Chapter LXII: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (18)

+ =Spec= 124:215 F 14 ’20 180w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p39 Ja 15 ’20 330w

=POLLOCK, JOHN.=[2] Bolshevik adventure. *$2.50 Dutton 914.7

20–1771

“Mr Pollock was in Russia from 1915 to 1919, and his book pretends to
be nothing more than a calm statement of facts as he saw them.” (Ath)
“We gather that until the revolution of November, the author worked on
the Red cross committee: when the others left the country, however, he
stayed on, though he should have left with them. One day in the summer
of 1918, he was told by a friend that the Red guards were in
possession of his rooms at the hotel. From that date he lived under a
disguise and an assumed name. He got employment as a producer of
plays, and to attain membership in the second food category he joined
the ‘Professional union of workers in theatrical undertakings.’ He
worked in this capacity first at Moscow, and afterwards at Petrograd
until January, 1919, when he decided to risk an attempt at escape into
Finland.” (Sat R)

* * * * *

=Ath= p32 Ja 2 ’20 150w

“‘The entire upper class’ is Mr Pollock’s chief concern throughout his
book. Everything else in Russia is anathema, to be damned in eternity.
Especially the Jews. There are so many Jews in the ‘Bolshevik
adventure’ that in reading the book one has the impression that Mr
Pollock uses Russia as a misnomer for Jewry.” S. K.

− =Ath= p111 Ja 23 ’20 1250w

“The like of his book for misstatement, weakness of thought, and
excited imagination is not to be found even among books on Russia.”
Jacob Zeitlin

− =Nation= 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 240w

“This book should have been written in two parts, the first containing
Chapters I to VI and the second Chapters VII, VIII, and IX. Then the
first part should have been filed with the Minister of propaganda at
London and pigeonholed in an asbestos-lined receptacle. This treatment
would have left us with eighty pages of rather vivid narrative by an
English eye-witness.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 31 ’20 780w

“It is a pity that Mr Pollock’s style of writing is not better: some
of the confusion of Russia appears to have crept into the construction
of his sentences. Apart from such minor defects as these, the book is
a magnificent and crushing indictment of the Bolsheviks by one who has
lived under their misrule for nearly sixteen months. No other work on
the subject has conjured up for us such a vivid picture of the
loathsome misery and degradation to which communism can drag a
country.”

+ =Sat R= 129:211 F 28 ’20 550w

“Where Mr Pollock tells his own story he does succeed in adding to the
volume of evidence against them. But the other portions of the book,
written in the early days of the bolshevik régime, are too violent and
too superficial to be convincing.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p2 Ja 1 ’20 1050w

=POLLOCK, WALTER.= Hot bulb oil engines and suitable vessels. il *$10 Van Nostrand 621.4

(Eng ed 20–10619)

“The objects of this book are: (1) To popularise the engine, to
explain what it has done and what it is capable of doing; (2) To
enable those interested to appreciate the advantages and disadvantages
of the various designs; (3) To facilitate the study, and add to the
general knowledge of this form of prime mover and its application to
vessels of various types.” (Chapter I) There are 369 illustrations and
an index.

* * * * *

“The photographic reproductions and clear and carefully executed
drawings are calculated to give sufficient detail without introducing
unnecessary complexity.”

+ =Engineer= 129:225 F 27 ’20 380w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p32 Ap ’20 160w

=POOLE, ERNEST.= Blind. *$2.50 (2c) Macmillan

20–18299

The theme of this novel is stated in Chapter 1: “I am blind—but no
blinder than is the mind of the world, these days. The long thin
splinter of German steel which struck in behind my eyes did no more to
me than the war has done to the vision of humanity.” Larry Hart, who
tells the story, begins with his boyhood, describing the happy home
life that his Aunt Amelia created for himself and his sister Lucy as
well as for her own children in the old Connecticut homestead. After
college he goes to New York as a journalist, lives in the slums with
his friend, Steve McCrea, a doctor, has a part in the budding reform
movements of the nineties, mixes with radicals, interests himself in
strikes, writes plays, is swept into the enthusiasm of the Progressive
movement and in 1914 goes to Berlin as correspondent. Later he goes to
Russia to report the revolution and when America enters the war
enlists, and, as the first chapter foretells, is blinded. In its
closing chapters the book becomes largely a commentary on America’s
part in the war, arriving at no definite point of view or conclusion.

* * * * *

“Little plot, but real people and much earnest seeking after truth.”

+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20

“On the whole, it is newspaper correspondence worked into the shape of
a novel. The parts dealing with Russia immediately after the fall of
the Czar are especially interesting.”

+ =Dial= 70:230 F ’21 100w

“The author is more than a seer of social progress; he has the sense
for individuality which a novelist must possess. It suffers not
because it is, in large part, about the war period, but, like its
blind, hard-thinking hero, because of the war. It is like many an
ex-soldier, just perceptibly shell-shocked. As a book it should have
been restrained, cut down, cooled, simplified. But so should the war.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 O 23 ’20 900w

“‘Blind’ is just one more testimonial to the incompatibility as
bookmates of art and argument, one more example of their mutually
fatal effect upon each other. When ‘the will to convince’ comes in at
the door, artistry flies out the window. Some of the descriptive
writing in ‘Blind’ is excellent.”

