Chapter XLVII: Part 3: is a very extended list of contributions to periodicals.... An (1)

appendix contains an account of two plays by James which have been
staged in London.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“So far as we have been able to test it, Mr. Phillips’s work is
admirably done, and the amount of research must have been very
considerable.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 37. Ja. 10, ’07. 560w.

“Mr. Phillips ... seems to have done his work with satisfactory
patience and care:” Edward Cary.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 1210w.

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

6–7415.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The utmost that can be said of this play as a whole is that it will
not detract from Mr. Phillips’s reputation.”

+ − =Outlook.= 85: 572. Mr. 9. ’07. 400w.

* =Phillpotts, Eden.= Folk afield. †$1.50. Putnam.

7–32559.

Fourteen stories of love and adventure on sea and land which draw
color from the sun, sea, and mountains of the South of France, of
Italy and of North Africa. One of the best is “Souvenir de Maupassant”
in which the heroine is the beautiful Kabyle girl pictured with all
the fascination of her oriental heritage.

* * * * *

“We are glad to have this collection, as it exhibits the author in an
unusual rôle, and gives us a larger impression of him.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 210w.

“In ‘Souvenir de Maupassant,’ Mr. Phillpotts offers most of that
imaginative suggestion which is the short story’s highest merit; and
here he shows himself not merely the patient and eclectic recorder of
the scene and the hour, but the artist in description, whose words
make nature live again.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 251. Ag. 16, ’07. 370w.

“Here is a miscellany of short stories, in various moods and keys, but
of no marked power.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 360w.

“The backgrounds are vivid in color and very realistic.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

=Phillpotts, Eden.= My garden. (Country life lib.) *$3.75. Scribner.

7–8530.

Enthusiasm abounds in Mr. Phillpotts’ garden book with prejudices born
of individuality and experience. It demands that a real gardener shall
love nurserymen’s catalogues and shall abhor butterflies. In his
garden of only an acre he has a thousand genera from all parts of the
world, and his Devonshire sunshine seems to foster their growth almost
magically.

* * * * *

“He knows how to make a garden, and he knows how to write about it.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 621. N. 17. 380w.

“The whole book will signify nothing except to gardeners; but they
will enjoy it.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 288. D. 24, ’06. 630w.

“Is certainly a pleasure to the eye, and we find its leaves
besprinkled with a pleasant humor here and there. The general reader,
however, will shy at the constant stream of technical botanical names.
The book contains many valuable bits of information for the amateur,
but it has no Index.”

+ − =Nation.= 83: 448. N. 22, ’06. 140w.

=Phillpotts, Eden.= Whirlwind. †$1.50. McClure.

7–4812.

Mr. Phillpotts’ “standard is a high one. His method is conceived on a
large scale. It is no other than to bring all the aspects of
nature—the changing sky, with its range of colours, the wind that
blows across his Devon moors, the trees, the flowers, the animals, all
the denizens of earth—into league with him in telling one great story
of passion or love or disaster.” (Acad.) “In his theme Mr. Phillpotts
has enlarged the ‘eternal triangle’ of one woman and two men into a
case of one woman loved by three men and herself honestly loving two
of the men and married to one of them. This must be admitted to be a
new complication, warranted to tax even the ingenuities of as keen a
student of human nature as Mr. Phillpotts, and requiring no little
delicacy of perception and feeling for its acceptable solution.” (N.
Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“There is a lack of inevitability about the final tragedy, and that
lack lends to the tragedy an element of sordidness which is
belittling.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 95. Ja. 26, ’07. 460w.

“It will be seen that while Mr. Phillpotts runs the risk, as often, of
falling into melodrama, he keeps himself out of that pit by the
artistry of his handling and the dignity of his characterization.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 129. F. 2. 450w.

“Mr. Phillpotts has never given us anything so effectively composed as
the present novel. In its culminating situation the action moves
serenely upon the heights of real tragedy, and leaves one with the
same richly complex yet elevated sense of peace.” Harry James Smith.

+ + =Atlan.= 100: 127. Jl. ’07. 1350w.

“Is not to be numbered among his strongest books. There is less
spontaneity of character drawing; his men and his women lack the vital
individuality of the earlier volumes; they suggest something
stereotyped and worked over from earlier impressions. The central plot
is not merely repellent, but difficult of acceptance.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.

− =Bookm.= 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 380w.

“It is a story that more than ever makes us feel that Mr. Hardy has
found a worthy successor.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 396. Je. 16, ’07. 300w.

“Attempts to put a halo of self-sacrifice around a woman’s frailty,
and the result is one of the most unconvincing stories he ever wrote.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.

− =Forum.= 39: 118. Jl. ’07. 370w.

“Eden Phillpotts’s new novel is his masterpiece.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 1090. My. 9, ’07. 780w.

“Eden Phillpotts’ last epic of the Dartmoor is beyond question the
greatest of his angry masterpieces of that region.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 20w.

“So long as their lives proceed quietly the book is delightful, and
the true tragedy of its end is the tragedy of a fine novel spoilt.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 29. Ja. 25, ’07. 1090w.

“It is to be regretted that the writer did not more nearly confine
himself to the main theme. The supernumerary persons ... are too many
and too much in the way.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 415. My. 2, ’07. 400w.

“Here is the ‘Whirlwind’ ... thrashing out the same familiar subjects
with still enough of freshness and originality to make the reading of
it an unexpectedly pleasing task.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 191. Mr. 30, ’07. 570w.

“At his best and at his worst—at his best in true and faithful
presentation of the Dartmoor country and the Dartmoor rustics, at his
worst because there are breaks in the psychology, inconsistencies
between character and action, abrupt tragedy more startling than
real.”

