“The brevity of his essays, rarely exceeding eight pages, commends them to a world that prefers short sermons, and to preachers who would learn to say in fifteen or twenty minutes much that will both hold the attention and stick in the mind afterwards. The standpoint is that of a devoutly Christian thinker fully responsive to the intellectual demands of the modern world. The introduction compresses into a short statement, clear and simple, the modern argument for experience as the test of reality, whether in science, philosophy, or religion.”—Outlook.
“The chief value of the book consists in the facts that the writer combines a truly liberal with a deeply religious spirit: that he is steeped in the thoughts of the world’s highest thinkers, ancient and modern, and that he is able to place their ideas before his readers in such telling fashion that they may be ‘understanded of the people.’”
| + + | Acad. 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 260w. |
“The various subjects are well exploited, and the conclusions, while marked by an optimism that is too easy-going to bear a searching criticism, are unquestionably honest, kindly, and wholesome.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 125. Ag. 8, ’07. 500w. |
“The gifted British essayist ... evidently, as the present volume like its predecessors shows, reaps a rich-soiled field.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 160w. |
Briggs, Charles Augustus. Critical and exegetical commentary on the book of Psalms. 2v. ea. **$3. Scribner.
v. 2. This volume contains the commentary on the Psalms from the fifty-first to the one hundred and fiftieth. “The special student and the ordinarily intelligent reader are both provided for: the former in full measure. The latter will find some strikingly new translations superseding the old.” (Outlook.)