“The presentation of the subject is marred by a controversial treatment of the work of Wasmann and by an unnecessarily harsh arraignment of Virchow on account his attitude toward evolutionary questions.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 150w. |
“That part of his work which deals with science shows him an investigator who will stand with the foremost of his century. He has the rare distinction of having contributed materially to the sum of human knowledge. But all his science has here become only the stair to his philosopher’s tower of ivory. To us this tower is a mere castle in Spain, and the last words on evolution are still unuttered.” Christian Gauss.
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* Haeselbarth, Adam C. Patty of the palms: a story of Porto Rico. $1.25. Kenny pub.
A romance thru which are portrayed some of the conditions in Porto Rico since American occupation showing what degree of success has resulted from attempts at “benevolent assimilation.”
Haggard, Andrew C. P. Real Louis the fifteenth; with 34 full-page portraits, including 2 photogravure plates. 2v. *$5. Appleton.
7–18151.
“Colonel Haggard tells at considerable length the whole story of the reign.... He gives the whole history of the Seven years’ war, the life and adventures of Frederick the Great and of Prince Charles Edward, the history of Stanislas of Poland and of his court at Lunéville, with many other personal narratives not always quite correct in detail.... He attempts to describe all the varying opinions, all the crimes of the Jesuits, the vagaries of the philosophers, the intrigues of unprincipled politicians, and to make us intimately familiar with Fleury, Choiseul, Voltaire, and the Encyclopedists, as well as with the succession of women who influenced ‘this hoggish king’ and through him, to a certain extent, ruled France and poisoned the air of Europe.”—Spec.