+ − =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 765. Je. ’07. 90w.

=Phillpotts, Eden, and Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= Doubloons. †$1.50. McClure.

6–39024.

A joint “light-hearted, mile-a-minute detective story” (Nation) which
abounds in the local color of the West Indies.

* * * * *

“There is much clever invention and some charming descriptions of
nature, which are quite out of place, but the novel, as a whole, is a
failure, and does not arrest the attention.”

+ − =Acad.= 71: 503. N. 17, ’06. 130w.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07.

“Despite Mr. Phillpotts’ spurt, we cannot follow the narrative so
zealously as we should like, and the story drags out to a lame
conclusion.”

− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 687. D. 1. 210w.

“Some latent humor may be observed in the intense seriousness with
which the wild piece of sensationalism is worked out.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 148. F. 2. 160w.

“The London part of the story is better than its sequel, and provides
a thrill for every chapter. After a while the complication becomes so
great that there is nothing for it but to cut loose and to take refuge
in foreign parts. Meanwhile all sorts of loose ends are left hanging,
and some of them are not gathered up at all.” Wm. M. Payne.

− + =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 150w.

“The effect of such a skilful and enthralling plot is heightened by
the other features of the story, especially by its delightful vein of
satire.” Herbert W. Horwill.

+ + =Forum.= 38: 549. Ap. ’07. 430w.

− + =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 130w.

“The story differs from the average detective mystery only in being
quicker, more amusing, and in covering a wider geographical field.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 320w.

“It has achieved the difficult task of a thoroughly original plot with
a unique criminal.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 813. D. 1, ’06. 530w.

“The authors seem to have fallen between two stools by combining an
exciting tale of crime and treasure-seeking with a strain of
burlesque.”

− =Outlook.= 84: 711. N. 24, ’06. 150w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 50w.

“The book is certainly a first-class detective story; but we miss from
the mixture the peculiar qualities of Mr. Eden Phillpotts.”

+ − =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 250w.

=Phyfe, William Henry P.= Napoleon: the return from Saint Helena. 8 il. **$1. Putnam.

7–20318.

An informing account of the removal of the Emperor’s remains from
Saint Helena to France in 1840; together with a description of his
tomb in the Hôtel des invalides in Paris.

* * * * *

=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 600. N. ’07. 70w.

Reviewed by Henry E. Bourne.

=Dial.= 43: 89. Ag. 16, ’07. 310w.

=Nation.= 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 60w.

“The book is written in excellent taste, very simply and contains many
facts which students of the Emperor’s career will find interesting.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 416. Je. 29, ’07. 190w.

=Pickering, Sidney.= Basket of fate. †$1.50. Longmans.

“Mr. Pickering delineates no wonderful hero or heroine, but just
‘nice’ people, and people who are ‘not nice’ as we meet them in life.
The middle-aged man who loves, almost against his will, the fresh
English girl who can live near pitch, yet not allow the hem of her
skirt to be soiled, supplies the interest, being backed by a scheming
half-sister and her former lover.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“This is a book to be enjoyed at the fireside rather than criticised
in serious style.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 130w.

“For the tale ... is constructed and told with much skill. The
characters, even the minor ones, are cleverly drawn and made to reveal
themselves by their speech and actions.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 891. D. 22, ’06. 590w.

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 647. N. 24, ’06. 150w.

“Not particularly remarkable for originality, but brisk and pleasant
reading,”

+ − =Spec.= 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 200w.

=Pickworth, Charles N.= Slide rule. $1. Van Nostrand.

A tenth edition of a well known book in which “the text appears to be
simplified and improved, there is a large number of illustrative
examples from various phases of engineering calculation, and some few
of the numerous modified and special slide rules are described.”
(Engin. N.)

* * * * *

+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 240w.

=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Harding of St. Timothy’s. †$1.50. Houghton.

6–33574.

“A very good story of school life about boys in their middle and later
teens.... The scene is laid in a big boys’ school ... in New England.
The story is largely concerned with the athletic side of school life,
and shows the influence which can be exerted unconsciously among a lot
of boys by one who is always frank and manly and honorable.”—N. Y.
Times.

* * * * *

“A novel ... with a wholesome flavor and a genuine appeal to boys.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 200w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 607. S. 29, ’06. 150w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1. ’06. 100w.

=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Young in heart. **$1.25. Houghton.

7–16383.

“Comprises eight essays in observation of the writer’s fellow mortals,
their excellences and defects, their successes and failures, their
work and their play. Particularly strong has the author shown himself
in what may be called the psychology of self-conceit.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“Enjoyment of these agreeable and often illuminating studies in human
nature ... would be more nearly perfect did they reveal a finer sense
of the niceties of language.”

+ − =Dial.= 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 380w.

“A delightful little book which justifies its title. The author is
certainly young in heart, and his outlook on the world is hospitable
and comprehensive.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 320. My. 18, ’07. 300w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.

=Pier, Garrett Chatfield.= Egyptian antiquities in the Pier collection. *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.

6–41525.

=pt. 1.= “The first volume ... consists of specimens represented in
twenty-two plates, and includes objects in glazed pottery, flint and
other stones, ivory and other materials. There are pendants,
ornaments, inlays, and amulets, but the chief place is given to more
than two hundred scarabs, seals, and cylinders. The catalogue
describes the articles which the plates picture.”—Nation.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 915. Jl. ’07. 150w. (Review of pt. 1.)

=Ind.= 61: 1352. D. 6, ’06. 230w. (Review of pt. 1.)

