“The author of ‘Bees in amber’ and ‘All’s well’ has set before his numerous readers a series of poems with a predominantly religious tone. The ‘Vision splendid’ is of ‘a world in which God and Right shall reign supreme.’ The longest, and perhaps the most striking, piece in the book is ‘The ballad of Jim Baxter.’ ‘Promoted,’ ‘The cross-roads,’ and ‘Edith Cavell’ are other noteworthy poems.”

“It is for the most part insignificant as poetry, except that it is the medium to carry a certain vital sweep of optimism and of old-fashioned piety.” N. H. D.

“These war poems have a sincerity and a vigor that command the attention and respect of the reader.”

“The ideas in the verse were thrown overboard by intelligent minds of the middle ages. They have little place today.” Clement Wood

OYEN, HENRY. Gaston Olaf. *$1.35 (2c) Doran 17-25377

His full name, Gaston Olaf Francois Thorson, revealed his mixed French and Scandinavian parentage, and this joint heritage was apparent in his nature too. There were times when Gaston Olaf was wholly French, other times when he was all Norwegian. His entry into Havens Falls was spectacular. Gaston Olaf, arrived in the nick of time, to make himself, as he always seemed able to do, center of a dramatic little scene in which an attractive girl played the other part. Tom Pine, his woods partner, scenting danger, tried to guide Gaston Olaf out of town. It was Tom Pine’s fear that some day his friend would like a town so well that he would settle down and stay there. His fears seem for a time to be justified, for when Gaston learns of the plot of Dave Taggart, of the La Croix lumber company, to steal Rose Havens’s timber, he feels that this town is the place for him. He foils Taggart and helps to make Havens Falls a place fit to live in, and then the choice that Tom Pine has foreseen faces him: town or trail? And the instinct that is deepest seated within him wins.

“Sufficiently sincere and realistic to make good reading except when the author abandons his hand-to-hand battles and attempts to be humorous.”

“There is fighting galore, of course, some entertaining descriptions, and an ending rather out of the ordinary, more reasonable and with more promise of real contentment to come than one usually finds in this kind of tale.”

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PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS. Adventures of Jimmie Dale. *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-5814

He was a member of one of New York’s most exclusive clubs. He was known as an idle young man, but he had a complete and scientific knowledge of his father’s business, the manufacture of safes. There was nothing Jimmie Dale did not know about combinations and locks. So unknown to his society and club friends, he led a double, no, a triple life, acting now the part of the Gray Seal, a clever and mysterious cracksman who always leaves his mark, a gray seal, behind him, and again the part of Larry, the Bat, a denizen of the underworld. The chief mystery of the tale centers in the personality of the unknown woman whose commands Jimmie obeys, and who, whatever the means adopted, always has a worthy end in view.

“Those moralists who object to the introduction in motion pictures of stories which deal with crime and which make the varied infringements of the law appear easy and attractive, will have reason to be incensed by Mr Packard’s story. He makes burglary appear an interesting and even refined occupation. ... The story is interesting from start to finish.”

“Eventually, the episodes become more and more improbable, and finally descend to frank melodrama. Still the story is above the average of its kind, for, while the hero commits legal ‘crimes’ to right wrongs, his acts are free from taint of viciousness. The incidents are ingeniously conceived.”

PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS.^[2] Sin that was his. il *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-28602

His name was Raymond Chapelle, altho in different parts of Canada and Alaska he had been known as Arthur Leroy, and again as Three-Ace Artie. His reputation was none too savory, and the facts sustained it. His one good deed had reacted to his own loss and he had vowed never to commit another. Then fate compels him to assume a new name and to take on a new character. To save his life, he adopts the garb of a Catholic priest and poses as Father Aubert, while the real Father Aubert faces death in his place. The influence of the habiliment and position of priest works a change in his character, leading to regret, repentance and restitution; also to the winning of a girl’s love.

“The story is well constructed, and the chain of events made plausible, while the religious portion of it never falls into the gulf of the maudlin, though it must be admitted that there are times when it approaches perilously near the edge of that dread abyss. The dénouement, too, is satisfactory, though one cannot help wondering how the good people of St Marleau took the astonishing revelation of the truth about their ‘good young Father Aubert.’”

“The plot is daring, and only by the most skillful handling is it possible to develop it without wounding the religious susceptibilities of many readers. It is Mr Packard’s most ambitious and also his best work.”

PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED. How to run an automobile. 1917 ed il *$1 (2c) Henley 629.2 17-11228

The author points out that this is not an instruction book on the construction and repair of automobiles. It has been prepared “in answer to numerous requests for a concise exposition of the operating principles of modern gasoline automobiles.” It is intended as “an absolutely non-technical compilation of the operating instructions of leading automobile manufacturers with which the car owner should be familiar.” Contents: Automobile parts and their functions; General starting and driving instructions; Typical 1917 control systems; Care of automobiles. The book is well supplied with diagrams, etc.

“It is possible to immediately turn to your car and apply the knowledge.”

“Instructions are plain and the text is well illustrated.”

PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED. Storage batteries simplified, operating principles—care and industrial applications. il *$1.50 (2c) Henley 621.35 17-13513

“A complete, non-technical but authoritative treatise discussing the development of the modern storage battery, outlining the basic operation of the leading types; also the methods of construction, charging, maintenance and repair.” (Title-page) The book also includes special instructions for care and repair of automobile batteries and glossary of terms. It has been written with the cooperation of leading American storage battery makers.

“A plainly written book understandable by the average reader.”

PAGET, STEPHEN. I sometimes think. *$1.75 Macmillan 814 A17-1505

“‘I sometimes think’ is a series of essays for young people covering a varied number of topics. By far the most interesting are the witty one entitled ‘Unnatural selection,’ and the graver, keener one called ‘The next few years.’ In ‘Unnatural selection’ Mr Paget tells us how children should choose their parents—if this were possible. Of course, it is really a sermon to parents through their children.”—Springf’d Republican

“It is a beautiful book that Mr Paget has given us, and worthy of the subject. After all, his is the point of view that is desirable today. It is beautifulness that our men will need when they return from learning things and ‘seeing things ugly enough to drive you and me mad.’ These essays are of a spirit to produce the atmosphere that all desire to bring about for the refreshing of the men and the healing of the nation.”

“Full of good sense and good humour. ... He ends on a grave note in ‘The next few years,’ hinting at the great problems which peace will set before us, and at the demands that will then be made on our loyalty and self-control.”

“The essays are quite English in atmosphere and tone, but they show a wide sympathy and are whole-souled and suggestive. Mr Paget is always a clear writer, and at times is keenly sarcastic. Older people, rather than the young people whom the author seeks to address, will probably turn to the book with most appreciation and interest.”

PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.^[2] Sons of Eli. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-24274

The first story in this collection is a story of twenty years ago, included with the more recent tales, perhaps, to show that the Yale spirit is the same yesterday and today. The remaining stories are loosely related in that they concern the same set of characters. Some of them have appeared in Scribner’s Magazine. Contents: A victory unforeseen; Follow the ball; “Sleepy” Jordan; The letter of the law; Getting his goat; The Indian; The vengeance of Antonia; A transaction with Shylock; His code of honor.

“[The tales are] crisp and humorous, and hold up high university ideals of sport and of student relations.”

PALMER, FREDERICK. My second year of the war. *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 940.91 17-6753

“My year of the great war” was published in 1915. This second volume by Mr Palmer covers the year 1916 and is concerned chiefly with the campaigns about Verdun and on the Somme. Mr Palmer’s articles have been appearing in Collier’s. He is said by the publishers to be “the only accredited American correspondent who had freedom of the field in the battles of the Somme.”

“Unfortunately, many of Mr Palmer’s descriptions lose effectiveness because they are very much like similar descriptions found in ‘My year of the great war.’ ... On the whole, the strongest appeal of the book is to the thoughtful mind.” A. R. Dodd

Reviewed by P. F. Bicknell

Reviewed by Harold Stearns

“It is essentially a study of military events. That is not to say that it is not a very human record. It is human and dramatic and full of sympathy. But it is not emotional. ... It does not tell how men felt. It tells what they did. ... Another kind of importance the book possesses: it tells us something of what, in a purely military way, England has done.”

Reviewed by Robert Lynd

“Mr Palmer has won a world-wide reputation for the vividness and accuracy of his descriptions.”

“Perhaps the greatest value of the book is its human note. ... Dwelling on the initiative and bravery of the new British army, Mr Palmer says that ‘Tennyson’s “Light brigade” seems bombast and gallery play after July 1.’”

