Chapter XLV: Part 1: of this sociological story contains a view of modern New York (17)

=Outlook.= 86: 765. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.

“Even if some of these things seem utopian, no fair-minded thinker can
deny that Professor Patten has vividly brought out important
differences between our civilization and any past régime, has called
attention to the inevitableness of readjustment, has offered
illuminating interpretations of our standards and ideals, and has made
many wise and stimulating suggestions for practical effort.” George E.
Vincent.

+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 741. D. ’07. 1330w.

=Patterson, Annie W.= Chats with music lovers. **$1.25. Lippincott.

Miss Patterson talks illuminatingly on such subjects as the following:
How to enjoy music; How to practice; How to sing; How to compose; How
to read text-books; How to be an organist; How to conduct; Preparing
for examinations; How to get engagements; How to appear in public; How
to organize musical entertainments; and How to publish music.

* * * * *

“It is a compendium of really practical hints in almost every branch
of music, expressed with great shrewdness, and in a way that carries
weight.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 240w.

“Covering so much ground, she has necessarily covered it very thinly.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 270w.

=Pattison, James William.= World’s painters since Leonardo. *$4. Duffield.

“The author has taken up the long succession of artists of whom he
treats in chronological order, without regard to nationality, schools
or character of work. In this he has sought to present the influence
exerted by contemporaries upon one another, even at great
distances.... It is as though he had produced an abridged Bryan’s
Dictionary of painters, arranging by date instead of alphabet, and
giving the whole affair the lively inspiration of alert thought and
ready sympathy.”—Int. Studio.

* * * * *

“The student who uses it merely as a court of last resort on minutiae
will have missed its import, which consists rather in its spirit of
sincere conviction and its direct delight in men rather than
theories.”

+ − =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 24. N. ’06. 720w.

=Patton, John Shelton, and Doswell, Sallie J.= University of Virginia: glimpses of its past and present. 25c. Bell.

5–39859.

“An account, based on the correspondence of Jefferson and Joseph C.
Cabell, of the founding of the university, a sketch of the
institution’s early history, a description of the Jeffersonian
buildings, and accounts of the various phases of the university’s
development, together with lists of honor and prize students, orators,
participants in the civil war, etc.”—Am. Hist. R.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 473. Ja. ’07. 80w.

“Notwithstanding oversights, the volume contains much information that
an alumnus may be glad to have in convenient compass.”

+ − =Nation.= 83: 466. N. 29, ’06. 370w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.

4–2649.

Descriptive note of v. 1–3 in Annual, 1906.

=v. 4 and 5.= Volume 4 opens with the Turkish troubles of 1876 and
closes with the defeat of the Gladstone government in 1885. The
closing volume begins with June 8, 1885, “a memorable day in English
history ... from [which] all subsequent events in this history take in
some degree their colour,” and closes with the events that led up to
the defeat of the Liberal party in 1895.

* * * * *

“The weakest part of the whole work is the conclusion. We have to
thank Mr. Paul for a book which, if not profound, has at least the
merit of putting great matters clearly, attractively and simply, of
being at once instructive and entertaining.” Wilbur C. Abbott.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 385. Ja. ’07. 1420w. (Review of v. 5.)

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 48. F. ’07. (Review of v. 1–5.)

“Mr. Paul’s comments on public men and parties are keen and incisive:
his narrative vivid, terse and clear. The general style is midway
between the severe classic stateliness of Morley’s ‘Life of
Gladstone’, and the easy gossipy style of Justin McCarthy’s ‘History
of our own times.’ With very little dissertation, no rhetoric, a good
sprinkling of wit, recorded and first hand, this history may be read
for enjoyment as well as for information.”

+ + + =Cath. World.= 84: 829. Mr. ’07. 980w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

“Mr. Paul’s work, is, in brief, a readable journalistic enterprise,
sufficiently accurate in details, but lacking in study, in erudition,
and in thought, and largely deficient in all save avowed political
information.”

+ − =Dial.= 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 290w. (Review of v. 5.)

“Surely Mr. Paul’s wisdom and foresight must have fallen short when he
accords such a high place to the man [Mr. Balfour] whom both
Conservatives and Liberals now realize to be a failure as the leader
of a modern political party and whose successor is being discussed in
his own political camp. ‘The history of modern England’ will certainly
not hold its own either as history or as literature.”

− + =Ind.= 63: 454. Ag. 22, ’07. 570w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

“Giving always a picturesque and interesting narrative of contemporary
events, not always, it is true, without prejudice and bias, but
possessing all the virtues of an honest account by an intelligent
participant.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 70w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

+ + =Nation.= 84: 177. F. 21, ’07. 2240w. (Review of v. 5.)

“No one can question the breeziness and vigor of his style or the
cleverness of his epigrams; but however successful the work may be as
literature, as history it leaves much to be desired.” W. Roy Smith.

+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 129. Mr. ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

“The present volume is distinctly inferior to its predecessors, both
in arrangement and form, and in the objectivity of its criticisms.”
George Louis Beer.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 760. Mr. ’07. 1240w. (Review of v. 5.)

=Paullin, Charles O.= Navy of the American revolution. *$1.25. Burrows.

6–42974.

“A small well-printed duodecimo, into whose narrow compass the author
has packed an astonishingly succinct and trustworthy account of the
administration of the maritime forces of the revolted colonies.
Dealing with the creation, organization, and control of the
Continental navy and the various state navies in turn, he has
emphasized that neglected page of our history rather than the
well-known brilliant exploits of a few popular heroes.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“It is in fact a masterly little book, well conceived, thoroughly
studied, and judiciously written. It is a real contribution to the
study of the American revolution.” C. H. Van Tyne.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 666. Ap. ’07. 720w.