− + =N Y Times= p24 O 31 ’20 800w

“It must not be thought that the novel is one of social propaganda
alone. It has fictional vitality because of the variety and realism of
its shifting scenes, the good and bad human qualities of its actors,
its rapid movement, and its precision in description.” R. D. Townsend

+ =Outlook= 126:653 D 8 ’20 270w

“It seems incredible that so soon after a devastating war anyone could
write so sane a book as ‘Blind.’ Best of all, it is a book that
compels thought, without a shred of the sentimentality that so many
novelists feel is a necessity in any successful novel recipe.” E. P.
Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 98:1191 O 16 ’20 260w

=POOLEY, ANDREW MELVILLE.= Japan’s foreign policies. *$3.50 Dodd 327

(Eng ed 20–12064)

The present volume was originally a part of a larger unpublished work.
The chapters of that work dealing with Japan’s internal affairs were
published in 1917 under the title “Japan at the cross roads” while the
chapters dealing with Japan’s foreign affairs compose the present
book. It records the rapid imperialistic developments in Japan and its
Chinese policy and hints at the possibility of a war between America
and Japan in the making. Contents: Japan and the Anglo-Japanese
alliances; Japan’s real policy in China; The first revolution in
China, 1911–12; The second revolution in China, 1912–13; Japan,
America and Mexico, 1911–14; The twenty-one demands; Japan’s
commercial expansion, 1914–18; Note.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:95 D ’20

=Boston Transcript= p4 N 6 ’20 750w

Reviewed by A. P. Danton

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 31 ’20 1000w

Reviewed by W. W. Willoughby

=Review= 3:474 N 17 ’20 1300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 90w

“In the present work special knowledge is manifest, but its value is
vitiated from the outset by the violence of the author’s unconcealed
hostility. His book is a sweeping judgment, and, like all sweeping
judgments, unjust. There is evidence of this kind of haste throughout
the book, from the literary as well as from the critical point of
view.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p462 Jl 22 ’20 1000w

Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler

=Yale R n s= 10:431 Ja ’21 340w

=POORE, IDA MARGARET (GRAVES) lady.= Rachel Fitzpatrick. *$1.75 (2c) Lane

20–11899

The heroine is an Irish girl who spends two years with wealthy
relatives in London. The Fitzpatricks belong to the gentry but are
very poor and gladly accept the offer that means two years of
education for Rachel. At the end of the two years she goes to Germany.
The war finds her there alone with her aunt’s German husband, who
takes advantage of the situation to make love to her. She runs away
and after many difficulties reaches Ireland. The course of the war and
the Irish attitude are touched upon and the story ends with Rachel’s
marriage to her sailor lover.

* * * * *

“The authoress’s naive Irish heroine is skilfully and naturally
drawn.”

+ =Ath= p386 Mr 19 ’20 100w

“If there is a fault to be found with this story, it is that enough is
not made of the big scenes in the life of the charming heroine. Yet,
this does not, somehow, detract from the pleasure of the book, which
is charmingly written in a style that is too rapidly passing. A good
part of the pleasure derived from the story is due to its clever
characterizations.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 550w

+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 30w

“A novel which is neither better nor worse than hundreds of others.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:455 My 15 ’20 140w

“What is perhaps the chief merit of quite a readable story is the
pictures of Irish life and character, of which the author has an
intimate knowledge.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p189 Mr 18 ’20 150w

=POPENOE, WILSON.= Manual of tropical and subtropical fruits. (Rural manuals) il *$5 Macmillan 634

20–15789

“The author is an expert, employed as agricultural explorer for the
United States Department of agriculture. On his title page he
announces his design of excluding the banana, the cocoanut, the
pineapple, citrus fruits, the olive and the fig.... He begins with the
avocado, which many people in the regions where it grows often call
the avocado pear. He displays his scientific knowledge by giving first
a botanical description of the avocado, its history and distribution,
its composition and its uses.... The story of the avocado is followed
with similar considerations of the mango, the date, the papaya and its
relatives, the loquat, the guava and its intimates, the litchi, kaki,
pomegranate, breadfruit and a great variety of other fruits of lesser
fame, about which few of us have heard.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 300w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 320w

=Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 60w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p800 D 2 ’20 100w

=PORTER, ELEANOR (HODGMAN) (MRS JOHN LYMAN PORTER) (ELEANOR STUART, pseud.).= Mary Marie. il *$1.90 (2½c) Houghton

20–8035

Her father had wanted to name her Mary, her mother Marie. Mary Marie
was the compromise. But there had come a time when compromise seemed
no longer possible, followed by separation and divorce. Mary Marie
spends six months of the year with her father, six with her mother,
and she tells about it in her diary. In one house she is Marie. In the
other she tries to be Mary. But after awhile things get so mixed up
she doesn’t know which she is, for she finds her mother trying to make
her into a staid, dignified Mary, while her father seems to be
encouraging the Marie side of her. And then she is the means of
bringing the two together, and the book closes with a postscript that
gives a glimpse of Mary Marie’s grown-up story.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20

“The book is very readable, and occasionally amusing.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 420w

+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 4 ’20 600w

“The story falls short of what we expect from Miss Eleanor H. Porter.”

+ − =Spec= sup p782 D 3 ’20 60w

“Beneath the light tone of the narrative may be observed a serious
moral. The frequent misfortunes of divorce, especially where there are
children, are pointedly apparent here. But Mary Marie will be loved
for herself alone, for her quaint observations, for her unspoiled
character, and for her earnest efforts to understand life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 600w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p637 S30 ’20 30w

=PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.).= Egan. *$1.90 (2c) Dodd

20–15701

When Bronson Egan came back to Plainfield, Ohio, after four years of
service in France, he found his status very different from what it had
previously been. He went away the only son of a wealthy father, and
practically engaged to one of the city’s most attractive girls. He
came back to find his father dead, their business wrecked, and the
girl reengaged to a stay-at-home. With characteristic determination he
set himself to gain back what he had lost. It was not all plain
sailing, however, for he had keen rivals in business as well as love.
But he had staunch friends as well, and the end of the story finds him
re-established in business on a firmer basis than before, and happy in
the love of a girl who is more worthy of him than the fickle Mary.

* * * * *

“The business element is particularly well developed.”

