Chapter LXIII: Part 2: , “The king’s high way,” is made up of poems in which religious (1)

sentiment predominates. Here too the influence of the war is evident.
In the poems as in the foreword to the volume the author pleads for a
future that shall repair the past.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 24 ‘17 520w

“A book of popular, sentimentally religious verse, a hymnal of
consolation for those whom the war has stricken.”

=Ind= 90:217 Ap 28 ‘17 30w

“Among these poems is the famous ‘Hymn for the men at the front,’ of
which over five million copies have been sold and the proceeds devoted
to the various funds for wounded soldiers. The majority of the other
poems are distinctly religious in character, full-bodied of faith and
inspiring in triumphant spirituality.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:435 Ap ‘17 760w

=OXENHAM, JOHN.= Vision splendid. *$1 Doran 821 17-13962

The author of the hymn “For the men at the front,” whose verse has
touched some millions of lives, sends out words of courage, comfort
and consecration for those who are fighting for liberty, who “out
there” “have been in the sweep of the Reaper’s scythe,—with God,—and
Christ,—and hell.” The key-note of the volume is in its title poem:

“Here—or hereafter—you shall see it ended,
This mighty work to which your souls are set;
If from beyond—then, with the vision splendid,
You shall smile back and never know regret.”

“The author of ‘Bees in amber’ and ‘All’s well’ has set before his
numerous readers a series of poems with a predominantly religious
tone. The ‘Vision splendid’ is of ‘a world in which God and Right
shall reign supreme.’ The longest, and perhaps the most striking,
piece in the book is ‘The ballad of Jim Baxter.’ ‘Promoted,’ ‘The
cross-roads,’ and ‘Edith Cavell’ are other noteworthy poems.”

+ =Ath= p310 Je ‘17 60w

“It is for the most part insignificant as poetry, except that it is
the medium to carry a certain vital sweep of optimism and of
old-fashioned piety.” N. H. D.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 19 ‘17 650w

“These war poems have a sincerity and a vigor that command the
attention and respect of the reader.”

+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 30w

“The ideas in the verse were thrown overboard by intelligent minds of
the middle ages. They have little place today.” Clement Wood

— =N Y Call= p15 O 21 ‘17 270w

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 2 ‘17 350w

=OYEN, HENRY.= Gaston Olaf. *$1.35 (2c) Doran 17-25377

His full name, Gaston Olaf Francois Thorson, revealed his mixed French
and Scandinavian parentage, and this joint heritage was apparent in
his nature too. There were times when Gaston Olaf was wholly French,
other times when he was all Norwegian. His entry into Havens Falls was
spectacular. Gaston Olaf, arrived in the nick of time, to make
himself, as he always seemed able to do, center of a dramatic little
scene in which an attractive girl played the other part. Tom Pine, his
woods partner, scenting danger, tried to guide Gaston Olaf out of
town. It was Tom Pine’s fear that some day his friend would like a
town so well that he would settle down and stay there. His fears seem
for a time to be justified, for when Gaston learns of the plot of Dave
Taggart, of the La Croix lumber company, to steal Rose Havens’s
timber, he feels that this town is the place for him. He foils Taggart
and helps to make Havens Falls a place fit to live in, and then the
choice that Tom Pine has foreseen faces him: town or trail? And the
instinct that is deepest seated within him wins.

=A L A Bkl= 14:171 F ‘18

“Sufficiently sincere and realistic to make good reading except when
the author abandons his hand-to-hand battles and attempts to be
humorous.”

+ — =Ind= 93:240 F 9 ‘18 40w

“There is fighting galore, of course, some entertaining descriptions,
and an ending rather out of the ordinary, more reasonable and with
more promise of real contentment to come than one usually finds in
this kind of tale.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 260w

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=PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS.= Adventures of Jimmie Dale. *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-5814

He was a member of one of New York’s most exclusive clubs. He was
known as an idle young man, but he had a complete and scientific
knowledge of his father’s business, the manufacture of safes. There
was nothing Jimmie Dale did not know about combinations and locks. So
unknown to his society and club friends, he led a double, no, a triple
life, acting now the part of the Gray Seal, a clever and mysterious
cracksman who always leaves his mark, a gray seal, behind him, and
again the part of Larry, the Bat, a denizen of the underworld. The
chief mystery of the tale centers in the personality of the unknown
woman whose commands Jimmie obeys, and who, whatever the means
adopted, always has a worthy end in view.

“Those moralists who object to the introduction in motion pictures of
stories which deal with crime and which make the varied infringements
of the law appear easy and attractive, will have reason to be incensed
by Mr Packard’s story. He makes burglary appear an interesting and
even refined occupation. ... The story is interesting from start to
finish.”

=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 400w

=N Y Times= 22:110 Mr 25 ‘17 340w

“Eventually, the episodes become more and more improbable, and finally
descend to frank melodrama. Still the story is above the average of
its kind, for, while the hero commits legal ‘crimes’ to right wrongs,
his acts are free from taint of viciousness. The incidents are
ingeniously conceived.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 180w

=PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS.=[2] Sin that was his. il *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-28602

His name was Raymond Chapelle, altho in different parts of Canada and
Alaska he had been known as Arthur Leroy, and again as Three-Ace
Artie. His reputation was none too savory, and the facts sustained it.
His one good deed had reacted to his own loss and he had vowed never
to commit another. Then fate compels him to assume a new name and to
take on a new character. To save his life, he adopts the garb of a
Catholic priest and poses as Father Aubert, while the real Father
Aubert faces death in his place. The influence of the habiliment and
position of priest works a change in his character, leading to regret,
repentance and restitution; also to the winning of a girl’s love.

