“With an easy, luminous style, ready but unobtrusive humor, and a warmth that grows into eloquence, almost into passion towards its close, the book is in its fundamental attitude an admirable contribution on a most important subject.” Mary Gilliland Husband.
| + + | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 399. Ap. ’07. 740w. |
Reviewed by Mary L. Bush.
| J. Philos. 4: 468. Ag. 15, ’07. 1010w. |
“Some chapters compare favorably with anything to be found elsewhere on the same subjects. Many of the reflections are perhaps not very profound. There are rather too many formless generalities; the conclusions lack precision; they do not always escape being platitudes. Mrs. Bosanquet raises many problems, physical and moral, only to leave some of them much as she found them. These drawbacks notwithstanding, there is a rare vein of reflection, there are delicate observations, perception of circumstances which escape the eye of the ordinary observer; and we are constantly in the company, if not of an acute economist, of a moralist who has an eye for much to which the latter is apt to be blind.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 383. D. 16, ’06. 1400w. |
“It should be said that this volume contains occasional passages of rare eloquence, such as those on p. 160 and onwards, on the very real and spiritual entity of the family.”
| + + | Nature. 75: 78. N. 22, ’06. 340w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 85: 898. Ap. 20. ’07. 2330w. |
“It would be possible to deal rather roughly with various aspects of family life, but her general tone is one of gentle optimism, and we are afraid it is the glorified ideal of the family rather than its materialised form that she traces for us.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 808. D. 29, ’06. 1200w. |