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

“Padraic Pearse was among the Irishmen executed after the outbreak in
Dublin in the Easter of 1916. He was thirty-six years old; but already
for twenty years and more he had been working for the Ireland that he
saw in a vision. He learned the Gaelic language, and so well that, as
‘Padraic MacPiarais,’ he was able to write poems in it and plays and
stories. At seventeen he founded the New Ireland society in
Dublin. ... He edited the weekly organ of the Gaelic league. He
conducted a secondary school as Gaelic in ‘atmosphere’ as he could
make it.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The stories include the tale of
“Iosagan” (Little Jesus), the mysterious, barefooted boy who came to
play with the village boys, but disappeared when there were grown-ups
about; of little Paraig, who used to play all alone at being a priest;
of Brideen and her two dolls; of “The Dearg-Dool,” “in which the
kindliest intentions seem hopelessly entangled with ancient doom”; of
“The keening woman,” who came to London to plead with Queen Victoria
on behalf of her son, imprisoned on suspicion of murder, etc. The
plays all deal, directly or indirectly, with the history and politics
of Ireland. The poems are filled with a confidence which contrasts
strongly with the doubt expressed in the plays.

=Ath= p412 Ag ‘17 190w

“Those who look in the writings of Mr Pearse for that picturesque
imagery which we are accustomed to find in the works of Irish authors
will be disappointed, for there is little of it. There is a lack also
of that humor, regarded as characteristically Irish, which by its
piquant contrast adds poignancy to the homely tragedies of the Irish
countryside.”

+ — =Spec= 119:272 S 15 ‘17 290w

“They are what literature ought to be. Their ‘literary’ beauty is
patent, even in these English translations. ... They are very finely
wrought; full of fancy, of passion, of tender humour; in the treatment
of children they are rarely true and tender. But their special claim
to notice is that they are the many times refined expression of their
author’s spiritual life. ... To the seeker after literature, the
purified and exalted expression of spiritual life, it matters not a
jot whether the poet be politically right or wrong. He may be a rebel
and a traitor; but, unless he be cowardly and mean of soul, his
literature may be noble. And the literature left by Pearse is not the
literature of a coward or a mean man. ... It is the more interesting
because visionaries of this kind seldom have the power of expressing
themselves through the art of letters.”

+ + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p319 Jl 5 ‘17 1850w

=PEARSON, CHARLES CHILTON.= Readjuster movement in Virginia. (Yale historical publications) *$2 (4½c) Yale univ. press 975.5 17-24995

The movement which has been made the subject of this work represented
a reaction against reconstruction. The author says of the book, “It is
a chapter in the history of Virginia, from the Civil war to the first
administration of Grover Cleveland, in which some of the forces that
moulded the present state are shown in their operation; and in the
showing the ‘Readjuster’ claim to liberalism, democracy, and progress
is tested and due record made of the achievements and solid worth of
those who stood for conservatism, aristocracy, and scrupulous
honesty.” (Preface) A “bibliographical note” of six pages precedes the
index. The author is professor of political science in Wake Forest
college, North Carolina.

“Politics make strange bedfellows. On this score the reviewer might
find a little fault with the author. For the book, while it does refer
to the national bearings of his subject, does not make clear enough
the entanglements and commitments of this bastard Virginia party. ...
There is a fairness in the book and an appreciation of the
difficulties of politicians in steering the course of any given ship
of state that promise well for the future writings of the author.”

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:417 Ja ‘18 950w

Reviewed by S. C. Mitchell

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:140 F ‘18 500w

“There is a long and bald array of facts and figures; however the book
shows scholarly research, is carefully written, is well provided with
notes and bibliography, and should have lasting historical value.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 30 ‘17 450w

=PEARSON, FRANCIS BAIL.= Reveries of a schoolmaster. *$1 (2c) Scribner 814 17-9711

The author is State superintendent of public instruction in Ohio and
has published books on “The evolution of the teacher,” “The
high-school problem,” and other educational subjects. In this book he
writes informally of the schoolmaster’s calling and of some of the
problems of life in the light of his experience as a teacher. Homely
analogies drawn from a country boyhood add an individual touch to the
little essays. Among the subjects are: Retrospect; Lanterns; Complete
living; Freedom; Things; Hoeing potatoes; Changing the mind; The point
of view; Picnics; Make-believe; Story-telling.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:392 Je ‘17

+ =Boston= Transcript p13 Ap 7 ‘17 470w

“Thirty-one well-organized little essays, full of kindly, homely
wisdom based on both reading and human experience. ... The book will
be of especial interest to those who have to deal with young people,
or to students themselves.”

+ =Cleveland= p74 Je ‘17 50w

“Mr Francis B. Pearson has put much homely philosophy and the results
of sound reflection in this little book.”

+ =Educ R= 54:208 S ‘17 30w

“In nearly all are one or more common sense suggestions on wise and
tactful methods of boy training.”

+ =Ind= 91:295 Ag 25 ‘17 40w

“They are generally sensible, they are occasionally witty; but they
abound in stale anecdotes and trite quotations, and they are prone to
‘announce commonplaces as if they were discoveries.’ All these are, of
course, besetting sins of teachers. It is probably better to talk over
your pupils’ (or readers’) heads than to talk under their feet. The
latter is Mr Pearson’s danger.”

