Chapter XXXIX: Book 1: , The heavenly bodies; Book 2, The constellations; Book 3, Times (4)

“An ingenious, breathless story, of decided literary merit, that men
and older boys will enjoy.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08. ✠

“The last fight of the ‘Tremendous’ is one of the best naval battles
in fiction.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 676. N. 28. 330w.

“A distinctly bigger achievement than either of its author’s earlier
books; and, one is tempted to add, the book best entitled of any story
written in English since the days of Robert Louis Stevenson to trace
its ancestry straight back to the purest strain of the romantic
novel.” Philip Tillinghast.

+ + =Forum.= 40: 510. N. ’08. 2000w.

“Take three parts of Stevenson to one of Charles Kingsley, flavor with
reminiscences of Blackmore, beat violently, and serve in paragraphs à
la Charles Reade—such seems to have been the formula for this rather
extraordinary book.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 340w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 100w.

“One can only call it melodrama; but it hurries the reader along
without a halt on a single page.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 796. D. 19, ’08. 720w.

“The book is marred a little by hints of torture and by some passages
which may try the nerves of haters of bloodshed and cruelty, and
sometimes the author’s style, purposely made sharp and concise,
becomes a little too Victor Hugoish in abruptness. But, criticism
aside, the romance is one of the best of its class; it holds the
imagination with intentness.”

+ − =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 180w.

=Olmstead, Albert Ten Eyck.= Western Asia in the days of Sargon of
Assyria, 722–705 B. C.: a study in oriental history. (Cornell
studies in history and political science.) **$1.25. Holt.

8–17886.

“Represents seven years of study during which the author was for a
year a Fellow at the American school for oriental studies, under
Professor Schmidt, and had the inestimable advantage of a careful
topographical study of a portion of the territory covered by Sargon’s
campaigns.... Among the points most valuable is his study of the
perplexing ‘Muzri’ question raised by Winckler. Also of much interest
is the account of Sargon’s campaigns to the north against the Mannai
and Khaldians (Chaldeans) until he was slain in battle with the
Cimmerians, as this brings him into relation with tribes whom our
author recognizes as Aryan.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“This book is a good example of the systematic work that must be done
on every period of Babylonian-Assyrian history before an adequate
history of those nations can be written.”

+ =Bib. World.= 32: 224. S. ’08. 90w.

“An admirably careful, thoro and adequate study of Sargon’s campaigns,
and has close bearing on biblical accounts.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 266. Jl. 30, ’08. 220w.

* =Olmsted, E. Stanley.= Emotionalist: the romance of an awakening to temperament. †$1.50. Appleton.

8–30250.

The story of an American girl’s struggle for temperament which if
added to her gift of a beautiful voice, to her ambition and energy
would insure a much coveted career. She pursues her study in Germany,
meets a man who takes a hand in developing her temperament with the
result that he loves her, and sacrifices his happiness for her art
only to see her turn aside from it and marry a Fifth avenue
oil-magnate.

* * * * *

“A clever piece of work.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 300w.

=Oman, John Campbell.= Brahmans, theists, and Muslims of India.
*$3.50. Jacobs.

8–436.

Studies of goddess-worship in Bengal, caste, Brahmanism and social
reform, with descriptive sketches of curious festivals, ceremonies and
fakirs.

* * * * *

“An excellent book on the practice of religion as distinguished from
the doctrines or philosophies. Useful in connection with so called
accounts of religion which are purely idealistic.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 200. Je. ’08.

“A special master-key to the problems of Indian life and thought.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 259. S. 7. 2750w.

“The work contains a great deal that is full of human interest, but
its value had been much enhanced by greater compression and more
reflection of a suggestive sort upon the phenomena presented.” James
Lindsay.

+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 138. O. ’08. 340w.

“Mr Oman’s evidence is all the more valuable and convincing in that he
approaches the speculative realms of Hindu thought with broad-minded
tolerance and sympathy, whilst he is too sound a student to ignore or
to minimize the more repellent aspects of Hinduism.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 276. S. 13, ’07. 1700w.

“The many pages devoted to subjects already treated by the other
writers, such as caste and the history of Hindu theism, are not of
great worth, and give the impression of having been taken in great
measure from previous authors. On the other hand, Mr. Oman’s own
observations and studies from life in India, his descriptions of the
Holi festival and the Mohammedan fakirs deserve a permanent form.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja, 30, ’08. 150w.

“He has evidently written con amore, and with wide and diverse
knowledge, and his pages give to the reader a singular feeling of
being in touch with at least some of the actualities of this alien and
mysterious life.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 220w.

=R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 60w.

* =Onken, William Henry, and Baker, Joseph Black.= Harper’s how to understand electrical work; a simple explanation of electric light, heat, power and traction in daily life; with a dictionary of electrical terms prepared by Joseph H. Adams. $1.75. Harper.

8–33039.

A book which answers for boys and girls the questions how and why
machinery moves when the force behind it is electricity. It is the
story of the every day uses of electricity indicating the universality
of its application. The author shows how electricity is made; how it
is used for light, heat, power and traction; in the home, on the farm,
in hospitals, on steamships, in mines, in the manufacture of steel;
for protection, as a destroyer, and for the transmission of
intelligence.

* * * * *

“Here is a book that makes the sharp and proper divisions as to
methods and apparatus, and tells with precision just what is involved
in lighting as distinguished from traction, in telegraphy as different
from telephony. Our own opinion is that it will find a large
circulation on account of the boldness with which it gives engineering
data and diagrams.”

+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1252. D. 5, ’08. 400w.

