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, for example, on ‘Institutional garden thrift.’ There is an interesting discussion of coöperatives; and another of taxation of land values. Mr Hall’s dissertation on prohibition appears to the reviewer to be partially misleading. Loose thinking characterizes it.” D: Rosenstein
– + =N Y Call= p15 Je 10 ‘17 770w
=Pittsburgh= 22:325 Ap ‘17 20w
“The best chapter preaches ‘thrift in happiness,’ and points the way to love without possession and to joy that is not dependent upon material success.”
=R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 110w
“Addressed to wage earners. A sensible discussion of personal efficiency, waste and extravagance, investments and practical success.” P. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:107 Ap ‘17 20w
“It is full of bright turns, but it is more than bright,—it is sensible and practical. ... The argument [about temperance], as far as it goes, is sound, but it doesn’t get far into the merits of the question. It is the shallowest part of the book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 9 ‘17 330w
“How to become prosperous without petrifying in the process really is Mr Hall’s theme; and, though we may not agree with him in every detail of his plan, no one can read this little book without getting benefit from his warm human counsel.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 37:585 F 17 ‘17 180w
=HALL, GERTRUDE.= Aurora the magnificent. il *$1.40 (1c) Century 17-10200
Mrs Aurora Hawthorne and her friend Miss Estelle Madison drop on the little Anglo-American colony in Florence, determined to see and to spend and to enjoy. They, in particular Aurora, possess all the failings of the “typical” American abroad, but the Anglo-American colony, led by the American consul and his family, accept Aurora and Estelle without question. The reader can do no less, for there is something about them, particularly Aurora, that is compelling. The Fosses, the American consul’s family, are delightful, and worthy of a book all of themselves, but this story as it develops becomes more and more the story of Aurora and Gerald Fane, poor, over-wrought, artistic Gerald alternately moved by a desire to shake Aurora and an impulse to rest his tired head on her generous shoulder.
“Published in the Century.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:353 My ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:413 Je ‘17 550w
“The story is simple and comprehensible, the mystery untangling itself bit by bit, as mysteries really do. It is natural and not melodramatic; amusing and thoroughly readable.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 330w
+ =Cath World= 105:555 Jl ‘17 80w
“People who frankly enjoy love-mazes will like this story; it is written with grace and simplicity, and an honest insight into the thoughts and experiences with which most folk most of the time are engrossed. Those who yearn for light on the vaster perplexities of the human struggle en masse, might as well pass it by.”
=Dial= 62:401 My 3 ‘17 230w
“Aurora is that rare thing in popular fiction, an individual, a new personality.”
+ =Ind= 90:471 Je 9 ‘17 130w
“The main thing, and the overwhelming thing, is our faith in Aurora’s greatness as a woman, in her adequacy for life, upon whatever terms it may challenge her. ... Our Aurora’s triumph over us and her Gerald is that we exult in her as she is.”
+ =Nation= 104:581 My 10 ‘17 470w
“The story is a very fine and generous comedy of Americanism abroad. There is no denying Aurora, or the wholesome elemental womanhood, the ripeness of character, that underlies her outrageous bloom.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Nation= 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w
“The novel is clever and written with a good deal of charm, but the author has spread her slight plot over far too many pages.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:114 Ap 1 ‘17 330w
“Reading ‘Aurora the magnificent’ is like taking a railway journey thru pleasant enough but rather uneventful country and all at once getting somewhere.” Doris Webb
+ =Pub W= 91:973 Mr 17 ‘17 550w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 60w
=HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY.= Jesus, the Christ, in the light of psychology. 2v *$7.50 (2c) Doubleday 232 17-8497
A psychological study of Jesus is regarded by the author as the logical next step following the historical and critical research of recent years. The introduction says, “It is this step that the author attempts to take in this volume. ... He regards himself as a pioneer in a new domain in which he is certain to be followed by many others, and is convinced that the psychological Jesus Christ is the true and living Christ of the present and of the future. He is the spiritual Christ of the resurrection whom alone Paul knew and proclaimed, although he is here described in modern terms, and it is this that now chiefly matters rather than what an historical person was or did in Palestine, two thousand years ago.” It is Dr Hall’s hope that such a study may go far toward the reinterpretation of Christianity which is necessary if it is to remain a vital religion for the modern world. Volume 1 consists of chapters on: Jesus’ physical personality; Jesus in literature; Jesus’ character, negative views; The nativity; Beginnings of the supreme pedagogy. Volume 2 has chapters on: Messianity, sonship, and the kingdom; Jesus’ eschatology, his inner character, purpose, and work; Jesus’ ethics and prayer; The parables of Jesus; The miracles; Death and resurrection of Jesus.
