Chapter VI: discusses portal bracing, sway and lateral bracing and (5)

=Peyton, William Wynne.= Three greatest forces in the world, and the making of Western civilization, pt. I, The incarnation. *$1.40. Macmillan.

“This trinity of forces is constituted, says the author, by the
Incarnation, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection.... In the present
volume, limited to the first of the triad, he insists at length on the
extension of virgin generation from the lower creation, as in bees, to
the higher creation, as in the virgin birth of Christ.”—Outlook.

“While the author is a man of considerable originality and
independence of thought he is too much lacking in critical judgment
and too fond of large sounding generalities to make his work of
value.”

— + =Ind.= 59: 152. Jl. 20, ‘05. 80w.

+ — =Outlook.= 80: 346. Je. 3, ‘05. 160w.

=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Early Christian conception of Christ; its significance and value in the history of religion. *$1.25. Putnam.

“An expansion of a lecture delivered by the author before the
International theological congress at Amsterdam, in September,
1903.... The book has been divided into five chapters—‘Christ as son
of God,’ ‘Christ as conqueror of Satan,’ ‘Christ as a wonder-worker,’
‘Christ as the conqueror of death and the life-giver,’ ‘Christ as the
king of kings and lord of lords.’”—N. Y. Times.

* =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 773. O. ‘05. 620w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 182. Mr. 25, ‘05. 320w.

=Spec.= 94: 750. My. 20, ‘05. 410w.

* =Phelps, Albert.= Louisiana; a record of expansion. **$1.10. Houghton.

“It has been Mr. Phelps’s effort in this latest addition to the
‘American commonwealths’ series to give a broad survey setting forth
Louisiana and its place in the development of the United States.”
(Outlook). “The fortunes of Louisiana under French and Spanish rule
are described in the first half of the volume, and its history as part
of the United States forms the second half of the volume.” (N. Y.
Times.)

* “While the specialist may not find much that is new in this work, it
has for the general reader the advantage of being based upon the
sources, and is not a mere compilation.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 760. N. 11, ‘05. 350w.

* “From the narrative standpoint little fault is to be found, the
style being graceful and flowing and the interest unfailingly
sustained.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 170w.

=Phelps, Charles Edward Davis.= Accolade. †$1.50. Lippincott.

In this story of the fourteenth century “the hero, son of a worthy
Englishman, being kidnapped into France by a ship’s captain, betakes
himself to Italy, wins a knighthood through gallantry, and returns to
his native England with wealth and honor just in time to prevent his
sweetheart from entering a convent for lack of him. The poets are
reverenced in the persons of Chaucer and Petrarch, and it is from a
careful study of the writings of the former that the rather difficult
and multifarious dialects of Mr. Phelps’s book are constructed.... The
rudeness of the England of the period and the refinement of Italy
serve as foils, each for the other, and the whole tale is in the
nature of a treasure house for the student of customs.” (Dial.)

“The book shows the most careful study and great painstaking, and
abounds in varied adventure.”

+ =Dial.= 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 160w.

“It cannot be said that the mantle of the old storyteller has
descended upon the modern.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 320w.

“At times the Chaucerian English in the sprightly conversations daunts
even the conqueror of polyglot dialect, but the real interest of the
tale carries him safely through to the satisfactory final scenes.”

+ — =Outlook.= 80: 137. My. 13, ‘05. 90w.

* =Philippi, Adolf.= Florence; tr. from the German by P. G. Konody. *$1.50. Scribner.

“In commendably brief space the author gives us a comprehensive survey
of Florentine history, the part played by all its leading citizens
both in politics, literature, and art, the origin of all its important
buildings, with extensive architectural notes about them and excellent
illustrations of its churches, palaces, groups of sculpture,
altar-pieces, frescoes, and noteworthy details.” (Nation.) There are
170 illustrations. The lives of the Florentine painters and
descriptions of their principal works are also given making the volume
a good supplementary guide book for the artistic traveler.

* “The book suffers from being crudely translated from the German.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 430. N. 23, ‘05. 510w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 130w.

* =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 30w.

=Phillips, David Graham.= Deluge. †$1.50. Bobbs.

The hero of Mr. Graham’s story is as intrepid in love as in battling
against Wall street magnates. Simply stated, he is a man who won’t be
downed,—in the world of finance when a power rises against him he
hunts for a tiger to fight the bull, and in the battle with giants,
makes his escape; as for his romance, he quietly determines to marry a
girl in a social world above him, carries his point, and then proceeds
to win her love.

* “As usual, he has written a readable story, but its extravagance
deprives it of any claim to be taken seriously.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.

“If the author, as one must infer, intended that we should admire
Blacklock, he is likely to be disappointed.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 260w.

* — =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05, 60w.

=Phillips, David Graham.= Plum tree. $1.50. Bobbs.

A story of the tree of political plums. A young country lawyer is
driven by poverty to accept an assemblyman’s salary from the hands of
a “boss,” and when his conscience forces him to vote against a bad
bill he is thrown out of office. He becomes a reform county
prosecutor, but fails in re-election and accepts a position as lawyer
for the power company which he had been actively fighting. He makes a
rich but loveless marriage, becomes a United States senator, and in
the end, looking back upon the seething furnace of corruption thru
which he has passed, finds comfort in the love of the girl he had
renounced in his days of poverty.

“It is in our judgment far and away the most important novel of recent
years, because it unmasks present political conditions in a manner so
graphic, so convincing and so compelling that it cannot fail to arouse
the thoughtful to the deadly peril which confronts our people.”

+ + + =Arena.= 33: 663. Je. ‘05. 6180w.