“It is a deep book for a boy ... but one that will stimulate his mind
if he be mechanically inclined.”

+ =Engin. N.= 60: 694. D. 17, ’08. 240w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 80w.

=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= The avenger. †$1.50. Little.

8–13951.

A mystery story with a profusion of ingredients ranging from political
intrigue to private revenge. The book differs from other of Mr.
Oppenheim’s stories in that the man who takes life, the avenger, is a
most reputable citizen of London, who can’t understand why, if on the
battlefield one is held blameless while taking brave men’s lives, a
man who rids society of lives that breed corruption should be
condemned. He has the courage of his conviction and rids the world of
three decadents, consoling himself with the belief that it is a moral
act.

* * * * *

“Amongst the makers of sensational fiction Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim
ranks as a past-master.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 42. O. 19, ’07. 250w.

“An absurd, wholly improbable, yet readable tale.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.

“There is not a dull page in the volume and many of the scenes are
highly dramatic.” A. C. Rich.

+ =Arena.= 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 120w.

“Considered as an invention merely, the story is neat and effective.”
W: M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.

“Unlike most detective stories his plots are not mechanical and his
people not marionettes.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 100w.

“The avenger’s folk are nicely alive—all who are not killed. Its
manner places it in the class of novels of comfortable
manslaughter—smooth-running, readable, pleasantly puzzling.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.

“Altogether it is a lively, thrilling, and captivating story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.

“Altogether a rattling good story of its sort.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 360w.

“Is notable for its cleverness in placing before the readers a murder
problem apparently simple but really all but insoluble.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.

“Entertaining romance.” Charlotte Harwood.

+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 623. Ag. ’08. 100w.

=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Great secret. †$1.50. Little.

7–40278.

A story of intrigue woven about an international conspiracy hatched by
Germany and involving Great Britain. The outwitting of the band of
German conspirators in London is a clever piece of interference,
conducted by one Lord Leslie Wendover alias Leslie Guest, aided by a
renowned English cricket player, and a charming American girl.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08.

“An exceptionally able story of the kind.” A. C. Rich.

+ =Arena.= 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 180w.

“It is not likely that ‘The great secret’ will be distinguished for
merit above its fellow; but it may achieve a mild distinction in this
country because its author has allowed himself to indulge in gentle
sarcasm at the expense of the American woman. This is not one of those
mystery stories which offer a real challenge to the reader’s
analytical faculty. The truth is that Mr. Oppenheim, entertaining as
he may sometimes be, is sadly superficial.” Ward Clark.

+ − =Bookm.= 27: 61. Mr. ’08. 1000w.

“Although one cannot cease to protest against the utter improbability
of the general plot and many situations of this story, nevertheless
curiosity is aroused from the first and carries us along to the
finish.”

− =Cath. World.= 87: 262. My. ’08. 100w.

+ =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 100w.

+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 150w.

“There is no permanence and vitality in the plot to give it more than
an ephemeral existence.”

− =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 80w.

“Mr. Phillips Oppenheim leaves us with a headache. He is so amazingly
strenuous, and his characters pass through such terrible experiences
in rapid succession that our nerves are shattered before we get to the
end of the volume.”

− =Sat. R.= 103: 562. My. 4, ’07. 120w.

=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Long arm of Mannister. †$1.50. Little.

8–23549.

A man who had been the victim of the dark plotting of eight
conspirators takes his revenge upon each in turn. The punishment is
administered single-handed, and for variety, ingenuity, boldness and
thoroness can scarcely find its parallel in fiction.

* * * * *

“The story is better written than some of Mr. Oppenheim’s recent
thrilling romances and will hold the reader’s interest from start to
finish.” A. C. Rich.

+ =Arena.= 40: 483. N. ’08. 170w.

“Mr. Mannister’s methods are too simple to greatly absorb a generation
of readers that has known Sherlock Holmes.”

− =Cath. World.= 88: 408. D. ’08. 70w.

“Here Mr. Phillips undertakes to show, in a thrilling succession of
anecdotes, that the way of the transgressor is much harder than the
Biblical aphorist dreamed it. He has succeeded remarkably.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 200w.

“This may not be Mr. Oppenheim’s best work, but the narrative is
compact, lively, and exciting—a diverting companion in an idle hour.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 320w.

* =Orczy, Emmuska, baroness.= Elusive pimpernel. †$1.50. Dodd.

8–33437.

“A sequel to ‘Scarlet pimpernel,’ in which intrigue, romance, and love
go hand in hand along a path of real historical limitations and
extent. It is a new story, a new telling of certain episodes of the
French revolution, in which are continued the career of the Scarlet
pimpernel, that daring and mysterious young English soldier of
fortune, and the intrigues of the terrible yet fascinating French
agent, Chauvelin.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“If the reader can accept the improbabilities, he will find the story
entertaining.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 504. O. 24. 120w.

“The story ... is told with a rush of incident and with not a little
imaginative power.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 200w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.

“The interest is wrought up to the very highest pitch. Nor is the tale
a mere succession of startling incidents, made to look natural, and
very cleverly joined together.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 680. O. 31, ’08. 230w.

=Orczy, Emmuska, baroness.= In Mary’s reign. (English title, The
tangled skein.) 75c. Cupples & L.

8–14959.

“This is a sentimental tale of the days of Mary Tudor, with a fairly
ingenious plot. There is an innocent maiden, a very good English lord,
a double, and two very wicked Spanish diplomatists who speak with a
scarcely veiled sneer and contrive most diabolical plots.”—Acad.

* * * * *

“The style is of the most jerky and suburban type. The characters,
moreover, are entirely melodramatic.”

− =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.

