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“The title of this book is the least successful part of it. We can
imagine nothing less plain and nothing more unlike song than the poems
it contains. They are war pieces garbed in rich, luxuriant
phraseology, in which Mr Phillpotts appears less as the poet than the
publicist and the preacher, hymning in sonorous lines the praises of
the navy, the New army, France, and so on, and scourging the crimes of
Germany, and the folly of the pacifists with trenchant rhetoric.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p311 Je 28 ‘17 70w

=PHOUTRIDES, ARISTIDES EVANGELUS.= Lights at dawn. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811 17-14981

Dr Phoutrides is an instructor in Greek and Latin at Harvard
university. “The greater number of the poems were written before the
present war. But in those written since, the war note is generally
absent. The poem in ballad form, ‘Lord Kitchener,’ is one or the few
exceptions.” (Boston Transcript) “The dawn from the west,” with which
the volume opens, was written for the “Ancient and honorable artillery
company of Massachusetts,” and published under the title of “America,
the restorer.” The longest poem in the book “Ktaadn and Morning Dew,”
tells the old Indian legend of our Mt. Katahdin.

“Dr Phoutrides writes with a fine scholarliness. Yet the distinct
classicism of his verse never halts spontaneity. Many forms are
used—the lyric, however, principally. His use of blank verse is
especially felicitous, the lines often possessing a veritable singing
quality. ... This Hellenic poet exalts his own land and ours, above
all that ‘freedom’ which crowns America.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 720w

=Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 60w

=PICKERING, JOHN CLARK.= Engineering analysis of a mining share. *$1.50 McGraw 332.6 17-5157

“The considerations entering into the analysis of a mining venture
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analyze their purchases very sharply. Mr Pickering, for the sake of
simplicity, applies his analysis to a single share, stating that
obviously the analysis by shares is equivalent to the analysis of the
whole property. He endeavors to follow a line of investigation based
on data available to the average share-holder. The discussion is
confined to gold, copper, silver, lead and zinc.”—Engin N

+ =Engin N= 77:436 Mr 15 ‘17 130w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p18 Ap ‘17 190w

“‘An interesting and a useful book. It would have been better if it
had been edited carefully and if a wider reference had been made to
other writings on the subject. ... His style is pleasant, his judgment
appears sound, and his whole treatment of the subject is well worthy
of an experienced engineer.’” T. A. R.

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:345 Ap ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Mining and
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=Pittsburgh= 22:522 Je ‘17 30w

=PIER, ARTHUR STANWOOD.= Jerry. il *$1.50 (1½c) Houghton 17-4313

Jerry, the young Irish hero, is one of the workers for an independent
steel company when the story opens. He is doing well, supporting his
mother and looking forward to marriage with his sweetheart, Nora
Scanlan. But the independent company is swallowed up by a big
corporation. A change of policy brings on a strike and Jerry finds
himself out of a job. He also loses his sweetheart, for Nora doesn’t
take kindly to adversity. Jerry and his mother move to the big city,
taking with them the three orphaned children of one of Jerry’s fellow
strikers. With this family to support, Jerry finds a place on the
police force, studies law and is admitted to the bar. In the meantime
Kate, the oldest of the three children, is growing up and helping
Jerry to forget the fickle Nora.

=A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17

“To read Mr Pier’s story is the equivalent of seeing the scenes of a
motion-picture film flash before one’s eyes. ... The substance of
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reminiscent of this literary form, and we are certain that his latest
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pleasure in ‘Grannis of the fifth’ and ‘The new boy.’ If it helps them
across the bridge between fiction for children and novels for
grownups, it will serve an excellent purpose.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 1050w

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all the earmarks of trash, and yet it fills the soul with a sort of
self-satisfaction that all is well and that all will turn out fine.”
W. M. Feigenbaum

– + =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 330w

“A pleasant story, quite interesting and with some cleverly drawn
characters.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:69 F 25 ‘17 250w

“The story, which is told with spirit, is an appeal to young men to
enter the fight for purer public service.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 200w

=PIER, ARTHUR STANWOOD.= Plattsburgers. il *$1.25 (3½c) Houghton 17-23757

A story of the experiences of some college boys at Plattsburg. “Life
at the Plattsburg camp is very different to-day from what it was
during the period covered by this story. ... The training of the boys
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smattering of knowledge about other branches. This story is generally
true to the conditions that existed at the first camp; in minor
details the routine that it describes does not correspond with the
routine followed at the subsequent camps.” (Preface) The story is
reprinted from the Youth’s Companion.

=A L A Bkl= 14:101 D ‘17

“A clean-cut story of manly boys that will have much the same
attraction for boys that the author’s St Timothy stories have.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w
=Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 40w

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+ =N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:401 N ‘17 20w

=PINDAR, GEORGE N. and others.= Guide to the nature treasures of New York city. il *75c Scribner 507 17-5881

“A valuable and much needed manual entitled ‘Guide to the nature
treasures of New York city’ has been prepared by George N. Pindar,
Registrar of the American museum of natural history, with assistance
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children’s museum.”—N Y Times

=N Y Times= 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 120w

=Pratt= p13 Jl ‘17 30w

=PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY).= Woodcraft for women. (Outing handbooks) *80c (2½c) Outing pub. 796 17-9692

The author finds the explanation of the difference in the lure that
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joys of an active outdoor life. She says, “In this book there has been
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only, but rather to show the possibilities of an art which can be made
common to the sexes.” Contents: Woman and the out of doors; Woods
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open.