“This novel is definitely better than its predecessors, even though
its author has not even yet progressed very far in the art of
portraying women.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 80w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 760w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.

+ =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 676. Ap. 29, ‘05. 320w.

* =Phillips, David Graham.= Reign of gilt. **$1. Pott.

“This work consists of a series of brilliant essays dealing with the
overshadowing questions of the hour—Plutocracy and Democracy. The
first half of the volume deals with plutocracy.... Such subjects as
Plutocracy at home, Youth among the money-maniacs, Caste-compellers,
Pauper-making, The made-over White house, and Europe laughs, are
discussed.... The second half of the volume is entitled ‘Democracy.’
In this division Mr. Phillips considers such subjects as The compeller
of equality, Democracy’s dynamo, A nation of dreamers, Not generosity,
but justice, The inevitable ideal, Our allies from abroad, The real
American woman, and The man of to-day and to-morrow.”—Arena.

* “Therefore, we say that he who loves the republic should buy, read
and circulate ‘The reign of gilt.’ The more such books are circulated,
the more certainly and swiftly will come the democratic reaction for
which we are all striving.”

+ + + =Arena.= 34: 661. D. ‘05. 1610w.

* “It is a most vital subject, and one upon which Mr. Phillips speaks
earnestly and with an iteration almost Rooseveltian.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

=Phillips, David Graham.= Social secretary. †$1.50. Bobbs.

The delightful story of the daughter of an old Washington family, who
undertakes to carry a western senator’s wife to the top of the
official-social wave, and succeeds. Incidentally she is rewarded for
her service by a large salary and—something more. The various types of
people found in the struggle for social and political supremacy at the
national capital are well and amusingly drawn.

* “It is not up to the level Mr. Phillips has maintained in his latest
works.”

+ =Arena.= 34: 664. D. ‘05. 740w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1482. D. 21, ‘05. 160w.

“Mr. Phillips’s airy tale is a fascinating one, and, perhaps, if one
looks closely, he may find beneath the daintily flavored meringue some
food for thought.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 270w.

* “Besides the froth there is some really admirable character drawing
in the story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.

“The story is distinctly clever and humorous.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ‘05. 150w.

=Phillips, E. C.= See =Looker, Mrs. Horace B.=

=Phillips, Henry Wallace.= Plain Mary Smith: a romance of Red Saunders. †$1.50. Century.

Red Saunders’ first appearance as the principal figure in a long story
will delight readers who have known his sturdy traits and original
humor in short story fiction. Not being able to stand up under the
indignities heaped upon him by a father who “felt some scornful toward
the Almighty for such a weak and frivolous institution as Heaven,” the
lad when eighteen runs away to sea; and on board the Matilda bound for
Panama, he meets Plain Mary Smith—plain only in name. How he enters
into her romance only as the champion of the real lover, and how he
fights Panamans at the close of a lively revolution with quart cans of
tomatoes are phases of a humorously interesting tale.

“Adventures follow one another swiftly, and Red Saunders relates them
all with wit and vigorous bad grammar.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 90w.

“In the relation of the narrative there is much of the humorous
whimsicality of subject and style which has distinguished Mr.
Phillips’s shorter stories. Yet there is also a regrettable thinness.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 250w.

=Phillips, Stephen.= Sin of David. **$1.25. Macmillan.

This three act drama, is not biblical, altho it is founded on an
action analogous to that of David to Uriah, the Hittite. The play
opens in the army of Cromwell and proceeds during the course of the
English civil war. It is the story of the love of Sir Hubert Lisle for
the wife of a Puritan captain, the crime which made their marriage
possible, and their punishment.

“It is, however, creditable accomplishment, and up to the level of Mr.
Phillips’s previous work.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 155. F. 4. 840w.

“‘The sin of David’ is even cleverer than ‘Herod’ and ‘Ulysses’ in its
superficial dramatic quality, its superficial poetry. But the true
dramatic fire is not in it.” Ferris Greenslet.

+ + — =Atlan.= 96: 422. S. ‘05. 140w.

“To one who has read all four plays of Mr. Phillips it appears
unhappily evident that The sin of David is inferior in movement to
Ulysses, even as this must rank below Herod, nor is it equal in pathos
to Paolo and Francesca. There are passages in the play which would
drag in presentation.” Louis H. Gray.

+ + — =Bookm.= 20: 554. F. ‘05. 970w.

“Has the fine literary qualities we associate with the name of the
author. But as an acting play it can have at best a success of esteem,
for while there are some strong and moving scenes in it, the general
air is of the closet rather than the stage.” J. B. G.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 91. Ja. ‘05. 710w.

“The verse is dignified and filled with a haunting melodious charm.”

+ =Dial.= 38: 47. Ja. 16, ‘05. 440w.

* + — =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 110w.

“A play better calculated to ‘place’ him critically than any of its
predecessors. The chief impression made by it is that it is the
product of a moderate poetic faculty guided by an industrious and
self-poised intelligence.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 72. Ja. 26, ‘05. 590w.

“As a play it ranks lowest in the four plays Mr. Phillips has written;
this position it maintains as a poem. The work is deftly knitted
together; it has beauty of form, if not many beauties of line; but it
has no great situations.”

+ — =Reader.= 5: 382. F. ‘05. 560w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 40w.

=Phillips, Thomas W.= Church of Christ, by a layman. *$1. Funk.

This volume is the result of a layman’s investigation of religious
truth from heathen, Jewish and Christian standpoints. Under two
general divisions, The history of pardon, and Evidence of pardon and
the church as an organization, it makes a plea for unity, sets forth
the original phases of Christianity, reviews all cases of pardon in
the New Testament, and compares Jesus with other religious teachers.

