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Zamacois, Miguel. The jesters: a simple story in four acts of verse, adapted from the French, by J: N. Raphael. **$1. Brentano’s.
8–6085.
A translation done into English rime.
“Why this translation should have been deemed worthy of preservation in permanent form it is not easy to guess—for it is a most inadequate performance. The lines exhibit few traces of literary facility or poetic instinct.”
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Nation. 86: 428. My. 1, ’08. 270w.
“It is a bit of the old lace of literature, archaic and euphuistic, but with the conventional threads woven into a gossamer woof of verse.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 275. My. 16, ’08. 270w.
Zeuner, Gustav Anton. Technical thermodynamics; authorized translation by J. F. Klein. 2v. *$8. Van Nostrand.
7–29742.
This first English translation has been made from the fifth complete and revised original German edition. Volume one contains a discussion of The fundamental laws of thermodynamics, theory of gases; volume two treats of The theory of vapors.
“Of interest both to the pure physicist and to the engineer. The translation is on the whole clear and accurate. The sentences are often German in construction, and the frequent use of compound words leaves no doubt as to their origin. The fault is palpable throughout, rendering the text clumsy and troublesome to read even when the meaning is clear.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 388. Mr. 28. 370w.
“A standard work which should be in all technical libraries.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 154. My. ’08.
Zueblin, Charles. Religion of a democrat. *$1. Huebsch.
8–12540.
Professor Zueblin outlines the religion of a democrat in six chapters dealing with Temperament and personality, The constraint of orthodoxy, The decay of authority, Religion and the church, Religion and the state, and Impersonal immortality. The first five chapters argue for the renunciation of time-honored hindrances to living issues and the development of a greater social utility to be achieved thru the State; while the last chapter deduces the subjective obligations of democratic religion, which are considered under the term of “impersonal immortality.”
“The reader cannot fail to be quickened and profited by so thoughtful, unconventional, and earnest a discussion of the great religious realities.” N. P. Gilman.
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Am. J. Soc. 14: 267. S. ’08. 370w.
“Though ... we are not at all times prepared to accept Professor Zueblin’s views, we regard this work as on the whole one of the most helpful and constructive contributions to economic progress which has appeared in recent years.”
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Arena. 40: 117. Jl. ’08. 2400w.
“The atmosphere of the book is fresh and free and bracing.”
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Dial. 45: 67. Ag. 1, ’08. 300w.
“These essays constitute a suitable companion volume to the author’s ‘A decade of civic development.’” I: Aw Loos.
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Econ. Bull. 1: 333. D. ’08. 700w.
Ind. 65: 557. S. 3, ’08. 110w.
Outlook. 89: 392. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
“A fine, sensible contribution to modern thought, to current efforts to solve present-day problems. The book is radical and fearless, though scarcely conclusive—perhaps the more valuable for that reason.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 331. Je. 13, ’08. 440w.
Zwemer, Samuel Marinus. Islam, a challenge to faith: studies on the Mohammedan religion and the needs and opportunities of the Mohammedan world from the standpoint of Christian missions. $1. S. V. M.
7–39397.
“The present volume by a missionary scholar long resident in Arabia is a compact compendium of complete information on all the facts pertinent to a complete understanding of its present conditions, political, religious, ethical, and social, of the problem presented to Christendom by the antagonist which now dominates a seventh part of mankind.”—Outlook.
“A useful compendium of up-to-date information regarding a subject in which Christian churches today are only beginning to take an interest.”
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 527. Jl. ’08. 60w.
“His most effective chapter is that on ‘The ethics of Islam.’”
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Ind. 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 100w.
Outlook. 88: 98. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
“An informing study.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 384. Mr. ’08. 60w.
Zwemer, Rev. Samuel Marinus, and Brown, Rev. Arthur Judson. Nearer and farther East: outline studies of Moslem lands and of Siam, Burma and Korea. (United study of missions.) *50c. Macmillan.
8–15133.
“Dr. Zwemer, who writes on the general characteristics of Islam and the problem of Christian missions in Mohammedan countries, dwells vividly and fervently on the points in which Mohammedan theory and practice in religion, morality, and government, especially as regards the status of women and freedom of thought and discussion, are inferior to those of Christianity.... Dr. Brown, on the other hand, who writes of Siam, Burma, and Korea, describes in a broad and straightforward fashion the physical, social, and political conditions of those countries, with simple recitals, excellently put, of what enlightened missionary effort has accomplished.”—Nation.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 300. D. 08. ✠
Ind. 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 100w.
“One cannot but hope that those who will use this volume as a basis for missionary studies in churches and societies may arise part to the wider social plane of the second.” from the complacent spirituality of the first.
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Nation. 87: 160. Ag. 20, ’08. 360w.
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