“This book is in all respects admirable, and the author may be
congratulated upon the possession of the painstaking industry and
ripeness of judgment which disarm the most captious of critics.”
Herbert C. Bell.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 614. N. ’07. 530w.

=Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.

“Dr. Paullin’s references to authorities are so frequent and
scrupulous that his book becomes an indispensable guide to the student
of this epoch.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 170w.

“Details of a number of actions unknown to the general reader are
given, and all together it is a valuable work of reference.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 903. D. 29. ’06. 70w.

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

6–12846.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“In many respects it is an extraordinarily good translation—spirited,
idiomatic, and even racy—but it contains some queer words and some
awkward constructions. The weakest things are the references to the
English universities, which Professor Paulsen evidently knows only at
second hand and comprehends very imperfectly.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 34. F. 1, ’07. 2450w.

+ + + =Nature.= 75: 338. F. 7, ’07. 1340w.

“I know of no book discussing university problems and their solving
which I can more heartily commend to others who are working at these
same problems.” J. H. Finley.

+ + =No. Am.= 183: 410. S. 7, ’06. 1450w.

* =Paulus Diaconus.= History of the Langobards, by Paul, the Deacon; tr. by William D. Foulke, with explanatory and critical notes, a biography of the author, and an account of the sources of the history. (Translations and reprints. N. S. v. 3.) $1.50. Dept, of history, Univ. of Pa., Phil. (Sold by Longmans.)

7–20902.

The first English version of Paul’s history. The introduction, notes
and appendices are a compilation from modern writers.

* * * * *

“The translation is on the whole well done, but the constant
introduction of ‘indeed’ is not English, it is comical to find Plinius
Secundus appearing as ‘Pliny the Second,’ and ‘quite distinguished’
does not translate ‘eminentiores’ (p. 142). Commas are strewn about in
profusion, with the odd result that on p. 380 Paul is quoted as the
authority for the fact that Kiepert made a map for Mommsen.” E. W. B.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 826. O. ’07. 230w.

“This account of his own people by one of the most learned of medieval
historians will be a pleasant surprise to the English reader who has
hitherto had no opportunity to put this vivacious chronicle of the
seventh century on the shelf with his Herodotus and Froissart.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 90w.

=Payne, Will.= When love speaks. †$1.50. Macmillan.

6–40589.

A novel with a Middle West town for the setting portrays the conflict
between two civic standards, the one absolute, invincible against
bribery and graft, the other, avowedly stamped by a leaning toward
“big game” methods. The strife between the two men who have adopted
these standards respectively is further complicated by their close
domestic relations, the wife of one being the sister of the other.
“The problem of the book, as implied in the title, of course, is
whether, whenever the inevitable clash comes, the voice of love will
speak strongly enough to outweigh the voice of the wife’s inherited
convictions.” (Bookm.)

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠

“It worked out with Mr. Payne’s usually strong grasp of the affairs of
men and the emotions of women.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 24: 490. Ja. ’07. 390w.

“Truthfulness rather than idealism is the note of the book, although
it has latent idealism a-plenty.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 260w.

“The whole tone of the book is wise, tolerant, and unimpeachably
sincere. [Grammatical] blemishes are few and trifling, only noticeable
because they are growing so rife in Western fiction as to create a
menace.”

+ + − =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 450w.

“The tale is told with directness and strength. The incidents are
dramatically handled, and throughout Mr. Payne writes with vigor and
is in close touch with human nature.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 16, ’06. 250w.

=Payne, William Morton.= Greater English poets of the nineteenth century. **$2. Holt.

7–32172.

A study of a group of English writers including Keats, Shelley, Byron,
Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Rossetti,
Morris and Swinburne. The aim of the work is not to consider these men
in their characters as poetic artists so much as to view them in their
relations to the world of thought and action, to examine their poetry
with respect to intellectual content, to set forth their ideas upon
religious and philosophic subjects, and to discuss their attitude
toward the political and social conditions of their time.

* * * * *

“They deserve wide reading.”

+ =Educ. R.= 34: 536. D. ’07. 30w.

“His best chapters are on Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold; the
treatment of Coleridge and Morris cannot be regarded as adequate.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 491. N. 28, ’07. 310w.

* =Peabody, Francis Greenwood.= Mornings in the college chapel: short addresses to young men on personal religion. Second ser. **$1.25. Houghton.

7–37984.

Short chapel talks to students which are intended to point out the way
of life and to stimulate a desire to have a living faith.

=Peake, Elmore Elliott.= Little king of Angel’s Landing. †$1.25. Appleton.

6–34050.

“A pathetic story with a happy ending about a little cripple who had
been blown up when a baby in a steamboat explosion, and had grown into
such a quaint, elflike, lovable child that he fairly dominated the
little town on the Ohio river where he lived.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.

“The study is keen as well as tender, and there is something
peculiarly American in the traits revealed—a material shrewdness
coupled with an idealism unusually pure.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27. ’06. 160w.

=Pearson, Elizabeth Ware=, ed. Letters from Port Royal, written at the time of the civil war. *$2. Clarke.

6–46220.

These letters set forth the experiences of the colony of Northerners
who were delegated to take charge of the negroes and the cotton crop
of 1862 when, after the capture of the forts at Hilton Head and Bay
Point, South Carolina, the Sea Island region fell into the hands of
the federals. “How they blundered and struggled on to very
considerable success, and how their military superiors seemed in
league to ruin their whole undertaking, because of poor judgment, or
jealousy, or intrigue, is set forth in the volume before us in their
own simple, unaffected words.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 932. Jl. ’07. 280w.