* “The author sketches the history of Christianity with all the
assurance of ignorance and then with equal assurance expounds his own
theological views.”

— =Acad.= 68: 1259. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.

+ =Outlook.= 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 250w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 512. O. ‘05. 80w.

=Phillpotts, Eden.= The farm of the dagger. $1.50. Dodd.

A story of a family feud in Dartmoor, early in the nineteenth century.
The hero is an English gentleman, and a captured American plays an
important role in the exciting tale, which ends in the sacrifice of
the parents and the happy union of the lovers.

Reviewed by W. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 120w.

=Phillpotts, Eden.= Knock at a venture. †$1.50. Macmillan.

Sketches of Dartmoor men and women told largely in dialect. There is
grim humor and homely tragedy, there are three cornered love affairs
and affairs with more corners, there are old men and young, but all
are real. The stories include, The mound by the way, The crossways;
Corban; A pickaxe and a spade; and Benjamin’s mess.

=Acad.= 68: 906. S. 2, ‘05. 310w.

“Mr. Phillpotts writes always picturesquely, and often with surprising
vividness.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 368. S. 16. 370w.

“Written in a light vein for the most part, yet laden also with a
certain quaint and primitive philosophy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 22: 234. N. ‘05. 470w.

“He knows his people and presents them to us with truth and vigour.
There are no false notes. The last touch is wanting, the spell that
can send a glow of life and beauty over every page; and they remain
readable stories, lively and convincing, but not very new.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 400w.

“Dartmoor sketches in sombre shades, and excellent of their kind.
There is a suggestion of Hardy, too, without Mr. Hardy’s later
morbidness.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 606. S. 16, ‘05. 510w.

“Taken as a whole, the volume leaves a delightful impression of quaint
character, soft dialect, and exuberant but not grotesque fancy.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 110w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.

=Pub. Opin.= 39: 477. O. 7, ‘05. 200w.

=Phillpotts, Eden.= Secret woman. $1.50. Macmillan.

This is another story of Dartmoor, and the Dartmoor peasants the
author knows so well. After twenty years of married life, Anthony
Redvers, the father of the two grown sons, finds relief from the
temperamental coldness of his wife, in an intrigue with an unknown
woman. The discovery, the revenge of the wife and the beautiful
devotion of the younger son fill out the plot.

“It is a remarkable novel, a living, breathing piece of work.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 83. Ja. 28, ‘05. 260w.

“Is constructed on what is almost a Sophoclean scale. Mr. Phillpotts
moves simply among primitive emotions, and moves with great natural
insight. He has psychological subtlety, and he has great tenderness.
He has a sense of the dramatic which materially assists him. Too much
praise cannot be given to the author for his handling of this big
theme. The characterization is always good, and sometimes more than
good.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 105. Ja. 28, 610w.

+ — =Cath. World.= 81: 550. Jl. ‘05. 130w.

“Those who care to read literature and not mere books will find what
they want in this great novel.” Charlotte Harwood.

+ + + =Critic.= 46: 378. Ap. ‘05. 830w.

“A study that rivals ‘The scarlet letter’ in earnestness and
psychological penetration.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 280w.

“The psychology of a weak man and a strong woman is etched with the
hand of a master.”

+ + + =Ind.= 58: 559. Mr. 9, ‘05. 290w.

* “‘The secret woman’ is a great story of the wrong kind.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.

“Mr. Phillpotts’s strongest story. A tragedy as grim and inexorable as
any ever told by ancient Greek. He knows his Devon peasants, and it is
with humility that we enter one or two protests against his portrayal.
One may wish the theme less painful, our keen joy in the perfection of
literary workmanship less marred by the continual constriction of
heart to which the author compels us. It is not only its author’s
masterpiece, but it is far in advance of anything he has yet
written—and that is to give it higher praise than almost any other
comparison with contemporary fiction could afford.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 83. F. 11, ‘05. 700w.

“A book of unusual power and passion—by far the best work in fiction
that Mr. Phillpotts has put forth within the past two or three years.
There are at least four characters in this book that are original in
conception, carefully consistent throughout, and subtle in their
psychological development. Altogether the situation is as strange as
it is compelling in its force, and it is handled with skill and vigor.
In all, this is a grim but forceful romance.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 350. F. 4, ‘05. 240w.

“It is a story of terrible frankness, dealing without evasion with the
elemental forces of the human tragedy, but without morbid interest or
curiosity, and binding the penalty to the sin.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 100w.

“Assuredly the best novel of Mr. Eden Phillpotts.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 756. Je. ‘05. 230w.

“His themes are simple, but they are far too heavily orchestrated.
Thus his style, though marked by fine descriptive passages, threatens
to become laboured and ornate, and is occasionally disfigured by
recondite epithets and literary preciosities. He seems to us to err by
the artificial and deliberate invention of incidents designed to
enhance the tragic quality of the narrative, by a piling up of the
agony which defeats its own aim, and suggests the element of
gratuitousness where all should march inevitably to the crowning
catastrophe.”

+ — =Spec.= 94: 331. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1130w.

=Picard, George H.= Bishop’s niece, †$1.25. Turner, H. B.

“Although the comic element is the last that one expects in a story of
‘mixed marriages,’ that is to say of matrimonial alliances between
Catholic and Protestant, it is really very droll, thanks to the demure
eccentricity of his pacific Lordship, the Bishop of Isle Madame, and
the contrasted orthodoxy of his brother, a domineering layman.”—N. Y.
Times.

“A neat piece of literary workmanship.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 301. My. 6, ‘05. 90w.

“The little story shows ingenuity, a quaint humor, and some pretty
fancies.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 379. Je. 10, ‘05. 260w.

“Is a well-balanced little conceit with delicate and simple humor.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w.

