Chapter LXI: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (17)

The life of “the grand old man” of West Virginia is marked by two
phases, says the biographer: “the romance of railway building, the
development of natural resources, the creation of industrial
communities” is the one, “public service, political leadership,
citizenship in its highest sense,” the other. His many-sided character
and activities were unusual. He was intensely practical and was also a
man of vision. A partial list of the contents follows: Ancestry and
youth; Pioneer railway days; International American conferences; The
Pan-American railway; Vice-presidential nomination and after;
Benefactions and philanthropies; Famous contemporaries; Personal
characteristics. There is an index and illustrations.

=PERCIVAL, MACIVER.= Glass collector; a guide to old English glass. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (4c) Dodd 738.2

A20–905

“The collector who has been in my mind when writing this book has not
very much money to spare, and none to waste. He wants to get full
value when he makes a purchase, and if a bargain comes his way so much
the better.” (Preface) To guide such a collector to know which to
choose and how to distinguish the old from the new, the real from the
sham is the object of the book. After an introductory chapter on
drinking glasses in England to the end of the seventeenth century and
seven chapters on the various kinds of wine glasses the contents are:
Cut glass; Engraved glasses; Curios; Bottles, decanters, flasks and
jugs; Opaque and coloured glass; Frauds, fakes and foreigners; Foreign
glass; Manufacturing and decorative processes; Prices; Bibliography;
Glossary; Index.

* * * * *

“Will be helpful to the amateur since it is very well illustrated and
contains hints on the detection of imitations.”

+ =Booklist= 16:335 Jl ’20

+ =Spec= 122:17 Ja 4 ’19 60w

=PERCIVAL, MACIVER.= Old English furniture and its surroundings. il *$7.50 Scribner 749

“The period Mr Percival covers in this work is from the restoration of
the monarchy to the regency. This period he has divided into four
sections: The restoration; The end of the 17th century and the early
18th; Early Georgian; Late Georgian. To each section he has given five
chapters: Fittings and ornament decorations; Furniture; Upholstery,
wall and floor coverings; Table appointments; Decorative
adjuncts.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Int Studio= 72:164 D ’20 100w

“Mr Percival writes with unusual good sense. Moreover, he is firmly
though not pedantically for unmixed style and speaks with authority.
For the trained decorator, however, the book contains little that is
actually new or in any way suggestive.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 150w

“If one can judge at all from some of the imposing Fifth avenue shops,
people do enjoy living in period-houses, fitting up rooms in
period-furniture, buying all manner of things antique. For these
impassioned collectors, at least, Mr Percival’s book is unequivocally
useful, being clearly written and having much practical information.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 9 ’20 330w

=PERCY, EUSTACE SUTHERLAND CAMPBELL, lord.= Responsibilities of the league. *$2 Doran 341.1

(Eng ed 20–5415)

“This is a book written in the interest of civilization. It is true
that there have been civilizations, not altogether contemptible,
without Christianity; and it is arguable that there may be
civilizations hereafter not based on state sovereignty. But the
author’s point is both true and indisputable that the revolution which
threatens both of these institutions may drag all civilization with it
unless a high intelligence commands and canalizes its forces. Lord
Eustace considers the league of nations as the potential champion of
the idea of the state and commonwealth, the possible medium by which
we may come to the spirit of a united Christendom. That, no doubt, is
his ideal: to set it off he offers a penetrating analysis of the past
and makes the profound observation that the treaty of Versailles,
which he does not defend, is the almost complete result of the two
forces of nationalism and democracy.”—Dial

* * * * *

“I do not understand all of it nor agree with all I understand, but I
am fain to mark its superior importance.” Sganarelle

+ =Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 1150w

“His book will provoke much dissent, but it has the supreme merit of
making its readers think on the great problems that face the world.”

+ − =Spec= 124:16 Ja 3 ’20 1400w

“The book fairly bristles with provocative suggestions. The treatment
of the basis and mainsprings of American foreign policy makes an
American gasp with envy at their insight and sympathy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5 Mr 29 ’20 800w

“A solution must answer the conditions of the problem proposed, and
one has the feeling that Lord Eustace’s criticisms of recent policy do
not always take account of that fact. But that is a matter of
controversy. What is not a matter of controversy is the quality of
Lord Eustace Percy’s book—its breadth of outlook, its richness of
information, its penetrating candour, its analytic power, and, above
all, its depth of conviction.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p780 D 25 ’19 650w

=PERCY, WILLIAM ALEXANDER.= In April once. *$1.50 Yale univ. press 811

20–15483

“Mr Percy’s book consists of a poetic drama in one act, about half a
hundred lyrics, and a longish philosophical monologue entitled ‘An
epistle from Corinth.’ The drama—‘In April once’—is a study of a
renaissance youth, Guido, who sacrifices his life out of impetuous
generosity that a leper and a jailer (though a very knightly jailer)
might tempt death.”—Bookm

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20

“In his lyrics, Mr Percy tastes in some degree of the divine madness
of Keats. Rare indeed is Mr Percy’s pure lyric gift: limpidity and
strength of emotion and adequacy of art.” R. M. Weaver

+ =Bookm= 52:65 S ’20 400w

“He is by no means distinguished, and he is somewhat too fond of his
literary good manners, but he has done some shapely, thoroughbred
exercises in elegy and exultation.”

+ − =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 80w

“His work proves imitative in many ways.”

