Chapter XXXVIII: Part 3: , The decadence of Venice. The author is the leading historical (5)

“Mr. Phillpotts has placed the spirit of the Greek Fate in the breast
of the daughter of a Dartmoor farmer. Because the man whom she has
tricked into making a half-proposal of marriage to her, married the
woman he loved, she pursues him through life inexorably and without
mercy, finally working his death.” (Pub. Opin.) “Fiendish pertinacity,
fiendish coolness, fiendish ingenuity are hers. She is miasmatic ice
with a heart of malignant fire. She gives her victim law; he climbs;
she strikes ... leaving him once again a little further from his ideal
and from happiness. Finally, all but robbed of his livelihood, robbed
of his hopes of children, robbed of the simple faith of God that was
his dearest possession, he breaks. A raving lunatic, he all but
murders the woman’s foolish husband, and dies a horrible death in an
attempt to murder the woman herself.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“When all is said, this is a powerful, almost a great book. A full,
wise and glowing piece of work.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 139. F. 10, ’06. 860w.

“‘The portreeve’ is full of interesting material. But the composition
seems to be sometimes at the sacrifice of verisimilitude.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 194. F. 17. 430w.

“It lacks the grim tensity of ‘The secret woman,’ the lyric enthusiasm
of ‘Children of the mist;’ but on the other hand, it has a more even
strength, a greater dignity that comes from reserve force.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 283. My. ’06. 760w.

“One lays down ‘The portreeve’ in astonishment at the inventiveness
and ability that can use the same scenes and the same class of people
so often, yet with increasing interest.” Charlotte Harwood.

+ =Critic.= 48: 433. My. ’06. 380w.

“Mr. Phillpotts comes nearer than anyone else to being the legitimate
successor of Mr. Hardy as a rustic realist, and he has a considerable
measure of the imaginative power which can invest a simple passionate
complication with the severe attributes of high tragedy.” Wm. M.
Payne.

+ =Dial.= 40: 364. Je. 1, ’06. 210w.

Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.

– =Ind.= 60: 1041. My. 3, ’06. 340w.

“A turgid dark tale ending in madness and death.”

– =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 80w.

“For all the strain it may put upon our belief, has in it much of its
author’s sense of natural beauty and fine sense of sincerity of
purpose, and a sympathy with the poor and the oppressed that is not
exceeded by any living novelist.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 45. F. 9, ’06. 580w.

“‘The portreeve,’ far nearer the Hardy level than he has ever reached
before, is undoubtedly the best work Mr. Phillpotts has done so far.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 192. Mr. 31, ’06. 1160w.

“Mr. Phillpotts has never sketched the loveliness and majesty of the
Dartmoor country with a surer hand. The motive is one of the most
repellent within reach of the novelist, and is worked out with
unsparing boldness.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 756. Mr. 31, ’06. 230w.

“It is a grim, hopeless tragedy woven out of the hard lives and plain,
simple speech of the Dartmoor people.”

+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 390w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 130w.

=Phillpotts, Eden.= Secret woman. $1.50. Macmillan.

“A striking example of fine character-drawing revealed through a
highly trying medium.” Mary Moss.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 34. Ja. ’06. 240w.

=Phin, John.= Seven follies of science: a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them, to which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions, and marvels. *$1.25. Van Nostrand.

The seven follies discussed are squaring the circle, the duplication
of the cube, the trisection of an angle, perpetual motion, the
transmutation of metals—alchemy, the fixation of mercury, the
universal medicine and the elixir of life.

* * * * *

+ =Engin. N.= 55: 677. Je. 14, ’06. 220w.

=Ind.= 60: 988. Ap. 26, ’06. 120w.

“He writes for the man in the street, and we can give no higher praise
than to say that the man in the street will understand him.” J. P.

+ + =Nature.= 75: 25. N. 8, ’06. 1110w.

=Outlook.= 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 50w.

“An absorbingly interesting discussion of a subject of no particular
value.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 60w.

“His book is a very agreeable excursion into a forgotten but curious
field of enquiry.”

+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 470w.

=Phythian, J. Ernest.= Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood; a short biographical sketch by the author, and 56 full-page reproductions in hf.-tone and a photogravure front. *$1.25. Warne.

The latest issue in the “Newnes’ art library” “deals in a large way
with the group of men among whom Dante Gabriel Rossetti made so
distinct a name. The author covers his ground by chronicling the
history of the movement with little or no personal comment.” (Critic.)

* * * * *

“Writes with a sober accuracy.” Ford Madox Hueffer.

+ =Acad.= 69: 1296. D. 9, ’05. 110w.

=Critic.= 48: 377. Ap. ’06. 60w.

=Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 90w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 245. Ap. 14, ’06. 330w.

=Pickthall, Marmaduke.= House of Islam. †$1.50. Appleton.

“An imaginative picture of the curious Mohammedan world on the fringe
of the Sultan’s domain.... The benighted, barbaric, yet intensely
human, house of Islam.... Mr. Pickthall’s plan has been to set a
saintly, almost Biblical Sheykh in the midst of ambitious men, relying
upon the vividness of this presentation and the conflict of character
for the interest of his work. Plot there is, but it is unsymmetrical,
unimportant. The important thing is that all the machinery of the East
is set in motion and for a while the reader is transported to the
desert and the mosque, to the wineshop and the bazar.”—Lond. Times.

* * * * *

“Mr. Pickthall rouses our interest and respect; he is as yet without
that last touch of inspiration, which rouses enthusiastic conviction.”

+ – =Acad.= 71: 311. S. 29, ’06. 220w.

“Our only objections are that Mr. Pickthall is at times too resolutely
Oriental for the ordinary reader to follow him easily, and that he
would gain occasionally by straightforward narrative where facts are
conveyed by brief allusion only.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 297. S. 15. 720w.

