Chapter LX: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (16)

“It is reasonable to suppose that the unsatisfactory effect of the
book before us cannot be entirely attributed to the defects either of
the poet or the translator. It is tiresome to read these poems, where
images rise and clash and fade in confusion, and to feel that in the
original there may have existed harmony and emotional coherence where
we are now oppressed by meaningless glitter and noise. Our annoyance
is accentuated by the translator’s harsh and clumsy rhythms, and by an
insensitiveness to word-values in the language into which he is
translating, exemplified by the title ‘Life immovable.’” F. W. S.

− =Ath= p140 Jl 30 ’19 760w

“Too much of the symbolic, philosophical and mythological enter these
pages to invite interest from any but the scholarly thinker.”

+ =Booklist= 16:162 F ’20

Reviewed by H: A. Lappin

+ =Bookm= 51:214 Ap ’20 120w

“He deserves to be read widely beyond the confines of his own land and
tongue; and Professor Phoutrides, with the Harvard press, deserves the
cordial thanks of all lovers of life and letters for the present
translation.” F. B. R. Hellems

+ =Class Philol= 15:205 Ap ’20 1600w

“His book, with its thoughtful, well-written introduction, will give
much pleasure to the quiet lovers of the quiet poetry of meditation
and sentiment.” Paul Shorey

+ =Review= 2:309 Mr 27 ’20 1200w

=PALMER, EDWIN JAMES, bp. of Bombay.= Great church awakes. *$2 Longmans 280

21–198

“The conception of ‘the great church’ which inspires this little
volume may be described as a liberalized restatement of the
traditional Anglo-Catholic position. In the first part of the work,
called ‘Ideas,’ Dr Palmer insists strongly on the importance and force
of the present desire for Christian unity, especially as it is
manifested in India. The second section, entitled ‘Studies,’ is mainly
devoted to the question of the Christian ministry. It opens with a
careful study of the ‘Ministry in the primitive church.’”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

Reviewed by Lyman Abbott

+ =Outlook= 126:689 D 15 ’20 390w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p475 Jl 22 ’20 380w

=PANCHARD, EDOUARD.= Meats, poultry and game; with a preface by A. Louise Andrea. *$3 Dutton 641.5

20–2273

“The author of this volume is managing chef for the Hotel McAlpin,
Waldorf-Astoria, Claridge, Café Savarin and Fifth avenue restaurant,
New York, and Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, and honorary
lecturer, Columbia university. He gives much valuable information
about the buying, cooking and serving of meat, poultry and game, and
as the book is illustrated even the amateur can learn readily from it.
Not the least desirable part of the volume is a collection of choice
recipes.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

Reviewed by M. F. Egan

+ =Bookm= 52:30 S ’20 110w

“A book so simply and clearly planned and written that it must be a
desirable acquisition.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 100w

“Part I is written very definitely and clearly but Part II, ‘A
potpourri of recipes,’ would be rather difficult for an inexperienced
cook to follow.” M. E. Dakin

+ =J Home Econ= 12:426 S ’20 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 140w

=PANYITY, LOUIS S.=[2] Prospecting for oil and gas. il *$3.25 Wiley 622.1

20–2108

“This brief treatment of a large subject is designed to meet the needs
of the practical oilman and the general reader. More than half of the
text is devoted to surveying methods and geology, including general
cross-sections of important districts. The rest of the book covers
even more briefly: scouting, methods of locating wells, drilling
methods, ‘bringing in,’ gauging, and leasing. Samples of forms and
contracts are shown. Good illustrations and a number of mathematical
and technical tables.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

* * * * *

“Good book on a subject not heretofore well covered.”

+ =Booklist= 17:100 D ’20

“The first ten chapters of this book, comprising 134 pages in all,
deal directly with the subject indicated by the title, and they are by
far the most useful part of the volume. The remainder of the principal
part of the book is disappointing. It attempts to cover so much that
it covers nothing at all.”

+ − =Mining and Scientific Press= 120:554 Ap 10 ’20 210w

“It is undoubtedly an attractive and useful publication, which, by
virtue of its clearness of diction, careful arrangement of
subjectmatter, and freedom from ‘padding,’ should make an appeal to a
very wide public.” H. B. Milner

+ =Nature= 106:625 Ja 13 ’21 580w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p35 Ap ’20 80w

=PARK, JOHN EDGAR.= Bad results of good habits and other lapses. *$1.50 (4½c) Houghton 814

20–7286

The contents of these essays all hinge on the distinction the author
makes between two kinds of goodness; respectable goodness and
adventurous goodness. It is the difference between a mummy and a
living body. For the ten commandments he would substitute the golden
rule, as including them all, and his parting words to the reader are:
“Don’t be solemn. Don’t be staid and conventional. Get off your
pedestal. Fool a little. Love much.” A partial list of the contents
are: The disadvantages of being good; The folly of getting there; The
world, the flesh, and the devil; What I would not that I do; Lies; The
grammar of life; The secret of the moral training of children.

+ =Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20

“Altogether they are a very readable lot, and if most of them leave a
moral truth behind, the reader will forget the preachment for the
enjoying of his ideas.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 25 ’20 240w

+ =Cleveland= p85 S ’20 30w

“Mr Park’s relaxations avoid the too facile generalization which is
the usual fault of the type. Yet they breathe a certain serene
remoteness from dust and heat. In contrast with the good gigantic
smile of Mark Twain, it lacks what closet wit must always lack, an
earthly and living contact with men and women.”

+ − =Nation= 111:224 Ag 21 ’20 250w

=N Y Times= p15 O 10 ’20 80w

“It is bright, gay, and logically weak, with the useful knack of
arraying a commonplace in the garb of a paradox.”

