Born in India and entering the English army at the time of the Crimean war, as a mere youth, the author saw military service in Crimea, Nova Scotia, Montreal, Gibraltar, and Abyssinia, and civil service in charge of prisons at Gibraltar, Chatham, and Milbank. This account of his career suggests that the material for his novels and detective stories was taken from life.
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“The author’s style has the unstudied fluency of one who is used to writing with the din of the printing-press in his ears and the boy at his side waiting for copy. The book is a worthy addition to the major’s long list of works, grave and gay.”
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“You would say Major Griffiths had enjoyed his ‘Fifty years of service’ in the living at least as much as you enjoy it in reading.”
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Griggs, Edward Howard. Moral education. [*]$2. Huebsch.
Professor Griggs points out the aim and scope of his work in the following: “a study, as exhaustive as I could make it, of the whole problem of moral culture: its purpose in relation to our society, and all the means through which that purpose can be attained. My aim has been sanity and not novelty, ... to see ‘steadily and whole’ both human life and the process of moral culture that leads to it and make possible the happiest and most helpful living.”
“This volume should be carefully read by every parent and teacher in the land. It is a work at once eminently practical and yet nobly idealistic. He has considered his subject deeply and treats it as only a man of rare insight, a true philosopher and a practical teacher could present a theme.”
| + + + | Arena. 34: 330. S. ‘05. 290w. |