“He has failed to breathe into his characters the breath of life.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 130w.

“‘Saïd the fisherman,’ it is true remains his masterpiece, but ‘The
house of Islam’ has very great merits.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 290w.

“The geography, architecture, and figures are in admirable proportion:
the characters stand out and live; the style is swift, pictorial, and
amiably cynical, fitting its theme.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 300w.

“The strength of the book lies not so much in the story—although it is
an extremely human one—but in the struggles and bloodshed of religious
strife, the superstitions of the various sects, and the author’s
delicate brush upon these things and upon picturesque Asia.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 530w.

“The author has excellent command of his subject, but he writes with
little consideration for his hearers, never appealing to their
experience with that instinctive sympathy which helps to bring home to
them the episodes of so foreign a narrative. As a result the
characters are peculiarly remote, and the story is difficult to
follow; although a series of admirable pictures impresses itself upon
the mind.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 80w.

+ =Spec.= 97: 891. D. 1, ’06. 730w.

=Pidgin, Charles Felton.= Corsican lovers; a story of the vendetta. $1.50. Dodge.

A Corsican vendetta forms the basis of this adventurous tale in which
the fate of many people and two large estates, one Corsican and one
English, are involved. The heroine, Vivienne Batistilli wipes out the
vendetta by marrying her family’s enemy, Bertha Renville, the heiress,
marries the friend of her guardian’s son, and by this arrangement the
good and bad receive their just deserts; but there are many wild
adventures before all this is safely brought about, and there are many
interesting characters involved, perhaps the most truly Corsican being
Cromillian, the moral bandit.

* * * * *

“Is amusing (in its way).”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 199. Mr. 31, ’06. 300w.

=Pidgin, Charles Felton.= Sarah Bernhardt Brown and what she did in a country town. $1.50. Waters.

The heroine of Mr. Pidgin’s new story is a poor girl of obscure family
who achieves by sure and steady progress the lady bountiful plane.
There are arrayed in the background no less than well to the fore a
variety of characters drawn from rural New Hampshire. The plot itself,
which travels from Dolby City, Montana, to Snickersville, New
Hampshire, must of necessity lose force in transit. The story may be
called a companion volume to “Quincy Adams Sawyer.”

* * * * *

“If Mr. Pidgin’s humor is very primitive his supply of talk and
narrative (such as it is) is apparently limitless.”

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w.

“Combines a rather sensational plot with somewhat too extended and
thinly drawn out descriptions of country character and rustic pranks.”

– =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 80w.

=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Ancient grudge. †$1.50. Houghton.

“While lacking the swing and vitality to animate large issues, he
possesses, perhaps unknown to himself, a fine personal gift. This is a
delicate sensitiveness to the feelings of very young people.” Mary
Moss.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 110w.

“It is a pleasure, occasionally, to take up a book written with the
ability, the intelligent sympathy, the serious purpose that stamp the
new volume by Arthur Stanwood Pier.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 495. Ja. ’06. 380w.

“The book is an honest piece of work which one is the better for
having read.”

+ =Reader.= 71: 453. Mr. ’06. 220w.

=Pierce, Rev. Charles Campbell.= Hunger of the heart for faith, and other sermons. *$1. Young ch.

A series of sermons delivered at the Cathedral open-air services in
Washington, D. C. There is an introduction by Bishop Satterlee.

=Pierce, James O.= Studies in constitutional history. *$1.50. Wilson, H. W.

Beginning with the spirit of ’76, these studies treat of American
constitutional history in a clear concise manner which will appeal to
both the student and the man of affairs. Such subjects as The United
States a nation from the Declaration of independence, The beginnings
of American institutions, The ethics of secession, The American and
French revolutions compared, The beneficiaries of the federal
constitution, Slavery in its constitutional relations, A century of
the American constitution, Our unwritten constitution, America’s
leadership, The American empire, Righteousness exalteth a nation, and
America’s place in history are treated in the light of eighteen years
of active lecture work upon kindred subjects.

* * * * *

“The lectures or addresses are pitched in a somewhat exalted key, and
are calculated to stimulate patriotism and extol the progress of
America. Judge Pierce has not always been careful in the use of
authorities. On the whole we must conclude that the volume has no
peculiar interest and makes no special appeal to the specialist, the
student, or the general reader. The reviews and addresses on the whole
well adapted for their purpose, do not make an indispensable volume
for the library.”

+ – – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 172. O. ’06. 480w.

“A series of studies of value to the careful delver into the facts of
American constitutional history is to be found in Mr. Pierce’s book.
It is typical of the lawyer mind that created it. Cautious,
conservative, and never going beyond the evidence, but here and there
is very suggestive.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 257. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.

“We do not always agree with the views expressed, and occasionally we
feel that where the views are sound (as they usually are) Mr. Pierce
has failed to support them by the strongest arguments. But on the
whole, there is remarkably little to criticise in his pages which
convey in small compass a large amount of information useful alike to
the student of constitutional history and the general reader anxious
to improve his acquaintance with the circumstances attending the
political, social, intellectual, and religious growth of the United
States.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 200w.

=Pierson, Arthur Tappan.= Bible and spiritual criticism; being the second series of the Exeter Hall lectures on the Bible delivered in London, England, February, March, and April, 1904. **$1. Baker.

A companion volume to “God’s living oracles.” There are twelve
lectures treating spiritual faculties, methods, organism, structure,
progress, symmetry, types, wisdom, verdicts and verities. They are a
defence of the inspiration and integrity of the Holy Scriptures—the
discussion of which theme is “a solemn business,” says the author.