− + =Review= 3:133 Ag 11 ’20 290w

+ =St Louis= 18:248 O ’20 30w

“There is a vein of humor in Mr Park that makes him a delightful
companion in print or in person.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 17 ’20 280w

=PARKER, CARLETON HUBBELL.= Casual laborer and other essays. *$1.75 (5½c) Harcourt 331

20–5645

This posthumous volume of essays by Professor Parker has an
introduction by Mrs Cornelia Stratton Parker in which she points out
the fundamental characteristics of her husband’s work, and through
numerous quotations the importance in which he was held as one of the
frontiersmen not along geographical but along economic lines. He was
first in studying the labor problem from a psychological point of
view. “What is the psychic balance sheet?” he asks. “It is a relation
between a plastic, sensitive, easily degenerated nervous organism
called ‘man’ and an environment. The product is human character. The
labor problem is one of character-formation.” The essays are: Toward
understanding labor unrest; The casual laborer; The I. W. W.; Motives
in economic life. The appendix contains Professor Parker’s report on
the Wheatland hop fields’ riot with a foreword by Mrs Parker. The
second paper is reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the
third from the Atlantic Monthly.

* * * * *

=Am Econ R= 10:610 S ’20 80w

=Booklist= 16:263 My ’20

“In conclusion it may be said that the book is an interesting rather
than a convincing one. The man really needs to be saved from his
friends. The present book bears out the statement that when all is
said and done, Professor Parker’s life was potential in promise and
not in actual measurable performance.” G. M. J.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 1200w

“As his discussion stands and so far as it has been carried on it is
so fragmentary and one-sided as to appear somewhat crude and far
fetched.” Virgil Jordan

− =Dial= 69:96 Jl ’20 1150w

=Int J Ethics= 31:115 O ’20 130w

“In their present state the essays reveal a lack in the organization
of his new ideas as well as a faulty perspective in the arrangement of
his biological and psychological material. His purpose, however, is
admirable, and has brought about an advance of the line he set upon,
namely the study of human behavior, as such, where it assists in the
understanding of economic conditions.” Florence Richardson

+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:622 Jl ’20 600w

“For the economist, the book is like one of those impressive events
that make history. It marks the closing of a chapter.” H. A.
Overstreet

+ =Nation= 111:455 O 20 ’20 950w

Reviewed by C: Merz

+ =New Repub= 22:424 My 26 ’20 1200w

“The book is a useful record of an industrious and brilliant
investigator who seems also to have been an unusually inspiring
teacher. It is not too much to say that no man who has anything worth
writing about should be allowed to write so badly as Professor Parker
seems to have done when left to himself.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:324 Je 20 ’20 700w

=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 40w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 24 ’20 70w

“Those interested to know how this labor problem will be handled when
those in authority have been educated will do well to read this
delightful and illuminating book. It marks the road.” W: L. Chenery

+ =Survey= 45:26 O 2 ’20 540w

=PARKER, DEWITT HENRY.= Principles of æsthetics. *$2.50 (2½c) Silver 701

20–15459

The book has grown out of lectures to students at the University of
Michigan but the author’s appeal is to all people who are interested
in the intelligent appreciation of art. For his broader philosophy of
art he declares himself indebted to the artists and philosophers of
the period from Herder to Hegel, and among contemporaries to Croce and
Lipps. Among the contents are: The analysis of the æsthetic
experience; The problem of evil in æsthetics, and its solution through
the tragic, pathetic, and comic; The standard of taste; The dominion
of art over nature: painting, sculpture; Beauty in the industrial
arts: architecture; The function of art: art and morality, art and
religion; Bibliography.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21

=Boston Transcript= p5 O 23 ’20 480w

“For the beginner it is as satisfactory a work as has yet appeared.”

+ =Dial= 69:666 D ’20 50w

=PARKER, SIR GILBERT.= No defence. il *$2 Lippincott

20–17085

“The scene is laid first in Ireland at the close of the eighteenth
century; and we are taken thence to the fleet at the time of the
mutiny at the Nore, and later to Jamaica. The hero, Dyck Calhoun, is a
young Irish gentleman, who falls innocently into disgrace. He becomes
a common seaman and a mutineer; he escapes to Jamaica; and here he
gradually achieves success, in spite of the persistent enmity of the
governor, with whom he has fought a successful duel in his early
days.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“The author seems well able to depict the English soldier and sailor
of the day, but he knows nothing of the Irish soul or character.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:545 Ja ’21 230w

“To judge from internal evidence, ‘No defence’ was written simply and
solely in order that it might eventually be turned into a motion
picture, with little or no regard for literary excellence. From first
to last, the book is carelessly written, and the tale is devoid of
atmosphere, while the dialogue reveals very little effort to keep the
speech of the different persons in character.”

− =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 900w

“The book has dash, fire, and romance.”

+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 450w

“It lacks something both of the ardour and of the fundamental gravity
which make romance completely valid; but it has an undeniable
sincerity which makes it very much more readable than most such
works.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p617 S 23 ’20 460w

=PARKER, SAMUEL CHESTER.= Methods of teaching in high schools. il $2 Ginn 373

20–6653

“The printing of a new edition of the ‘Methods of teaching in high
schools’ has given the author an opportunity to make a number of
slight but important revisions. Some of these are necessitated by new
scientific investigations, while others are merely improvements in the
examples or the phrasing. References have also been inserted to the
supplementary volume, ‘Exercises for “Methods of teaching in high
schools.”’... The fundamental organization, however, has nowhere been
changed.” (Preface to revised edition)

=PARKS, LEIGHTON.= English ways and byways. *$1.75 (3c) Scribner 914.2

20–19160

In the form of letters John and Ruth Dobson, an American clergyman and
his wife, on a motoring tour in England, talk pleasantly of their
experiences, which include unconventional glimpses of England and the
English and much about the vicissitudes of motoring. Among the
chapters on England are: The great North road; The England of
Fielding; An English interior; Rural England; Education; A
by-election; Sheep-dogs; The black country; The county families; The
boat-race; Vested interests; Church and state.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20

“All that is written is interesting and often it is amusing; but the
wit is never biting, the story never cuts in the telling, and when all
is told we really have gained a very agreeable idea of our English
cousins.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 480w

“Add that both husband and wife are extremely clever with the pen, and
rather impudent in their freedom of remark, and you have all the
materials out of which Dr Leighton Parks has made as entertaining a
little volume as one often meets with in these dull days.”

