“A parody needs to be remarkably well done to secure the forgiveness of the admirers of the original. It is to be feared that Mr. Bangs must go unforgiven.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 910. Ag. 18, ’06. 110w.
Banks, Rev. Louis Albert. Great promises of the Bible. $1.50. Meth. bk.
This is the fourth volume of a quartette, the first three of which are “The great sinners of the Bible,” “The great saints of the Bible,” “The great portraits of the Bible.” There are thirty sermons which comprise a complete survey of the Bible promises including the promise of a new heart, forgiveness, answers to prayer, sleep, home of the soul, victory, morning and immortality.
Barbey, Frederic. Friend of Marie Antoinette (Lady Atkyns). *$3. Dutton.
“Lady Atkyns an English actress, lived in France long enough to acquire violent Royalist sentiments, and to be presented to the lovely queen Marie Antoinette, to whose cause she forever swore allegiance. Her recently discovered correspondence reopens the puzzle of the disappearance of the Dauphin. However, the case remains as completely unsolved as ever.... Lady Atkyns seems to have been a monomaniac of very generous impulses, who was the dupe of excited French Royalists, and they appeared as eager for English gold as for the rescue of their king.”—Outlook.
“A most disappointing book. Indeed, one is tempted to ask oneself, when wading through the excellent translation of M. Barbey’s work whether that distinguished writer really made the best of his material.”
+ – Acad. 70: 401. Ap. 28, ’06. 790w.
“The translation is, as a whole, very tolerably executed.”