+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 50w

“Finer than his ‘Sappho in Levkas,’ with all its promise, is ‘In April
once.’ This volume has all the charm and freshness of the earlier
book, with a deeper and more appealing view of the world.” E: B. Reed

+ =Yale R= n s 10:204 O ’20 150w

=PÉREZ DE AYALA, RAMÓN.= Prometheus: The fall of the house of Limón; Sunday sunlight. *$3 Dutton

20–12561

“Under the threefold title, ‘Prometheus: The fall of the house of
Limón; Sunday sunlight,’ the E. P. Dutton company publishes three
novelettes of Spanish life by Ramón Pérez de Ayala, which Alice P.
Hubbard has turned into English. ‘Prometheus,’ a modern tale which
parallels or parodies a Greek legend, deals sunnily with a man who,
seeking for perfect offspring, becomes the father of an oaf and
hunchback. ‘Limón’ is a murder tale. ‘Sunday sunlight’ is a tale of
ravishers which recites horrors which recall and surpass ‘Titus
Andronicus.’”—Review

* * * * *

“Those who enjoy artistry, intelligence and pages overflowing with the
evidence of original and unique talent will welcome the book and will
read it more than once.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:15 Jl 18 ’20 830w

“Señor de Ayala is all sprightliness and glow. He has a draughtsman
eye, a colorist eye, an eye reminiscent of Gautier, and he scatters
brilliancies with the prodigality of a man for whom splendor is the
only warmth.”

+ =Review= 3:351 O 20 ’20 220w

=PERKINS, LUCY (FITCH) (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS).= Italian twins. il *$1.75 Houghton

20–15958

The Italian twins are Beppo and Beppina, who live in an old palace on
the banks of the Arno. They are kidnapped by two vagabonds with a
monkey and a performing bear and are made to sing and dance and
entertain the country people and villagers. They are taken to Venice
but finally make their escape and after more wandering adventures
reach their home safely.

* * * * *

“Beautiful makeup and sketches.”

+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20

+ =Lit D= p94 D 4 ’20 160w

“One is always sorry when Mrs Perkins fails to reach her own high
mark. But this incredible tale of the kidnapping of two little
aristocrats shows no side of real Italian life.” M. H. B. Mussey

− + =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 110w

“‘The Italian twins’ is a wholesome stimulating book for children
between eight and thirteen to read and own.” E. R. Burt

+ =Pub W= 98:1201 O 16 ’20 300w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 200w

=PERKINS, LUCY (FITCH) (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS).= Scotch twins. il *$1.50 Houghton

19–18221

Jock and Jean are the hero and heroine of this story, with its scenes
laid in Scotland. The pictures as in other books of the series are
from drawings by the author.

* * * * *

“A good picture of national life and customs with a rather more
dramatic plot than that of former volumes of the series.”

+ =Booklist= 16:176 F ’20

=Boston Transcript= p9 D 20 ’19 300w

“Jock and Jean have, perhaps, the most exciting and amusing adventures
of any of the twins, but, as a small boy critic said, ‘They have an
absent-minded way of using occasional Scottish words and then
relapsing into plain American talk.’”

+ − =Nation= 109:780 D 13 ’19 140w

+ =Outlook= 124:29 Ja 7 ’20 40w

“‘The Scotch twins,’ Jock, the sleepy-head, and Jean, the canny little
polisher and scrubber, are just as lovable as any of their
predecessors. There is a nice little surprise, too, in the last
chapter.”

+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 120w

“Anyone who has never before understood the claims of a clan will find
this and other peculiarities of Scotch life thoroughly explained.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 D 19 ’19 100w

=PERRY, ALLEN MASON=, comp. Electrical aids to greater production. il *$2 McGraw 621.3

19–10529

“Based upon a series of articles in the Electrical World, of which the
author is engineering editor. The best of practice, as developed by
the war, is presented as a practical handbook, rather than as a
text-book, full of suggestions for the installation, operation, and
maintenance, as well as the problems of layout and control. The eight
chapters cover: General power problems of industrial plants;
Distribution, transformation, switching and protection; Motors,
control, specific applications, troubles and remedies; Illumination,
selection of equipment, economies, and specific applications; Electric
furnaces, welding, etc.; Meters and measurements as applied to
industries; Handling material in industrial plants with electric
tractors; Outdoor substations.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:159 F ’20

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p47 Jl ’19 120w

=Pratt= p20 Ja ’20 30w

=PERRY, BLISS.= Study of poetry. *$3.25 Houghton 808.1

20–9853

In attempting “to set forth in decent prose some of the strange
potencies of verse” the author has given but little space to the epic
and drama and has devoted himself more especially to the various forms
of the lyric, which to him seems to hold the future of poetry. “The
folk-epic is gone, the art-epic has been outstripped by prose fiction,
and the drama needs a theatre. But the lyric needs only a poet, who
can compose in any of its myriad forms.... Through it today, as never
before in the history of civilization, the heart of a man can reach
the heart of mankind.” Accordingly the book falls into two parts. Part
I, Poetry in general, treats of poetry in retrospect, of the province
of poetry and the poet, of rhythm and metre, rhyme, stanza and free
verse. Part II, The lyric in particular, contains: The field of lyric
poetry; Relationships and types of the lyric; Race, epoch and
individual; The present status of the lyric. There are also Notes and
illustrations, an appendix, a bibliography and an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:106 D ’20

“While it has a genuine interest for the creator and critical
interpreter of poetry, its specific value is for that very large body
of readers who are between these two groups.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 30 ’20 2100w

“The book is avowedly written with the classroom’s needs in view, as
well as those of the inquiring general reader, and the former aim to
some extent vitiates the author’s treatment by imposing too eclectic
an ideal upon him. The book is a résumé of poetics rather than a
personal confession.” Llewellyn Jones

+ − =Freeman= 2:235 N 17 ’20 1500w

“No critic since Matthew Arnold seems to us to have so positively as
Mr Perry the capacity to make us see more clearly and think more
accurately and sensibly about poetry and at the same time make the
seeing and the thinking increase our enthusiasm for the vital things.”
C. F. L.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:308 D ’20 640w