+ — =Nation= 105:259 S 6 ‘17 140w

+ =School R= 25:303 Ap ‘17 10w

“Although the writer avoids technical cant and disclaims any
assumption of authority, the morals of his parables are plain and
enlightening. The critical reader, however, may find in Mr Pearson’s
style blemishes which seriously mar the charm of the whole. Rather too
often is the writer ingenuous, obtrusively rustic and facetious,
which, in a book of this nature, may lead one to distrust the writer’s
judgment.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 18 ‘17 430w

=PEARSON, FRANCIS BAIL.= Vitalized school. *$1.40 Macmillan 370 17-4795

“The ‘vitalized school,’ according to Mr Pearson (who is state
superintendent of public instruction in Ohio) is nothing but a school
with a vitalized teacher in charge. In general, his book is an attempt
to bring together some of the fundamental modern implications of
teaching in a way that will induce teachers to incorporate them into
the practice of their profession. ... It consists of a series of short
treatises, aiming to be both practical and inspirational, on teaching
as related to life: on ‘the teacher,’ ‘the child,’ ‘democracy,’ ‘the
artist teacher,’ ‘the socialized recitation,’ ‘the school and the
community,’ ‘a sense of humor,’ ‘poetry and life,’ ‘examinations,’
etc.”—Survey

=St Louis= 15:171 Je ‘17

“An inspirational rather than an informational book. ... The style
throughout is free and easy and especially adapted to the teacher of
little training and experience. The questions and exercises at the end
of each chapter suggest that the author expects his work to be used
both as a text and as a reading-circle book. In either of these
capacities it would be more valuable for what it suggests than for
what it contains.”

=School R= 25:461 Je ‘17 200w

“There is much that teachers, and other people, too, will do well to
ponder. ... The book suffers somewhat from its sustained effort to
treat broad, elusive, ‘inspirational’ subjects and relationships as if
they were matter for exact exposition and could be stated as facts to
be acquired rather than feelings to be aroused. Perhaps (though we
doubt it) this is suited to the intended audience. Then, too, Mr
Pearson makes a bad guess occasionally in his illustrations: such as
when he quotes a statement that the first purpose of the schools at
Gary is to make efficient workers for the mills.” W. D. L.

+ =Survey= 38:422 Ag 11 ‘17 500w

=PEARSON, THOMAS GILBERT.= Bird study book. il *$1.25 (3½c) Doubleday 598.2 17-8225

This book is meant to serve as a guide to beginners in bird study. It
is not a compendium of facts about birds and their habits. Facts are
not lacking, but its primary purpose is to tell the student how to
begin, where to look, and what to look for. There are chapters on:
First acquaintance with the birds; The life about the nest: Domestic
life of the birds; The migration of birds; The birds in winter; The
economic value of birds; Civilization’s effect on the bird supply: The
traffic in feathers; Bird-protective laws and their enforcement; Bird
reservations; Making bird sanctuaries; Teaching bird study. There are
illustrations from photographs and drawings. The author is secretary
of the National association of Audubon societies.

=A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17

“Presents briefly much information that would be overwhelming in
formidable scientific publications; and is intended to stimulate
rather than to satisfy. Those who are disposed to cultivate an
intelligent interest in the habits of their bird neighbors, will find
the necessary help and inspiration for beginners in the matter here
presented for their guidance.”

+ =Cath World= 105:684 Ag ‘17 100w

=Cleveland= p69 My ‘17 30w

“The last chapter, Teaching bird study, will be of specific value to
teachers, to whom, rather than to the novice in field study, the whole
book will be of considerable general value.”

+ — =Nation= 105:130 Ag 2 ‘17 270w

=Pittsburgh= 22:414 My ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:141 My ‘17

=PEARY, ROBERT EDWIN.= Secrets of polar travel. il *$2.50 (5c) Century 919.8 17-30385

A book devoted to what might be termed the technique of polar
exploration. In his former book, “The north pole,” the author gave a
brief summary of his methods. In this work he has elaborated that
brief account, giving details of the system which, evolving gradually
thru his years of endeavor, enabled him finally to reach the pole.
Contents: Building a polar ship; Selecting men; Supplies and
equipment; Ice navigation; Winter quarters; Polar clothing;
Utilization of Eskimos and dogs; Utilizing the resources of the
country; Sledge equipment; Sledge-traveling. In a brief conclusion, he
touches on air travel as a possible means of arctic exploration.

=A L A Bkl= 14:126 Ja ‘18

“A notable book on arctic journeys ... by the man who is more
competent than any other in the world to discuss the subject.” A. M.
Chase

+ =Bookm= 46:334 N ‘17 150w

=Boston Transcript= p6 D 1 ‘17 420w

“It presents the conclusions as to the best methods of exploration in
polar regions which the author has worked out during his years of
arctic journeyings, and presents them with such constant and varied
illustration of incidents and facts and personal observations as to
make the narrative far more interesting than the account of a single
expedition.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:449 N 4 ‘17 1100w

“It is a book for every explorer and every lover of high adventure.”

+ =Outlook= 117:433 N 14 ‘17 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 21 ‘18 360w

=PEASE, MARGARET.= Jean Jaurès, socialist and humanitarian; with an introd. by J. Ramsay Macdonald. *$1 (3½c) Huebsch. 17-26782

This book has been written to acquaint English readers with the
socialist editor, author, orator and parliamentary leader whom J.
Ramsay Macdonald, in his introduction, calls “the greatest democratic
personal force in Europe—even in the world,” and who, after having
spent the last day of his life in a vain effort to avert the war, was
assassinated on July 31, 1914. Chapter 1 gives “a short sketch of the
man and his career.” Succeeding chapters on Socialism, Jaurès and the
Dreyfus case, Socialist methods, “The new army,” and International
peace, while giving Jaurès’s views and actions, necessarily also
contribute much to the history of French socialism.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17

Reviewed by H. A. Yeomans

=Am Pol Sci R= 12:154 F ‘18 170w

“This book is cursorily written and, though laudatory, is far from
making out the ‘greatness’ of its hero. As is to be expected, many
hoary old calumnies are brought forward against Catholicism. Yet in
reality it is not Catholicism which Mrs Pease so bitterly attacks, but
something quite other, that ancient and fanciful monster we had long
since thought deceased, ‘the Romish church.’ That the authoress
resurrects the word is sufficient comment on the intellectual quality
of her book.”

— =Cath World= 106:395 D ‘17 520w

“Of particular interest at present is the discussion of the opinions
of Jaurès on military policy.”