* * * * *

“Under the blinding influence of a false theory of inspiration this
book presents a strange jumble of gold, silver, and precious stones
with wood, hay, and stubble.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 374. F. 17, ’06. 220w.

=Pierson, Delevan Leonard=, ed. Pacific Islanders: from savages to saints; chapters from the life stories of famous missionaries and native converts. **$1. Funk.

The taming and Christianizing of cannibal tribes make a record of
remarkable conquests for the churches. This narrative extols the
fearless initiative of missionaries in entering these fields and
arousing its people from a state of man-eating savagery. It records
the history of missionary work, the resources of the islands, and
future possibilities of the natives.

=Pigafetta, Antonio.= Magellan’s voyage around the world; the original text of the Ambrosian ms., with Eng. translation, notes, bibliography and index, by James Alexander Robertson; with portrait, and facsimiles of the original maps and plates. 2v. *$7.50. Clark, A. H.

An accurate transcription from the sixteenth-century Ambrosian
manuscript of Milan appears in these volumes with a page-for-page
translation into English. “Pigafetta is the best and fullest authority
for Magellan’s voyage which is here completely presented in English
for the first time.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 478. Ja. ’06. 80w.

“The most complete and accurate presentation of the Pigafetta
manuscript and the data appertaining to it that has ever been made in
any language. In the introduction and his excellent bibliography, Mr.
Robertson has brought together the most complete array of data on the
subject yet available.” James A. LeRoy.

+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 125. O. ’06. 880w.

=Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 751. N. ’05. 60w.

“A work of laborious and admirable scholarship which should prove of
interest both to professional students of history and ethnology and to
the curious reader of travellers’ tales.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 240w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 649. O. 6, ’06. 630w.

“We have nothing but praise for this interesting and learned work.”

+ + + =Spec.= 97: 400. S. 22, ’06. 1310w.

=Pigou, Arthur Cecil.= Principles and methods of industrial peace. *$1.10. Macmillan.

“Mr. Pigou has given us a study that will command admiration for the
closeness of his reasoning no less than for the power with which a
vast mass of material has been used.” C. J. Hamilton.

+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 247. Ja. ’06. 850w.

=Pittman, Captain Philip.= Present state of the European settlements on the Mississippi, with a geographical description of that river illustrated by plans and draughts; ed. by Frank H. Hodder. *$3. Clark, A. H.

An exact reprint of the original edition, London, 1770, with
facsimiles of the original maps and plans. An introduction, notes, and
index have been furnished by the editor, making the volume valuable to
historical students. “It is a comprehensive account of the Illinois
country and its inhabitants, with sketches in detail of the several
French posts and villages situated therein, as personally viewed by
him in 1766–67.... It contains, in a compact form, much useful and
reliable information (nowhere else to be found) concerning the
Mississippi valley and its people at that transition period.”

* * * * *

“The notes made for this edition while not voluminous are of decided
value.” Edwin E. Sparks.

– – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 150. O. ’06. 260w.

=Dial.= 39: 315. N. 16, ’05. 50w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 80w.

=Plantz, Samuel.= Church and the social problem: a study in applied Christianity. *$1.25. Meth. bk.

With the aim of assisting in bringing Christian ideals into the domain
of our social and industrial life, this discussion presents the
present situation of social reconstruction, considers whether the
church has a special mission to society as well as to the individual,
and brings forward some things the church can and ought to do in order
to meet the obligations which the problems of the hour impose upon
her.

=Plato.= Myths of Plato; text and translation; with introductory and other observations by J. A. Stewart. *$4.50. Macmillan.

“This book is likely to prove more stirring, and more lasting, in its
appeal, than many a piece of scholar’s work, no less learned, perhaps.
but with less of the whole man in it.” R. R. Marett.

+ =Hibbert J.= 3: 839. Jl. ’05. 1700w.

“The whole book is certainly full of suggestion: even if we must
add—as I think we must—that the view of Plato’s attitude here taken is
a little unhistorical, and that the metaphysical doctrines here
suggested are a little crude.” J. S. Mackenzie.

+ + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 242. Ja. ’06. 1370w.

“A useful book. The translation is excellently executed in the
pseudo-archaic Biblical ‘Morte d’Arthur’ style, which is distasteful
to many critics, but which on the whole is better suited to the myths
than is the easy colloquialism of Jowett. It is substantially
correct.” Paul Shorey.

+ + – =J. Philos.= 3: 495. Ag. 30, ’06. 1790w.

+ – =Quarterly R.= 204: 68. Ja. ’06. 480w.

=Platt, Isaac Hull.= Bacon cryptograms in Shakespeare and other studies. **$1. Small.

The author says: “I wish distinctly to deny that what I am about to
present proves Bacon’s authorship of the plays. What I do claim, and I
think in reason, is that they seem to constitute grounds for a very
strong suspicion that he was in some manner concerned in their
production or associated with them.” “The book consists of eight more
or less connected papers, the most important of which are The Bacon
cryptograms in Love’s labour’s lost, which deals with the Latin of
Act. V., Scene I., The Bacon cryptograms in the Shakespeare quartos,
and The testimony of the first folio.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“Sundry old fooleries in the ‘cipher’ line, with a few new ones of the
same sort set forth in better typography than such stuff deserves.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 20w.

“The Shakespearians may breathe a sigh of relief, and resume their
immemorial repose. Mr. Platt, at any rate, cannot break their sleep.”
Charles H. A. Wager.

– – =Dial.= 40: 90. D. 1, ’06. 1230w.

=Plummer, Alfred.= English church history from the death of King Henry VII to the death of Archbishop Parker. *$1. Scribner.