“The romance is of the machine-made order, nor does it give any
adequate picture of the times. Its popular merit will probably be that
it has dramatic moments.”

− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 200w.

=Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 100w.

=Nation.= 86: 288. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 30w.

“There is none of the vigour shown in the ‘Scarlet pimpernel.’”

− =Sat. R.= 103: 818. Je. 29, ’07. 170w.

=Orgain, Kate Alma.= Southern authors in poetry and prose. *$2.
Neale.

8–23871.

A collection of biographical and critical essays, with selections from
the writers. Among the groups of twenty-six men and women briefly
sketched are Sidney Lanier, Augusta J. Evans, William Gilmore Simms,
John Esten Cooke, Joel Chandler Harris, Elizabeth Whitfield Bellamy,
George Washington Cable, Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Nelson Page.

=Osborn, Henry Fairfield.= Evolution of mammalian molar teeth, to
and from the triangular type. *$2. Macmillan.

The first volume in a series of six Biological studies and addresses.
“The purpose of the book is the collection of the writings of the
author on this question and the extension of them by other
observations and illustrations in support of the tritubercular
theory.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

=Nation.= 86: 243. Mr. 12, ’08. 150w.

“The author has succeeded in placing trituberculism on a much more
secure and unassailable basis than it ever previously occupied.” R. L.

+ =Nature.= 77: 435. Mr. 12, ’08. 800w.

“The whole book gives evidence of the most painstaking work. Perhaps
its most delightful feature is the judicial fairness and frankness
with which the whole evidence is reviewed and discussed.” R: S. Lull.

+ =Science=, n.s. 27: 341. F. 28, ’08. 1200w.

=Osborne, Charles Francis=, ed. Historic houses and their gardens:
palaces, castles, country places and gardens of the old and new
worlds described by several writers, illustrated with plans and
photographs; with introd. by Frank Miles Day. $6. Winston.

8–22109.

A beautiful volume of folio size, with heavy glazed paper, large type,
and numerous finely reproduced illustrations. The text includes thirty
chapters, each of which is devoted to the description of some historic
house and its garden. An introduction states some of the fundamental
principles that ought to govern the relation of houses and their
gardens. A wide range of selection is offered including houses in
England, Spain, Italy, Austria, Japan, India, France, Mexico, and the
United States.

* * * * *

“The book will bring travellers’ joy, whether reminiscent or
imaginary, to those who turn its pages.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 413. D. 1, ’08. 400w.

“There are thus scattered through the volume many welcome suggestions;
and the appreciative reader may find in this rather bewildering
abundance material for deductions which a work of narrower scope would
not afford.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 272. S. 17, ’08. 350w.

“A very beautiful and instructive illustrated volume.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 526. S. 26, ’08. 200w.

“In the main the book is harmonious in style and method, and in every
case the reader receives pleasurable impressions of the beauty of the
places and agreeably rendered information as to their association and
history.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.

=Osgood, Elliott I.= Breaking down Chinese walls, from a doctor’s
view-point. **$1. Revell.

8–5266.

A clear exposition of Chinese conditions and the place which medical
missionary work has assumed in the Christianizing of China. “The
author has shown that the missionary ‘must demonstrate by living
illustrations the superiority of Christianity over heathen systems’;
that dispensaries, hospitals and schools have been opened to prove the
advantages of a Christian civilization; and that the home-life of the
missionary is as effective an agency in regeneration as the pulpit and
the hospital.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

* * * * *

=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 717. My. ’08. 220w.

“A convincing and distinctly illuminating account of experiences in
China.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 100w.

“The fervent religious note throughout the book is so deep and earnest
and heartfelt that it must command respect even from those who have no
sympathy with the evangelical movements.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08 150w.

“Is interesting reading.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 312. Je. 6, ’08. 280w.

=* O’Shea, Michael Vincent.= Linguistic development and education.
*$1.25. Macmillan.

7–36885.

“Part 1 treats of the ‘Non-reflective processes in linguistic
development’ and includes chapters on prelinguistic expression, early
reaction upon conventional language, parts of speech in early
linguistic activity, inflection and word order, and development of
meaning for verbal symbols. Part 2 on ‘Reflective processes in
linguistic development’ treats of acquisition of word ideas in
reading, acquisition of graphic words, development of meaning for word
ideas in reading, development of efficiency in oral expression,
processes in graphic expression, and development of efficiency in
graphic composition, and acquisition of a foreign tongue. Each chapter
is followed by a summary and at the close of the book is a very good
bibliography and index.”—School R.

* * * * *

“With the exception of several chapters, the book will be read chiefly
by specialists. The style, however, is forceful and agreeably simple.”
G: B. Mangold.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 457. S. ’08. 300w.

“The volume occupies a field of its own and is of value to those
interested in child-study. It has also some worth as suggesting the
probable origin of language and as farther suggesting proper methods
of education.” R. E. Bisbee.

+ =Arena.= 40: 474. N. ’08. 130w.

“It is not unfair, perhaps, to say that the chief value of the book
lies in the organization of material scattered about in special
articles and separate treatises, so as to present a comprehensive view
of the whole process of linguistic development, rather than in the new
facts reported, or new theories propounded. To have made this body of
opinions accessible in the form of an outline of theory is to have
performed a worthy service to education.” W. B. O.

+ =El. School T.= 9: 53. S. ’08. 400w.

“Of the three books that Professor O’Shea has written, this will
probably be of the most permanent value. It has more of the merits and
fewer of the defects of the other books and treats of a definite
subject with such completeness that it is not likely to be soon
displaced by any other book.” E. A. Kirkpatrick.