“Gives practical advice to women on all sorts of questions. Has a
suggestive chapter on ‘camp courtesy.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:13 O ‘17

=Cleveland= p126 N ‘17 80w

=PINTNER, RUDOLPH and PATERSON, DONALD GILDERSLEEVE.= Scale of performance tests. il *$2 Appleton 136.7 17-16883

A performance test is one which requires a response in action in place
of the language response required in other intelligence tests. The
work has grown directly out of attempts to grade deaf children, with
whom the ordinary tests could not be used. The tests also meet the
difficulty of dealing with foreign speaking children, since verbal
directions are not essential. “The situation itself calls for some
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the examiner will say something, but what he says is not essential for
the understanding of the test.” (Introd.) The authors have assembled a
group of tests of this kind and have attempted a standardization.

“The detailed description of the tests and the norms given make
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of those whose command of language is slight will value this work. The
only drawback lies in the fact that most of the tests here included
are so simple as to be significant only for individuals quite young in
age.” A. F. Bronner

+ — =Am J Soc= 23:546 Ja ‘18 350w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:74 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 10w

“The programme is admirably carried through, with abundance of
well-arranged tables and sufficient interpretation to show the bearing
of the results and warn against sources of error.”

+ =Dial= 63:399 O 25 ‘17 290w

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Reviewed by F. N. Freeman

+ =El School J= 18:148 O ‘17 120w

=Int J Ethics= 28:284 Ja ‘18 130w

“The authors have done a service that their colleagues in mental
measurement will not estimate lightly.” F. L. Wells

+ =J Philos= 15:134 F 28 ‘18 1200w

“A few of the tests partake of the nature of a puzzle and hence are
tests, not of general intelligence, but of the peculiar ingenuity that
works by intuition or a fortunate chance, rather than by reasoned
judgment. However, the book will be of help in certain cases that are
embarrassing to the tester. The volume includes some useful criticisms
of the Binet scale, the Yerkes point scale and others.” Alexander
Johnson

+ — =Survey= 39:260 D 1 ‘17 220w

=PIPER, EDWIN FORD.= Barbed wire, and other poems. $1.25 Midland press, Moorhead, Minn. 811

The awakening self-consciousness of the Middle West, which is just
beginning to express itself in literature, has produced in Mr Piper a
new poet and social historian. The first half of “Barbed wire, and
other poems” is made up of short unconnected poems which, taken
together, tell the story of the patient conquest of the prairie and
interpret the spirit of the adventurous, land-hungry band that has
traveled steadily westward across our country. The slow upbuilding of
civilization in a new land is followed in such poems as “The movers,”
“Dry bones,” “The sod house,” “The drought,” “The grasshoppers,” “The
schoolmistress,” “Ten cents a bushel,” “Meanwhile,” “The church.” The
second section of the book, “The neighborhood,” is given to longer
narrative poems. Both groups are reprinted from the Midland: a
magazine of the Middle West.

“Precisely what Robert Frost has done for New England Mr Piper has
done for the West from Illinois to the foothills of the Rocky
mountains. ... One cannot with too much emphasis lay stress upon the
social value of Mr Piper’s poems, for with a most vivid use of the
imaginative faculty he weaves for us the fabric of a community rising
on the bare breast of nature. ... ‘Barbed wire and other poems,’ is a
very unusual collection, an important and distinctive contribution to
American poetry.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ‘17 1450w

“He writes with vigor and freedom and the quality of this one book is
such as to assure instant success. Nothing so eloquent on the
personality of neighborhoods as ‘The banded’ has come from American
poets. Yet he can forsake commonplace phraseology to write lines of
pure flowing melody, and a lyric as delicate as ‘Moon worship.’”

+ =R of Rs= 57:106 Ja ‘18 180w

=PLATNER, JOHN WINTHROP=, and others. Religious history of New England. (King’s chapel lectures 1914-1915, 1915-1916) *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 277.4 17-15979

“A series of King’s chapel lectures delivered by eight men—each a
representative of the communion about which he speaks. ... The story
of the Congregationalists is told ... by Prof. John W. Platner.
Geniality and humor enrich the pages in which Dean William W. Fenn
describes the revolt of the Free Will Baptists and Christians against
the standing order and the intellectual and academic counterpart of
this popular movement which resulted in the founding of the Unitarian
churches. Dean George Hodges tells with kindly humor and sound
historical judgment the dramatic story of the implanting of the
episcopate in hostile New England. The almost equally hostile
reception met with by the Methodists ... is recounted in a painstaking
and picturesque manner by Dr W. E. Huntington. President George E.
Horr of the Newton theological institution treats the history of the
Baptists. The position of the Quakers in New England is considered by
Prof. Rufus M. Jones, that of the Universalists by Rev. John Coleman
Adams, and that of the Swedenborgians by Dr William L. Worcester. The
history of the Roman Catholics is omitted with regret, as it was
impossible to secure for the lectures an historical narrative from a
member of the Roman Catholic communion.”—Springf’d Republican

“Profitable as these surveys are, it is to be regretted that certain
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its hold even in the days of its ablest and most vigorous exposition?
The remarkable growth of the Baptists at the end of the eighteenth
century is mentioned without explanation. If one asks how
denominational organization came out of autonomous congregations,
satisfaction is again denied.” F. A. Christie

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:415 Ja ‘18 590w

+ =Ath= p519 O ‘17 300w

“The title of the volume indeed is hardly justified by its contents,
for it contains denominational history only and not the general
religious history of New England, except for the earliest days when
there was nothing but Congregationalism there. Having filed this
caveat it is only right to say that the limited purpose of the series
is admirably fulfilled. The treatment of the several denominations,
being in each case by an adherent, is sympathetic but as a rule
entirely fair, and only now and then unduly laudatory.”