“These lectures are not intended for experts, and, in the first
instance, were not intended for publication. They were written for
popular audiences in connection with the Exeter Diocesan church
reading society; and their object was, and is, to stimulate interest
in the fortunes of the Church of England at a very critical period of
its history.” “The main interest of Dr. Plummer’s lecture lies,
naturally, in their account of the fortunes of the Church of England
in the period under review, and it is as a succinct epitome of that
story that the little sketch is chiefly valuable, though the author’s
judgment of political events and the men of action in them is often
very happily expressed.” (Yale R.)

* * * * *

“We regret that he is so swayed by ecclesiastical prepossessions as to
descend to the arts of special pleader.” Eri B. Hulbert.

– =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 352. Ap. ’06. 340w.

“Many will dissent from Professor Plummer’s judgments, and regret the
scant courtesy shown to all opponents of the Establishment. But for
all that, he has given in these lectures a suggestive and
thorough-going treatment of the period under review.” J. F. Vichert.

+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 76. Jl. 28, ’06. 530w.

“He knows how to be severe to both sides when they deserve it, is
unfavorable in his estimation of Wolsey, and not too hard on Henry
VIII.”

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 86. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.

“A little volume of decided merit.” Williston Walker.

+ + =Yale R.= 15: 95. My. ’06. 490w.

=Plunkett, Sir Horace Curzon.= Ireland in the new century. *60c. Dutton.

“The appreciative student of social and economic problems will welcome
this very readable and inciting book.” J. Dorum.

+ + =Westminster R.= 164: 525. N. ’05. 3250w.

=Plympton, Almira George.= Old home day at Hazeltown. $1.25. Little.

The trials of Roxy, a brave hearted little maid, and her grandmother
who are looked upon as encumbrances in a cross daughter-in-law’s
household furnish the first part of this story. The second part tells
how Roxy’s long absent father returns during “old home day,” buys
grandmother’s old estate, and heaps coals of fire upon the head of the
relative who had grudgingly housed the two.

* * * * *

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 40w.

=Pocock, Roger.= Curly, a tale of the Arizona desert. †$1.50. Little.

“The fact that the story is told in a vivid and spirited manner and
that it is crowded with exciting and melodramatic incidents only makes
its potential influence for harm all the greater.”

– + =Arena.= 35: 111. Ja. ’06. 280w.

=Poincare (Jules) Henri.= Science and hypothesis: with a preface by J. Larmor. *$1.50. Science press.

“Professor Poincaré is one of the most brilliant and original thinkers
of our day.... And withal, being a Frenchman, he is able to write in a
vivacious style.... The secrets of the trade of the man of science
have never before been exposed so frankly. He shows how the progress
of science has been at times impeded by too much knowledge.... A false
hypothesis is often of more service than a true one, because it leads
to new discoveries.... And Professor Poincaré’s main object is to show
how hypotheses are useful and why they are justifiably held to have
more value and precision than the experiments which served to
demonstrate them.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“It is a book which ought to be much more widely read than it is
likely to be.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 458. Ag. 23, ’06. 340w.

“We really cannot recommend this translation. But every one who is
interested in these subjects should read M. Poincaré in the original.”

– + =Lond. Times.= 4: 233. Jl. 21, ’06. 1480w.

“There is certainly no one with the same intimate knowledge of
mathematical and physical science who could have written with the same
authority and produced a volume in which so much charm and originality
are condensed. The wealth of his store of illustration is boundless,
and the stringency of his logic leaves us without answer. Even in
cases where our instincts rebel, we are carried away by the
fascination of the language, which in each subdivision of the subject
takes us with dramatic power to its artistic dénouement. The English
translation errs, perhaps, on the side of following too literally
every sentence, and sometimes even every word in the sentence, of the
French original.” Arthur Schuster.

+ + – =Nature.= 73: 313. F. 1, ’06. 2260w.

“Certain defects in his equipment are, however, quite prominent. In
the first place, he lacks psychological training. M. Poincaré is
handicapped by the lack of a general logical theory upon which to base
his special logical investigations. Our author has no general theory
of knowledge; and he passes by the most obvious epistemological
considerations without so much as a nod of recognition. I fear that
the reader has been given but a slight notion of the exceeding
interest and suggestiveness of this work. If there is much that should
awaken caution, there is also a fund of wise and penetrating
observations. Those who are least attracted by the author’s
conclusions may well be repaid for the reading by the impressive
survey which he gives of the present state of mathematical and
physical science.” Theodore de Laguna.

+ – =Philos. R.= 15: 634. N. ’06. 3380w.

=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Henry VIII. *$2.60. Longmans.

The magnificent Goupil-Scribner edition of 1902 makes its
re-appearance in a modest two-volume reprint shorn of its glory and
portraits save for the frontispiece, Holbein’s chalk drawing of King
Henry.

* * * * *

“The new edition, which is neat, serviceable and well printed, will
enable the ordinary reader to make acquaintance with a most valuable
contribution to the historical study of a vexed time and a disputed
character.”

+ =Acad.= 09: 1111. O. 21, ’05. 70w.

“There can be no doubt that the present compact volume will prove far
more useful for purposes of historical study than its bulkier and far
more expensive predecessor. As far as the present reviewer is able to
discover the volume is entirely free from misprints and minor errors.”
Roger Bigelow Merriman.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 650. Ap. ’06. 680w.

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 506. O. 14. 60w.

“A model biography of its kind. It is well proportioned throughout,
and its literary style is excellent.” Edward Fuller.

+ + =Bookm.= 23: 288. My. ’06. 370w.

“Perhaps the strangest part of Professor Pollard’s work is his account
of the origin and progress of the movement that separated England from
Rome. It seems that the author’s view of Henry’s character as man and
monarch is entirely too favorable.” Laurence M. Larson.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 291. My. 1, ’06. 1590w.

