+ – Nation. 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 220w.
“The spirit of Mr. Rámanáthan’s teaching is admirable, and his use of the Scriptures for confirmation is ingenious. What he speaks from a profound spiritual experience is incontestable. His doctrine that the knowledge of God reaches its acme in a state of feeling disjunct from thought and will is psychologically impossible, as well as rationally untenable.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 237. S. 22, ’06. 310w.
Ranck, George Washington. Bivouac of the dead, and its author. **$1. Grafton press.
+ Dial. 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 60w.
Randall, Edward C. Life’s progression: research in metaphysics. *$1.60. Henry B. Brown co., 496–8 Main st., Buffalo, N. Y.
A book which makes no use of creeds nor faith, which believes that positive knowledge has displaced them both and also the idea of death, that origin and destiny are not beyond the grasp of mortals, that in the spirit world laws are fixed and are immutable, that dissolution is not annihilation but liberation and opportunity and that God is universal good and dwells in the heart of all mankind.
Rankin, Carroll Watson. Girls of Gardenville. †$1.50. Holt.
“The sweet sixteen,” club and the doings of its sixteen girlish members, the three Stones counted as one because they were triplets and couldn’t all leave home at once, fill this book with wholesome young life from cover to cover. How two of them tried to paper a room so as to give their mother something which she could not give away, how one of them played fireman; how they held a rummage sale; how they secured a Hallowe’en pumpkin; all this and more is told in the course of the story.