+ =Nation= 105:100 Jl 26 ‘17 900w

“So interwoven are religious and political ideas, and so large has
been New England’s share in shaping American ideals, that this history
is one of national interest. It is a history of the rise and progress
of religious liberty. A single lapse from historical justice needs
pointing out. The Quaker ranters persecuted by the Puritans were not,
as any reader would infer, the same sort of people as the estimable
Friends of to-day. The volume needs an index.”

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 170w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 1250w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 S 6 ‘17 100w

“These lectures provide entertaining reading, and the English student
will gain much knowledge set out with the warmth of feeling felt by
men dealing with subjects dear to their hearts, but with no pride of
sect or narrowness of outlook.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p486 O 11 ‘17 940w

=PLUCKNETT, FRANK.= Introduction to the theory and practice of boot and shoe manufacture. (Longmans’ technical handicraft ser.) il *$2 Longmans 685 A16-1147

“The author, who has had considerable experience in teaching this
subject in England, states that the book is intended not only for
technical students, but also for a ‘large circle of those who are
interested in the rapid modern developments of the industry, and who
have not the advantages of technical instruction.’ Scope is limited to
the usual lines of work, omitting hand operations when the
corresponding operations are more efficiently performed by a machine.
There are chapters on the anatomy of the foot, foot measurements,
lasts, and a comparison of English, French and American
measurements.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:141 S ‘16

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p22 N ‘16 90w

=Pittsburgh= 22:519 Je ‘17

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 70w

=PLUMON, EUGÈNE.= Vade-mecum for the use of officers and interpreters in the present campaign, new and rev ed *75c Brentano’s 448 17-16324

“The result of actual work in interpreting for the British forces in
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money, distances, abbreviations, map signs, etc. Does not mark
pronunciation.”—A L A Bkl

“Useful to the man who has even a slight knowledge of French.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:9 O ‘17

=St Louis= 15:323 S ‘17

=POE, EDGAR ALLAN.=[2] Poems; ed. by Killis Campbell. il $1.50 Ginn 811 17-24169

“Professor Campbell is a member of the English faculty of the
University of Texas and his study of Poe’s life and work has been long
and enthusiastic. He has included in the volume all the poems
collected by the poet himself or by his literary executor, Rufus S.
Griswold, while in separate sections are several early poems and a
dozen others of doubtful authenticity. The introductory section
contains the story of Poe’s life, followed by a brief discussion of
the text of his poems and of his habits of punctuation and
revision. ... Through the body of the book Professor Campbell gives on
each page the variant readings for the version he has selected. An
important feature is afforded by the very copious notes filling nearly
200 pages which explain every obscurity of the text and set forth the
details of composition, probability of source, and other matters of
interest.”—N Y Times

=Boston Transcript= p7 O 27 ‘17 590w

“One need not accept all Professor Campbell’s judgment’s in detail to
pronounce this new edition of the ‘Poems’ the most important
contribution to Poe scholarship that has appeared for some years.
Perhaps the greatest merit of the book is its sobriety and sanity. In
the section of ‘The canon of Poe’s poems’ Professor Campbell treats a
subject on which he has made valuable researches; and his brief
comments on the poems doubtfully attributed to Poe are admirable. The
résumé of opinion in ‘The clash of the critics with respect to Poe’s
poems,’ though brief, is excellently presented.”

+ =Dial= 63:595 D 6 ‘17 330w

“A most scholarly edition. Perhaps the most notable feature of the
book is the full use of references to the Poe literature, the volume
of which will probably surprise even those who thought themselves well
versed in this study.”

+ =Nation= 106:97 Ja 24 ‘18 250w

“A careful and scholarly work showing diligent research and
discrimination.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:567 D 16 ‘17 260w

=POLLAK, GUSTAV.= House of Hohenzollern and the Hapsburg monarchy. 50c N.Y. Evening Post co., 20 Vesey st. 940.91 17-27945

The seven articles contained in this book were published in the New
York Nation and the New York Evening Post between the dates of March
22 and July 5, 1917. To these papers the author has been a contributor
since 1874 and 1881 respectively. He was born and educated in Vienna.
Of the house of Hohenzollern he says: “Not all that can be said, and
must justly be said, of Prussian leadership in the intellectual and
material development of Germany can obscure the patent failure of the
Hohenzollern dynasty.” Other titles are: Bismarck’s neglected
policies; The vision of a Central Europe; Austria’s opportunity; The
future of Bohemia; Hungary and the fall of Tisza; The Poles of
Austria.

“Trenchant and vigorously-written little book.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:156 F ‘18 50w

=N Y Call= p14 S 16 ‘17 410w

=POLLARD, ALBERT FREDERICK.=[2] Commonwealth at war. *$2.25 (3c) Longmans 940.91 18-1123

Half of the papers that make up this book are reprinted from The Times
[London] Literary Supplement. Others have appeared in the Contemporary
Review, Yale Review, and other periodicals. Each article is dated so
that the bearing of the time of writing on the views presented is made
evident. The dates range from October, 1914 to August, 1917. The
author is professor of English history in the University of London.
Among other subjects he considers: Rumour and historical science in
time of war; The length of wars; The freedom of the seas; The war and
the British realms; British idealism and its cost in war; The growth
of an imperial parliament: The temptation of peace; The prevention or
war.

