“If one overlooks its crudities of method and its scientific and philosophical dilettanteism, the book as a whole impresses one as rather a happy blend of naturalism and theism, reflecting both an attractive personality and a broad tendency characteristic of the age.”
| + − | Nation. 85; 125. Ag. 8. ’07. 600w. |
“More instructive than the author’s conclusions are the spirit in which he has approached his subject and the intellectual weapons with which he attacks his task.” A. C. Armstrong.
| + | Philos. R. 16: 550. S. ’07. 360w. |
Peary, Robert Edwin. Nearest the pole. **$4.80. Doubleday.
7–35225.
A narrative of the Polar expedition of the Peary Arctic club in the S. S. Roosevelt 1905–6, being Peary’s own account of his achievement, the dangers encountered, and the problems solved. The volume is well illustrated.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 126. My. ’07. | ||
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 118. Ag. 3. 1900w. |
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.