| + | R. of Rs. 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 40w. |
“Sydney Smith is essentially of those writers who speak for themselves. The assistance he has received from Mr. Russell is judged to a nicety.”
| + + | Sat. R. 99: 668. My. 20, ‘05. 1900w. |
“Mr. Russell’s volume makes one of the best jest books we have ever seen, for there is just enough flour of biography to keep the plums of quotation properly apart. If we may hint a fault, it is that in the matter of Smith’s churchmanship Mr. Russell seems to make the worst of what he considers a bad job.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 441. Mr. 25, ‘05. 690w. |
[*] Ryan, Thomas Curran. Finite and infinite. [**]$1.50. Lippincott.
The author says, “My purpose is to consider, first, such evidences of God’s disposition towards the world, as may be found in the history of nature; and, second, as to whether, in the light of science and philosophy, we may conceive Him as other than a Person, having such attributes as are, to human understanding, inseparable from personality.”
[*] “Mr. Ryan seems to have read widely in philosophy, with a result that should caution all readers to read no more than they can digest.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 939. D. 16, ‘05. 240w. |