“Following the New Testament account of the apostle, and setting aside the critical questions it raises, the author finds evidence of its truth in its consistent realism as a portrait from life.”—Outlook.
“The psychological problem involved in the story of Peter’s denial of his Master is better handled, and more justly to Peter, than by most expositors.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 452. F. 16, ‘05. 70w. |
Davidson, John. Selected poems. [*]$1.25. Lane.
“Mr. Davidson has drawn from his seven earlier volumes with a shrewd critical sense.... Unusual mastery of narrative construction in verse, his energy of conception and readiness in the fundamental mind-work of poetry, are all shown here at their best in the ‘Ballads,’ which make the bulk of the book.”—Nation.
“He handles the metre with masterly skill, filling it with imaginative life and power. The chief virtue of his ballads is the virile energy of the shaping strength that we feel working in them.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 329. Mr. 18. 850w. |
“Mr. John Davidson’s poetic view of the world is as tragical as Ernest Dowson’s; but there is a grim irony of intellectual strength in his work that marks him of a different race of men.” Ferris Greenslet.
| + | Atlan. 96: 417. S. ‘05. 340w. |
“Uncommonly masculine volume.”