the battle of Yorktown follows
Lafayette to France. “There is mutiny on the high seas; there is a
miraculous escape; there is an idyllic sojourn in a quaint little
village on the coast of England, and a romantic marriage with a young
French girl in hiding there from enemies at home.” (N. Y. Times.) And
before a return to America is accomplished the two are led thru a maze
of happenings precipitated by Frenchmen fighting for liberty.

* * * * *

“The author has a certain facility of invention, but his style is
without flexibility, and his figures are rarely anything more than
puppets.” Wm. M. Payne.

– + =Dial.= 41: 37. Jl. 16, ’06. 100w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 271. Ap. 28, ’06. 260w.

“For the most part the episodes are trite, and without exception the
characters are lifeless puppets. But it is perhaps in dialogue that
Mr. Pemberton fails most signally.”

– =Sat. R.= 101: 561. My. 5, ’06. 230w.

=Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell).= Charles Godfrey Leland: a biography. 2v. **$5. Houghton.

“All who knew Charles Godfrey Leland knew that the man was stronger
than his work. It is this man that Mrs. Pennell draws for us. From her
pages radiates a personality that refreshes and rejoices, a vitality
that heartens, and invigorates the reader. Not but that the
biographer, proud of her brilliant uncle, does her best to give some
account of what he achieved. And here she serves him truly.... The
biography is mainly the work of Leland’s own pen. It consists almost
entirely in transcripts from his memoranda, notes, and other papers,
and of letters written to his family and to celebrities, American and
English, with some of their replies. Mrs. Pennell furnishes the
necessary links, transitions, and explanations, drawing upon her
knowledge of the man and his ways, acquired during the period of her
intimate companionship with him.... The illustrations consist of two
frontispiece portraits of ‘the Rye,’ and facsimile reproductions of
letters written to him by Lowell, Holmes, Tennyson, Browning,
Bulwer-Lytton and many others.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“She has done ample justice to the fine traits in her uncle’s
character, and has produced a biography which will be read with
pleasure by all to whom his talents and achievements were known.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 686. D. 1. 1410w.

=Current Literature.= 41: 648. D. ’06. 1220w.

“As a companion and supplement to the ‘Memoirs’ of 1839, it helps to
furnish a full-length portrait of an unusually interesting man.” Percy
F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 198. O. 1, ’06. 1850w.

“A life absorbed in interests of so romantic a nature cannot fail to
furnish a rich find to the biographer, and Mrs. Pennell has acquitted
herself admirably of the task.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20. ’06. 370w.

“Is one of the really important books of the kind that have appeared
this season.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 100w.

“This readable biography, permeated with the strong personality of its
subject has the shortcomings that Leland’s versatility made
practically avoidable.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 262. S. 27, ’06. 1430w.

“This and other failings of his, Mrs. Pennell does not see; it is
perhaps, not a part of her chosen task to see them. That she gives
great charm to her record goes without saying; and that her estimate
of her uncle as a person of importance is just, no reader will be
disposed to deny.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 625. O. 6, ’06. 1580w.

“If the tone is rather more admiring than would be the case if it were
not all in the family, is nevertheless an exceedingly readable book,
full of letters and anecdotes of real intrinsic interest.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

“The life and character of Charles Geoffrey Leland [are]
sympathetically interpreted by his niece.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 553. N. 3, ’06. 2430w.

“Mrs. Pennell has very cleverly contrived in this way to make her
brilliant uncle’s cheerful, enthusiastic personality pervade the book,
and to give, at the same time, his own valuation of the different
tasks to which his versatility applied itself during his long career.”

+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 390w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 140w.

+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 3. D. 8, ’06. 1960w.

=Pepper, Charles Melville.= Panama to Patagonia: the Isthmian canal and the west coast countries of South America. **$2.50. McClurg.

The author, a member of the Permanent pan-American railway committee,
dates his study from the year 1905. His lessons in physical and
commercial geography show that the geographical sphere of the canal
includes the Amazon basin, the Argentine wheat plains and the Andes
treasure box of mines from Panama to Patagonia. The author analyzes
the national tendencies, political history, governmental policies and
the unfolding of industrial life among the inhabitants. He urges
America to share in the opportunity which the canal enterprise has
created for contributing to the civilization that comes thru the
spread of commerce and industry.

* * * * *

“There are few matters treated in the volume which are of interest to
the ordinary traveller or reader.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 364. S. 29. 590w.

“The book is timely, well written, and copiously equipped with maps
and illustrations.”

