+ – – Am. Hist. R. 12: 172. O. ’06. 480w.
“A series of studies of value to the careful delver into the facts of American constitutional history is to be found in Mr. Pierce’s book. It is typical of the lawyer mind that created it. Cautious, conservative, and never going beyond the evidence, but here and there is very suggestive.”
+ + Ind. 61: 257. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“We do not always agree with the views expressed, and occasionally we feel that where the views are sound (as they usually are) Mr. Pierce has failed to support them by the strongest arguments. But on the whole, there is remarkably little to criticise in his pages which convey in small compass a large amount of information useful alike to the student of constitutional history and the general reader anxious to improve his acquaintance with the circumstances attending the political, social, intellectual, and religious growth of the United States.”
+ + – Outlook. 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 200w.
Pierson, Arthur Tappan. Bible and spiritual criticism; being the second series of the Exeter Hall lectures on the Bible delivered in London, England, February, March, and April, 1904. **$1. Baker.
A companion volume to “God’s living oracles.” There are twelve lectures treating spiritual faculties, methods, organism, structure, progress, symmetry, types, wisdom, verdicts and verities. They are a defence of the inspiration and integrity of the Holy Scriptures—the discussion of which theme is “a solemn business,” says the author.
“Under the blinding influence of a false theory of inspiration this book presents a strange jumble of gold, silver, and precious stones with wood, hay, and stubble.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 374. F. 17, ’06. 220w.