=Pidgin, Charles Felton.= Little Burr: the Warwick of America. $1.50. Robinson-Luce.

A book which deals with the youth of Aaron Burr, and his career in the
Revolutionary war. It tells of his marriage, chronicles the birth of
his daughter Theodosia, and thruout contradicts all accepted ideas of
his character by presenting him as a noble gentleman, true to his
ideals and the victim of unmerited social and political ostracism.

“Is not very coherent as fiction.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 261. Ap. 22, ‘05. 480w.

=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Ancient grudge. †$1.50. Houghton.

“‘The ancient grudge’ is the irksome sense of obligation felt by one
young man to another who has saved his life as a boy, and in the main
the novel is a study of the divergent temperaments of these two men.
They are students at Harvard together, live in the same town, love the
same girl, and in the end the mercurial, sanguine, visionary Stewart
dies heroically and dramatically, while the heroism of Keith (who as a
boy has saved his friend’s life) takes the form of steady persistence
and strength of mind and purpose. To some extent the story deals with
labor questions, but, while it presents some phases of the problem in
an interesting way, it does not go very deeply into the
subject.”—Outlook.

“In thus making a ‘problem novel’ out of what had better have remained
a story of private interest, Mr. Pier proves rather disappointing.”
Wm. M. Payne.

+ — =Dial.= 39: 309. N. 16, ‘05. 200w.

“It is wholesome in tone, high in its ideals. The author has made a
decided advance in his art since the publication of ‘The triumph,’
handling his material more firmly, and making a stronger human
appeal.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 660w.

“Few, if any, novels of the season show more thoughtful and solid work
in character-study than this book, which is, moreover distinctly well
written. The weakest point is construction.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 170w.

=Pigou, Arthur Cecil.= Principles and methods of industrial peace. *$1.10. Macmillan.

“In this work the author considers the question of not what have
arbitration and conciliation done, but rather what ought they to do,
and how they ought to do it.” (R. of Rs.) “The first part of the book
is historical and descriptive; the second treats of ‘The principles of
industrial peace.’ The table of contents contains a summary of the
book, and in appendices problems of wages and industry are treated of
diametrically.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The book would have provided easier reading and commanded more
attention if Mr. Pigou had been more willing to ‘take sides.’”

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 705. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1170w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 339. My. 27, ‘05. 150w.

“His spirit appears to us throughout fair, his understanding and
appreciation of the point of view of both parties to the industrial
conflict remarkable, and his advice generally to be both based on
sound principles and practical of application.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 133. S. 16, ‘05. 440w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘05. 80w.

“Our one criticism of the book is that the author hesitates a little
between two different intentions. Some of the preliminaries would be
in place in a large organon, but in a popular handbook they read like
platitudes, and might well be taken for granted.”

+ + — =Spec.= 95: 290. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1730w.

“His general judgment is keen and vigorous, and he has remarkable
powers of exposition, among which a good literary style is not the
least. Thus far, at least, I have been unable to see that the economic
reasoner extracts from his careful labor on curves and diagrams an
iota of truth which he had not assumed or put in, at the beginning.”
N. P. Gilman.

+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 224. Ag. ‘05. 640w.

=Pike, Godfrey Holden.= John Wesley: the man and his mission. *$1. Union press.

Illustrated and written in a quaint old-fashioned style, this brief
account of the life of John Wesley, “one of the greatest evangelists
who ever carried the Gospel to the people,” seems to breathe the
simple Christian spirit of the man. It is a book which is well adapted
to children, altho not written for them.

=Pitkin, Helen.= Angel by brevet. $1.50. Lippincott.

This is the first book of a young New Orleans newspaper writer. The
story deals with French Creoles of the old regime, and the voodouism
of the negroes. The heroine invokes the charms of a sorcerer to aid
her in securing the affections of the man with whom she fancies
herself in love, and in the course of the complications which follow
discovers that she is really in love with a clergyman who has long
been her admirer.

“The testimony of those in a position to know is that Miss Pitkin has
not transcended facts. Her development of this fruitful theme is,
however, most unequal. The entire book, indeed, is full of
affectations, not only in choice of words but in their collocation.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 844. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w.

“The style is precious and exotic to the extreme limit of license and
beyond. Miss Pitkin’s command of unfamiliar words is marvelous; her
use of familiar words more marvelous still.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 54. Ja. 28, ‘05. 410w. (Outline of plot.)

“Miss Pitkin handles her material with much strength; but her hand
lacks the sure and discriminating touch which comes from practice. Her
details of plot do not always avoid confusion, and the movement is
sometimes labored.” J. R. Ormond.

+ — =The South Atlantic Quarterly.= 4: 97. Ja. ‘05. 100w.

=Plato.= Myths of Plato; text and translation; with introductory and other observations by J. A. Stewart. *$4.50. Macmillan.

“It was a very happy thought to bring together the myths of Plato and
examine the lesson of each. We are grateful, moreover, to Professor
Stewart for giving us the Greek in every case on the page opposite to
the English rendering.... The excellent account of the Cambridge
Platonists, More, Cudworth, Clarke, and Smith, will be to some not the
least interesting part of a work full of thought and learning.”—Acad.

“Jowett’s translation is so good that it seems churlish to say that
the present rendering is even more perfect, and reads even more like
an original composition in English.”

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 325. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1300w.

“It may be said in conclusion, that Prof. Stewart’s book—dealing, as
it does, with a side of Platonism which has been too much neglected—is
the finest contribution to the knowledge of Plato’s thought which has
been made in this country of late years.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 429. Ap. 8. 1390w.