+ + =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 200w.

“The book before us will be of value to every American who would keep
in touch with our own commercial development; nor less does it deserve
a place in the alcove devoted to books of travel.” Thomas H. MacBride.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 322. My. 16, ’06. 1160w.

“The book is a useful one for its descriptions of the countries and
people which we ought to know much more about than we do and for the
trade and industrial facts and figures it contains.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 875. Ap. 12, ’06. 250w.

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 327. S. 28, ’06. 730w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 291. My. 5, ’06. 270w.

“It embodies ... a serious and commendable effort to enlighten the
American public as a matter of National concern.” George R. Bishop.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 333. My. 26, ’06. 3900w.

+ =Outlook.= 83: 672. Jl. 21, ’06. 390w.

=Perez, Isaac Loeb.= Stories and pictures; tr. from the Yiddish by Helena Frank. $1.50. Jewish pub.

The translator makes note of the fact that fully to understand these
sketches one needs to know intimately the life of the Russian Jews who
figure here, and to be familiar with the love of the Talmud and the
Kabbalah which color their talk. These stories are “intensely Jewish”
but are told in the spirit of the author’s broad views and wide
sympathies.

* * * * *

“The author possesses the master-power which enables him to impart to
commonplace and even sordid happenings that deep human interest which
lifts his work above the plane of mediocrity to that of genius.” Amy
C. Rich.

+ + =Arena.= 36: 684. D. ’06. 180w.

“Ought to be of interest to any one, regardless of creed, to whom a
sympathetic study in human nature is always precious.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 657. O. 6, ’06. 330w.

“They are short in form, depending in the main upon a dramatic
perception of character, having no narrative interest, or very little.
The various difficulties confronting the translator have not been
entirely overcome; but to reproduce a local dialect is almost as
impossible as to reproduce the subtle qualities of style.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 432. O. 20, ’06. 190w.

=Perkins, Mrs. Lucy (Fitch).= Goose girl: a mother’s lap book of rhymes and pictures. †$1.25. McClurg.

A book of verse and pictures for little people.

* * * * *

“The simple little rhymes are quaint and pleasing, and the full page
and smaller pictures, in black and white, are done with cleverness and
charm.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 60w.

“A folio volume with a ‘stunning’ cover, and with rhymes and pictures
above the average in effectiveness and genuine wit.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 766. D. ’06. 40w.

=Perrigo, Charles Oscar Eugene.= Machine shop construction, equipment and management. $5. Henley.

The author “attempts in this book to give a comprehensive didactic
treatment of this subject. There are two main divisions of this
subject which should be kept distinct; they discuss (1) The plant, or
the producing implement, and (2) Operation, or the handling of this
implement. They are just as separate and independent as are
construction and operation in the case of railways: though
inter-related at many points, they are the concern of different
classes of men, based on wholly different sets of principles, and have
to meet quite different conditions.” (Engin. N.)

* * * * *

“The work has much interest as a record, even though far from thorough
or comprehensive, of the methods and object of laying out a machine
shop and controlling its operation.”

+ =Engin. N.= 55: 194. F. 15, ’06. 1340W.

=Perry, Bliss.= Walt Whitman: his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.

“Confronted by a figure looming eccentrically large in its
environment, as persistently and perversely suggestive of the
picturesque as that of Carlyle, and equally rich in opportunities for
misinterpretation, the author has set himself to depict it with much
the thoroughness and anatomical accuracy shown by the old Dutch
masters in the great period of Dutch painting.” (N. Y. Times.) “Mr.
Perry’s work is modest in compass, but shows throughout that he has
studied the documents with care and patience.... In general the
narrative portions are well told and properly balanced.... Much the
most important sections of the book deal with sources and here Mr.
Perry has a field almost entirely his own.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

+ =Atlan.= 98: 853. D. ’06. 1530w.

=Current Literature.= 41: 640. D. ’06. 950w.

“Mr. Perry’s critical judgment is calm, sane and discriminating. His
attitude is friendly always, at times enthusiastic, although never
that of an enthusiast: he never slips his moorings, critically.” W. E.
Simonds.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 317. N. 16. ’06. 2060w.

“It is unusually well written. The materials for anything like a
satisfactory estimate are wanting.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 1231. N. 22. ’06. 660w.

“Altogether the volume will probably take its place as the sane and
authoritative life of Whitman for many years to come.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 306. O. 11, ’06. 1210w.

