Bonner, Geraldine. Pioneer. [†]$1.50. Bobbs.
A story of the early days of California and Nevada when fortunes were made and unmade daily among the mines. There are many characters typical of those mixed times, but the real hero is the old colonel, who for the sake of his love for the woman who jilted him twenty years before, devotes himself to her two daughters, and allows their weak father to unscrupulously rob him. He finds happiness in serving the girl who resembles her mother, and seeing her safely thru a heart crisis.
“Though her treatment is perhaps too conventional to please the realist the story is thoroughly unhackneyed, while the human interest is strong throughout.”
| + | Arena. 34: 551. N. ‘05. 420w. |
“It is an unpleasant and rather sensational narrative.”
| — + | Critic. 46: 477. My. ‘05. 50w. |
[*] Bonner, Robert John. Evidence in Athenian courts. [*]75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
“Mr. R. J. Bonner, ‘formerly of the Ontario bar,’ deals with the subject from the point of view of a man trained in English law. The material is classified accordingly under such heads as Irrelevant, Hearsay, Written, Oral, Real, and Expert evidence, Evidence of slaves, Competency of witnesses, Challenges, Oaths, etc. In a number of cases the view presented in Meier-Schömann’s ‘Der Attische process’ is disputed.”—Am. Hist. R.
[*] “The work is carefully done, and will be found interesting and suggestive by teachers who have not had the advantage of a legal training.” A. G. L.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 187. O. ‘05. 180w. |