“One cannot read Professor Stewart’s discussion without being moved to
wonder again and again at the felicitous phrase by which he conveys
impalpable emotions, by the fineness with which his perception is
pitched to detect frail sympathies.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 255. Ag. 11, ‘05. 3150w.

+ + =Nation.= 81: 106. Ag. 3, ‘05. 1090w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 155. Mr. 11, ‘05. 300w.

“Though in detail interesting and exegetic, the book does not draw
very much to a point, and is perhaps rather overweighted. Mr.
Stewart’s translation, it must be said is not as good a representation
of the original as Jowett’s.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 742. Je. 3, ‘05. 1320w.

+ + — =Spec.= 94: 895. Je. 17, ‘05. 1660w.

=Platt, Isaac Hull.= Walt Whitman. **75c. Small.

Mr. Platt’s biography is the outgrowth of partisan beliefs and fancies
rather than a development from so-called legitimate biographical
material including clews to Whitman’s inner life. The volume is the
latest issue in the “Beacon biographies.”

“It is frankly the statement of a partisan; it contains little or no
new material; it follows closely the phraseology of previous writers
and quotes rather too liberally from them; but it is clear, compact,
sensible summary of the facts of Whitman’s life, so far as they are
known, and as such deserves commendation.” G. R. Carpenter.

+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 64. Mr. ‘05. 670w.

“A concise and highly eulogistic account of Whitman and his works.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 20w.

“A believer to the fullest extent in the greatness of his work. And
yet he does not spare criticism.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 80w.

=Plummer, Rev. Alfred.= English church history: four lectures from the death of Archbishop Parker to the death of King Charles I. *$1. Scribner.

“Dr. Plummer aims to be judicially fair in his estimate of men and
measures in the momentous period in English history from 1575 to 1649,
but on every page he makes it patent that he is an ardent adherent of
the church by law established. Elizabeth’s character was far from
worthy, but it was good of her to fight the Romanists and the
Puritans, and to preserve the Anglican church intact. James I, the
wise fool, reached ‘the lowest depths of unpopularity with his
subjects,’ but, ‘by solid conviction, during the whole of his reign he
was neither Romanist nor Puritan, but an Anglican.’ Five or six
particulars are specified in which he served the Church of England a
good turn. Charles I, the impersonation of ‘incurable duplicity and
intrigue,’ carried despotism to its utmost limit, and through his
‘criminal wrongheadedness and perfidy’ brought about the overthrow of
both episcopacy and monarchy. Dr. Plummer does not venture to
enumerate the particulars in which his reign was helpful to the
Anglican cause.”—Bib. World.

=Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 376. Ap. ‘05. 150w.

Reviewed by E. B. Hulbert.

+ — =Bib. World.= 25: 317. Ap. ‘05. 160w.

=Plunkett, Horace.= Ireland in the new century. 60c. Dutton.

A popular priced edition of this now famous book which “begins with a
chapter on ‘The English misunderstanding,’ and traces the whole
question of politics, religion, economics, and education to the final
chapter, which is on ‘Government with the consent of the governed.’”
(R. of Rs.)

“It is dull, labored in style, pedantic, and egotistical.”

+ — — =Nation.= 81: 62. Jl. 20, ‘05. 790w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 360. Je. 3, ‘05. 730w.

“Unquestionably a sane and a healthful contribution to the settlement
of the ever-difficult Irish question.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 250w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘05. 280w.

=Plympton, Almira George.= School-house in the woods. †$1.50. Little.

In her story for young readers Miss Plympton portrays the sweet
influence of a child who comes to live with her guardians, two
bachelor uncles,—a child whose “realization of the relationship
between human beings, so keen as to make her oblivious to the
distinction made by rank, race, education or even morals” fosters a
democratic spirit among her school friends. Her sympathy and affection
for a little colored girl form the larger part of the story.

* “It is a book which would do best service in being read aloud by a
judicious editor, who should cull the flowers and skip the thorns.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 406. N. 16, ‘05. 190w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 868. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.

=Pocock, Roger.= Curly, a tale of the Arizona desert. †$1.00. Little.

A feud, which began in the Irish land league troubles, is transplanted
and finished in Arizona where, among Indians, outlaws, and cowboys,
young Lord Balshannon finds a wife in the plucky daughter of a robber
chief. The story is real and stirring and the author has lived the
things of which he writes.

“The real enjoyment of the book is ... due to the breezy dialect in
which the book is written, the picturesque vernacular of the ranch.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 21: 519. Jl. ‘05. 150w.

“The style in which the cowboy tells the stirring tale is crisp,
vivid, vigorous and only occasionally marred by coarseness; the
offense is in expression alone—the thought is not coarse.”

+ + — =Ind.= 59: 694. S. 21, ‘05. 320w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 110w.

“Seems to us quite the best cowboy story since Owen Wister’s ‘The
Virginian.’”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 40w.

“There are several obscure statements and situations in the story.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 868. Je. 3, ‘05. 180w.

“Among current books of adventure, ‘Curly’ is especially good.”

+ + =Reader.= 6: 361. Ag. ‘05. 170w.

* Poems every child should know; a selection of all times for young people; ed. by Mary E. Burt. *$1.25. Doubleday.

The poems contained in this volume are those which children actually
love and with but a few exceptions they are brief enough to be
committed to memory. They have been divided into five groups each of
which appeals to a different stage of childhood. The division
headings: The budding moment; The little child; The day’s at the morn;
Lad and lassie; On and on; and Grow old along with me, strike the key
notes of their contents. Nearly all the old favorites and some new
ones are to be found here. The volume is bound in soft green suede and
is decorated with drawings by Blanche Ostertag.

=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation, 1489-1556. **$1.35. Putnam.

