“This work of Dr. Goss will rank at the head of the scientific and technical standards of reference in locomotive engineering. It presents information on important points obtained with great care and accuracy and under conditions never before made possible until the establishing of the Purdue testing plant and engineering laboratories.” Arthur M. Waitt.
| + + + | Engin. N. 57: 192. F. 14, ’07. 2050w. |
* Gosse, Edmund William. [Father and son]: biographical recollections. **$1.50. Scribner.
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The “struggle between two temperaments” forms the subject-matter of this volume relating to Edmund Gosse and his father. The offspring of parents married late in life, the boy grows up in an atmosphere heavily charged with extreme English Puritanism. “When the child’s ‘temperament’ began to develop, it displayed itself as a passionate attachment to the romantic in art and poetry; and there were infinite possibilities of discord between a father who, though he enjoyed declaiming the sonorous lines of Virgil and Milton, prided himself on never having read a page of Shakespeare, and a son who saved up his pocket money to buy the poems of Coleridge and Keats, and, on one occasion, Christopher Marlowe.” (Lond. Times.)
“Beyond doubt, the charm of the book lies in the opening chapters, which describe the child’s sombre life in London, without playmates or companions, the sights he saw through the window; and the experiments he conducted alike in true religion and in idolatry, not, perhaps, much unlike those of other children, but told with all the skill of an accomplished man of letters.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 347. N. 15, ’07. 1060w. |
“The whole book is as human in spirit as it is scientific in method.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 759. N. 30, ’07. 1640w. |