“In the long run his book is not simple enough. He will be useful to a
certain kind of teacher; but he will move few students and he will
enkindle no poets.” Mark Van Doren

− + =Nation= 112:sup241 F 9 ’21 120w

“The fault of the book is that it contains too many long quotations
from other critics. But this very fault, in the present instance,
makes the book a presentation of the best modern critical thought on
the lyric. He will be a bold man who attempts to cover Professor
Perry’s field for many years to come.” C. E. Andrews

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 O 23 ’20 1100w

“Professor Perry’s volume is suggestive and stimulating. It will be
useful to the classroom teacher, to the solitary student and to the
average reader, who will gain from it knowledge certain to increase
his enjoyment of verse.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p6 S 12 ’20 2000w

“He gives an unusually clear analysis, supported by rich and apt
quotation, of the effects of poetry upon the reader. The value of his
essay lies in its vivid ability to provide us with those moments of
lucid understanding in which poetic experience is restored to us.” L.
R. Morris

+ =Outlook= 126:377 O 27 ’20 400w

“He is first of all a collector, secondly, an assayer, thirdly, and a
little less willingly, an arbiter, and, only incidentally and
reluctantly, a reasoner or controversialist.” O. W. Firkins

+ − =Review= 3:501 N 24 ’20 2000w

=PERRY, LAWRENCE.= For the game’s sake. (Fair play ser.) il *$1.65 Scribner

20–15706

“Half a dozen tales, each having to do with some special form of
athletics, make up Mr Lawrence Perry’s little volume entitled ‘For the
game’s sake.’ The first tells of a football ‘star’ who, being also
‘The spoiled boy,’ broke training and misbehaved himself until the
coach found it necessary to put him off the team. But there was a
sensible and eloquent girl in the case, who brought the culprit to
book in a manner which convinced him of the error of his ways. Another
tale has to do with an international tennis tournament. Baseball of
course is not neglected. Each of the tales presupposes a fairly close
acquaintance on the reader’s part with that particular game with which
it has to do.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

+ =N Y Times= p27 S 26 ’20 230w

“The book stands for clean playing in every sport. Each story works up
thrillingly to a dramatic climax where victory comes by the narrowest
of margins.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 200w

=PERRY, STELLA GEORGE (STERN) (MRS GEORGE HOUGH PERRY).= Palmetto. *$1.90 (1c) Stokes

20–15507

Palmetto, as a child of thirteen, runs away from the only parents she
has ever known, but whom she instinctively feels are only foster
parents. She finds a refuge in New Orleans with a kindly fisherman who
adopts her and brings her up as his own daughter. Associated with him
is David Cantrelle, a lad of good birth whose family is genuinely
shocked at his choice of occupation. He loves Palmetto from the first,
and when her heart awakens and responds to his, they become engaged.
But his family objects to the match, on account of the mystery of her
birth and she determines to show them she is worth while. So she goes
to New York where she makes a conspicuous success as an actress. One
of her southern admirers follows her there, makes ardent love to her
and almost succeeds in replacing David in her heart. But she learns in
time that her love for David is deeper than any Hartley can command.
The mystery of her birth is eventually cleared up and she finds she
has as good blood in her veins as either David or Hartley.

* * * * *

“The greatest defect in this romance of the bayou region of Louisiana
is that it is somewhat overlong. Individual sentences and paragraphs
are frequently overgrown with too rank a growth of adjectives.”

+ − =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 500w

=PETERSON, SAMUEL.= Democracy and government. *$2 Knopf 321.8

20–104

According to the author’s initial assumption that “a government
carries into effect ideas,” the book naturally falls into two parts:
What persons should have the legal right to determine finally the
ideas to be carried into effect; and in what manner the ideas to be
carried into effect should be selected, and how they should be carried
into effect. Accordingly part 1, The ruling power of the state,
discusses the difference between autocracy, oligarchy and democracy as
one of conditions rather than of law, and defines a democratic
government as a government of the intelligent members of the ruling
race. Part 2, The organization of the government, is an inquiry into
how the ideas to be carried into effect may be selected as reliably
and carried into effect as certainly and efficiently as possible. The
contents under part 2 are: Governmental functions; Legislative
organization; Administrative organization; Judicial organization;
Direct legislation. There is an index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:331 Jl ’20

+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:39 O 20 ’20 60w

=Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 180w

=R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 50w

=R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 30w

“A book which, while blazing no new paths, is well designed to assist
the reader in forming a reasonably critical view of the state is
Samuel Peterson’s ‘Democracy and government’ which treats fundamental
political theories with knowledge of their historical importance, yet
with hard-headed sociological insight. The author is always frank,
and, while he has pronounced views of his own, he cannot be called a
doctrinaire.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 13 ’20 400w

“His criticisms of the present governmental machinery are generally
just, but the remedies suggested might prove to be worse than the
disease. The book shows hard work and earnestness throughout, however,
and should prove a valuable contribution to the literature on the
subject.” A. G. Dehly

+ − =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 200w

=PETRUCCI, RAPHAËL.= Chinese painters; a critical study; tr. by Frances Seaver; with a biographical note by Lawrence Binyon. il *$2 Brentano’s 759.9

20–7443

“The book comprises a comprehensive and yet compact study of painting
in China. His survey takes us back to the dim ages long before the
appearance of Buddhism in China, and then brings the reader to the
present time.” (Outlook) “It explains briefly the principles of
technique and then, as it sketches the historical evolution of
painting, reveals its dominating philosophical idea, the search for
abstract form. The author was an authority on oriental art. There are
numerous pleasing reproductions, bibliography, index of painters and
periods.” (Booklist)

* * * * *

“Concise and illuminating volume.”

