“Taken as a whole, the book is a well-balanced treatment of the subject, and does not deserve the violent criticism which it has received in some quarters.” William B. Bailey.
+ + – Yale R. 15: 332. N. ’06. 310w.
Halpin, Rev. P. A. Apologetica: elementary apologetics for pulpit and pew. *85c. Wagner, J. F.
“This volume, whose author has frequently given proof that he reads the signs of the times, is a step in the right direction. It presents the fundamental facts of Christianity in the light of reason, with the least possible appeal to revelation.... Every one of his fifty-two sketches deals with an objection that is in the atmosphere which Catholics breathe to-day, and against which they require the strengthening tonic of sound instruction, as frequently as it can be administered.”—Cath. World.
+ Cath. World. 83: 268. My. ’06. 120w.
Hamilton, Angus. Afghanistan. *$5. Scribner.
To material gathered from various books and official papers the author has added his own first hand information producing more of a gazetteer than a volume of travel in the ordinary sense. “He gives trade statistics for every town, elaborate measurements of all railway lines and distances, and he endeavours to set out the kind of detail as to the various defences which might be expected in a confidential report to some Army intelligence department.” (Spec.)
“If the author has erred at all, he has erred in not restricting himself to his subject.”