This minute study of the various portraits of Poe, as illustrated by Mr. Leigh’s own drawings, brings out the various phases of his character. A transposable face forms the frontispiece, then follow the wedding year portrait, the profile study, the widower year portrait and his monument. There are also besides a discussion of his troubles and his triumphs, critical notes upon his poetical work and methods.
“As a self-constituted authority on the subject he is naturally very severe with every one else who has ever written about it.”
– Nation. 83: 231. S. 13, ’06. 450w.
Lepicier, Fr. Alexius M. Unseen world: an exposition of Catholic theology in its relation to modern spiritism. *$1.60. Benziger.
To answer the claims of spiritism that profess ability to communicate with the outer world, Father Lépicier “sets forth, besides the teaching of the Church on the existence and nature of the angels, all the scholastic speculative conclusions concerning the nature of the angelic mind, the manner in which it acquires knowledge, the extent of that knowledge, the limitations of the angels’ power over things of the material cosmos, etc., etc. He then proceeds to unfold a quantity of similar information concerning the conditions in which the human soul finds itself with regard to the exercise of its facilities after death.” (Cath. World.)
Cath. World. 83: 269. My. ’06. 500w.
Le Roy, James A. Philippine life in town, and country. **$1.20. Putnam.
“A very sympathetic account of the life of the natives which is singularly free from prejudice.”