“It is impossible to say after reading this book that you have a clear idea of the whole scheme of attack in the beginning, or any grasp of the principles that governed the advance when once the main attack was successful. One picture, or one side of the picture, he does convey well: the extraordinary amount of movement on the roads, the crowding up of batteries behind our lines, the ceaseless ebb and flow of transport of all kinds.”

PALMER, FREDERICK. With our faces in the light. *50c (3½c) Dodd 940.91 17-16213

“Mr Palmer recalls a luminous evening on the Somme, when he came upon a battalion of the New army halted and content, as their commander said meaningly, ‘with their faces in the light.’ The officer went on to predict to Mr Palmer that America, too, would come in, ‘because your faces are in the light ... because that thing which we are now about to attack will drive you, and the thing that is sending us to the attack is calling you.’” (Spec) This little book “illuminates the situation and the conditions in America and the meaning of the war for us,” (N Y Times) and expresses the conviction “that this country as a united nation will face the test in the spirit of the fathers.” (Springf’d Republican)

“A little sermon on patriotism.”

“Perhaps it is the sincerity, perhaps it is the style, but whatever the cause, Mr Palmer’s work remains a very stirring and invigorating piece of writing.”

“This charming little book was written by the well-known American war correspondent for his own countrymen, but it will have an equal interest for English readers.”

“It represents the views of a man who knows war on many continents and is withal an intense American. The blatant tone of less worldly-wise men is refreshingly absent.”

PALMER, FREDERICK E. Milady’s house plants. il $1 De La Mare 716 17-13238

The author of this “complete instructor and guide to success with flowers and plants in the home” is an expert florist who has had many years experience in solving the problem of house plants. After a chapter on the “Companionship of flowers,” Mr Palmer discusses: Fundamental requirements of all plants; Foliage plants for house decoration; Flowering plants for house decoration; Bulbous plants; House plants out-of-doors in summer; Sowing of seeds and rooting of cuttings; Outside window boxes in winter; Insect pests and remedies; How to treat cut flowers; Sun parlors as plant rooms. “The illustrations are a considerable part of the book, many of the operations being pictured and most of the plants.” (Springf’d Republican)

“This valuable little book is compactly written and well illustrated.”

“The common plants, and some uncommon ones that a mere amateur may safely attempt are listed here with sufficient comment as to name, quality, treatment, etc., to insure their welfare under thoughtful care. ... The index is very full and helpful.”

PANI, ALBERTO J. Hygiene in Mexico; a study of sanitary and educational problems; tr. by Ernest L. de Gogorza. *$1.50 (3½c) Putnam 614.09 17-6341

A report of a survey of health conditions made in Mexico City and the Federal district. The report is a frank revelation of evil conditions due to official carelessness and neglect, and is made in the hope of future betterment. The investigation was undertaken by the order of Carranza, and the author, who has held many posts of importance in Mexico, was a member of the joint Mexican-American commission of 1916.

“In a chapter devoted to public health of the City of Mexico, the author presents exhaustive and carefully prepared tables, showing a comparison of death rates in various cities, American and European, which approximate the City of Mexico in number of inhabitants.” H. S. K.

“A Gallic fervor for system and for a well-expanded and rounded-out scheme for the hygienic redemption of the state permeates the work.”

“Interesting from an educational point of view.”

“An ardent plea for public health in Mexico, and a vigorous statement of difficulties in the way thereof.” G. S.

PARIS, WILLIAM FRANCKLYN. Decorative elements in architecture; random observations on the eternal fitness of things from a decorative point of view. il *$5 (19c) Lane 749 17-13254

A series of papers devoted largely to interior decoration and furnishing. The author says, “Too little stress has been laid upon the fact that as much skill and science and understanding of art is needed in the adornment of the inside of a palace as is required in the designing and embellishment of the outside.” Contents: Sunt lachrymæ rerum; Rationalism in art; Guessing and knowing; The inheritance of the past; Principles and essentials; The development of ornament; Decorative elements; The art of Penelope; Painted glass; Wrought iron. The book is handsomely illustrated.

“‘Decorative elements in architecture’ appeals to the layman as a gem. It is descriptive, historic, and didactic, and written in a style which a layman can understand. The illustrations, of which there are ninety and nine, really illustrate.”