+ =School R.= 16: 624. N. ’08. 620w.

=Osler, William.= Alabama student, and other biographical essays.
**$2. Oxford.

“The topics of these essays are all biographical, among the subjects
being John Keats, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Locke, Sir Thomas Brown,
Harvey, William Pepper and Alfred Stillé. The Alabama student who
supplies the subject for the main title was Dr. John Bassett of
Huntsville, a devoted physician and student in medicine of the early
half of the last century.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“The history of medicine appeals most to the best educated in the
profession, but in the hands of a writer like Prof. Osler it is in
itself an education.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 442. O. 10. 440w.

“Dr. Osier gives not only the conventional facts in a man’s life, but
has added much by way of personal comment that is distinctive in
itself and frequently charming.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 602. O. 24, ’08. 200w.

“In many respects the gem is the last essay of all, the Harveian
oration of 1906.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 555. D. 3, ’08. 870w.

“Earnest, candid, not lacking in humor, lucid and virile, not
infrequently adorned by the allusions of a scholar who is too wise to
be a pedant, Dr. Osler’s observations are always interesting and
frequently brilliant.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 636. O. 31, ’08. 1600w.

“They are marked by good sense and discrimination, graced with a
pleasant style, and ballasted with the results of enthusiastic
research. Primarily they were intended for doctors, but we hope that
their publication in this form will give them the much wider audience
which they deserve.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 503. O. 3, ’08. 1750w.

=Ostrovsky, Alexander Nicolaievich.= The storm; tr. by Constance
Garnett. *$1. Luce, J: W.

The scene of this drama is laid in a small provincial town on the
upper Volga. A sharp-tongued mother, a weak-willed son, and a
sweet-tempered daughter-in-law are the principal characters. The
tyranny of the mother drives the son’s wife to reckless relations with
a merchant’s son. Between the girl’s pangs of conscience and her
uncontrollable fear of thunder, she is moved, during a terrifying
storm, to make confession, and later, in a fit of remorse, drowns
herself.

* * * * *

“It is a play that would make practically no appeal to any English
speaking audience, but the development of character and action, if it
may really be called that in the sense in which the word is used on
our stage, will prove interesting to the reader. And the book should
find a place in the library of every student of the drama.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 295. My. 23, ’08. 480w.

=Owen, Charles Henry.= Justice of the Mexican war: a review of the
causes and results of the war, with a view to distinguishing
evidence from opinion and inference. **$1.25. Putnam.

8–22535.

Maintaining that those who declare the Mexican war unjust base their
charges mainly on opinion and inference, that to avoid intricacies and
contradictions they followed the line of least resistance and
attributed it all to slavery cabal, the author concerns himself with
the causes as they are conceived to arise from the Monroe doctrine.
Aside from being a justification of the war the discussion is a
criticism of the methods of some noted historians.

* * * * *

“There is room for a book which shall bear the title of this one, but
it must be written by a student familiar with the westward movement
and able to discriminate between sources of information and opinions
of irresponsible journalistic historians.”

− =Ind.= 65: 789. O. 1, ’08. 340w.

=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 60w.

“The book is well worth reading as a patriotic defense of our
government and its armies.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 300w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 461. Ag. 22, ’08. 630w.

“We must dismiss his book as inconclusive.”

* * * * *

− + =Outlook.= 90: 315. O. 10, ’08. 400w.

=R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 80w.

P

=Packh, Baroness M. de.= Twenty years in Siberia, and Leaves from my Russian diary. $1.25. Guarantee pub.

8–2942.

A human document describing the humiliation and suffering of
undeserved exile in Siberia during twenty years, and the later
exultation over the execution of plotted vengeance. The diary reflects
upon the thraldom which Russia suffers in the throes of traditional
inhumanity.

* * * * *

“A good deal of knowledge of the Russian people marks the book. It is
sadly marred by an unbridled use of adjectives and exclamations.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.

=Pagani, Rev. G. B.= Life of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati; tr. from the
Italian. *$3. Dutton.

The biography of a man much persecuted by orthodox thinkers. Rosmini
believed “that there was one absolute, indivisible, eternal, immutable
Truth, which remained unaffected by the stupendous March of the
Intellect of Man.” “The man Rosmini, with his wonderful gifts of grace
and mind, is admirably portrayed; and the events of his life, both
those of a public and those of a more personal or domestic character
are related in that happy measure which is the mean between dry
baldness and prolixity of detail.” (Cath. World.)

* * * * *

“We can heartily commend the translation of Father Pagani’s curiously
naïve but devout and interesting life.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 184. N. 30, ’07. 1150w.

“For all the interest of Rosmini’s personality, Father Pagani has
succeeded in writing a dull book.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 340w.

“The task is one that called for no common measure of tact, prudence,
and evangelical courage. All these qualities, as well as high literary
talent, are evinced in this life.”

+ =Cath. World.= 87: 553. Jl. ’08. 750w.

“The book, whatever its defects, has much that is valuable and
instructive about it.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 330w.

=Page, James Madison, and Haley, M. J.= True story of Andersonville
prison: a defense of Major Henry Wirz. *$2. Neale.

8–9498.

Written in the interest of truth and fair play this narrative aims to
reduce friction between the North and the South, especially that
caused by the exaggerated and often unjust reports of Major Wirz’s
cruelty and inhumanity to the Union prisoners.

* * * * *

=Nation.= 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 300w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 755. Je. ’08. 200w.

=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Old Dominion: her making and her manners.
**$1.50. Scribner.

8–7373.