=Atlan.= 99: 868. Je. ’07. 970w.

“The ‘Letters from Port Royal’ have been painstakingly edited and
elucidated by Mrs. Pearson.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 203. F. 28. ’07. 860w.

=Pearson, Norman.= Some problems of existence. *$2.10. Longmans.

7–32165.

“This little book sketches a philosophy of religion from the
standpoint of theistic evolution. The questions discussed are such as
‘inevitably present themselves to anyone who seriously considers the
problem of human existence.’ The postulates—or conclusions?—of the
author’s theory are: ‘(1) The existence of a Deity; (2) the
immortality of man; (3) a Divine scheme of evolution of which we form
a part, and which, as expressing the purpose of the Deity, proceeds
under the sway of an inflexible order’ (p. 2). With these principles
in hand, Mr. Pearson finds singularly facile answers to the question
of the mind.”—Philos. R.

* * * * *

“If one overlooks its crudities of method and its scientific and
philosophical dilettanteism, the book as a whole impresses one as
rather a happy blend of naturalism and theism, reflecting both an
attractive personality and a broad tendency characteristic of the
age.”

+ − =Nation.= 85; 125. Ag. 8. ’07. 600w.

“More instructive than the author’s conclusions are the spirit in
which he has approached his subject and the intellectual weapons with
which he attacks his task.” A. C. Armstrong.

+ =Philos. R.= 16: 550. S. ’07. 360w.

=Peary, Robert Edwin.= Nearest the pole. **$4.80. Doubleday.

7–35225.

A narrative of the Polar expedition of the Peary Arctic club in the S.
S. Roosevelt 1905–6, being Peary’s own account of his achievement, the
dangers encountered, and the problems solved. The volume is well
illustrated.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 118. Ag. 3. 1900w.

Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.

=Atlan.= 100: 260. Jl. 11. ’07. 190w.

“Is an energising book. It is a story of achievement, the kind of
story that appeals to what is called the American appreciation of
success. It is distinctly a personal work.” Albert White Vorse.

+ + =Bookm.= 25: 424. Je. ’07. 1800w.

“A very readable record of a heroic achievement.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 42: 304. My. 16, ’07. 1890w.

“For American readers it is the most important book on Arctic
exploration that we have had for many years.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 1147. My. 16, ’07. 890w.

“Peary’s volume will be accepted as the best and most authoritative
account of polar exploration that has in many years appeared.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 962. Je. 15. ’07. 380w.

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 227. Jl. 19, ’07. 760w.

+ + =Nation.= 85: 41. Jl. 11, ’07. 900w.

“He knows his field as no other man knows it, and his methods of work
are the outcome of his own originality and experience. There is charm,
too, in his way of telling things; nervous energy in his written
records. The dramatic element is strong in many a situation that
confronts him, and it does not evaporate when he tries to put it on
paper.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 297. My. 11, ’07. 1790w.

“He writes rather as a scientist than as an adventurer. His journal of
necessity deals with adventure, and yet the spirit of the analyst is
the scientific spirit.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 130w.

“The story of the journey must be read at length to be appreciated.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 435. S. 28, ’07. 750w.

* =Peck, Harry Thurston.= Hilda and the wishes, il. †$1. Dodd.

7–36100.

The story of a little girl and her five wishes which a fairy godmother
gave her the power to make.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“No children can resist it, and grown people will add to their
enjoyment of the pretty tale the amusement they find in noting the
especial characteristics of the author, which they are accustomed to
find in writing of a very different style.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 80w.

=Peck, Harry Thurston.= Twenty years of the republic. **$2.50. Dodd.

6–39787.

A summary of the most significant events occurring in our country’s
history from President Cleveland’s inauguration in 1885, to the end of
the McKinley-Roosevelt administration, in 1905.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07. S.

=Ath.= 1907, 1: 253. Mr. 2. 250w.

“To tell the story of such a period so that its significance shall be
plain to the uncritical reader requires evidently two gifts, of both
of which Dr. Peck is possessed, the gift of analysing and picturing a
personality, and the gift of tracing and describing the slow working
of those social forces whose evolution may be recognized only after
its results are accomplished—in short, to trace and describe ‘history
in the making.’ Dr. Peck has also the gift of a lively narrative
style, and he is not deterred by a false sense of the dignity of
history from making use of any lively anecdotes which have come his
way.” Arthur Reed Kimball.

+ + =Bookm.= 24: 473. Ja. ’07. 3080w.

“Sensational episodes, up-to-date pictures, and journalistic
spellbinding are absent. No perversion of historiography is attempted;
instead appears a series of short stories, delightfully told, with now
and then a thoughtful word of comment, about men, women, and things as
they are depicted on the shifting panorama of two decades of a
nation’s life.” William R. Shepherd.

+ + − =Educ. R.= 33: 313. Mr. ’07. 1020w.

“Professor Peck’s annals are as good as we can hope for today. We find
no intentional bias in them and some excellent portrayals. We cannot
hope for the present, to have our immediate needs better met.”

+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1469. Je. 20, ’07. 630w.

“We are inclined to believe the book will be accepted as the best
contribution its author has made to contemporary literature.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 120w.

“Professor Peck writes entertainingly. He has woven the events of five
presidential terms into a racy and eminently readable
narrative—qualities not impaired by a tendency to snap judgment, a
habit of rather sweeping generalization, and a love for unusual words.
Mistakes which crept into this history as published serially have been
corrected. There remain slips which seem to show lack of familiarity
with the minutiæ of government machinery rather than downright
blundering.”

+ + − =Nation.= 84: 15. Ja. 3, ’07. 440w.

