Book Review Digest, Volume 5H.W. Wilson Company, 1909 |
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Page 320 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 205 - But that which saved these and all his sharpest words from being actually offensive was this, that, after the most vehement tirade, he would suddenly pause, throw his head back, and give as genuine and kindly a laugh as I ever heard from a human being. It was not the bitter laugh of the cynic, nor yet the big-bodied laugh of the burly joker; least of all was it the thin and rasping cackle of the dyspeptic satirist. It was a broad, honest, human laugh...
Page 243 - CONTENTS: The Right of the Child to Choose His Parents, The Unborn Race and Woman's Work, Education, Homelessness, Soul Murder in the Schools, The School of the Future, Religious Instruction, Child Labor and the Crimes of Children.
Page 53 - ... and in its parts, and reaches its highest level in man. Motion is not content to be mere commotion. Even the confused throbbings of chaos are a petition for order. Motion becomes increasingly definite and intelligible as life rises in the scale, until in man it assumes the shape of conscious purpose. A Leader is one who has the sense of purpose for himself and the universe of which he is a part in a marked degree, and who bears in his character the features discernible in the larger order.
Page 220 - Saint-Simon," whati does he mean to say ? " Egotists " is a very interesting book concerning men who, with two or three exceptions, were more or less unbalanced in mind ; it is the work of a man who knows his subject thoroughly and who writes frankly and unconventionally, as he ought. It must be added, however, that at times the lawless spirit of some of the men he celebrates gets into Mr. Huneker's style ; it confuses the vocabulary of all the arts; it sins in excess and extravagance; it is needlessly...
Page 216 - Heating and ventilation ; a working manual of approved practice in the heating and ventilating of dwelling-houses and other buildings, with complete practical instruction in the mechanical details, operation, and care of modern heating and ventilating plants, by Charles L.
Page 73 - In this volume an attempt has been made to gather the floating fragments of railroad history having a human interest into a coherent narrative of the worka-day trials and triumphs of the pioneers in the planning and the building of the railroad that would be neither a dry historical treatise nor a collection of anecdotes.
Page 157 - America against the world and to prove, when occasion shall offer, that the prevalent opinion that America has a double dose of the original sin of materialism is the result of partial observation and mistaken judgment, and is due, in large measure, to the fallacious theory that a people which has proved itself practical and efficient in handling actualities must needs be devoid of spiritual vision, energy and power.
Page 29 - The work is divided into two parts. The first part is a compilation and summary of all Mendelian work to date.
Page 127 - The Divine Weeks of Josuah Sylvester. Mainly Translated from the French of William de Saluste, Lord of the Bartas.