Twelve essays are included in this volume, taking up different phases
and characteristics in the life of Virginia since its foundation,
showing how great a part in the nation’s development is justly due to
the heroic deeds and sublime fortitude and endeavor of the men of the
Old Dominion. They are as follows: The beginning of America;
Jamestown, the birthplace of the American people; Colonial life; The
revolutionary movement; Thomas Jefferson and the University of
Virginia; The southern people during reconstruction; The Old Dominion
since the war; An old neighborhood in Virginia, and An old Virginia
Sunday.

* * * * *

“A note which runs through all Mr. Page has ever written is evident
here also: the judgment and the language are too frequently those of
one who supposes character to be absolutely determined by status. All
heroic characters are gentlemen; the villains are outside the charmed
circle. This is not life; it is not even ante-bellum Virginia life.”
W: E. Dodd.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 182. O. ’08. 500w.

“Offers valuable material to the historical student and delightful
essays to the general reader.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 201. Je. ’08.

“This volume has the usual literary charm of Mr. Page’s writings.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 627. N. ’08. 100w.

“The book is a good example of the service a practiced writer may
perform in re-casting the work of scientific historians for the
benefit of average readers.”

+ =Dial.= 44: 382. Je. 16, ’08. 260w.

“The chapters on personal reminiscence ... show Mr. Page’s attractive
personal touch, and are worth reading.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 210. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.

“Mr. Page constantly relates his narrative to larger events and keeps
a moving background of world history insofar as it has connection with
his subject. And if sometimes in his account of affairs in the Old
Dominion he sees with a magnifying eye, the fault can be pardoned as
only the manifestation of a loyal son’s loving pride in his native
state.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 294. My. 23, ’08. 200w.

“Written with all the usual charm of Mr. Page’s style.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.

“One of the most interesting histories of exploration and colonial
times.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 508. Ap. ’08. 100w.

* =Page, Thomas Nelson.= Robert E. Lee: the Southerner. **$1.25. Scribner.

8–30716.

“Mr. Page’s book is not merely a biography of General Lee, altho it is
a narrative of the career of the hero from two points of view—the man
and the soldier. The biographical feature of the work, however, is
secondary to what was evidently the author’s main purpose in
writing—an analysis of General Lee’s military genius. Incidentally the
author furnishes a succinct account of the battles fought in the Union
war, finally leading up to a comparative estimate of the claims to
military greatness made by the two contending generals in that
war—Grant and Lee.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 160w.

“It will delight Southern men, but in the North there will be sharp
criticism of it, in which it will be contended that the pride of a
Virginian in one of the noblest sons of Virginia has guided Mr. Page
in the making of his book, so that he has written unqualified eulogy
rather than cold, impartial history.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 640w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.

* =Page, Thomas Nelson.= Tommie Trot’s visit to Santa Claus. †$1. Scribner.

8–35741.

The story of an indulged little boy who meets a street boy with a dog
and a sled and starts on a trip with him to the north pole, the home
of Santa Claus. Their adventures are wholesome and entertaining.

* * * * *

Reviewed by K. L. M.

=Bookm.= 25: 384. D. ’08. 100w.

“Wholly devoid of novelty or originality.” M. J. Moses.

− =Ind.= 65: 1472. D. 17, ’08. 30w.

“The events are too evidently constructed in a conventional manner to disguise the stilted moral of the rich little boy and the poor little boy.”

− =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.

“The story is an exciting one.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 140w.

“It lacks vital interest.”

− =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 80w.

=Paget, Stephen.= Confessio medici. *$1.25. Macmillan.

8–5617.

The modesty of the author’s attitude is expressed in the statement, “I
only want to confess what I have learned, so far as I have come, from
my life, so far as it has gone.” The book may be regarded as a
physician’s classic, and is made up of the mild, reflective
observations of a physician who has lived and seen and believed.

* * * * *

“Full of a warm-hearted kindliness and a quiet humour that appeal
directly to all who take an interest in suffering humanity.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 293. Mr. 7. 650w.

“It is written in many moods, sentimental, practical, reflective and
pugnacious, and in a style that is brisk, sententious, a little too
emphatic, but always readable.” C. M. F.

+ − =Bookm.= 27: 596. Ag. ’08. 1400w.

“Every page of the book ... is good reading, whether the reader be
doctor or patient, or neither. The writer’s style will delight the
connoisseur.”

+ =Dial.= 44: 213. Ap. 1, ’08. 470w.

“It is agreeably free from technicalities, and it takes Stevenson’s
view of the calling.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 45. Jl. 2, ’08. 370w.

“A pleasant book.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 200w.

“We wish that every student of medicine during his student days would
read, mark, learn and inwardly digest their practical wisdom and happy
maxims, and many a practitioner whose finer feelings have perhaps
become blunted by too close contact with a stringent life would rise
up the better from their perusal.”

+ =Nature.= 78: 54. My. 21, ’08. 120w.

“A capital book, none the worse, but all the better, for being written
about the profession which ought to be, to him, the most interesting
subject in the world. The book is a flower of ‘culture.’ This author’s
style is so good that on almost every page it will remind the reader,
in some turn or phrase, of Stevenson.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 115. F. 29, ’68. 1220w.

“It remains only to say as emphatically as possible that every one who
knows the intellectual refreshment of clear, unconventional thought
expressed with insight and wit will give this anonymous writer a
cordial welcome.”

+ + =Outlook.= 88: 610. Mr. 14, ’08. 550w.

“Sometimes he writes as though he feared lest his work should smell
too much of the lamp, and he throws in a few grains of jauntiness to
show that no one could possibly hate elaboration or self-consciousness
more than he; but he throws them in apologetically. At other times he
is all jauntiness with no apology.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 19. Jl. 4, ’08. 1700w.