“Such a history is of particular value to put on record in a country
which is passing through a transitory stage of eager endeavor and
unattained ideals.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

“Professor Peck speaks his mind more freely than does Mr. Paul, and
occasionally with undue warmth. Sometimes, too, he writes with an air
of finality that is unwarranted in view of the fact that all the
evidence is not yet at hand. And now and again his pen portraits are
hardly fair to their historic subjects. For all of this, we have read
his work with satisfaction, recognizing that in more than one
important way it is soundly informative.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.

“Although on ... [some] matters—mostly trivial—the reader will feel an
occasional impulse to rise up and disagree, there can be no question
that the author has succeeded in what he has undertaken. His
characters appear as living and breathing human beings; his story is
told with genuine literary skill.” Paul Leland Haworth.

+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 331. Je. ’07. 1050w.

“For Americans who like hearty distribution of praise and condemnation
he will be a pleasant and satisfactory authority. In the mere matter
of narration his book contains many points which the more stately
writers would do well to study.” John Spencer Bassett.

+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 255. My. ’07. 140w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 60w.

=Spec.= 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 260w.

=Peck, Theodora.= Hester of the Grants: a romance of old Bennington. **$2.50. Duffield.

7–23717.

A special Vermont edition of a novel first issued two years ago,
illustrated with pictures of Green mountain localities and characters.
The new dress enhances the historical flavor of this tale of
revolutionary times in Vermont when it was still a part of the
Hampshire grants, and adds interest to the romantic story of the
patriotic heroine, her lovers, and her turncoat father.

* * * * *

“There are many evidences of youth in the composition of the
narrative, but on the whole it is a surprising piece of work for a
young author, and furnishes very pleasing and satisfactory reading to
all interested in the events and spirit of our country’s most romantic
days.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 80w.

=Peixotto, Ernest Clifford.= By Italian seas. **$2.50. Scribner.

6–37648.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Mr. Peixotto is a very excellent artist, but as a writer he leaves
much to be desired.”

+ − =Acad.= 73: 969. O. 5, ’07. 170w.

“The text is clear and only less charming than the exquisite pictures
by the author.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.

“The text is to be read rather as a commentary upon the many excellent
drawings than for its own sake. Even so it seems rather shallow and
superficial.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 290w.

“The word-painting is exactly as good, in its way, as the penciling,
and so curiously like it in style that the two seem to make upon the
reader’s mind a single harmonious impression.” Harriet Waters Preston.

+ + =Atlan.= 99: 423. Mr. ’07. 560w.

=Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 220w.

=Peloubet, Francis N.= Studies in the Book of Job: a Biblical drama illuminating the problem of the ages. **$1. Scribner.

6–32405.

For advanced classes in Sunday-school, for Biblical literature courses
in high schools and colleges, for evening service and for individual
use.

* * * * *

“The critical standpoint of the author is uncertain, and his estimate
of the literature on Job is in many points at fault, but the
interpretation of Job is affected by errors of this kind perhaps less
than that of any other Old Testament writing.”

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 184. Ja. ’07. 90w.

“There was need of just such a book as this, which is not inferior to
Moulton or Genung in its powers to bring to the ordinary Bible-reader
a new and vivid realization of the treasure hidden in this Arabian
ash-field, while for teachers it is of unique value.” Camden M.
Cobern.

+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 235. Mr. 07. 910w.

“A real vade mecum on this most troublesome but fascinating book of
the Old Testament.”

+ + =Dial.= 42: 318. My. 16, ’07. 250w.

=Pemberton, Max.= Diamond ship. †$1.50. Appleton.

6–28763.

“Another machine-made yarn of crime and alleged mystery. The diamond
ship is a huge floating repository of the booty collected by an
organized band of jewel-thieves. The leader employs the method of a
captain of industry, and his operations are conducted upon a vast
scale.... The usually helpless maiden is involved.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“It is all very interesting, if somewhat ingenuous, and those in
search of a well-written book of adventure are recommended to buy it.”

+ − =Acad.= 73: 42. O. 19, ’07. 320w.

“Max Pemberton is usually a fairly safe choice, if your ideal of
hammock fiction requires abundance of sensation and not too much
literary quality.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 210w.

“Rather above the average of his later work. It escapes his besetting
tendency to be over-fantastic, and tells a reasonably straightforward
tale of villainy unearthed and virtue rewarded. It is, of course,
cheaply melodramatic throughout, but the excitement is
well-contrived.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 180w.

“A veritable pot-boiler of the poorest quality.”

− =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 100w.

=Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 240w.

“The most that can be said in the book’s favor is that the author has
shown a good deal of ingenuity in the invention of incident. For the
rest it is an illy-done piece of novel writing, clumsy in the
construction, and in the telling splotched all over with the
discredited tinsel and gew-gaws of melodrama.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 119. F. 23, ’07. 370w.

=Pendexter, Hugh.= Tiberius Smith: as chronicled by his right-hand man Billy Campbell. †$1.50. Harper.

7–11207.

A new edition of the adventures of Tiberius Smith, the clever showman,
who never faces a situation so perilous that his quick wit and keen
sense of humor cannot effect a way of escape. Even lunatics and lions
do not daunt him.

* * * * *

“For the lover of the circus in literature here are thoughts that
breathe; for the collector of the ultra modern and vaudevillainous in
slang, words that burn; remain, for the lover of a book in the
accepted sense of that word, feelings not fit for publication.”

− =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 250w.

“The rough and ready conversational style of the narrative and the
grotesque humor of its similes and comparisons ... make a fitting garb
for the breezy, absurd, amusing tale.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 360w.