“As befits a book upon art by an artist, it is very finely produced and splendidly illustrated. A rich but not sumptuous cover, good paper, excellent typography and margins—these are, in themselves, details of an art which must be handed on, with the rest, to the waiting future—the art of the book. And a most refreshing thing about the illustrations should be welcomed—they are all of unusual works of art.”

“As a piece of book-making the work is altogether pleasing.”

“His book is quite continental in quality; the reviewer, indeed, perhaps through insular prejudice, feels that an occasional illustration from English eighteenth-century ironwork or American colonial furniture would sometimes carry the desired points more tellingly than do the French and Spanish pieces chosen.”

“It is difficult to say whether the book is more for decorators or for the public. Both will get from it inspiration and practical suggestion, but the public perhaps will profit most by having its bewildered face turned firmly, though with a delicate touch, in the right direction.”

“Of special interest are the last three chapters on tapestry, ‘The art of Penelope,’ painted glass, and wrought iron.”

PARKER, EDWARD HARPER. China; her history, diplomacy, and commerce from the earliest times to the present day. 2d ed il *$2.50 Dutton 951 17-30891

“The first edition of this work was published in 1901. To the present (second) edition the author, who is professor of Chinese at the Victoria university of Manchester, has added three chapters, in the last of which he endeavours to describe succinctly how political reform in China arose out of foreign defeat, and how the spirit of democracy asserted itself.” (Ath) Other chapters have been brought down to date.

“Contains much information about a country of which Europeans are as a rule regrettably deficient in knowledge, and the numerous clear maps are of great assistance.”

“It is a pity, however, that while the author has accumulated a vast store of first-hand knowledge, his style leaves much to be desired. It is also to be somewhat regretted that Mr Parker is interested more in men and their affairs than in nature and her products. Perhaps the least useful part of the book is the last chapter, which deals with the rise of the republic.”

“The dominant interest of these pages, which are written with a dry humour that finds expression even in the paginal headlines, lies in their exposure of Germany’s brief but eventful career in the Far East, a subject on which, thanks to his earlier consular experience, Professor Parker writes from inside information. ... Professor Parker’s book should be read by all who desire a closer acquaintance with a land that has suddenly emerged from the picturesque stagnation in which Marco Polo found it. The glossary alone is of great interest and practical use.”

“This is a book of observations, even more than a book of historical study or economic analysis, though there is enough history to supply a background for the observations. These are expressed in a breezy, buoyant style and are characterized by frankness and a disposition to make disconcerting, but highly amusing comparisons between the Chinese and the English.”

“His description of the rise of the Chinese republic is coherent and interesting; it bears evidence, however, of having been based to a very great extent upon the study of contemporary local journalism. Professor Parker’s work is at its best when he deals with those subjects which afford opportunity for the display of his wide range of ethnological, historical and etymological research.”

PARKER, HORATIO NEWTON. City milk supply. il *$5 McGraw 614.3 17-7831

“The volume opens with a discussion of milk and of the diseases which it may convey. The dairy cow and farm are next considered from various angles. Then come valuable chapters on the sanitary production of milk and on milk transportation. The importance of the milk contractor is duly recognized by a chapter of 142 pages. Nearly as much space is given to an able review of methods of public control of milk supplies, this subject having been wisely reserved to the last. Each chapter is supplied with a source reference list.”—Engin News-Rec

“The book is not entirely satisfactory, either in its analysis of production costs or of distribution costs. But as to other topics which the author presumes to cover, the book is most inclusive and authoritative, and will be a most valuable record for all those interested in accurate facts as to sanitary milk, its production, transportation, and inspection.” C. L. K.

“Such a thoroughly up-to-date book on milk supply as this, written by a man who has dealt with the subject as inspector, health officer, analyst and teacher, should certainly make a broad and telling appeal to all who are concerned with public health and sanitation. ... The book deals adequately with its subject and might well serve as a model for writers who have not yet learned the knack of selecting the most essential facts from a vast amount of material and presenting them in concise, orderly, instructive and readable form.”

“A comprehensive, up-to-date discussion of milk production, distribution, and regulation by a man conversant with every aspect of the subject as inspector, health officer, analyst, and teacher.”

“No other book in English, at least, gives an equal amount of information regarding city milk supply.” Frank Schneider, jr.

