“On the whole the book is that of a man of learning of no very pronounced views, who may be called an educational opportunist.”
| + | Nation. 81: 259. S. 28, ‘05. 360w. |
“The value of the book and the chief interest of it consists in the total effect of the assembled material.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 164. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1130w. |
“What gives most vital value to the volume is its discussion of what the university and the church have to do with the problems of democracy and religion, as well as with those of education. Such criticisms from such a source cannot be waived aside; they may be thought too sweeping; exceptions exist; but Dr. Harper’s ‘record of observations here and there’ is a needed reveille.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 220w. |
Harriman, Karl Edwin. Girl and the deal. [†]$1.25. Jacobs.
On his journey across the continent from Boston to San Francisco, a young Harvard man wins the girl he loves and learns thru her to understand the spirit of the West. With the girl he wins her “Uncle Jack” the capitalist whose support for one of his father’s business ventures he has come so far to seek. There is a detailed account of the trip over the Santa Fé and a description of the Grand canyon.
“The note of personality in the author’s pictures of things Western is the best feature of the story, which for the rest, lacks something of high-bred delicacy in its portrayal of young love and is of the slightest texture.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 190w. |