* =Penfield, Edward.= Holland sketches, il. **$2.50. Scribner.

7–36404.

Entire sympathy exists between the illustrations and text as both are
the work of Mr. Penfield. “Nothing could be better suited to his style
than the quaint Dutch peasants in their baggy trousers or voluminous
skirts, picturesque caps, and clumsy wooden sabots. Queer little
by-streets, flapping windmills on the banks of quiet canals, fishing
smacks with patched brown sails, ‘interiors’ hung with Delft and old
brasses,—these are the things that Mr. Penfield paints and writes
about.... He never has a beaten-track experience.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“It is seldom, even in these days of unique and beautiful travel
books, that anything so thoroughly delightful as ‘Holland sketches’ is
published.”

+ + =Dial.= 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 310w.

=Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 130w.

=Penfield, Frederic Courtland.= East of Suez, Ceylon, India, China and Japan; il. from drawings and photographs. **$2. Century.

7–8551.

“The world’s turnstile at Suez” is the heading of the opening chapter
of a book of “journeyings loaded with gentle preachment.” After a
brief survey of the history and of the utilitarian phases of the great
marine highway, the author becomes a very informing guide thru
Colombo, the Ceylon hill country and Bombay, on to sluggish China and
to Japan where the “old is being supplanted by the new with amazing
rapidity.”

* * * * *

“He has assimilated much useful information, many statistics, and not
a few superficial impressions. These he has clothed in picturesque
language, decorated here and there with such gems as ‘truthlet’ for a
little truth.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 507. My. 25, ’07. 350w.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07. S.

=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29. 644. My. ’07. 450w.

“It is one of the best books of travel of the year.”

+ + =Arena.= 86: 672. Je. ’07. 280w.

“The clear manner in which Mr. Penfield presents his ideas and the
fact that he has had such excellent opportunities to know whereof he
speaks should entitle his opinions to serious consideration.”
Elizabeth Kendall.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 301. My. ’07. 890w.

“Few books of travel lately written in this country excel it, and we
predict it will be more than a book of an hour.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 42: 371. Je. 16, ’07. 480w.

“Throughout the whole of this portion of the East there is an almost
total lack of American products. This state of things is regarded by
the author as wholly inexcusable. His views upon the subject are
timely and deserving of general attention.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.

“Most of these spots are familiar, but described from his point of
view in an attractive, often humorous way, they acquire a fresh
interest.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 289. Mr. 28, ’07. 370w.

“It is well worth while to travel in Mr. Penfield’s company, and look
at unfamiliar scenes with his fresh yet experienced eyes.” Edward A.
Bradford.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 1390w.

+ =Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 110w.

“The book is mere journalism and, though interesting, is by no means
trustworthy.” G: Louis Beer.

− + =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 130w.

“An excellent book of travels unusually well told.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 639. N. ’07. 40w.

“This is an eminently readable book.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 948. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.

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

6–31406.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Only for the larger library.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 14. Ja. ’07.

=Atlan.= 99: 429. Mr. ’07. 980w.

“In spite of much that is delightful, the book is longer than
discretion would have dictated.” Elizabeth Kendall.

+ + − =Bookm.= 24: 593. F. ’07. 1080w.

“A graceful writer of unerring taste.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 914. Ap. 18, ’07. 730w.

“Her ready pen runs away with her, and she employs in expansion the
time which would have been more profitably devoted to condensation.”

− + =Lond. Times.= 5: 416. D. 14, ’06. 1460w.

“It must be conceded at the outset that these absorbing volumes do not
offer a uniformly analytical or judicial estimate of the picturesque
and magnetic ‘Hans Breitmann.’” Christian Brinton.

+ − =No. Am.= 183: 1299. D. 21, ’06. 1780w.

=Peple, Edward Henry.= Semiramis: a tale of battle and of love. †$1.50. Moffat.

7–26347.

A romance of ancient Assyria. “The figure of the warrior queen, half
goddess, half mortal, stands out brilliantly wherever she is placed.
Her love for the Assyrian prince, their adventures, her clever
manipulation of the jealous King Ninus, and her final grim triumph,
are vividly described.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Like the vast majority of novels that would feign reincarnate a
buried antiquity, the sense of actuality is ineffectual.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.

− =Bookm.= 26: 269. N. ’07. 330w.

“Whether he entertains or exasperates depends upon the character of
the reader. To one acquainted with accepted profane and religious
history the book is, to say the least of it, disconcerting. The story
is written in a kind of delirious prose, that is to say it has the
rigidity of poetry without its grace or high meaning, and the form of
prose without its flexibility.”

− =Ind.= 63: 946. O. 17, ’07. 130w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 470w.

“Imagination almost routs history, and the result is a highly
entertaining story.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 80w.

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

6–10671.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 148. My. ’07.

“Our ignorance of the sister republics is so great that a work such as
Mr. Pepper’s is to be welcomed as a contribution toward the
enlightening of American public opinion.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 468. N. ’06. 160w.

=Pepys, Samuel.= Pepys’ memoirs of the Royal navy; ed. by Jos. Robson Tanner. (Tudor and Stuart lib.) *$1.75. Oxford.

7–29045.

Memoirs that were published originally by Pepys in June, 1690. They
are a defense of his own naval administration prior to 1688, and a
criticism of that of his opponents. Interesting details concerning the
navy of this period are included.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 689. Ap. ’07. 160w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w.

=Periam, Annina.= Hebbel’s Nibelungen, its sources, method and style. *$1. Macmillan.

6–24558.

