[*] “He marshals evidence for you as a special pleader, and hammers it in as a violent partisan. But at the same time he does not carry his audience away. There are too many slips of fact, too many circular proofs, too many violations of logic. At the end you are interested, stimulated, but not won.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 313. S. 29, ‘05. 1710w. |
[*] “Prof. Ridgeway on the other hand, has primarily attacked the problem from the point of view of the historian and the archaeologist, and it must be acknowledged that naturalists owe him a large debt of gratitude for bringing into prominence lines of evidence with which, from the very nature of the case, they are unfamiliar.” R. L.
| + + | Nature. 73: 126. D. 7, ‘05. 1950w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 731. O. 28, ‘05. 240w. | |
| * | Outlook. 81: 942. D. 36, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “It is also an encyclopedia of information on the history of the ‘Equidae’, collected from every source, from post-Pliocene deposits to modern sporting newspapers. Professor Ridgeway, when merely setting down information, is apt to flit among countries and ages with a dexterity which perplexes the reader.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 655. O. 28, ‘05. 1540w. |
Ridley, Alice, Lady. Daughter of Jael. $1.50. Longmans.
With the spirit of a Brutus, Frances Cary, the heroine of this story, kills her niggardly and cruel grandfather in order to free her brother, the lawful heir, from a rule of terrible bondage. The act was inevitable to her philosophy of youth. The book goes on to show that retribution will not be restrained by the mitigating circumstance of unselfishness in actuating a crime. One has his fill of deep problems.
“This story deals with the shadow of a very dark deed involving a question of casuistry in morals. The book is interesting in a dismal way. The odor of chloroform pervades it and hangs heavy on every page.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 21. Ja. 14, ‘05. 490w. |