“The whole is a conscientious and useful piece of work, free from
ostentation and creditably performed. The value of the book is
increased by the excellence of the reproduction of the legends and
devices on the scarabs.”

+ + − =Nation.= 83: 447. N. 22, ’06. 240w. (Review of pt. 1.)

“The disadvantages of the book are such as the author can easily
remedy in the succeeding parts, and we hope that he will continue his
plan to its end.” H. H.

+ + − =Nature.= 76: 148. Je. 13, ’07. 920w. (Review of pt. 1.)

=Pierce, Ernest Frederic.= Traveller’s Joy. †$1.50. Dutton.

7–37555.

“The Traveller’s Joy” is an inn of the South Downs where a young
writer, Anthony Penrose spends a summer and falls in love with Madge
Weston, the sister of a college chum and the niece of his publisher.
It is full of the wealth of summer and invincible youth.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 330w.

“The book is as fresh and as wholesome as a spring morning; its worst
faults are those of inexperience.”

+ − =Spec.= 96: 949. Je. 16, ’06. 820w.

=Pierce, Franklin.= Tariff and the trusts. **$1.50. Macmillan.

7–4381.

In this treatise the author “attempts to show ... how the Dingley
tariff has been the direct cause of the rise and growth of hundreds of
oppressive capitalistic combinations. In the course of his argument he
institutes comparisons with foreign governments and deduces many
illustrations from the tariff history of those countries, particularly
England and Germany.”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

“The author finds the tariff the chief cause for the oppression of
corporate monopoly. It is here that the logic is weak; the analysis of
the inconsistencies of the tariff is keen, and for the most part
justified, but little evidence is given of the causal relation between
the tariff and the great trusts which defy competition.” D. R. D.

− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 933. Jl. ’07. 380w.

“Clear, forceful, controversial.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.

“The book contains the most startling array of facts.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 645. My. ’07. 670w.

“The argument is very one-sided, but is so well put together that the
stand-patters cannot well afford to neglect it.” Max West.

+ − =Dial.= 43: 121. S. 1, ’07. 250w.

“The author’s arguments based upon the comparison of the volume of
exports and imports at different periods and of different countries
should accordingly not be accepted as conclusive of the economic evils
of the protective system.”

+ − =Ind.= 62: 1473. Je. 20, ’07. 330w.

“The book is frankly based on secondary sources, apparently not on
very many, and is written for the general public, not for the student.
We conclude that even among the staunchest of free-traders a book of
this character could be welcomed only by the most shortsighted.”
Chester W. Wright.

− =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 308. My. ’07. 1230w.

“It cannot be said that Mr. Pierce’s book is of great value to the
student, but for the general reader it should serve a useful purpose.
The author is at his best in the chapter which discusses the relation
of protective tariffs to public morals.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 200w.

“Mr. Pierce has not written a book to class with Prof. Taussig’s, but
it will serve a purpose for which the academic treatises are
unsuited.” Edward A. Bradford.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 104. F. 16, ’07. 1120w.

=Outlook.= 86: 341. Je. 15. ’07. 440w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 60w.

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

6–24023.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Discusses in a clear and interesting way, and with a deep conviction
that the hand of an ‘Overruling Providence’ can be detected in the
development of our country.”

+ + =Yale. R.= 16: 224. Ag. ’07. 50w.

* =Pierson, Clara Dillingham.= Millers at Pencroft. †$1. Dutton.

6–35325.

A bright wholesome story of “a nice family with three children, who do
the interesting things most children do. They send valentines, go out
to tea and have cream puffs for desert, and once the boys sailed the
kittens until they fell into the water. Buttercup had only to be
dried, but Blackie was restored by means of artificial respiration.
The children fed a party in a snow-stalled train, and that was great
fun. too.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.

“We would strongly recommend ‘The Millers at Pencroft.’”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 763. D. ’07. 150w.

=Pierson, Delevan Leonard=, ed. Pacific Islanders; from savages to saints. **$1. Funk.

6–39748.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.

“We could wish that there might have been somewhat less
insistence upon the differences between Catholic and Protestant
missionaries—differences which do not make very edifying
reading.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 25, ’06. 160w.

=Pirscher, Johanna.= Growth without end: a popular exposition of some current ethical and religious views. **30c. Crowell.

7–21388.

One of the year’s additions to the “What is worth while series.” An
optimistic discussion of the good resulting from the active principle
of evolution and the work of modern sociology—good that shows itself
in courtesy and generosity in daily intercourse, strength of purpose,
devotion to duty and in a simple practical faith in God.

=Pitman, Isaac.= Pitman’s dictionary of commercial correspondence in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. $2.25. Pitman.

A valuable aid to the foreign correspondent. It gives the most common
commercial terms and phrases. It does not attempt to displace, but
rather to supplement other dictionaries, and it presupposes some
knowledge of the grammar and construction of the different languages.

* * * * *

+ =Spec.= 98: 464. Mr. 23, ’07. 100w.

=Pitt, William, 1st earl of Chatham.= Correspondence of William Pitt when secretary of state, with colonial governors and military and naval commissioners in America; ed. under the auspices of the National society of colonial dames of America, by Gertrude S. Kimball. 2v. **$6. Macmillan.

“This publication in two volumes contains the official correspondence
of William Pitt, when secretary of state, 1756–1761, with the colonial
governors and the naval and, military commanders in America. These
were the years of Great Britain’s glory, when, under the inspiring
genius of Pitt, her arms were successful in all corners of the globe,
and when the British navy attained an unquestioned command of the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans.”—Putnam’s.

* * * * *

“Valuable documentary publication.”

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 469. Ja. ’07. 70w.