=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Tent dwellers. $1.50. Outing pub.

8–29352.

The story of a camping experience in the wilderness of Nova Scotia.
The moving spirit of the company is a “cave-, a cliff- and a
tree-dweller in his soul and the gods of his ancestors were not to be
gainsaid.” The greater wilderness that welcomes, teaches and takes one
to its heart is the wilderness portrayed here.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 293. D. ’08. ✠

“This is the rarest of things, a book of outdoor life written simply,
swiftly, and honestly.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 380w.

“The author relates the story of their trip with a liveliness, a sense
of humor, a notable faculty for humorous narrative, and an ability to
put into words—and not too many words either—the fascination of the
wilderness that give his book an unusual quality. Enjoying its savor
so much one deplores all the more Mr. Paine’s sad habit of using
singular verbs with plural subjects.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 300w.

=Paine, John Knowles.= History of music to the death of Schubert.
*$2.40. Ginn.

7–35630.

Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“Scholarly and conservative in treatment, well proportioned and
arranged, especially valuable for estimates of the great classics.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 81. Mr. ’08.

“The editor might by means of foot-notes have brought the book as much
as possible up to date.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 549. My. 2. 400w.

“Though in a sense unfinished, the work is no mere torso. It is a
dignified, lucid, and sympathetic account of the great steps in the
development of the art, from the earliest music of the Greeks and
Romans down to 1828, the year of Schubert’s death. Professor Howard’s
task as editor has been carried out with discrimination and loving
care.” J. R. Smith.

+ + =Dial.= 44: 100. F. 16, ’08. 430w.

“It is a genuine pleasure to have his lectures on the history of music
in form for reading and use as a text-book. They may be unreservedly
commended whether one is disposed to lay stress on breadth of view,
splendid scholarship, or agreeable treatment.”

+ + =Educ. R.= 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 150w.

“Of high excellence, as far as it goes, thoroly sane, careful and
judicious in spirit.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 80w.

“Professor Howard ... has done his editorial work conscientiously.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 87. Ja. 23, ’08. 500w.

“His work is well proportioned and well arranged in detail.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 865. D. 28, ’07. 220w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 80w.

* =Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Stroke oar. $1.50. Outing pub.

8–33155.

A college story which turns on the rivalry between the captain and the
stroke oar of a Yale crew. At a critical moment the stroke oar is
kidnapped and carried thousands of miles away. His adventures while
attempting to get back to New Haven in time for the Yale-Harvard race,
insure only a suggestion of the thrills to be experienced in the race
itself with the stroke oar back to win the day.

=Pais, Ettore.= Ancient Italy: historical and geographical
investigations in Central Italy, Magna Graecia, Sicily and
Sardinia; tr. from the Italian by C. Densmore Curtis. *$5. Univ.
of Chicago press.

8–5246.

A series of articles which has resulted from an exhaustive study of
the ancient history of the Italian tribes. The review embraces the
relations of these peoples with the surrounding nations and throws
light on the history of Greece.

* * * * *

“In these papers we must recognize that there is a large amount of
constructive work of a high order; it is the more to be regretted that
many of the conclusions seem at best but probabilities.” C. H. Moore.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 95. O. ’08. 800w.

=Class. J.= 3: 208. Mr. ’08. 100w.

“Notwithstanding some inconsistencies and an occasional mistake, the
work certainly adds new interest as well as fresh knowledge to early
Italian and Sicilian history.” G: W. Botsford.

+ − =Class. Philol.= 3: 451. O. ’08. 840w.

+ − =Ind.= 65: 263. Jl. 30, ’08. 440w.

“Minor criticisms should not detract from the sincere appreciation of
the profound knowledge and the intellectual keenness of the author.
The translator has been faithful; but he has left an excessive number
of misprints; and still more unfortunately, his English is defective
in grammar as well as in general smoothness and lucidity.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 493. My. 28, ’08. 700w.

“A work of remarkable scholarship. Is for students only, for it is
written without a trace of vivifying imagination or of attractiveness
in style.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.

=Outlook.= 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 40w.

=Palmedo, D. Petri-.= How to use slide rules. 50c. Kolesch & co.

8–12802.

A labor-saving device designed for the engineer. It describes the
construction and the uses to which the slide rule may be put.

* * * * *

“The author’s style is clear and his expositions will be easily
understood.”

+ =Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 150w.

“The little book noted above is more compact than the usual treatise,
but otherwise is like many others in its contents.”

+ =Engin. N.= 59: 439. Ap. 16, ’08. 130w.

“An unusually satisfactory little book.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 390. O. 3, ’08. 200w.

=Palmer, Frederick.= The big fellow. †$1.50. Moffat.

8–25371.

The portrayal of a splendid type of American. The story shows many
parallels with incidents in the career of Mr. Taft. “The big fellow is
a genial, indefatigable, big-hearted, clear-headed giant. He begins
his career on leaving college by working in a pick-and-shovel gang,
becomes a lawyer and a judge, and is finally made governor of one of
the islands in our Far Eastern possessions. His experiences there
illustrate the difficulties of the task we undertook when we accepted
the Philippines, and the spirit of unselfishness in which on the whole
that task has been carried out.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“The narrative is wholesome and interesting though crude in places.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠

“Mr. Palmer’s envisagement of the whole problem is essentially
superficial, and his mouthings about duty and destiny will ring hollow
to readers who have followed with anything like close attention the
history of our unfortunate experiment on imperialism.” W: M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 45. 455. D. 16, ’08. 480w.

+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 420w.