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“One cannot logically complain that Prof. Pollard too often in this
book writes as an advocate rather than a historian, for the articles
were largely published to explain the British mind to itself; but it
is fair to note that this attitude detracts from the permanent value
of the book. The strongest chapter of the book is Prof. Pollard’s
argument against a British imperial federation.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 7 ‘18 500w

“There might have been more appearance of unity in the contents if
certain pages had been omitted or altered; but, as Professor Pollard,
enunciating a canon of literary probity apt to be forgotten, says, ‘to
modify the record of expressed opinion in the light of later events
indicates a dishonest assertion of consistency or prescience, and is
one of the most insidious forms of historical forgery.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p590 D 6 ‘17 1000w

=POLLARD, HUGH B. C.=[2] Story of Ypres. il *75c (5c) McBride 940.91 17-19406

“There is no name connected with the European war that will live
longer in men’s minds than that of Ypres,” writes the author in
beginning his story. He describes the two battles, illustrating his
account with sketch maps. The pictures are by Thomas Derrick.

“The author graphically describes the flight of the population on both
occasions, the latter being a terribly lurid picture, its horror
increased by the then new German device of gas fumes.”

+ =Ind= 90:472 Je 9 ‘17 120w

“The condition of the famous cloth hall after each bombardment is well
pictured in the pen and ink drawings of Thomas Derrick.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 23 ‘17 150w

=POLLOCK, FRANK LILLIE.= Northern diamonds. il *$1.25 (2c) Houghton 17-24854

This story, which appeared in the Youth’s Companion as a serial and
its sequel, recounts the adventures of three Canadian boys on two
trips into the north in search of diamonds. The first trip, taken in
winter on skates and snow shoes, is successful. The boys find what
they are in search of—a little sack of precious stones reported to be
hidden in a deserted cabin. The stones prove to be of inferior
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taken in hope of finding the source. This trip has a different, tho
not a wholly disappointing, outcome.

“An exciting, well told adventure story for boys and girls about
twelve or thirteen.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:173 F ‘18

Reviewed by J: Walcott

=Bookm= 46:498 D ‘17 40w

=N Y Times= 22:565 D 16 ‘17 50w

=POLLOCK, FRANK LILLIE.= Wilderness honey. il *$1.25 (2c) Century 17-24398

A story for boys and girls. Alice, Bob and Carl Harman are three young
Canadians dependent on their own resources. The general store that has
been the family source of income for three generations no longer pays
and the young people are faced with the necessity of selling out.
Alice has already had some experience with bee keeping, and, hearing
of a large apiary for sale in the northern part of the province, they
decide to stake their all on this venture. The story of their plucky
and successful fight against such enemies as timber wolves, bears, and
an ill-natured squatter follows. The story was published in the
Youth’s Companion.

=A L A Bkl= 14:137 Ja ‘18

=Ind= 92:449 D 1 ‘17 40w

“Excellent pictures are drawn of life in the wilderness, and of the
methods of bee culture.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 130w

=POLLOCK, HESTER MCLEAN.= Our Minnesota; a history for children. il *$1.60 Dutton 977.6 17-11001

“After a brief survey of the beautiful land itself, a study of its
copper-colored ‘first inhabitants,’ and of their memorials existing
today, Miss Pollock tells how the English gained the land by
exploration, colonization, war, purchase from the French and treaties
with the Indians. Then follow the story of the explorers, French,
English and Italian; Radisson and Grosvilliers, Du Luth and Father
Hennepin, La Salle, Carver, Long, Beltrami and Nicollet. ...
Transportation, education, mines, minerals, landmarks and famous men
are in turn briefly studied.”—Boston Transcript

“The account of the development of its vast natural resources forms a
marvelous record of which not only all Minnesotans but all Americans
should be proud.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 270w

“The book is somewhat marred for the reviewer by the author’s naïve
assumption that all the acts of the early pioneers were virtuous, and
that the Indian was cruel and crafty in opposing the seizure of his
land. Although the growth of industries is dwelt upon, no mention, as
far as could be found, was made of the passing of the wonderful
resources of the state, its virgin timber and its mines, into the
hands of the few. On the whole, however, the book is an interesting
and faithful presentation of the life story of Minnesota.” P. L.
Benjamin

+ — =Survey= 38:370 Jl 28 ‘17 370w

=POOLE, ERNEST.= His family. *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-13623

A deep sense of the continuity of life, as it is handed on from
generation to generation, pervades this thoughtful novel. Roger Gale,
close on to sixty years old, living in the New York house that has
been his home since his early marriage, tries to understand the new
and bewildering currents of modern life as they are reflected in his
three daughters. These three represent distinct types. Edith is the
domestic and maternal woman, fiercely absorbed in her children.
Deborah is the active woman, spending herself on social movements.
Laura is the modern woman of society, living life gladly, throwing
away old conventions and breaking into new paths, without fear and
without regret. In each of them Roger sees his own life repeated. Each
of the three has something of himself. It is the second daughter,
Deborah, who is nearest to her father’s heart. With her passion for
mothering the world at war with her instinct for personal motherhood,
she is the most interesting study in this worth while book.

