Geiermann, Rev. P. Manual of theology for the laity: being a brief, clear and systematic exposition of the reason and authority of religion and a practical guide-book for all of good-will. *60c. Benziger.
The plan followed in this volume is first, to investigate the fundamental ideas of religion as proposed by reason and history; second, to study the revealed religion both in its supernatural truths and in its divinely ordained practice; and third, to show how the true religion of to-day logically follows from these two premises.
Geikie, James. Structural and field geology for students of pure and applied science. *$4. Van Nostrand.
“The different chapters seem of unequal value.”
+ – Nation. 82: 260. Mr. 29, ’06. 160w.
Geil, William Edgar. Yankee in pigmy land. **$1.50. Dodd.
In his bright, fully illustrated narrative of a journey across Africa from Mombasa through the great pigmy forest to Banana, Mr. Geil touches mainly upon the lion hunters, the sleeping sickness and its victims, the lost caravan, nights alone with savages, the greatest wild-game region of the earth, The Congo rule, the work of missionaries including a biographical sketch of Bishop Tucker, and the “Land of laughter” itself with its tiny inhabitants and their simple life.
“Both text and pictures are tremendously realistic, and, to be frank, excite both disgust and pity.”
+ – Critic. 48: 477. My. ’06. 250w.