“As to the learning and competence for his task, no question can be raised, but the method he elects to adopt is one which has brought much work on the history of science into not unjustified contempt.” C: Singer
− + Nature 105:127 Ap 1 ’20 950w + Spec 124:831 Je 19 ’20 1250w
“Severe compression has been necessary; but the process has not interfered with the lucidity or the interest of this instructive little book.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p142 F 26 ’20 70w
WALSH, JAMES JOSEPH.[[2]] Religion and health. *$2.25 (2c) Little 265.8
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The argumentation of the book turns on the influence of the mind on the body and attempts to show how a trusting faith in God tends to produce an equilibrated mind, which is the foundation of psychic health, and, by interaction, of physical health. The book is indexed and contains much sound advice as to the way of achieving both kinds of well-being. The contents are: Can we still believe? Prayer; Sacrifice; Charity; Fasting and abstinence; Holydays and holidays; Recreation and dissipation; Mortification; Excesses; Purity; Insanity; Nervous disease; Dreads; Suffering; Pain; Suicide and homicide; Longevity; The Bible and health; Health and religion.
WALSH, THOMAS. Don Folquet, and other poems. *$1.50 Lane 811
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The title poem has for its theme an episode of French history and tells how Don Folquet, a trader’s son, was first celebrated at the court of Toulouse as Prince of song, how he tired of court life and became a monk and later the Bishop of Toulouse and as such pronounced a ban on the city for its wickedness. Among the other poems are a Mother Goose sonnet series; Murillo paints “The assumption”; Catullus anent his Lesbia; The sigh for Deirdre; Ad limina.