“He is always interesting, original, and so ingenious that slower minds grow alarmed as to what he may not undertake to prove next; but in this book he is on the whole conservative.”
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Burland, J. B. Harris. Gold worshippers. †$1.50. Dillingham.
6–42432.
“What profit hath a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” fittingly furnishes the text for a sermon, preached, be it said, in no orthodox way. A band of Chinamen lose thru theft, a little metal ball, which when touching gold reveals a formula for converting cheap metals into gold. It comes into the possession of a young Englishman who is seized with a mania for gold, which, he learns to his later sorrow, is the curse of the god, Kiao Lung upon the possessor of the metal globe. His thrilling experiences make a full chapter of horrors. The book is a travesty on the greed for money and material power.
Burne, Sir Owen Tudor. Memories. *$4.20. Longmans.
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Recollections of an old soldier who was in Crimea and was present at the capture of Lucknow of which he gives a spirited description. “The reader of Sir Owen Hume’s ‘Memories’ will find ample evidence as to the large part he took in shaping the external policy of India during a long period of years.” (Ath.)
“He has written a delightful volume of reminiscences which every one who has the good sense to skip the tedious parts will feel the better for reading.”