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“Mr. Bentley’s volume is bulky and diffuse, and its style often flippant, but its acute and outspoken criticism ... should cause it to be welcomed by speculative sociologists as at least a rod of chastening.”
“Mr. Bentley’s volume is bulky and diffuse, and its style often flippant, but its acute and outspoken criticism ... should cause it to be welcomed by speculative sociologists as...
2. book one into which to dip at odd moments.A life of the Italian statesman built upon a political structure “revealing the causes that brought about, the influences which shaped, and the political consequences ensuing fr...
3. chapter 4, with choir-screens and rood-lofts. Thus the whole book,“The joint authors of this most useful book have managed to invest the driest technical details with an interest that cannot fail to appeal even to those who have never hitherto...
4. Part 1, deals with historic material—the beginnings and growth of“If this is not the ideal text-book in ethics for which we have been waiting so many years, it is, at least, a very good substitute for it. These perhaps inevitable omissions ca...
5. part 3), and because of an analytical table of contents. The range ofmaterials consulted is not as wide as one would wish and the book must be characterized as ‘useful’ but by no means ‘final’—possibly not even as ‘authoritative.’” L. C. Marshall.
6. volume 7. In the second place, the point of view and the allotment ofspace seem excessively German. While three chapters are disappointing in that they rather fall from the lofty principles and novel features of the earlier volumes, they neverthe...
7. Part one of this volume contains a number of addresses, testimonials,“The author has shown good judgment in his selection of phases of the movements treated for special emphasis. His style is vigorous, pungent, and many passages when delivered mu...
8. Book 1, The heavenly bodies; Book 2, The constellations; Book 3, Timesand seasons; Book 4, Three astronomical marvels, Joshua’s long day, The dial of Ahaz, and the star of Bethlehem. A table of scriptural reference and an index complete the volume.
9. Part 2 deals more with general principles. Chapters upon ‘Progress ofthe American negro,’ ‘The negro and the labor problem of the south,’ ‘The negro and his relation to the south,’ ‘The fruits of industrial training,’ and ‘The American negro and...