A fully annotated copy of Burke’s speech for class room use.
Burkitt, F. Crawford. Early eastern Christianity: St. Margaret’s lectures, 1904, on the Syriac speaking church. [*]$2. Dutton.
“It is far Eastern Christianity with which these lectures are concerned, not that of the Greek and other Eastern churches within the ancient Roman world. Its chief seat was Edessa, in the Euphrates valley, the ancient ‘Ur of the Chaldees, the fatherland of Abraham.’ ... Into this unfamiliar field these lectures conduct the reader, through an interesting account of the Bible, the theology, and the internal life of a long extinct but once flourishing and distinctively characterized church.”—Outlook.
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“It is, then, especially in this fertility of ideas and suggestion that the value of Mr. Burkitt’s book lies.”
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“The task is difficult, and despite the careful study made by Prof. Burkitt the result leaves much to be desired. The data is uncertain and mixed up with legend and fable. Lectures have their value, if only to make comparisons between the beliefs of to-day and those of the past.”
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Burland, Harris. Black motor car. [†]$1.50. Dillingham.
An exciting story of a man who, when young, stole some money for a woman’s sake and on the death of his neglected wife turned against her. She in anger betrayed him to the police. He serves his term in prison, and twenty years later builds the black motor car, commits burglaries and murders, captures and tortures a man who turns out to be his own son, and seeks out the woman who had ruined his life to kill her, but is foiled in his revenge, for she is already dead. The whole thing culminates one night in a race for life, he in his black car, the whole country aroused and armed and waiting for him. The criminal maniac escapes them all, however, but meets his death in a quicksand.