+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20

“Aside from occasional lapses, Mr Hall’s style is well adapted to his
material, which is in part new.” C. K. H.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 O 16 ’20 530w

“It is the substantial characterization which makes the book finally
so satisfactory. Its fresh and rapid story-telling ought to win for it
a large general audience.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 250w

“There is no letup in the interest, and the business element is
especially well handled.”

+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 240w

“The present story is worthy of praise especially for the consistency
and humanness of young Egan. Perhaps the financial and business sides
of the book are a little too much to the front, but, as a whole, the
novel keeps the reader’s attention on the alert, and it includes some
exceedingly good character depiction.”

+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 170w

“The novel exists for its narrative, which is neatly conceived and
marks Mr Porter’s further growth in the art of story-telling. It flows
along with agreeable humor, and the reader’s interest is sustained
without recourse to theatricalities.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 580w

=PORTER, REBECCA NEWMAN.= Girl from Four Corners. il *$1.75 (2c) Holt

20–6861

A California story with scenes laid on a lonely ranch and in San
Francisco. Margaret Garrison, disappointed in the man she loves,
yields to Frederick Bayne’s sudden wooing and goes to live on his
ranch in Mendocino county. The marriage is unhappy, but with fine
courage she makes the best of it and trains her little daughter,
Freda, to be true to the highest ideals. Most of the story has to do
with the career of this daughter, who after her mother’s death goes to
San Francisco where she passes thru many experiences, some of them
tragic, and finally finds happiness and love.

* * * * *

“The story is entertainingly told, and toward the end a dramatic touch
is thrown in.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 260w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 120w

=POST, MELVILLE DAVISSON.= Mystery at the Blue villa. *$1.75 (2c) Appleton

20–1695

Seventeen dramatic short stories by the author of “Uncle Abner.” The
settings in these stories are selected from many fascinatingly remote,
and also familiar places. In the title story the action takes place at
Port Said, a refuge for human derelicts, “the devil’s halfway house,”
where through cleverly playing upon a guilty man’s fear of the
supernatural, a dying sculptor gets money enough to die in the way it
pleases him. “The great legend,” narrated by a semi-French,
semi-oriental gentleman sitting beside a fire made of bleached bones,
on an undulating, moonlit desert of sand, takes us to the underworld
of Paris. “The miller of Ostend” is a tale of Belgium. “The pacifist”
is a story of the United States and a German spy. Other titles are:
The laughter of Allah; The witch of the Lecca; The new administration;
The Baron Starkheim.

* * * * *

“Though somewhat overdramatic and artificial, the plots are clever and
interesting.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:246 Ap ’20

+ =Dial= 68:537 Ap ’20 40w

“The stories are well told and the people have much more character and
individuality than is usual among inhabitants of mystery tales.”

+ =Ind= 103:322 S 11 ’20 140w

“They have variety and freshness, and, if occasionally overemphasized,
they are never trite.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 40w

“In the matter of untangling a crime or running a mystery to its lair
Melville Davisson Post can give even the immortal Holmes himself quite
a brush. His latest collection in no way falls short of the Uncle
Abner tales.” E. C. Webb

+ =Pub W= 96:1694 D 27 ’19 240w

“All have the merit of sustaining the reader’s interest up to an
unexpected conclusion.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 50w

=POST, MELVILLE DAVISSON.= Sleuth of St James’s square. *$2 (3c) Appleton

20–18613

A book of mystery stories. There are sixteen in all, and in each of
them Sir Henry Marquis, chief of the Criminal investigation department
of Scotland yard, figures. He is not the Sherlock Holmes type of
detective, for mystery and solution seem to run side by side, instead
of being spread out like a pattern before him. Some of the tales Sir
Henry reads from the diary of an ancestor. The titles are: The thing
on the hearth; The reward; The lost lady; The cambered foot; The man
in the green hat; The wrong sign; The fortune teller; The hole in the
mahogany panel; The end of the road; The last adventure; American
horses; The spread rails; The pumpkin coach; The yellow flower; A
satire of the sea; The house by the loch. Many of the tales journey
far afield from St James’s square for their setting. Some have already
appeared in short story form in popular magazines.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21

“The stories are short, piquant and cleverly maneuvered, though the
mechanism which moves the puppets is sometimes a bit too evident and
there is great lack of originality in the gestures made by them either
when they pause or start up again.” N. H. D.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 500w

“They are not only unusual in construction; they are very well
written, and with but few exceptions, close with a twist which will
surprise even the skilled and habitual reader.”

+ =N Y Times= p21 D 12 ’20 380w

“The author’s method is unusual and some of the tales are remarkably
good.”

+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w

=Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 130w

=POSTGATE, R. W.= Bolshevik theory. *$2 Dodd 335

The book is a sincere attempt to state what Bolshevism is and what it
is not—to clear away “the atmosphere of a dog-fight which surrounds
this subject.” (Introd.) The author claims for it that it is neither
pro-bolshevik nor anti-bolshevik. “It is a mere exposition. It is true
that a certain amount of intelligent sympathy is necessary for the
understanding of a point of view. The marks of some such sympathy may
be traced in this book. This is inevitable, for it is merely the
reflection of the author’s belief that bolshevik theories are neither
inhuman ... nor logically ridiculous.... If these assumptions are not
correct, then Bolshevism is not worth considering.” (Introd.) The
contents are: What is Bolshevism? Controversies; The dictatorship of
the proletariat; On dictatorship; The two roads; The pedigree of
Bolshevism; Extracts and comments; Syndicalism, Blanquism and
Bolshevism; Karl Kautsky; Industrial pacifism; The soviet; The future
of the soviet. There are appendices and a bibliographical note.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p441 O 1 ’20 190w

Reviewed by Jacob Zeitlin

=Nation= 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 210w

“R. W. Postgate has set forth in a clear and concise manner the facts
about Bolshevism.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 Ja 2 ’21 220w

=Sat R= 130:463 D 4 ’20 140w

“His historical allusions are not to be depended upon. Many of the
rest of Mr Postgate’s references to the Bolshevists, past and present,
and to General Denikin and other anti-Bolshevists, are equally
unreliable.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p430 Jl 8 ’20 1200w

=POTTER, MIRIAM CLARK.= Rhymes of a child’s world. il *$2 Four seas co. 811

A book of little verses for children. It is a collection of poems
about the everyday things, child fancies, and lullabies. There are
three groups of poems: In the house; Outdoors at play; Twilight songs.
The illustrations are by Ruth Fuller Stevens. Many of the poems have
appeared in the Youth’s Companion, St Nicholas and Little Folks.