“In her five chapters the author of these studies treats of the
genesis of Hebbel’s ‘Nibelungen.’ Hebbel’s conception of his dramatic
problem, the sources of the work and his use of them, his relation to
predecessor’s and critics, particularly Raupach, Fouqué, Geibel,
Wagner, and Vischer, and some special aspects of Hebbel’s
work—inventions, treatment of women, of religion, and the mythical and
mystical.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

=Nation.= 83: 186. Ag. 30, ’06. 90w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 456. Jl. 14, ’06. 310w.

* =Perkins, Lucy Fitch.= Book of joys: the story of a New England summer. il. **$1.75. McClurg.

7–34806.

A Chicagoan tells how she takes a new lease of life during a spring
and summer spent in two New England villages. From the confusion of
the city she turns to the joys of rural loneliness, and revels in
turf-paved walks “spangled with buttercups and broidered with violets,
with the shadow of apple boughs dancing over it, and living silence
all about, the stillness of singing birds and humming bees.”

* * * * *

“Mrs. Perkins is keenly alive to both the delights and the limitations
of the old-school New England life, seeing it with the clear eye of an
alien who is sympathetic to its charm but fully conscious of its
whimsicalities and oddities.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 320w.

“A book of special interest to feminine readers.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

=Perkins, Mrs. Lucy (Fitch)=, comp. Robin Hood; his deeds and adventures as recounted in the old English ballads. †$1.50. Stokes.

6–32850.

The compiler has prettily illustrated in color these ten Robin Hood
ballads, which are based upon authoritative versions and retain their
original form.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 111. Ap. ’07.

“The author-artist ... has not only shown judgment in her selections,
but accuracy of costume in her attractive drawings.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 70w.

“The book shows good taste, and the illustrations—most of them done in
color—are simple in outline and excellent In spirit.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 110w.

=Perrigo, Charles Oscar E.= Modern American lathe practice. $2.50. Henley.

7–4843.

“This is a lathe book from beginning to end.... A few chapters are
given up to the history and development of the lathe and also to lathe
design.... A number of chapters are devoted to the description of the
latest production of our prominent manufacturers.... There are also
chapters on variable speed devices, lathe tools and attachments,
turret lathes, special lathes and electrically-driven lathes. The book
is well illustrated.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“Just the kind of a book which one delights to consult, a masterly
treatment of the subject in hand.” Wm. W. Bird.

+ =Engin. N.= 57: 443. Ap. 16, ’07. 210w.

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

6–35721.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“By all odds the most judicial and satisfactory account of that
disconcerting genius yet published. A kind of indecision or hesitancy
to pronounce a definitive Judgment makes his book a little
disappointing to a reader who looks to his biographer for his opinions
as well as for his information.”

+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 110w.

“On the whole, Mr. Perry’s book is an exceedingly uncomfortable one to
read. The virtues of an editor and a college professor are too widely
different from those of a great original genius to admit of mutual
comprehension.” Louise Collier Willcox.

− =No. Am.= 185: 221. My. 17, ’07. 990w.

“Mr. Perry brought the methods of a scholar to his task, and for the
first time the world has an adequate and candid account of Whitman’s
antecedents and conditions, and of the outward happenings of his life.
This record is not only more complete but it is more intelligent than
any that has come from the Whitman cult.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 278. F. 2, ’07. 1920w.

“In writing a perfectly sensible life of Whitman, Mr. Perry has
performed a feat of which we may almost have despaired.” H. W.
Boynton.

+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 635. F. ’07. 510w.

=Perry, John G.= Letters from a surgeon of the civil war. **$1.75. Little.

6–24566.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07.

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

5–40797.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It describes a literary career to the neglect of character and
personality. We miss a sympathetic portraiture of the man himself.”

+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 190. Mr. ’07. 120w.

=Peters, Edward Dyer.= Principles of copper smelting. $5. Hill pub. co.

7–12991.

“This work is divided into fifteen chapters, which deal with Methods
and collectors, First principles of smelting, Principles of roasting,
Chemistry of smelting, Practice of roasting, Blast furnace smelting,
Reverbatory smelting, Pyritic smelting, Practical study of slags,
Matte, Production of metallic copper from matte, Refining of copper,
Principles of furnace building, Applications of thermochemistry,
Miscellaneous and commercial.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“The index is good, with plenty of cross-references, making it an easy
matter to look up any section or subject. This book is a pioneer along
the text-book line. The teaching of the principles, after all, is the
most important, and Dr. Peters deserves hearty congratulations and
thanks for producing such a clear, concise, and readable book.”
Bradley Stoughton.

+ =Engin. N.= 57: 662. Je. 13, ’07. 1370w.

=Peterson, Henry.= Dulcibel: a tale of old Salem; il. by Howard Pyle. †$1.50. Winston.

7–12980.

A story of the cruel persecution of the days of the Salem witchcraft,
with much stress placed upon the spell of hypnotism and imposture. It
mainly concerns a very charming girl who comes under the witchcraft
ban and her stout-hearted lover whose efforts to have her released
from prison prove effectual only when the spirited Lady Mary Phips
lends her assistance.

* * * * *

“The tale is not without its credulities, but it is animated and full
of zeal. With every allowance for partisanship it is a stirring
recital, and pulls at the nerves of indignation as if the dreadful
thing had not all happened two hundred years ago.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.

“A really charming little story, which keeps the reader’s interest
well sustained until the very end.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 80w.

=Petre, F. Loraine.= Napoleon’s campaign in Poland, 1806–1807. *$3.50. Lane.