+ =Booklist= 16:336 Jl ’20

“Happily the author writes for the general reader and the lover of art
rather than for the elect; his treatment of a large theme shows the
advantage of one who has a gift for luminous condensation.”

+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 170w

“For the uninitiated in these matters, ‘Chinese painters’ is a
necessary education. For him who understands already the beauty of the
masters of China, the book is valuable.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 26 ’20 280w

=PETTIGREW, RICHARD FRANKLIN.= Course of empire; introd. by Scott Nearing. il *$4.50 Boni & Liveright 815

20–12790

“The author of this volume held a seat in the United States senate
during the ’90s of the last century. He was active in the senate at a
turning point in the career of the nation, a period when the frontier
was disappearing, when the great oligarchies of capital were
organizing, and when the United States became a colonial power. In
short, his public career is identical with the origin of imperialism
in the United States. The book consists of a compilation of the
speeches of ex-Senator Pettigrew in the senate on these imperialist
policies as they were forming. They fall into three groups—those
dealing with the annexation of the Hawaiian islands; those dealing
with the conquest of the Philippines; and those dealing with the
antagonism of the West to the banking and trust groups of the East.
Accompanying the addresses which reveal a wide variety of information
on the part of the author, are many documents of much historical value
to the reader.”—N Y Call

* * * * *

“These speeches, both concerning Hawaiian affairs and those in the
Philippines, are useful as a matter of record; they will be very
valuable to the future historian, who desires to understand the
obstacles encountered by the nation in its movement toward an expanded
civilization and world power.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 660w

“The addresses show that the author during his public career had that
capacity which is so rare in the men of a later generation who have
served in Congress. His mind was always open, and he advanced with the
progress of his time.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p10 N 21 ’20 940w

“Although the book comprises a vivid study of the development of
imperial policy in the United States it might better have been
compressed into half the size for the benefit of the general reader.
There are too many and too liberal quotations from Mr Pettigrew’s own
speeches.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 27 ’20 570w

=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, comp. Selected articles on the American merchant marine. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.50 Wilson, H. W. 387

20–4721

To this second edition of a handbook published in 1916 nearly one
hundred pages of reprinted matter have been added. This matter is
designed to cover events since the publication of the first edition,
including the assembling of a large merchant fleet and the question of
its disposal, together with arguments for and against government
ownership and operation. The bibliography has been enlarged and
brought down to date, and the introduction and briefs have been
rewritten.

* * * * *

=Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 40w

=Booklist= 16:291 My ’20

“A volume covering intelligently and with reasonable fulness the
history and present status of the commercial fleet of the United
States.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 30 ’20 280w

=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, ed. University debaters’ annual; constructive and rebuttal speeches delivered in debates of American colleges and universities during the college year, 1919–1920. v 6 *$2.25 Wilson, H. W.

808.5

Seven subjects of timely importance are included in this volume of the
debaters’ annual: Government ownership and operation of coal mines;
The Cummins plan for the control of railroads; Affiliation of teachers
with the American federation of labor; Compulsory arbitration of
railway labor disputes; Compulsory arbitration of labor disputes; The
closed shop; Suppression of propaganda for the overthrow of the United
States government (two debates). Each debate is accompanied by briefs
and a selected bibliography. “The bibliographies have been compiled
mostly by the editor, and are not limited to the material actually
used in the debate, as their main purpose is helpfulness to the
prospective debater.” (Preface) The volume is indexed.

=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= As the wind blows. *$1.50 Macmillan 821

20–18071

“Mr Phillpotts sings a good deal about his beloved Dartmoor, but he
tells of other subjects, too—Gallipoli, the grave of Keats, etc.—and
he has one descriptive piece from the jungle called ‘Tiger,’ and a
longish blank verse poem staging Adam and Eve in Paradise.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“Of some of his pieces one has the impression that they were written
as an exercise in verse. But in others a genuine inspiration is
apparent. ‘The neolith’ and ‘Tiger’ contain fine things.”

+ − =Ath= p718 My 28 ’20 70w

“It is the reality of the atmosphere rather than the circumstance that
gives Mr Phillpotts’s verse its individuality; the taste, smell,
contour of locality, rather than the sharp and sudden force of either
crisis or event in human action that gives the unique character to his
rhythmic expression.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 1750w

“He writes in the great English tradition, but brings a note that is
essentially his own at the same time.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 290w

“It is always difficult to analyse charm, but in this instance the
effect of the attraction is that we are apt to like poems that have
very palpable faults.”

+ − =Spec= 124:86 Jl 17 ’20 430w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p443 Jl 8 ’20 60w

=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Evander. *$2 Macmillan

20–4895

“Evander is an apostle of plain living and high thinking in the early
days when the gods of Olympus had not settled their respective rights
in the hierarchy of worship and when marriage was still a rare thing
among humble folk. Festus and Livia were perhaps the first among their
neighbours to wed, under the auspices of Bacchus, while Evander, as
the votary of Apollo, endeavours to convert her to the higher worship
of his god. He succeeds for a time in gaining her allegiance, and she
leaves her husband to follow him, but finds the mental atmosphere too
rarefied for her, and finally returns to her home and husband, Bacchus
being able to show his half-brother the unwisdom of vengeance on
Festus.”—Sat R

* * * * *

“The delicate, bright atmosphere in which this enchanting book is
bathed must be left for the reader to enjoy.” K. M.