* * * * *

“Such quaint imagery greatly appeals to the dreamy child. The
illustrations by Ruth Fuller Stevens are especially charming and
nicely adapted to the text.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 160w

“Deserves to be noted for its naturalness and fidelity to childish
moods. It has a strong appeal to both old and young.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 O 20 ’20 70w

“Both verse and illustration have the subtle quality of imagination,
even when their theme sounds realistic. These poems are amusing to
children and well worth the attention of their elders.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 90w

=POUND, EZRA LOOMIS.= Instigations of Ezra Pound, together with an essay on the Chinese written character. *$3.50 Boni & Liveright 814

20–8532

“A collection of criticisms and essays, with an essay by Fenollosa on
the Chinese written character, edited by Pound. There are short
sketches of the modern French poets with quotations; a detailed
appreciative criticism of Henry James and his works; another on Remy
de Gourmont; a group including James Joyce, T. S. Eliot Wyndham Lewis,
Lytton Strachey, the new poetry; essay by Jules Laforgue, an amusing
commentary on Genesis, a discussion of Arnaut Daniel and some sharp
raps at Greek translators, including Browning.”—Booklist

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20

“An important point, however, about Mr Pound’s critical writings,
which has been generally neglected, is this: they do satisfy two very
conspicuous demands of the American public; the demand for
‘constructive criticism,’ and the demand for ‘first rate school
teaching.’” W. C. Blum

+ =Dial= 69:422 O ’20 900w

=Freeman= 1:334 Je 16 ’20 550w

“The ‘Instigations of Ezra Pound’ have this virtue—they badger and
bully us out of a state of intellectual backwardness.” Padraic Colum

+ =New Repub= 25:52 D 8 ’20 650w

− =N Y Times= 25:293 Je 6 ’20 1300w

“Stimulating and provocative statements provide an intellectual shower
bath.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 320w

=POWELL, CHARLES.= Poets in the nursery. *$1.50 Lane 827

20–19194

To this collection of parodies on well-known poets, John Drinkwater
writes an introduction to the effect that although parodies are
usually a defilement of poetry and contemptible, these never outrage
our love of poetry but exercise it in a very friendly intimacy. Mr
Powell, he says, invariably catches his subject’s external manner with
easy precision, the underlying spiritual force never evades him and he
measures himself successfully against the poet’s impulse as well as
against its formal expression. While Mother Goose furnishes the
subjects the poets are: G. K. Chesterton, John Masefield, Ella Wheeler
Wilcox, Alfred Noyes, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt, William Watson,
Austin Dobson, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, A. C. Swinburne, W. E.
Henley, D. G. Rossetti, Walt Whitman, Omar Khayyám, Francis Thompson,
Robert Browning, E. B. Browning, E. A. Poe, Alfred Tennyson.

* * * * *

“John Drinkwater’s introduction to ‘The poets in the nursery’ leads us
to expect work of high distinction, and though we find traces of
burlesque now and then, our expectations are realized.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 1 ’20 200w

=POWELL, E. ALEXANDER.= New frontiers of freedom, from the Alps to the Ægean. il *$2.50 (5c) Scribner 914.9

20–7665

The author has traveled by motor car and by sea “from the Alps to the
Ægean, in Italy, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Turkey,
Rumania, Hungary and Serbia” and gives his impressions of what he saw
in these countries during the year succeeding the armistice while they
and their people were in a state of political flux. “To have seen
millions of human beings transferred from sovereignty to sovereignty
like cattle which have been sold—these are sights the like of which
will probably not be seen again in our times or in those of our
children” and, the author thinks, may serve to illustrate an important
chapter in history. Contents: Across the redeemed lands; The
borderland of Slav and Latin; The cemetery of four empires; Under the
cross and the crescent; Will the sick man of Europe recover? What the
peace-makers have done on the Danube; Making a nation to order. There
are numerous illustrations from photographs.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20

“Major Powell gives an excellent description of d’Annunzio. He has
brought the same keenness of observation and ease of style to the
other portraits in this volume, which range from picturesque peasants
to exiled royalties. His treatment of the political situation in the
countries he visited is marked by clarity and fairness.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:12 Jl 4 ’20 500w

“This narrative is spirited and colorful throughout.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 80w

“A book as interesting as it is instructive.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 250w

=POWELL, LYMAN PIERSON=, ed. Social unrest. 2v $2.50 Review of reviews co. 308

20–1056

“The two volumes entitled ‘The social unrest’ present the best current
thought of leading authorities as now focussed on the industrial and
social problems of the day. The opinions of President Wilson and
ex-president Taft are set forth side by side with those of Karl Marx,
Morris Hillquit and Sidney Webb. All schools of opinion have here at
least the privilege of utterance. The material has been edited and
coordinated by Dr Lyman P. Powell.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 60w

+ =Outlook= 124:336 F 25 ’20 60w

=R of Rs= 61:223 F ’20 200w

“We fear the editor’s somewhat hesitant attempt to link up these
pieces into something looking like a methodically arranged whole has
not been successful—at least we are unable to tell what the plan of
that arrangement really is. But it is the collection itself that
counts, and this is of great interest.” B. L.

