Hale, William. Dauntless viking. $1.50. Badger.
The foreword states that “this story of the Gloucester fisheries is a conscientious study of the local life and color as it actually exists.” It follows the fortunes of a young viking who comes to America and casts his lot among the fishermen of Cape Ann, and is told in the broken English of the sons of Norway. It describes a hard life and does not close upon a happy ending, but lets the hero win success and happiness, and then ends grimly.
Hall, Charles Cuthbert. Christian belief interpreted by Christian experience. [*]$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
These lectures were delivered in India, Ceylon and Japan on the Barrows foundation, 1902-1903, and are now submitted to Western readers in book form that they may see “the manner and style of the work done in India for Indians.” Written in that spirit of broad sympathy which is essential if the Christian would successfully approach the non-Christian mind, they appeal to all creeds, to all ages, to all seekers after God.
“The foremost merit of President Hall’s ‘Barrows lectures’ is their supreme tact, their gracious Christian courtesy.”
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| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 558. Ag. 26, ‘05. 140w. |
“The tone of the book is ironic and characterized by the true Christian spirit of a broad catholicity.”
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Hall, Edward. Henry VIII.; with an introd. by C: Whibley. 2v. [*]$12. Grafton press.
This text is reprinted from the folio edition of 1550. In its quaint English it gives an account of the social rather than the political phases of the reign of the “high and prudent prince, King Henry the Eighth, the indubitate flower, and very heire” of Lancaster and York. It gives a brilliant and interesting picture of the early 16th century, it narrates faithfully, but lets many great heads go to the block without comment. It was safer so in those times.