Norwegian farm life is pictured with quaint detail in this story of Lisbeth, the little peasant who came to Hoel farm as its herd girl and by faithful service won the proud position of head milk maid.
“Gives the best picture we have of Norwegian farm life.”
“A very neat translation of a very pretty little Norwegian story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 493. Ag. 10, ’07. 180w.
=Abailard, Pierre.= Abelard and Heloise: the love letters: a poetical rendering, by Ella C. Bennett. **$1.50. Elder.
True only to the sentiment “upon which thread this rosary of love letters has been strung” the author has rendered the letters of Abelard and Heloise in rhyme.
“A sympathetic setting forth in English verse, of the letters of these historic lovers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Abbot, Francis Ellingwood.= Syllogistic philosophy or prolegomena to science. 2v. **$5. Little.
A posthumous work that represents a life time of study. “The determining principle of the whole structure is that ‘whatever is evolved as consequent must be involved as antecedent.’ The outcome of this ‘principle of absolute logic’ is that personality, in the philosophic sense of the word, is ‘both the source and outcome of all that is,’ and that philosophy at last becomes ‘theology modernized as scientific realism and scientific theism.’” (Outlook.)
“We confess that we have found in his work little to clarify the problems of philosophy and nothing besides the author’s own earnestness and enthusiasm which we can call uplifting. In no way does the book appear to us to be a prolegomena to science or an important contribution to philosophy.”
“The novel terminology once mastered, the new method becomes interesting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 390w.
“They are erudite and earnest, but dogmatic and ineffective. We do not question the earnestness and sincerity which have produced these two volumes, but we do question whether the absolute unit-universal will save his philosophical children from their sins through the message of the syllogistic philosophy.” R. B. C. Johnson.
− + =Philos. R.= 16: 447. Jl. ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Well equipped with wide and careful reading as Dr. Abbot evidently was, he seems to have fallen upon an arid formalism which forces him to serve up afresh, and with reiterated emphasis, many of the contingent features peculiar to idealistic absolutism in the nineteenth century.”