+ − =Survey= 43:782 Mr 20 ’20 280w

=POWER, RHODA.= Under the Bolshevik reign of terror. *$2 McBride 947

20–2711

“A record of domestic experiences in a bourgeois household in Rostov,
on the Don, during the old régime, the revolution, and the Bolshevik
occupation.”—Brooklyn

=Boston Transcript= p8 N 22 ’19 500w

=Brooklyn= 12:71 Ja ’20 30w

“A lively and readable little book.”

+ =Cleveland= p104 S ’19 30w

“An intimate, readable account of Bolshevism is presented in this
volume. The book is free from theorizing and statistics, but it tells
of the practical effect of Bolshevism on people who lived through the
first days of this sinister experiment.”

+ =N Y Times= 24:465 S 14 ’19 240w

“Miss Power has given us a series of vivid sketches. They are
impressionistic and full of power, but they must not be accepted as
descriptive of general conditions.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:204 Ag 30 ’19 120w

“An extremely vivid and interesting account of certain phases of the
Russian revolution from the pen of an eye-witness. One would like to
know how far this family, of the rich bourgeois type, was
representative of its class. If there were many others like it, the
appalling violence and bloodiness of the revolution cease to be matter
of wonder.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p224 Ap 24 ’19 700w

=PRATT, JAMES BISSETT.= Religious consciousness; a psychological study. *$3.50 Macmillan 201

20–10634

“Professor Pratt’s point of view in the present volume is avowedly
scientific. He aims to describe the religious consciousness as it
presents itself for observation to the modern psychologist, that is to
say, without any attempt to press behind phenomena into the realm of
the unknown or the unknowable. An interesting feature of his treatment
is a constant use of the results of recent questionnaires sent out to
ascertain the present state of the religious consciousness among
various classes of Americans. He has studied the forms of
Protestantism in America. Roman Catholicism he has studied in Europe
and at home. Finally, he has made his pilgrimage through India, Burma,
and Ceylon, seeking initiation into the letter and the spirit of
Hinduism, Buddhism, and Mohammedanism in mosque and shrine and temple,
from peasants, teachers, priests, and holy men. The last five chapters
of the book deal with mysticism.”—Nation

* * * * *

“‘The religious consciousness’ is a very good book. Dr Pratt knows his
subject and he knows how to write about it. There is hardly a dull
page in the nearly five hundred of this volume. Perhaps the most
valuable quality of the book is its quiet sanity.” R. R.

+ =Freeman= 2:22 S 15 ’20 360w

“His account of phenomena is remarkably fresh and instructive; and it
differs commendably from some of its predecessors in emphasizing
rather normal than exceptional types of experience.” S. P. Sherman

+ =Nation= 111:506 N 3 ’20 1550w

Reviewed by G. E. Partridge

=N Y Times= p28 D 26 ’20 250w

=PRENTICE, SARTELL.= Padre. *$2 Dutton 940.476

19–13304

“[This book tells the] experiences of a Red cross hospital chaplain of
the Dutch Reformed church, principally in Base hospital 101, at St
Nazaire and in Evacuation hospital 13 where wounded were received
straight from the battlefield. [It is] full of anecdotes revealing the
bravery of individuals, and the gratitude of the French people toward
Americans.”—Cleveland

* * * * *

=Cleveland= p16 F ’20 50w

“There is nothing particularly new in the narrative, although the fact
that it comes first-hand from one who saw and lived the awful scenes
he describes gives it a value of its own which cannot be gainsaid.”

+ =N Y Times= 24:516 O 5 ’19 500w

=PRICE, EDITH BALLINGER.= Silver Shoal light. il *$1.75 Century

20–16502

When Miss Joan Kirtland, who has left town very suddenly after a
disagreement with Mr Robert Sinclair, finds that the Harbor View house
cannot take her in, she is at a loss for a place to spend the night.
Captain ‘Bijah Dawson comes to her aid and suggests that the light
house people may take her in. As Captain ‘Bijah assured her, they are
“cur’ous folks,” Jim and Elspeth Pemberley and their little son Garth,
but their presence in this unusual situation is explained and Joan,
who had meant to stay a night, then a week, remains all summer. Joan,
who had thought she did not like children, is captivated by Garth and
at the end of the summer learns that Mr Sinclair is his Uncle Bob. Jim
Pemberley has aspirations toward the navy and there is a German spy
episode in the story.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20

=PRICE, EDITH BALLINGER.= Us and the bottle man. il *$1.50 Century

20–14292

The story of three delightful children who play pirates and send out a
message in a sealed bottle that brings a surprising answer and leads
to a pleasantly mysterious correspondence. And then events take a
serious turn. What had been play becomes reality and the “three poore
mariners” become castaways indeed for the length of one dreadful
night. Their rescuer is no less person than the Bottle man himself and
a war-time romance is at the same time brought to a happy culmination.

* * * * *

“Although somewhat adult in point of view, the mystery and adventure
will interest children from ten to twelve.”

+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20

=PRICE, JULIUS MENDES.= On the path of adventure. il *$3.50 (5½c) Lane 940.48

20–11661

The author was war-artist correspondent for the Illustrated London
News. The present work is a record of his adventures in the early
months of the war, before the existence of war correspondents had been
“officially admitted.” The book, he says, “does not in any way claim
to be an addition to the formidable array of books on the technical
side of the war. It is, on the contrary, merely a narrative compiled
from the notes in my diary of a period during the early days of the
war when I was ‘out’ to get all the material I could.... As my
wanderings were entirely within the zone of operations, it is obvious
that the incidents I have described were always more or less connected
with the theatre of the war—but they were happenings rather behind the
scenes than on the actual battle-front.” The book is illustrated with
drawings from the author’s sketch book.

