– Nation. 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 240w.
“Della Scala and Visconti stand out most vividly in one’s memory of the characters, but there are many others drawn with admirable delicacy and skill. She has certainly triumphed along unconventional lines, for love is not the absorbing theme in ‘The viper of Milan,’ and the ending is most unhappy.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 751. N. 17, ’06. 780w.
“For so young a writer, Miss Bowen shows a remarkable sense of style, which, taken in conjunction with her energy and imaginative power, make her a welcome recruit to the ranks of adventurous romancers.”
+ Spec. 97: 578. O. 20, ’06. 1200w.
Bowne, Borden Parker. Immanence of God. **$1. Houghton.
The author says that “The undivineness of the natural and unnaturalness of the divine is the great heresy of popular thought respecting religion.” He would offset the heresy with the statement “God is the omnipresent ground of all finite existence and activity.” “Two ... characteristics are very apparent in this little book.... The first is his ability to see clearly the reality so often hidden behind a voluminous debate about words; the second is his literary knack in so expressing the truth that the non-scholastic reader can understand it.” (Outlook.)
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ Atlan. 97: 417. Mr. ’06. 310w.