“The story is well constructed, and the chain of events made
plausible, while the religious portion of it never falls into the gulf
of the maudlin, though it must be admitted that there are times when
it approaches perilously near the edge of that dread abyss. The
dénouement, too, is satisfactory, though one cannot help wondering how
the good people of St Marleau took the astonishing revelation of the
truth about their ‘good young Father Aubert.’”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:468 N 11 ‘17 380w

“The plot is daring, and only by the most skillful handling is it
possible to develop it without wounding the religious susceptibilities
of many readers. It is Mr Packard’s most ambitious and also his best
work.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 460w

=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED.= How to run an automobile. 1917 ed il *$1 (2c) Henley 629.2 17-11228

The author points out that this is not an instruction book on the
construction and repair of automobiles. It has been prepared “in
answer to numerous requests for a concise exposition of the operating
principles of modern gasoline automobiles.” It is intended as “an
absolutely non-technical compilation of the operating instructions of
leading automobile manufacturers with which the car owner should be
familiar.” Contents: Automobile parts and their functions; General
starting and driving instructions; Typical 1917 control systems; Care
of automobiles. The book is well supplied with diagrams, etc.

“It is possible to immediately turn to your car and apply the
knowledge.”

+ =Agricultural Digest= 2:506 Je ‘17 60w

“Instructions are plain and the text is well illustrated.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17

=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 40w

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 20w

=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17

=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED.= Storage batteries simplified, operating principles—care and industrial applications. il *$1.50 (2c) Henley 621.35 17-13513

“A complete, non-technical but authoritative treatise discussing the
development of the modern storage battery, outlining the basic
operation of the leading types; also the methods of construction,
charging, maintenance and repair.” (Title-page) The book also includes
special instructions for care and repair of automobile batteries and
glossary of terms. It has been written with the cooperation of leading
American storage battery makers.

=Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 10w

=Pittsburgh= 22:659 O ‘17

+ =Pratt= p22 O ‘17 40w

“A plainly written book understandable by the average reader.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:364 O ‘17 20w

=PAGET, STEPHEN.= I sometimes think. *$1.75 Macmillan 814 A17-1505

“‘I sometimes think’ is a series of essays for young people covering a
varied number of topics. By far the most interesting are the witty one
entitled ‘Unnatural selection,’ and the graver, keener one called ‘The
next few years.’ In ‘Unnatural selection’ Mr Paget tells us how
children should choose their parents—if this were possible. Of course,
it is really a sermon to parents through their children.”—Springf’d
Republican

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:86 Je ‘17 30w

“It is a beautiful book that Mr Paget has given us, and worthy of the
subject. After all, his is the point of view that is desirable today.
It is beautifulness that our men will need when they return from
learning things and ‘seeing things ugly enough to drive you and me
mad.’ These essays are of a spirit to produce the atmosphere that all
desire to bring about for the refreshing of the men and the healing of
the nation.”

+ =Sat R= 123:321 Ap 7 ‘17 870w

“Full of good sense and good humour. ... He ends on a grave note in
‘The next few years,’ hinting at the great problems which peace will
set before us, and at the demands that will then be made on our
loyalty and self-control.”

+ =Spec= 118:593 My 26 ‘17 80w

“The essays are quite English in atmosphere and tone, but they show a
wide sympathy and are whole-souled and suggestive. Mr Paget is always
a clear writer, and at times is keenly sarcastic. Older people, rather
than the young people whom the author seeks to address, will probably
turn to the book with most appreciation and interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 190w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p608 D 14 ‘16 1550w

=PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.=[2] Sons of Eli. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-24274

The first story in this collection is a story of twenty years ago,
included with the more recent tales, perhaps, to show that the Yale
spirit is the same yesterday and today. The remaining stories are
loosely related in that they concern the same set of characters. Some
of them have appeared in Scribner’s Magazine. Contents: A victory
unforeseen; Follow the ball; “Sleepy” Jordan; The letter of the law;
Getting his goat; The Indian; The vengeance of Antonia; A transaction
with Shylock; His code of honor.

“[The tales are] crisp and humorous, and hold up high university
ideals of sport and of student relations.”

+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 20w

=PALMER, FREDERICK.= My second year of the war. *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 940.91 17-6753

“My year of the great war” was published in 1915. This second volume
by Mr Palmer covers the year 1916 and is concerned chiefly with the
campaigns about Verdun and on the Somme. Mr Palmer’s articles have
been appearing in Collier’s. He is said by the publishers to be “the
only accredited American correspondent who had freedom of the field in
the battles of the Somme.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:308 Ap ‘17

“Unfortunately, many of Mr Palmer’s descriptions lose effectiveness
because they are very much like similar descriptions found in ‘My year
of the great war.’ ... On the whole, the strongest appeal of the book
is to the thoughtful mind.” A. R. Dodd

+ =Bookm= 45:195 Ap ‘17 720w

+ =Cath World= 105:538 Jl ‘17 270w

Reviewed by P. F. Bicknell

+ =Dial= 62:305 Ap 5 ‘17 320w

+ =Lit D= 54:1273 Ap 28 ‘17 250w

Reviewed by Harold Stearns

+ =New Repub= 10:sup16 Ap 21 ‘17 550w

“It is essentially a study of military events. That is not to say that
it is not a very human record. It is human and dramatic and full of
sympathy. But it is not emotional. ... It does not tell how men felt.
It tells what they did. ... Another kind of importance the book
possesses: it tells us something of what, in a purely military way,
England has done.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:64 F 25 ‘17 600w

Reviewed by Robert Lynd

+ =Pub W= 91:975 Mr 17 ‘17 280w

“Mr Palmer has won a world-wide reputation for the vividness and
accuracy of his descriptions.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 70w