“For the use of the student the present form is decidedly preferable,
and it does better justice to the author himself, as we know now
exactly the evidences on which each particular statement rests. The
book certainly is the result of great industry and very high ability.”
James Gairdner.

+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 155. Ja. ’06. 1660w.

+ – =Ind.= 60: 800. Ap. 5, ’06. 530w.

“The cheaper edition may challenge the costlier on the scholarly
plane.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 402. N. 16, ’05. 130w.

“Is a careful and able narrative of one of the most vital periods of
English history.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 896. D. 16, ’05. 170w.

“Has been reissued in a less expensive and more convenient form and
with revisions and additions that greatly increase its value.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82. 135. Ja. 20, ’06. 2360w.

=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation, 1489–1556. *$1.35. Putnam.

“Pollard’s biography is fuller than that of Canon Mason, and it is
very fortunately, for the ordinary reader, free from the high church
prejudices of Jenkyns and Dixon.” John McLaughlan.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 352. Ap. ’06. 260w.

=Pollock, Frank Lillie.= Treasure trail. $1.25. Page.

An exciting narrative of the efforts of two rival search parties to
locate certain gold bullion stolen from a Boer government and stored
in a steamer sunk somewhere in the Mozambique channel. It is a tale of
chance, of daring, with adventure no whit below the spirit of its
eager gold hunters.

=Poole, Ernest.= Voice of the street; a story of temptation. †$1.50. Barnes.

“The story of a young street Arab, Jim, possessed of a splendid voice,
who emancipates himself from all those deteriorating influences which
Mr. Poole calls the ‘street,’ and finally becomes a great singer. At
the same time it is the story of self-sacrificing love on the part of
a young girl who in order to support ‘Lucky Jim’ and her father turns
thief. The book is not intended for mere entertainment. It is the
portrayal of the better and the lower influences at work among the
poor of the East End of New York. Mr. Poole knows these people well
and he has spoken for them as their interpreter.”—World To-Day.

* * * * *

“While admitting the book’s uncommon quality, one may question whether
the ending is, in the truest sense, a happy one.”

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 640. Ag. ’06. 850w.

“Ought to have been a fine novel. But somehow it is not.”

+ – =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 100w.

“In short, the thing which pleases and satisfies the critical sense in
this book is the approach it makes toward interpretation and
presentation of the life of the poor according to the modern
conscience, while at the same time giving it the form and dignity of
real literature.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 1546. Je. 28, ’06. 930w.

“Poole is too much influenced by the hysterical manner for his story
to endure.”

– =Ind.= 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 40w.

“Here the situations depicted are so poignant and yet natural, the
characters are so lifelike that we almost forget the crudities in the
manner of telling and the general commonplaceness in the make-up of
this very human little story.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 320w.

“Though there is never relief from movement, there is often a drag in
the process of the tale. Vigor, directness, and the absence of mock
sentimentality, however, weigh heavily on the other side.”

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 674. Jl. 21, ’06. 260w.

“He has dramatic insight, an unsensational realism and a downright
sympathy for those who struggle for the better.”

+ =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 150w.

=Pope, Jesse Eliphalet.= Clothing industry in New York. $1.25. Univ. of Mo.

“This book is Volume I of the ‘Social science series’ of the
University of Missouri.... The study was made at first hand in New
York City and is restricted to men’s and children’s outside wearing
apparel and to women’s cloaks. The history of the clothing industry is
traced, showing how the change was gradually made from custom to
ready-made work, the development of the sweating and factory systems.
The questions of wages, hours of employment, systems of production and
of payment are described at length. Then the author turns to the
conditions of employment at home, sanitation, income and expenditures,
passing to regulation by law, trade unions, etc.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

“The work has been well done, and the result is not merely a good
history of a special trade, but it teems with social facts of great
value.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 240. Ja. ’06. 160w.

“Much research has evidently gone to the making of this bulky volume
and its results are summed up with great clearness.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 327. Mr. 17. 350w.

“Throughout the volume, however, there is lacking the scientific
accuracy of the trained statistician and the scholarly background of
the student well read in economic history.” Edith Abbott.

+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 252. Ap. ’06. 810w.

=Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ’05. 60w.

“The slenderness of the author’s acquaintance with the actual
conditions obtaining in the clothing industry in New York, is
indicated by the omission of all reference to the decision of the
Court of Appeals, in the case in re Jacobs, promulgated in 1885.”
Florence Kelley.

– =Yale R.= 14: 433. F. ’06. 340w.

=Porter, General Horace.= Campaigning with Grant. *$1.80. Century.

An intimate record of Grant’s movements during the Civil war, made up
from General Porter’s careful and elaborate notes taken on the scene
of action. The aim has been to “recount the daily acts of General
Grant in the field, to describe minutely his personal traits and
habits, and to explain the motives which actuated him in important
crises by giving his criticisms upon events in the language employed
by him at the time they took place.” There are numerous illustrations,
maps and a facsimile of the letter containing the oft quoted “I
propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”

* * * * *

“The book is undeniably entertaining, and in its present attractive
dress should have a new lease of life.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 30, ’06. 150w.

“Will long maintain its place as one of the best books about the Civil
war, not only because it is authoritative, but more especially because
it is full of human and personal interest, and it is written with
animation and with compelling descriptive power.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 60w.

=Potter, Mrs. Frances B. (Squire).= Ballingtons. †$1.50. Little.

“As a literary production the story deserves high praise. It is
realistic in the best sense of that much-abused term, and the
depressing effect of the story is at times counteracted by an
underlying vein of humor which permeates much of the dialogue. Yet it
is a book that we cannot find it in our heart to recommend, as it does
not solve the problem and the general effect upon the reader’s mind is
decidedly depressing.” Amy C. Rich.