“The title is likely to mislead the general reader; the work is not a contribution to the study of Jesus, but to the study of genetic psychology. Librarians need to note this in cataloguing it. The student who wishes to know what Jesus said and did, or to understand the gospels, will find only incidental benefit here; it is not the psychology of Jesus which is treated, but the psychology of those who have reflected on Jesus. How the human mind has reacted upon this name; above all, how a modern encyclopedic mind, superlatively trained in psychological analysis, reacts upon it, is exhaustively and illuminatingly presented.” C. R. Bowen
* + – =Am J Theol= 21:612 O ‘17 3200w
“A book for scholars and serious students.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:39 N ‘17
“That the work will prove valuable will hardly be questioned. ... Dr Hall will not expect all to agree with his conclusions. We think very few will. But hardly any will fail to appreciate the fine spirit of the author; the great mass of material, gathered by the toil of many years; and his introducing them to a method which is sure to throw much light upon him whom the author calls ‘the best of all beings.’” F. W. C.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 My 19 ‘17 1700w
— =Cath World= 105:245 My ‘17 1400w
+ =Cleveland= p91 Jl ‘17 60w
=Dial= 63:70 Jl 19 ‘17 530w
“A notable contribution to the understanding of Jesus. Probably no other man possesses either the equipment or the sympathy necessary to write this book.”
+ =Educ R= 56:173 F ‘18 60w
“In his first chapters Dr Hall treats with notable comprehensiveness the conceptions of Christ’s physical appearance and character that have been set forth in art and literature from earliest times down to the immediate present, discussing and weighing each with care and thoroughness and judicial temper. Among the very recent books thus considered in which Christ or Christian teachings are the theme are, to mention only a very few of the large and diverse list, Kennedy’s ‘The servant in the house,’ Jerome’s ‘Passing of the third floor back,’ Maxwell’s ‘The ragged messenger,’ Moore’s ‘The Brook Kerith,’ Selma Lagerlöf’s ‘Miracles of Anti-Christ,’ Zangwill’s ‘The next religion,’ while discussion at some length is given to the cult of the superman, which Dr Hall calls ‘The chief and most extraordinary literary phenomenon of our time.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:246 Jl 1 ‘17 800w
“Whether God, Jesus Christ, and Christianity are anything more than psychic phenomena according to Dr Hall’s philosophy he does not make clear; but he makes it quite clear that he thinks this a question not important to answer.”
– + =Outlook= 117:65 S 12 ‘17 330w
=Pittsburgh= 22:437 My ‘17 40w
=St Louis= 15:136 My ‘17 7w
“It is unfortunate that a work containing so much learning and so authentic vision should be expressed in such heavy and difficult English. The style often obscures the ideas it seeks to express. Otherwise, the book is a valuable contribution from one of America’s leading psychologists to the pressing religious problems of the time.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 22 ‘17 600w
“The mind of President Hall is singularly unfit for his undertaking. He not only is destitute of historical judgment; he does not even realize that his task requires it.” B. W. Bacon
— =Yale R= n s 7:211 O ‘17 1850w
=HALL, JENNIE.= Our ancestors in Europe; ed. by J: Montgomery Gambrill and Lida Lee Tall. il *76c Silver 940 16-14054
“Jennie Hall’s book is made up of three main parts, viz.: The ancient world. The newer nations, and Beginnings of our own times. The titles of these parts suggest their contents. One hundred and forty pages are devoted to part 1, one hundred and four to part 2, and eighty-two to
## part 3. The list of illustrations is a very long one. There is also a
considerable number of maps and plans scattered throughout the book. At the end of each