| − | Nature. 75: 553. Ap. 11, ’07. 1060w. |
“Mr. Snyder’s work is historical and not technical, and it is full of assured facts.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 120w. |
“The grandeur of the revelations of the book is intensified by the vigorous, picturesque, even dramatic, language of the author. That the work is a literary achievement of no mean order the most hostile of mystics, however contrasting his theories, must be ready to admit.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 107. F. 23, ’07. 1690w. |
“A valuable addition to the literature of popularized science. The story is told, moreover, in good literary style, animated throughout, and, at times, picturesque.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 768. Mr. 30, ’07. 280w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 200w. |
“We have not noted any positive blunders, but on the other hand we have no confidence that the author really understands the discoveries which he is expounding. The genuine scientific history which the book contains is drowned in a flood of turgid rhetoric, which bears along with it at intervals sprightly illustrations of the most depressing character.”
| − | Sat. R. 101: 207. Ag. 17, ’07. 1430w. |
Sociological society, London. Sociological papers, v. 2, by Francis Galton and others. $3. Macmillan.