“The chapter dealing with the genesis of ore deposits is of special interest. The perplexing problems by which the subject is surrounded are judicially dealt with.”
| + | Nature. 74: 520. S. 20, ’06. 540w. |
Parker, Gilbert. Weavers. †$1.50. Harper.
7–30167.
A finely wrought tapestry reproducing the house builded upon a rock. David Claridge, a sturdy English Quaker carries the new civilization of the West to the Egyptian East. He becomes counsellor and confident of Prince Kaïd and fights his battles for him. The story is a reënactment of the terrors of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace, and of Daniel in the lions’ den; for David, invincible in the might of truth, is unharmed by the fire which is the consuming traditional and superstitional heathenism and the lions which are treacherous oriental trickery and love of revenge.
“Is an excellent book and splendid reading. Alike in the manner and matter of the story, there are the ease and fulness that come of both the writer’s and the reader’s assured interest in the career of David Claridge.”
| + + | Acad. 73: sup. 116. N. 9, ’07. 640w. |
“Not so artistic as the author’s earlier work, and rather long drawn out, but holding the interest, without question, to the end.”