+ N. Y. Times. 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 1060w.
“All that wealth of delicate mysticism, that sensitive groping after spiritual values, that feeling for the invisible, which are well known to M. Maeterlinck’s readers, are here most suggestively in evidence.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 188. F. 10, ’06. 80w.
Magnay, Sir William, 2nd baronet. Master spirit. †$1.50. Little.
Social and political London, today, is the scene of this powerful romance. A continental railroad accident deprives Paul Gastineau, a brilliant young statesman on the eve of a great future, of the use of his limbs. It is reported that he is dead and he does not deny this report. A young Englishman, Herriard, nurses him, brings him back to London secretly, and becomes the mouthpiece of Gastineau, who directs his friend’s course each day from his couch and thus wins political prominence for Herriard. At this point an old murder mystery is revived. Herriard is retained as lawyer for the accused countess with whom he falls in love, and when it develops that she was the woman whom Gastineau once loved and pursued with his attentions, when it is proven that Gastineau was the real murderer, and when Gastineau is suddenly cured by a great specialist, and his friendship for Herriard becomes enmity, we have complications enough.
N. Y. Times. 11: 607. S. 29, ’06. 420w.
Mahaffy, John Pentland. Silver age of the Greek world. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
“This is a new edition largely rewritten, of Professor Mahaffy’s ‘The Greek world under Roman sway.’ The book has been out of print for a number of years.... The period is one of immense interest, not only to students and scholars, but to all who care for the development of the human spirit.... Beginning with the discussion of the Roman conquest, the book ends with a chapter on ‘The literature of the first century,’ tracing the spirit of Hellenism in Asia, Egypt, and Italy, with special chapters on Cicero and Plutarch.”—Outlook.