“The book begins with a chapter on the state of Europe in 1805 and
1806, with a crisp sketch of the armies, the leaders and the
lieutenants on both sides, and gives a careful description of the
topographical features of the difficult theatre of war—its marshes and
forests, its mud and snow, its summer heat and winter tempests. Then
follow the several operations, from that beginning in November and
culminating in the battles of Pultusk and Golymin at Christmastide,
1806, through the butchery of Eylau in February and its succeeding
winter quarters, the siege of Danzig, and the ‘final triumph’ at
Heilsburg and Friedland in June, 1807, followed by the treaty of
Tilsit. At the end are three maps of the theatre of war, on two
sheets, and seven battle-plans on a third sheet.”—Am. Hist. R.

* * * * *

“The style is simple and direct, with abundant foot-notes, the matter
in some of which might be incorporated in the text, to save
interruption of the narration by the reader. The detail is
considerable, but not too great for a work dealing with a single
campaign. We close Mr. Petre’s book with the feeling that he has done
a good piece of work, filling a needed gap; and we welcome his
forthcoming volume on ‘1806.’” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 888. Jl. ’07. 820w.

“This volume supplies a real want for the student of Napoleonic
history.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.

=Petre, F. Loraine.= Napoleon’s conquest of Prussia. *$5. Lane.

7–25140.

A full account of Napoleon’s campaign of 1806 based upon all the
information available. “Mr. Petre confines himself, after two
interesting chapters on the origin of the war and the contending
armies, to the purely military aspect of his period.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“If a treatise on military history is to be placed in the first class,
the style must be clear and the narrative not overloaded with details
of secondary importance, the authorities should be quoted, and the
maps must be clear and large: Mr. Petre’s book fails in all these
respects.”

− =Acad.= 72: 385. Ap. 20, ’07. 760w.

“The volume is easy to read. To a student already familiar with 1806,
there are fewer causes of dissent than are usual.” Theodore Ayrault
Dodge.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 140. O. ’07. 770w.

“The appearance of Mr. Petre’s book fills a gap which needed filling.
In little matters Mr. Petre is sometimes irritating.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 597. My. 18. 1660w.

“The most instructive passage of the book is the description of
Napoleon’s army administration in the field and of the loose and
ineffective organization of the Prussian staff.” Henry E. Bourne.

+ =Dial.= 43: 90. Ag. 16, ’07. 340w.

“If he has nothing very novel to offer he is generally safe to
follow.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 110w.

“This is an exhaustive first hand account from a military point of
view, and the result of careful study of the subject.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 270w.

“The work has been so thoroughly done that this book is likely to
become the definitive authority upon the subject.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07. 440w.

“Mr. F. L. Petre has described, with a technical completeness hitherto
not available in the English language, Napoleon’s brilliantly
successful campaign of 1806, in which Prussia was so completely
humiliated.” G: Louis Beer.

+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 743. S. ’07. 180w.

“We must dissent from Mr. Petre’s discovery that incorporation of
footnotes in the text saves the reader ‘annoyance,’ for his habit in
this respect often distorts his narrative. Then the chief actors of
the ‘débâcle’ are not individualized.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 455. O. 5, ’07. 2270w.

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

5–26752.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

“Solidly packed with facts.”

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 706. Ap. ’07. 30w.

=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= Janus in modern life. (Questions of the day, no. 106.) *$1. Putnam.

7–37957.

A development in some measure from Professor Petrie’s recent Huxley
lecture. The study looks before and behind and deals with such present
day problems as race and immigration, communism, philanthropy, and
individualism in relation to historical philosophy. The burden of what
the author has to say is “that all our modern efforts for the
bettering of the race by saving the weaker individual rigors of
competition tend to degrade the race.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Janus, indeed, is a clever double-headed professor, who treats rather
amateurishly—that is to say, confidently and assertively—many subjects
as to which we suspect that his knowledge is not very profound.”

− =Acad.= 73: 185. N. 30, ’07. 1440w.

“Dr. Petrie commands respectful attention when he writes upon
archeology but when he turns to sociology, the subject of this little
book, he writes as an amateur and must be weighed dispassionately.”

− =Ind.= 63: 1315. N. 28, ’07. 460w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 501. S. 21, ’07. 1180w.

“His chapters are well worth reading. They are always suggestive; we
may differ from their conclusions, but we cannot help thinking about
them, and are sure to get some profit from them. Sometimes, we think,
Dr. Flinders Petrie exaggerates.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 299. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w.

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

6–40918.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=Ind.= 62: 216. Ja. 24, ’07. 410w.

=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Christian origins. *$1.50. Huebsch.

6–9289.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 132. F. 2. 590w.

“The value of the work is especially in the references to facts and
tendencies in other religions than Christianity as illustrating
features in the growth of the Christian faith and partly contributing
to this growth.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 388. F. 14, ’07. 240w.

=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Primitive Christianity; its writings and teachings in their historical connections; tr. by W. Montgomery; ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. 4v. *$3. Putnam.

7–16364.

=v. 1.= “In this revised and enlarged edition a veteran theologian has
availed himself of the latest fruits of learned research. The present
volume, after a chapter on the first Christian community, is occupied
with the Apostle Paul, his writings, and his theology.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“A good translation. The lectures present, in a clear and interesting
way, the author’s well-known views.”

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 531. Jl. ’07. 470w.

“While Prof. Pfleiderer is a mere theorist when dealing with records
and traditions of supernatural events, he is a skilled and learned
critic when he discusses the ordinary experience of a man like St.
Paul.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 631. My. 25. 540w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Ind.= 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Outlook.= 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Religion and historic faiths; tr. from the German by Daniel A. Huebsch. *$1.50. Huebsch.

7–29077.