PARKER, LOUIS NAPOLEON. Aristocrat. *$1 Lane 822 17-5392

The scenes of this three-act play are laid during and immediately following the French revolution. The first act opens on New Year’s eve, 1793, in the house of Louis of Olonzac. Refusing to recognize the existence of the republic, he is preparing to observe the occasion as always, with mass at midnight and a supper with his friends afterwards. The result is imprisonment for himself, his daughter Louise, and his guests. The trial scene takes up the second act, with the dramatic rescue of Louise, and the death of Robespierre as its climax. Act three is laid ten years later.

“Good for reading aloud.”

“‘The aristocrat’ is exceedingly good, and possesses many of the characteristics which make ‘Disraeli’ enjoyable.” D. L. M.

“A romantic glow envelops the action from beginning to end.”

PARKER, RALPH MIDDLETON. Officer’s notes; comp. by Lieut. C: C. Griffith. il *$2 G. U. Harvey, 109 Lafayette st., N.Y. 355 17-11226

“In compiling his notes Captain Parker has taken advantage of the experience gained by nearly twenty years active service with troops—as commandant of cadets at Norwich university, and as the officer detailed to instruct candidates for commissions in the reserve during the past winter. The book is a digest of the information given in the army regulations as to company administration; military law, as laid down in the manual of courts-martial; small-arm firing regulations, including the use and construction of the United States army service rifle; field service regulations, with particular reference to the gathering of information; security; distribution of troops; outposts and orders; marches and convoys, and the shelter of troops in the field.”—N Y Times

“Gives in small compass what the young officer should know.”

“Captain Parker and Lieutenant Griffith have performed a real service for the young officer and for the candidate for a commission in the Officers’ reserve corps by condensing into a little book of 204 pages that can readily be carried in the pocket the essential information from five or six service manuals, and presenting it in clear, everyday English that the average man without any knowledge of military phraseology can readily understand.”

“Perhaps the best evidence of its worth is furnished by the fact that one dealer in the Wall Street district is said to have sold a thousand copies in four days.” R. L.

PARKHURST, FREDERIC AUGUSTUS. Predetermination of true costs and relatively true selling prices. il *$1.25 Wiley 657 16-14605

“A careful reading of this book suggests that it is fairer to judge it by the content than by the title. ... Seven eighths of the book deals with costs: the remainder with profit and selling prices. ... That the author has presented the subject in the usual manner will be seen from the chapter headings which are as follows: Importance of absolute control of all sources of information; Discussion of elements affecting true costs; Direct costs; Indirect costs; Recapitulation of costs; Estimating; Profit and relatively true selling prices; Conclusion. ... The closure is an appeal for greater consideration and better treatment of the workman, not only because of philanthropic motives but because it pays.”—Am Econ R

“It is a good book to which to refer a clerk in a cost department for a working manual or a student of the subject of cost accounting. To such persons it offers not only the principles of cost finding but unusually clear and complete illustrations of their application.” J: R. Wildman

“‘Greatest value of the book lies in the arguments brought out in the first chapter on the importance of absolute control of all sources of information. ... System explained in this book is a definite one for a given type of manufacture, and the forms shown are taken from the practice of two shops only.’”

PARKMAN, MARY ROSETTA. Heroes of today. il *$1.35 (2½c) Century 920 17-25610

The author has told the stories of some of the heroes “who are fighting ‘in the patient modern way,’ not against flesh and blood with sword and spear, but against the unseen enemies of disease and pestilence; against the monster evils of ignorance, poverty and injustice.” The heroes chosen are: John Muir, John Burroughs, Wilfred Grenfell, Captain Scott, Jacob Riis, Edward L. Trudeau, George Washington Goethals, Bishop Rowe, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Rupert Brooke, and Herbert C. Hoover. The book is illustrated with portraits and other pictures.

PARKMAN, MARY ROSETTA. Heroines of service. il *$1.35 (2½c) Century 920 17-25609

The author has written sketches of the lives of eleven women: Mary Lyon; Alice Freeman Palmer; Clara Barton; Frances E. Willard; Julia Ward Howe; Anna Howard Shaw; Mary Antin; Alice C. Fletcher; Mary Slessor; Marie Sklodowska Curie, Jane Addams. Writing of the work of these women, she says, “The service of the true woman is always ‘womanly.’ She gives something of the fostering care of the mother, whether it be as nurse, like Clara Barton; as teacher, like Mary Lyon and Alice Freeman Palmer; or as social helper, like Jane Addams. So it is that the service of these ‘heroines’ is that which only women could have given to the world.” Each sketch is accompanied by a portrait and there are other illustrations.

