“He has a sense of humor, especially in the situations he contrives and he has written an entertaining story.”
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Bower, B. M. (B. M. Sinclair). [Range dwellers.] †$1.25. Dillingham.
7–6407.
The breezy, dare-devil, son of a San Francisco millionaire tells in his own amusing way of how he was rusticated on his father’s Montana cattle ranch, in the hope that it would make a man of him, how he fell in love with the daughter of a neighboring rancher, who had enjoyed thirty years of feud and enmity with his father, and how he carried her off in a motor-car. Altogether he demonstrates that he is a wholly “good sort” capable of winning the good comradeship of his fellow cowboys altho handicapped by being “the son and heir.”
* Boxall, George E. Awakening of a race. *$2.75. Wessels.
7–32830.
“In this work the author has traced out briefly the tendencies of thought in civilized countries at the present time with a view to estimating the probable trend of events in the near future. He notes the decay of ideals in this and in other civilised lands, and prophesies a new development of the religious idea. Man, he says, always has had and always must have a religion as a guide to conduct, and the lesson we learn from the past is that a new religion grows gradually out of an older one as man’s knowledge increases. According to him Christianity has about reached its ultimate capacity for division, and, as ‘a house divided against itself cannot stand,’ a new development in religion, based on a scientific view of the world, is absolutely necessary.”