Lewis. Rev. Howell Elvet. With Christ among the miners; incidents and impressions of the Welsh revival. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
Devotional in its aim and compass this volume contains a series of personal impressions and incidents of the great Welsh revival of 1904. It reveals the hearts of the people, shows how they opened to the coming of the Spirit, rejoices in the good results of the movement and, to be wholly fairminded, does not overlook its shortcomings.
Lewis, Mary Elizabeth. Ethics of Wagner’s The ring of the Nibelung. **$1.50. Putnam.
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In which the author recounts “every detail of the legend from which the Trilogy is compiled and assigns to each one a definite place in an ethical system which she conceives to have been in Wagner’s mind.” The cycle she discovers to be “a logical and coherent ethical doctrine,” which she regards “as presenting a panoramic picture of the evolution of the human consciousness struggling to free itself from the hampering conditions of self, until at last, selfless, it is lost in the Divine Will.”
“The author of this book has done her work carefully, so carefully indeed that every detail is weighed and appraised at a certain value, while in order to facilitate the analytical process the story of the drama is told in short, bald sentences, often resembling a newspaper report of a parliamentary debate or proceedings in the law courts.” H. C. C.
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“She retells in prose, and it must be admitted prosaically, the complete story of this drama of gods and men, and gives her interpretation of its complex symbolism. She does not profess that it is Wagner’s interpretation, and the reader will not be apt to find it his own, but he will at least be drawn to think about it, and so, by getting more meaning from it, he will give to the music more power.”
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| − + | Nation. 84: 42. Ja. 16, ’07. 250w. |