Illinois, drawn with a loving accuracy of minor detail, and pleasantly
  aglow with local color, both physical and social. A skillful touch.
  There is a wholesome womanliness about Mr. Peake’s heroines that makes
  them seem very convincing. Most of the men, however, impress one as
  rather poor specimens of humanity.”

       + =Bookm.= 21: 181. Ap. ‘05. 410w.

  “The book fails of greatness because the plot is too slight and does
  not trouble the deep places that exist in the life of every town,
  however isolated; nor does it ruffle the soul of the reader.”

     — + =Ind.= 59: 392. Ag. 17, ‘05. 250w.

  “The interest of the book lies not in the story, but in descriptive
  passages. The story, if it shows no particular art or invention, it
  remains true that it is about the sort of thing which would have been
  likely to happen in the place where the author has chosen to plant
  it.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 141. Mr. 4, ‘05. 550w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.

       + =Outlook.= 79: 503. F. 25, ‘05. 110w.

=Pease, Edward R.= Case for municipal drink trade. P. S. King & son.

  “The argument for the municipalization of the liquor traffic is here
  set forth as follows: The system of licensing does not stand the tests
  of efficiency, consequently some drastic reform is called for; high
  license is incomplete and politically impracticable; local veto is
  wrong in principle and likely to be futile in practice;
  municipalization is the only other method suggested.”—J. Pol. Econ.

  Reviewed by I. W. Howerth.

     + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 137. D. ‘04. 140w. (States argument of
         book.)

=Pease, George William.= Outline of a Bible-school curriculum. *$1.50.
Univ. of Chicago press.

  “Those who are interested in raising the standard of biblical
  instruction in this country will find ... many valuable suggestions.
  In this book there are outlines for reading and study courses for the
  kindergarten and primary grades, as well as for the junior,
  intermediate and senior departments.”—R. of Rs.

  “The most exhaustive study of this subject that has yet appeared.
  Predominantly from the psychological point of view, but with careful
  study also of the biblical side.”

   + + + =Bib. World.= 25: 160. F. ‘05. 30w.

  “This book will prove of great practical service to many Sunday-school
  teachers because it is specific, and should be suggestive to students
  of religious education because of its scope and detail. It is too
  timely not to be read now.” Richard Morse Hodge.

     + + =Bib. World.= 25: 376. My. ‘05. 880w.

  “Any one desirous of pursuing independent lessons with a class of any
  grade would find help in these outlines.”

       + =Ind.= 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 70w.

  “Its value lies rather in its application of an intelligent
  educational philosophy to a concrete and apparently practical scheme.”

     + + =Outlook.= 79: 144. Ja. 14, ‘05. 340w.

  “The book is fully in line with the principles and methods advocated
  by the Religious education association.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 80w.

  “The minute topical references will be of great help to any serious
  Sunday school teacher.”

     + + =School R.= 13: 653. O. ‘05. 60w.

* =Peck, Ellen Brainerd.= Songs by the sedges. $1. Badger, R: G.

  A little volume of verse which sings of old-fashioned gardens and
  fields, of rosemary and bitter-sweet, and of the minuet and the
  spinet. There is a time-long-ago atmosphere to many of the poems.

=Peck, Harry Thurston.= William Hickling Prescott. **75c. Macmillan.

  This study of Prescott gives an account of the historian’s life and
  personality and a criticism of his works. An opening chapter treats of
  “The New England historians,” then follow biographical chapters based
  largely upon the letters and memoranda contained in Ticknor’s “Life of
  Prescott,” and a discussion of Prescott’s work and its merits.

  “A volume seemingly of no distinctive merit.”

     + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 935. Jl. ‘05. 50w.

  “With the exception of his introductory chapter, Professor Peck has
  produced, it seems to me, an excellent biographical and critical
  account of ... the accomplished author of ‘The conquest of Mexico.’
  Here and there a careless sentence may be found as well as a trivial
  error or two.” W. P. Trent.

   + + — =Bookm.= 21: 382. Je. ‘05. 1260w.

  “It is of real interest for its discussion of the historical accuracy
  and permanent value of his works.”

     + + =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 90w.

  “Professor Peck writes of Prescott pleasantly and in his usual popular
  vein.”

     + + =Ind.= 58: 1128. My. 18, ‘05. 130w.

  “His view of Prescott strictly as a writer ... is concise, clear, and
  judicious. The introductory chapter, on the literary history of the
  country, is to say the least, eccentric.”

   + + — =Nation.= 80: 489. Je. 15, ‘05. 450w.

  “For the most part his narrative is plain pedestrian ‘copy’ quite
  lacking in the distinction which the author praises in the historian,
  equally lacking in ‘fire’ and the ‘intimate touch.’”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 322. My. 20, ‘05. 1420w.

  “Now and again Dr Peck allows an excess of enthusiasm to overpower his
  judgment, but, as a rule, he is discriminating.”

   + + — =Outlook.= 80: 248. My. 27, ‘05. 260w.

       + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 250w.

         =R. of Rs.= 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 150w.

=Peck, Theodora.= Hester of the Grants: a romance of Old Bennington.
†$1.50. Fox.

  Revolutionary times in the Green mountain state when it was a part of
  the so-called Hampshire Grants furnish the setting of this story whose
  incidents center mainly about Bennington. A real flesh and blood girl
  patriot, quite as daring as the usual historical novel heroine but a
  bit more winsome is the leading spirit, while a turn coat father, two
  despicable soldier lovers and one gallant one, General Stark, and
  Ethan and Ira Allen figure prominently.

  “A panorama of the times which deserves careful reading and much
  commendation.”

     + + =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 160w.

       + =Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 60w.

  “We are persuaded that she has it in her to write a book well worth
  the reading, which, despite its merits, ‘Hester of the Grants’ is
  not.”

       — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 300w.

  “On the whole is a very good story of its kind.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 90w.

  “The author has opened one of the most dramatic pages in American
  history, and adorned it with a picture worthy of the text.”

       + =Reader.= 6: 359. Ag. ‘05. 310w.

=Peckham, George Williams, and Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford.= Wasps,
social and solitary; with an introd. by John Burroughs. **$1.50.
Houghton.

  Mr. Peckham and his wife have made a close study of the lives, habits,
  intelligence, and individuality of wasps, and they tell about their
  investigations in a way that is none the less instructive because it
  is interesting.

  “The book has good and vivid illustrations, but it would have been
  better if the actual size of the insects had been indicated in every
  case.”

   + + — =Acad.= 68: 743. Jl. 15, ‘05. 310w.

     + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 150. Jl. 29. 720w.

  “There is ‘a hidden wealth of thought and of austerity’ which makes
  the book a worthy contribution to science and a monument of patient
  and skillful research in a difficult field.” E. T. Brewster.

   + + + =Atlan.= 96: 687. N. ‘05. 600w.

  “While exceedingly pleasant reading, the book is in no sense ‘written
  down’ to its audience, nor popularized in the sense of being diluted
  to superficiality.”

     + + =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 170w.

  “The book is written so untechnically that a reader who does not know
  a wasp from a bee can understand and enjoy it.” May Estelle Cook.

   + + + =Dial.= 38: 387. Je. 1, ‘05. 590w.

  “The charm of the book is in the directness with which the story is
  told, and in the obvious sympathy manifested by the authors with the
  struggles and aims of the active little nest-makers. While the book is
  engagingly written, it is also scientifically accurate.”

   + + + =Nation= 80: 444. Je. 1, ‘05. 680w.

  “Important work on the manners and customs of North American wasps.”
  W. F. K.

   + + + =Nature.= 72: 395. Ag. 24, ‘05. 160w.

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 219. Ap. 8, ‘05. 840w. (Abstract of book.)

  “An outdoor book as entertaining as it is instructive.”

   + + + =Outlook.= 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 90w.

     + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05. 140w.

  “This book reminds one of Fabre’s work. It is not so well written, but
  its information is quite as curious and close as Fabre’s, and we
  should say as trustworthy.”

   + + — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. O. 14, ‘05. 150w.

  “There is much detail which, however valuable in itself from the
  scientific point of view, overwhelms the ‘general reader.’ This
  individual may be forgiven for wishing that the authors would
  sometimes give him more generalization or summaries of their
  observations.”

