“It is full of homely truths, set forth wisely and agreeably for the reading of ordinary mortals.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
“A book of genial wit and wisdom.”
+ Outlook. 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
Nicolls, William Jasper. Coal catechism. **$2. Jacobs.
A little leather hand-book that answers nearly seven hundred questions grouped under twenty-six headings on the subject of coal. The questions are so arranged as to lead an uninformed inquirer thru various stages of the origin, development and uses of coal until a full knowledge of the subject has been obtained.
Nielsen, Frederik. History of the papacy in the XIXth century. **$7.50. Dutton.
“These volumes ... are written from a point of view which the English editor, Dr. Arthur J. Mason, of Cambridge likens to ‘that of a large-minded and statesmanlike High Churchman among ourselves.’ The first volume extends to the death of Pius VII. in 1823, the second to the death of Pius IX. in 1878. A third volume, soon to follow, covers the pontificate of Leo XIII. The historian goes back to the beginning of the eighteenth century, when the first fight for ‘the Pope’s infallibility, which was the pith and marrow of the whole contention,’ was won by the Jesuits against the Gallican Jansenists. The subsequent history, which he relates down to the adoption of that dogma by the Vatican council in 1870, might be summarized as the ‘Modern development of ultramontanism into papal autocracy.’”—Outlook.
“In the execution of his task Nielsen chiefly falls short, in our judgment, by a deficient sense of proportion.”