“His book throughout is a striking instance of the value of poise. No
significant details are slurred over, no difficult passages are
omitted, no grotesque features are softened, no preliminary effort has
been considered superfluous, respect for ‘nature as she is’ reigns in
the picture: yet the work complete is saved from any suspicion of the
meticulous by a fusing glow of imaginative insight.” Elisabeth Luther
Cary.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 717. N. 3, ’06. 1850w.

“Shunning partisanship as well as prejudice, Prof. Perry has been
inclined to present a psychological rather than a material biography.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. ’06. 200w.

“Mr. Perry has made the first successful attempt to bring within a
book of moderate compass a complete biography and critical study of
that unique personage in American literature, Walt Whitman.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 758. D. ’06. 110w.

=Perry, John G.= Letters from a surgeon of the civil war; comp. by Martha Derby Perry; il. from photographs. **$1.75. Little.

Mrs. Perry has brought together her husband’s letters written during
1862–64 while he was serving as surgeon with the Twentieth
Massachusetts volunteers. “His brief and modest letters, supplemented
by a few editorial insertions, tell a story of hardship and danger,
especially in the Wilderness campaign and before Petersburgh, that
easily might have tempted another to essay a more ambitious style.”
(Dial.)

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 41: 71. Ag. 1, ’06. 310w.

=Nation.= 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 50w.

“A new volume of considerable interest and some historical value.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 557. S. 8. ’06. 670w.

=Perry, Ralph Barton.= Approach to philosophy. **$1.50. Scribner.

To make the reader “more solicitously aware of the philosophy that is
in him, or to provoke him to philosophy in his own interests” is the
author’s aim in the present work. In the first part of the work the
author establishes his approach to philosophy thru practical life,
poetry, religion and science; the second part furnishes “‘the reader
with a map of the country to which he has been led,’ to provide ‘a
brief survey of the entire programme of philosophy.’” The third part
“emphasizes the point of view, or the internal consistency that makes
a system of philosophy out of certain answers to the special problems
of philosophy.” (Philos. R.)

* * * * *

“Dr. Perry has compressed a wonderful amount of information into a
short space. Nevertheless we are sorry for the beginner who approaches
philosophy by way of such a wilderness of -isms.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 169. F. 10. 440w.

“One closes the book with the conviction of having enjoyed and
profited by a gracefully written, a skillfully planned, and
well-sustained discussion of the vital relationship of philosophy to
practical interests, its inevitableness, its characteristic problems,
and its representative systems. The non-technical will doubtless find
this approach well designed to lead to intimacy.” Albert Lefevre.

+ =Philos. R.= 15: 204. Mr. ’06. 1810w.

“Dr Perry possesses the power of writing English that is lucid and
distinguished—a rare gift in a philosopher—and this fact, combined
with an extremely wide range of reading, enables him to display the
historic field of philosophy in a manner that, so far as we are aware,
has no precedent other than the famous work of Dean Mansel. This
admirable work should be in the hands of every thinker.”

+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 1012. Je. 30, ’06. 760w.

=Perry, Thomas Sergeant.= John Fiske. **75c. Small.

A late “Beacon biography” which presents the life of this worthy
historian in summary form, comprehensively viewing the man’s life and
labors, “and because the theme was a man of letters rather than
affairs, the qualities of an extended essay are more conspicuous than
those of biographical narrative.” (Atlan.)

* * * * *

“This brief biography cannot be commended for accuracy, abundance of
information, discriminating judgment, or literary merit.” F. G. D.

– – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 717. Ap. ’06. 170w.

“One feels in the spirit and outlook which form the background of the
little book the peculiar qualifications of Mr. Perry for undertaking
what he has performed so well.”

+ + =Atlan.= 97: 117. Ja. ’06. 360w.

“One turns from it with the feeling that the picture is drawn in bold,
strong lines, regretting only that fuller detail was not attempted.”

+ + =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 250w.

=Ind.= 60: 1548. Je. 28, ’06. 60w.

“Is one of the best, if not the best in the series.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 897. D. 16, ’05. 150w.

“This little biographical essay would make an excellent preface to the
collected works of John Fiske. There is a great deal in it.”
Montgomery Schuyler.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 77. F. 10. ’06. 840w.

“He is, indeed inclined to be over-eulogistic, and his portrayal
suffers from awkward phraseology. But in spite of this he contrives to
convey a good idea of Mr. Fiske both as man and as writer.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 220w.

“A very excellent biography of John Fiske.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 60w.

=Peters, Madison Clinton.= Jews in America: a short story of their part in the building of the republic; commemorating the 250th anniversary of their settlement. $1. Winston.