   + + — =Spec.= 95: 697. N. 4, ‘05. 310w.

=Peel, George.= Friends of England. *$3.50. Dutton.

  Mr. Peel establishes, elucidates, and illustrates two large
  propositions in this companion volume to his “Enemies of England”:
  first, that England built up her empire beyond the seas thru the
  necessity of defence, and not by accident nor by deliberate motives of
  expansion; second, the same European pressure from without is the
  chief cause of the maintenance of the empire.

  “Mr. Peel is no pedant, no formalist, no Dryasdust. Intensely
  interested in his subject, he writes of it with animation; eager to
  convince, though not with the sophist’s eagerness, he is precise
  whether right or wrong and at all times clear.”

     + + =Acad.= 68: 270. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1420w.

  “The subjects with which Mr. Peel deals are of the deepest interest,
  and he shows wide reading on every page.”

     + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 335. Mr. 18. 660w.

  “There is enough truth and enough originality in his interpretation of
  the Empire to have made his book an extraordinary one, if only he had
  not allowed this enthusiasm to get the better of his judgment. It
  brings out a phase of imperial politics too much neglected by past
  writers.” Frederic Austin Ogg.

   + + — =Dial.= 39: 88. Ag. 16, ‘05. 1930w.

  “The whole book is worth reading as a sober and well-informed
  discussion of the great questions of world politics with which it
  deals.”

   + + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 328. My. 20, ‘05. 670w.

  “A well-written work, Mr. Peel’s book is of value as developing a
  theory which, if acceptable only with obvious limitations, will assist
  to a clearer appreciation of some broad historical movements than has
  generally obtained.”

   + + — =Outlook.= 81: 275. S. 30, ‘05. 1930w.

  “The tale told is fragmentary and unconvincing, and has been better
  told before.”

   — — + =Sat. R.= 100: 21. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1510w.

  “Mr. Peel has the sense of organic movement without which history is
  merely a dull chronicle of accidents; and he has also the gift of wide
  perspective. Our only criticism is that in his endeavour to be
  perfectly clear he sometimes is a little prolix, and that now and then
  he is carried by rhetoric into a slight overstatement. The matter is
  on the whole admirably arranged and attractively presented.”

   + + — =Spec.= 94: 439. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1780w.

=Peet, Louis Harman.= Trees and shrubs of Central park. $2. Manhattan
press.

  Mr. Peet says: “The purpose of this book is to put within the reach of
  the non-technical city nature lover a handy means of identifying trees
  and shrubs which he meets in his park rambles.” On sixteen maps
  covering the park, two thousand trees and shrubs have been plotted; a
  table accompanying the maps gives both the common and botanical names.
  There is also an index to the common names, wherein the number of the
  page, chapter, map and location is placed for quick reference.

 *   + + =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 90w.

         =Nation.= 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 60w.

  “We cannot too much commend the fullness and accuracy of the lists
  which Mr. Peet here gives us.”

     + + =Nation.= 80: 381. My. 11, ‘05. 430w.

  “It is not only a description of the trees, but is a real guide and
  companion, pointing out that which it describes in a manner that is
  wholly comprehensible to the reader. The text is lucid and readable.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 212. Ap. 8, ‘05. 420w.

  * “In every particular it is a handy and useful little volume.”

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.

   + + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 80w.

=Pemberton, Max.= Hundred days. †$1.50. Appleton.

  Napoleon’s hundred days between Elba and Waterloo form the setting of
  this historical novel which exploits the adventures of a young
  Englishman and a French maid in the secret service of Napoleon. “Mr.
  Pemberton has borrowed the very lady who appears in Mr. Bernard Shaw’s
  ‘Man of destiny’—Mr. Shaw himself borrowed the lady from more or less
  authentic history—and provided her with adventures enough to fill the
  usual number of pages which, outwardly, at least, constitute a novel.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

  “It is a stirring tale, and the characterization is skillful.
  Occasionally the author’s style fails him.”

     + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 432. S. 30. 290w.

  “The story offers the conventional blend of fact and romantic fiction,
  is narrated in somewhat indistinct fashion, and proves but moderately
  exciting.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + — =Dial.= 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 100w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 621. S. 23, ‘05. 250w.

  “The story is stirring and the tale is picturesquely told; the plot is
  hackneyed.”

     + — =Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 60w.

=Pepys, Sir William Weller.= Later Pepys; ed. with introd., by Alice C.
C. Gaussen. 2v. *$7.50. Lane.

  “The letters included in these two handsomely bound and finely
  illustrated volumes have been selected from the correspondence of Sir
  William Pepys between the years 1758 and 1825. Sir William Pepys was a
  descendant of the elder branch of the family to which Samuel Pepys
  belonged, and was generally well-known in the latter part of the
  eighteenth century as a friend, and in some cases the intimate, of
  distinguished literary characters of the period. His letters are
  therefore primarily of literary interest, very little reference being
  made in them to ordinary political or social conditions of the times,
  even the stirring events of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
  receiving but scant notice.”—Am. Hist. R.

  “The only direct historical interest is in the occasional references
  to contemporary historical writers and criticisms upon them. They
  frequently do present some striking incident, or some intimate
  characterization of figures in the field of contemporaneous
  literature. In this connection alone are they valuable for the student
  of history.” E. D. Adams.

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 688. Ap. ‘05. 210w.

  “Sir William’s letters, though sometimes dull and prosy, often catch
  something of the vivacity of his correspondents, and those to his son
  in school and college are delightful.”

       + =Critic.= 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 150w.

=Perkin, Frederick Mollwo.= Practical methods of electrochemistry.
*$1.60. Longmans.

  “After a general account of electrical magnitudes and units, measuring
  instruments, and electrolytic apparatus, the author gives practical
  instructions for electrochemical analysis.... The last and longest
  section of the book deals with preparative electrochemistry.... The
  references to original papers are numerous, and a convenient table of
  five-figure logarithms, with instructions for its use, is contained in
  an appendix.”—Nature.

  “The practical instructions are on the whole adequate and accurate, so
  that the student could acquire with little assistance a sufficient
  acquaintance with the working methods of electrochemistry. Whilst the
  book is satisfactory in this the most important feature, it shows in
  other respects many signs of hasty composition, which greatly detract
  from its value.”

   + + — =Nature.= 72: 5. My. 4, ‘05. 530w.

=Perrin, Raymond St. James.= Evolution of knowledge. *$1.50. Baker.

  In his review of philosophy the author compares the chief systems of
  ancient and modern thought, “the object being to measure the approach
  of each system to the goal of philosophy which is the demonstration of
  the unity of all things ... to demonstrate the fact that knowledge can
  be unified by co-ordinating the sciences.” Pt. I. deals with the
  pre-evolution period of Greece, England, Scotland, Germany and France;
  pt. II. discusses the evolutionary philosophy of Spencer and Lewes.
  The keynote of the treatment is that religious devotion and
  intelligence must develop together.

         =Ath.= 1905, 2: 269. Ag. 26. 80w.

         =Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 140w.

  “In the demonstration of his thesis the author enters such a labyrinth
  of the metaphysical and mystical that we altogether refuse his lead.”

     + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 160w.

  * “Interesting, if not quite fascinating.”

     + — =Spec.= 95: 697. N. 4, ‘05. 320w.

=Perris, George Herbert.= Russia in revolution. **$3. Brentano’s.

  “Mr. Perris’s volume on ‘Russia in revolution’ is a sketch of the
  Russian revolutionary movement from about 1870 down to the present
  time. It consists chiefly of a series of short biographies of the
  principal leaders of the Liberal movement, together with a few
  chapters on the Russian government, and on the financial and economic
  conditions of the country.... The subject, however, is an interesting
  one, and the personal sketches and life stories of Stepniak,
  Volkhovsky, Dr. Soskice, Mark Broido, Mme. Kovalsky, and numbers of
  other revolutionists, often recounted in their own words, are
  significant and thrilling.”—Lond. Times.

  “Is lively and interesting, but somewhat open to the charge that he
  fails to name a good many of his sources and some of his equally
  interesting rivals. Mr. Perris takes pains and knows his subject.”

   + + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 590. My. 13. 180w.