An addition to the “Heroes of the Reformation series.” An attempt to
clear up some of the mysteries surrounding Cranmer, which, the author
says, are mysteries of the atmosphere he breathed, rather than of
character. His great work in the compilation of the Book of common
prayer, and his translations of the Collects is set over against his
weakness in failing to stand by his convictions against Tudor tyranny.

“The author has a competent knowledge of what was then going on
throughout Europe and is safe-guarded against the insularity or
provincialism which marks the authors of the volumes in Stephens and
Hunt’s ‘History of the Church of England.’ Its impartiality and lack
of partisan writing is also to be commended.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 440. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1210w.

“No one could be better qualified for the task. The book can rightly
claim to be the first considerable biography of Cranmer which has been
written according to the canons of modern scientific historical work.
It is clear, and for the most part consistent and convincing; and
though it contains nothing that is startlingly new, it arranges in
useful and readable form a vast amount of hitherto scattered and not
always trustworthy information. Mr. Pollard’s treatment of the
archbishop’s career under Henry VIII seems to us ... much less
satisfactory.” R. B. Merriman.

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 861. Jl. ‘05. 920w.

“This book is an inspiring work, both as a fine biography of a most
admirable man and as an addition to the conscience literature that is
so needed to stimulate the moral energies of our age.”

+ + =Arena.= 34: 110. Jl. ‘05. 460w.

“The present work reaches, we think, the high-water mark of his
achievement. It will form, and rightly form the standard life of
Cranmer for some time to come. Mr. Pollard in this book is certainly
not without a bias.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 200. Ag. 12. 1530w.

“Mr. Pollard offers as good a plea for him as can be offered, and
offers it in a temperate spirit. His volume is almost a model of what
such a biography should be.” Edward Fuller.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 279. Mr. ‘05. 330w.

“The character and ability of Cranmer are skilfully portrayed, and the
work may be counted as a real contribution to popular knowledge on
this important period.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 46. Jl. 16, ‘05. 150w.

“Mr. Pollard has done the Archbishop something like justice, and has
done it in a way that maintains the interest of the reader to the
last.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 170. My. 26, ‘05. 510w.

“Mr. Pollard writes pleasantly, with a clear arrangement of his
subject, and a fair sense of proportion.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 36. Jl. 13, ‘05. 2190w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 110w.

“Very able and interesting volume. We are grateful to Mr. Pollard for
his fine vindication of a man who was not without elements of true
greatness.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 58. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1720w.

=Pollock, Walter Herries, and Pollock, Guy C.= Hay fever. $1.25. Longmans.

“Mr. Henry Tempest, stockbroker, is suffering from a severe attack of
the malady which gives the book its title; to cure it he takes an
overdose of an Egyptian remedy, recommended by a friend with a
careless turn for archaeology. The effects of this overdose are
amazing and mischievous. The stockbroker is transformed from a staid
and benevolent man of middle-age into a boy of pranks.... He has one
frantic day of irresponsible delight, and his adventures ... carry one
on from peal to peal of laughter.”—Acad.

“It is an excellent farce.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 495. My. 6, ‘05. 260w.

“The book has all the freshness of a humorous idea worked out and
finished in the heat of the moment.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 620. My. 20. 150w.

“It’s all rather pleasant and funny after its fashion.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 380w.

“A farce with only one defect—it is not funny.”

— =Outlook.= 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 10w.

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w.

+ =Sat. R.= 99: 674. My. 20, ‘05. 130w.

=Pool, Bettie Freshwater.= Eyrie and other southern stories. $1. Broadway pub.

Seven short stories, some of which are in the negro dialect, a dozen
simple poems on various subjects and a concluding story. The
monstrosity, by Gaston Pool, complete this volume.

=Porter, Frank Chamberlain.= Messages of the apocalyptic writers, the books of Daniel and Revelation and some uncanonical apocalypses; with historical introductions and a free rendering in paraphrase. **$1.25. Scribner.

“These mysterious writings, most of them not in our canonical
Scriptures, are our chief source for later Jewish eschatology, and for
the momentous matter of Messianic dogmatics.... [The author] gives a
summary view of their nature and subject-matter, and analyzes, at
considerable length, the books of Daniel and Revelations. In smaller
space he studies the apocalypses of Enoch, Ezra and Baruch.”—Cath.
World.

“A very useful and convenient manual of Jewish and Christian
apocalyptic from the historical point of view.”

+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 79. Jl. ‘05. 20w.

“An excellent manual. Professor Porter’s introduction to the study of
these writings is done in a clear, systematic, and erudite manner. His
tone throughout is scholarly and objective.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 248. My. ‘05. 490w.

“A little book thoroughly to be recommended.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 70w.

* “Is perhaps, the best introduction to the study of Daniel and
Revelation available.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.

“In ample introductions and notes Professor Porter has given a
confessedly obscure subject the lucid treatment it requires.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 857. Ap. 1, ‘05. 140w.

=Porter, Mary (Mrs. Horace Porter).= Secret of a great influence. *$1. Macmillan.

In these “Notes on Bishop Westcott’s teachings, the reader ... has set
before him considerations as to the bishop’s ethical and dogmatic
teaching.... He then passes to the subject of ‘Bible study.’ ... The
fifth section treats of Bishop Westcott’s teaching on ‘The Christian
church’ and ‘The Christian creed’; the sixth is devoted to ‘Worship,’
public and private; ‘Foreign missions’ and a variety of other subjects
are also mentioned; and finally we have a paper on Bishop Westcott’s
‘Commentaries,’ by Rev. A. Westcott.”—Spec.

=Spec.= 94: 444. Mr. 25, ‘05. 280w.