+ =Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 80w
+ =R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 70w

“The French accused Jaurès, more particularly in his later years, of
pro-German sympathies. ‘M. Jaurès, c’est l’Allemagne,’ wrote M.
Charles Maurras about a fortnight before the war; and it has not
unnaturally been assumed that this was the charge which loaded the
pistol of the assassin. His firm article of faith was that the German
‘comrades’ did not want war, and that war might be prevented by the
open-hearted appeal of a French socialist whom they trusted. ... Mrs
Pease’s volume will help readers to understand his place in recent
history, though her exposition of his ideas is more enthusiastic than
critical.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p497 O 19 ‘16 870w

=PEASE, THEODORE CALVIN.= Leveller movement; a study in the history and political theory of the English great civil war. (Prize essays, 1915) $1.50 Am. hist. assn. 942.06 17-9688

“Dr Pease, of Illinois university, has made a careful study of the
Leveller movement led by John Lilburne during the civil war. He
emphasizes the Levellers’ demand for a supreme law which neither king
nor Parliament could override, because in this respect they
anticipated the founders of the American constitution. Dr Pease is
unusually sympathetic towards Lilburne, though he does not vouch for
the honesty of that clever but unattractive man, and sees that if the
Levellers had shattered the discipline of the army Charles II would
have come back in 1649 and crushed Presbyterians, Independents, and
Levellers alike.”—Spec

“It is unfortunate that space limitations prevented the inclusion of
the bibliography in full, for which many students of the period would
have been very grateful. Finally, Mr Pease is quite right in his
admission that his study is ‘avowedly sympathetic.’ Whatever the
admirable qualities of Lilburne and his fellow-Levellers, however glad
one may be that such doctrines as they advocated found voice, it still
remains a question whether, in their own day, they helped or hindered
real progress. It is to be hoped that Mr Pease will add to his
excellent study a supplementary treatise on their relations to
every-day affairs, apart from the realm of political theory. For such
a study no one is so well qualified.” W. C. Abbott

+ =Am Hist R= 22:900 Jl ‘17 550w

“A very solid and valuable contribution to history and political
science, and much the most detailed and thorough study we have of the
political theory of probably the most interesting group in a most
momentous period.” C. H. McIlwain

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:584 Ag ‘17 600w

“Reveals research work of value and importance.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 9 ‘17 300w

“The book is written with strict attention to the rules of sound
historical workmanship and embodies the result of patient research in
materials of unquestioned trustworthiness.”

+ =Nation= 106:120 Ja 31 ‘18 220w

+ =Spec= 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 130w

“Mr Pease includes in the volume a bibliography as painstaking and
thorough as his text.”

* + =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 4200w

“This book, which won the Herbert Baxter Adams prize in European
history in 1915, appears at a fortunate, or at least an appropriate,
moment. It tells of a struggle between Moderates and Extremists in the
course of a great revolution, and, though it would be very difficult
to construct an historical parallel between events in England from
1647 to 1649 and events in Russia in 1917, there is a certain element
of similarity in the applications of enthusiastic idealism to new
conditions.”

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 My 24 ‘17 1800w

=PEAT, HAROLD R.=[2] Private Peat. il *$1.50 (3c) Bobbs 940.91 17-29848

Private Peat is a Canadian soldier who experienced the whole gamut of
war sensations from the thrill of enlistment to the loss of
consciousness “out there” when he lay in the open two nights and a day
before the stretcher bearers found him. His narrative is full of the
grimness and humor of life in the trenches and behind the lines. But
most of all he shows the soldier’s clear quality of courage to live
because he must through an inferno of destruction and death, of murder
and horror. Romance is a part of the story. The last chapter is
written by the girl herself—a free lance of Fleet street—whose
advertisement concerning a lost cousin was the beginning of a hospital
acquaintance with the disabled private which ended in marriage after
his return to Canada for discharge. The writer is on a successful
lecture tour in America now.

“It is for the most part more serious than ‘Over the top,’ yet it also
reflects the indomitable humor of the ‘Tommy’ and it is entertainingly
written.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:124 Ja ‘18

“He gives a colorful, varied picture of life at the front in all its
aspects.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:546 D 9 ‘17 830w

“If a person has ever felt a strong desire to talk with one of the
boys who has been in the thick of it on the western front, let him get
‘Private Peat.’” Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 92:2025 D 8 ‘17 290w

=PEATTIE, ELIA (WILKINSON) (MRS ROBERT BURNS PEATTIE).= Newcomers. il *$1.25 (4c) Houghton 17-24275

This story for older girls has appeared as a serial in the Youth’s
Companion. The Wardells come to Dalroy, Illinois, as strangers. Robert
Wardell has been offered his first position as an engineer on the dam
which is to be built on the Rock river. His mother and two sisters
accompany him. Dalroy is a sorry enough looking town at first sight,
but, resolved to make the best of it, the Wardells enter
wholeheartedly into its life. The tact and sympathy of the mother and
the kindness and high spirits of the young people make friends for
them all and several blighted lives—like that of the old school
teacher who has lost his position, and of the girl who is paying for
her mother’s failings—are set in happier lines by their companionship.
The touch of love interest blends unobtrusively into the narrative.

“A pleasant story.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:137 Ja ‘18

“A good love story for girls, lively, entertaining and with frequent
touches of keen humor.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w

=Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 70w

=PEDDIE, ROBERT ALEXANDER.= Outline of the history of printing. 2s 6d Grafton & co., London 655.1

The author is Cantor lecturer on the history of printing and librarian
of the St Bride typographical library. This volume is a revised and
enlarged edition of lectures delivered before the Royal society of
arts in 1914. The first six chapters take up the history of printing
by centuries, two chapters being given to The nineteenth century and
after. Six chapters on the history of printing in colors follow.

