7–6629.
The chapter headings furnish a suggestion of the scope of the book. The call to the way: the search; The way of the stoic: happiness by self-control; the way of the Epicurean: happiness by pleasure; The way of the altruist: one’s self and the other; The way of worship: happiness by inspiration; The way the holy peace: happiness at home; The way of freedom: happiness by liberty; The way to the heights: the vision and the dream; The end of the way: blessedness and peace.
“Mr. Slicer seems not to have grasped the truth revealed in Professor Hilty’s book, ‘The steps of life.’”
| + − | Cath. World. 86: 402. Je. ’07. 130w. |
“Teaches convincingly that happiness comes through our activities, not through our passivities, and through living to the spirit rather than to the flesh.”
| + | Dial. 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 200w. |
“His English is tangled and involved, so that the meaning of many passages is difficult to unravel.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 185. Mr. 30, ’07. 1140w. |
“The missing note, if any, in the book is of sympathy and encouragement for those that have lost heart and feel driven to the wall.”