+ =Ath= p15 Ja 2 ’20 650w

“The dialogue is full of witty and amiable satire of our own times,
the barb being especially sharp for the ‘intelligentzia’ of all
times.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:340 My ’20 460w

“It is impossible to overlook the roguish satire upon social affairs
of the present day that Mr Phillpotts has woven into his story. The
very presence and name of Bacchus proves that he has reference to the
immediate present in writing of the far-away past.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 18 ’20 1600w

+ =Dial= 68:664 My ’20 80w

“The trouble with the book is the same as with all of Mr Phillpotts’s
books—a lack of felicity which is not compensated for, as it is in the
case of his master, Hardy, by a dour grandeur. ‘Evander’ particularly
needed grace and there is none.”

− + =Nation= 110:304 Mr 6 ’20 400w

“The tale would, indeed, be worth reading merely for the grace and
charm of its style, and its flexible, deft, and effective phrasing.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:89 F 15 ’20 900w

“A bit of irony impishly humorous, entirely delightful.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 20w

“The vein is one of mild social satire; the touch is light and easy;
and here also is the charm of imagination and fancy.”

+ =Outlook= 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 80w

“We should like to congratulate the author on his success in a rather
limited style of fiction. We can remember nothing in English at all
equal to it since Dr Garnett’s ‘Twilight of the gods,’ while it has
much in common with Anatole France in the satire of the foibles of the
philosopher which lies at its root. It may be perceived we are giving
Mr Phillpotts high praise.”

+ =Sat R= 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 150w

“A pretty, though often rather cheap, little story.”

+ − |=Spec= 123:822 D 13 ’19 100w

“Mr Phillpotts’s literary cunning makes an agreeable tale out of all
this—picturesque and quietly humorous.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p697 N 27 ’19 100w

=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Miser’s money. *$2 Macmillan

20–3882

“The characters [of this novel] are drawn with realism and subtlety.
More especially that of David Mortimer, the hard-bitten old miser,
whose cheese-paring, hatred of women, and cynical disbelief in
everybody and everything are so cleverly defended that they almost
capture the young soul of his nephew Barry Worth, who lives with him
and works his farm. David leaves his money to Barry on condition that
he doesn’t marry, the fact that Barry was ‘tokened’ to a buxom barmaid
having been concealed from him. Barry is true to Marian; the will is
void; and the money divided between the miser’s brother and two
sisters. But the lawyer who handed the will to Barry delivered at the
same time a bulky letter from David to be read in solitude. In that
letter is contained the mystery, the heart of the matter which makes
the novel.”—Sat R

* * * * *

“The characters are interesting and the story moves along pleasantly
and very calmly. There is less humor than in some of the earlier
work.”

+ =Booklist= 16:283 My ’20

“After all, Mr Phillpotts has said his say about human nature on
Dartmoor, and he has little new to offer in type or situation. It is
pleasant and comfortable to meet some more of his people now and
then—and that is all.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Bookm= 51:339 My ’20 520w

“The story as a whole is an excellent example of Mr Phillpotts’s style
at its best.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Mr 17 ’20 1200w

“The novel is beautifully written. All Mr Phillpotts’s readers know
how fine are his descriptions of his dearly loved Dartmoor, though
there are fewer of them in this his latest novel than in the majority
of his Dartmoor books.”

+ =N Y Times= p116 Mr 14 ’20 1150w

“An excellent example of the author’s quiet, subtle, and humorous
exposition of contrasted character.”

+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 100w

“It is as charming a novel, and as telling a picture of family life on
‘Dartymoor’ as we ever read, or as Mr Phillpotts has ever written.
Worthy to rank with the best of his many delightful novels.”

+ =Sat R= 129:333 Ap 3 ’20 440w

“The different veins of his talent, tragic and humorous, are here
fused with happy results. ‘Miser’s money’ shows him at his mellowest
and best as artist and observer.”

+ =Spec= 125:215 Ag 14 ’20 530w

“The plot is simple and rather erratic, but taken as a whole the story
displays that excellence of craftsmanship which long since placed the
author in the forefront of his peculiar field.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 750w

“Mr Phillpotts keeps us almost too near to life. He presents us with
one more faithful and consistent study of Dartmoor people, but of
Dartmoor people principally in their heavier and less significant
moments. The plot, though simple and pastoral, is a very good plot;
but no plot could survive this flood of conversation.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p186 Mr 18 ’30 400w

=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.=[2] West country pilgrimage. il *$9 Macmillan 914.2

“A by-product of Mr Phillpotts’s researches into the lore of
Devonshire has been put together in a volume entitled ‘A west country
pilgrimage,’ with sixteen illustrations in color by A. T. Benthall.
Here he sketches in a series of sixteen essays the scenes of heath and
river, of village and shore as they meet the eye of the traveller
through or the sojourner in that corner of England.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“The book represents the happiest combining of language, printing, and
art.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 130w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 260w

“Some of the water colors by A. T. Benthall are unusually fine, and
they all display a decided originality of talent. To many, perhaps,
the illustrations will seem preferable to the text, for they achieve
their intended result with less effort.” B. R. Redman

+ − =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 140w

“An attractive book for lovers of Devon and Cornwall.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 90w

=PICKARD, BERTRAM.= Reasonable revolution. *$1.25 Macmillan 336.2

(Eng ed 19–12869)

“A thin blue volume entitled ‘A reasonable revolution,’ filled with
economic principles and suggestions, has just been brought out by
Macmillan company. It is an ardent and eager defense of the state
bonus for motherhood and national minimum income scheme as evolved by
Dennis Milner, the head of the state bonus league of England. This
book is written by Bertram Pickard, who has been a co-worker with
Milner for some time.” (Springf’d Republican) “Briefly, the scheme is
for a national appropriation of 20 per cent of all incomes, without
consideration of other taxes or burdens on them; the resulting fund to
be pooled and redistributed in such a way as to provide every
individual and family with a national minimum sufficient to sustain
national standards of comfort, health, education and other essentials
of a full and efficient life.” (Survey)

