Instead of marrying a shallow-minded girl with a two-hundred-thousand dollar dowery, Roy Marshall chooses to wed his sister’s governess, a girl whose literary career had been checked by her father’s loss of money and subsequent death. From an unsuccessful beginning in life on a New York paper his course is turned into the channel of Pittsburg steel interests and he rises to a multi-millionaire’s position of prominence and power. The loose morals that result in his abandoning and divorcing his wife are astonishingly at variance with his early integrity; he pays a heavy penalty, and the book has a moral.
“The characters, if somewhat tamely drawn, are good human creatures and not the flat paper dolls found in the pages of so much current fiction. It is a thoroughly wholesome story, better for general purposes perhaps than many novels better written.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 190w. |
“The work is creditable—somewhat ‘slow’ and unformed in many of the earlier portions, but gaining constantly in assurance as it progresses.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 316. My. 18, ’07. 690w. |
Horne, Herman Harrell. Psychological principles of education. *$1.75. Macmillan.
6–26518.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The real strength of Dr. Horne’s book is found in its treatment of emotional, moral, and religious education; these vital subjects are handled with breadth, warmth, and frankness, and with an unusually full comprehension of their supreme importance.”