# The book review digest, Volume 04, 1908

Author: Various; Wilson, Justina Leavitt, -1955 [Annotator]; Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth), 1878-1938 [Editor]

Genre: Books -- Reviews -- Periodicals

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78547

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+book+review+digest%2C+Volume+04%2C+1908+Various%3B+Wilson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“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.”

## Chapters

- [Book 1, The heavenly bodies; Book 2, The constellations; Book 3, Times](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-review-digest-volume-04-1908-78547/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part one of this volume contains a number of addresses, testimonials,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-review-digest-volume-04-1908-78547/chapters/7/index.md)
- [part 3), and because of an analytical table of contents. The range of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-review-digest-volume-04-1908-78547/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 2 deals more with general principles. Chapters upon ‘Progress of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-review-digest-volume-04-1908-78547/chapters/9/index.md)
- [book one into which to dip at odd moments.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-review-digest-volume-04-1908-78547/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part II, ‘Analysis of governmental pressures,’ contains the author’s](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-review-digest-volume-04-1908-78547/chapters/1/index.md)
- [chapter 4, with choir-screens and rood-lofts. Thus the whole book,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-review-digest-volume-04-1908-78547/chapters/3/index.md)
- [volume 7. In the second place, the point of view and the allotment of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-review-digest-volume-04-1908-78547/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 1, deals with historic material—the beginnings and growth of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-review-digest-volume-04-1908-78547/chapters/4/index.md)