“The letters may be read with special advantage by those who are
taking up the study of the campaigns of 1756–1760, and they are full
of interest to the average reader, since they contain much of the
thought of the greatest statesman England can claim for three hundred
years. The books are well printed and are unusually free from
typographical errors, although there are one or two slight
topographical slips in the volumes, such as placing Bic off the
Saguenay river.”

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 663. Ap. ’07. 1560w.

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 799. D. 22. 1730w.

“Teachers and students of early American history owe to the patriotic
society women, and to Miss Kimball, their thanks for making available
these interesting records.” Edwin Erle Sparks.

+ + =Dial.= 43: 117. S. 1, ’07. 790w.

“The introduction is lucid and the notes admirably brief and painted;
while the material collected gives a picture of Pitt’s powers of
practical administration which is an absolute revelation.” Basil
Williams.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 377. Ap. ’07. 1980w.

+ + =Ind.= 62: 1413. Je. 13, ’07. 790w.

“Miss Kimball was fortunate in finding nearly all her material ready
arranged in the series of American and West Indian state papers
preserved in the Record office, but a debt of gratitude is none the
less due to her for bringing it to the notice of the English-speaking
public in this clear and readable form.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 3. Ja. 4, ’07. 2160w.

“The documents in these volumes have been well edited, but Miss
Kimball’s preface hardly meets the demands of the occasion.”

+ + − =Nation.= 84: 244. Mr. 14, ’07. 1780w.

+ =Outlook.= 86: 970. Ag. 31, ’07. 550w.

“Carefully edited.” Herbert L. Osgood.

+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 326. Je. ’07. 990w.

“It seems ungracious to find fault when so much that is valuable is
presented in these volumes, yet the collection would have been far
completer, though much bulkier, if the enclosures in the dispatches
had also been printed. The availability of such material cannot,
however, compensate for an adequate biography.” George Louis Beer.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 757. Mr. ’07. 460w.

“It is a great boon to the student of history to have valuable
documentary material of this character printed in this convenient and
accessible form.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 170w.

“The Society of the colonial dames of America has performed a pious
task in collecting a correspondence which covers the origins of their
nation, and in Miss Kimball they have found a competent editor. The
book is interesting mainly as the raw material of history.”

+ + =Spec.= 98: 143. Ja. 26. ’07. 1330w.

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

6–30015.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“There are a few minor features in the work which seem to fall short
of a sympathetic understanding of Catholicism. Looking for the good in
the work, however, we find it full of Christian sympathy, and of an
honest desire to make Christianity true to its social mission.”

+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 698. F. ’07. 870w.

Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ − =Dial.= 42: 13. Ja. 1. ’07. 170w.

“A wholesome book and a tonic book.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 237. S. 22, ’06. 330w.

=Plumb, Charles Sumner.= Types and breeds of farm animals. *$2. Ginn.

7–1488.

Commonly accepted types and breeds of horses, asses, mules, cattle,
sheep, goats and swine are treated in this volume, as for instance,
the draft or speed type of horse, dairy type of cattle, and bacon type
of swine. It includes a discussion on original habitat, breed
development, history, work of pioneer breeders, characteristics, etc.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07. S.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 600. N. ’07. 130w.

=Plummer, Mary Wright.= Roy and Ray in Mexico. Il. **$1.75. Holt.

7–19788.

A story told from the standpoint of Roy and Ray Stevens, lively twins,
who spend a summer in Mexico. They visit Mexican cities, meet
President Diaz, take part in an American colony’s celebration of the
fourth of July, visit ruins and landmarks, and incidentally learn
interesting bits of Mexican history. It is a travel book that will
interest old as well as young.

* * * * *

“Will be helpful to teachers.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 209. N. ’07.

“The pictures are particularly good.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 100w.

“A sensible book of travel.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 768. D. ’07. 60w.

=Plunkett, Charles Hare.= Letters of one: a study in limitations. **$1.25. Putnam.

7–12641.

“The book consists of more than forty letters, all purporting to be
from a writer who is cursed with the artistic temperament, and
addressed to a lady with whom he has fallen in love.... Every one of
these letters explains, from one aspect or another, the writer’s
conviction that courtship and marriage would involve infidelity to his
true mistress—his art.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“The writing of these letters, from the literary standpoint, is
excellent. The sameness of the matter in them, tends to spoil the
book, which would have been more interesting if it had included some
of the replies to these highly wrought outpourings.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 471. Ap. 20. 550w.

“Bears the unmistakable Benson stamp in conception and execution. As a
tour de force in the portrayal of love-madness at the summit of its
absurdity, the little book is a sort of curiosity.”

+ − =Dial.= 42: 343. Je. 1, ’07. 610w.

“An interesting study of the morbid and irritating type. As a reductio
ad absurdum of the artistic temperament theory, the book has merit.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 590. Je. 27, ’07. 490w.

“Not a manly enough character to arouse much admiration in the
reader’s mind. But it painted, with all its curious limitations and
contradictions, very clearly and convincingly.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 380w.

“Take it all in all, is pretty thin gruel, fit for an invalid, maybe,
but not very tasty at that. They do these things better on the
continent, you know.” Florence Wilkinson.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 1900w.

“A very clever book this.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 180w.

=Plympton, Almira George.= Dorcaster days. †$1.25. Little.

7–31228.

A story for young people in which the simple, pure, near-to-nature
life of one family reforms the false, snobbish standards of another.

=Podmore, Frank.= Robert Owen, a biography. *$6. Appleton.

7–11019.

