“The best type of Oxford scholarship is exhibited in this work, conservative, but strongly modified by modern learning.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 973. Ag. 31, ’07. 240w.
“Such examination as we have been able to make of this very complete commentary has gone to show the genuinely critical spirit in which it has been put together.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 330w.
=Alston, Leonard.= Stoic and Christian in the second century: a comparison of the ethical teaching of Marcus Aurelius with that of contemporary and antecedent Christianity. *$1. Longmans.
A scientific, judicial and scholarly treatment. The following are the ethical questions concerning which the two doctrines are compared: Man as a rational and social being. The intellectual virtues. The lower and the higher life of man. Free-will and responsibility. The ultimate aim of virtue, and The relation in Christianity of ethics to religion.
“Mr. Alston is to be thanked for a valuable piece of apologetic work.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 552. Ja. ’07. 640w.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 380. Ap. ’07. 530w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 26. Ja. 25, ’07. 180w.
“His treatment of the subject is incomplete in two points: he does not sufficiently distinguish between ethics and religion, and he does not describe the actual moral life of the time in the Christian and non-Christian circles. The little volume is, however, fair and suggestive.”
“His book is especially valuable in the clearness with which he presents the difference in spirit, and in views between the Stoic and Christian systems.”
* =Altsheler, Joseph Alexander.= Young trailers: a story of early Kentucky. †$1.50. Appleton.
A story of out-of-door life in Kentucky during the early days “when the Indian was a factor to be reckoned with. Henry Ware, son of a pioneer, left the settlement for the wild life of the forest. He became as skilful as an Indian in wood-lore, and was able to defend his own people by beating the Indian in his native forest.” (Outlook.)
“The style of the story is rather heavy, but the matter of it will appeal strongly to boys.”
=Ames, Herman Vandenburg=, ed. State documents on federal relations: the states and the United States. *$1.75. The Department of history of the University of Pennsylvania; for sale by Longmans.