“The book, which we would gladly examine in more detail, is well worth study. One criticism we must make. Why does Mr. Gordon put the ‘Wesleyan revival’ as one of the five causes which wrought a great social change in Tennyson’s time?”
| + − | Spec. 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 170w. |
Gorky, Maxim. [Mother]; il. by Sigmund de Ivanowski. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–16750.
After the death of a brutal husband a mother turns to her son and in winning him back to virtue frees herself from the “dazed, cowed” state into which she had been beaten. “Led into dangerous, forbidden ways, coming into a knowledge of the risks they run who think for themselves in Russia, she goes on with a courage and love absolutely sublime.” (Outlook.)
“Depicts present-day life in Russia without exaggeration or morbidness.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 179. O. ’07. |
“As a document, it will have value for all students of socialism.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 667. Ag. ’07. 280w. |