  “It cannot be said that the author has anything very new to tell us,
  and most of his information has been obtained at second-hand. He sees
  Russia only from the point of view of the extremists.”

     — + =Lond. Times.= 4: 176. Je. 9, ‘05. 520w.

  “These quotations will serve to show M. Perris’s sincere effort to be
  fair and impartial, but the same paragraph furnishes two other
  quotations which equally well illustrate his defective vision in
  consequence of his prejudice against nearly everything in Russia in
  its present form.”

     + — =Nation.= 80: 504. Je. 22, ‘05. 1740w.

  “The chief value of this book, however, lies in the personal (and
  frequently pitiful) records and brief autobiographies of the martyrs
  in the cause of Russian political liberty, and also in the
  miscellaneous data on topics which are not contained in Russian
  government reports.” Wolf von Schierbrand.

   + + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 386. Je. 17, ‘05. 940w.

  “No doubt the book is put together in an easy, entertaining fashion.
  Although from a non-revolutionary standpoint most of its deductions
  are untenable, the chapters touching upon the economic and political
  condition of the country are not without value and interest.”

       + =Sat. R.= 100: 121. Jl. 22, ‘05. 520w.

  “In arrangement it is not free from defects, particularly from a
  tendency to retraverse the same or similar ground; but this drawback
  is connected with what is perhaps Mr. Perris’s most distinctive claim
  on the attention of his readers,—his extensive and intimate
  acquaintance with Russian revolutionists, over a long period.”

     + — =Spec.= 95: 321. S. 2, ‘05. 1880w.

=Perry, Bliss.= Amateur spirit. **$1.25. Houghton.

  Six essays in which the author commends “combining the professional’s
  skill with the zest and enthusiasm of the amateur.” There are two
  chapters on the college professor, and one entitled “Hawthorne at
  North Adams.”

  “There is a flavour of this conscious condescension in these essays,
  and it takes away from the charm which they possess in spite of it,
  charm both of phrase and anecdote. The ideas are not very subtle; nor
  have they any marked freshness; but to the main idea we heartily
  respond. Mr. Perry is not precise enough; he does not know that
  different things in life should be approached in a different spirit.”

     + — =Acad.= 68: 332. Mr. 25, ‘05. 670w.

  “In spite of what we have just said, the quality of the best of the
  contemporary American essayists is rare; and outside Mr. Howells and
  Mr. Alden we know no one who possesses greater gifts of taste and
  style than Mr. Bliss Perry.”

     + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 558. My. 6. 720w.

  * “No one wants to hear the crack of a whip in these leisurely papers,
  but there might be a little more mental activity without any sign of
  the strain.” F. M. Colby.

     + — =Bookm.= 20: 473. Ja. ‘05. 880w.

  “To apply to him words of his own, he is one of the ‘speculative,
  amused, undeluded children of this world.’ Sanity, balance,
  kindliness, unite with insight and imagination to give his pages their
  peculiar charm.”

     + + =Dial.= 38: 93. F. 1, ‘05. 310w.

  “The curious thing about Mr. Perry’s plea for The amateur spirit is
  that it should seem to slight so glaringly the virtue of the mean.”

       + =Ind.= 58: 383. F. 16, ‘05. 200w.

  “All the six essays in the volume have some reference to the working
  of the amateur spirit in the world.”

       + =Nation.= 80: 138. F. 16, ‘05. 940w. (Survey of contents.)

  “The six essays in this volume are very pleasing examples of what
  American writers can do in this branch of literature.”

       + =Spec.= 94: 925. Je. 24, ‘05. 290w.

=Peters, John Punnett.= Early Hebrew story: its historical background.
**$1.25. Putnam.

  “The substance of the book was delivered as lectures on the Bond
  foundation at Bangor theological seminary in November, 1903.... In
  chap. 1, ‘Introductory: literary and archæological,’ the author gives
  a simple, yet clear, sketch of his conception of the literary origin
  of the early books of the Bible, and a general view of the history of
  Palestine before the Israelitish occupation.... In chap. 2, ‘The
  formation of Israel: The origin of the twelve tribes,’ the view that a
  group of Aramean tribes settled among and absorbed tribes already
  resident in Canaan is worked out with considerable detail. In chap. 3,
  ‘The patriarchs and the shrines of Israel,’ it is pointed out that the
  stories of the patriarchs cluster about certain shrines.... In chap.
  4, ‘Survivals—legendary and mythical.’ Dr. Peters gathers together a
  considerable residuum of material, which remains after one has
  subtracted from the patriarchal stories the elements representing
  tribal movements and sanctuary traditions, and in which survivals of
  myths or legends are probably to be found. Chap. 5, ‘Cosmogony and
  primeval history,’ deals with Gen., chaps. 1-11, which is analyzed
  into its various elements.... Chap. 6, ‘The moral value of early
  Hebrew story,’ forms a fitting climax to the whole.”—Bib. World.

  “The book is written for the ordinary reader of the Bible, is
  unencumbered by erudite notes, is written in a clear and attractive
  style, and can be strongly recommended to the untechnical reader, who
  desires to learn how critical study affects the early books of the
  Bible. The book throughout bears evidence of wide reading. The marvel
  is that in such a work, where evidence is often scanty and much has to
  be supplied from analogies often remote, one finds so little from
  which to dissent. The work merits high praise and deserves a wide
  recognition.” George A. Barton.

     + + =Bib. World.= 25: 313. Ap. ‘05. 790w.

  “The book is uncommonly readable.”

     + + =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 90w.

  “We can very heartily recommend the book. It is thoroughly readable,
  pre-eminently scholarly and entirely trustworthy; it is replete with
  valuable archæological knowledge; it has all the marks of an
  accomplished exegete, and its conclusions are in harmony with those of
  many able scholars of the present day.”

     + + =Ind.= 58: 841. Ap. 13, ‘05. 760w.

  * “Wealth of archaeological information lends special value to Dr.
  Peters’ scholarly ‘Early Hebrew story.’”

       + =Ind.= 50: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.

* =Peters, Madison Clinton.= Jews in America: a short story of their
part in the building of the republic; commemorating the 250th
anniversary of their settlement. $1. Winston.

  The author has prepared this volume for popular use and states in his
  preface: “It is a book of facts rather than opinions.... The book is
  written with the hope that it may modify the views which the Gentile
  world holds with regard to the position of the Jew, and the author’s
  fervent prayer is that its facts may lead Christians to grant to the
  possession of the Jew the mental, moral, social and spiritual
  qualifications which history affirms.” To this end he has set forth
  facts culled from various sources showing the part which the Jew
  played in the discovery of America, in pre-revolutionary settlements,
  in the wars of the republic, American politics, finance, arts and
  sciences. There are also chapters upon The number of Jews in the
  United States, Characteristics of the Jews, and Anti-Semitism in
  America. The volume is illustrated with photographs of Jews prominent
  in various professions.

 *       =N. Y. Times.= 10: 762. N. 11, ‘05. 330w.

* =Peters, Madison Clinton.= Will the coming man marry? and other
studies on the problem of home and marriage. $1. Winston.

  Under such titles as: How to be happy though married; Why so many
  divorces? The ideal wife; The duties of a husband; Money and
  matrimony; The culture of the child; The home and the higher education
  of women; Woman’s rights; and Good mothers the makers of great
  nations, Dr. Peters emphasizes the serious side of matrimony, gives
  good advice to both husband and wife, and discusses education,
  deplores modern extravagance, and makes many suggestions, which, if
  followed, will help to make daily life easier and more worth while to
  both the married and the unmarried.

=Peterson, Maude Gridley.= How to know wild fruits: a guide to plants
when not in flower, by means of fruit and leaf; il. by Mary Elizabeth
Herbert. **$1.50. Macmillan.

  “We have examined every one of the 80 woodcuts in this volume, and
  must pronounce them correct and helpful ... while descriptions of
  three hundred fruit-bearing plants are careful and scientific enough,
  and a key will send the botanist to the order and species, the plants
  are arranged for the use of the casual student by the color of their
  fruits.”—Ind.

  * “This study opens to amateurs a new and comparatively unfamiliar
  field and one in which the writers of botanical handbooks have
  heretofore made few contributions.”