Mr. Podmore has gathered together and presented the details of the
life of this Welshman whose plans for a co-operative village marks the
beginning of modern socialism. The sketch follows his efforts and his
failure. “There is hardly an item in the whole modern programme of
social endeavour to-day, apart from religion, which he did not
initiate, promote, or suggest; and the gospel of salvation by
material-means, which is his gospel, gains ground everywhere at the
expense of all other gospels.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“An excellent and well-balanced biography. Mr. Podmore’s work will be
found of value to students of present social conditions, as well as to
those interested in early history in the middle west of America.”

+ + =Dial.= 43: 289. N. 1, ’07. 390w.

“It is not the final biography of the prophet of socialism—a more
illuminating one remains yet to be written; but it is opportune,
meritorious and acceptable.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 2100w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 1300w.

“The life of Robert Owen, which Mr. Podmore has written with much
insight and considerable literary skill, is full of interest.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 1040. Je. 30, ’06. 1400w.

=Poe, Edgar Allan.= Poems; collected and edited, with a critical introduction and notes, by Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry. $1. Duffield.

7–21324.

The text adopted here is that of the Lorimer Graham copy of the
edition of 1845, revised by marginal corrections in Poe’s hand. There
is a critical introduction to the poems and notes including variant
readings.

* * * * *

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 150w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 616. O. 12, ’07. 130w.

=Politovsky, Eugene S.= From Libau to Tsushima: a narrative of the voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky’s fleet to eastern seas, including a detailed account of the Dogger Bank incident; tr. by Major F. R. Godfrey. *$1.50. Dutton.

7–10987.

A diary in the form of letters to his wife written by the chief
engineer of the fleet from Aug. 28, 1904 to May 10, 1905. “It presents
with greater vividness than any formal history can the life on the
Russian vessels during the seven months’ cruise from the Baltic around
Africa, the long, tedious stay at Madagascar and Kamranh Bay and the
preparations for the last fatal fight.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“If the author had been a closer observer and a more trained writer,
the letters might have been very valuable, since little is known of
that remarkable journey after the fleet left Tangier until it met its
doom.”

− + =Acad.= 71: 382. O. 13, ’06. 230w.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.

=Ind.= 61: 1571. D. 27. ’06. 190w.

“He is merely an intelligent outside observer, ready enough to make
allowances for the difficulties with which Rojdestvensky was beset;
but on that account his casual and incidental remarks are all the more
illuminative.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 310. S. 14, ’06. 1170w.

“His diary ... has deservedly been called a valuable contribution to
the history of the great struggle in the Far East. It holds material,
however, which should be subjected to careful interpretation.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 415. My. 2, ’07. 610w.

“The translator is to be congratulated upon his terse English and his
successful avoidance of foreign idioms. An index would have been most
acceptable.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 861. D. 8, ’06. 170w.

“This book may be considered a trustworthy record of events and of
life on board the ships under Rojdestvensky’s command, whilst in it
can be clearly traced the causes which led up to the crowning disaster
of Tsushima.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 370. S. 22, ’06. 350w.

“A more faithful picture of what the Russians thought and said and did
during these nine months there could not be.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 338. S. 8, ’06. 450w.

=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Factors in modern history and their application to the problems around us. **$2.25. Putnam.

“Prof. Pollard’s book is made up of a number of lectures dealing
chiefly with various aspects and developments of English history in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In his own words, his object
is ‘primarily to stimulate imagination,’ and he avowedly neglects
‘facts’ as such. What he offers is a series of conclusions (based as
they must be, on an intimate knowledge of facts) on the character and
inner meaning of certain phases of sixteenth and seventeenth century
history, embodying illuminating reflections and generalizations from
which the reader will turn with added zest to the ‘facts’ of the
period.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“Professor Pollard is, we think, at his best in the earlier lectures.
His tracing of the growth of the national idea, of the advent of the
middle class, and his picture of the new monarchy are most interesting
and stimulating in the Aristotelian sense of the word. His style is
happy and light and his lectures, should be most interesting to listen
to, for even in cold print they read delightfully.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 725. Jl. 27, ’07. 550w.

“It is ungrateful to carp at incidental peculiarity and ambiguity of
detail amidst so much valuable generalization.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 91. Jl. 27. 850w.

“A word should be added in appreciation of the author’s literary
style: the reviewer recalls no other discussion that brings out the
humor of history so freely and so delightfully. Professor Pollard’s
latest work is one that lovers of history will read with enjoyment as
well as with profit.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 320. N. 16, ’07. 480w.

“It is long since we have approached a book of historical philosophy
so intelligent or so incisive.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 1174. N. 14, ’07. 640w.

“Some of the chapters are worthy of their author at his best; but
others are not likely to add to his reputation and, though they may
have been useful for their original purpose, ought not to have been
given to the world in this form.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 251. Ag. 16, ’07. 1170w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 500w.

=R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 70w.

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 272. Ag. 31. ’07. 940w.

“It unquestionably merits the adjective ‘readable,’ which is more
often bestowed than deserved.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 390w.

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

6–18588.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 150w.

=Sat. R.= 102: sup. 7. D. 8, ’06. 140w.

“It has occasional touches of verisimilitude, but its dramatic climax
belongs to the region of the impossible.”

− + =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 70w.

=Pollok, Allan.= Studies in practical theology. $1.50. T. C. Allen & co., Halifax, Canada.

“While the subject of preaching and pulpit preparation is not
neglected, much more space is devoted to such topics as the
clergyman’s life as a student, the conduct of public worship, the
adminstration of the church and the visitation of the sick, than is
usual in homiletical treatises. The best traditions of the Scottish
ministry, among which are scholarly industry, personal dignity,
unfailing courtesy, and above all things, fidelity and
conscientiousness, find a kindly and gentle exponent in Principal
Pollok.”—Nation.