* * * * *

=Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 50w

“One of the few interesting but not sordid personal narratives.”

+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20

“Mr Price puts down his remarkable escapades and hairbreadth escapes
as a sportsman and an artist. There is something beautifully
impersonal in the style of his book. This makes of his book something
unique in war annals, a book that is ‘beautifully and completely
something,’ as Henry James might have said.” B. D.

+ =N Y Times= p21 Ag 29 ’20 750w

=Sat R= 129:191 F 21 ’20 750w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 50w

=PRICHARD, HESKETH VERNON HESKETH.= Sniping in France, with notes on the scientific training of scouts, observers, and snipers; with a foreword by General Lord Horne of Stirkoke. il *$5 Dutton 623.44

(Eng ed 20–12124)

“Major Hesketh-Prichard was of course, as a big game hunter, a natural
sniper. He enjoyed sniping because it employed all his highly
specialised hunter faculties to the full—sight, hearing, and all those
analytical powers which hunters possess. His book is full of good
stories. But what will make the book interesting to the soldier is the
complete way in which Major Hesketh-Prichard manages to justify the
art of sniping, and to show how intolerable it is to be opposed to a
well-organised sniping side unless you can answer in kind. Major
Hesketh-Prichard proves completely that it will always be worth while
from the point of view of _moral_ to maintain an efficient body of
specialist snipers.”—Spec

* * * * *

“Before the war the author was known as a sportsman, traveller, and
athlete. It is his other vocation, that of writer, which helps him not
merely to give us information, but to give it in a form enthralling as
any detective story.”

+ =Ath= p816 Je 18 ’20 180w

“Written in a style that makes it pleasantly acceptable to the general
reader.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 220w

“His book is fascinating in its records of romantic individual tales
and of cunning camouflage which are intended for the general reader,
but we trust that the military authorities will not on this account
overlook it. Major Hesketh-Prichard has a contribution to make to
military science.”

+ =Spec= 124:728 My 29 ’20 280w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p293 My 13 ’20 900w

=PRISONER of Pentonville=, by “Red Band.” *$1.50 Putnam 821

20–8220

Poems written while the author was confined in Pentonville prison in
London, between September, 1917, and May, 1918. They are written in
varying meters and on different themes. Many are addressed to his
wife, one is written on receiving news of his mother’s death, others
recall scenes from boyhood, and one that brings to mind “Reading gaol”
is written the day of an execution. The concluding poems record his
sentiments as release approaches and there is an epilogue written
after regaining liberty. Joseph Fort Newton, formerly of the City
Temple, London, now of the Church of the divine paternity, New York,
writes a foreword.

* * * * *

“The emotional sincerity which constantly contrives to break through a
crust of indifferent and often absurd verse makes this series of
prison meditations a very interesting and moving human document.”

+ − =Ath= p495 Ap 9 ’20 80w

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 950w

=PRITCHARD, MYRON THOMAS, and OVINGTON, MARY WHITE=, comps. Upward path; with an introd. by Robert R. Moton. il *$1.35 Harcourt 810.8

20–16516

The foreword to this collection of readings for colored children says:
“To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and
poems by negro writers, which colored children could read with
interest and pleasure and in which they could find a mirror of the
traditions and aspirations of their race. Realizing this lack, the
compilers have brought together poems, stories, sketches and addresses
which bear eloquent testimony to the richness of the literary product
of our negro writers.” All of the contributors to the volume are
negroes, among them Paul Laurence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, W. E.
B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson and others who have made names in
literature. In addition to these there are the less familiar names of
negro educators, social workers, ministers and lawyers, and there is
one explorer, Matthew Henson, who was with Peary at the Pole.

* * * * *

“The selections in it are ably chosen and present a great variety. But
more important is the fact that it must accomplish its intent. For
while giving pleasure, it will foster the love of tradition, and from
the evidences of past accomplishment, an honest racial pride.” M. E.
Bailey

+ =Bookm= 52:305 Ja ’21 140w

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 27 ’20 360w

“A collection of stories and poems by negroes—many of them very good.
Perhaps whites can gain as much from it as can the blacks. The book
would be suitable for junior high schools.”

+ =English J= 9:549 N ’20 60w

=Lit D= p94 D 4 ’20 170w

=PRYDE, ANTHONY.= Marqueray’s duel. *$2 (1½c) McBride

20–7060

Marqueray, to all appearances, was a globe-trotter and a sportsman. In
truth he was a secret spy in the employ of the British foreign office.
His knowledge stands him in good stead against a certain Lord
Marchmont, a millionaire Jew, implicated in illicit transactions in
South America. The latter has allowed a poor innocent Irish girl, in
reality Lady Marchmont, to consider herself duped by him and to be a
“fallen woman,” after he had turned her adrift. Phyllida is found and
rescued by Marqueray and his friend and cousin, Aubrey West. A romance
grows up between Phyllida and Marqueray, who naturally wants to
horsewhip Marchmont and free his beloved entirely from his clutches.
Before this can be done a political election and much intrigue,
involving West, intervene. In the end Marqueray is wounded by a shot
from Marchmont who himself succumbs to his vicious morphia habit. Some
fine touches of friendship and loyalty among men make one of the
features of the story.

* * * * *

“The story drags somewhat in places; but ... the book as a whole may
be read with a fair amount of satisfaction.”

+ − =Ath= p414 My 30 ’19 120w

“Very good work. Readers who liked Stephen McKenna’s ‘Sonia’ will
probably like this.”

+ =Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20

“It is evidently Mr Pryde’s first novel, and it is far and above the
majority of ‘first novels.’ He writes with a good deal of style, and
his characterization is excellent to the least important actor on his
London stage.” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 540w

“The book is exceedingly well written, with a steady succession of
incidents, always logical and never loosening their hold on the
interest. The book is a long one, but it never becomes tedious.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 500w

Reviewed by Isabel Juergens

+ =Pub W= 97:1288 Ap 17 ’20 260w

“A very clever romance.”

