“A thoroly absorbing romance, and a most workmanlike piece of novel writing.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ Pub W 97:1291 Ap 17 ’20 320w
“Through the color which Mr Merwin dashes upon his background and his descriptions of picturesque customs, and countryside, much of the unevenness of character portraiture is compensated for. Generally, the story holds the reader’s close attention.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Je 6 ’20 700w
MERZ, JOHN THEODORE. Fragment on the human mind. *$4.50 Scribner 192
(Eng ed 20–10637)
“After having mastered the history of modern philosophy the author considers its main problem to be the relation of religion and science. The problem of this relation is best approached, the author holds, by a study of the human mind. This may be done in a number of ways, but he prefers two, observation and introspection. Observation is the method used in studying the development of the race, going back to primitive times; introspection is used in the study of the individual life, going back to the infant mind. Special attention is given to the latter in this treatise. Many of the great metaphysical problems [are discussed] and such subjects as the moral law, the world of values, the relation of science to art and the respective provinces of each, the social order and the world of freedom.”—Boston Transcript
“In this brief treatise we find the idealistic philosophy set forth by a masterly mind which includes the common sense of the practical business man, the convincing logic of the acute thinker, and the wisdom of the broadminded scholar.” F. W. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 30 ’20 850w