5–32801.
With the intention of aiding Congo reform, Mark Twain arraigns humorously, but none the less scathingly, the shortcomings of King Leopold in his dominion over the Congo State.
“The great humorist never wielded his pen more pointedly in behalf of honesty and humanity.”
| + | Am. J. Theol. 10: 198. Ja. ’06. 60w. | |
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 664. Je. 1. 50w. |
“While we are wholly in sympathy with Mark Twain’s purpose, we cannot approve of his method. The man so soliloquising would not say the things which the king is made to say, would not quote long passages which are, in fact, evidence against himself of the most damnatory kind. It is not a case, we think, in which fiction can be legitimately used, and as a matter of fact, it is not used with any great subtlety or art.”
| − + | Spec. 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 270w. |
Clements, Frederic Edward. Plant physiology and ecology. *$2. Holt.
7–25525.
A book intended for use with classes in second-year botany in college and university. In fifteen chapters the author treats of stimulus and response, the water of the habitat, adjustment to water, to light, to temperature, and to gravity, adaptation to water and to light, the origin of new forms, methods of studying vegetation; the plant formation, aggregation and migration, competition and ecesis, invasion and succession, alteration and zanation. The illustrations, consisting of photographs and line cuts, are many and good.