+ + Architectural Record. 19: 199. Mr. ’06. 4870w.
“The subjects are multitudinous, indeed, which Mr. Sturgis treats, and it seems invidious almost to claim a superiority of handling of one over the other.” Frank Fowler.
+ + Bookm. 23: 106. Mr. ’06. 860w.
“It is a form of notebook, but also of encyclopaedia, and one more offshoot of a habit of life constantly curious in everything connected with art.”
+ + Nation. 82: 121. F. 8, ’06. 2790w.
Sturt, Henry. Idola theatri: a criticism of Oxford thought and thinkers from the standpoint of a personal idealism. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“Under this Baconian title an Oxford scholar, Mr. Henry Sturt, rips up some current philosophic fallacies. Recent British philosophy (and American also) has been carried captive, as he views it, by a German invasion inculcating a one-sided idealism, in which the conative factor of thought is overshadowed by the speculative.... The general charge is that the ‘idols’ deceive by substituting a static for the dynamic conception of reality, with resulting damage to various interests, chiefly those of ethics, politics, and religion.”—Outlook.
“Mr. Sturt is sincere, and his way independent: but the structure of the book is slight; and in closing it we are haunted by the suspicion that its author has failed to master the doctrines he attacks.”
+ – Acad. 71: 106. Ag. 4, ’06. 2070w.