+ – =Arena.= 35: 447. Ap. ’06. 290w.

“What gives the book its uncommon distinction is the sense that you
get everywhere in it of the far-reaching effect of human passions; the
sense of how love and sorrow, cruelty and unkindness, even such a
negative quality as indifference, extend their silent influence to
every hour of the day, every relation of life.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + – =Bookm.= 22: 371. D. ’05. 520w.

“Perhaps in the very fullness of its pain, in the intensity of its
message in the searching cry of the book, lie the value and
significance of the story.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 347. Mr. 17, ’06. 140w.

“Presenting a climax of ethical and practical significance.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 60w.

=Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Codman.= Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops. **$2. Putnam.

“The bishops and archbishops of whom Bishop Potter writes are thirteen
in number, the bishops being all Americans; the archbishops of course,
are Englishmen. The reminiscences embrace exactly forty years,
beginning as they do in 1866, when the author was chosen secretary of
the House of bishops. It is the personal note that the author aims to
sound, rather than the professional or biographical.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“Fails to gratify the expectations created by its title or to fulfil
the promises of its preface. Fully a third of the matter comprised in
the ten biographies is quoted.”

– + =Dial.= 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 180w.

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 190w.

“The net result of the book is to prove that ecclesiastics are like
other men, in having a saving sense of humor, in regard for substance
rather than for form in religion, and in emphasis upon character
rather than on possessions.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 350. O. 25. ’06. 330w.

“The present volume contains many valuable and entertaining
reminiscences.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, 06. 170w.

“Bishop Potter has an enviable reputation as a talker, and these pages
will not diminish that reputation.” Cameron Mann.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 667. O. 13, 06. 980w.

“This is a book to interest laymen no less than the clergy.”

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 382. D. ’06. 150w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 758. D. ’06. 60w.

=Potter, Margaret Horton (Mrs. J. D. Black).= Genius. †$1.50. Harper.

This story is the first of the author’s proposed “Trilogy of destiny,”
three stories of Russian life. It follows the career of a famous
Russian composer who was destined by a cruel unscrupulous, iron-handed
father for the army and intrigue. How he slips thru the clutches of
what seemed inevitable fate and is saved to a life which develops the
artist’s temperament in him is presented with a free stroke in keeping
with the rapid action.

* * * * *

“The book is not without some strong pages. But as a picture of
Russian life it is not to be taken seriously.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 283. My. ’06. 360w.

“This is the best written and the sanest of any of Miss Potter’s
books. It is impossible, however, to approve such liberties as she has
taken with the lives of men so lately dead.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 170w.

Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 280w.

“A book in certain qualities rather above the average, but its
ambitiously cultivated style is a fair example of the way in which
English should not be written.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 230w.

“The parts are greater than the whole.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 177. Mr. 24, ’06. 460w.

“There is an irresistible fascination about the great grey land which
captivates the imagination and proves an endless treasure to both
writer and reader alike.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 120w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 759. Je. ’06. 80w.

=Potter, Mary Knight.= Art of the Venice academy, containing a brief history of the building and its collection of paintings as well as descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their artists. **$2. Page.

=Int. Studio.= 29: 183. Ag. ’06. 110w.

“The work is appreciatively and sympathetically written.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 40w.

=Pottinger, Sir Henry.= Flood, fell and forest: a book of sport in Norway. 2v. $8.40. Longmans.

“We note some repetition and overlapping of matter, but all things
considered, the tales are well told, if occasionally with some
pardonable complacency.”

+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 682. N. 18. 280w.

“Though we could have spared some digressions from his portly volumes,
we have not found a page too long.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 350. O. 20, ’05. 740w.

“But there is little in Sir Henry’s two volumes to make them worth
printing. We hardly think that even professionally inclined outdoor
people will find much amusement in these books.”

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 73. F. 3, ’06. 550w.

“Every lover of Norwegian sport will be grateful to an author who can
revive for him a host of pleasant memories.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 868. N. 25, ’05. 410w.

=Powell, Edward Payson.= Orchard and fruit garden. **$1.50. McClure.

“This book should be possessed by every farmer in the Republic and by
all persons who have land for a few trees and berry bushes.”

+ + =Arena.= 35: 330. Mr. ’06. 660w.

+ =Reader.= 6: 727. N. ’05. 180w.

=Powell, Frances.= Prisoner of Ornith farm. †$1.50. Scribner.

“The startling abduction of Hope Carmichael from her own wealthy
family and luxurious surroundings to the mysterious farm in
Connecticut where she is held a prisoner in a barred room on the plea
of insanity, her numberless wild and futile attempts at escape and the
power over every one with whom he comes in contact of the villainous
counterfeiter Lannion—these things combine to make a more than
thrilling narrative.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Is melodrama of the baldest sort.”

– =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 70w.

“Miss Powell has the story teller’s art of awakening interest in plot
and characters, which is unsatisfied until the denouement is reached.”

+ – =Ind.= 40: 931. Ap. 19, ’06. 160w.

“There is no doubt this is sensationalism of a successful sort. It is
exciting enough to make one forget even the toothache.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 185. Mr. 24, ’06. 230w.

“[Has] vividness and suspense and [shows] considerable ingenuity in
sustaining the reader’s attention in the main situation by the
dramatic way in which the successive incidents are managed ... weak as
to the motive for action.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w.

=World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 80w.

=Powell, Mary Elizabeth.= Dying musician. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

A poem filled with pathos and longing which is the anguish of
unrealized happiness. For the musician has loved and suffered:

“Then should thy judgment move
To censure harsh, for having dared to love
(E’en as great Tasso) one above me far
And hopeless of attainment as a star—
My one defense,—even as his—must be
Because I loved, what not to love and see
Was more or less than mortal and than me.”