“Perhaps the greatest value of the book is its human note. ...
Dwelling on the initiative and bravery of the new British army, Mr
Palmer says that ‘Tennyson’s “Light brigade” seems bombast and gallery
play after July 1.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 24 ‘17 570w

“It is impossible to say after reading this book that you have a clear
idea of the whole scheme of attack in the beginning, or any grasp of
the principles that governed the advance when once the main attack was
successful. One picture, or one side of the picture, he does convey
well: the extraordinary amount of movement on the roads, the crowding
up of batteries behind our lines, the ceaseless ebb and flow of
transport of all kinds.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p170 Ap 12 ‘17 400w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 60w

=PALMER, FREDERICK.= With our faces in the light. *50c (3½c) Dodd 940.91 17-16213

“Mr Palmer recalls a luminous evening on the Somme, when he came upon
a battalion of the New army halted and content, as their commander
said meaningly, ‘with their faces in the light.’ The officer went on
to predict to Mr Palmer that America, too, would come in, ‘because
your faces are in the light ... because that thing which we are now
about to attack will drive you, and the thing that is sending us to
the attack is calling you.’” (Spec) This little book “illuminates the
situation and the conditions in America and the meaning of the war for
us,” (N Y Times) and expresses the conviction “that this country as a
united nation will face the test in the spirit of the fathers.”
(Springf’d Republican)

“A little sermon on patriotism.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17

=Ath= p532 O ‘17 80w

“Perhaps it is the sincerity, perhaps it is the style, but whatever
the cause, Mr Palmer’s work remains a very stirring and invigorating
piece of writing.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 260w

=Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 70w

+ =N Y Times= 22:344 S 16 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:685 O ‘17 20w

“This charming little book was written by the well-known American war
correspondent for his own countrymen, but it will have an equal
interest for English readers.”

+ =Spec= 119:249 S 8 ‘17 200w

“It represents the views of a man who knows war on many continents and
is withal an intense American. The blatant tone of less worldly-wise
men is refreshingly absent.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 90w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p410 Ag 30 ‘17 500w

=PALMER, FREDERICK E.= Milady’s house plants. il $1 De La Mare 716 17-13238

The author of this “complete instructor and guide to success with
flowers and plants in the home” is an expert florist who has had many
years experience in solving the problem of house plants. After a
chapter on the “Companionship of flowers,” Mr Palmer discusses:
Fundamental requirements of all plants; Foliage plants for house
decoration; Flowering plants for house decoration; Bulbous plants;
House plants out-of-doors in summer; Sowing of seeds and rooting of
cuttings; Outside window boxes in winter; Insect pests and remedies;
How to treat cut flowers; Sun parlors as plant rooms. “The
illustrations are a considerable part of the book, many of the
operations being pictured and most of the plants.” (Springf’d
Republican)

“This valuable little book is compactly written and well illustrated.”

+ =Ind= 92:345 N 17 ‘17 40w

“The common plants, and some uncommon ones that a mere amateur may
safely attempt are listed here with sufficient comment as to name,
quality, treatment, etc., to insure their welfare under thoughtful
care. ... The index is very full and helpful.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 300w

=PANI, ALBERTO J.= Hygiene in Mexico; a study of sanitary and educational problems; tr. by Ernest L. de Gogorza. *$1.50 (3½c) Putnam 614.09 17-6341

A report of a survey of health conditions made in Mexico City and the
Federal district. The report is a frank revelation of evil conditions
due to official carelessness and neglect, and is made in the hope of
future betterment. The investigation was undertaken by the order of
Carranza, and the author, who has held many posts of importance in
Mexico, was a member of the joint Mexican-American commission of 1916.

“In a chapter devoted to public health of the City of Mexico, the
author presents exhaustive and carefully prepared tables, showing a
comparison of death rates in various cities, American and European,
which approximate the City of Mexico in number of inhabitants.” H. S.
K.

=Boston Transcript= p6 F 24 ‘17 400w

“A Gallic fervor for system and for a well-expanded and rounded-out
scheme for the hygienic redemption of the state permeates the work.”

+ =Dial= 62:532 Je 14 ‘17 240w

=Int J Ethics= 27:403 Ap ‘17 140w

=N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:39 N ‘17 20w

“Interesting from an educational point of view.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Mr 30 ‘17 220w

“An ardent plea for public health in Mexico, and a vigorous statement
of difficulties in the way thereof.” G. S.

+ =Survey= 38:551 S 22 ‘17 270w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p420 Ag 30 ‘17 120w

=PARIS, WILLIAM FRANCKLYN.= Decorative elements in architecture; random observations on the eternal fitness of things from a decorative point of view. il *$5 (19c) Lane 749 17-13254

A series of papers devoted largely to interior decoration and
furnishing. The author says, “Too little stress has been laid upon the
fact that as much skill and science and understanding of art is needed
in the adornment of the inside of a palace as is required in the
designing and embellishment of the outside.” Contents: Sunt lachrymæ
rerum; Rationalism in art; Guessing and knowing; The inheritance of
the past; Principles and essentials; The development of ornament;
Decorative elements; The art of Penelope; Painted glass; Wrought iron.
The book is handsomely illustrated.

“‘Decorative elements in architecture’ appeals to the layman as a gem.
It is descriptive, historic, and didactic, and written in a style
which a layman can understand. The illustrations, of which there are
ninety and nine, really illustrate.”

+ =Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 140w

“As befits a book upon art by an artist, it is very finely produced
and splendidly illustrated. A rich but not sumptuous cover, good
paper, excellent typography and margins—these are, in themselves,
details of an art which must be handed on, with the rest, to the
waiting future—the art of the book. And a most refreshing thing about
the illustrations should be welcomed—they are all of unusual works of
art.”