       + =Country Cal.= 1: 492. S. ‘05. 70w.

  “It meets a want, and we are glad to recommend it as a useful guide.”

     + + =Ind.= 58: 1256. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.

  “As a help to the beginner and a means of stimulating observation it
  may be commended. It is well got up, remarkably free from misprints,
  appropriately illustrated, and provided with an index of vernacular
  names and one of the Latin designations of the plants described.”

     + + =Nature.= 72: 428. Ag. 31, ‘05. 450w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 370. Je. 10, ‘05. 220w.

         =Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 20w.

     + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 110w.

         =Spec.= 94: 948. Je. 24, ‘05. 120w.

=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= History of Egypt from the XIXth to
the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.

  “This is not a work on manners and customs or religion, but is purely
  history, very largely original and representing the author’s own
  researches and conclusions.... The period covered in this volume
  extends from the beginning of the nineteenth dynasty, about 1300 B.
  C., the most brilliant period in Egyptian history, to 342 B. C., when
  the last native king of the thirtieth dynasty lost the throne, and the
  rule passed over to the Persian Ochus. This period is illustrated by
  161 pictures of monuments, mainly halftones, with all the known
  cartouches.... When we remember that the period treated covers the
  entire relation of Israel to Egypt, from Abraham to Jeremiah, the
  value of the volume to biblical students is obvious.”—Ind.

  “His English is still slipshod. The lists of the monuments of every
  king, with provenance and abiding place, that he gives will be
  extremely useful to students; and for the care and pains that he has
  bestowed on their compilation all Egyptologists should be grateful.”

   + + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 434. S. 30. 760w.

   + + + =Ind.= 59: 933. O. 19, ‘05. 220w.

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 654. O. 7, ‘05. 720w.

   + + + =Outlook.= 81: 334. O. 7, ‘05. 120w.

  “We may not always assent to his conclusions and combinations, but the
  archæological facts on which they are founded are stated without
  omission or bias, and the conclusions themselves are often brilliant,
  usually ingenious and always stimulating.”

   + + + =Sat. R.= 100: 343. S. 9, ‘05. 1100w.

=Pettit, Henry.= Twentieth-century idealist. †$1.50. Grafton press.

  “The heroine, who ‘loves and seeks the truth for its own sake,’ is a
  young and charming girl. She has her own ideas of the ‘true’ faith,
  and tells them to those who argue with her. Adele Cultus, her parents,
  and her friend, join two gentlemen in a trip to the Orient. Paul
  Warder falls in love with the heroine. Together they visit the many
  interesting places, and finally come to understand each other very
  well.”—N. Y. Times.

  “This novel ... is probably an attempt to write biography in the form
  of fiction. It is an introspective, retrospective, meditative,
  idealistic tale.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 317. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.

=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
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  “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.

  “Seemingly intimate bearing upon the fiscal controversy. The book,
  taken as a whole, is a severe indictment of what is called the ‘new
  unionism’—the militant unionism. Hostility to trade-unionism is
  written large on every page from cover to cover, and the author’s very
  evident bias makes one question rather than accept his conclusions.
  The book is interesting and informational. The impression grows upon
  one as he reads that the investigation was not a colorless seeking
  after truth, but an attempt to find facts which would bear out a
  theory already formed, and that the trade-unionist was really judged
  without notice and without a hearing.” Edith Abbott.

   + — — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 129. D. ‘04. 1140w.

=Prentys, E. P. and Kametaro Sesamoto.= Japanese for daily use. 75c.
Jenkins.

  “A booklet which will fit the pocket and help the traveller. It is
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  novelists and Japanophiles.... Numbers, money, postal rates, and helps
  to pronunciation have not been forgotten in this capital
  manual.”—Nation.

  “We have failed to find a misprint in its sixty-three pages.”

   + + + =Nation.= 81: 13. Jl. 6, ‘05. 80w.

 *     + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 40w.

=Prindiville, Kate Gertrude.= Two of the guests. †$1.25. Pott.

  Letters to their friends by the various guests at a house party
  comprise this volume. They are very masculine and very feminine and
  tell the love story of Margaret Exeter, whom the men called an angel
  and the women considered a “bold creature,” and Arnold Gresham, a Sir
  Galahad.

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       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 300w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.

  “A pretty love story.”

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=Prothero, Rowland Edmund.= Psalms in human life. *$2. Dutton.

  A new edition of this book which cites numerous incidents showing the
  influence of the psalms in historical crises and in critical moments
  in the lives of prominent men and women.

  “With skill, sympathy, and infinite patience he has traced the
  influence of this great hymnary upon successive generations, from
  Origin to our day.”

     + + =Nation.= 80: 375. My. 11, ‘05. 490w.

=Prouty, Charles A. and others.= President Roosevelt’s railroad policy.
50c. Ginn.

  A report of a discussion before the economic club of Boston, March 9,
  1905, in which President Roosevelt’s railroad policy is reviewed by
  four men of varying interest in the great question.

=Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice (Mrs. Roger Atkinson Pryor).= Reminiscences of
peace and war. **$2. Macmillan.

  For this new edition of her popular book the author has prepared new
  chapters, one of which describes the origin and first celebration of
  Decoration day in this country; she has also added a number of
  illustrations. The volume gives a pleasing picture of social life in
  the South, beginning with the Washington of President Pierce’s
  administration and ending with the conclusion of the civil war.

       + =Bookm.= 30: 482. Ja. ‘05. 490w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 631. S. 23, ‘05. 280w.

       + =Outlook.= 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 60w.

  * “This is one of the best and most readable books of its class.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 756. D. ‘05. 50w.

Publisher’s confession. **60c. Doubleday.

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  ought to be.”—Ind.

  “The writing is generally clear, and, apart from some repetitions,
  effective. Of the ‘literary’ class the publisher has a poor opinion.”

   + + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 134. Jl. 29. 2270w.

  “It may perhaps be shop-talk, but it is so well done, there is in it
  so much sense and sincerity that it will entertain and impress you, no
  matter how far remote you are from books and their makers. Frankly,
  the book is a brief for the publisher.” Beverly Stark.

     + + =Bookm.= 21: 384. Je. ‘05. 1200w.

         =Ind.= 58: 903. Ap. 20, ‘05. 100w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 720w.

  “We commend the book to writers (to the experienced publisher it will
  hardly contain any novelty). There are some hints, however, which may
  be useful.”

       + =Spec.= 95: 396. S. 16, ‘05. 310w.

=Puffer, Ethel D.= Psychology of beauty. *$1.25. Houghton.

  Eight papers upon—Criticism and aesthetics, The nature of beauty, The
  æsthetic repose, The beauty of fine art, The beauty of music, The
  beauty of literature, The nature of dramatic emotion, and The beauty
  of ideas.

  “Miss Puffer’s method of treatment is precise and logical without
  being over-technical.”

     + + =Dial.= 39: 93. Ag. 16, ‘05. 260w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 251. Ap. 15, ‘05. 200w.

     + + =Outlook.= 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 330w.

  “A careful and closely woven study.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.

=Pullan, Rev. Leighton.= Church of the fathers; being an outline of the
history of the church from A. D. 98 to A. D. 461. *$1.50. Macmillan.

  Volume II. but the first in date of issue, of an eight volume series
  which will deal with the “Church universal.” This volume contains an
  outline of the history of the church from A. D. 98 to A. D. 461. It
  begins with the death of St. John’s last apostle and ends with a
  consideration of the work of St. Leo and St. Patrick.

  “Conscientious and scholarly labor with which Mr. Pullan has brought
  so much valuable information into comparatively brief compass.” A. G.

   + + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 822. O. ‘05. 170w.

  “This is a well-arranged and lucidly wrought introduction to the study
  of the important period it covers.”

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  “Altogether it is a book which students, and especially those already
  on Mr. Pullan’s side, will find valuable for reference and
  information; but we doubt whether it will prove an introduction or a
  stimulus to further study.”

       + =Sat. R.= 100: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 210w.

=Purchas, Samuel.= Hakluytus posthumous; or Purchas his pilgrimes.
*$3.25. Macmillan.