“A novel, yea, even a love story, whose chief interest—and it is
exceptionally interesting—does not lie in its story and not at all in
its love element. It is well worth reading by anyone who wants to get
inside knowledge of our problems in the Pacific.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 496. S. 12, ’08. 480w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 200w.

“The tale is first of all a readable, entertaining story; secondarily
a kind of defense of what Mr. Bryan calls imperialism.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 170w.

=Palmer, George Herbert.= Life of Alice Freeman Palmer. **$1.50.
Houghton.

8–12560.

This biography becomes at once a work of love, a portrait of a notable
woman, and a historical sketch of leadership in college
reconstruction. Professor Palmer writes intimately of his wife’s life,
work and character, especially emphasizing the years during which she
occupied the president’s chair at Wellesley. Simplicity and
indefinable charm of manner characterized a woman whose life testified
to essential womanhood’s fundamental and intuitional philosophy.

* * * * *

+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 202. Je. ’08. ✠

“It is, however, not so much the record of and finish that combine to
make it almost an ideal book of its kind.” P. F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 44: 372. Je. 16, ’08. 2000w.

+ + =Ind.= 65: 611. S. 10, ’08. 600w.

“The inspiration her memory gave is present and potent on every page.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 28. Jl. 4, ’08. 700w.

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 124. Jl. 25, ’08. 1400w.

“It may well be doubted if any man ever before wrote for the general
public so charming and acceptable a book about his own wife.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 180w.

“The tone of panegyric, however legitimate, becomes cloying in a short
time. The important question raised, and perhaps solved, by the book
is the adjusting of two busy lives in marriage.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 300w.

“Rarely if ever has an unattainable ideal of combined reticence and
frankness been more closely approximated. Prof. Palmer is far from
lacking appreciation for the eminence of his wife either in character
or in achievement, but he also has and exercises in due measure a keen
sense of proportion.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 276. My. 16, ’08. 800w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.

“To those who knew and loved Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer this book will
be a friend; to those who knew her not it will be a revelation of a
great soul and an inspiration to noble living.”

+ + =Outlook.= 89: 262. My. 30, ’08. 600w.

“It is, however, not so much the record of Mrs. Palmer’s public
services as the intimate study of the woman herself that gives this
biography its distinction and ranks it among the vividly _human_ books
of the season.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 150w.

“This is one of the rare books which one wishes to share with many
others.” F. A. Manny.

+ + =School. R.= 16: 687. D. ’08. 680w.

* =Palmer, George Herbert, and Palmer, Alice Freeman.= The teacher: essays and addresses on education. **$1.50. Houghton.

8–32424.

Three groups of papers: problems of school and college, and Harvard
papers contributed by Professor Palmer; and Papers by Alice Freeman
Palmer. The first group evolves a philosophy of education thru dealing
with the practical problems of teaching: the second discusses The new
education, Erroneous and necessary limitations of the elective system,
College expenses, and The teacher of the olden time; the third deals
with Three types of women’s colleges, Women’s education in the
nineteenth century, Women’s education at the World’s fair, and Why go
to college?

=Palmer, William Scott.= Church and modern men. *$1.20. Longmans.

“The central underlying thought of these essays is the active
immanence of the self-limiting Infinite in man, giving rise to
revelation from within outward, in a growing religious experience, and
a consequently growing theology, changing as it grows, while ever at
the root the same.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“The style of the book, its subtle and elastic use of language, its
delicacy and breadth, alone make it worth reading. But the real value
of the volume lies in its appeal to the leaders of the English church
to look beyond their own borders.”

+ =Ath.= 1908. 1: 346. Mr. 21. 750w.

“These pages may be cordially commended both to shepherds and sheep.”
G. Tyrrell.

+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 707. Ap. ’08. 250w.

“In this small volume of thoughtful essays a cultured and religious
layman reasons with the reactionaries and obscurantists among the
Anglican clergy.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 612. Mr. 14, ’08. 250w.

=Park, Joseph C.= Educational woodworking for home and school. *$1.
Macmillan.

8–10294.

Deals with (1) The enumeration, description, and illustration of
woodworking tools; (2) woodworking machinery; (3) classification,
description and properties of various woods; (4) fastenings; (5) the
finishing of wood surfaces; (6) examples of suitable objects to make;
(7) instruction in woodturning, with examples for practice.

* * * * *

“Under a capable instructor the work should prove of undoubted
educational value.”

+ =Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 140w.

“Teachers in this country will be well advised in consulting this
excellent text-book.”

+ =Nature.= 78: 630. O. 22, ’08. 300w.

=Parker, Theodore.= American scholar; ed. with notes by George
Willis Cooke. *$1. Am. Unitar.

7–39034.

A collection of essays written by Theodore Parker in the forties and
fifties of the past century. Mr. Parker shows what a debt to the whole
community men of superior culture owe, a debt which is discharged in
representing the higher facts of human consciousness to the people,
expressed in the speech of the people, in thinking with the sage and
saint, but talking with common men. There follow critical essays on
Emerson, Channing, Prescott, Hildreth’s “United States,” Macaulay’s
“History of England,” Buckle’s “History of civilization,” Henry Ward
Beecher, Dr. Follen and German literature.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.

+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.

=Parker, Theodore.= Discourse of matters pertaining to religion; ed.
with a preface by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. *$1. Am. Unitar.

7–38887.

A reprint of the work written more than a half century ago “by which
the author will be most permanently remembered.” The author stated in
his preface that “it is the design of this work to recall men from the
transient shows of time to the permanent substance of religion; from a
worship of creeds and empty belief, to a worship in the spirit and in
life.”

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.

+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.