+ =Int Studio= 62:sup24 Jl ‘17 1350w

“As a piece of book-making the work is altogether pleasing.”

+ =Lit D= 53:33 S 1 ‘17 270w

“His book is quite continental in quality; the reviewer, indeed,
perhaps through insular prejudice, feels that an occasional
illustration from English eighteenth-century ironwork or American
colonial furniture would sometimes carry the desired points more
tellingly than do the French and Spanish pieces chosen.”

+ — =Nation= 105:607 N 29 ‘17 560w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:110 Jl ‘17 30w

“It is difficult to say whether the book is more for decorators or for
the public. Both will get from it inspiration and practical
suggestion, but the public perhaps will profit most by having its
bewildered face turned firmly, though with a delicate touch, in the
right direction.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:531 D 2 ‘17 640w

+ =Outlook= 116:160 My 23 ‘17 130w

“Of special interest are the last three chapters on tapestry, ‘The art
of Penelope,’ painted glass, and wrought iron.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 9 ‘17 270w

=PARKER, EDWARD HARPER.= China; her history, diplomacy, and commerce from the earliest times to the present day. 2d ed il *$2.50 Dutton 951 17-30891

“The first edition of this work was published in 1901. To the present
(second) edition the author, who is professor of Chinese at the
Victoria university of Manchester, has added three chapters, in the
last of which he endeavours to describe succinctly how political
reform in China arose out of foreign defeat, and how the spirit of
democracy asserted itself.” (Ath) Other chapters have been brought
down to date.

“Contains much information about a country of which Europeans are as a
rule regrettably deficient in knowledge, and the numerous clear maps
are of great assistance.”

+ =Ath= p474 S ‘17 170w

“It is a pity, however, that while the author has accumulated a vast
store of first-hand knowledge, his style leaves much to be desired. It
is also to be somewhat regretted that Mr Parker is interested more in
men and their affairs than in nature and her products. Perhaps the
least useful part of the book is the last chapter, which deals with
the rise of the republic.”

+ — =Ath= p508 O ‘17 770w

“The dominant interest of these pages, which are written with a dry
humour that finds expression even in the paginal headlines, lies in
their exposure of Germany’s brief but eventful career in the Far East,
a subject on which, thanks to his earlier consular experience,
Professor Parker writes from inside information. ... Professor
Parker’s book should be read by all who desire a closer acquaintance
with a land that has suddenly emerged from the picturesque stagnation
in which Marco Polo found it. The glossary alone is of great interest
and practical use.”

+ =Sat R= 124:190 S 8 ‘17 850w

“This is a book of observations, even more than a book of historical
study or economic analysis, though there is enough history to supply a
background for the observations. These are expressed in a breezy,
buoyant style and are characterized by frankness and a disposition to
make disconcerting, but highly amusing comparisons between the Chinese
and the English.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 31 ‘18 700w

“His description of the rise of the Chinese republic is coherent and
interesting; it bears evidence, however, of having been based to a
very great extent upon the study of contemporary local journalism.
Professor Parker’s work is at its best when he deals with those
subjects which afford opportunity for the display of his wide range of
ethnological, historical and etymological research.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p483 O 11 ‘17 710w

=PARKER, HORATIO NEWTON.= City milk supply. il *$5 McGraw 614.3 17-7831

“The volume opens with a discussion of milk and of the diseases which
it may convey. The dairy cow and farm are next considered from various
angles. Then come valuable chapters on the sanitary production of milk
and on milk transportation. The importance of the milk contractor is
duly recognized by a chapter of 142 pages. Nearly as much space is
given to an able review of methods of public control of milk supplies,
this subject having been wisely reserved to the last. Each chapter is
supplied with a source reference list.”—Engin News-Rec

“The book is not entirely satisfactory, either in its analysis of
production costs or of distribution costs. But as to other topics
which the author presumes to cover, the book is most inclusive and
authoritative, and will be a most valuable record for all those
interested in accurate facts as to sanitary milk, its production,
transportation, and inspection.” C. L. K.

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 74:300 N ‘17 150w

“Such a thoroughly up-to-date book on milk supply as this, written by
a man who has dealt with the subject as inspector, health officer,
analyst and teacher, should certainly make a broad and telling appeal
to all who are concerned with public health and sanitation. ... The
book deals adequately with its subject and might well serve as a model
for writers who have not yet learned the knack of selecting the most
essential facts from a vast amount of material and presenting them in
concise, orderly, instructive and readable form.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:153 Ap 19 ‘17 170w

=Pittsburgh= 22:418 My ‘17

“A comprehensive, up-to-date discussion of milk production,
distribution, and regulation by a man conversant with every aspect of
the subject as inspector, health officer, analyst, and teacher.”

+ =Pratt= p20 O ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17

“No other book in English, at least, gives an equal amount of
information regarding city milk supply.” Frank Schneider, jr.

+ =Survey= 39:72 O 20 ‘17 170w

=PARKER, LOUIS NAPOLEON.= Aristocrat. *$1 Lane 822 17-5392

The scenes of this three-act play are laid during and immediately
following the French revolution. The first act opens on New Year’s
eve, 1793, in the house of Louis of Olonzac. Refusing to recognize the
existence of the republic, he is preparing to observe the occasion as
always, with mass at midnight and a supper with his friends
afterwards. The result is imprisonment for himself, his daughter
Louise, and his guests. The trial scene takes up the second act, with
the dramatic rescue of Louise, and the death of Robespierre as its
climax. Act three is laid ten years later.

