“For the [embodiment of a method and system for solving religious] problems its data are too scant and its touch too light. Moreover, the employment of logical, ethical and metaphysical categories is so frequent and so apparently a priori as almost to belie the author’s initial appeal to the standards of inductive inquiry. There is present also a lack of clearness and incisiveness in the concepts which are described as involved in religious experience. The reader feels himself sometimes on shifting sand when he looks to deal with a clearly developed dialectic.” E. L. Norton.
| − + | J. Philos. 4: 580. O. 10, ’07. 1170w. | |
| Nation. 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 210w. |
“When describing the history of primitive beliefs and customs he is clear and interesting. But we must confess that his philosophy of religion is not so good; there he seems to us wordy and pretentious, without making any solid contributions to the subject.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 212. F. 16, ’07. 150w. |
Woods, Margaret Louisa (Bradley). [Invader.] †$1.50. Harper.
7–17049.
Sedate Oxford is made the setting for this astonishing tale of a dual personality, of the young Don who marries Milly, the quiet and adoring, and who loves Mildred the reckless, deceitful and captivating. These two natures struggle for mastery in the body of his young wife until after a series of strange happenings, Milly heroically sacrifices all in order that the rival within her, the invader whom she has come to hate and fear, may not embitter her husband’s future or ruin the life of the child, really Milly’s child, who has already felt the strange alternating maternal influences that play over him.
“It is a pity that a certain inability to rouse the sympathy and interest of the reader should make a dull book of what might be, at worst, an ingenious one.”