+ =Review= 3:563 D 8 ’20 280w

=PARRISH, RANDALL.= Mystery of the silver dagger. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–9714

Philip Severn, a secret service agent, is a collector of curios. An
odd lacquer box in a New York shop attracts his attention and he buys
it, altho all the proprietor can tell him is that it had been left in
a hotel room and never claimed. After returning to his home he
accidentally drops the box to the floor, unlooses a secret spring and
picks up a folded bit of paper. But while the box itself was of
undoubted antique origin, the paper is modern. It rouses Severn’s
suspicion and he resolves to trace down the mystery at which it hints.
His search leads him to Jersey City, a deserted factory building, a
Polish saloon and a beautiful girl. The plot he uncovers involves a
conspiracy against Chile, and the last bit of mystery cleared away is
the relation of the beautiful girl to the band of plotters. After that
comes the conventional ending.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:35 O ’20

“The plot is ingenious and the story has the fascination of swift
action.”

+ =Cleveland= p51 My ’20 60w

“A lively enough yarn.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 320w

“A murder mystery skillfully handled.”

+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 20w

“Mr Parrish can always be depended upon for a breath-bating
narrative.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 12 ’20 300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p385 Je 17 ’20 100w

=PARRY, REGINALD ST JOHN.=[2] Pastoral epistles; with introduction, text and commentary. *$8 Macmillan 227

“The object of the author has been to inquire afresh into the critical
and exegetical problems on which the question of the genuineness of I
and II Timothy and Titus depends. The outcome is a vigorous defense of
the Pauline authorship of all three letters.”—Bib World

* * * * *

“Without disparaging the conscientious work in these notes, we must
say that so far as the object of the monograph is concerned, Dr Parry
would have done better to omit the commentary altogether—it is not any
advance on earlier English work—and to discuss the partition theories
of the epistles, a branch of criticism which he passes by.”

+ − =Ath= p45 Jl 9 ’20 720w

“All that can be said in favor of this opinion is here brought
together probably in as convincing a form as is possible. Yet the
presentation does not carry full conviction, for it treats far too
lightly the objections which have been urged by other scholars against
Pauline authorship.”

+ − =Bib World= 54:649 N ’20 110w

=PARSONS, JOHN.= Tour through Indiana in 1840; ed. by Kate Milner Rabb. il *$3.55 McBride 917.72

20–19355

The book contains the diary of John Parsons of Petersburg, Virginia,
giving an account of a trip by railroad, by stage coach and by
steamboat, and an intimate picture of the life of the then near west,
in its political, geographical and social and family aspects ending
with a personal romance. The illustrations are from old prints and
drawings and from photographs.

* * * * *

“There is a quaint and charming flavor in this diary.”

+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20

“The book is of particular value to those interested in Indiana and
surrounding country and in the lives of the great and soon-to-be-great
men and women of the time. As such it holds rank as an unusual
historic document, and is a quaint picture of the politics and life of
the day.”

+ =Bookm= 52:173 O ’20 270w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 23 ’20 420w

“This book breathes the very spirit of the young West. It is a flowing
and human story that takes one into the heart of the time it
describes.”

+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w

“The love story that is dragged in does not add to the credibility of
the tale. If the volume is not an authentic record of the journey it
pretends to chronicle, the deception is inexcusable. This does not
mean that the book is a waste of time. On the contrary, it is a
triumph of accuracy and readability. It lifts the curtain upon a most
interesting scene and shows us a fairly typical American commonwealth
at a definite stage of development.”

+ − =Review= 3:481 N 17 ’20 260w

=R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 100w

“An altogether entertaining book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 760w

=PARSONS, SAM JONES.= Malleable cast iron. il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 672

In this second edition the author has “considered it advisable to
revise the contents so as to include information concerning the more
modern and scientific methods of production, thus bringing the book up
to date and adding considerably to its practical value.” (Preface to
the second edition) Two chapters are added on Mining by analysis and
Measurement of temperature; there is also an addendum on Malleable
cast steel.

* * * * *

“It is somewhat surprising that in a book which is evidently designed
to assist the malleable-iron industry to more scientific methods of
production there is no mention of the light thrown by the microscope
on the structural changes which occur in the malleablising process;
nor is there any reference to the mechanical properties of the various
types of iron produced.”