“Mr Peddie’s volume—it reaches scarcely more than fifty pages—contains
much in little about the printer and printing.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 28 ‘17 820w

=PEIXOTTO, ERNEST CLIFFORD.= Revolutionary pilgrimage. il *$2.50 Scribner 973.3 17-28097

“To the many American people who never visit or think of their
historic places this volume will be a picturesque lesson in American
history. Starting in Boston, we are shown by pen and picture the
important buildings and places connected with the War of the
revolution. From Boston we are taken over pleasant roads to Lexington
and Concord, then to Lake Champlain, Saratoga, New York, New Jersey,
the Carolinas, Virginia and Washington. One of the features of the
book is that Mr Peixotto, by letter and document, lets many of the
noted characters tell their own story. Paul Revere, Ethan Allen, and
Major André all recount their own adventures. ... The illustrations
are in black and white from Mr Piexotto’s own hand.”—Boston Transcript

=A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p6 D 1 ‘17 130w

“Will appeal to all patriotic Americans, especially those
contemplating a motor trip a little out of the ordinary.”

+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 60w

+ =Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 40w

=PELLETT, FRANK CHAPMAN.= Our backdoor neighbors. il *$1.50 Abingdon press 590 17-30148

“These backdoor neighbors are the red tails and cooper hawks with a
taste for chicken meat; ‘Foxy’ Squirrel, who likes any kind of table
dainties; the screech owls, partial to mice; ... and many other little
creatures not always received in polite society. ... The Naturalist,
as Mr Pellett designates himself, lives in a modest Iowa farmhouse
among surroundings which he has left ‘uncultivated’ to a degree
deplored by his human neighbors. ... His story proves that he has had
unlimited enjoyment from association with his backdoor neighbors.
Quite regardless of propriety he pries into their most intimate and
private affairs.”—Pub W

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:191 D ‘17 40w

“They will appeal to those who are either afraid of the over-technical
‘nature book’ or are skeptical of ‘nature faking.’ There is no trace
of the latter in ‘Backdoor neighbors.’ It radiates sincerity nor is
there any nauseating sentimentality.” R. D. Moore

+ =Pub W= 92:1385 O 20 ‘17 420w

“The stories are told in a way to hold the reader’s attention, and at
the same time furnish facts of value.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 60w

=PENNELL, ELIZABETH (ROBINS) (MRS JOSEPH PENNELL) (N. N., pseud.).= Lovers. *$1 Lippincott (Eng ed 17-26658)

“Like ‘Our house’ and ‘Nights,’ ‘The lovers’ is largely
autobiographical, and like them it is written in Mrs Pennell’s own
intimate manner that brings to its pages all the graces and
imagination of fiction. Its action takes its beginning just outside
the windows of Mrs Pennell’s own home in the heart of London, and
although it carries us to the battlefields of France, her own part in
the story and her commentary upon it adds to its persistent flavor of
romance, and gives it a distinctive atmosphere of reality. ... As long
ago as June, 1911, there appeared in the Century a short story by Mrs
Pennell called ‘Les amoureux.’ It now forms, under title of ‘In the
garret,’ the first chapter of the four chapters that make up ‘The
lovers,’ for what Mrs Pennell thought was a complete story was merely
its beginning.”—Boston Transcript

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17

“One of the few enduring books that have come or that are to come out
of the great conflict.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 1550w

“One of the few bits of real literature dealing with the war.”

+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 50w

“‘The lovers’ is a book to bring the huge, wasteful tragedy of war
strongly home to its readers.”

+ =Dial= 63:165 Ag 30 ‘17 420w

+ =Nation= 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 200w

“Because it is so simple, so tender, so human, so true, so absolutely
of the stuff of life in wartime days, Mrs Pennell’s little tale
deserves wide reading. The mere story of the story is a romance in
itself.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:231 Je 17 ‘17 600w

=Pittsburgh= 22:650 O ‘17 40w

+ =St Louis= 15:417 D ‘17 30w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 My 5 ‘17 120w

“Among the best descriptions known to us of life under training in
England and of certain sides of life at the front. Harold Chapin’s are
not so vivid, so perceptive, nor so thoughtful. And the consolation is
the ‘splendidness’ of this artist, lover, mystic, who could keep the
flame of his spirit burning through all the drudgery, horror, and
filth in which he had chosen gallantly to pass his days for his soul’s
sake. Mrs Pennell has done her work with fine judgment.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p232 My 17 ‘17 530w

=PENNELL, JOSEPH.= Joseph Pennell’s pictures of war work in England; with an introd. by H. G. Wells. il *$1.50 Lippincott 940.91 17-26395

“Reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of munitions
works, made by Mr Pennell with the permission of the British
government, and accompanied by notes by the artist.” (Ath) “The
drawings, etchings, and lithographs describe the activity of
workshops, furnaces, forges, mine shafts, cranes, in time of war. The
book really represents an apotheosis of machinery. Mere man is at a
discount. When he does appear in these pages, he is but an elusive,
fleeting figure.” (Outlook)

=A L A Bkl= 13:388 Je ‘17

+ =Ath= p54 Ja ‘17 50w

“These pictures are splendid, they are noble, they are victorious,
they are inspired. The balance of light and shade, the sureness of the
drawing, the keenness of observation betrayed by hundreds of valid
details that have their due effect, make this book one of the most
valuable documents of the great war.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 380w

=Cleveland= p97 Jl ‘17 60w

“That is his interpretation of the present war—a battle of the
mechanical genii which have been evolved by human ingenuity, now
become our masters—and destroyers. This interpretation is borne out by
the brusque words commenting upon each drawing. There is much in this
volume which it would be well for every American to ponder.”

+ =Dial= 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 200w

“There are fifty-one full-page reproductions of Mr Pennell’s sketches,
and for each the briefest of descriptions in choice and impressive
language, sometimes tinged with laughter, oftener with tears. Every
picture accents the terrible grimness of war.”