=Power, John O’Connor.= Making of an orator. **$1.35. Putnam.

In his suggestions to young orators. Mr. Power emphasizes the value of
individuality. While obeying certain structural principles he advises
the student to encourage his natural freedom of speech and to learn
that rhetoric “was designed as an aid to speakers and writers, and not
as a means of bettering their natural ability.”

* * * * *

“The book has many valuable suggestions, and will repay all who are
ambitious to excel in any branch of oratory.”

+ =Cath. World.= 84: 416. D. ’06. 140w.

“It contains a number of excellent hints and suggestions to the public
speaker of any sort, conceived and presented in a simple and
unpretentious fashion.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.

“This book is undoubtedly interesting and valuable; yet it is not
entirely obvious who will most appreciate its interest and value.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 210. S. 6, ’06. 670w.

“A book that is not only useful, but entertaining.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 413. Je. 23, ’06. 330w.

+ =Outlook.= 83: 767. Jl. 28, ’06. 300w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 50w.

“This is an interesting book.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 990. Je. 23, ’06. 240w.

=Powers, Harry Huntington.= Art of travel: the laboratory study of civilization. 2d ed. 50c. Bureau of University travel, Trinity place, Boston.

Some of the topics discussed by way of valuable suggestion to the
prospective traveller are the art, purpose, method and means of
travel, university travel, outfit and travel in different countries.

=Powers, Harry Huntington, and Powe, Louise M.= Outlines for the study of art. v. 2. $1.50. Bureau of university travel, Trinity place, Boston.

An outline for the later period of Italian art beginning with Leonardo
and ending with the decadence. The text furnishes a guide for the
laboratory study of the period and is written to accompany a
collection of reproductions.

=Powles, H. H. P.= Steam boilers, their history and development. *$6.50. Lippincott.

About one-third of the work is devoted to the work of old-time
engineers in boiler design beginning with the spherical boiler made by
Hero of Alexandria in 150 B. C. Then follow chapters in plain,
cylindrical, Cornish and Lancashire boilers, water-tube boilers, and
motor-car boilers. His closing chapters compare various types of
boilers, and discuss boiler development in general.

* * * * *

“We do not see that the book will be of any particular use to an
engineer familiar with boiler design and construction; but it may
possibly find a useful place on the shelves of public libraries, where
there is a constant demand for popular information on technical
subjects. Its chief value is as a history, but it is far from
complete.”

– + =Engin. N.= 55: 192. F. 15, ’06. 330w.

=Pratt, Agnes Louise.= Aunt Sarah, a mother of New England. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

Sarah Marsh, dubbed Aunt Sarah by her friends, is a typical example of
an undemonstrative, stoical, but, withal, motherly New England woman
of the Civil war times. She has two sons. Francis, the younger, leaves
home to study. While away he discovers that his pledge of love to Hope
Hamilton was a mistake. Hope, with true heroism, releases the student,
to the relief of Philip, the elder son, a serious-minded manly young
fellow who silently cherished a love for Hope. When the war summons
comes the mother bravely speeds her sons on their way to the front,
both of whom return; one to die, the other to find his happiness.

=Pratt, Antwerp Edgar.= Two years among New Guinea cannibals: a naturalist’s sojourn among the aborigines of unexplored New Guinea; with notes and observations by his son, Henry Pratt, and appendices on the scientific results of the expedition. *$4. Lippincott.

The title would suggest that the explorer of the volume went armed for
such frays as Rider Haggard’s “She” depicts. On the contrary he is
occupied with the inoffensive pursuit of birds and plants, butterflies
and moths. The bower bird, the blue bird of paradise, a new variety of
orchid, a magnificent scarlet creeper, spider’s webs and wonderful
butterflies are of vastly more interest to Mr. Pratt and hence to his
readers than the surrounding cannibals. “The scientific results of the
expedition were a new reptile, a new fish, and a number of new
lepidoptera.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“The reader who cares for chronicles of forest life will find many
pleasant pages.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 76. Jl. 21. 930w.

Reviewed by Wallace Rice.

+ =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 360w.

“His anthropological notes are meagre, and if he had observed the
natives more closely he would not have called them ‘cannibals’ even to
provide himself with a grim and awe-inspiring title.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 134. Ap. 12, ’06. 340w.

Reviewed by Cyrus C. Adams.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 734. N. 10, ’06. 660w.

“Mr. Pratt is, however, a naturalist, and it is in this capacity he
should be mainly judged. But on the whole the book is somewhat
disappointing from this point of view as well.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 660. My. 26, ’06. 1130w.

“We cannot here follow Mr. Pratt’s wanderings in search of his prey,
but we can assure our readers that he makes a very entertaining
narrative out of them.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 310w.

=Pratt, Edwin A.= Railways and their rates. Dutton.

“Although partisan in its character, the book contains much valuable
information conveniently arranged.” William Hill.

+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 123. F. ’06. 220w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 288. O. 4, ’06. 720w.

“Mr. Pratt’s book is not exactly light literature, but his style
commends itself to serious readers. Especially we commend his serenity
of temper. We commend Mr. Pratt’s book to those who prefer to follow
their judgments rather than their feelings in a complex situation.”
Edward A. Bradford.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 589. S. 22, ’06. 1610w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 100w.

=Preissig, Edward.= Notes on the history and political institutions of the old world. **$2.50. Putnam.

“A series of notes on the history of the countries of the old world
from the earliest times, supplemented by notes on their institutions,
religions, literature, art, and geographical features, and by a number
of maps.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“A text book of rather unusual scope which promises to be of
considerable value.”

+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 340. S. ’06. 120w.

