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“This is the ‘Romanes lecture’ of the year.... Sturla was one of the products of that very strange growth, Icelandic culture.... Vacant, or nearly vacant, as far as we know, from the beginning of time, Iceland was settled in the tenth century by some Norwegian gentry, who desired to be free from an intrusive royal government.... Late in the life of this strange community came the literary development. In Snorri Sturlason it found its greatest expression, and Sturla was the son of Snorri’s brother, Thord.”—Spec.
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 716. Ap. ’07. 50w. | ||
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 52. F. 15, ’07. 1080w. |
“Professor Ker has a light touch and a playful humor not often to be found in the expert. Gives us glimpses which will certainly do what is the true object of a lecture,—make the hearer or reader study the subject for himself.”
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Kern, John A. Idea of the church; aspects, forms and activities. $1.25. Pub. house M. E. church So.
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A study of the church, actual and ideal, in its most significant features.
* Kernahan, Coulson. The Dumpling. il. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.