| + + — | Engin. N. 53: 186. F. 16, ‘05. 750w. |
White, W. Hale. John Bunyan. [**]$1. Scribner.
This is the third volume in the Literary lives series which aims to furnish biographical and critical estimates. It treats of Bunyan’s life and characteristics. “Bunyan is not altogether the representation of Puritanism ... the qualification necessary in order to understand and properly value him is not theological learning, nor in fact any kind of learning or literary skill, but the experience of life, with its hopes and fears, bright day and black night.” “Pilgrim’s progress” is fully treated and there are lesser studies of “Grace abounding,” the “Life and death of Mr. Badman,” and “The holy war.”
“If the reader would spend the amount of time required to read this book in the careful perusal of any one of Bunyan’s great pieces, he would probably catch more of the spirit of the Bedford dreamer, and gain a clearer and higher conception of his genius, than these pages by Mr. White are able to furnish.”
| — | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 377. Ap. ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “The writer does with success what he has to do, and imagines very well the personality of the great John.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 230w. |
“The final chapter is a very unsatisfactory treatment of ‘Bunyan and Puritanism.’”
| + — | Bib. World. 25: 316. Ap. ‘05. 80w. |
“A very interesting study. Mr. White has so many admirable things to say of the man and the spirit of his writings that one regrets that he should have devoted so much of his space to a detailed summary of Bunyan’s principal works.”