A series of lectures delivered at the University of Berlin. The author
defines the essence of religion, the ethics and science of it and the
beginnings of religion; he discusses the Chinese, Egyptian, Babylonian
systems, Brahmanism, Buddhism, the religion of the Greeks, and of
Israel down to Christianity.

* * * * *

“The brief accounts of the various religions are clear and good. The
translation is only fair, clear, but often awkward.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 586. S. 28, ’07. 360w.

“His just emphasis on the ethical element in the New Testament does
not make full amends for an over-emphasis on the legendary.”

+ − =Outlook.= 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 220w.

=Phelps, Mrs. Elizabeth Steward.= (Leigh North, pseud.). Predecessors of Cleopatra. $1.50. Broadway pub.

6–45018.

A compilation of what is known of the queens of Egypt who reigned
during the four thousand years preceding the reign of Cleopatra. The
volume is illustrated by five drawings.

* * * * *

“She does not indicate what ... are [her sources], nor does she handle
her material critically.”

− =Ind.= 62: 276. Ja. 31, ’07. 50w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 293. My. 4, ’07. 140w.

=Phelps, William Lyon.= Pure gold of nineteenth century literature. **75c. Crowell.

7–25233.

A summary of the vital forces in nineteenth century literature as
embodied in the following authors destined to live: Keats, Wordsworth.
Browning, Byron, Shelley, Tennyson, Stevenson, Thackeray, Austin,
Eliot and Hardy.

* * * * *

“There is no alloy in his criticism.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 626. O. 19, ’07. 160w.

=Philipson, David.= Reform movement in Judaism. **$2. Macmillan.

7–15617.

A series of studies which “aim to present a connected story of the
progressive movement in Judaism ... setting forth the purposes and
accomplishments of the reform movement.” The beginnings of the reform
are discussed and chapters are devoted to: The Geiger-Tiktin affair,
The Hamburg Temple prayer-book controversy, Reform in England,
Rabbinical conferences, 1844–6, Reform Congregation or Berlin, The
Breslau “Friends of reform,” Reform in Hungary, The Leipzig and
Augsburg synods, Reform in the United States and Recent developments
in Europe.

* * * * *

“The author is to be commended for his careful and scholarly work, and
his book is eminently readable.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 503. My. 30, ’07. 390w.

“The present volume, relating the struggle and advance of the
reformers during the last century, is of peculiar interest and
importance to Christians as well as to the Jews.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 43. Jl. 20, ’07. 250w.

“A scholarly study.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 100w.

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

W 5–5.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Mr. Phillipps is no mere impressionist, and behind his charming
pictures there is a wealth of sound and acute political thought, all
the more valuable since it is rarely expressed in the conventional
language of politics. His mind has brilliance and swiftness, but
neither profundity nor coherence. Sometimes in his parallels Mr.
Phillipps is far-fetched and fantastic, but in the main his brilliant
analysis carries conviction.”

+ + − =Spec.= 95: 1037. D. 16, ’05. 700w.

=Phillips, David Graham.= Light-fingered gentry, il. †$1.50. Appleton.

7–30833.

A novel based upon recent insurance exposures. The light-fingered
gentry are captains of industry and big men in the financial world.
The hero is an officer of an insurance company, and the interest of
the book is maintained thru his moral regeneration, both the phase of
it that affects his fight with corruption in business, and the side
that deals with his domestic happiness—the reawakening of love for his
divorced wife.

* * * * *

“Crude in style, but interesting in plot and character delineation.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 203. N. ’07. ✠

“Considering the possibilities of sensationalism inherent in the
theme, he has avoided the extremer forms of overstatement. The private
interest of the story is inconsiderable.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 43: 253. O. 16, ’07. 280w.

“Has many clever features, and now and then passages of real power.
But as a whole it is the sort of novel which is own cousin to the
special article of the monthly magazine and the work of the star
reporter on the daily newspaper.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 615. O. 12, ’07. 430w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

“The colors—the lurid yellow of the sensational journalist and the
dismal black of the chronic pessimist—are laid on with a prodigal
brush.”

− =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 90w.

=Phillips, David Graham.= Second generation. †$1.50. Appleton.

7–4160.

Hiram Ranger is a wealthy western manufacturer who deplores the
idleness into which his two children lapse after a lavish eastern
education. His conscience forbids bequeathing them any of his money,
and their struggles to work out their own salvation form the burden of
Mr. Phillips’ preachment.

* * * * *

“Written in a hasty, crude style, but the story is forceful,
absorbing, and timely.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07. ✠

“‘The second generation’ is not only Mr. Phillips’ strongest and best
novel; it is the most virile and vital romance of the present year.”

+ + =Arena.= 37: 438. Ap. ’07. 3710w.

=Current Literature.= 42: 459. Ap. ’07. 690w.

“Unfortunately, Mr. Phillips has no style, and thus his management of
a strongly-conceived situation becomes bald and unconvincing. The
moral of the story is so fine and true despite a slight tincture of
unwholesome socialism, that we could wish the author’s literary gift
were in proportion to his ethical insight.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 250w.

“On the whole the book teaches us to be thankful that the social and
industrial salvation of the country is not in the hands of these
ingenious fiction makers, particularly those who have a socialistic
heaven in view which none of us are fit by nature or grace to enter.”

− + =Ind.= 62: 1415. Je. 13, ’07. 340w.

“So long as he wrote to prove the evil effects of wealth upon the
children of rich parents, he expressed his ideas with power and a
certain fierce distinction. But when he attempts to show how wealth
may be disposed of for the good of society, he offers a Munchausen
system of finance wearisome to read about.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 80w.

“Mr. Phillips has written a strong wholesome story of contemporaneous
American life.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w.