+ − =Nature= 105:290 My 6 ’20 430w

=PARSONS, WILLIAM BARCLAY.= American engineers in France. il *$4 Appleton 940.373

20–16507

The motif of the book is the work of the nine regiments of American
engineers, with one of which the author served. “In the writing, it
has been necessary to touch on all the fields of engineer activity,
because these regiments came in contact with every field, even if they
did not invade each one, from constructing ports to digging and
holding trenches, in all parts of France from the Atlantic to the
Vosges, from the Mediterranean to Flanders. Consequently there results
a brief outline of what all engineers did.” (Preface) The contents are
in part: The new military engineer; America’s problem; Engineer
organization; Ports; French railways; American railway operations in
France; Relations with the French; Forestry; Water supply; Chemical
engineers; Camouflage and other fields of engineering; Maps; Flash and
sound ranging and search light detection; Artillery; Light railways;
Roads; Trenches and trench warfare. There are full page illustrations,
figures, maps and an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20

“He has covered the field in outline sufficient for the lay reader,
and with an authority that will make this one of the lasting records
of the war.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 140w

=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 170w

=PARTRIDGE, GEORGE EVERETT.= Psychology of nations; a contribution to the philosophy of history. *$2.50 Macmillan 901

19–19152

“This is a psychologist’s appeal for an understanding of what is
fundamental in our national life and a warning against radical and
superficial thinking; it was written during the closing months of the
war and in the days that followed. The first part of the book is a
study of the motives of war—an analysis of such motives in the light
of the general principles of the development of society. The second
part of the book is a study of the present situation as an educational
problem, in which we have for the first time a problem of educating
national consciousness as a whole, or the individuals of a nation with
reference to a world-consciousness.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“Two chapters dealing with Internationalism and the School and two
others on the Teaching of patriotism are especially sane and
well-balanced and will be suggestive to teachers of American history
who wish to base their influence for Americanization upon something
less superficial than tradition and prejudice.” W: H. Allison

+ =Am Hist R= 25:740 Jl ’20 450w

Reviewed by C. G. Fenwick

=Am Pol Sci R= 14:340 My ’20 130w

“Part two, on education, offers many suggestions that should interest
educators.”

+ =Booklist= 16:276 My ’20

=Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 13 ’20 420w

=Brooklyn= 12:95 Mr ’20 50w

“One’s total reaction to the book is emotional. It is impressive not
as an argument or a scientific inquiry, but as a sermon. It is
edifying rather than clarifying. One is swept along much as though one
were reading a book of psalms; each sentence is an exhortation, and as
one proceeds the exhortatory force accumulates until one ends in an
‘intoxication mood’ of edification. One can not emerge from the book
without a feeling of enthusiasm for something which is critically
important, but that something is intellectually elusive.” H. W.
Schneider

+ − =J Philos= 17:441 Jl 29 ’20 3400w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

+ =Nation= 112:185 F 2 ’21 840w

“Mr Partridge has given to the public a book which doubtless will be,
as it deserves to be, widely read.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:144 Mr 28 ’20 650w

=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 30w

“The large value of his book—which really ought to be called ‘The
education of nations’—is that it presents, compiled and digested, the
theories of many men who have dealt with a broad complex of problems.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ’20 280w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p258 Ap 22 ’20 150w

=PATCH, EDITH MARION.= Little gateway to science. il $1 Atlantic monthly press 595.7

20–9285

Nature stories for young children. The author calls them “hexapod
stories,” for they are all about six-footed insects, butterflies,
bees, grasshoppers and the like. The titles are: Van, the sleepy
butterfly, who was awakened by a January thaw; Old Bumble; The strange
house of Cecid Cido Domy; Poly, the Easter butterfly; Jumping Jack;
Nata, the nymph; Lampy’s Fourth o’ July; Carol; Ann Gusti’s circus;
Gryl, the little black minstrel; Luna’s Thanksgiving; Keti-Abbot, the
littlest Christmas guest. A word to the teacher follows and there are
notes, with references to other books. The pictures are by Robert J.
Sim.

* * * * *

“They are simply told without any sentimentality or ‘writing down.’
Good for school libraries as well as public.”

+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20

=PATERSON, WILLIAM PATERSON, and RUSSELL, DAVID=, eds.[2] Power of prayer. *$4 Macmillan 217

20–15946

“In May, 1916, the Walker trust of the University of St Andrews
offered certain prizes on ‘the meaning, the reality and the power of
prayer, its place and value to the individual, to the church, and to
the state, in the everyday affairs of life, in the healing of sickness
and disease, in times of distress and national danger, and in relation
to national ideals and to world-progress.’ In response to this offer
one thousand six hundred and sixty-seven essays were received, coming
from all quarters of the world and written in nineteen languages. The
first prize was awarded to Rev. Samuel McComb, of Baltimore, Maryland,
and is printed as the first paper following an interesting essay by Dr
Paterson entitled ‘Prayer and the contemporary mind.’ Twenty other
papers of varying length of different aspects of the subject are also
printed.”—Bib World

* * * * *

“The quality of the essay by Dr McComb warrants the decision of the
readers in his favor. This book is the most voluminous and
satisfactory study of the subject that we know.”

+ =Bib World= 54:650 N ’20 320w

“Most appear to have read widely. They express themselves lucidly.
They can give reasons, not unworthy of consideration, for the faith
which is in them; though, with the exception of Canon McComb, no
writer can be classed as a trained theologian of eminence. The volume
has not, in consequence, the importance of the series of essays
entitled ‘Concerning prayer,’ which Messrs Macmillan published a few
years ago. The main value of the book consists in the light which it
throws on the religious tendencies of the time.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 Ag 12 ’20 1400w

=PATON, STEWART.= Education in war and peace. *$1.50 Hoeber

20–3200

“In ‘Education in war and peace,’ the author makes an appeal for a
united effort by physicians, psychologists, and educators to search
out and develop appropriately the basic instincts and deep emotional
undercurrents which have so much to do in shaping personality,
determining character, and controlling conduct. The current tendency
to try to ‘compensate for personal inadequacy in facing the real
problems of life’ by various forms of ‘wishful thinking’ is examined
and illustrated.”—Survey

* * * * *

+ − =Dial= 69:213 Ag ’20 90w

“His treatment is stimulating, and any educator or social worker may
read the book with the hope of receiving immediate profit from it.” F.
G. Bonser

+ =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 270w

=PATRICK, DIANA.= Wider way. *$2 Dutton

20–11891

“Veronica Quening, with a dour and brutal market gardener (who is also
a local preacher) for her father, but also with a devoted stepmother,
entirely free from traditional stepmotherliness, is quite staggeringly
fascinating, lovely, and magnetic. She has all our sympathy in her
career as school teacher, as wife for a time—after another passionate
love affair—of a German; and specially as friend of Lord Swathe, for
there is evidently a kinship between the beautiful girl and the
stately noble house. All ends well with Veronica.”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup

* * * * *

“Harmless and pretty and silly.”