  “The work will be complete in twenty volumes. It is a continuation and
  enlargement of Hakluyt’s ‘Voyages.’ It is made up of unpublished
  manuscripts of voyages, left by Hakluyt after his death, which came
  into the hands of Samuel Purchas. The latter added to them his own
  accounts of the many travels and voyages of Dutch, Spanish, and
  Portuguese explorers and English travelers, besides including numerous
  translations from early books of travel which were then becoming
  scarce.... The text of the present edition is a reprint of that of
  1625, with the exception that errors in spelling and punctuation have
  been corrected and contracted forms of letters extended. Among the
  contents are the accounts of the early expeditions fitted out by the
  East India company, of the adventures of Capt. John Smith in Turkey
  and Virginia, the Arctic discoveries of Barents, Baffin, and Henry
  Hudson, and translations from Acosta, Oviedo, Las Casas, and others.
  All the maps and illustrations of the original edition have been
  included in this reprint, and there is also a facsimile of the
  original engraved title page.”—N. Y. Times.

  “Their real claim to consideration lies in their style, their
  pungency, their wit, their unexpected turns of expression, their
  irresistible quaintness. There is an equal quality about the book
  regarded as a whole.”

     + + =Acad.= 68: 234. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1480w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

     + + =Acad.= 68: 575. My. 27, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

  * “The volumes with increasing force and power speak for themselves.”

     + + =Acad.= 68: 1095. O. 21, ‘05. 1250w. (Review of v. 5-8.)

         =Nation.= 81: 55. Jl. 20, ‘05. 410w.

         =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 130w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 171. Mr. 18, ‘05. 380w.

  “Too much respect cannot be given to the work of Samuel Purchas. With
  Hakluyt, it shows the advances made by civilization. It is one of the
  foundations on which modern geographical study rests.”

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 196. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w. (Review of v. 1 and
         2.)

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 466. Jl. 15, ‘05. 380w. (Review of v. 4 and
         5.)

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 561. Ag. 26, ‘05. 440w. (Review of v. 5 and
         6.)

  “It is because Purchas helps Hakluyt in making us understand all this
  that he is worth reprinting and rereading.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 100: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 2380w. (Review of v. 1-4.)

     + + =Sat. R.= 100: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 500w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)

     + + =Spec.= 94: 440. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1620w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

     + + =Spec.= 95: 199. Ag. 5, ‘05. 70w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)

=Purves, Rev. David.= Life everlasting: studies in the subject of the
future. *$1.50. imp. Scribner.

  “The subjects treated in this volume by a Presbyterian clergyman of
  Belfast, Ireland are: The life everlasting, The resurrection (of
  Jesus and believers), The future life, and Immortality in
  literature.”—Outlook.

         =Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 120w.

=Putnam, M. Louise.= Children’s life of Lincoln. $1.25. McClurg.

  A new and thoroughly revised edition of a book designed not for
  children’s amusement, but for pure instruction.

=Pyle, Edmund.= Memoirs of a royal chaplain. *$4. Lane.

  Edmund Pyle, chaplain in ordinary to George I., Archdeacon of York,
  and Prebend of Winchester, “represents the Church of England, so far
  as the clergy constitute the Church sunk in coveteousness and sloth.”
  (London Times.) “The letters are valuable for the display not of a
  specially elevated or attractive clerical character, but of the facts
  and feelings of that age from the point of view of a minor
  ecclesiastical politician.” (Nation.)

     + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 743. Je. 17. 1930w.

  * “He makes an unusual revelation of the scheming and jobbery in
  church preferment.”

       + =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 70w.

  “Mr. Hartshorne’s labors have at least furnished a useful source-book
  for historians of the period, however lacking it may be in the
  continuous absorbing interest.”

   + + — =Dial.= 39: 118. S. 1, ‘05. 330w.

  “If there is nothing in this volume to excite admiration or
  enthusiasm, there are some curious facts, and one or two amusing
  incidents. Notes should be brief, accurate, and germane to the matter.
  Mr. Hartshorne’s are none of the three.”

     + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 200. Je. 23, ‘05. 2280w.

  “He writes with no waste of words, with great frankness, and with
  pretty full and accurate information, as to a large range of
  externals.”

     + + =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 320w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 260w.

  “Whatever Pyle says is worth reading. It is only when Mr. Hartshorne
  intervenes that we are sorry.”

     + — =Spec.= 94: 945. Je. 24, ‘05. 1470w.

=Pyle, Howard.= Story of champions of the round table. **$2.50.
Scribner.

  “A companion volume to Mr. Pyle’s ‘Story of King Arthur and his
  knights,’ illustrated as that was with wood cuts admirably suited in
  manner and tone to the pseudo-antique style of narrative in which the
  deeds of Sir Launcelot and his fellow-knights are retold.... To boys
  not too young and of the right imaginative cast of mind the book
  should have the fascination which Malory’s tales still have for a like
  class of elder readers.”

 *     + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 50w.

 *     + =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 80w.

  * “It is evident that this writer brings to his task wide knowledge
  and great enthusiasm; we could wish that he did not in large measure
  spoil the good effects of both by diffuseness, affectation of style,
  and prosy sermonizings.”

   + + — =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 210w.

  “Mr. Pyle succeeds unusually well in preserving the legendary and
  chivalrous atmosphere of his subject without dulling the interest by
  over-indulgence in archaic language.”

     + + =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 90w.

                                   Q

=Quarles, Francis.= Sions sonets sung by Solomon the king. *$4.
Houghton.

  A reprint of this poetical paraphrase of the song of Solomon which
  combines the merits of the editions of 1625 and 1680.

     + + =Dial.= 38: 424. Je. 16, ‘05. 180w.

     + + =Nation.= 80: 481. Je. 15, ‘05. 60w.

                                   R

=Rabelais, Francois.= Selections; ed. by Curtis Hidden Page. *$2.
Putnam.

  A volume in the series of “French classics for English readers.” In
  the selections the aim of the editor has been to “keep all the
  essential parts of the story, and all the scenes which had most
  literary value and human interest; to retain all the best of the
  historical satire; and to include other parts which have some special
  interest, such as the chapters on education.”

  “Mr. Page has done his task as well as it could be done.”

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       + =Dial.= 38: 326. My. 1, ‘05. 120w.

         =Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 60w.

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       + =Spec.= 94: 521. Ap. 8, ‘05. 80w.

  “Dr. Page’s introduction is an interesting and scholarly study of his
  author.”

     + + =Yale R.= 14: 230. Ag. ‘05. 110w.

* =Rae, John.= Sociological theory of capital: being a complete reprint
of the New principles of political economy, 1834; ed. with biographical
sketch and notes by Charles Whitney Mixter. *$4. Macmillan.

  “Rae’s book is a refutation of Smith’s system, and in the course of
  chapter after chapter he carefully takes the author of the ‘Wealth of
  nations’ to pieces. The result is that he arrives at a defense of
  protection as opposed to free trade and of legislative interference as
  opposed to the laissez-faire policy. Professor Mixter in his
  recrudescence of Rae has split the book in the middle, giving the
  first and last parts in an appendix.”—Pub. Opin.

 *       =N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 150w.

  * “A readable book where only the dismal science existed before.”

       + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 180w.

  * “He has not been content with making a mere reprint, but has
  carefully scrutinized and rearranged the original work so as to make
  it of distinct use for modern readers and valuable as a text-book in
  advanced courses.” I. F.

     + + =Yale R.= 14: 330. N. ‘05. 1250w.

=Ragster, Olga.= Chats on violins. *$1.25. Lippincott.

  In these “chats” the history of the violin, historical and
  biographical sketches of Italian and German makers, and anecdotes of
  great players are given, followed by chapters on the manner of
  preserving and playing the violin and an appendix upon the life of
  Paganini. The illustrations present a series of types of the violin
  from the ninth century to the present day.

  “Miss Ragster’s treatment is clear and concise, and not of such a
  technical nature as to burden the ordinary reader.”

       + =Dial.= 39: 245. O. 16, ‘05. 210w.

       + =Nation.= 81: 305. O. 12, ‘05. 90w.

  “Miss Ragster’s English style is frequently vivacious, but often
  unfinished, and she is imperfectly informed as to the spelling of many
  foreign proper names and other words.”

     + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 580w.

  * “While the book is not technical in any sense, it should be of
  considerable value to all students of the violin.”

       + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.

=Rambaud, Alfred Nicholas; Simkovitch, Vladimir; and others.= Case of
Russia: a composite view. **$1.25. Fox.

  “A presentation of certain phases of Russian life and history by five
  writers who have a first-hand knowledge of the subjects they discuss.
  It comprises: an outline sketch of the successive steps in the
  expansion of Russia; a brief psychological study of the Russian
  people; an interpretation of the Russian autocratic system; an inquiry
  into the progress and possibilities of the Slav; and a survey of the
  religious situation in Russia.”—Outlook.

         =Critic.= 47: 411. N. ‘05. 320w.

  “The proof-reading is inadequate, and the translation is not always
  quite what it should be.”

     + — =Nation.= 80: 462. Je. 8, ‘05. 21??w.

  “Most of the matter, however, is somewhat vitiated by having been
  written some time ago.”

     — + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 220w.

  “As with all ‘composite views,’ the effect is in some respects
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  distinctly helpful, and especially in the direction of assisting to a
  clearer understanding of the dominant traits and qualities of the
  inhabitants of the unhappy land.”

     + — =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 220w.

  “There is a good deal of psychological interest in the essays,
  particularly in that of Mr. Novicow.”

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=Ramsay, William Mitchell.= Letters to the seven churches of Asia and
their place in the plan of the Apocalypse. *$3. Armstrong.

  “A prophet of Christianity, and one who for many years has devoted his
  best efforts to the study of a solution of the problem that confronts
  the religious world upon the meeting of the Asiatic and the European,
  when the barriers of the lofty mountains and arid plains of East and
  West are no more, believes that the great issue is with Christianity,
  and he has written this book to set forth a number of convincing
  proofs of the world-evangelizing principles that have won and are
  winning triumphs for the Christian faith.”—Boston Evening Transcript.

     + + =Acad.= 68: 81. Ja. 28, ‘05. 640w.

  “Ramsay’s fresh and rich book adds much to our knowledge of the Roman
  province of Asia in the first century A. D., and the influence of
  Christianity therein. The book combines the merits of scientific and
  popular history-writing. In three special ways this volume is
  valuable: (1) as a contribution to the understanding of the apostolic
  age; (2) as an aid to the interpretation of the New Testament
  Apocalypse; (3) as a practical study in comparative religion.” C W.
  Votaw.

   + + + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 552. Jl. ‘05. 1180w.

  “His archaeological and historical skill makes [it] of peculiar
  interest.”

       + =Bib. World.= 25: 158. F. ‘05. 20w.

  “The first half of the book is worth more than the last half. The
  style is diffuse; repetitions are frequent; and there are
  long-expanded commonplaces. The book will be welcomed chiefly because
  it contains many items of interesting information and throws much
  light upon the environment of the early Asia Minor Christians.” D. A.
  Hayes.

   + + — =Bib. World.= 26: 71. Jl. ‘05. 980w.

  “In scholarly detail, the story of the seven cities and their various
  symbols is related, and the usages and customs of the early Christian
  era are succinctly set forth.”

     + + =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 400w.

  “His interpretation of particular passages is open to question, but
  his historical, geographical and archæological material on the
  churches addressed in these letters is very full and valuable.”

   + + — =Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, 05. 130w.

  * “Some of his interpretations may be questioned, but the wealth of
  information and fact makes his book valuable for reference.”

   + + — =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.

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  “Is rather an introduction than a commentary, and it has much value as
  an introduction to the whole of the New Testament.”

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  “Requires careful study, which it will amply repay.”

     + + =Spec.= 94: 368. Mr. 11, ‘05. 470w.

* =Ranck, George Washington.= Bivouac of the dead, and its author. **$1.
Grafton press.

  The well-known martial elegy. The bivouac of the dead, and a lyric
  called The old pioneer, penned at the grave of Daniel Boone, by the
  same author, are included in this little volume with a story of the
  poems and a brief biography of Theodore O’Hara prepared with the full
  cooperation of his family. The whole forms a fitting tribute to the
  Kentucky soldier-poet.

 *     + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ‘05. 240w.

=Ranke, Leopold von.= History of the reformation in Germany; tr. by
Sarah Austin; ed. by Rob. A. Johnson. $2. Dutton.

  This new low-priced edition of Ranke’s great work is “a reproduction
  of Mrs. Austin’s translation which only included the first six of the
  ten books into which Ranke divided his complete work. It includes the
  history of the German reformation down to the year 1534.” (Acad.)

         =Acad.= 68: 440. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1290w.

  “We have only a fragmentary translation, and ‘editing’ worthy of the
  publisher’s office-boy.”

     — — =Nation.= 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 100w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 176. Mr. 18, ‘05. 380w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 301. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.

=Ransom, Caroline Louise.= Studies in ancient furniture; couches and
beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. *$4.50. Univ. of Chicago
press.

  “A rather laborious piece of archæological work in a small field has
  been well performed by Miss Ransom.... Her investigation, in so far as
  it is original, depends upon an examination of monumental sources;
  from the literary she draws little, and that out of the usual
  handbooks, “the volume, a fine quarto, is beautifully illustrated by
  many full-page plates and cuts.””—Nation.

  “It is a slightly expanded college thesis, and a scholarly
  contribution to the archæology of furniture. No phase of the subject
  is overlooked. The results are presented in a manner which, though not
  entertaining to the general reader, will prove highly instructive to
  the student of archæology.”

       + =Dial.= 38: 275. Ap. 16. ‘05. 180w.

  “The plates and other illustrations in the text are many and well
  chosen, and the references and discussions in the notes show careful
  research and sound scholarship.”

     + + =Ind.= 59: 99. Jl. 13, ‘05. 130w.

         =Int Studio.= 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 170w.

  “The text shows evidence of a scholarly study of them, and, what is
  almost better, the application of much common sense.”

     + + =Nation.= 80: 250. Mr. 30, ‘05. 590w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 547. Ag. 19, ‘05. 400w.

  “A work of scholarly research in a limited special field.”

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=Rashdall, Rev. Hastings.= Christus in ecclesia. *$1.50. Scribner.

  “Dr. Rashdall is an efficient representative of the Broad church group
  in the Anglican establishment. In this volume of discourses he
  addresses himself especially to educated men and women. He is
  concerned lest religion be crowded out of life, either by revolt
  against narrow ecclesiasticism or by the pressure of other
  concerns.... To explain some Christian institutions, ideas, and
  practices to educated hearers, with a view to promote an interest in
  the Church and its ordinances at once rational and reverent, is
  therefore the main object of these discourses. Starting from a review
  of the Oxford movement as having restored the idea of the Church to
  its due prominence in Christian thought. Dr. Rashdall discusses in
  considerable detail the institutional side of Christianity.”—Outlook.

  “His outlook is historical. These discourses serve at any rate for a
  temperate and eminently clear expression of what many educated but not
  professional readers will recognize as an intelligible common-sense
  view on points of current controversy.”

     + + =Acad.= 68: 84. Ja. 28, ‘05. 140w.

  “Characterized by transparent lucidity and an unadorned simplicity of
  diction.”

     + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 652. My. 27. 710w.

     + + =Ind.= 59: 330. Ag. 10, ‘05. 120w.

  “The breadth and thoroughness of the discussion make the volume a
  helpful contribution to the reconstructive work now going on in
  religious thought. The general aim is practical. There is a note of
  reality, and of an intentness on reality, running through all these
  discourses.”

     + + =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w.

  “In literary quality, too, as well as in the matter and tone, these
  sermons commend themselves to the discerning and sympathetic reader.”
  H. N. Gardiner.

     + + =Philos. R.= 16: 735. N. ‘05. 280w.

  “He is able, earnest, and learned, constructive, occasionally
  conservative, as well as critical.”

     + — =Sat. R.= 99: 640. My. 13, ‘05. 300w.

=Rateau, A.= Experimental researches on the flow of steam through
nozzles and orifices, to which is added a note on the flow of hot water;
authorized tr. by H. Boyd Brydon. *$1.50. Van Nostrand.

  “This little book on the flow of steam is an expansion of” Prof
  Rateau’s “report to the congress of applied mechanics in 1890.... The
  object of the investigation was to determine the conditions governing
  the discharge from large conoidal convergent nozzles and an orifice in
  a thin plate, both above and below the ratio p equals 0.58 P.”—Engin.
  N.

