| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 69. Jl. 15. 1680w. |
“A keen, but quiet and unobtrusive, sense of the humorous aspects of things runs thru the author’s pictures of Yezdi life and enhances the attractiveness of the volume.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 190w. |
“The book fulfils its purpose excellently, and makes a fair guess at some Persian characteristics.”
| + | Nation. 81: 286. O. 5, ‘05. 650w. |
“Mr. Malcolm has given us a very interesting, amusing and instructive account of Persian life.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 530. O. 21, ‘05. 320w. |
[*] Mallock, William Hurrell. Reconstruction of religious belief. [**]$1.75. Harper.
“Mr. Mallock attempts to aid ‘the thoughtful man of to-day,’ either ‘in justifying his old belief by supplying it with new foundations, or in building up some new belief which may possibly take its place.’ Mr. Mallock demonstrates that, when science has said its last word, it inevitably leaves us in some region outside itself in which ‘an intellectual solution of the contradiction between scientific and religious principles must be found.’”—R. of Rs.
[*] “Science can never find a complete explanation of phenomena. The attempt to show that it can, and to dispense with philosophy, is the cardinal error of Mr. Mallock’s book; it finally leads him to pure scepticism, from which he jumps into blind credulity. Much of the book is of considerable value. The whole of the third part, in which the case for scientific agnosticism is criticised, is admirable, particularly the demonstration that chance has no real existence.”