+ − =Ath= p258 F 20 ’20 80w

“Veronica, with her complexities, her ambitions, her mental and
spiritual endowments, her surface froth and her profound depths, is a
creation that would do credit to an older and more practiced hand. As
a whole, the novel is an exceptionally good first book, which reveals
a real gift for story telling and a marked faculty for producing the
illusion of reality.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 11 ’20 550w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 F 5 ’20 110w

=PATRICK, GEORGE THOMAS WHITE.= Psychology of social reconstruction. *$2 Houghton 301

20–19443

In considering the dangers that threaten our present
civilization—reversion to barbarism, decadence, ill-timed social
reforms, et al.—the author maintains that he is not taking the usual
attitude of either advocate or critic, but that of a student of
ultimate values. He sees in our present awareness of social evils a
hopeful sign, but insists on the inadequacy of all economic and
political reforms that disregard the psychological and historical
factors. No reform can endure whose psychological basis does not rest
on human needs and does not conform to human nature. The three first
chapters are devoted to the psychological factors in social
reconstruction and the remaining four to: The psychology of work; Our
centrifugal society; Social discipline; The next step in applied
science. There is an index.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p7 N 13 ’20 620w

=N Y Evening Post= p23 D 4 ’20 240w

“The book is eminently readable and deserves a wide response.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 20 ’21 160w

=PATTERSON, FRANCES TAYLOR.= Cinema craftsmanship. il *$2 Harcourt 808.2

20–17895

The author, who is instructor in photoplay composition in Columbia
university, recognizes that the moving picture art is still in its
infancy, but says that her motive for writing this book is faith in
its future and a desire to help awaken the public to its
possibilities. Contents: The art and the science; The plot; The
characters; The setting; Adaptation; Scenario technique; Writing a
synopsis for the photoplay market; Cinema comedy; The critical angle;
The photoplay market. The scenario for the photoplay “Witchcraft” by
Margaret Turnbull, awarded a prize offered by the Famous Players-Lasky
company, is appended, together with bibliography and index.

* * * * *

“A model scenario and an excellent bibliography make the book a
complete manual for all persons interested in photoplay writing.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 N 13 ’20 160w

=N Y Times= p25 N 7 ’20 90w

=PATTERSON, JOHN EDWARD.= Passage of the barque Sappho. *$2.50 Dutton

20–11150

“‘The passage of the barque Sappho’ portrays in minute detail the
voyage of a sailing vessel from San Francisco around Cape Horn,
homeward bound, to a British port. The author, J. E. Patterson, died
before the book was published, and it was prepared for the press by
his friend, C. E. Lawrence, who contributes a foreword. The narrative
purports to be the work of two individuals, and is told in the first
person. The joint contributions come from the two extremes of sea
society—the cabin and the fo’castle. One is an officer and the other
an ordinary seaman. When events are witnessed by both, it is from
different points of view. The officer and sailor write alternately,
and describe in detail all that went on above deck and in the
forecastle during the long voyage. The story ends with shipwreck in
the Sargasso sea.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Ath= p930 S 19 ’19 80w

“The style of the story, in so far as it may be detached from its
substance, is (but for certain passages of description) homely enough,
lacking in the ordinary ‘literary’ graces; but this in the end appears
to be a part of virtue. Beside Conrad and Bullen my copy shall take
its place with confidence.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:79 Mr ’20 700w

“The book has a historical as well as a literary value. Mr Patterson
proves by this posthumous novel his understanding of character as well
as his ability to write an impressive description. Each officer and
man of the Sappho is a distinct individual possessed of his own little
traits and peculiarities—traits and peculiarities which the author’s
leisurely method enables him fully to illustrate.”

+ =N Y Times= 24:767 D 21 ’19 650w

“Quite at variance with the usual nautical romance, the chronicle is
free from intrigues and brutality. The book is rather long (and
expensive) and is likely to prove a bit tiring to all save those
interested in the subject of seafaring.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 28 ’20 420w

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p498 S 18 ’19 380w

=PAUL, EDEN, and PAUL, CEDAR.= Creative revolution. *$2 (*8s 6d) (4c) Seltzer 335

The authors subtitle their book “A study of communist ergatocracy,”
using the newly coined word “ergatocracy” to signify workers’ rule. In
the opening chapter they say, “This little volume has a twofold aim,
theoretical and practical. In the theoretical field, we wish to effect
an analysis of socialist trends and to attempt a synthesis of
contemporary proletarian aims. In the sphere of practice we hope to
intensify and to liberate the impulse towards a fresh creative
effort.” Contents: Communist ergatocracy; Socialism through social
solidarity; Socialism through the class struggle; The shop stewards’
movement; Historical significance of the great war; The Russian
revolution; The third international; The dictatorship of the
proletariat; The iron law of oligarchy; Socialism through parliament
or soviet? Creative revolution; Freedom; Bibliography.

* * * * *

“Do the gifted authors realize that the atmosphere of a Marxian
library varied by stimulating conversations with trade union leaders,
is not the same as the atmosphere of a bloody revolution? Do they
clearly realize the difference? Do they, in fact, know what they are
talking about?”

