“The thrills follow thick and fast as in melodrama by Theodore Kremer. They follow in good sharp English, moreover, with only occasional tiptoe reaches into preciosity.”
| + − | Lit. D. 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 590w. |
“Miss Rives writes well, though without much restraint upon her native luxuriance of expression, and with none whatever upon her imagination.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 960w. |
Rix, Herbert. Tent and Testament; a camping tour in Palestine with some notes on Scripture sites. *$2.50. Scribner.
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“This record of a camping tour in Palestine is from the hand of a scholarly and critical traveler.... Throughout a route which lay in part aside from the common track of tourists his interest in verifying Biblical sites and Biblical allusions fully justifies the title of his record.... The prolonged discussions required by controverted questions as to Nazareth, Bethlehem, Capernaum, and other localities are set off into appendices ... and the whole is indexed and illustrated.”—Outlook.
“A thoughtful, well-written, even learned work, far from the vain outpouring of the tourist. The narrative, though heavily charged with information, is wonderfully unembarrassed: and the word-pictures which abound are true to life.... We are sorry that Mr. Rix should have left so much perishable matter [Protestant theories with regard to holy places] in a work which has permanent interest.”