=A L A Bkl= 13:451 Jl ‘17

“The one story of this month, beyond doubt, is ‘His family.’” H. W.
Boynton

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“The most striking and appealing feature of the story is its absolute
sincerity and plausibility. ... If English or French readers, or
readers of any other nation, wish to gain an accurate knowledge of
life as it is lived in an American family and an American community,
they need only read Mr Poole’s novel.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 1550w

“Roger is not a sufficiently vivid personality to carry the burden of
the book, and this defect will prevent it from making a permanent
impression.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:540 Jl ‘17 250w

“Roger Gale is the finest old father of a family since Silas Lapham,
of whom in many ways he reminds me. And the resemblance, or, if the
resemblance is not as close as I think, the recollection is a
compliment to Mr Poole. For Mr Howells is a master in the portrayal of
elderly men.” J: Macy

+ — =Dial= 63:113 Ag 16 ‘17 480w

“The book is bigger than the ordinary novel, more far-reaching in its
meaning, more deeply rooted in human experiences.”

+ =Lit D= 55:34 Ag 18 ‘17 290w

“We find it happily difficult to put in the familiar measured terms
our impression of such a book as this. In its mass, its solidity, its
noble and simple contour, it rises like a shining peak above the high,
and flat, plateaus of our ‘average workmanship.’”

+ =Nation= 104:680 Je 7 ‘17 1300w

“If Mr Poole were primarily an artist, writing a novel for the sake of
giving such emotion as a work of art can convey, his insistence would
not be nearly so great on his specific idea of the family. But the
thing that seems to lead Mr Poole to write a novel is the same thing
that led Zola to write novels—the desire to illustrate a large
group-idea by the processes of fiction. It is really the way of the
scientist as against the way of the artist. ... There is no ultimate
recompense for the solemn theme that runs through ‘His family.’
Beginning with its pernicious enunciation on page 6, it comes back on
pages 18, 25, 45, 85, 95, 118, 123, 149, 161, 196, 236, 268, 286, and
heaven knows in how many other places—the theme that people live on in
their children’s lives.” F. H.

=New Repub= 11:164 Je 9 ‘17 1450w

“A book full of truth, power and beauty.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p15 Je 24 ‘17 670w

“Told simply and sincerely, with careful craftsmanship, this book is
worthy of the best traditions in American fiction. It touches on many
vital problems of our modern life, but the problems are never
emphasized at the expense of character.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:194 My 20 ‘17 1050w

“This book is chiefly to be prized as a picture of Mr Poole’s own
soul. ... It rewards the best that one can bring to it. ... It has
spiritual penetration and latitude and elevation. It is filled
throughout with a deep and intimate consciousness of the reality of
other souls.” Lawrence Gilman

+ =No Am= 205:943 Je ‘17 1500w

“A novel of admirable poise and of quiet but deep-lying social
import.”

+ =Outlook= 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 200w

“Appeared in Everybody’s Magazine, v. 35-36, Sept. 1916-May 1917.”

=Pittsburgh= 22:510 Je ‘17 70w

+ =R of Rs= 56:102 Jl ‘17 270w

“Compared with ‘The harbor,’ ‘His family’ is analytical in even
greater degree. It is not unjust to say that the second novel does not
grip as did the first. It is perhaps more polished, and Mr Poole
undoubtedly reveals a more pronounced grasp of the technique of the
novel; but it lacks something of the enthusiasm, the vividness and the
freshness of discovery which made ‘The harbor’ the immediate success
it was. This is not to say, however, that ‘His family’ is not one of
the notable novels of the season.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 1150w

=POOLEY, ANDREW MELVILLE.= Japan at the cross roads. *$3.50 (2½c) Dodd 952 (Eng ed 17-27871)

First hand facts about Japan brought together to delineate the real
state of affairs in Japan and to indicate the forces which are at work
moulding public opinion and the directions in which they are leading.
Politics, finance, social conditions and religion are the interests
that chiefly occupy the writer’s attention. “Mr Pooley pays tribute to
the rapid progress Japan has made, and to the vigor and energy of her
statesmanship, but he does not disguise his belief that radical
improvement must be effected before Japan can claim of right a
position as a first-class power. ... Mr Pooley’s discussion of Japan’s
foreign relations, particularly those with the United States, will do
much to clear up a lot of misinformation about this matter which
exists in America.” (Publishers’ note)

“The cumulative effect of all the criticism in the book is
considerable; and, even assuming that some of the shadows in Mr
Pooley’s picture are as dark as he paints them, we doubt whether the
present is the best time to draw up so unflattering an account, and so
sweeping an indictment, of our allies.”

– + =Ath= p682 D ‘17 250w

“The author sums up the Japanese in a manner which clearly points out
their weak as well as their strong characteristics.” H. S. K.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 800w

“The book would gain somewhat if the author conceded more frequent
summaries of his facts and more emphatic statements of his
conclusions; these the reader must carefully elicit for himself. So
comprehensive a study should have an index appended. But these minor
faults are insignificant in Mr Pooley’s illuminating achievement.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 610w

“His chapters on ‘Social conditions,’ and on Japanese methods in Korea
and Formosa, deserve attention. He shows how the war has benefited
Japanese industry.”

+ =Spec= 119:774 D 29 ‘17 150w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p543 N 8 ‘17 60w

=POORE, IDA MARGARET (GRAVES) lady.= Admiral’s wife in the making, 1860-1903. *$3 Dutton (Eng ed 17-20978)

“Lady Poore has written a very charming book on her girlhood and early
married life, completing the autobiography which she began at the end,
so to say, in her ‘Recollections of an admiral’s wife.’ The daughter
of Dr Graves, Bishop of Limerick, she spent a happy youth in Dublin,
Limerick, and County Kerry, with less happy intervals at an English
school. She married in 1885, soon after Commander Poore had won great
distinction by his work in the Nile expedition. ... As the wife of a
naval officer with modest means, Lady Poore seems to have enjoyed life
heartily in Bermuda, Halifax, Jamaica, Malta, Alexandria, and other
stations whither her husband was sent, as well as in France and Italy
for periods of unemployment.”—Spec

“A sense of humour and an element of delightful frankness are two
factors helping to make Lady Poore’s book very pleasant reading.”