− =Ath= p145 Jl 30 ’20 290w

Reviewed by A. C. Freeman

=N Y Call= p11 Ja 16 ’21 1400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 150w

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p413 Jl 1 ’20 1350w

“After so much has been written, camouflaged and in equivocal
language, it is a pleasure to find a book so clear-cut, so incisive
and so direct in its wording and in its thought. I still believe as
firmly as ever that the principles of pacifism represent the most
workable social philosophy. I am therefore at total variance with the
authors in their interpretation of the lessons which the Russian
revolution has taught. At the same time, I am glad to welcome their
contribution because of the splendid effect which it will have in
clarifying issues that have puzzled and baffled so many earnest souls
during the past few months.” Scott Nearing

+ − =World Tomorrow= 4:60 F ’21 420w

=PAYNE, FANNY URSULA.= Plays and pageants of citizenship. il *$1.50 Harper 792.6

20–18670

A new book of plays by the author of “Plays and pageants of
democracy,” and “Plays for anychild.” Contents: Dekanawida; The
triumph of democracy; The spirit of New England; The soap-box orator;
The victory of the good citizen; Old Tight-wad and the victory dwarf;
Rich citizens; Humane citizens.

* * * * *

=Lit D= p99 D 4 ’20 60w

=PAYNE, GEORGE HENRY.= History of journalism in the United States. *$2.50 (2c) Appleton 071

20–10538

A short history of American journalism from the first newspaper to the
present day, written by a man of wide newspaper experience. Among the
early chapters are: Historic preparation for journalism; The first
newspaper in America; The first journals and their editors;
Philadelphia and the Bradfords; Printing in New York—the Zenger trial;
Rise of the fourth estate; The assumption of political power; The
“Boston Gazette” and Samuel Adams; Journalism and the Revolution;
Adams and the alien and sedition laws. Other chapters cover the
newspapers of the west, suffrage and slavery and the Civil war.
Special chapters are also devoted to such great dailies as the Sun,
the Herald and the Tribune. There are closing chapters on Editors of
the new school; After-war problems and reform and The melodrama in the
news. Interesting documents and statistics are given in appendices.
There is a valuable bibliography of twenty-nine pages, followed by an
index.

* * * * *

“The story is compact, but it moves to a lively tune, and is widely
allusive. The personal human interest is widely kept in the
foreground, and Mr Payne reveals a keen perception of the dramatic
values of his subject.” C: H. Levermore

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:107 O ’20 850w

“Will be useful to students of journalism, but it will have an
interest of its own to the general reader as it traces the growth of
journalism with the development of democracy.”

+ =Booklist= 17:47 N ’20

Reviewed by H: L. West

=Bookm= 52:116 O ’20 950w

“A swiftly written and vigorously phrased volume.” D. C. Seitz

+ =Freeman= 2:452 Ja 19 ’21 600w

“It is hard to tell which impresses one most in reading this book—the
author’s sincerity or his thoroughness. The book is very valuable and
intensely interesting.” C. W. T.

+ =N Y Times= 25:6 Jl 11 ’20 3150w

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 80w

“He has done a creditable piece of work, amassed adequate material,
used it with discrimination and an excellent sense of selection, has
not forgotten that he had a ‘story’ to tell, and that one of the prime
requisites of a story is that it shall be interesting.” E. G. L.

+ =Review= 3:232 S 15 ’20 750w

“Mr Payne’s history of American newspaper publication is well written
and well proportioned. He has made the story interesting from
beginning to end.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 220w

“Mr Payne’s treatment of the press in the years before the Civil war
is much the more satisfactory because, while involving little original
research, it deals out information suggestively. The last part of the
book is intelligent in general outlines, but is a brief and inadequate
summary and seems less frank in comment. The appendices are somewhat
haphazard.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 1100w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w

=PEABODY, ROBERT SWAIN, and PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD.=[2] New England romance; the story of Ephraim and Mary Jane Peabody, 1807–1892. il *$2 Houghton

20–19929

“Aside from the interest it has of a faithful account by his sons of
one of America’s earliest and most distinguished preachers, it
possesses value as revealing the life and manner of a period. No
conscious attempt has been made to do this, however, and whatever of
history the reader may get comes to him as from between the lines and
is therefore the more subtly impressed. The early eighties, prior to
the Civil war, are revealed through the lives, ambitions, and
struggles of the minister and his wife.”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

“A quaint book for lovers of New England.”

+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20

“Because of its very evident qualities of naturalness and sincerity
this little volume should escape the limbo which awaits the major part
of commemorative literature and be preserved among those works classed
as human documents.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 N 6 ’20 160w

“Told with a simple and natural beauty of language fitting for such a
theme. Incidentally it gives a graphic picture of revolutionary and
pre-revolutionary days.”

+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 50w

+ =Survey= 45:329 N 27 ’20 180w

=PEAKE, C. M. A.= Eli of the downs. *$2 (2c) Doran

20–18768

The narrator of the story found Eli as an old man in his cottage,
Beulah, on the downs, where he spends his last days carving fiddles,
and surrounded by the few treasures he had garnered from his
wanderings over the earth. He had always been a rare character, this
shepherd, with a rich inner life. Early in life he had married a mate
worthy of him, but it was a short happiness, and then the young
widower took to wandering. For some eight years he followed the sea
and saw many lands. Then it was surveying and ranching in Canada where
an old Chinese cook instructed him in the wisdom of Confucius and Lao
Tsu, but with failing health he turned his steps once more to England.
At Beulah cottage, lonely to the last, but emanating a silent
influence for good over the neighborhood, he ended his days in peace.

* * * * *

“The author cannot leave his characters to speak their mind, he must
speak it for them, and even reinforce their statements with a kind of
running commentary and explanatory notes which are very tiring to keep
up with.” K. M.

− =Ath= p211 F 13 ’20 280w

=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 60w

“It is, on the whole, well written, and while not a particularly
engrossing volume, neither is it a dull one.”