+ =Sat R= 128:346 O 11 ’19 100w

“It is decidedly melodramatic, but the melodrama is well done.”

+ =Spec= 123:154 Ag 2 ’19 30w

“The author displays much ability for character portraiture. As a
romanticist he is not so capable.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 650w

=PRZYBYSZEWSKI, STANISLAW.= Snow. *$1.50 Brown, N. L. 891.85

20–4039

“‘Snow,’ a play in four acts by Stanislaw Przybyszewski, translated
into English by O. F. Theis, is a powerful production. A man and wife
are living happily together. A brother comes in and falls in love with
the wife. A woman friend comes in and the husband falls in love with
her. Result—unfaithfulness and a double suicide.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“The types are not typical; they are primarily unconvincing. There is
an intense and urgent attempt at drama which, were it only dramatic,
would be Ibsen, even Wagner, in terms of men and not gods. The play is
disappointing to read, because it does not grip; it is scarcely fitted
for theatrical success, because it has insufficient sustained
interest.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 220w

“The beautiful diction and Maeterlinckian charm of the Polish
original, are somewhat lost in translation.”

+ − =Cleveland= p87 S ’20 50w

“‘Snow,’ which bears amusing internal evidence of its translation from
a German original, is a characteristic phantasmagoria of the acutely
hysterical. It is not without moments of sombre effectiveness. But
action and passion are both, humanly speaking, in the void. The
characters are haunted wraiths in an unrealized world who live and
love and die equally without motivation.”

− + =Nation= 110:435 Ap 3 ’20 200w

“The tale is true to life and truthfully presented and commendable for
artistic qualities, but uselessly nerve-racking for all that.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 8 ’20 100w

“Limitations of temperament may easily prevent a western reader from
doing justice to characters who seem to him so morbid and neurotic, so
pathologically introspective: nor can he see ‘Snow’ as a play for the
western stage. Yet he must admit that the author shows at times
profound psychological insight and can write occasional passages of
power.”

+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:259 Jl ’20 230w

=PUMPELLY, RAPHAEL.=[2] Travels and adventures of Raphael Pumpelly; ed. by O. S. Rice. il *$1.75 Holt

20–22545

The book is an abridged edition of the author’s autobiography, “My
reminiscences,” for young readers. As a mining engineer, geologist,
archaeologist and explorer, the author’s experiences, which transpired
on our western frontier in it’s heroic days, on the mountains of
Corsica, in China, Japan and Siberia, were many and thrilling and
those portions of the original work have been selected that are most
interesting to the young with only so much editing as was required to
make a connected story. Appropriate illustrations have been added.

* * * * *

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 130w

=PURDAY, HERBERT FRANK P.= Diesel engine design. il *$7.50 Van Nostrand 621.43

(Eng ed 20–18166)

“This book is based on about twelve years’ experience of Diesel
engines, mainly from the drawing-office point of view, and is intended
to present an account of the main considerations which control the
design of these engines. The author ventures to hope that, in addition
to designers and draughtsmen, to whom such a book as this is most
naturally addressed, there may be other classes of readers—for
example, Diesel engine users and technical students—to whom the
following pages may be of interest.” (Preface) Contents: First
principles; Thermal efficiency; Exhaust, suction and scavenge; The
principle of similitude; Crank-shafts; Flywheels; Framework; Cylinders
and covers; Running gear; Fuel oil system; Air and exhaust system;
Compressed air system; Valve gear; Index. There are 271 figure
illustrations.

* * * * *

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p32 Ap ’20 80w

=PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER=, comp. Tabular views of universal history. il *$2.50 Putnam 902

19–16001

In this latest edition of the compilation the summary has been brought
down to the peace conference in Paris; like former revisions, under
the editorial supervision of George Haven Putnam. Two new maps are
added showing the forfeited German colonies and Germany under the
peace treaty, and there is a supplementary index covering events
subsequent to August 1, 1914.

=PUTNAM, MRS NINA (WILCOX).=[2] It pays to smile. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–19578

Miss Freedom Talbot, of Boston ancestry and birth, is the narrator of
the story, and shares honors with “Peaches” Pegg as the heroine. Her
family fortunes being at a low ebb, she answers an advertisement
inserted by the millionaire Pinto Pegg for a chaperone for his
daughter. This combination of money and breeding Pinto hopes will
result in culture for the daughter. Their course in refinement
includes a trip to Europe and a stay in California, in the process of
which Miss Freedom receives perhaps as broad an education as “Peaches”
does. Romance and mystery enter their lives, but after an exciting
course, true love runs smoothly at last.

* * * * *

“The story is perhaps very improbable, but not unreal.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 80w

“Except as a study of the Boston governess and Peaches, showing how
each reacts on the other, there is little to note. When the author
ventures to work out a ‘plot’ she is singularly unconvincing.”

+ − =N Y Times= p27 Ja 9 ’21 650w

+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 50w

“The early chapters describing the Talbot home on Chestnut street,
Boston, are much the best of the book.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 140w

=PYLE, KATHARINE.=[2] Tales of wonder and magic. il *$2 (3c) Little

20–19078

This is the third volume of old-world fairy tales and folk lore
translated, adapted and illustrated by the author. The stories are:
White as snow, red as blood, and black as a raven’s wing—Irish; The
wonderful ring—East Indian; The three sisters—Georgian; The golden
horse, the moon lantern, and the beautiful princess—Swedish; The lady
of the lake—Welsh; The beaver stick—American Indian; The enchanted
waterfall—Japanese; Fair, brown, and trembling—Irish; The demon of the
mountain—Transylvanian gipsy; The Lamia—Hindoo; The three doves—Czech;
Mighty-arm and mighty-mouth—East Indian; The beautiful
Melissa—Louisiana; The castle that stood on golden pillars—Danish; The
twelve months—Czech.