“Good for reading aloud.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:441 Jl ‘17

“‘The aristocrat’ is exceedingly good, and possesses many of the
characteristics which make ‘Disraeli’ enjoyable.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ap 14 ‘17 800w

“A romantic glow envelops the action from beginning to end.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:663 Je ‘17 60w

=PARKER, RALPH MIDDLETON.= Officer’s notes; comp. by Lieut. C: C. Griffith. il *$2 G. U. Harvey, 109 Lafayette st., N.Y. 355 17-11226

“In compiling his notes Captain Parker has taken advantage of the
experience gained by nearly twenty years active service with troops—as
commandant of cadets at Norwich university, and as the officer
detailed to instruct candidates for commissions in the reserve during
the past winter. The book is a digest of the information given in the
army regulations as to company administration; military law, as laid
down in the manual of courts-martial; small-arm firing regulations,
including the use and construction of the United States army service
rifle; field service regulations, with particular reference to the
gathering of information; security; distribution of troops; outposts
and orders; marches and convoys, and the shelter of troops in the
field.”—N Y Times

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:378 Je ‘17

+ =Ind= 90:127 Ap 14 ‘17 20w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:67 My ‘17 30w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:89 Je ‘17 30w

“Gives in small compass what the young officer should know.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Ap ‘17 60w

“Captain Parker and Lieutenant Griffith have performed a real service
for the young officer and for the candidate for a commission in the
Officers’ reserve corps by condensing into a little book of 204 pages
that can readily be carried in the pocket the essential information
from five or six service manuals, and presenting it in clear, everyday
English that the average man without any knowledge of military
phraseology can readily understand.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:116 Ap 1 ‘17 320w

“Perhaps the best evidence of its worth is furnished by the fact that
one dealer in the Wall Street district is said to have sold a thousand
copies in four days.” R. L.

=Pub W= 91:1326 Ap 21 ‘17 110w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 31 ‘17 90w

=PARKHURST, FREDERIC AUGUSTUS.= Predetermination of true costs and relatively true selling prices. il *$1.25 Wiley 657 16-14605

“A careful reading of this book suggests that it is fairer to judge it
by the content than by the title. ... Seven eighths of the book deals
with costs: the remainder with profit and selling prices. ... That the
author has presented the subject in the usual manner will be seen from
the chapter headings which are as follows: Importance of absolute
control of all sources of information; Discussion of elements
affecting true costs; Direct costs; Indirect costs; Recapitulation of
costs; Estimating; Profit and relatively true selling prices;
Conclusion. ... The closure is an appeal for greater consideration and
better treatment of the workman, not only because of philanthropic
motives but because it pays.”—Am Econ R

“It is a good book to which to refer a clerk in a cost department for
a working manual or a student of the subject of cost accounting. To
such persons it offers not only the principles of cost finding but
unusually clear and complete illustrations of their application.” J:
R. Wildman

+ =Am Econ R= 7:132 Mr ‘17 550w

=Cleveland= p152 D ‘16 15w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:122 Ag ‘16

“‘Greatest value of the book lies in the arguments brought out in the
first chapter on the importance of absolute control of all sources of
information. ... System explained in this book is a definite one for a
given type of manufacture, and the forms shown are taken from the
practice of two shops only.’”

=Pittsburgh= 22:462 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from American
Machinist p572 Mr 29 ‘17)

=PARKMAN, MARY ROSETTA.= Heroes of today. il *$1.35 (2½c) Century 920 17-25610

The author has told the stories of some of the heroes “who are
fighting ‘in the patient modern way,’ not against flesh and blood with
sword and spear, but against the unseen enemies of disease and
pestilence; against the monster evils of ignorance, poverty and
injustice.” The heroes chosen are: John Muir, John Burroughs, Wilfred
Grenfell, Captain Scott, Jacob Riis, Edward L. Trudeau, George
Washington Goethals, Bishop Rowe, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Rupert
Brooke, and Herbert C. Hoover. The book is illustrated with portraits
and other pictures.

+ =Lit D= 55:56 D 8 ‘17 70w

+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 70w

=PARKMAN, MARY ROSETTA.= Heroines of service. il *$1.35 (2½c) Century 920 17-25609

The author has written sketches of the lives of eleven women: Mary
Lyon; Alice Freeman Palmer; Clara Barton; Frances E. Willard; Julia
Ward Howe; Anna Howard Shaw; Mary Antin; Alice C. Fletcher; Mary
Slessor; Marie Sklodowska Curie, Jane Addams. Writing of the work of
these women, she says, “The service of the true woman is always
‘womanly.’ She gives something of the fostering care of the mother,
whether it be as nurse, like Clara Barton; as teacher, like Mary Lyon
and Alice Freeman Palmer; or as social helper, like Jane Addams. So it
is that the service of these ‘heroines’ is that which only women could
have given to the world.” Each sketch is accompanied by a portrait and
there are other illustrations.

“A timely book whose only fault is a happy one, a tendency to
idealize.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 50w

“She makes an evident aim to avoid controversy regarding the
comparative claims to greatness in each of her subjects. The style of
narration is intimate and chatty.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 110w

+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 70w

=PARRISH, RANDALL.=[2] Devil’s own. il *$1.40 (2c) McClurg 17-28849

The time of the story is the year of the Black Hawk war, and that
outbreak has a part in the climax of the tale. It is with one of the
problems of slavery, however, that the plot is concerned. In
journeying down the river, Lieutenant Knox falls in with Joe Kirby,
the gambler. Kirby has been playing cards with Judge Beaucaire of
Missouri and has taken from him his home and all his possessions,
including his slaves. From Kirby himself, Lieutenant Knox learns that
the gambler’s main motive is to gain possession of Rene Beaucaire, the
girl reputed to be Judge Beaucaire’s daughter, altho in reality she is
his granddaughter, the child of his son and a quadroon girl.
Technically she is his slave. Moved by the tragic fate of this unknown
girl, Knox sets out to save her; a task which involves the rescue also
of Eloise Beaucaire, the judge’s real daughter.