+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 170w

“Apart from its idea, or animus, this is a narrative of sincere and
fresh quality, varied in substance and by no means artless, though it
agreeably lacks the art of the professional story-teller.” H. W.
Boynton

+ =Review= 3:349 O 20 ’20 300w

“‘Eli of the downs’ is more than a work of promise: Mr Peake tells the
life-history of one who was ‘a shepherd at heart as well as by
profession’ with a wealth of illuminating detail, with a love of his
subject and an intimate knowledge of Wessex country life that combine
to make the story memorable and delightful.”

+ =Spec= 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 430w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p301 My 13 ’20 460w

=PEARCE, FRANCIS BARROW.= Zanzibar; the island metropolis of eastern Africa. il *$12 Dutton 967

(Eng ed 20–8651)

“A very substantial work by the British resident in Zanzibar,
embracing the history, politics, anthropology, resources, and
archæology of the island.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p431 Mr 26 ’20 60w

“For a leisurely pursuit of odds and ends of knowledge, or for the
scholar, geographer, historian, or student of Arab dominion I
recommend his volume. No thrills, few laughs, but the book marches on
in a pleasant and profitable path of facts and comment.” F: O’Brien

+ =N Y Times= 25:4 Jl 18 ’20 1200w

+ =Spec= 125:311 S 4 ’20 250w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Mr 4 ’20 30w

“He has taken immense pains in the compilation of his book, he has
ransacked the chronicles, consulted the retailers of legends, referred
to modern authorities and drawn upon his own experiences to produce a
well-constructed and agreeably written compendium of all that there is
to be told of Zanzibar.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p165 Mr 11 ’20 1050w

=PEARL, BERTHA.= Sarah and her daughter. $2.25 (1½c) Seltzer

20–11892

The scene of the story opens on Henry street in the Ghetto and
portrays the American Jew in every nuance of his racial peculiarities.
The abject poverty and suffering, the breaking under suffering, the
resiliency, the ethical slips in the fierce struggle for existence,
the hysteria and nervous breakdowns, the seriousness and absence of a
sense of humor and the fundamental goodness of heart that always has
the last word to say, are all there and every type finds its place
down to the tragic figure of the orthodox survivor of a dead religion.
In Sarah and her daughter Minnie, the immigrant Jew and the first
generation, with the resulting sad conflicts between parent and child,
are represented.

* * * * *

“Not a pleasant story, but worth while as a sincere interpretation of
a type of life which the author understands intimately.”

+ =Booklist= 17:159 Ja ’21

“As a story it is very little more than a string of episodes reported
with pitiless minuteness. If ruthless and harrowing verisimilitude is
of service to you, accept it in this book. Why the publishers should
assert that it is a new thing, is not clear.” H. W. Boynton

− =Bookm= 52:69 S ’20 880w

“There is real emotional power in the author’s handling of her
calamitous theme. She seems to lose subtlety at times because of her
very sincerity; the book is in spots too wooden in its realism, and
there is some careless workmanship. But the characterization is
acute.” F. E. H.

+ − =Freeman= 1:407 Jl 7 ’20 300w

“There is no relief, even in the scenes between the young children,
and we wonder if the story is not too photographically realistic,
missing some worth or beauty under the bald surface.” L. W. M.

+ − =Grinnell R= 15:259 O ’20 420w

“A rather amorphous but by no means talentless book. Miss Pearl has a
very keen and clear eye for the physical conditions of her people’s
lives—both in the Ghetto and beyond it—and a genuine gift, despite her
blunt and sprawling style, for rendering the atmosphere of bleak and
homeless places. There is no reason why Miss Pearl should not do
admirable work as she grows in self-discipline of both style and
feeling, and acquires a cooler spirit and a more tempered surface.”

+ − =Nation= 110:730 My 29 ’20 320w

“It does more than present a partially new viewpoint of matters with
which we are familiar, it brings a new range of material within our
understanding. Here is an American book with a straightforward story,
in the main well told and without sentimentalism.” R. V. A. S.

+ =New Repub= 23:343 Ag 18 ’20 520w

“Her descriptions are so true that one can’t help but feel that the
story is equally as true.” Rose Karsner

+ =N Y Call= p10 My 30 ’20 500w

“It is a work that is noteworthy in American literature, suggesting
Dickens and De Morgan modernized and Americanized.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:253 My 16 ’20 550w

“To the American reader who has previously known little or nothing
about that life, it is like the brilliant illumination from the inside
of a dark room.”

+ =N Y Times= p10 Ja 16 ’21 80w

“Whatever criticism may be offered lies in the possibility that even
tenement existence is not always as barren of sunshine and joys of
life as the author would have us believe. But that is not sufficiently
outstanding to detract from the authentic interest of the story.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 360w

=PEARL, RAYMOND.=[2] Nation’s food. il *$3.50 Saunders 338

20–4023

“Mr Pearl was chief of the statistical division of the Food
administration, and as such presents ‘unbiased statistical data rather
than my own opinion as to their interpretation.’ The book is made up
for the greater part of clear classifications and tables.”—Survey

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:95 D ’20

“With his usual thoroughness and breadth of view he has included in
his inquiry so many ramifications that his investigation covers Europe
also. It thus possesses extraordinary interest at the present time.”
E. J. Russell

+ =Nature= 106:305 N 4 ’20 850w

“As a source book, this volume is warmly recommended.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 500w

=PEARSON, EDMUND LESTER.= Theodore Roosevelt. il *$1.75 (5c) Macmillan

20–16084

The book is one of the series of “True stories of great Americans,”
and is a brief biography intended to catch the interest of boys.
Contents: The boy who collected animals; In college; In politics;
“Ranch life and the hunting trail”; Two defeats; Fighting
office-seekers; Police commissioner; The rough rider; Governor of New
York; President of the United States; The lion hunter; Europe and
America; The bull moose; The explorer; The man; The great American;
Illustrations.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:124 D ’20

“He has been unwise in trying to explain Roosevelt’s war-policies to
the detriment of President Wilson, and to laud the efficiency of one
party over another—especially in his capacity as writer for children
who want the essential action of the man—Roosevelt—without the
political struggles in which he was involved.”