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 477. Ja. ’06. 40w.

“The results are so interesting that one cannot but wish that the work
had been more thoroughly done.” Frederic Austin Ogg.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 260. Ap. 16, ’06. 1590w.

=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= History of Egypt from the XIXth to the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.

“It is rather a series of citations from original sources than a
history in the modern sense of the term.”

+ + – =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.

“May be said to be almost a model of a presentative history as
distinguished from a philosophical one.” L. H. Gray.

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 358. D. ’05. 350w.

“It is not history in the popular sense of that term, but it is rather
a chronological arrangement of the materials out of which a running
narrative could be constructed. As a compendium, it is invaluable to
the scholar.” Ira Maurice Price.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 16. Jl. 1, ’06. 260w.

“He has made a book for students and for specialists, a book which
enables us to say that the best and most inclusive history of Egypt is
in English; but it is not one that can be read with ease or possesses
literary merit.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 104. F. 1, ’06. 610w.

=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= Researches in Sinai. **$6. Dutton.

Dr. Petrie’s researches in the desert region to which Sinai belongs
offer large returns to the student of archaeology. “On the way he
picked up a few unconsidered trifles in the way of ancient remains;
but his main work lay at Maghareh, where the turquois had been mined,
and at neighboring Serabít, where was erected the temple to Hathor,
the Lady of the Turquois. This temple Mr. Petrie’s party planned and
excavated, with the results that, considering the remoteness of the
region from Nilotic civilization and the frequency with which the spot
has been researched, are truly amazing.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 957. Jl. ’06. 60w.

“Its ingredients are excellent, stamped with the hall-mark of the
author’s original and independent mind. We only sigh for a little more
art in the concoction of them, a little more sense of the difference
between a book and the rough notes for several books.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 231. Je. 29, ’06. 1250w.

=Nation.= 83: 168. Ag. 23, ’06. 1620w.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 440. Jl. 7, ’06. 870w.

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 816. Ag. 4, ’06. 660w.

+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 81. Jl. 21, ’06. 1640w.

+ + =Spec.= 96: 986. Je. 23, ’06. 1580w.

=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Christian origins. *$1.75. Huebsch.

This book has grown out of a series of lectures delivered by the
author at the University of Berlin, during the past winter. The
viewpoint from which he treats the origin of Christianity is
historical, and a complete interpretation of the meaning of his method
with its relation to other methods is furnished in the introduction.
The two main divisions of his study are Preparation and foundation of
Christianity, and The evolution of early Christianity into the church.

* * * * *

“This volume is in our judgment the most important religious work that
has appeared during the past year.”

+ + + =Arena.= 36: 97. Jl. ’06. 3100w.

“Brilliant though it is, needs to be corrected and restrained in its
most important positions before it can be taken as a scientifically
reliable narrative of the origins of the Christian faith.”

+ – =Cath. World.= 83: 554. Jl. ’06. 680w.

“The work is condensed and devoid of technicalities, and has been
rendered into excellent English.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 323. My. 16, ’06. 980w.

=Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 50w.

“The work of this great scholar will be widely accepted as conclusive.
It presents a serious challenge to the Church. To answer it
effectively will require, besides equal genius, preparedness to make
some concessions.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 856. Ap. 14, ’06. 380w.

=Phelps, Albert.= Louisiana; a record of expansion. *$1.10. Houghton.

“The book as a whole, shows careful study of the sources, and its
accuracy is commendable. There are, however, some errors, due partly
to a failure to examine recently discovered documents and partly to
other causes.” John R. Ficklen.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 408. Ja. ’06. 980w.

“The volume is among the most scholarly of the extensive literature
called forth by the recent centennial anniversary of the acquisition
of this vast territory.”

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 532. Ja. ’06. 140w.

“The work bears the stamp of originality, not that it offers any fresh
facts to the student, but rather because of the appreciations which it
gives of many events and movements.”

+ =Cath. World.= 82: 119. Ap. ’06. 140w.

“The account of the Reconstruction, though brief, is the first
satisfactory treatment of that tumultuous epoch in Louisiana history.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 157. Mr. 1, ’06. 470w.

“In accurate scholarship and depth of research it ranks well also, but
the last third of the book,—concerning the Civil war, its cause and
results—is unfortunately written in a controversial vein with strong
Southern sympathies.”

+ + – =Ind.= 60: 630. Mr. 15, ’06. 440w.