“As is usual in Mr Parrish’s novels, the detail is conscientiously
sketched, giving a vivid impression of the political and racial
conditions in ‘Missury’ in 1832.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 N 28 ‘17 350w

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 40w

“The story is tedious in the telling, despite the fact that it brims
with exciting adventures and dreadful experiences. Its most
interesting feature is the description of the hidden trail whereby
slaves escaped to freedom in the days before the war.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:518 D 2 ‘17 300w

“Tales of frontier and pioneer days will probably never lose their
flavor with native Americans. The period was so dramatic a one in the
history of the United States that it requires very little departure
from established facts to make a story that stirs the imagination and
arouses the liveliest interest from its first to last chapter.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 370w

=PARRY, THOMAS WOOD.= When Daddy was a boy. il *$1.25 (2½c) Little

A series of stories told by a father to his little son. They are
sketches of boyhood on a Kentucky farm. Many of them are stories about
animals. In others a black mammy and little negro playmates are
introduced. One is a negro folk tale, included as typical of the many
told to the author as a child.

Reviewed by J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:495 D ‘17 100w

“The fact that Daddy lived in a Kentucky home adds a delicious flavor.
The book is well illustrated.”

+ =Ind= 92:446 D 1 ‘17 30w

“Every one will like ‘When Daddy was a boy.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 120w

“The incidents are such as a child likes to hear, and the negroes are
well portrayed.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 80w

=PARSONS, CARL COPELAND.= Office organization and management. (Business administration, section 18) il $2.50 La Salle extension univ. 658 17-8877

The author’s aim has been to supply a broad view of all phases of
office management. The work is based on observation of the principles
employed in such offices as those of the National cloak and suit
company, Sherwin-Williams company, National cash register company, and
others. The author, who is now manager of the Shaw-Walker company of
New York, was formerly lecturer in business administration at the
University of Michigan. Contents; Organization; Laying out the office;
Office employees; Office training; Rules and regulations; Discipline;
Methods of payment; Promotions; Increasing efficiency; Suggestions and
ideas; Esprit de corps; Vacations; Encouragement of savings; Making
employees stockholders; Pension systems; Machinery of the office; etc.
The volume is provided with various forms by way of illustration, is
fully indexed, and made more useful as a text by the inclusion of test
questions for students.

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 90w

“By introducing many extracts from the manuals of business houses and
by concerning himself entirely with the most practical problems of
modern business, Carl C. Parsons makes his ‘Office organization and
management’ a valuable piece of work. These things also make an
intentionally technical work vastly more interesting than a purely
theoretical discussion.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 3 ‘17 150w

=PARTRIDGE, EDWARD BELLAMY.= Sube Cane. il *$1.35 Penn 17-13316

“The ten-years-old hero of ‘Sube Cane’ enjoys a series of adventures
which Edward Bellamy Partridge relates for grown-ups. Sube’s escapades
are very like those engaged in by other mischievous boys who have
broken into fiction.” (Springf’d Republican) “‘Sube’ is ‘all boy.’ His
is the ingenuity and ingenuousness of adolescence and those who have a
furtive sympathy with the innate genius for mischief which
characterizes youth will find a humor which does not tax their
credulity or patience.” (Dial)

=A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17

“An authentic story of boyhood.”

+ =Dial= 63:118 Ag 16 ‘17 110w

“The book is something on the ‘Penrod’ order; not perhaps so gifted
with real humor, but certainly full of fun and comic incidents.”

+ =Outlook= 116:522 Ag 1 ‘17 50w

“Sube is either less inventive, or the author sees him with a less
humorous eye than Mr Tarkington’s, for his adventures arouse
comparatively few smiles. But in spite of that, he is natural, and has
little of the offensive precociousness often lavished upon boys whose
activities form the basis of such a story.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 100w

=PATERNOSTER, GEORGE SIDNEY.= Great gift. *$1.40 (2c) Lane 17-28803

To Hugh Standish has come the crowning honor of his career. At
forty-six he is to enter the British cabinet. But it is at this moment
that he begins to realize the emptiness of his life. Love, home,
family affection for the first time seem to him desirable. In Olive
Ingstrom, a girl of twenty, he believes that he has found the
fulfilment of his new ideal, and for a time he deludes himself,
mistaking her respect and youthful admiration for love. Fortunately he
comes to see the truth before two young lives have been blighted. The
war menace is gathering at the story’s close, promising to Hugh new
activities and opportunities for service.

“The business ethics of the hero, and his attitude to life generally,
will not appeal to those whose outlook is more spiritual, but the fact
that he recognized that he had missed the best in life ... will cause
them to close the book with feelings of sympathy dominating those of
criticism.”

+ — =Ath= p471 S ‘17 90w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 360w

“The book offers one of those English half-and-half politics and
society novels for which Mrs Humphry Ward long ago set the standard.
But Mr Paternoster does not follow Mrs Ward’s pattern. He has his own
pattern, which is simpler than hers and has fewer of the trimmings of
sentiment.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:413 O 21 ‘17 300w

“The hero is just a little too successful to be realistic. ... It is
in the last third of the book, when war is about to break out ... that
the novelist begins to show his power.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:90 Ag 4 ‘17 330w

=PATERSON, MRS ISABEL.= Magpie’s nest. *$1.40 (2c) Lane 17-9810

The author is a young Canadian novelist and this is the second book in
which she pictures life in the big Canadian northwest. Hope Fielding,
born on the prairies, demands that life give her happiness, and
because she does not find it near at hand, she goes far in search of
it. But the French have a saying that happiness is to be found in a
magpie’s nest; because the magpie always builds out of reach. It is
only when Hope has given up looking for it, that happiness overtakes
her. One of the new and growing cities of Alberta is the scene of the
greater part of the story, but at one time Hope’s quest takes her to
Seattle, at another to New York.

