| + | Lond. Times. 6: 210. Jl. 5, ’07. 730w. |
“Professor James has an unconventional way of dealing with philosophical questions, so that by graphic illustrations and by simple language he attracts attraction and wins assent.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 970w. |
“It is scarcely possible to exaggerate one’s appreciation of the lucidity and skill with which so abstract a topic has been treated.” Joseph Jacobs.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 527. Ag. 31, ’07. 2610w. |
Reviewed by Carolyn Shipman.
| No. Am. 185: 884. Ag. 16, ’07. 1950w. |
“His well-known, vivacious and breezy style of address, garnished here and there with racy colloquialisms, working, as it does, to enliven attention to his arguments, is itself felicitously pragmatic.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 748. Ag. 3, ’07. 330w. |
“Professor James’s volume is interesting and stimulating throughout, and it is needless to add that it contains a deal of practical wisdom and much useful advice which all philosophers would do well to heed. And it seems to me to be much stronger in what it affirms than in what it denies.” Charles M. Bakewell.