+ =Ath= p256 My ‘17 90w

“The spirit not only of a very gracious and plucky British gentlewoman
infuses it, but the spirit of Britain itself.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ‘17 650w

“A few of these memoirs, a blessed few, are well worth reading,
because their authors can write and ought to write. Among this last
select class is Lady Poore.”

+ =Sat R= 123:343 Ap 14 ‘17 1850w

+ =Spec= 118:493 Ap 28 ‘17 240w

“This is a jolly book. It reads like the letter of an intimate friend
who has snatched a spare moment to tell you the many things she has
seen to interest her in her travels, because you are sure to
understand the point of it all without expecting her to labour it.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p162 Ap 5 ‘17 1050w

=POORMAN, ALFRED PETER.= Applied mechanics. il *$2 McGraw 620.1 17-17214

“A knowledge of general physics and of the calculus is assumed for the
study of this undergraduate text-book, which aims to develop basic
principles in a way which the average student can easily follow. Two
unusual features are claimed: (1), the extended use of the graphic
method; (2), the large number of illustrative examples which have been
solved in detail. Numerous practical problems with answers are also
given. The author is associate professor of applied mechanics in
Purdue university.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

“The book is a fine example of effective, interest-arousing
presentation. Instead of dealing with abstract principles, the strong
psychological appeal of a single engineering problem is used. Some of
the principles in which many graduates are especially weak have been
given exceptionally clear and satisfactory treatment. The
typographical work, the drawings and reproductions are also distinctly
superior to previous standards.” J. P. J. Williams

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:131 Jl 19 ‘17 380w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p13 Jl ‘17 80w

=PORTER, ARTHUR KINGSLEY.= Lombard architecture. 4v v 1-3 ea *$12, v 4 *$15; set *$50 Yale univ. press 723 (17-9830)

Professor Porter describes his book as “a definite synthetic analysis
of Lombard architecture.” Volume 1 traces its growth from its
Byzantine beginnings in the sixth century to the end of the twelfth
century. “More than half of this volume is given to the discussion of
ornament and the arts accessory to architecture.” “Part 4 of volume 1
is given to iconography. Volumes 2 and 3 take up in detail the study
of the multitudes of edifices which, often hidden away in remote
villages and cities, have been up to now scarcely even a name and
which, nevertheless, preserve precious remains, full of interest to
the student of religion, of architecture and of other arts. These
volumes are printed in a smaller type and are extraordinarily rich in
legendary and historic lore.” (Boston Transcript) The fourth volume
consists of a series of 244 plates with from two to ten half-tones
each. The bibliography gives an idea of the author’s wide reading.
“Only 750 copies are printed from type.”

“For the architect these superb volumes will be of the utmost
importance; the general reader will find in them an enormous amount of
information presented in a clear and fascinating style. The portfolio
of illustrations, many of them from pictures taken with the magical
telephotographic lens, will appeal to anyone who delights in rare
views. The typography is faultless.” N. H. D.

+ + =Boston Transcript= p7 My 29 ‘17 1000w

“The amount of careful erudition, of often eloquent description, of
sound judgment and accurate criticism is bewildering. The translations
of justifying text in Latin and Italian must in themselves have taken
months of labor; the searching out of authorities and the balancing of
contrary views, resulting frequently in the rectification of dates and
the discovery of unknown or wholly forgotten artists and architects,
the knowledge of history involved and the breadth of architectural
comprehension make the work of first importance.” N. H. D.

+ + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 230w

“Of that most important element in Lombard ornament, the grotesque,
the author writes with convincing common sense.”

+ + =N Y Times= 22:270 Jl 22 ‘17 950w

“The most careful, scholarly, and learned work dealing with
architecture that has thus far been produced in America. Only one
criticism is possible, and that is on the presentation of the plates;
these, which consist of a great mass of folio sheets, unbound, each
containing four or five illustrations, bear numbers only, and the task
of sorting them out as one reads, identifying them from a key sheet,
and getting them back again into the box, is almost insuperable.” R.
A. Cram

+ + — =Yale R= n s 7:420 Ja ‘18 3350w

=PORTER, MRS ELEANOR (HODGMAN) (ELEANOR STUART, pseud.).= Road to understanding. il *$1.40 (1c) Houghton 17-9250

The story opens with an unfortunate marriage. Helen and Burke were
alike in one thing only; each was self-centered and spoiled. Attracted
by Helen’s pretty face, Burke defied his father and gave up his home
to marry her. Trouble followed shortly and a separation. Left with her
baby daughter, Helen begins to think things out. She decides to make
of herself the kind of woman Burke could respect. She is very ignorant
but she is willing to learn. With the help of good friends, she does
so. Many years pass and Betty, the daughter, is a grownup girl before
the three are again brought together.

“Will be popular, specially with inexperienced girls.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:406 Je ‘17

“One or two situations which are well worked out make the book worth
reading.”

+ =Ath= p471 S ‘17 60w

“The book is without doubt decidedly different from Mrs Porter’s
previous work. ... As an artist Mrs Porter shows both more power and
more restraint in this new novel.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 700w

“Of the light and shade and depth of true characterization she has
hardly an inkling. She has that plentiful lack of humour which seems
almost an asset with the best-buying public. ... We note that this
preposterous story stands second to ‘Mr Britling’ upon the bestselling
lists for April. It would be interesting to know how many readers of
either can have endured the other.”