+ − =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 150w

“One of the best short summaries of Roosevelt’s career that have yet
appeared. The author’s treatment of the intimate, personal phases of
his subject is especially felicitous.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 S 25 ’20 150w

“He has made excellent use of the new material about Mr Roosevelt
which has been available since his death, and has brought out with
skill and judgment the simplicity and singleness of Mr Roosevelt’s
Americanism.”

+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 120w

“Mr Pearson has perhaps had more than ordinary success in confining
his story to the essential features, keeping a good sense of
proportion and never letting go the central thread of the narrative.
His book is workmanlike as well as entertaining.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 100w

“One cannot help feeling that the appeal would be stronger if the work
were more graphic and less controversial and the author had seen fit
to eliminate his attacks on the opponents of Roosevelt.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p800 D 2 ’20 20w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 40w

=PECK, LORA B.= Stories for good children. il *$1.50 Little

20–18926

These fairy and folk tales are collected from all countries. Some of
them are very ancient, being traced back to the home of the Aryan race
and all are so simple in their make-up and telling that they are
offered as an aid to reading. The countries represented in the choice
are: Ireland, Scotland, England, India, China, Japan, Mexico, Persia,
Russia.

=PEDLER, MARGARET.= House of dreams-come-true. *$1.75 (1½c) Doran

19–17179

Jean, though English, has never seen England until she is twenty. Then
her father, a prey to wanderlust, packs her off to some friends of
his, while he goes roaming the world. Just before she goes to England,
Jean has one magical day with an anonymous young Englishman, and to
her surprise and his apparent dismay when she arrives at Lady Anne’s
home where she is to stay she finds the elder son of the house to be
her unknown companion of Montavan. The magic still holds for both of
them, but there are many barriers between them and many bitter hours
before they finally enter their “house of dreams-come-true,” a house
“not built of stones and mortar, but just—where love is.”

* * * * *

“Not ‘deep’ but entertaining.”

+ =Booklist= 17:35 O ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 190w

“A fairly consistent and always readable book of fiction. The book, as
a whole, is one that will give excellent entertainment, although it is
impossible to assign it any important place in the contemporary output
of fiction.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 1 ’20 430w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 130w

“A thoroughly readable story, though inclining somewhat to the
sentimental.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p717 D 4 ’19 140w

=PEEL, GEORGIANA ADELAIDE (RUSSELL), lady.= Recollections; comp. by Ethel Peel. il *$5 Lane

20–12214

Lady Georgiana Peel, whose recollections are compiled in the present
volume by her daughter, is the daughter of Sir John Russell and her
recollections cover the period from the early forties to the present
time. She was intimately acquainted with all the eminent people in
Queen Victoria’s reign of whom she has recorded pleasant memories with
many historical events of importance. The book is illustrated and has
an index.

* * * * *

Reviewed by B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p4 S 5 ’20 2800w

“It is mainly a picture of the most attractive side of English social
life. It gives to the American reader a much more intimate
acquaintance with that life than he could possibly attain by any
introductions.”

+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 180w

“It is a kindly book, written by a gracious lady, giving a picture of
an age that has passed away.”

+ =Sat R= 129:333 Ap 3 ’20 1050w

“Lady Georgiana Peel’s engaging book of recollections ought to attract
readers of many and varied tastes. The book is attractive in its frank
simplicity.”

+ =Spec= 124:389 Mr 20 ’20 1200w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p102 F 12 ’20 1350w

=PENDEXTER, HUGH.= Red belts. il *$1.50 (1½c) Doubleday

20–2261

The time in which the story is placed is 1784, when the quondam
colonies had not yet acquired the consciousness of a consolidated
group of states. The scene is west of the Alleghanies in what was to
be the state of Tennessee but where, at the time of the story, the
white settlers were still fighting for their existence against the
surrounding Indians aided by renegade white plotters in the interests
of Spain. It is a tale of love and adventure in which the hero John
Sevier, “Chucky Jack,” a pioneer of Americanism performs gallant deeds
of heroism and daring and not only saves his state for the Union but
lovely Elsie Tonpit from brutal outlaws and for her lover Kirk
Jackson, another true American.

* * * * *

“A stirring pioneer tale.”

+ =Booklist= 16:283 My ’20

“Taken on the whole, ‘Red belts’ is a good example of the real
adventure story, with enough patriotic suggestion to render it of
wholesome appeal.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:4 Mr 7 ’20 600w

=PENNELL, ELIZABETH (ROBINS) (MRS JOSEPH PENNELL) (N. N., pseud.), and PENNELL, JOSEPH.= Life of James McNeill Whistler. new and rev ed il *$6.50 Lippincott

“This is the revised sixth edition of the authorized biography of
Whistler. Since the original publication in two volumes in 1908 the
authors have been collecting and verifying documents, and have
received numerous suggestions and statements of facts. The new
edition, therefore, contains new materials in the text as well as new
illustrations, which include more than one hundred reproductions of
the artist’s works.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 21 ’20 640w

“The book, because of the treatment no less than because of the
subject, is vastly entertaining.”

+ =Dial= 69:322 S ’20 60w

=Outlook= 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 50w

=R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 100w

=PEPPER, CHARLES MELVILLE.= Life and times of Henry Gassaway Davis, 1823–1916. il *$4 (4½c) Century

20–4454