“The whole treatment shows lack of familiarity with the principles of monetary science and the literature of the subject.”
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Putnam, George Haven. Censorship of the church of Rome, and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–1301.
To be complete in two volumes. The work is a study of the history of the prohibitory and expurgatory indexes, together with some consideration of the effects of Protestant censorship and of censorship by the state. It includes a list of the more important decrees, prohibitions, briefs, and edicts relating to the prohibition of specific books from the time of Gelasius I., 567 A. D., to the issue in 1900 of the latest of the church under Leo XIII.
v. 2. “The theological controversies in France, Germany, England, and the Netherlands, from 1600 to 1750, are first discussed. These are followed by a study of the treatment of the Scriptures under censorship in these countries and Spain, and then the author considers the relations of the censorship to the various monastic orders—Jesuits, Dominicans, Casuits Seculars, and Regulars.” (N. Y. Times.) Further he describes the Roman Indexes, gives brief descriptions of examples of condemned literature, and discusses the subject of censorship.
“Who can commend in any way, especially to a general reader, looking for the information on a specific point, a book which contains numerous errors on almost every page?” George L. Hamilton.
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“Can he cite any instances of a misunderstanding of the subject of the books, and of the language in which they are written, as remarkable as those of which he himself is guilty?” George L. Hamilton.