“Why should we read—with various degrees of pleasure it is true—a whole volume of her meditations which are without form, often shallow, sometimes slipshod, and never inspired? But she writes so freshly and sensibly and happily that to ask for a closer attention to these matters would be like asking a thrush, for example, to whistle a Bach fugue.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 750w.
“These letters while slight, make a thoroughly acceptable bit of summer diversion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“There are many exquisite passages and there is never anything that is commonplace, never a platitude.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 419. Je. 29, ’07. 360w.
“Apart from the fun of the book, which may seem somewhat less than usual in the work of this writer, there is really a heart story dealt with in an unusual and unexpected way, while the comments of the quiet but proud Anglo-German Rose-Marie on literature and life are in themselves pungent and discerning.”
“Rose-Marie is the only correspondent worth mentioning who has appeared in fiction since [Glory Quayle], and she is of much finer spiritual fibre, of as much charm and of a better brain-capacity.”
“The dénoûment will not conciliate sentimentalists, and we are by no means sure that it is in strict accordance with experience, but it has both logic and justice to commend it.”
=Arnold, Charles London.= Cosmos, the soul and God: a monistic interpretation of the facts and findings of science. **$1.20. McClurg.
The author’s all-inclusive philosophy is developed along the following line: “Starting with the established facts of science, seeking the causes of manifested phenomena, tracing the causal series to the very limits of scientific investigation, inevitably finding at the limits of the physical process an effect for which the physical cause can be discovered, and driven to attribute such effect to some agency outside the world of sense, I reach at length the inevitable conclusion that there is a world of which this physical process came, upon which it rests, by which it is energetically sustained; in a word, that the present world is but the phenomenal representation of the forms of cosmic energy.”
=Arnold, William Thomas.= Roman system of provincial administration to the accession of Constantine the Great; new ed. rev. from the author’s notes by E. S. Shuckburgh. *$2. Macmillan.