Savage, Minot Judson. America to England, and other poems. [**]$1.35. Putnam.
The poem which gives the title to this book was read at a banquet given to Ambassador Reid on the eve of his departure for England. The volume contains other verses for special occasions and selections from the best hymns and poems of Dr. Savage.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 480. N. ‘05. 190w. |
[*] “Despite a considerable fervor of feeling and great readiness of phrase and metre, few of the pieces ... are of a sort to engage serious poetic criticism.”
| + | Nation. 81: 303. O. 12, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “The hymns lack the fervor in which the great hymns are rich. Mr. Savage has kept his product in this field entirely free from the zeal without reverence that is so often an offense both to taste and piety in modern hymnology. The memorial hymns show catholicity of appreciation.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 330w. |
Savage, Minot Judson. Life’s dark problems: or, Is this a good world? [**]$1.35. Putnam.
“In this series of ten papers ... Dr. Savage re-examines some of the questions that have beset humanity as long as humanity has put itself on record. Can we, in the face of the evil that exists in this world, believe in the goodness and wisdom of things as they are? Are suffering and evil reconcilable with an almighty, all-wise, and all-good God?”—N. Y. Times.
“The questions he asks are those that have been put by such as have thought and felt deeply since the day of Job onwards, and he writes as a man might have done at the beginning of the Christian era.”