“It will carry a ministry of mental peace and satisfaction to many earnest thinkers in this field. It is an interpretation of the Christian religion in terminology and thought-units that will be comprehensible to the student of the present generation. It is a book for the transition period in Christian theology.” Herbert Alden Youtz.
| + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 694. O. ’07. 1210w. |
Reviewed by George Hodges.
| Atlan. 99: 563. Ap. ’07. 300w. |
“The statement of the author in his preface, that there is universal agreement that, ‘whatever the differences of the past or present explanations of Christian belief; the Christian experience of to-day is essentially the same that it has been from the beginning,’ will hardly find so universal an assent as he supposes. Leaving this fundamental criticism of the method of the book, we may express our admiration of the vital way in which Professor Beckwith, with genuine historical sympathy, has penetrated beneath the formal elements of doctrine and has discovered the essential reality of the great spiritual issues with which theology deals.” Gerald Birney Smith.
| + − | Bib. World. 30: 300. O. ’07. 630w. | |
| + − | Ind. 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w. |
“The principal themes of the usual doctrinal systems appear in the discussion, but it can hardly be said that new light is thrown upon them.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 180w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 255. F. ’07. 70w. |
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Poems; ed. with an introd., by Ramsay Colles. (Muses’ lib.) *40c. Dutton.
“This single and handy volume of Beddoes’ poems contains all his published poems, with the exception of ten, which may be found in the standard two-volume edition of Edmund Gosse. It is not conceivable that Beddoes will ever be popular, yet there will always be a few who will savor the peculiar mingling of the gruesome and the beautiful that runs thru his dramas, and who will not be deterred by his incoherence. His most famous play, ‘Death’s jest book,’ is best described as a mixture of Webster and John Ford, mitigated by ‘Festus’ Bailey.”—Nation.