  “His work is painstaking in the extreme. One or two obvious
  typographical errors are noted. It is an interesting addition to the
  literature on the flow of steam through nozzles.” Strickland L.
  Kneass.

   + + — =Engin. N.= 53: 533. My. 18, ‘05. 650w.

  “The translation is clear. It is, however, a defect, for English
  readers, that the principal formulæ are left as given by the author in
  foreign units.”

   + + — =Nature.= 72: 101. Je. 1, ‘05. 210w.

=Rathbone, Eleanor F.= William Rathbone: a memoir. $3. Macmillan.

  In this memoir of her father, a Liverpool merchant, the author gives
  his life, his well-known work in parliament and in various
  philanthropic movements.

  “Very capably written biography.”

     + + =Acad.= 68: 368. Ap. 1, ‘05. 350w.

     + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 718. Je. 10. 730w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 218. Ap. 8, ‘05. 350w.

   + + + =Spec.= 95: 258. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1870w.

=Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.).= By the good Sainte Anne: a
story of modern Quebec. †$1.50. Little.

  A new edition of this story of a typical Englishman, a Canadian of
  English descent, and a young French-Canadian, all of whom pay court to
  bright, vivacious Nancy Howard, who with her father, a New York
  physician, drop in among the guests at the Maple Leaf. The scenes and
  points of interest in and about Quebec furnish a setting for the
  bright conversations in which the story abounds.

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

=Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.), and Fuller, Hamilton Brock.=
On the firing line: a romance of South Africa. †$1.50. Little.

  Africa during the Boer war furnishes the setting of Miss Ray’s story
  of love and combat. The hero, a stalwart Canadian, follows an impulse
  to enter the fray as a private and in his narrow field demonstrates
  broad soldierly ability which operates for its full value, not only
  with the girl he loves, but with his rival, the young captain of his
  troop.

  “There is movement and life on every page.”

       + =Ind.= 58: 1421. Je. 22, ‘05. 140w.

  “In spite of its conventional plot, holds a lively interest for the
  reader.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 357. Je. 3, ‘05. 250w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.

  “The collaboration in this novel is very successful. A
  well-constructed, entertaining, bright story, permeated by the spirit
  that recognizes and appreciates high ideals.”

       + =Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 100w.

=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Sidney: her summer on the St. Lawrence. †$1.50.
Little.

  In this new book for boys and girls, Sidney Stayres and her little
  brother Bungay spend an eventful summer with their cousins and their
  friends on the St. Lawrence. There are picnics, and general good
  times, there are accidents and anxious hours, but these doings of the
  true hearted little heroine and those who loved her will prove
  wholesome and entertaining reading for all young folks.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 150w.

  “The characters seemed posed and artificial.”

       — =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.

=Raymond, Edward Brackett.= Alternating current engineering, practically
treated. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.

  “This book is written by a member of the staff of the testing
  department of the General electric company; it consists of two parts;
  the first part contains the general theory of electricity and
  magnetism and a special theory of alternating currents; the second
  part treats of transformers, alternating current motors and
  alternators.... There is a great need for such a book, a book in which
  a young man just starting in practical electrical engineering work
  after college or any other school could find a clear, concise
  exposition of what he needs, what is done in practice, and why it is
  done so and not otherwise.”—Phys. R.

  “In summing up it seems that notwithstanding some defects the book can
  be well recommended to young electrical engineers and to those who
  would like to refresh their memory on the subject of alternating
  currents. It is to be regretted that Mr. Raymond did not write his
  book in coöperation with somebody more familiar with the theoretical
  part of the subject and particularly with the approved methods of
  presenting them in a simple, lucid way. Then the wide practical
  experience of Mr. Raymond would find its right place in the book and
  make it one of the most valuable additions to our engineering
  literature.” V. K.

   + + — =Phys. R.= 20: 190. Mr. ‘05. 1380w.

=Raymont, T.= Principles of education. *$1.40. Longmans.

  The author’s object in writing this book was “to present a brief but
  comprehensive treatment of the problems of education as they have
  shaped themselves in my mind during several years of experience in
  teaching.... It is for the younger members of that profession that my
  book is primarily intended.”

  “Readable and suggestive.”

     + + =Acad.= 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 290w.

  “An interesting and comprehensive treatise on education.”

     + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 12. Jl. 1. 690w.

  “The main quality of his book we should describe as common-sense.” J.
  Welton.

   + + — =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 113. O. ‘05. 800w.

=Rea, Hope.= Tuscan and Venetian artists, their thought and work.
*$1.50. Dutton.

  A new and enlarged edition of these essays which treat of the broader
  aspects of Italian art, using individual artists and their work as
  illustrations. In “Builders and goldsmiths,” the influence of these
  arts upon painting is shown thru Botticelli, while Angelico, the
  idealist, and Signorelli, the realist, are contrasted to show the
  relation between imagination and reality in art, and the fusion of the
  two is illustrated by Raphael and the Venetians. Giotto, Duccio,
  Carpaccio, and Raphael are treated under artists story tellers. There
  is also a chapter on Della Robbia ware. There are thirty-eight tinted
  half-tones.

  “The author writes intelligently, if with no great originality of
  thought, and in a pleasing if not over-exact style.”

       + =Nation.= 80: 194. Mr. 9, ‘05. 170w.

  “It is particularly valuable as a study of the causes which lead to
  the transference of an emotion from the individual to the canvas or
  marble.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 470w.

  “The book may be recommended to those whose sympathy has not yet been
  aroused as it should be for the art of Tuscany and Venetia. Such a
  little book of criticism as this is always needed, not only for the
  unthinking tourist or student, but sometimes also for the thinking.”

     + + =Outlook.= 79: 248. Ja. 28, ‘05. 230w.

=Read, Carveth.= Metaphysics of nature. *$2.75. Macmillan.

  “By metaphysics Professor Read means the ‘study of the validity and
  adequacy of knowledge and belief’ ... the addition ‘of Nature’ is
  intended to rule out ideals, the matter of ethics, politics, religion,
  and art. Within these limits he claims that his work is conciliatory
  and constructive.”—Ath.

   + + — =Acad.= 68: 803. Ag. 5, ‘05. 760w.

  “Signs are not wanting that he approaches his subject as a man of
  science rather than a philosopher, that is, in a spirit of vindication
  rather than unbiased inquiry.”

     + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 47. Jl. 8. 640w.

  “Professor Carveth Read’s ‘Metaphysics of nature’ is a book that must
  take rank at once for importance with Mr. Bradley’s ‘Appearance and
  reality’ and Professor Ward’s ‘Naturalism and agnosticism.’” T.
  Whittaker.

     + + =Hibbert. J.= 4: 205. O. ‘05. 1990w.

  “One of the best parts of the volume is the general discussion of the
  test of truth.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 600w.

   + + — =Sat. R.= 100: 527. O. 21, ‘05. 1620w.

=Read, Opie.= American in New York, a novel of to-day. $1.25. Thompson &
Thomas.

  Short sketches are welded together to form this book. There is a
  gallant Kentucky millionaire; “there is a very lovely widow who talks
  to him in the tea room, and to whom he tells quaint tales of the West;
  there is a young man, the millionaire’s adopted son, and a young
  woman, the widow’s niece.... To add to the zest of it too, the
  Colonel—so the millionaire is called—is very fond of playing Haroun Al
  Rashid. There is a villain also.” (N. Y. Times.)

  “Really, the present volume furnishes some very good reading.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 558. Ag. 26, ‘05. 220w.

  “Tells some humorous stories and moralizes more or less shrewdly at
  times. There is too much, however, of his political and social
  dogmatism, and the personal story involved is of the weakest.”

     + — =Outlook.= 81: 43. S. 2, ‘05. 90w.

=Redgrave, Gilbert R., and Spackman, Charles.= Calcareous cements: their
nature, manufacture, and uses, with some observations upon cement
testing. *$4.50. Lippincott.

