“The plan is logically formed and elaborately carried out.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 150w. |
“Will undoubtedly be a disappointment to the reader who is looking for literary charm or for any strong infusion of human interest. It is a dry, concise chronicle, in which first place is given to facts about the writer’s own scientific activity and published work—professedly a record of his intellectual history first of all.”
| + | Dial. 38: 94. F. 1, ‘05. 440w. |
“Curious lights are also thrown on the past history of university education in Scotland. Specially attractive is the account given in the first two chapters of the way in which the difficulties of the author’s early education were overcome, and of the manner in which his native intellectual tendencies began to show themselves.” S. H. Mellone.
| + | Int. J. Ethics. 15: 241. Ja. ‘05. 1600w. (Abstract of book.) |
“The autobiography is much too long. What is really valuable in it is overlaid by a multitude of details which can interest but few.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 616. Ap. 29, ‘05. 720w. |
Bain, F. W. [Digit of the moon, and other love stories from the Hindoo.] $1.50. Putnam.
“A digit of the moon,” “A heifer of the dawn,” “The descent of the sun,” and “In the great God’s hair” are four stories found in this volume, translated and adapted from the Hindoo by one who professes to have received the manuscript from a Brahman. “They possess a somewhat greater refinement, according to Western notions, than one often finds in tales of Oriental life and love as told by Orientals.” (Outlook.)