Dexter, Edwin Grant. Weather influences; an empirical study of the mental and physiological effects of definite meteorological conditions. [**]$2. Macmillan.
A monograph based upon a series of investigations of the committees of New York and Denver, and the effects of the weather changes of their divergent climates, upon their inhabitants. A comparison of the school, criminal, hospital, mortuary, and other records with the meteorological charts of the weather bureau gives the principal data for statistics as to the effect of wind and weather upon disease, drunkenness, insanity, crime, suicide, natural depravity of school children, errors of bank officials, etc.
Reviewed by E. T. B.
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Dexter, Henry Martyn, and Dexter, Morton. England and Holland of the Pilgrims. [**]$3.50. Houghton.
“The history of the Mayflower ‘Pilgrims’ is an important part of the history of the Protestant reformation in England.... Their most eminent historian was the late Dr. Dexter. The present volume, left unfinished at his death, completes their history by a full account of the environment and experience in which the reforming movement slowly struggled and groped towards the decisive venture, by which the door was opened at Plymouth rock to its great success.... Dr. Dexter’s draft of history, rewritten and edited by his son after further researches in England and Holland, now stands in a completeness to which it is likely that little can be added.”—Outlook.
[*] “It is a book made by bookmen. Sometimes, as we read, our vision is obstructed; we cannot see the forest on account of the trees. The grand human story seems lost in a mass of antiquarian detail.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
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“A loving hand and diligent investigation of the original sources of information to the minutest details are apparent throughout the work.”
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