+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 8 ‘17 190w

“Mr Pennell has had exceptional facilities afforded him for obtaining
these pictures. No such opportunity is available to the ordinary
citizen, and next to the privilege of actually visiting the works
themselves, no more effective means are available for obtaining a
clear and vivid idea of all that is meant by the manufacture of
munitions of war than that provided in this most interesting
collection of drawings.” W. Ripper

+ =Nature= 98:385 Ja 18 ‘17 250w

“Something of that strange anthropomorphic life with which Hardy can
imbue even an ordinary cross-road, over which dead autumn leaves are
swirling as if caressingly Mr Pennell lets be conveyed through his
sketches of these new and tireless industrial giants.”

+ =New Repub= 12:141 S 1 ‘17 330w

“Pennell’s book is one of the most valuable contributions to the
literature of the present war, inasmuch as he gets closer to the truth
than the writers of most of the nationalist publications with which
the market is flooded.” L. G.

+ =N Y Call= p15 O 28 ‘17 430w

“That these industrial subjects should be identified with a world war
is not an inspiration to him, for he puts himself on record as not
believing in war.”

=N Y Times= 22:252 Jl 1 ‘17 200w

+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w

+ =R of Rs= 55:548 My ‘17 120w

“Mr Pennell works with such facility and industry that his drawings
are open to the charge of superficiality. There is a sameness of
emphasis and diffuseness of treatment which would not perhaps be
observable in a smaller number of works.”

=Spec= 118:644 Je 9 ‘17 170w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p8 Ja 4 ‘17 680w

=PENNY, FANNY EMILY (FARR) (MRS FRANK PENNY).= Love tangle. *$1.50 Dutton

A novel the scene of which is laid in southern India. “The wide
divergence of oriental and English ideals in general is emphasized
here in two particulars: in ethics the problem of a police official’s
duty when one of his kinsmen is a prisoner; and in marriage the
impossibility of courtship under the existing native etiquet, and the
hazards of interracial unions. The story involves three couples, two
English sisters, a judge and a soldier, and two young Indians educated
in England and moving in the same set with the others, but oriental at
heart.” (Springf’d Republican)

“The author of ‘A love tangle’ has written many romances of
Anglo-Indian life. ... This one is a piece of amiable, feminine
writing, relieved, for the occidental reader, by freshness of setting
and motive.”

+ — =Nation= 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 550w

+ =N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 260w

=PERKINS, LUCY FITCH (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS).=[2] Belgian twins. il *$1.25 (5½c) Houghton 17-29863

The author has made Belgium in the early days of the war the scene of
her latest “twin” book. In the end Jan and Marie, the Belgian twins,
find a haven in New York. The author says that the story is based on
the actual experience of two children.

“Mrs Perkins has done well to introduce into the nursery some account
of Belgian atrocities, not so gruesome that they will frighten the
young reader, but sufficiently strong to leave a proper feeling in the
minds of boys and girls regarding the unpardonable attack on a smaller
country.”

+ =Lit D= 55:60 D 8 ‘17 70w

“One reads real war history in the many things that happen to them.
The author has made the most delightful sketches to illustrate the
book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:547 D 9 ‘17 60w

+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 60w

=PERRY, CLARENCE ARTHUR.= Community center activities. (Dept. of recreation) *35c Russell Sage foundation 371.6 17-1504

A handbook for community center directors. Its purpose is “to suggest
activities for after-school occasions and to indicate sources of
information about them.” The material in the main body of the book is
arranged under such headings as: Civic occasions; Educational
occasions; Entertainments; Handicrafts; Mental contests; Neighborhood
service; Physical activities; etc. Preceding this is a classified
index in which the various activities suitable for stated spaces,
assembly room, kindergarten, gymnasium, etc., are grouped together. At
the close a number of sample programs are given.

“A suggestive handbook for parent-teacher associations.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:333 My ‘17

“The material is unusually well organized in this report, and the
activities and suggested literature so arranged that the reader can
quickly find the desired information.”

+ =El School J= 17:532 Mr ‘17 220w

“Should be of constant aid to social workers, teachers and others
engaged in community organization.”

+ =Ind= 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 60w

“Probably the greatest obstacle to the rapid development of social
centers is a lack of leaders who know how to make them go. The
Department of recreation of the Russell Sage foundation has offered
one big means of equipping workers in public-school social centers in
this little service-manual and reference book of something over 100
pages.” R. N. Baldwin

+ =Survey= 38:175 My 19 ‘17 200w

=PERRY, L. DAY.= Seat weaving. il $1 Manual arts press 689 17-13349

An elementary text-book for manual training classes, fully
illustrated, which explains the processes of weaving cane, rush, reed
or splint seats for chairs and stools. The author is supervisor of
manual training in Joliet, Illinois.

=A L A Bkl= 14:117 Ja ‘18

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:106 Jl ‘17

“The clearly written directions are supplemented by seventy excellent
photographs and line drawings.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p20 Jl ‘17 40w

=Pratt= p27 O ‘17 10w

“Would also be a satisfactory guide to amateurs interested in this
kind of work.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 50w

=PETERSON, ARTHUR.= Andvari’s ring. *$1.25 Putnam 811 16-25216

The story of Sigurd retold in blank verse. The narrative is marked by
a few innovations. Sigurd is pictured as a Norse rover by sea as well
as by land. The action is placed near the middle of the fifth century,
and into the second part of the narrative, after the death of Sigurd,
Attila the Hun is introduced.

“An old-fashioned poem well worth reading.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 24 ‘17 380w

=St Louis= 15:151 My ‘17 10w

=PETERSON, ARTHUR EVERETT, and EDWARDS, GEORGE WILLIAM.=[2] New York as an eighteenth century municipality. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) *$5 Longmans 352

“If it is well for the office boy turned bank president to remember
his obscure beginnings, so it may be well for a community. New York is
reminded in these two monographs that once ‘ye cytie’ found it
necessary to proclaim that ‘every seaventh house in the darke time of
the moon should cause a lanthorne and candle to be hung out on a pole
every night,’ One reads of a municipal budget of $3,000 and a police
department of eight men.” (New Repub) “Part 1 of the volume, prepared
by Mr Peterson, carries the study up to 1731; Mr Edwards deals with
the period running from 1731 to 1776.” (N Y Times)

“All the germs of municipal institutions are here competently examined
and arranged, with not a little spice of humor in the selection of
quotations.”

