“The volume is well worth reading, though based, as we believe on exaggerated views of the evils of denominationalism, and of failure to appreciate the importance of the philosophical and systematic presentation of the underlying principles of the gospel plan of salvation.”
+ – Bibliotheca Sacra. 63: 192. Ja. ’06. 220w.
Phillpotts, Eden. Knock at a venture. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 100w. + Critic. 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 170w. + Ind. 59: 1348. D. 7, ’05. 170w.
Phillpotts, Eden. Portreeve. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Phillpotts has placed the spirit of the Greek Fate in the breast of the daughter of a Dartmoor farmer. Because the man whom she has tricked into making a half-proposal of marriage to her, married the woman he loved, she pursues him through life inexorably and without mercy, finally working his death.” (Pub. Opin.) “Fiendish pertinacity, fiendish coolness, fiendish ingenuity are hers. She is miasmatic ice with a heart of malignant fire. She gives her victim law; he climbs; she strikes ... leaving him once again a little further from his ideal and from happiness. Finally, all but robbed of his livelihood, robbed of his hopes of children, robbed of the simple faith of God that was his dearest possession, he breaks. A raving lunatic, he all but murders the woman’s foolish husband, and dies a horrible death in an attempt to murder the woman herself.” (Acad.)
“When all is said, this is a powerful, almost a great book. A full, wise and glowing piece of work.”
+ Acad. 70: 139. F. 10, ’06. 860w.