+ − =Nation.= 84: 203. F. 28, ’07. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The terminology of the book is not of the simplest but behind it one finds that the writer, has something true and important to say.”
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 2. N. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Doubtless some of these perplexities represent, as usual, the reviewer’s ‘personal equation’ and some may disappear in the other volumes. At all events ... the significance of the aim, the standpoint and general method of the treatment, together with the suggestive special features mentioned and others unmentioned, make the work a notable one.” A. W. Moore.
+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 81. Mr. 16, ’07. 3750w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Seriously, we protest against the German and American tendency to turn divine philosophy into a jargon comprehensible only to an inner ring.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 658. My. 25, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The methodological difficulties of the subject are unusually great and have been handled with a remarkable degree or success.” G. A. Tawney.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 177. F. 1, ’07. 1700w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Baldwin, May.= Peg’s adventures in Paris: a school tale. †$1.50. Dutton.
The adventures of a “high spirited, good-hearted, but much spoilt young lady” who “rides roughshod over the few rules and regulations of the particularly undisciplinary _pensionnat_ in which she is placed, and eventually finds herself in a French court of law.” (Ath.)
“Points of difference in matters social and educational are well brought out, but ‘Madame’ is considerably overdrawn, and careless revision has permitted numerous errors in French to pass.”
“It is told in a sprightly manner, and the incidents follow so rapidly upon one another’s heels that a very lively interest is maintained through all its 400 pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
“Tells of an almost fatiguingly sprightly young woman whose ‘adventures’ are stimulating but rather improbably thick upon the ground.”
− + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 130w.
=Balzac, Honore de.= Père Goriot; ed. with introd. and notes by R. L. Sanderson. *80c. Heath.
A student’s edition of Père Goriot uniform with Heath’s “Modern language series” and supplied with generous editorial material.