+ =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 120w

=N Y Times= 23:21 Ja 20 ‘18 60w

“These minute and comprehensive accounts of the beginnings of a vast
city might be called studies in evolution, so strikingly do they show
how the municipal oak has grown from a tiny acorn. They will prove
invaluable to students, but also entertaining to the general reader.”

+ =Outlook= 117:433 N 14 ‘17 70w

=PETERSSON, C. E. W.= How to do business with Russia; with notes and additional chapters by W. Barnes Steveni. *$2.25 Pitman 382 17-28940

“This volume contains a summary of the experience and business methods
of Mr C. E. W. Petersson, a merchant of Petrograd and Riga, who for
many years successfully carried on a large trade in machinery and
kindred goods with various Russian towns.” (Preface) The translator,
W. Barnes Steveni, who has himself written several books on Russia,
states that he has made “such additions and alterations as may cause
the book to be of more value to British and American readers.” He says
also, that while the Russian revolution will “modify considerably some
of the questions dealt with in this work,” because the towns will
change quickly, the “real Russia, which is mainly agricultural and
pastoral, will alter but slowly” and therefore the hints of
information here given will always be of value. Part 1 deals with
“Russia as a field for business enterprise,” while part 2 gives “Hints
and advice to business men dealing with Russia.” An appendix gives
“Consular information and postal regulations.” The foreword is by
Charles E. Musgrave, secretary to the London chamber of commerce.
There is a map of Russia, but no index.

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p286 Je 14 ‘17 60w

=PETHERBRIDGE, F. R.= Fungoid and insect pests of the farm. (Cambridge farm institute) il *$1.25 Putnam 632 Agr16-1262

“The author tells us this book has been written for those who wish to
acquire some practical knowledge of farm and garden pests. It
naturally does not aim at dealing with all the numerous enemies which
affect crops, but rather at giving an accurate account of some of the
commoner forms.”—Nature

“It is a pity a great many more of the common pests were not included,
especially amongst the arthropods, for then it would have been of very
considerably greater value. The accounts also of many of the pests
treated in the book are far too short to be really helpful.”

+ — =Nature= 99:144 Ap 19 ‘17 300w

“This little book is well printed and well illustrated but is not
extensive enough as to the number of diseases and pests discussed to
justify the title. It can hardly serve as a very general reference for
farmers and market gardeners as the authors have hoped. ... As a short
reading text or bulletin to familiarize the public with mycological
methods and to indicate possible remedial measures for control of a
few pests, it contains interesting matter. ... No mention is made of
any diseases of small fruits or of orchard and shade trees and but
slight attention is given to the commonest garden crops.” H. L. Bolley

+ — =Science= n s 45:191 F 23 ‘17 370w

=PFISTER, OSKAR ROBERT.= Psychoanalytic method; auth. tr. by Dr C: Rockwell Payne. il *$4 Moffat 130 17-4346

“Dr Pfister is a pastor and seminary teacher in Zurich and a disciple
of Freud. His book includes the definition and history of
psychoanalysis, discussions of its theory and technique, and reports
of what he has accomplished by its use in cases of neurotic
students. ... The conclusion gives summarized examples of the
practical benefits of psychoanalysis and what education has to expect
from it. ... There are introductions by Sigmund Freud and G. Stanley
Hall.”—N Y Times

“Pfister’s book is designed to equip educators with the knowledge
necessary to enable them to carry on psychoanalytic treatment of
subnormal pupils as well as to foresee and prevent later
abnormalities, the causes of which are operative, even in the earlier
years, and may be detected only by means of the psychoanalytic
technique. ... It is almost the only one that has a practical
application to human problems outside of therapeutic ones. ... A part
of Pfister’s treatise points out the applications of the Freudian
theory to literature, art and religion ... and shows how the creative
artist, is saved from his art by being a neurotic.” Wilfrid Lay

=Bookm= 45:199 Ap ‘17 840w

=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 530w

“A very technical presentation of psychoanalysis, used by Dr G.
Stanley Hall as a textbook for his classes. The author’s method is to
make a brief statement followed by a description of cases which
illustrate his point.”

=Cleveland= p91 Jl ‘17 40w

“The book, while nowhere rising to the brilliance of some of the
Freudian writings themselves, is probably the most careful and
inclusive presentation yet published in English of the results
attained and the theories elaborated by Freud and his followers. It
excels in this respect such works as Brill’s ‘Psychanalysis’ and
Hitschmann’s ‘Freud’s theories of the neuroses.’ Unfortunately, Dr
Payne’s translation can claim only a moderate measure of success. The
over-literalness of the renderings has given numerous passages an
irksome awkwardness and, occasionally, obscurity. One needs sometimes
to translate back to the German to arrive at the intended nuance of
meaning.” E: Sapir

+ =Dial= 63:267 S 27 ‘17 2000w

“The 588 pages of this book show what has actually been done through
this psychological method. They contain most inspiring suggestions for
the physician, theologian, and the pedagogue. Dr Pfister has made a
comprehensive study of all the analytic methods which have been
developed from Freud’s original theories, and any one reading his work
will get a fair idea of the whole stretch of this rapidly growing
field of psycho-therapeutics.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:325 S 2 ‘17 320w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 20 ‘17 150w

=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, comp. Selected articles on the income tax; with special reference to graduation and exemption. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) 3d and enl ed *$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 336.2 17-27760

For this third edition of the Debater’s handbook on income tax all the
material of the second edition has been retained and the volume has
been brought up to date by the addition of new articles and
references. As the preface states, the new edition is timely, in view
of pending legislation for an increased income tax as part of the war
revenue bill. Two features of the proposed law, the graduation of the
tax and the exemption of incomes under a certain amount have been
given special attention. Material is also provided covering recent
state legislation.