— =Nation= 104:736 Je 21 ‘17 300w

“We find ourselves always objecting to the situations as more than
improbable and to the characters as not consistent with themselves.
Besides, life is short, and the road Mrs Porter’s heroine elects is
unconscionably long. Still, the book is so well written and holds so
much of truth that it must be ranked among the really good stories of
the day, well worth the reading.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:186 My 13 ‘17 500w

“Take it from a pessimist, this new book by Eleanor H. Porter will be
among the six best sellers within a month and it really is much more
of a book than ‘Pollyanna.’” Robert Lynd

=Pub W= 91:974 Mr 17 ‘17 250w

=Spec= 119:221 S 1 ‘17 20w

=PORTER, GENE (STRATTON) (MRS CHARLES DARWIN PORTER).= Friends in feathers. il *$3.50 (4c) Doubleday 598.2 17-15687

A revised and enlarged edition of “What I have done with birds,”
published in 1907. It is primarily a book on bird photography. It is
illustrated with the author’s own remarkable photographs and the text
is made up largely of an account of experiences while obtaining these
pictures.

=A L A Bkl= 14:67 N ‘17

“The illustrations, showing various birds never before photographed in
their natural positions are uniquely fascinating.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 260w

“One of the most fascinating of bird books.”

+ =Ind= 91:110 Jl 21 ‘17 50w

“Though a student of bird-life would look in vain for any new
observations of importance, and though the natural history to which
the author frequently appeals is of a very thin quality, her work,
nevertheless, is worthy of high praise for the excellence of many of
her photographic studies; only a field student who is an adept with
the camera can appreciate how fine some of these pictures really are.”

+ — =Nation= 105:317 S 20 ‘17 490w

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 80w

=PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.).= Dormie one, and other golf stories. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-24401

A collection of golf stories, reprinted from Collier’s, Every Week,
and other magazines. Contents: Alibi; If you don’t mind my telling
you; The runner-up; The luck of the devil; The last round; If it
interferes with business; Dormie one; “Consolation.” In the preface
which he adds gratuitously the author touches on the difficulties
involved in writing stories about golf. “I know of only one other
sport,” he says, “which offers fewer possibilities for a red-blooded
story of nerve and skill and stamina—and that’s billiards!”

“A collection of excellent stories. ... But good as they all are, well
written technically, and often bubbling over with shrewd dialogue, we
rather doubt their holding readers to whom the revered game of golf is
an unknown quantity.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 250w

“This collection of tales, none of which is impossible (if indeed any
is improbable), will be the joy of many a golfer second only to
playing the game.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 O 27 ‘17 300w

“The eight tales comprise a sort of anthology of the links; in deft
plot construction, in sharp character sketching in every attribute
that goes to the making of a good story, the author has succeeded
admirably.” C. W.

+ =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 100w

“You need not be necessarily a golfer to appreciate the stories, for
though a golf course is invariably employed as a setting, there is in
each story a perspicacious study of human temperaments, together with
a literary finish, which gives it a value entirely independent of its
eighteen-hole environment.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:400 O 14 ‘17 750w

“They are so rich in human nature that the subject-matter is merely
incidental.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 350w

=PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.).= What he least expected. il *$1.50 (2c) Bobbs 17-8466

The hero is a young Harvard man who at the beginning of the story is
down on his luck. The European war has just closed the New York Stock
exchange and deprived him of his job. He answers a “help wanted”
advertisement and after a rigid cross examination finds himself
engaged at a high salary. What his work is to be remains a mystery. He
is sent to one of the best hotels and told to wait further orders. The
action begins almost immediately, following his introduction to two
attractive girls. New York and Bermuda are the scenes of the story.
“Help wanted,” was its title during serial publication in Collier’s.

=A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17

“Mr Hall’s books and stories belong to the harmless group. ... The
public is said to like love stories, real or false, hackneyed or
original, and Mr Hall believes we must feed the public what we think
it wants.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 300w

“Who says that grown-up Americans don’t believe in fairies?... Mr
Holworthy Hall turns raw mythologic ore into the pure gold of that
kind of installment novel which keeps its readers infantile.”

=New Repub= 11:142 Je 2 ‘17 180w

“The liveliest kind of a lively yarn, with all sorts of entanglements
and cross-purposes that thoroughly accomplish their manifest
destiny—which is to bewilder and interest the reader.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 200w

“The author always makes his characters talk easily and amusingly, but
his plot is too complicated and unreal to rivet attention.”

– + =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 20w

“A love story which has married a detective story. The union has its
points.” M. A. Hopkins

=Pub W= 91:972 Mr 17 ‘17 250w

“A light story which moves at a rapid pace, with a liberal sprinkling
of colloquial slang and humor.”

=Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 150w

=POUND, EZRA LOOMIS.=[2] Lustra of Ezra Pound, with earlier poems. *$1.50 Knopf 811 17-31072

The first book of Mr Pound’s poetry to appear in this country since
1912. The first group contains about eighty short pieces whose themes
range from “The tea shop” to “The study in aesthetics.” In the second
group are translations from the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of
the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the Professors Mori
and Ariga. The last thirty are poems published before 1911.