=Post, Emily (Mrs. Edwyn Main Post).= Purple and fine linen. †$1.50. Appleton.

Fashionable New York forms the background for this story of the
development of Camilla from a child into a woman. Young, thoughtless,
fresh from school, she marries Anthony Stuart, who is rich and
handsome, but who makes of her a plaything not a part of his life.
Another man comes to cheer her lonely existence, and she awakens on
the brink of marital shipwreck.

“The author’s manner of handling her subject is the excuse for the
book’s existence.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 724. O. 28, ‘05. 290w.

“There is some clever characterization of modern society, and several
individuals stand out clearly as real people.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 110w.

=Pott, Francis L. Hawks.= Sketch of Chinese history. **$1.80. Wessels.

This volume was written to meet the need of a short history of China,
it is intended primarily for teachers, and is a brief survey of a
large field. It contains three divisions, The conquest of China by the
Chinese (B. C. 2852-206), The first struggle with the Tartars (B. C.
206-A. D. 589), The second struggle with the Tartars (A. D. 589-1644),
and includes a chapter on The war with Japan, and Recent events in
China. There are five maps.

=Pottenger, Milton Alberto.= Symbolism. $2.50. Robertson.

A treatise on the soul of things, which demonstrates that the natural
world is but a symbol of the real world, explains why there are but
ten digits in our mathematical system, and shows the pack of playing
cards, or book of 52, to be an ancient Masonic Bible, each card a
symbol of universal law. It reveals new things about many Masonic
symbols and Biblical expressions and declares that the United States
is a Masonic nation whose duty and history are to be read in these
ancient sacred symbols. There are charts and drawings.

=Potter, Mrs. Frances B. (Squire).= Ballingtons. †$1.50. Little.

Mrs. Potter’s first book is a study of the principles that underlie
the misery resulting from two unhappy marriages. The main action
sympathetically follows the awakening of Agnes Sidney from the
condition of care-free girlhood to the state of restricted wifehood
with Ferdinand Ballington lording the right of financial despotism
over her. The author has drawn a spiritually minded woman whose great
love and keen sense of duty buoy her up when the discovery of
pettiness and low aims would tend to submerge her. In contrast to the
tyranny of withholding is portrayed in the sub-action the tyranny of
giving, in which a wealthy girl, mistress of her own fortune, marries
a quiet, refined bank clerk. Here a man’s sensitive longing for
independence is opposed by the dominant freeheartedness and
worldliness of his wife.

* “A distinctive book not soon forgotten like the average novel.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 120w.

“Here and there the workmanship is a bit crude; here and there the
book would have gained by compression and excision, but, take it all
in all, it is the most remarkable novel that has come to our desk for
many a long day. It takes its rare and high place because, as we read
we say again and again, not ‘This is lifelike,’ but ‘This is life.’”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 672. O. 14, ‘05. 810w.

* “It is conspicuously lacking in finish of style in places, and is
not at all points well put together; but it is a real piece of work,
full of true feeling, genuine insight, and a sincere and sound ethical
judgment.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 709. N. 25, ‘05. 170w.

=Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Codman.= Drink problem in modern life. **30c. Crowell.

A frank exposition of the drink problem as Bishop Potter views it. He
believes that the secret of mastery over the great evil of
intemperance lies not in “legal enactment,” but in “the Spirit of
Jesus Christ.” He says, “The world waits, we say, for better laws—or
for better men to administer the laws! No, my brother, it waits for
love—the vigilance of love, the service of love, the sacrifice of
love.”

“... Loose texture and somewhat irrelevant quality of much contained
in his pamphlet.”

+ — — =Reader.= 5: 788. My. ‘05. 230w.

=Potter, Margaret.= Fire of spring. $1.50. Appleton.

A mother, regardless of the sleeping fires of youth, marries her young
daughter to a millionaire plow manufacturer of Chicago. The girl,
excited by the whirl of preparations, gives little thought to her
fiance and when she realizes at their first tête-à-tête dinner, that
this bald, red-faced man audibly eating soup, is her husband, she
loathes him. A cousin, handsome and worldly, appears and intrigue,
suspicion, quarrels, and other unpleasant things follow. In the end
the cousin meets a death of the husband’s planning, and the
ill-assorted pair, less lovable than when they first met, forgive, and
come to care for each other.

“The story has the fault so frequently found when women handle sex
problems; as though fearful of not being understood, it insists upon
unsavoury details with unnecessary and repellant frankness. The book
is irritatingly uneven.”

+ — =Bookm.= 21: 182. Ap. ‘05. 680w.

“Miss Potter has evidently aimed at writing a ‘strong’ novel, and has
certainly succeeded in producing something very rank.”

— — — =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 80w.

“No one could call this story dull or badly written; but, recognizing
what will inevitably be called its strength, one must regret the
novelist’s use of her real power in the working out of such obnoxious
phases of life—if it is life—in Chicago.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 173. Mr. 18, ‘05. 860w.

“‘The fire of spring’ belongs to the very best in the season’s
American fiction.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 160w.

* =Potter, Mary Knight.= Art of the Venice academy, containing a brief history of the building and its collection of paintings as well as descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their artists. **$2. Page.

In this volume the author has treated each room in the Royal gallery
of fine arts in Venice separately, and in her own chosen order. The
greater pictures she has given in detail while some of the lesser ones
she has merely outlined, reserving as much space as possible for
comments upon the artists themselves. The book is well illustrated.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 110w.

* =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 80w.

* “This particular volume is well enough for its class.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 150w.

* “Evidently designed as much to decorate ‘the center table’ as to
illuminate the mind.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.

* “The author shows care and discrimination in her criticism and
suggestions.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 667. N. 18, ‘05. 60w.