=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 330w

“Isabel Paterson’s heroine reminds one of Owen Johnson’s ‘Salamander,’
a fact which will doubtless recommend the book to many.”

— =Dial= 62:483 My 31 ‘17 90w

“As in Mrs Paterson’s former novel, ‘The shadow riders,’ the scene of
a part of the story is in the Canadian northwest, the descriptions of
which are fresh and vivid. The book is remarkably well written, and
holds the reader’s interest in spite of its reprehensible characters
and very unpleasant situations.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:137 Ap 15 ‘17 320w

+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 50w

“The latter part of the story is in obedience to the conventional
requirement of a happy ending and is quite ordinary work. But the
first two-thirds ring absolutely true, built from the storied memories
of tense, full, eager, devouring youth. The vitality, the wonder, and
the hope of immaturity are poured out for us.” M. A. Hopkins

+ — =Pub W= 91:1320 Ap 21 ‘17 430w

“It shows a great advance on Miss Paterson’s previous novel ‘The
shadow riders’; and, moreover, it is by no means devoid of humour.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p238 My 17 ‘17 230w

=PATRI, ANGELO.= Schoolmaster of the great city. *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 371 17-13273

A piece of autobiography and a study of educational conditions as they
exist in New York city today. The author came to America from Italy
when a boy. He was eleven years old when he entered an American
school, and ten years later, having been sent thru college by a father
who earned two dollars a day, he came back to the city schools as a
teacher. In time, after another interval spent in study, he passed on
to a principalship. In this book he writes of his association with the
schools, as pupil, as teacher and as principal. He shows how the
humanizing touch has made itself felt in spite of the big unwieldy
educational system and how school has been linked with community as
the first step toward making a new and a better America.

“As interesting to the parent as to the teacher.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17

=Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 80w

“Mr Patri’s honest and unpretentious book contains both wisdom and
inspiration for every teacher and every parent, everywhere.” Clyde
Furst

+ =Educ R= 54:516 D ‘17 1000w

“The author knows how to tell a story and when he has told it his
point needs no further enforcing. The issues which are so sacred to
the old education seem trivial in the face of the realities of present
day requirements.”

+ =Ind= 91:295 Ag 25 ‘17 200w

“It has the rare gift of unfolding, without consciousness, the real
character of an uncommon man.”

+ =Nation= 104:738 Je 21 ‘17 470w

“The simple anecdotes introduce you to real people. That is what makes
the book interesting reading, even if you are not concerned with
schools and with children. This is a human document, not a pedagogical
treatise.” B. C. G.

+ =N Y Call= p14 My 27 ‘17 800w

“Mr Patri’s vision of what the public school should be and should do
in American life, in city and country, in rich neighborhoods and poor
neighborhoods alike, is an inspiring and an aspiring vision.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 480w

“His book has in it entertainment and valuable suggestions also.”

+ =Outlook= 116:233 Je 6 ‘17 20w

=Pittsburgh= 22:692 O ‘17 90w

“Patri’s book has been compared to Jacob Riis’s portrayal of the lives
of the common people in ‘How the other half lives.’ Like Riis, he sees
the flaws of our social and educational systems more clearly because
of his foreign birth. ... His work has been done in New York, but his
experiments are of interest in all American cities. ... Mr Patri was
given the principalship of school no. 45, in the Bronx, and he has
made it into a model Gary school—one that is a real community center.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:73 Jl ‘17 2350w

“There is no theorizing or dogmatizing. You see the children and the
mothers and the homes with his own eyes. You unravel the snarls and
tangles with him. You marvel that the despised craft of teaching could
be so dramatic, could call for such skill and talent. Schoolmasters
like Mr Patri would make teaching the most important of professions,
and education the finest of the arts.” Randolph Bourne

+ =Survey= 38:422 Ag 11 ‘17 650w

=PATTERSON, AUSTIN MCDOWELL.= German-English dictionary for chemists. *$2 Wiley 540.3 17-6769

“The scope of the book is broader than the title would seem to
indicate. It gives English meanings, not only of German words
occurring in the literature of general and industrial chemistry, but
includes words used in scientific and technical literature generally,
as well as a good general German vocabulary.”—Quar List New Tech Bks

“Dr Patterson has filled what has long been an irritating lacuna in
the average chemist’s library. ... The book should be eagerly welcomed
by the steadily increasing number of young chemists in England and
America and by those who, even if they have already a good working
knowledge of the language, are occasionally at fault. The book is
clearly printed, the German being in roman type.”

