“One submits to the charm of narrative with the feeling that he is resting on absolutely sure ground.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 600w.
“One could hardly ask for a more intimate life-like and exact picture of the first gentleman of Europe and his time.”
+ + Reader. 7: 565. Ap. ’06. 630w. R. of Rs. 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 120w.
“As it stands, it is half guide-book, half history and biography, and so arranged that one finds it difficult to read through. Mr. Farmer’s selections from the memoirs of the time are made with great judgment.”
+ + – Spec. 96: 713. My. 5, ’06. 1420w.
Farnell, Louis Richard. Evolution of religion: an anthropological study. *$1.50. Putnam.
Two of the four lectures delivered in 1905 for the Hibbert trust deal with the methods and the value of the study of comparative religion and its relations to anthropology; the remaining two are special studies in the anthropological manner, of the ritual of purification and the evolution of prayer from lower to higher forms.
“It contains much that is suggestive and valuable, and the two chapters on ritual purification and the evolution of prayer are real contributions to the study of these important matters.”