“A narrative exhibiting unity and coherence, and dealing with large
events in a large way. One of the best of the ‘Commonwealths’
histories.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 560w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 60w.

=Phelps, Idelle.= Your health. **75c. Jacobs.

The colored drawings by Helen Alden Knipe which illustrate this little
volume of toasts add much to its attractions. The toasts themselves
are not wholly new but cover a broad field extending from “the world”
to “babies,” and from “the Garden of Eden” to “a bird, a bottle and an
open-work stocking.”

* * * * *

“Something of the champagne flavor belongs to the collection of
toasts.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 40w.

=Philippi, Adolf.= Florence; tr. from the German by P. G. Konody. *$1.50. Scribner.

“This is an excellent compendium of the art and, on the whole, of the
history of Florence. Misprints are, unfortunately, rather numerous.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 100: 851. D. 30, ’05. 520w.

=Phillipps, L. March.= In the desert. $4.20. Longmans.

“This interesting volume is a triumph of impressions.” (Ath.) “It is
concerned with two unrelated topics; the French scheme of colonization
in Algiers, and the influence of the Sahara desert on Arab life,
architecture, religion, poetry, and philosophy.... In his thesis that
the Arab character is the outcome of the influence of the desert, Mr.
Phillipps gives us a sketch of the effect of the desert life on
himself, and applies his experience to that of the Arab.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“A vivid, plausible, and spirited piece of word-painting, which may
safely be commended to all save the real student and the practised
traveller in Africa.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 133. F. 3. 480w.

“The author has made an entertaining contribution to our knowledge of
Arab life and art.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 40: 233. Ap. 1, ’06. 470w.

“Would that Mr. Phillipps had never thought it his mission to simplify
history! That omitted, he had written a very charming book.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 368. N. 3, ’05. 1110w.

“The book is interesting and suggestive, though the style is at times
somewhat discursive and it is a little difficult to follow the
author’s train of thought.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 449. My. 31, ’06. 290w.

=Phillips, David Graham.= Deluge. †$1.50. Bobbs.

“It must rank as a conservative under-statement of conditions as they
are now known to exist. As a romance this novel compares favorably
with ‘The cost’ in human and love interest while as a section taken
from present-day public life it is equal to ‘The plum-tree.’”

+ + + =Arena.= 35: 97. Ja. ’06. 2690w.

“His strongest piece of work up to the present time.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 372. D. ’05. 520w.

=Phillips, David Graham.= Fortune hunter; il. by E. M. Ashe. †$1.25. Bobbs.

The fortune hunter of the title of Mr. Phillips’ latest story is an
actor who spends his days in making love to girls of wealthy parents.
In ever choosing, in going out of his way, in fact, for the course of
least resistance he comes to well deserved grief. And the hearts that
are broken do mend.

* * * * *

“The story ... has little plot, but is deeply interesting from cover
to cover; and the closing half of the volume is especially admirable.”

+ – =Arena.= 36: 220. Ag. ’06. 380w.

“Mr. Phillips tantalizes us with the richness of his material and
provokes us by the comparatively meagre use that he has made of it.”
H. T. P.

+ – =Bookm.= 24: 179. O. ’06. 380w.

“Rather clever is this sketch of this type of social nuisance.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 130w.

“The author of ‘The fortune hunter’ has added too much realism to his
romantic compound.”

– =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 80w.

“Is but a slight tale, and one rather grudges its author’s very real
powers to such ephemeral productions as are coming from his pen.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 520w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 60w.

=Phillips, David Graham.= Plum tree. †$1.50. Bobbs.

“Story, in a sense, there is none; style, in a literary sense, there
is none; merely a serviceable prose, straightforward and energetic.”
Mary Moss.

+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 44. Ja. ’06. 470w.

=Phillips, David Graham.= Social secretary. †$1.50. Bobbs.

“An entertaining, breezy story.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 140w.

=Phillips, Henry Wallace.= Mr. Scraggs: introduced by “Red Saunders.” †$1.25. Grafton press.

Ezekiel George Washington Scraggs is introduced by his friend Red
Saunders. The incidents in his strenuous matrimonial career—eighteen
marriages all told—are recounted with a humor that “has a suggestion
of the slapstick, but like the slapstick it never fails to get a hand,
and mixed with it now and then a little genuine wit and more than a
little shrewd, practical frontier wisdom.” (Pub. Opin.)

* * * * *

“The stories are by no means dull and if they were not so obviously
intended to be funny, if our smiles were not literally held up and
challenged on every page, they could be read with real enjoyment.”
Mary K. Ford.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 197. Ap. ’06. 520w.