“A timely book whose only fault is a happy one, a tendency to idealize.”

“She makes an evident aim to avoid controversy regarding the comparative claims to greatness in each of her subjects. The style of narration is intimate and chatty.”

PARRISH, RANDALL.^[2] Devil’s own. il *$1.40 (2c) McClurg 17-28849

The time of the story is the year of the Black Hawk war, and that outbreak has a part in the climax of the tale. It is with one of the problems of slavery, however, that the plot is concerned. In journeying down the river, Lieutenant Knox falls in with Joe Kirby, the gambler. Kirby has been playing cards with Judge Beaucaire of Missouri and has taken from him his home and all his possessions, including his slaves. From Kirby himself, Lieutenant Knox learns that the gambler’s main motive is to gain possession of Rene Beaucaire, the girl reputed to be Judge Beaucaire’s daughter, altho in reality she is his granddaughter, the child of his son and a quadroon girl. Technically she is his slave. Moved by the tragic fate of this unknown girl, Knox sets out to save her; a task which involves the rescue also of Eloise Beaucaire, the judge’s real daughter.

“As is usual in Mr Parrish’s novels, the detail is conscientiously sketched, giving a vivid impression of the political and racial conditions in ‘Missury’ in 1832.”

“The story is tedious in the telling, despite the fact that it brims with exciting adventures and dreadful experiences. Its most interesting feature is the description of the hidden trail whereby slaves escaped to freedom in the days before the war.”

“Tales of frontier and pioneer days will probably never lose their flavor with native Americans. The period was so dramatic a one in the history of the United States that it requires very little departure from established facts to make a story that stirs the imagination and arouses the liveliest interest from its first to last chapter.”

PARRY, THOMAS WOOD. When Daddy was a boy. il *$1.25 (2½c) Little

A series of stories told by a father to his little son. They are sketches of boyhood on a Kentucky farm. Many of them are stories about animals. In others a black mammy and little negro playmates are introduced. One is a negro folk tale, included as typical of the many told to the author as a child.

Reviewed by J: Walcott

“The fact that Daddy lived in a Kentucky home adds a delicious flavor. The book is well illustrated.”

“Every one will like ‘When Daddy was a boy.’”

“The incidents are such as a child likes to hear, and the negroes are well portrayed.”

PARSONS, CARL COPELAND. Office organization and management. (Business administration, section 18) il $2.50 La Salle extension univ. 658 17-8877

The author’s aim has been to supply a broad view of all phases of office management. The work is based on observation of the principles employed in such offices as those of the National cloak and suit company, Sherwin-Williams company, National cash register company, and others. The author, who is now manager of the Shaw-Walker company of New York, was formerly lecturer in business administration at the University of Michigan. Contents; Organization; Laying out the office; Office employees; Office training; Rules and regulations; Discipline; Methods of payment; Promotions; Increasing efficiency; Suggestions and ideas; Esprit de corps; Vacations; Encouragement of savings; Making employees stockholders; Pension systems; Machinery of the office; etc. The volume is provided with various forms by way of illustration, is fully indexed, and made more useful as a text by the inclusion of test questions for students.

“By introducing many extracts from the manuals of business houses and by concerning himself entirely with the most practical problems of modern business, Carl C. Parsons makes his ‘Office organization and management’ a valuable piece of work. These things also make an intentionally technical work vastly more interesting than a purely theoretical discussion.”

PARTRIDGE, EDWARD BELLAMY. Sube Cane. il *$1.35 Penn 17-13316

“The ten-years-old hero of ‘Sube Cane’ enjoys a series of adventures which Edward Bellamy Partridge relates for grown-ups. Sube’s escapades are very like those engaged in by other mischievous boys who have broken into fiction.” (Springf’d Republican) “‘Sube’ is ‘all boy.’ His is the ingenuity and ingenuousness of adolescence and those who have a furtive sympathy with the innate genius for mischief which characterizes youth will find a humor which does not tax their credulity or patience.” (Dial)

“An authentic story of boyhood.”