  “In its present edition this book is noteworthy for its discussion of
  cement manufacture. Over one-third of the space is devoted to this
  subject. The next largest space is given to composition, chemical
  analysis and constitution. In these sections and in its historical
  notes on the development and early manufacture of hydraulic cements
  the book is superior to any other treatise of which we have
  knowledge.”—Engin N.

     + + =Engin. N.= 53: 645. Je. 15, ‘05. 360w.

=Rée, P. J.= Nuremburg and its art to the end of the 18th century; from
the German by G. H. Palmer. *$1.50. Scribner.

  “The librarian of the Bavarian museum at Nuremburg has written a
  careful survey of the art treasures in that city. He scarcely touches
  the history of the place ... but traces the development of German art,
  as illustrated by the buildings and in the museums of Nuremburg, in
  painstaking and elaborate fashion. His treatment of the artists and
  craftsmen who succeeded Dürer will be found especially valuable by
  English tourists who wish to learn something more of designers and
  artist-craftsmen.... This volume of the “Art cities” series is
  abundantly illustrated by one hundred and twenty-three
  photographs.”—Ath.

  “In spite of its merits, we fear that English readers will find it
  hard to digest. The translation of the book looks as if it had been
  ‘made in Germany.’”

   + + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 121. Jl. 22. 650w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 645. S. 30, ‘05. 230w.

=Reed, Helen Leah.= Amy in Acadia. †$1.50. Little.

  This is the first volume of a second series of the “Brenda” books; it
  is a story for girls and tells of the experiences encountered by Amy,
  her mother, and her girl friends among the descendants of the exiled
  Acadians. These experiences acquire a peculiar interest thru their
  romantic setting and their historical background.

  “The author manages, with indifferent skill, to convey much
  information for the benefit of young readers—that is, if they do not
  rebel at Amy.”

     + — =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 40w.

=Reed, John Calvin.= Brothers’ war. **$2. Little.

  Optimistic in tone, looking forward to a glorious and peaceful future
  for a United States truly united, this book, altho written by a
  Southerner, and, to a certain extent, a plea for the South, makes for
  a better understanding between North and South by giving an account of
  the causes which led up to the Civil war in a fair-minded manner which
  admits of the statement that “the brothers on each side were true
  patriots and morally right.” It is an interesting volume and it
  discusses political parties, the great men upon each side, slavery,
  the race question and the Ku-Klux Klan, in a spirit so generous toward
  the North that it will not alienate even a reader in whom strong
  partisan feeling still remains.

=Reed, Myrtle.= At the sign of the Jack-o’-Lantern. **$1.50. Putnam.

  A New York newspaper man and his bride begin their honeymoon in their
  heirloom house which was set on a hill and known as the
  Jack-o’-Lantern, because its arrangement of doors and windows made
  hideous resemblance to a human face. The eccentric donor had added
  wing after wing to the main portion of the house, the reason for which
  becomes apparent when relations, singly and in groups, swoop down on
  the pair to make their annual visit—“to sponge on a dead man as they
  did when he was alive.” In this pandemonium Howard Carr tries to write
  his first book.

  “The author gives us a commonplace farce, all bustle, noise and
  confusion, with scenes and characters that have long ago lost all
  novelty.”

       — =Acad.= 68: 1009. S. 30, ‘05. 450w.

  “It is a disconcerting, but not displeasing blend of folly and
  shrewdness. Some readers will think the book a mere tissue of
  nonsense, others may take a fleeting pleasure in its very absurdity.”

     + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 433. S. 30. 260w.

  * “Miss Reed has certainly provided us in this instance with an
  original form of entertainment, and the story should prove
  popular.”—Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 39: 308. N. 16, ‘05. 360w.

       + =Ind.= 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 140w.

  * “Myrtle Reed is possessed of a quick sense of humor, is a keen
  observer of life, and an exceptionally alert and alluring judge of
  human nature.”

       + =Lit. D.= 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 420w.

  “Miss Reed is mistress of a delicacy of thought and style which lends
  itself gracefully to the light and airy exaggeration of human
  foibles.”

     + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 674. O. 14, ‘05. 710w.

  “We do not find this tale altogether successful in its alternating
  attempts at sprightliness and sentiment. The characters neither act
  reasonably nor talk naturally.”

       — =Outlook.= 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 50w.

=Reeves, Jesse Siddall.= Napoleonic exiles in America: a study in
American diplomatic history, 1815-1819. pa. 50c. Hopkins.

  This pamphlet is uniform with the “Johns Hopkins University studies in
  historical and political science.” The study centers about the
  unfortunate colonial enterprise called Champ d’Asile on the banks of
  the Trinity river in Texas.

=Reid, G. Archdall.= Principles of heredity, with some applications.
*$3.50. Dutton.

  “While possessing large and varied interest for the general reader,
  this work is specially addressed to medical men.... What is new in the
  work is mainly drawn from evidence, hitherto largely unused,
  concerning heredity, that he has found in the study of disease,
  especially of the zymotic kinds, and also of narcotics. This is held
  to establish conclusively that parental acquirements are never
  transmitted to offspring and that the great mass of variation has
  another origin than that of the action of the environment of the
  germ-cells.”—Outlook.

  “What he has written is evidently the result of wide reading and
  serious logical thinking with regard to the many intricate questions
  involved. At the same time his work is seldom technical, and will be
  nearly always readily intelligible even by those who are not familiar
  with the strictly biological terminology of the subject.”

       + =Ind.= 59: 1110. N. 9, ‘05. 760w.

  “He covers too much ground, and appears to have put together matter
  written at different times and in pursuance of different trains of
  thought.”

     + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 184. Je. 9, ‘05. 1340w.

  * “We have one fault to find; in a work on the principles of heredity
  one would have expected a fuller discussion than is actually given of
  biometric and Mendelian methods of dealing with that phenomenon.” A.
  D. D.

   + + — =Nature.= 73: 121. D. 7, ‘05. 1330w.

  “He writes with a warmth of conviction that is stimulating to thought,
  and with a mastery of his subject which commands attention.”

     + + =Outlook.= 81: 89. S. 9, ‘05. 350w.

=Reinach, Salomon.= The story of art throughout the ages; tr. by
Florence Simmonds. **$2. Scribner.

  “A general outline of art from its origin to the present age. It
  includes art in the polished stone and bronze ages; in Egypt, Chaldea,
  and Persia; Aegean, Minoan, and Mycenæan art; Greek art before
  Phidias; Phidias and the Parthenon; Praxiteles, Scopas, and Lysippus;
  Greek art after Alexander the Great; the minor arts of Greece;
  Etruscan and Roman art; Christian art in the East and in the West;
  Romanesque and Gothic architecture; Romanesque and Gothic sculpture;
  the architecture of the renaissance and modern architecture; the
  renaissance of Siena and Florence; Venetian painting; Leonardo da
  Vinci and Raphael—the Milanese Umbrian and Roman schools; Michelangelo
  and Correggio; the renaissance in Germany; the Italian decadence and
  the Spanish school; art in the Netherlands in the sixteenth century;
  the art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France; and art
  in the nineteenth century. There are nearly six hundred illustrations
  in the book.”—Bookm.

  “Is a clever and valuable rapid sketch written by an authority.”

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 706. Ap. ‘05. 60w.

  “The translation is fluent and adequate as a whole, though it is
  occasionally clumsy.”

   + + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 343. Mr. 18. 490w.

  “The translation before us, in the main, reads well, and the book, as
  a whole, appears in a very acceptable form. Much may be said in praise
  of the work and very little against it. The reader immediately becomes
  fascinated by the style, the independence of thought and judgments by
  the illuminating touches on periods and individual artists. Taken in
  its ensemble, it is possibly the best short history of art, or rather
  the history of the filiation of art schools ever written.” Hugo P.
  Thieme.

   + + + =Baltimore Sun.= : 8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 490w.

  “Excellent as is the treatment of ancient art, it is surpassed by the
  clear and scholarly exposition of art in the Christian era, so that we
  have no hesitation in saying that this book is an indispensable work
  for every library, whether large or small, throughout the land. It is
  a matter of sincere congratulation for the author to find so much
  knowledge in so small a space. The setting given to the text is of the
  same high order as the text itself.”

   + + + =Boston Evening Transcript.= Feb. 8, ‘05. 1140w.

  “A book both critical and fascinating. The translation, by Miss