* =Pottinger, Sir Henry.= Flood, fell and forest; a book of sport in Norway. 2v. $8.40. Longmans.

“Sir Henry’s volumes deal with many phases of sport, from elk hunting,
in which he is a veteran and an adept, to the successful pursuit of
trout and salmon, from sport with Norwegian red deer to pleasant days
with ryper and other game birds. The author was one of the earliest
sportsmen to wet a line on the famous Tana river. This was nearly
fifty years ago, but the narrative of the expedition and its results
is so fresh and so vigorous that it is certain to capture the reader’s
attention.” (Acad.) The volumes are illustrated.

* “To our thinking, although some of the matter is by no means
entirely new, these are two of the pleasantest sporting volumes that
we have encountered during the last three or four years.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1253. D. 2, ‘05. 1280w.

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 762. N. 11, ‘05. 190w.

* “We like the temper of the book and a good part of its contents; but
think it might, with distinct advantage from a literary point of view,
have been compressed into one volume of moderate length.”

+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 728. D. 2, ‘05. 180w.

=Poulsson, Anne Emilie.= Runaway donkey, and other rhymes for children. †$1.50. Lothrop.

Printed in large type upon heavy paper and abundantly illustrated,
these rhymes, the majority of which are about animals, will appeal to
all imaginative little folks.

+ =Outlook.= 81: 282. S. 30, ‘05. 15w.

* “Miss Poulsson’s book should be a welcome addition to every child’s
library.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 712. D. ‘05. 70w.

=Powell, Edward Payson.= Country home. **$1.50. McClure.

The author, a fruit-farmer of New York state, deals with the problem
of successful country home making under such headings as: Selecting
the homestead, Growing a house, Water supply, Lawns, Orchard, Flowers,
The insects, The animals, The beautiful and the useful.

“Is one of the most valuable and practical works of recent months.
With the witchery of the poet’s art he leads us from page to page,
until all too soon the end of the volume is reached.” Amy C. Rich.

+ + + =Arena.= 33: 449. Ap. ‘05. 800w.

“For practical information, Mr. Powell’s is the best book on this
general theme of a home in the country that has appeared—in America at
least—for many a day.”

+ + + =Country Calendar.= 1: 9f. My. ‘05. 240w.

+ =Critic.= 46: 480. My. ‘05. 90w.

“The charm of Mr. Powell’s book is that it urges simplicity of living
and practical and successful ways of doing things, along with full
enjoyment of all that is beautiful and healthful in rural life.”
Priscilla Leonard.

+ + =Current Literature.= 38: 337. Ap. ‘05. 3890w. (Abstract of
book.)

“All lovers of rural life will appreciate it. It is full of common
sense, practical advice, a commendation rarely to be bestowed on books
of this class; and besides the advice it is excellently good reading.
The book greatly needs a subject index, for it is good enough to be in
frequent use as a reference work. It is so completely and so simply
what it starts out to be—a practical account of a life in the country.
‘The country home’ should be put into every country library, and also
into every school library, for from there it would reach a class of
people who need just its suggestions and ideas.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 96. Ja. 12, ‘05. 700w.

=Powell, Edward Payson.= Orchard and fruit garden. **$1.50. McClure.

“The greater part of this book is taken up by advice as to the best
varieties of fruit to plant, ranging from apples to small fruits and
including some little-grown fruits and some nut-trees. The usual order
is reversed here, for after this long dissertation on kinds of fruit,
there follow a few chapters on culture, training, packing, and
marketing.”—Dial.

“It is a good book for the seeker after country living.”

+ + + =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 130w.

“Our chief criticism on Mr. Powell’s book would be that in these last
sections he gives ear to too many other advisers. He is at once
conservative and progressive, and has given us a book valuable to have
at hand. A serious defect, however, is the lack of an index.” Edith
Granger.

+ + — =Dial.= 38: 381. Je. 1, ‘05. 350w.

“The illustrations are for the most part good and are well chosen, and
the practical directions are generally judicious.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 374. My. 11, ‘05. 150w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 180w.

“His book has the value of accurate, scientific knowledge.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 70w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05. 170w.

=Powers, Caleb.= My own story. **$1.50. Bobbs.

“An account of the conditions in Kentucky leading to the assassination
of William Goebel, who was declared governor of the state, and my
indictment and conviction on the charge of complicity in his murder.”
It is also the story of Powers’s life, and of his early days, his
brief romance, his political career, and the five years of trial and
imprisonment. The book is written in confinement and is, of course, a
complete vindication of the author. It is illustrated with
photographs.

“On the whole it is done temperately, even complacently, in spite of
the tragic nature of the circumstances for the author.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 363. Je. 3, ‘05. 650w.

=Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 20w.

=Pratt, Edwin A.= Railways and their rates. Dutton.

“This volume has been written for traders as well as the general
reader to show them the actual position of British railways with
regard to the complaints advanced from time to time on the subjects of
rates and charges, and the origin, operation, and circumstances of the
railways of Britain as compared with those abroad.”—N. Y. Times.

“We find it hard to believe the average railway is so immaculate as
Mr. Pratt makes out. On the other hand, the book brings out clearly
the strong points of English railways, their safety, and the superior
accommodation they give to both passengers and goods.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 635. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 575. S. 2, ‘05. 350w.

=Sat. R.= 100: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 270w.

=Pratt, Edwin A.= Trade unionism and British industry. *$1.50. Dutton.

These articles appeared in the London Times in the fall of 1901 under
the title of “The crisis in British industry.” They comprise a study
of the industrial conditions in England. The trade-union situation in
twenty of the leading British industries is fully treated, and a
rather severe judgment on trade-union policy and practice is given.