“No one challenges the poet’s right to draw his materials from any
source that he chooses. No one cares how far into the past he
penetrates, so that he brings back something of beauty and value,
something that he has revitalized and made his own. But when from
these excursions into the antique he brings back chiefly what is
inconsequent and often repulsive, one sees no particular reason for
going so far afield for material.” J. B. Rittenhouse

– + =Bookm= 46:577 Ja ‘18 450w

“His poems are too complicated for hasty judgment. One must read—and
read again a week later. They are ironical, jeering and intolerant,
they are lonely, contemplative, searching, carefully formed and firmly
living. Perhaps you hate Ezra Pound. He says many of us have the
manner. Perhaps you like him, but whatever else you do you cannot
ignore him. He has an individual fashion of saying things and he is
without fear.” K. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 6 ‘16 700w

“Its range and variety are its most outstanding quality and its chief
defect. The volume seems a catch-all for Pound’s slightest utterance.
What makes this lust for print the more puzzling is the fact that Mr
Pound has not only a critical but a selective gift. But ‘Lustra’ is
something more than a haphazard and too inclusive collection; it is
the record of a retreat, a gradual withdrawal from life.” L:
Untermeyer

– + =Dial= 63:634 D 20 ‘17 980w

“In this book we have no signs of those graceful medieval verses that
Mr Pound used to write so perfectly. Sometimes Mr Pound is so modern
as to be incomprehensible.”

— =Lit D= 55:38 D 15 ‘17 140w

=Lit D= 55:51 D 29 ‘17 630w

“‘Lustra’ does more than force the painful conclusion of
deterioration: it reveals the actual process, the poems written before
1911 being separated from those composed later. Rarely is it possible
to see in one book so sharp a line of cleavage, so complete a
superiority of periods as Mr Pound lets us witness by his act of
separation. Before 1911 life still stung Mr Pound.” M. T.

– + =New Repub= 13:352 Ja 19 ‘18 1300w

“The ‘Lustra’ is bookish; instead of revealing further heights or
depths of existence, it bears the echoes of dead literature.
Personally, I would rather have one of Arturo Giovanetti’s things,
such as ‘The last nickel’ or ‘The walker,’ or one of Carl Sandburg’s
Chicago poems than the whole volume called ‘Lustra,’ in spite of the
embroidered gorgeousness of the Cathay translations, contained
therein.” G: W. Cronyn

– + =N Y Call= p18 D 20 ‘17 750w

“The only healthy pages are entitled ‘Poems published before 1911.’”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 25 ‘18 300w

“The form which Mr Pound has chosen gives brevity, and that is enough.
The richness of content compensates for its looseness. But in Mr
Pound’s original poems there is seldom this compensation. It is poetry
made too easy. As you read it you feel as if you had tried to sneeze
and failed. There is a titillation, the promise of something about to
happen, but at the end nothing has happened, not even a well-turned
verse. That is the fault we have to find with most of these poems; too
little happens in them. When Mr Pound is serious there is promise in
his seriousness.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p545 N 16 ‘16 900w

=POWELL, CHILTON LATHAM.= English domestic relations, 1487-1653. (Studies in English and comparative literature) *$1.50 (2½c) Columbia univ. press 392 17-11684

The author calls this “a study of matrimony and family life in theory
and practice as revealed by the literature, law, and history of the
period,” and states in his preface that he has tried “to make the
field of investigation within these limits as all-inclusive as
possible.” “Four appendixes are added to the book, in the first of
which a complete account is given for the first time of the divorce
suit of Henry VIII, and in the second, a new conception of the married
life of Milton and the cause of his famous divorce tracts is
advanced.” (Am Hist R) There are fourteen pages of bibliography.

“Perhaps the most valuable portions of Dr Powell’s book are the
chapters describing and analyzing the domestic conduct book of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the contemporary attitudes
towards woman and the wider ranges of domestic literature. ... Such a
careful and detailed study as Dr Powell’s should be sincerely welcomed
by every student of the family. The fresh material it assembles and
the painstaking way in which it traces the evolution of new ideas
concerning marriage and divorce make it a genuine contribution to the
growing body of literature on this subject.” Willystine Goodsell

+ =Am Hist R= 23:142 O ‘17 500w

“The author’s interests—and his style—are not literary, but the book
will be useful to the student of literature as well as of social
history.”

+ =Ath= p353 Jl ‘17 80w

=Cleveland= p10 Ja ‘18 120w

“The performance is scarcely equal to the promise. The second half of
the volume deals with the literature of the subject and, though the
author discusses a number of important but little-known writings, this
part of the work is scarcely more than a critical bibliography. The
important part of the study comprises the first three chapters. ...
The field was harvested a dozen years ago with some thoroughness by
Professor Howard in his monumental ‘History of matrimonial
institutions’; but Dr Powell has discovered several unused literary
sources and has been able to correct Professor Howard’s conclusions on
various important points.”

+ — =Dial= 63:351 O 11 ‘17 370w

“It is included in the ‘Studies in English and comparative
literature,’ but is of wider scope than most books so classified.
There is a good deal here that will be of interest to the student of
‘kulturgeschichte’ or to the sociologist, for the author has very
carefully assembled a good body of information respecting marriage and
the family, from sources not ordinarily open to the non-expert in the
period’s literature.”

+ =Nation= 105:375 O 4 ‘17 600w

“Dr Powell’s method, if it yields little to our actual knowledge,
certainly gives a useful summary of contemporary opinion.”

+ =Spec= 119:sup547 N 17 ‘17 850w

=POWELL, E. ALEXANDER.= Brothers in arms. *50c (7c) Houghton 940.91 17-17404