Roosevelt, Theodore. Square deal. $1. Allendale press.
Ideals of citizenship, success in life, nobility of parenthood, the problem of the South, the Chinese question and the essence of Christian character are among the subjects treated here. It is a book of cullings from the President’s addresses. A new photogravure portrait appears on the frontispiece.
Root, Jean Christie (Mrs. J. H. Root). Does God comfort? by one who has greatly needed to know. **30c. Crowell.
Thru sorrow, loss, and temptation has come to the author the assurance that all that God has given to him He will give to every soul that honestly seeks Him.
Ropes, James Hardy. Apostolic age in the light of modern criticism. **$1.50. Scribner.
“The author, a professor at Harvard, in 1904 delivered a course of Lowell institute lectures on the apostolic age. The publication of these lectures places within reach of those who may be inquiring what New Testament criticism has done with the reputations of Paul and Peter, a clear, graphic account of the happenings of the apostolic days as at present understood by historians.... The aim is to describe the currents of thought, and life which made the apostolic age so great, and the success of the endeavor is notable.”—Ind.
“A concise and scholarly discussion, in attractive popular form, of the history and literature of the apostolic age.”
+ + Bib. World. 27: 480. Je. ’06. 30w.
“Considering the field covered the work is brief, but more than a compensation for inadequacy of space to certain details is offered in the clarity and vividness in which the whole movement is portrayed. The résumé of recent criticism bearing on the period is fair and impartial.”