“A convenient students’ manual of general history.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 94. Ag. 16, ’06. 100w.

“Is a history on the lines of Myers, tho fuller and not so
convenient.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 237. Ag. 2, ’06. 16w.

“As there is little promise of a short cut in this portly octavo we
fear it will be avoided by the retarded freshman or sophomore.
Unfortunately it is not well adapted for the use of other readers.”

– + =Nation.= 83: 290. O. 4, ’06. 650w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 459. Jl. 21, ’06. 280w.

“For advanced study the work is of little value, but it is distinctly
meritorious as a compact presentation of salient facts, dates, etc.,
and should prove popular both as an aid to the beginner and as a handy
reference work for the library, the study, and the newspaper office.
For purposes of consultation, however, it would have been improved by
more exhaustive indexing.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 180w.

“A useful historical treatise.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 50w.

=Prescott, William Hickling.= Complete works. Lib. ed. 12v. $12. Crowell.

A complete library edition of Prescott’s works and in addition the
authorized “Life of Prescott” by George Ticknor. It represents the
best workmanship of the times, and contains illustrations which are
the result of special research including reproductions of portraits,
maps and paintings. Each volume is supplied with an index as well as a
synoptical list of contents.

* * * * *

“In general the edition is a desirable one.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 100w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 878. D. 15, ’06. 460w.

“The present edition has been carefully edited as to text, is printed
from new type, and has many well chosen illustrations. May be
commended to all those who wish to have a complete library edition.”

+ + =Outlook=. 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 100w.

=Preston, Sydney Herman.= On common ground. †$1.50. Holt.

The man who goes “Back to nature” to rejuvenate himself, succeeding
“without either the morbid egotism or illusive susceptibility” of his
teens, keeps a diary. It is this from-day-to-day record that tells of
his farm occupations, of the shortcomings of Joseph, his
man-of-all-work, and of the garrulity of Mrs. Biggles, his
housekeeper. In tales of this kind the Ponce de Leon quest is never
unaccompanied with a romance. Olivia Humphrey is near by, is engaging,
is a musician. The wooing is natural even to the prosaic.

* * * * *

“A very ordinary sort of book, and highbrowed intellectuals have no
right to find the slightest enjoyment in reading it. There is
therefore a lurking sense of shame in the necessity I feel for
confessing to a genuine enjoyment in its perusal.” Edward Clark Marsh.

– + =Bookm.= 24: 56. S. ’06. 1010w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 347. My. 26, ’06. 390w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.

“This sort of writing is becoming too easy for the author, and too
tedious for the long-suffering reader.”

– =Outlook.= 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 50w.

=Prichard, Kate O’Brien Hesketh, and Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh (E. and H. Heron, pseud.).= Don Q. in the Sierra. †$1.50. Lippincott.

Don Q. has abstracted the qualities of his birthright chivalry and has
employed them strangely enough in his fearless bandit adventures.
Relentless and merciless with the unworthy wayfarer who happened to
fall into his clutches, he was equally remarkable for “the splendour,
of his generosities, his almost diabolic courage, his spirit of
chivalry, and, perhaps most of all, his unswerving fidelity to the
poorest who served him.” Here are more tales to delight the admirers
of the invincible Don Q.

* * * * *

“In spite of the sameness, they are eminently readable. You sit down
with the book and find yourself unable to put it aside until you have
finished it.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 500w.

=Prince, Morton.= Dissociation of a personality: a biographical study in abnormal psychology. *$2.80. Longmans.

The subject described in this study is Miss Christina L. Beauchamp, a
patient of Dr. Morton’s whose three personalities struggled with each
other for the control of the body and brain. They were “the saint, the
woman, and the devil. The Saint, the typical saint of literature ...
may fairly be said, without exaggeration to personify those traits
which expounders of various religions ... have held up as the ideals
to be attained by human nature.... The Woman personifies the frailties
of temper ... ambition.... Sally is the Devil, not an immoral devil
... but rather a mischievous imp.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“It is not easy for the amateur to estimate the value of this work to
the members of the healing profession, but every one must recognize
that it is most conscientiously done.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 449. My. 12, ’06. 870w.

“Most excellent reading for the layman, the physiologist, and the
student of psychology.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 549. My. 5. 550w.

“If ‘The dissociation of a personality’ were a work of the
imagination, it would be a noteworthy production. That it is, instead,
the latest work of science concerning the human soul shows how far we
have traveled from the invisible Ego of our fathers.” E. T. Brewster.

+ + =Atlan.= 98: 425. S. ’06. 910w.

+ =Cath. World.= 83: 272. My. ’06. 620w.

“A distinctly notable contribution to our comprehension of the
vicissitudes of personality.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 266. Ap. 16, ’06. 430w.

“This humorous, pathetic and tragic story is written with the vivacity
of a romance and apparently without sacrificing scientific accuracy.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 165. Ja. 18, ’06. 890w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 531. Ap. 7, ’06. 1260w.

“Well written, and, despite its length and some little repetition, of
absorbing interest, even to such as usually confine their reading to
lighter literature.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 282. Ap. 5, ’06. 1690w.

“The facts of the case are told in a very direct and interesting way.”
A. D. L.

+ + =Nature.= 75: 102. N. 29, ’06. 430w.

“The specific value of the present work lies in the exhaustive
circumstantial, and reliable account of the physical, social, moral,
and intellectual habits, attainments, etc., of the various
personalities assumed by the patient, in relation to her own proper
selfhood and to the external society in which she moved.” Edgar C.
Beall, M. D.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 548. S. 8, ’06. 680w.

“As a scientific study in an obscure field of research now being
actively explored, Dr. Prince’s work is one of interest.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 230. Ja. 27, ’06. 210w.