* * * * *

=Ath= p570 Jl 4 ’19 50w

“Mr Pickard is thoroughly conversant with his subject, looks at it
tirelessly from every point of view and appears to answer every
possible question with which a careful student of economics might
attack the scheme.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 12 ’20 220w

=Survey= 43:194 N 29 ’19 440w

=PILLSBURY, WALTER BOWERS.= Psychology of nationality and internationalism. *$2.50 (3½c) Appleton 321

20–458

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

* * * * *

“The argument is well-reasoned throughout.” C. G. Fenwick

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:340 My ’20 90w

“Following upon much political disputation on nationality and
internationality, it is very clarifying to follow this psychologist
through his discussion of the mentality of nations.”

+ =Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20

“His belief in the integrity of the national state does not take into
account that growing regionalism which challenges the authority of the
state at the same time that it denies the false unity of belligerent
nationalism. And the temperate lucidity of the author’s psychological
exposition does not equate his superficial examination of the
historical groundwork of nationality and internationalism.”

− + =Dial= 68:404 Mr ’20 150w

“The reviewer found the most interesting chapter the one on Hate as a
social force.” Ellsworth Faris

+ =Int J Ethics= 30:339 Ap ’20 330w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

+ =Nation= 112:185 F 2 ’21 450w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 300w

“Dr Pillsbury’s chapter on Hate as a social force is very apposite and
suggestive. The chapter on The nation and mob consciousness is an
excellent criticism of LeBon’s group psychology. The chapter on
Nationality and the League of nations is the least satisfactory.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 500w

=PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY), and PINKERTON, ROBERT EUGENE.= Long traverse. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday

20–12811

When Bruce Rochette comes into the northland he comes with a deadly
hatred of the Hudson’s Bay Company and a determination to avenge his
mother’s death which he holds the fur trading company responsible for.
He wins the confidence of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s manager, Herbert
Morley, and then uses every trick and stratagem at his command to
establish a rival post at Fort Mystery. Everything is going well,
until he meets Evelyn Morley, and falls in love with her. Judged by
her absolute standards of right and wrong, his policy of all’s fair in
war condemns him in his own eyes as well as hers. In an endeavor to
straighten matters out, he very nearly loses his self respect, his
girl, his job, and even his life. But finally everything is restored
to him that is necessary for his happiness and Evelyn’s.

* * * * *

“A pleasantly written tale.”

+ =Booklist= 17:35 O ’20

=PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY), and PINKERTON, ROBERT EUGENE.= Penitentiary Post. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday

20–10313

A story of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Phil Boynton is sent to take
charge of the fort known as Penitentiary Post, a place with an evil
reputation. Behind him at Savant House, he leaves the girl he loves,
knowing that John Wickson, the man who is sending him north, also
loves her and is determined to win her, and half suspecting that
personal motives were back of the appointment. At Penitentiary Post he
finds himself fully occupied with the mystery of the “weeteego,” or
evil spirit, that haunts it. His Indians desert the place in fear and
the fur hunters refuse to come near it. Joyce Plummer, hearing tales
of what he is undergoing, comes alone through the storm to find him,
and Wickson follows. The three, who are forced to make common cause
against hunger, come to an understanding, and the poor, crazed Indian
who had watched his family die of starvation and is taking a weird
revenge on the white man, meets his own fate.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:35 O ’20

=PINOCHET, TANCREDO.= Gulf of misunderstanding; or, North and South America as seen by each other. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 917.3

20–17985

“This book first appeared serially in El Norte Americano. Mr Pinochet
is a Chilean and the author of seven books on government and kindred
subjects. He came to this country some years ago for the expressed
object of learning to understand the United States that he might tell
his countrymen about us. He has selected an entertaining manner of
setting forth the views of the two Americas. He has made no attempt to
make a story of his book, yet he has introduced two distinct
characters. The first is a Latin-American man, who, being in the
United States, writes letters to his wife at home about whatever
interests him in this country. The woman is an American, a member of
the censor’s department during the war. She reads the letters of the
husband and in her turn writes an accompanying letter, discussing the
same subject.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“The surprising thing about the book is that Mr Pinochet should so
have entered into the United States point of view as to make one
believe, while reading his instructive volume, that a native of this
country had risen in its defense.”

+ =Bookm= 52:368 D ’20 300w

“The book should prove a link in the chain which should finally bind
closer the two continents, so many of whose interests are the same.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 390w

“Both the imaginary writers are interesting and neither writes a page
that one can go to sleep over.”

+ − =N Y Times= p7 Ja 9 ’21 1750w

“The book has a temporary flavor, being written before the adoption of
the suffrage amendment and more recent events. But it will prove
interesting to anyone who wishes to know how a highly intelligent
‘foreigner’ judges our country from the front it presents to him.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 290w

=PINSKI, DAVID.= Ten plays. *$2 Huebsch 892.4

20–9850

These ten one-act plays have been translated from the Yiddish by Isaac
Goldberg. They depict the various weaknesses and passions of men:
greed, selfishness, war hysteria, lust, war’s devastation, with at the
end a dramatization of the Midrash legend. The titles are: The
phonograph; The god of the newly rich wool merchant; A dollar; The
cripples; The Inventor and the king’s daughter; Diplomacy; Little
heroes; The beautiful nun; Poland—1919; The stranger.

* * * * *

“Plays which are often unpleasantly grim though not sordid. There is
the same keen analysis of human nature as in earlier plays. The method
is symbolic rather than literal, and sometimes the meaning is
blurred.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20

“Brilliant but not always clear.”

