“Mr. Millard’s book is timely because Americans need to have their eyes wide open as to what is going on in the Far East, but his criticisms will seem to many unjustly prejudiced.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 39. S. 1, ’06. 610w. Sat. R. 102: 494. O. 20, ’06. 180w.
Miller, Cincinnatus Heine (Joaquin Miller, pseud.). Building of the city beautiful. **$1.50. Brandt.
In form this work is “a romance embodying the author’s visions of the city of God that is to be, for the realization of which Jew and Christian join heart and hand. In substance it is a sketch of the social Utopia which in the coming age will be based on Jesus’ foundations, as given in the Lord’s Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount.... The spiritualized affection of a noble man for the noblest of women ... runs through the whole, and ‘the City beautiful’ at last appears in form as transcendently ideal as that in the Apocalypse. Taken as a whole, this work, whose chapters are each introduced by an appropriate poem, is a prose poem on the evil that is, and the good that is to come.”—Outlook.
“Considered as a romance of love and service, this story is as unique in literature as it is fascinating in its influence over the cultured imagination. To us no social vision has yet appeared that is so profound in its philosophy, so rich in most vital truth, as this master-creation of our poet of the Sierras.”
+ + Arena. 34: 654. D. ’05. 4030w. Critic. 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 50w. Dial. 40: 300. My. 1, ’06. 330w. Ind. 60: 1045. My. 3, ’06. 290w.
“The contents do not live up to the title of the little volume.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 129. Mr. 3, ’06. 200w.
“A work which in thought and art shows its author at his best.”