“His reading, wide as it is, is in excess of his powers to use it profitably. He sets out with vague ideas on the varied content of Puritanism, with the natural result that he leaves us in a state of vagueness.”
− Ath p107 Jl 26 ’20 440w R of Rs 63:111 Ja ’21 40w
“We are given an amiable piece of dilettantism, praiseworthy in object, careless in execution, and distinguished neither by clearness of intention nor by profundity of thought. We fail to see anything fresh in Mr Flynn’s book, and the ignorance which it would dispel is ignorance of the fundamental kind which a knowledge of English history would make impossible.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p361 Je 10 ’20 880w
FOCH, FERDINAND. Precepts and judgments. *$4 Holt 355
(Eng ed 20–6758)
This book, translated from the French by Hilaire Belloc, contains a sketch of the military career of Marshal Foch by Major A. Grasset. The Precepts give the marshal’s military teachings in condensed form and the Judgments contain short opinions on the European wars of the last century.
“A volume of great interest to the student of war.”
+ Ath p61 Ja 9 ’20 50w