“The man who thinks that the message of Christianity is an academic discussion of theological matters would do well to read this volume. For every clergyman the reading of it is a duty.”
+ + World To-Day. 11: 1220. N. ’06. 170w.
Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes. In and around Venice. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Other books may tell us much of Venice; Mr. Brown gives us Venice from the Venetian point of view.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 326. Mr. 17. 230w.
“Justifies all expectations. He does not write simply of its picturesque aspects. He is learned in all the lore of the region, historical, geographical, practical and artistic.”
+ + Dial. 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 310w.
Brown, John A. Harvie-. Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe: Norway, 1871, Archangle, 1872, Petchora, 1875. il. 2v. *$20. Wessels.
These two volumes contain the journals which Mr. Harvie-Brown, “an accomplished ornithologist and enthusiastic faunist,” kept from day to day during the expeditions to Norway, Archangle and Petchora. “The real value and purpose of the book, however, lie in the observations of the author and his companions on bird and animal life,—observations that are minutely correct and scientific, and will be of interest to those deeply versed in bird and animal lore.” (Dial.)