=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, ed. University debaters’ annual. *$1.80 Wilson, H. W. 808.5

Volume three of the University debaters’ annual contains the
constructive and rebuttal speeches delivered in the intercollegiate
debates of the following colleges and universities: Iowa, Ohio state,
Coe, Oberlin, Western Reserve, Columbia and Chicago. The subjects
debated are: Government ownership of railroads; Universal military
service; Compulsory arbitration of railroad labor disputes; Chinese
and Japanese immigration; Compulsory arbitration; Progressive
inheritance tax. For each subject a brief and bibliography are
provided. The book follows volumes one and two, edited by E. C. Mabie.

=A L A Bkl= 14:152 F ‘18

=N Y Br Lib News= 5:14 Ja ‘18 20w

=PHILLIPPS, LISLE MARCH.= Europe unbound. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner 940.9 17-4205

Mr Phillipps is author of “Form and colour,” and other works on art.
In the collection of essays in this book, he examines some of the
fundamental causes of the war and the ideals that support the
different fighting nations. He says, “My purpose has been to deal,
however inadequately, not with the outward circumstances or immediate
causes of the war, but with what I cannot help thinking are its real
causes. I mean those slowly developing, intensely hostile, eternally
incompatible philosophies of life of which the two opposing groups of
the free and unfree nations of Europe are to-day the representatives.”
Contents: Ideals of the war; Liberty; Liberty and Christianity; The
Prussian ideal; The British empire; Empires past and present; The
influence of France; Modern liberalism; Modern conservatism; The
future.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:347 My ‘17

“A book which shows more insight into the deeper issues of the war
than any other, except Baron von Hügel’s ‘The German soul,’ that has
appeared in England since 1914.”

+ =Ath= p143 Mr ‘17 1700w

=Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 27 ‘17 250w

“Contains an impressive revelation of what the English masses are
thinking.”

+ =Ind= 90:382 My 26 ‘17 70w

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:535 Jl ‘17 280w

“Where I think Mr Phillipps is profoundly right is in his vigorous
insistence on the authoritarian character of the German state and its
dangers to the liberty of Europe. We badly need a book that would
point out exactly what principles are involved in the exercise of
political authority.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 12:195 S 15 ‘17 1850w

“It is characteristic—inevitable—that he should have studied the war
as he has studied art and politics—as the expression of the great
spiritual forces in the life of men and nations. ... On the need in
England for realization, for clear thinking, for wise speech, and for
democratic growth Mr Phillipps insists throughout his book. The volume
as a whole is, in its study of ideals and ambitions, of pertinent
interest to American students of the war.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:27 Ja 28 ‘17 1000w

“We commend the book especially to clergymen and teachers of the
young.”

+ =Outlook= 116:161 My 23 ‘17 100w

=Pratt= p41 O ‘17 50w

“His conception and his presentation of the idea of liberty are noble
and inspiring. ... He is a democrat who really trusts the people. ...
However much readers may disagree with many of the author’s points of
view, they would be dull of soul if they did not find these essays
stimulating and purifying in a high degree.”

+ =Spec= 118:74 Ja 20 ‘17 3000w

“No part of his book will be read with more interest, and none is more
valuable, than the frank criticism to which he submits not only the
modern Conservative but also the modern Liberal party. Speaking as one
who has done his part as a Liberal candidate for Parliament, he has
the courage to say what innumerable men of all parties have thought.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p567 N 30 ‘16 1950w

=PHILLIPS, CHESTER ARTHUR.= Readings in money and banking. il *$2.10 Macmillan 332 16-19082

“Instead of taking a large number of selections merely illustrative of
the principles involved and setting them down individually, Professor
Phillips chose from different writers what seemed to him the best
available discussions of the principles themselves, and these
discussions with correlative descriptive matter he wove together into
approximately complete chapters. Hence ... the book leaves the
impression of an organized treatise.”—Am Econ R

“The reviewer believes that for class-room purposes the two books
[Moulton: ‘Principles of money and banking’ and Phillips: ‘Readings in
money and banking’] can be used with advantage to supplement each
other. Outside of the class-room both would have to be used in
connection with a good text.” E. E. Agger

+ =Am Econ R= 6:924 D ‘16 160w

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:333 My ‘17

“The chapters on the foreign banking systems are very opportune.” T:
Conway, jr.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:227 My ‘17 120w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:172 N ‘16

=Pittsburgh= 21:591 D ‘16

+ =Pol Sci Q= 31:650 D ‘16 60w

+ =R of Rs= 55:221 F ‘17 20w

=PHILLIPS, DAVID GRAHAM.= Susan Lenox, her fall and rise. 2v il *$2.50 (1c) Appleton 17-6327

This two-volume novel is a study of prostitution and of a woman who
rose to success after enduring degradation in all of its forms. Susan,
an illegitimate child, grows up in the home of an uncle in a
middle-western town. Denied a normal life by the stain of her birth,
she is thrown out into the world at the age of seventeen. Economic
pressure forces her on to the streets. She makes several efforts later
to earn a living in legitimate ways, but always comes back to the one
profession that seems to offer satisfactory compensation. In the end,
thru the aid of a distinguished playwright, she wins success as an
actress.