+ =Nature= 100:144 O 25 ‘17 220w

“‘The need of a book of this kind has been keenly felt by all
scientific men.’”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p5 Ap ‘17 190w (Reprinted from India
Rubber World My 1 ‘17)

“Dr Patterson has performed a public service in the compilation. ...
His extended experience as editor of Chemical Abstracts has given him
exceptional qualifications for such an undertaking and the work shows
the same painstaking care which characterized his successful work as
editor. ... The printing is good, the covers are flexible, and the
size is suited to the coat pocket.” C: H. Herty

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:462 My ‘17 60w (Reprinted from Journal of
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry p422 Ap 1 ‘17)

“Includes valuable suggestions on nomenclature.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:835 D ‘17 20w

+ =Pratt= p14 Jl ‘17 20w

“Very useful to anyone who has occasion to read German scientific or
technical books and periodicals.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 70w

“Since its appearance in January it has been in constant use in the
office of ‘Chemical Abstracts,’ where translating work involving every
phase of theoretical and applied chemistry is done and it has stood
this test of completeness in such a way as to justify the confidence
with which it is used.” E. J. Crane

+ =Science= n s 46:414 O 26 ‘17 510w

=PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD.= Religious education of an American citizen. *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 204 17-20853

This book is “an attempt by the emeritus professor of Christian morals
at Harvard to analyze the various influences which direct and go to
make up the religious training of the average American.” (Springf’d
Republican) Chapter eleven, The conversion of militarism, is
reminiscent of William James’ “Moral equivalent for war.” The last
chapter deals with The place of Jesus Christ in a religious
experience.

“In vain do we look for any definite statement by the author as to the
nature of Christ. And if he wavers in this fundamental belief, what
light or leading can be expected from him on the momentous question of
‘The religious education of an American citizen?’”

— =Cath World= 106:113 O ‘17 700w

=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 60w

“Some patent defects that one grieves so often to find in religious
writers of prominence are an over-reliance on pretty verbosities, a
habit of glib mosaic of biblical quotation designed to fit into modern
problems (going back for its warrant to the infallibility of the
scriptures), and a trait that naturally goes with the latter—an odd
combination of sound and serious reflection with ramshackle logic. But
there is plenty of meat in this book.”

+ — =Dial= 63:278 S 27 ‘17 350w

“The intimate and perplexing problems of the mind, in which faith,
character and modern progress are factors, are dealt with
helpfully. ... The chapter on the conversion of militarism is
especially pertinent, but Dr Peabody almost seems to fall into the
common failure to properly interpret Jesus Christ in relation to
militarism. ... If we must have militarism a while longer, we wish
that we might have the courage to possess it without torturing the
teaching of Jesus to justify us.” L: A. Walker

+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ag 5 ‘17 300w

“An ideal work, the cream of long and rich experience.”

+ =Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 90w

“Particularly helpful at this time is the chapter on ‘The conversion
of militarism.’ Dr Peabody thinks the youth of America should be given
constructive social work to fill the place which some would gladly see
assigned permanently to military training. ... The book is written
with distinction of thought and style.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 12 ‘17 250w

=PEABODY, JAMES.= Railway organization and management. 2v il LaSalle extension univ. 385 17-689

“This is one of a series of books on interstate commerce and railway
traffic. Its purpose is to explain the functions of the various
departments of the railway and the duties of the officers and
employees. ... Naturally the greater part of the book consists of a
detailed analysis of the three great divisions of railroad
organization—operating, traffic, and accounting; but brief mention is
made of the corporate organization and of certain miscellaneous
departments, such as relief, pensions, publicity. Some little
attention is given to the valuation work which has been forced upon
the railroads by the federal government.” (Am Econ R) The author has
been statistician for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé railway.

“The arrangement of the book is somewhat faulty resulting in many
needless repetitions. A fairly full index remedies this defect to some
extent. There is also a noticeable lack of balance in the
apportionment of space to the various topics. On the whole, however,
the work affords the student of transportation and the layman a
considerable amount of information concerning the organization and
operation of a railway though it is too superficial to be of much use
to a railroad man or to any one who desires an intimate knowledge of
the subject.” C. W. Doten

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:121 Mr ‘17 250w

=Ind= 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 60w

“No such complete list and description of railway positions has been
put into any previous work. Elaborate charts show the relations of the
officials to each other and guide the reader through the almost
infinite complexities of the organization.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 28 ‘16 250w

=PEARS, SIR EDWIN.= Life of Abdul Hamid. il *$2 (1½c) Holt 17-31756

“A word of apology on my part may, perhaps, be expected for having
included this sorry creature, Abdul Hamid, among the ‘Makers of the
nineteenth century,’” writes Basil Williams in his General editor’s
preface, continuing, “and yet as an influence on the political thought
and action of Europe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as
one who has handed down that evil influence to the Europe of this
century, Abdul Hamid may justly lay claim to be included among those
who have helped in large measure to make or mar the world into which
we were born.” It is in much the same spirit that the author takes up
the career of “the greatest of the destroyers of the Turkish empire.”
Sir Edwin Pears is author also of “The fall of Constantinople” and
“The destruction of the Greek empire.”

“An authoritative and popular history. The chapters are topical, which
makes useful the chronological table of events at the end of the book.
The author weaves into the history the part played by British
diplomacy. His estimate of the Sultan’s character is interesting and
well balanced.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:167 F ‘18

=Lit D= 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 170w

“True, the result is a trifle disappointing, for Sir Edwin has treated
his subject from a topical rather than a chronological standpoint,
which frequently causes confusion and gives rise to the necessity for
elaborate mental cross-referencing.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:581 D 30 ‘17 520w

“Sir Edwin Pears has dealt with all these matters in a most competent
fashion, and his book will be the standard biography of the worst of
all the Sultans.”

+ =Spec= 119:717 D 15 ‘17 310w

“Abdul Hamid is the subject of just such an impartial, clear and
comprehensive study as would be expected from a man of Sir Edwin
Pears’s knowledge and profundity. If it is history more than it is
biography, that fact is a natural consequence of the secrecy
surrounding the life of the deposed emperor, and of the necessity of
judging him by his public acts.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 1000w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 N 15 ‘17 50w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p592 D 6 ‘17 1750w

=PEARSE, PADRAIC H.= Collected works. il *7s 6d Maunsel, London 820.8