* * * * *

+ =Nation.= 85: 56. Jl. 18, ’07. 190w.

+ − =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 110w.

=Pond, Oscar Lewis.= Municipal control of public utilities. **$1.50; pa. **$1. Macmillan.

7–4379.

“He begins with the definition of the purely governmental and the
private or business functions of municipal corporations, discusses the
legal construction of municipal charters and the implied powers of
municipal corporations. He then sets forth ‘municipal purposes within
the meaning of the constitution,’ shows the grounds on which municipal
property is exempted from taxation, and treats of the sale of
municipal property, power to grant exclusive franchises, and the
regulation of charges for services rendered by private
corporations.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“Legal rather than economic in its discussion, it is rather more
interesting to the student and general reader than most purely legal
treatises.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 166. Jl. ’07. 240w.

=Engin. N.= 57: 555. My. 16, ’07. 130w.

=Poole, Ernest.= Voice of the street. †$1.50. Barnes.

6–19774.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Is strong in its story element, but is not likely to have a large
influence in changing conditions.” Madeline Z. Doty.

+ − =Charities.= 17: 487. D. 15, ’06. 420w.

=Porter, Eleanor H.= Cross currents: the story of Margaret. †$1. Wilde.

7–27618.

The story of a little girl of wealth who was lost and found by a
little waif of the slums, taken to his meager attic, and forced to
grow up among the sordid conditions of sweat-shops and dirty streets.
The book is a revealing child-labor document.

=Porter, Gene Stratton (Mrs. Charles Darwin Porter).= What I have done with birds. **$3. Bobbs.

7–17394.

The sub-title of this book is wholly suggestive of its scope:
“character studies of native American birds which through friendly
advance I induced to pose for me, or succeeded in photographing by
good fortune, with the story of my experiences in obtaining their
pictures.”

* * * * *

“Self-appreciation or self-consciousness constantly reappears
throughout the book.” George Gladden.

+ − =Bookm.= 25: 622. Ag. ’07. 330w.

“A thread of sustained interest runs through the whole book and makes
it possible for the reader to overlook a perhaps justifiable pride of
the author in her achievements and to ignore at times an abrupt style
and a tendency to employ unusual words and phrases.”

+ − =Dial.= 43: 216. O. 1. ’07. 220w.

“Besides the numerous half-tones, the volume contains seventeen
full-page colored plates of unusual accuracy and beauty.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 150w.

“Few books entail such actual labor as this, such marvelous patience,
and few books are produced with a spirit of enthusiastic at-one-ness
with the subjects.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 170w.

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

2–8573.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07. ✠

=Porter, Robert Percival.= Dangers of municipal ownership. **$1.80. Century.

7–3905.

A study of conditions in many of the most famous industrial centers of
the world lies back of Mr. Porter’s exposition. By way of a warning to
the United States, he gives a brief history of Municipal ownership in
Great Britain, pointing out the serious consequences of the
indiscriminate pursuit of the system there. He says “Trading with the
public credit, whether state or municipal, must, of necessity, lead to
stupendous financial liabilities, add to the burden of the rates,
weaken municipal credit, bring about inequality of taxation, interfere
with the natural laws of trade, check industrial and scientific
progress, stop invention, discourage individual effort, destroy
foreign trade, establish an army of officials, breed corruption,
create an aristocracy of labor, demoralize the voter, and ultimately
make socialistic communities of towns and cities.”

* * * * *

+ − =Acad.= 73: 108. N. 9, ’07. 1000w.

“Partisan in spirit but useful because it is practically the first
presentation of this side of the question.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07.

“As a wholly partisan writer on his chosen subject, Mr. Porter is an
unqualified success except as his zeal defeats his own ends.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 553. My. 16, ’07. 400w.

“Mr. Porter has given us one of the most vigorous and readable books
on this much-discussed subject. It is the work of an advocate but of
an advocate perfectly sure of the correctness of his position and
thoroughly alarmed at the tendencies he describes.” Wm. Hill.

+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 495. O. ’07. 600w.

“The book is well worth the study of those interested in present
economic conditions and is likely to attract considerable notice.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 530w.

“It is a real service to put the facts, which are accumulating clearly
before the public and to explain them, so that people may know what
they are doing. Mr. Porter’s book does that, and therein lies its
value.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 250. Ag. 16, ’07. 1270w.

“He Is a confessed and violent partisan, and too many of the figures
which he gives are untested and unfairly collated for inferences
dubiously drawn. This we the more regret because we agree in the main
with his point of view. Nor is his sense of order good.”

− + =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 170w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 49. Ja. 26, ’07. 230w.

“He goes on to declare that the object of his book is to set forth
‘the inherent defects of the whole principle of public trading.’ We do
not think that a book founded on this lack of discrimination and
taking for itself this sole object, will be of any great help to the
student of this problem.”

− =Outlook.= 86: 78. My. 11, ’07. 370w.

“This volume by Mr. Porter will attract attention, since it is
practically the first popular presentation of that side of the
discussion. Mr. Porter is a trained investigator and statistician, and
presents his case in an attractive and entertaining way.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 38. Mr. ’07. 110w.

“Valuable as the work of a practical official and citizen of a
practical nation.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 130w.

=Porter, Thomas F.= City songs and country carols. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

6–41028.

Nearly two hundred and fifty poems including fireside reveries,
reminiscences, and sentiments of the philosopher, patriot and citizen.

=Post, Louis Freeland.= Ethical principles of marriage and divorce. *$1. Public pub. co., Chicago.