+ − =Cleveland= p87 S ’20 20w

“There are few of his ‘Ten plays’ which can wholly escape the
murkiness of inferior translation.” K. M.

+ − =Freeman= 1:548 Ag 18 ’20 450w

“Mr Pinski has become an unswerving symbolist. He has deliberately
silenced the voice of nature that sounded so clearly in his earlier
plays. He still cultivates the ironic anecdote in dramatic form but
his mind is more fixed on the bare intention than on the stuff of
life. His peculiar dangers are the fantastic and the obscure, and
these make several of his plays ineffectual.”

+ − =Nation= 110:693 My 22 ’20 250w

“Pinski may lack certain graces, especially graces of lightness and
saving humor. But passion and power he does not lack, whether he
writes in one-act or three. No American dramatist today gives such an
effect of surging vitality. It will be a great pity if he does not
identify himself more closely with American life and write ultimately
for English-speaking audiences direct.” W. P. Eaton

+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 350w

“The shortest of the ten plays, ‘Cripples,’ is the strongest. Force,
indeed, gnarled and ungainly, is characteristic of Mr Pinski’s drama
at its best. This force, however, is accompanied by a heaviness of
tread and a density of fibre which are prolific of trials for the
sensitive reader.”

− + =Review= 3:133 Ag 11 ’20 320w

“Every play in the volume is readable, most of them are actable. It
would, in fact, be safe to say that they would all be actable if they
were in the hand of the players of the Jewish art theatre, who know as
well as Pinski does how to make the quick transitions—native to the
Jewish mind and heart—from tragedy to comedy, from irony to philippic,
from joy to the depths of sorrow.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:225 Jl ’20 310w

=PITT, FRANCES.= Wild creatures of garden and hedgerow. il *$4 (7c) Dodd 590.4

20–27527

A collection of papers by an English naturalist, who says, “The
following account of some of the commoner birds and beasts around us
is written in the hope of interesting boys and girls, and some of the
older people too if possible, in the wild life of garden, hedgerow,
and field.” (Preface) Contents: Bats; The bank vole; Two common birds
(blackbird and thrush); Shrews; Toads and frogs; The longtailed field
mouse; ‘The little gentleman in the black velvet coat’; Thieves of the
night; Some garden birds; The hedgehog; Three common reptiles; The
short-tailed field vole. The illustrations are from photographs.

* * * * *

“Her first-hand records are set out in an easy unpretentious style,
and on obscure points she makes suggestions as illuminating as they
are modest.” E. B.

+ =Ath= p303 S 3 ’20 720w

+ =Booklist= 17:100 D ’20

“Miss Pitt’s book is beautifully printed and handsomely illustrated
and is especially of value for the reading of young people, many of
whom are glad to make friends with the living things of the world
about them.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 11 ’20 400w

“Miss Pitt is to be congratulated on a book which takes its place in
the first rank of works on field natural history. It is a personal
record of clever, patient, and sympathetic observation.” J. A. T.

+ =Nature= 106:246 O 21 ’20 1700w

“The author’s work is not inspired or inspiring, but it is clean of
sentimentality and of spurious nature philosophy, pleasant reading,
and informative.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p29 O 23 ’20 130w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 50w

+ =Spec= 125:710 N 27 ’20 30w

“The photographs of the little creatures in their haunts are most
cleverly taken.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 60w

“Even if they sometimes carry a rather too large conclusion, these
histories of birds and beasts and creeping things are full of fine
insight and the right enthusiasm.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p563 S 2 ’20 600w

=PLATT, AGNES.= Practical hints on playwriting. il *$1.50 (5c) Dodd 808.2

20–17152

A book of advice on writing for the professional stage. The author
says “I do most fervently believe that the dry bones of stage
technique can be taught—in fact, all my personal experience goes to
prove this. I have been handling plays now for more years than I care
to remember, and have found in case after case that a little technical
adjustment will turn an unmarketable play into a commercial
proposition.” Among the topics covered are: What the public want;
Things that are essential in a good play; How to choose a plot; How to
select and differentiate the characters; Humour; How to sell a play
when finished; Casting and production. A glossary of stage terms comes
at the end. The author is an English woman writing with London
conditions in mind but most of her discussion is general in nature.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p384 Mr 19 ’20 50w

“A beginner, provided he were only a beginner with no idea of the
drama, would do well to read this book.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 180w

=PLUMB, CHARLES SUMNER.= Types and breeds of farm animals. (Country life educ. ser.) rev ed il *$3.80 Ginn 636

20–8897

A revision of a work published in 1906. The new edition contains “a
more detailed discussion relative to the great breeds, and
considerable space is devoted to families of importance and to noted
individuals. A large amount of new data has been collected relating to
various phases of production, although it is a hopeless task to bring
such records down to date.... The number of chapters remains the same,
but several obsolete breeds have been omitted and other new and more
important ones have been substituted. Maps and many illustrations have
been added.” (Foreword)

* * * * *

“The book gives probably the best account published of modern farm
animals and there are good illustrations. Another very interesting
feature is the history of the families which the author has diligently
worked out.” E. J. R.