“That Mr Phillips was sincere, I do not doubt, but that he had any
intimate knowledge of the life of the young girls who fill our
factories and our shops, I do not for a moment believe. ... The
conclusion of the story is merely laughable. That a woman so sodden
with vice, so soaked with whisky and at last with opium, should escape
all its physical penalties, and, without previous apprenticeship,
become, almost in a day, a famous actress, contradicts every human
experience.” J. T. Gerould

— =Bellman= 22:385 Ap 7 ‘17 650w

“Based on uncompromising fact, stamped with an individuality that was
in itself a hallmark of distinction, and illumined by an almost
incomparable art, this story is invested with a significance that
makes it a thing apart. ... Susan Lenox is more than a novel: it has a
social, human and economic significance that lifts it to the high
places.” I: F. Marcosson

+ =Bookm= 45:26 Mr ‘17 4300w

“Despite the attempts to prejudge Mr Phillips’s posthumous novel by
frantic claims as to its high moral purpose and sincerity, it seems
impossible for any unbiased reader of fiction to view it otherwise
than as an extremely offensive addition to the literature of
pornography. ... For Susan Lenox to have remained the acme of physical
perfection after undergoing the horrors of the life that she
deliberately sought and endured is impossible. Mr Phillips’s story may
be realism, but it is certainly not reality.” E. F. E.

— =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ‘17 500w

“There is only one deadly charge to make against this story—it is an
epic of feminine courage that required for its plausibility a
consistent exaggeration of the difficulties of women in industry and a
humorlessly romantic view of prostitution. ... Yet apart from these
preposterous exaggerations, natural to a man who had no comedy, Susan
Lenox is a story that moved and impressed this reader deeply. ... It
is the great fortune of David Graham Phillips, if the enhancement of
one’s memory is to be called fortunate, that the one big book he left
unpublished was probably the best thing he ever did.” F. H.

=New Repub= 10:167 Mr 10 ‘17 1700w

“He is not merely less selective than Flaubert; he is positively less
selective than Arnold Bennett. It is precisely because he tells us so
much about everybody that might equally be true of anybody else that
his narrative is never intense and sometimes exceedingly dull.”

— =N Y Sun= Ap 8 ‘17 580w

“It would have been much better for Mr Phillips’s reputation and the
repute of American letters if it had never been published. ... It is
false at its core. ... Susan Lenox is dragged through all the grime
and the abominations of the underworld. Mr Phillips spares neither her
nor the reader any of its revolting filth.”

— =N Y Times= 22:62 F 25 ‘17 900w

“For Susan had neither social consciousness nor social conscience. ...
We are told briefly in the last two chapters that Susan succeeds as an
actress. A man dies and leaves her his money and an interest in his
plays. She uses the money to produce the plays and becomes a
well-known star. Without the money and the influence of the dead man’s
name, Susan would have been nothing. She lacked two essentials to
success—a conscious and sustained purpose and a capacity for hard
work.” M. K. Reely

— =Pub W= 91:588 F 17 ‘17 1000w

“A novel that will excite diverse opinions, but it is sincere, and its
frank pictures of degradation are informed with ethical purpose—which
is not often the case in such stories.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 550w

=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Banks of Colne (the nursery). *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-13955

This is the fourth of Mr Phillpotts’ series of novels of British
industry. A big nursery on the bank of the Colne gives the story its
background, and there is some description also of the local oyster
fisheries. Men and women more or less connected with these two
industries are the characters of the story. They form a loosely-knit
group, and so far as the story has plot, it concerns Peter Mistley, a
landscape gardener at the gardens, and Aveline Brown, the woman he
marries shortly after she has come to the town a stranger. Aveline was
not free to marry, but this she does not tell Peter. Her attitude
toward marriage is much the same as that of the two wandering
vagabonds, William and Emma. She takes what is offered her of
happiness and pays the price when the time comes without cringing. The
war is in progress at the time, and more than one man of the story is
claimed by it; Peter with the rest.

“Not one of Mr Phillpotts’ best works.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:28 O ‘17

“It contains one rather interesting character, the vagabond brother of
the rich nurseryman and mayor of Colchester, though he, like his grave
brother, is a platitudinarian. The style is that of one who has not
merely swallowed the dictionary, but also bolted an encyclopædia.”

– + =Ath= p363 Jl ‘17 140w

“‘The banks of Colne’ has not the atmosphere of its predecessors.
There exists here no such close relation between the people and the
soil, between their lives and their labors, as was to be found in
‘Brunel’s tower,’ in ‘Old Delabole’ or in ‘The green alleys.’ ... We
do not mean thereby to imply that it is not a vital, a significant, a
commanding piece of fiction. It is all these, for it is by Mr
Phillpotts’s hand. ... Were all its other elements negligible, and
they are not, we might read ‘The banks of Colne’ for joy of its
style.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 1650w

“As always, the women are alive and never stupid, however unmoral they
may be.”

=Ind= 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 370w

“We used to accept him, perhaps, as a chronicler of ‘real life,’ an
interpreter of character in the concrete. He is, rather, a teller of
tales and a commentator upon human nature.”

=Nation= 105:69 Jl 19 ‘17 430w

“A novel of maturity and even tone.”

+ =New Repub= 12:198 S 15 ‘17 400w

“To us the book is the greatest piece of work Mr Phillpotts has yet
written. ... Books like this will help America to understand the
England of today in a way difficult to overestimate for its value to
both nations.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:213 Je 3 ‘17 770w

+ =Outlook= 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 110w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 550w

“The pacifist Quaker-woman and the young men who enlist are treated
with equal sympathy. All through the eventful and moving story, which
looks at love from many angles and gives (or rather, perhaps,
carefully makes) room for thoughts of many minds on many topics,
nothing is condemned but lack of sincerity and lack of faith.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p296 Je 21 ‘17 600w

=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Plain song, 1914-1916. *$1.25 Macmillan 821 (Eng ed A17-1560)

“Through the thought of the poems—there are thirty-eight in the
volume—two threads run: the first is abhorrence of what the German
government has done, coupled with great pity, charity, a willingness
to forgive, a scorn of being revenged upon, the German people; the
second is the purpose of democracy in the world.”—N Y Times

“Mr Phillpotts has given us the war—one phase, and another, and still
more—in living words.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:371 S 30 ‘17 820w