“The book is something on the ‘Penrod’ order; not perhaps so gifted with real humor, but certainly full of fun and comic incidents.”

“Sube is either less inventive, or the author sees him with a less humorous eye than Mr Tarkington’s, for his adventures arouse comparatively few smiles. But in spite of that, he is natural, and has little of the offensive precociousness often lavished upon boys whose activities form the basis of such a story.”

PATERNOSTER, GEORGE SIDNEY. Great gift. *$1.40 (2c) Lane 17-28803

To Hugh Standish has come the crowning honor of his career. At forty-six he is to enter the British cabinet. But it is at this moment that he begins to realize the emptiness of his life. Love, home, family affection for the first time seem to him desirable. In Olive Ingstrom, a girl of twenty, he believes that he has found the fulfilment of his new ideal, and for a time he deludes himself, mistaking her respect and youthful admiration for love. Fortunately he comes to see the truth before two young lives have been blighted. The war menace is gathering at the story’s close, promising to Hugh new activities and opportunities for service.

“The business ethics of the hero, and his attitude to life generally, will not appeal to those whose outlook is more spiritual, but the fact that he recognized that he had missed the best in life ... will cause them to close the book with feelings of sympathy dominating those of criticism.”

“The book offers one of those English half-and-half politics and society novels for which Mrs Humphry Ward long ago set the standard. But Mr Paternoster does not follow Mrs Ward’s pattern. He has his own pattern, which is simpler than hers and has fewer of the trimmings of sentiment.”

“The hero is just a little too successful to be realistic. ... It is in the last third of the book, when war is about to break out ... that the novelist begins to show his power.”

PATERSON, MRS ISABEL. Magpie’s nest. *$1.40 (2c) Lane 17-9810

The author is a young Canadian novelist and this is the second book in which she pictures life in the big Canadian northwest. Hope Fielding, born on the prairies, demands that life give her happiness, and because she does not find it near at hand, she goes far in search of it. But the French have a saying that happiness is to be found in a magpie’s nest; because the magpie always builds out of reach. It is only when Hope has given up looking for it, that happiness overtakes her. One of the new and growing cities of Alberta is the scene of the greater part of the story, but at one time Hope’s quest takes her to Seattle, at another to New York.

“Isabel Paterson’s heroine reminds one of Owen Johnson’s ‘Salamander,’ a fact which will doubtless recommend the book to many.”

“As in Mrs Paterson’s former novel, ‘The shadow riders,’ the scene of a part of the story is in the Canadian northwest, the descriptions of which are fresh and vivid. The book is remarkably well written, and holds the reader’s interest in spite of its reprehensible characters and very unpleasant situations.”

“The latter part of the story is in obedience to the conventional requirement of a happy ending and is quite ordinary work. But the first two-thirds ring absolutely true, built from the storied memories of tense, full, eager, devouring youth. The vitality, the wonder, and the hope of immaturity are poured out for us.” M. A. Hopkins

“It shows a great advance on Miss Paterson’s previous novel ‘The shadow riders’; and, moreover, it is by no means devoid of humour.”

PATRI, ANGELO. Schoolmaster of the great city. *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 371 17-13273

A piece of autobiography and a study of educational conditions as they exist in New York city today. The author came to America from Italy when a boy. He was eleven years old when he entered an American school, and ten years later, having been sent thru college by a father who earned two dollars a day, he came back to the city schools as a teacher. In time, after another interval spent in study, he passed on to a principalship. In this book he writes of his association with the schools, as pupil, as teacher and as principal. He shows how the humanizing touch has made itself felt in spite of the big unwieldy educational system and how school has been linked with community as the first step toward making a new and a better America.

“As interesting to the parent as to the teacher.”

“Mr Patri’s honest and unpretentious book contains both wisdom and inspiration for every teacher and every parent, everywhere.” Clyde Furst

“The author knows how to tell a story and when he has told it his point needs no further enforcing. The issues which are so sacred to the old education seem trivial in the face of the realities of present day requirements.”

“It has the rare gift of unfolding, without consciousness, the real character of an uncommon man.”

“The simple anecdotes introduce you to real people. That is what makes the book interesting reading, even if you are not concerned with schools and with children. This is a human document, not a pedagogical treatise.” B. C. G.