| + — | Outlook. 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 180w. |
“A logical, well-atmosphered story whose interest is steadily sustained and whose denouement is satisfactory.”
| + | Reader. 6: 473. S. ‘05. 180w. |
“Mr. Gwynne has painted for us the large sun-lit landscape of the Andalusian plains and the slow comedy of village life with a certainty of touch and a depth of colour which are entirely admirable. But apart from merits of atmosphere and scenery, he has a very stirring story to tell and much excellent character-drawing. Mr. Gwynne, though he deals with the favourite constituents of melodrama, is always a serious novelist, and his characters are as carefully studied as his plot. Mr. Gwynne has found a field in which he need fear no rival, and we welcome a book so full of freshness and vitality.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 90. Ja. 21, ‘05. 400w. |
H
Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August. Evolution of man: a popular scientific study; tr. by Joseph McCabe. [*]$10. Putnam.
The present translation has been made from “the fifth (enlarged) edition of the German work. The abstruse and puzzling phenomena of embryology occupy the whole first volume.... The second volume is devoted to the vexed problem of our ancestry—beginning with the lowest forms of life and working upwards thru ‘Our worm-like ancestors,’ ‘Our fish-like ancestors,’ ‘Our five-toed ancestors,’ and ‘Our ape-like ancestors.’ But besides these we have some luminous chapters on the evolution of the nervous system, sense organs, vascular system, and so on. A summary on the ‘results of anthropogeny’ closes the book.” (Acad.)
Reviewed by W. P. Pycraft.
| + + — | Acad. 68: 489. My. 6, ‘05. 1680w. |