Q

=QUENNELL, MARJORIE, and QUENNELL, CHARLES HENRY BOURNE.= History of everyday things in England. v 2 il *$4.50 (v 1 and 2 in one volume *$9) Scribner 914.2

(Eng ed 19–6495)

“The second volume of a history which applies real historical research
to the making of children’s books. As in the first book the authors
have described changes in building, furniture, dress, and games as
‘history in stone, wood, and fabrics.’ It is their desire to present
work as a ‘joyous sort of business’ which shall give boys and girls
the desire to take the pains with their labors which distinguished the
craftsmen. Bibliography. Index.”—Booklist

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p127 Ja 23 ’20 90w

“Charming volume.”

+ =Booklist= 16:247 Ap ’20

“This second part is not nearly so good as its predecessor. Its
authors have been spoilt by success, and the latter pages of the book
in particular show, to put it mildly, signs of haste. The first
chapter, on the sixteenth century, is the best.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:435 My 8 ’20 1150w

“The second part is as original and as fascinating as the first, and
those who read the first will know that no higher praise can be
given.”

+ =Spec= 124:145 Ja 31 ’20 1000w

=QUICKENS, QUARLES, pseud.=[2] English notes. $15 L. M. Thompson, 29 Broadway, N.Y. 817

20–6982

“In 1842, not long after the appearance of Charles Dickens’s
irritating ‘American notes,’ there was published anonymously in Boston
a work bearing for its title an obvious parody—‘English notes for very
extensive circulation by Quarles Quickens.’ This book is now reprinted
by Lewis M. Thompson of New York, with an introductory essay designed
to prove that the person who hid under the pseudonym of ‘Quarles
Quickens’ was Edgar Allan Poe. Joseph Jackson and George H. Sargent
supply an introduction and notes, and the publisher has added two
portraits of Poe.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“The book is valuable as a curiosity rather than as a masterpiece of
Poe’s style.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 260w

“The truth is that the pamphlet is mostly dull, a ponderous parody.
Its merit today is that it has served Mr Jackson for an excellent and
entertaining piece of detective work. In its present form, with this
foreword, ‘English notes’ must have a place on the shelves of every
collector of Dickens or of Poe.”

+ − =Nation= 111:382 O 6 ’20 410w

=N Y Times= p9 Ag 1 ’20 2800w

“Unfortunately, the attribution of the work to Poe is sustained by
neither internal nor external evidence.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 19 ’20 600w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 160w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p595 S 16 ’20 600w

=QUILLER-COUCH, SIR ARTHUR THOMAS (Q., pseud.).= On the art of reading. *$2.75 Putnam 028

20–16869

The spirit of the volume can perhaps best be illustrated by two
extracts from the preface: “The real battle for English lies in our
elementary schools, and in the training of our elementary teachers. It
is there that the foundations of a sound national teaching in English
will have to be laid, as it is there that a wrong trend will lead to
incurable issues,” and “that a liberal education is not an appendage
to be purchased by the few; that humanism is, rather, a quality which
can, and should, condition all our teaching; which can, and should, be
impressed as a character upon it all, from a poor child’s first lesson
in reading up to a tutor’s last word to his pupil on the eve of a
tripos.” Contents: Apprehension versus comprehension; Children’s
reading; On reading for examinations; On a school of English; The
value of Greek and Latin in English literature; On reading the Bible;
On selection; On the use of masterpieces; Index.

* * * * *

“We find it as hard to conceive that undergraduates did not enjoy
hearing these lectures on ‘The art of reading’ as that ‘Q’ did not
enjoy delivering them. The elements of an ideal professor were always
in him. To communicate a gusto, a vivid and thrilling delight in
literature for its own sake, as a delectable duchy where no passport,
save the fact of your own enjoyment, is required, is a gift given to
few. ‘Q’ is among them.” J. M. M.

+ =Ath= p234 Ag 20 ’20 2000w

“Especially useful to elementary teachers.”

+ =Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21

+ =Dial= 70:108 Ja ’21 50w

“As an advocate of books, I know of none so well equipped in
perspective to give advice as Quiller-Couch; as a precepter, I have
met with no one on whom the burden of his task has rested so lightly,
so agreeably, so sympathetically, as on him. Out of the fullness of
his enjoyment he speaks, and it is refreshing to observe how jealously
he tries to rescue the books he loves from the palsied grasp of the
pedagog.” M. J. Moses

+ =N Y Times= p5 Ja 2 ’21 2650w

“Original points of view, apt quotations, and genial play with the
subject characterize the volume.”

+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 60w

=Sat R= 130:219 S 11 ’20 1500w

+ =Spec= 125:472 O 9 ’20 1050w

“The style is too discursive, there is too much quoting, some of the
long sentences puzzle one on first reading. And yet what a professor
of literature! Why do not all universities secure men like this King
Edward VII professor?”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 6 ’21 570w

“Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in his lectures shows that he has the
interests of the children and of the young men strongly at heart. His
are not the accustomed utterances of the professor of literature at an
ancient university. They are not in the great style nor, in their
form, are they learned. They abound in irrelevances, with a touch of
facetiousness that is often tiresome, and occasionally they breathe
the unction of the pulpit rather than the gravity of the chair. The
lectures were doubtless more effective in their delivery than in their
printed form.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 S 2 ’20 3350w

R

=RADICE, SHEILA (JAMIESON) (MRS ALFRED HUTTON RADICE).= New children; talks with Dr Maria Montessori. *$1.50 (4c) Stokes 371.4

20–15392