6–13427.

A serious treatment in which “Mr. Post ... argues that without
unifying love marriage is essentially no better than concubinage.
Genuine marriage is not created by the formal ceremony that is
requisite to declare it; it exists before such declaration; it dies,
if the love that constitutes it dies; it is reasonable and also
conducive to moral interests that there should be a conventional
release from the remaining conventional bond.” (Outlook.) “The natural
inference from this is that when marriage ceases in reality, it should
cease also in form. Divorce should be granted and remarriage
permitted.” (Arena.)

* * * * *

“We do not hesitate to call this book a classic on the subject of
marriage and divorce. It is the ultimate analysis, the final answer to
a problem engaging now, more than ever, human attention. We commend
its consideration to all Bible-bound ecclesiastics as well as to
free-lovers and sex-radicals wherever found.” Robert E. Bisbee.

+ + =Arena.= 37: 322. Mr. ’07. 2120w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 808. Ap. 7, ’06. 280w.

=Potter, Beatrix.= Tale of Tom Kitten. †50c. Warne.

7–28973.

A prettily illustrated children’s story by the author of “The tale of
Peter rabbit” and companion to it.

* * * * *

“Other folk, as well as Pickles, will find pleasure in the dry and
simple humor of the narrator, and the dainty pictures she has
provided.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 140w.

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

6–33595.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.

“The whole collection has so finely human a quality that it should
have interest to those in no way connected with either of the offices
that make so impressive an appearance in the title.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 973. Ap. 25, ’07. 260w.

“He is able to indicate character by a stroke here and there, and the
man stands before us, recalled by a good memory.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 39. Ja. 5, ’07. 1170w.

=Potter, Margaret.= The princess. †$1.50. Harper.

7–9844.

A sad story of love and intrigue with scenes drawn from Russian court
life. The central figure is Princess Catherine, who lived in aloofness
and isolation amid the social corruption about her which affected her
in its most humiliating sense thru the inconstancy of her husband. The
Czar and Czarina, diplomats and courtiers appear upon the stage where
there is enacted a drama lacking neither romantic nor tragic interest.

* * * * *

=Ath.= 1907, 1: 469. Ap. 20. 120w.

“It is a pity that Miss Potter should have resorted to this trick of
supernaturalism, which seriously weakens her book.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 240w.

“An interesting novel of sufficient verisimilitude to give life and
character to her narrative.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 170w.

“It would be hard to imagine an uglier situation than that upon which
the action turns. Nevertheless the tale is in its way absorbing, and
not likely to be at once forgotten.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 480w.

“Considering the general unpleasantness of Miss Potter’s theme, she
has managed its development with a good deal of skill, though some
doubts insist on obtruding as to her solution of the story’s final
problem.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 570w.

“Represents the highest achievement of its author yet given to the
public.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + − =No. Am.= 185. 549. Jl. 5, ’07. 1220w.

“An occult strain runs through the novel, managed with frankness and
some skill.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.

* =Poulsson, Emilie.= Father and baby plays. †$1.25. Century.

7–38013.

A book of pictures, verses, music and notes for the teacher, father,
mother and baby. It is designed as a means of strengthening the tie
between father and child who are separated the whole day thru.

* * * * *

“A new and very attractive book.”

+ =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 40w.

=Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5. ’07. 20w.

“The verses which Miss Poulsson has written are most uneven. The
illustrations, however, are spirited and above the average.”

+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 80w.

=Powell, Elmer Ellsworth.= Spinoza and religion: a study of Spinoza’s metaphysics and of his particular utterances in regard to religion, with a view to determining the significance of his thought for religion and incidentally his personal attitude toward it. *$1.50. Open ct.

6–21921.

“The aim of this book is to prove that Spinoza was irreligious and his
philosophy antireligious.”—Philos. R.

* * * * *

+ =Ind.= 62: 856. Ap. 11, ’07. 250w.

“The book is clear in style, thorough in execution, and exhibits much
logical acumen.” Eugene W. Lyman.

+ =J. Philos.= 4: 668. N. 21, ’07. 440w.

“The author demonstrates his familiarity with the field and his
liveliness of interest. The style, furthermore, is excellent, and does
much to redeem a book which is otherwise too doggedly iconoclastic to
be either stimulating or pleasing.”

+ − =Nation.= 83: 487. D. 6, ’06. 1520w.

“Lacks that spirit of impartiality which is the prime requisite in all
critical investigations. Nor does Dr. Powell appear to have studied
the philosopher’s writings with enough thoroughness to enable him to
grasp the true significance of his teaching.” E. Ritchie.

− =Philos. R.= 16: 339. My. ’07. 300w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 50w.

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

6–19419.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The book is popular in style and suggestive as to matter.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.

=Pratt, Ambrose.= Counterstroke. *$1. Fenno.

A melodramatic story filled with lurid pictures. The characters are
“either Nihilists of the most rabid breed or members of a society
pledged to exterminate Nihilists by the use of tactics exactly modeled
on their own bloody methods—whence the title, ‘The counterstroke.’”
(N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“As lurid as the wildest dream of villainy and injured innocence that
ever found its way into the pages of the cheap story papers.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 180w.

=Pratt, Antwerp Edgar.= Two years among New Guinea cannibals: a naturalist’s sojourn among the aborigines of unexplored New Guinea. *$4. Lippincott.

6–24917.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Mr. Pratt devotes little space in this book to natural history, its
bulk being given to a gossipy description of the author’s journeyings,
with remarks, too often inaccurate, on the natives he came in contact
with.” C. G. Seligmann.

− + =Nature.= 74: 58. My. 17, ’06. 890w.