“There are seven stories in the book, and it would be hard to decide
which is the funniest. The tales are not nearly as funny as the man
who tells them, and his way of telling them.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 62. F. 3, ’06. 740w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.

“It cannot be denied that the travesty is lively and entertaining in a
high degree.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 375. F. 17. ’06. 90w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 220w.

=Phillips, Stephen.= Nero. **$1.25. Macmillan.

In this latest play of Mr. Phillips “the world is a picture, not a
stage, and all the men and women not players, but talkers.” (Lond.
Times.) “It is a play, because it shows a will conflict—the struggle
between Nero and Agrippina, between natural affection and lust for
power—but it is even more a spectacle, illustrating polychromatically
the successive stages of Nero’s madness. It has fine poetic
passages—appropriately ‘purple’—as we shall see; it has vivid studies
of bed-rock character and fierce elemental passions. It blends the
fragrance of rose-leaves with the scent of blood. It sates the eye
with splendid pictures and the ear with voluptuous music of both verse
and orchestra. At the end of it all one gasps and is a little dizzy,
in short, it is a tremendous production.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“It is to be feared that Mr. Stephen Phillips will add little to his
reputation by the latest of his dramatic poems.”

– =Acad.= 70: 223. Mr. 10, ’06. 720w.

“The action of the play does little but show us the different phases
of character, but that it does with ingenuity and sufficiency.” Edward
Everett Hale.

+ =Bookm.= 23: 291. My. ’06. 640w.

“It is a poor descent of the talents, from which one can only wish the
author a speedy return upon himself to the promise of six years ago.”
Arthur Waugh.

– =Critic.= 49: 20. Jl. ’06. 1050w.

“Artifice and rhetoric seem to be the chief ingredients of the work.
The decline from ‘Paolo and Francesca,’ and ‘Ulysses’ is
discouragingly marked.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 326. My. 16, ’06. 360w.

“It contains a number of fine passages. But as a vision of life in
action, it is feeble and ineffective. And the failing is not merely
executive, it is fundamental; the piece is not conceived dramatically,
but pictorially and emotionally.”

– + =Ind.= 61: 520. Ag. 30, ’06. 200w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1164. N. 15, ’06. 50w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 439. Mr. 24. ’06. 1440w.

“The defect of ‘Nero’ is the defect of all its author’s plays.
Throughout it we are on the surface of things, never inside them.”

– =Lond. Times.= 5: 72. Mr. 2, ’06. 1260w.

“It proves him more conclusively than his previous plays did a
talented writer of elegiac verse, and expert composer of cycloramic
spectacle, who thinks habitually rather in terms of poetic phrase
than, as has been the way of the true dramatist, in terms of
character, of concerted situation, of human destiny as it is shaped
from the clashing, fatal actions of men.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 710w.

“‘Nero.’ one judges, will not add to the author’s claims as a
regenerator of the contemporary English-speaking stage. But it will
not deprive him of his laurels as one of the very few contemporary
English-writing poets.” Montgomery Schuyler.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 173. Mr. 24. ’06. 1360w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16. ’06. 110w.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ + – =North American.= 182: 749. My. ’06. 300w.

“The whole play has the air of being written for the stage with the
effect of the stage accompaniments always before the writer’s mind.
The versification has the grave fault of a lack of organic strength.”

+ – =Spec.= 96: 426. Mr. 17, ’06. 270w.

=Phillips, Stephen.= Sin of David. **$1.25. Macmillan.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ – =North American.= 182: 749. My. ’06. 310w.

=Phillips, Thomas W.= Church of Christ, by a layman. *$1. Funk.

“The writer has little conception of the inwardness of religion, or
the historic continuity and development of Judaism and Christianity.
The book ‘fails to convince’ largely because the real issues are not
touched.” Elbert Russell.

– =Bib. World.= 28: 77. Jl. ’06. 170w.

“The volume is well worth reading, though based, as we believe on
exaggerated views of the evils of denominationalism, and of failure to
appreciate the importance of the philosophical and systematic
presentation of the underlying principles of the gospel plan of
salvation.”

+ – =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 192. Ja. ’06. 220w.

=Phillpotts, Eden.= Knock at a venture. †$1.50. Macmillan.

Reviewed by Mary Moss.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 100w.

+ =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 170w.

+ =Ind.= 59: 1348. D. 7, ’05. 170w.

=Phillpotts, Eden.= Portreeve. †$1.50. Macmillan.