Jonson, Ben. [Devil is an ass]; ed. with introduction, notes and glossary by William Savage Johnson. $2. Holt.
“This seems to suffer from what may be called a lack of artistic restraint in annotation.”
+ – Nation. 82: 37. Ja. 11, ’06. 160w.
Jordan, David Starr. [Guide to the study of fishes.] 2v. **$12. Holt.
“Unfortunately the index is not so good as it might be. It may be said generally that it would be difficult to praise this fine work too highly.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 77. Jl. 21. 720w.
“Where the author has wandered from the narrower field of systematic ichthyology, with its attendant problems of distribution and external morphology, he has sometimes fallen into vagueness or error. Where, on the other hand, he has traversed his own familiar ground he has supplied a real need and supplied it admirably.” Jacob Reighard.
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Jordan, Louis Henry. Comparative religion: its genesis and growth. *$3.50. Scribner.
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