=Pratt, Edwin A.= Railways and their rates. *$1.50. Dutton.

6–7780.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3:104. Ap. ’07.

“The pamphlet is well worth studying.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 643. N. 2, ’07. 340w.

=Pratt, Henry Sherring.= Course in vertebrate zoology: a guide to the dissection and comparative study of vertebrate animals. *$1.50. Ginn.

6–1432.

“The work includes practical directions for the dissection and study
of seven types of vertebrates; the dogfish for the elasmobranchs; the
perch for the teleost; the Necturus and frog for the amphibians; the
turtle; pigeon; and cat.... Each type is treated independently of the
rest, and may be studied separately.... It is strictly a laboratory
guide, not a treatise on comparative anatomy.”—School R.

* * * * *

“Notwithstanding drawbacks, the work remains as a useful guide to
those teachers who wish to arrange a course in comparative anatomy.”

+ − =Nature.= 74: sup. 8. O. 11, ’06. 750w.

“One might have wished that the author had omitted entirely the very
incomplete, incorrect, antiquated, and obsolete outline of the
classification of the vertebrates, for which, however, the author is
responsible only in accepting Wiedersheim as an authority. The work
itself, for which the author is responsible, is remarkably free from
errors.” S. W. Williston.

+ − =School R.= 15: 235. Mr. ’07. 280w.

=Pratt, James Bissett.= Psychology of religious belief. **$1.50. Macmillan.

7–4164.

A discussion which is more concerned with the modest and concrete
problem of the nature of belief in a God or gods and the basis or
bases on which this belief really rests than with the nature or the
definition of religion. The author aims to break ground in a rich but
neglected field.

* * * * *

“The book will repay study. We must, however. submit that Professor
Pratt’s definition of intellectual belief stands in need of
modification.”

+ − =Cath. World.= 25: 255. My. ’07. 430w.

“Valuable work.”

+ =Current Literature.= 42: 418. Ap. ’07. 1820w.

“As a simple direct presentation of religious-mindedness, the essay is
to be commended.”

+ =Dial.= 42: 148. Mr. 1, 07. 280w.

“The argument is well reasoned, and is expressed in clear and popular
style.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1378. D. 5, ’07. 140w.

“This volume is a happy addition to the rapidly growing literature of
religious psychology. It deals with the side of the subject that as
yet has received scant attention from the scientific students of the
religious consciousness. The clear and simple style of the book,
together with the note of earnestness and sincerity that pervades it,
makes it a pleasure to read. It is a scholarly study of a
psychological problem. It will be read with profit by many who have
neither a psychological training nor scholarly interests. A carefully
selected bibliography of the psychology of religion and an index add
to the usefulness of the book for the purposes of the student.” F. C.
French.

+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 383. Jl. 4, ’07. 1680w.

+ − =Nation.= 85: 237. S. 12, ’07. 440w.

“One can hardly ask for a clearer vindication than this volume
presents of the absolute validity of the religious consciousness.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 831. Ag. 17, ’07. 1030w.

* =Pratt, Waldo Selden.= History of music. Schirmer.

Distinctly a book of reference for students rather than a literary or
critical survey of a few salient aspects, or a specialist’s report of
original research. It is encyclopedic in its fulness and from
primitive or savage music down to later nineteenth century music the
leading tendencies or movements of musical advance are discussed.

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

6–22387.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Threshing as it does over fields already covered by many excellent
works, such a book as this should find its justification in clearness
of presentation, yet in this respect it can hardly be called a
success. The language is often so confused as to be almost
unintelligible, and many errors appear which should have been detected
in a careful reading of the manuscript or of the proof.”

− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 414. Ja. ’07. 650w.

=Prendergast, William A.= Credit and its uses. **$1.50. Appleton.

6–40205.

“This book treats briefly of the theory of credit, urging that,
besides the tangible element of property, the intangible element of
good faith, or confidence, is fundamental. Thus he holds strongly that
credit is chiefly dependent on these intangible elements.”—J. Pol.
Econ.

* * * * *

“The book is sufficiently popular to be understood by the layman, is
strong on the practical side. Its weakness on the theoretical side
will not hurt it as an introduction to practical problems of credit.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 170. O. ’07.

“The weakest part of the book is that dealing with the theory of
credit.”

+ − =Ind.= 62: 157. Ja. 17, ’07. 480w.

“Whatever the value to be assigned to his treatment of the academic
side of credit, the book must really be estimated by the useful
compilation he has made of material bearing on the practical side of
the question.” L.

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 638. D. ’06. 320w.

“A work serviceable at some points and altogether unsatisfactory at
others.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 142. F. 7. ’07. 1030w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 40w.

=Prentice, Ezra Parmalee.= Federal power over carriers and corporations. **$1.50. Macmillan.

7–4172.

A book which deals with the nature and extent of powers belonging to
the general government and not with Congressional legislation. In Mr.
Prentice’s study, constitutional construction is interpreted by the
aid of constitutional history.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.

“Mr. Prentice’s excellent work has serious limitations which are
doubtless the result of his close identity with certain large
corporations whose activities may be more or less affected by the
enforcement of the anti-trust act.” Emory R. Johnson.

+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 186. Jl. ’07. 800w.

“Apart from its interest to the lawyer and the lawmaker, the book is
of value to all who are concerned with or are interested in the
problems of government and economics.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 273. Ja. 31, ’07. 950w.

“On the whole, however, it must be said that the book’s place is as a
readable partisan account of the development of a constitutional
doctrine, and not as a serious contribution to the legal literature of
the subject.” James Parker Hall.

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 238. Ap. ’07. 1680w.