“Doubtless there is little to be said for these casual and garrulous sketches, except that they are unusually readable.”
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“Not the kind of book of which it is possible to give outlines or digests, since its very beauty and charm consist in its utter disregard of sequence or logic or of any substantial subject matter, but every chapter is a fresh delight to an appreciative mind, and the whole quite reconciles even Mr. Becke’s old acquaintances to his taking a ‘day off,’ as it were, from his bounden duty in regard to the South Seas.”
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Becke, Louis. Settlers of Karossa Creek and other stories of Australian bush life. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Three stories of Australian bush life which reveal the evil in man, as old as Adam, pitted against refining integrity. Here are shown the crude beginnings of selectors, their trials and small victories as they battle with the avarice of men mightier than they.
Beckwith, Clarence A. Realities of Christian theology; an interpretation of Christian experience. **$2. Houghton.
6–37867.
An interpretation of Christian experience in the light of modern intelligence. “His object is to construct doctrines that are certainly vital and real from the facts of life to which the saints of the Christian ages bear testimony.” (Ind.)