=Parker, Theodore.= World of matter and the spirit of man: latest
discourses of religion, ed. with notes by George Willis Cooke.
*$1. Am. Unitar.

7–39391.

Of the sixteen pieces in this volume, the six sermons on “The
revelation of God in the world of matter and mind,” and the two on
“The theological and philosophical development of New England” have
never been in print. The other eight appeared in tract and pamphlet
form but have never previously found their way into any American
volume.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.

+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.

=Parker, Thomas Valentine.= Cherokee Indians, with special reference
to their relations with the United States government. (Grafton
historical ser.) **$1.25. Grafton press.

7–38633.

Based chiefly upon printed official sources, Dr. Parker tells the
story of the Cherokees, giving “a most interesting and unprejudiced
narrative of the Cherokee history in the West, covering the
dissensions that arose between the earlier and later immigrants, the
divided attitude toward the civil war, the reconstruction principles
of the Treaty of 1866, and finally the events that led to the opening
of Oklahoma.” (Am. Hist. R.) “The author is critical of the
government’s attitude toward the Indians, which he says has been ‘one
of treaties violated, of promises broken, and of partisan prejudice
where there should have been judicial fairness.’” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

* * * * *

“The rhetorical form of the latter part of the book is seriously
affected by the insertion of extraneous material, the subject-matter
proper being very much condensed. On the whole, however, the work is
worthy of very favorable comment. It is practically free from
historical errors, and those that do occur are of slight importance.
The book is a fair illustration of what ought to be done for every
Indian tribe within the limits of the United States.” A. H. Abel.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 184. O. ’08. 870w.

“This is a very good, brief, historical account of the Cherokee
Indians, especially as concerns their relation to the United States
government.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 449. S. ’08. 120w.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

=Bookm.= 26: 514. Ja. ’08. 160w.

“The narrative is interesting, if somewhat annalistic; and the facts
are generally accurate. In the broader relations of the Indian
question, the book is very weak.”

+ − =Dial.= 46: 256. O. 16, ’08. 320w.

=Parmelee, Maurice.= Principles of anthropology and sociology in
their relations to criminal procedure. (Citizens lib. of
economics, politics, and sociology.) *$1.25. Macmillan.

8–22622.

Gives “clear and reliable summary of the theories of criminology of
the Italian school, and especially of Lambroso, Garofalo and Ferri....
The central idea of the book is the superior importance of procedure,
as compared with the penal code. The author recommends the abolition
of the law jury except for political offences; the appointment of
trained judges and prosecutors, both to be educated in criminology and
sociology as well as in law; the indeterminate sentence, with
scientific study of the criminal at the trial and afterward, with a
judicial board to revise the sentences periodically; scientific
methods of dealing with evidence, as suggested also by Professor
Münsterberg; and the use of experts employed by the state, and not
representing private parties, during the trial.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“The discussion is in every way strong and clear, and deserves the
careful study of all intelligent citizens.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 349. N. 16, ’08. 230w.

“Tho American judges and lawyers may look with cynicism and skepticism
on such a volume, students of sociology will find it helpful in
working toward a loftier basis of treatment for the criminal.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1123. N. 12, ’08. 270w.

“Mr. Parmelee’s book is notably concise, direct, and logical in
statement, and gives in compact form a fairly complete view of this
important subject.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 671. N. 14, ’08. 1050w.

=Parrish, Randall.= Last voyage of the Donna Isabel: a romance of
the sea. †$1.50. McClurg.

8–26195.

A tale of thrilling sea adventure which follows the search for a
Spanish treasure ship that sailed from Guayaquil for Cadiz in 1753.
The time of the story is the year 1879, and the Antarctic’s “heaving
leagues of watery solitude” furnish the setting; while chief among the
searching party are the hero whom strange circumstances had made
leader, and the wife of a British lord. The love interest vies with
the wonders of sky and sea and the thrill of perilous adventure.

* * * * *

“A good sea yarn told with considerable spirit.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.

“It must be reckoned among the most successful of Mr. Randall
Parrish’s inventions.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 220w.

“This is a good yarn, reeled off with considerable spirit. Its
characters are hardly more than the good old stock-puppets.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 170w.

“In our view the proper thing is to take Mr. Parrish’s story in the
spirit in which he offers it, and enjoy it, and not worry over the
fact that there are some unheard of and undreamed of things in it.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 700w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 200w.

=Parrish, Randall.= Prisoners of chance: the story of what befell
Geoffrey Benteen, borderman, through his love for a lady of
France. †$1.50. McClurg.

8–9526.

A story reproduced from an old manuscript which has a historic basis.
It is set in the Louisiana province in the sixties of the eighteenth
century and follows the mighty efforts of one Geoffrey Benteen to save
from the fate of death the husband of the woman he loves.

* * * * *

“Though carelessly written ... it shows an advance upon his previous
work.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.

“A facile, stirring book.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 120w.

“It is an excellent example of the sort of romantic narrative which
Mr. Parrish has cultivated with marked success, and upon which he has
brought to bear the fruits of much serious historical investigation.”
W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 44: 351. Je. 1, ’08. 400w.

“The book, in a word, is nothing if not ample in reach and
thoroughgoing in invention.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 250w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.

“Randall Parrish’s former stories, although they proved him to be of
the stuff of which good novelists are made, were marred by such
crudity of style and method as made them rather a promise than an
achievement. But in every respect ‘Prisoners of chance’ is a notable
advance upon his previous work.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 269. My. 9, ’08. 600w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.

Reviewed by E. L. Cary.

=Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 70w.

=Parsons, John Denham.= Nature and purpose of the universe. *$6.
Wessels.