+ =Nature= 106:659 Ja 20 ’21 210w

=POLLAK, GUSTAV.= International minds and the search for the restful. $1.50 Nation press 814

19–16675

The collection of essays in this book are gathered from articles
contributed to the Evening Post and the Nation before the war. As the
title indicates, they fall into two groups. The first group bears out
the author’s claim “that intellect recognizes no distinctions of
nationality, race, or religion.” He has selected a representative of
each, from the literatures of Germany, Austria, France and America in
the persons of Goethe, Grillparzer, Sainte-Beuve and Lowell and points
out a certain similarity of attitude toward life and literature, of
perception of the dignity of literary achievement, of keen-eyed
observation and of a self-contained repose. The second group of essays
is devoted to Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben, and his book on the
“Hygiene of the soul” which of late years has achieved a new fame. One
of the essays gives a resumé of the book. The titles of the essays
are: Literature and patriotism; Goethe’s universal interests;
Grillparzer’s originality; Sainte-Beuve’s unique position; Lowell:
patriot and cosmopolitan; Permanent literary standards; Feuchtersleben
the philosopher; The hygiene of the soul; Feuchtersleben’s aphorisms;
Feuchtersleben’s influence.

=POLLARD, ALBERT FREDERICK.= Short history of the great war. *$3.25 Harcourt 940.3

20–26545

“Although several histories of the war have already appeared, only a
few of them have been written by men who had an ante-war historical
reputation. Dr Pollard is one of this small group. For many years he
has held the chair of English history in the University of London, and
is the author of numerous historical works, besides having served as
assistant editor of the ‘Dictionary of national biography.’ His record
of the war is chronologically complete, and includes the work of the
peace conference.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“Simply as an account of military events the volume leaves something
to be desired, in spite however of what the book does not contain—and
one cannot say everything in four hundred pages—the volume is well
worth reading.” A. P. Scott

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:331 Ja ’21 470w

“An excellent feature of Professor Pollard’s evenly balanced and
temperately written narrative is that it corrects several popular
misapprehensions.”

+ =Ath= p431 Mr 26 ’20 260w

=Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20

“An excellent record of the facts, combined with a true representation
of their relative importance. Some of his opinions will not be
generally accepted, and he has a strong prejudice against the present
prime minister. Original views will not, however, detract from the
great and patriotic interest of the book. The style is vigorous and
sometimes eloquent.” G. B. H.

+ =Eng Hist R= 35:477 Jl ’20 190w

“In contrast with some other writers on the subject, he has succeeded
in being more historical than hysterical. Having mastered the sources,
as far as they are available, he presents his conclusions with
admirable impartiality. But his book is conclusive proof that the true
history of the war will not be written in this generation.” Preserved
Smith

+ − =Nation= 110:804 Je 12 ’20 800w

“It is written from the British rather than from the world’s point of
view.” Walter Littlefield

+ − =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w

“He has vision, he has perspective, and almost more, he has style. In
reading this book, we are clearly conscious that a discriminating
spirit of power and clearness is ever preserving a proper balance, and
so resisting the temptation of overcoloring and undercoloring.
Professor Pollard has written a capital book, packed with common
sense; it will be hard to surpass it.”

+ =Review= 3:423 N 3 ’20 650w

“His book undoubtedly represents the best that English historical
scholarship can do at this stage by way of outlining the five-years’
struggle.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 120w

“Professor Pollard’s lucid narrative and caustic comments are highly
interesting. His very able and stimulating book deserves careful
reading.”

+ =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w

“Professor Pollard’s is a notable achievement; and he who has been
looking for the one small volume which shall tell him what innumerable
more bulky ones have failed to impart may be confidently recommended
to purchase this short history. We cannot, however, invariably follow
Professor Pollard in his military appreciations.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p133 F 26 ’20 1050w

=POLLEN, JOHN HUNGERFORD.= English Catholics in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1558 to 1580; a study of their politics, civil life and government. *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans 282

20–7672

“Father Pollen has written a history of the English Catholics under
Elizabeth from the fall of the old church to the advent of the
counter-reformation (1558–1580). He himself gives us the reasons of
his beginning with the reign of Elizabeth; ‘Henry’s revolt is indeed
the proper starting-point for a history of the reformation taken as a
whole; but Elizabeth’s accession is better, if one is primarily
considering the political and civil life of the post-reformation
Catholics. Reform and counter-reform under Henry, Edward and Mary were
transitory. The constructive work of each was immediately undone by
their successor. But the work done by Queen Elizabeth, whether by
Catholic or Protestant, lasted a long time. There have, of course,
been many developments since, but they have proceeded on the lines
then laid down. On the Catholic side the work of reorganization began
almost immediately after the first crash, though it was only in the
middle of the reign that the vitality and permanence of the new
measures became evident.’”—Cath World

* * * * *

“The soundness of his assumptions, the critical value of his
judgments, are certainly for us to consider. An internal history of
Catholic organization such as Father Pollen might write would be
exceptionally valuable, but this book does not contain it.” R. G.
Usher

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:84 O ’20 1250w

+ =Cath World= 111:534 Jl ’20 1050w

“Father Pollen has written an interesting and scholarly work on a
critical period of our island history. The book is written, on the
whole, with tact and discrimination: the author holds the scales more
evenly than most Catholic historians do between the warring creeds and
factions.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:55 Ag 17 ’20 1200w

“His present volume is well documented with printed and unprinted
material. He is somewhat sparing in his references to other scholars
who have laboured in the same field.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 S 2 ’20 1400w

=POLLOCK, SIR FREDERICK.= League of nations. *$4 (*10s 6d) Macmillan 341.1

20–14891

“The author’s purpose is to give a practical exposition of the
covenant of the League of nations, ‘with so much introduction as
appears proper for enabling the reader to understand the conditions
under which the League was formed and has to commence its work.’ The
references to authentic documents and to other publications, which are
given at the heads of some of the chapters, are of material assistance
to the reader.”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p462 Ap 2 ’20 130w

“A valuable reference and guide to further reading written for the
layman.”

+ =Booklist= 17:55 N ’20

“The veteran jurist’s exposition of the text of the covenant is
lucidity itself.”