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Three American girls seek refuge from hayfever on a Canadian island and instead of passing an uneventful summer they find themselves involved in a series of strange happenings by a band of clever smugglers who pose as their friends and use them as a blind to pass their ill-gotten goods over the border. The story is told in a sprightly fashion and there is a prettylove tale and two not so pretty but more dramatic. All in all, it is an interesting novel with a pleasing mixture of love, mystery, adventure, tragedy and humor.
Tylee, Edward Sydney.Trumpet and flag, and other poems of war and peace. *$1.25. Putnam.
These poems are largely upon present day topics and include among others “After Vereeniging,” studies of “Bismarck” and “Rhodes,” an elegy on Queen Victoria, “The drummer,” The salute, Balliol college chapel, Somersetshire dialect poems, and Sculling at midnight.
“The verse is smooth and pleasing, although its themes are often grim.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Mr. Tylee’s more ambitious pieces have a certain careful timeliness, a skilful obviousness that gives them rather the attraction of an eloquent leading article than of poetry.”
“Mr. Tylee’s chief fault is that he is a little inclined to monotony both in rhythm and imagery.”
*Tyler, John Mason.Growth and education. **$1.50. Houghton.
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The author evidently agrees with Spencer that “man’s first duty is to become a good animal.” “While the book deals mainly with bodily growth and development, the writer is led naturally by his subject into the field of moral and intellectual culture. He recognizes the importance of character-forming agencies in all periods, but justly emphasizes the high school as the time of final determination.” (Dial.)
“Professor Tyler’s recent book ... comes, with rather unusual authority on account of the high scientific standing of the writer, and it is enriched by a broad view of the subject, and a certain warmth of treatment which adds greatly to the value of a book intended for teachers. We recommend it heartily to the library of every teacher.” Edward O. Sisson.
“To the defects and mistakes of current educational practice, this enlightening volume brings sound scientific and practical correctives.”
*Tyndale, Walter.Below the cataracts. il. **$3–50. Lippincott.
“Mr. Walter Tyndale is a painter who has spent some years at work in the Nile valley and is interested in both the mysterious beauty of the ancient monuments and in the picturesqueness of the Egyptian life of to-day. Cairo with its winding streets, beautiful mosques, and tempting bazaars, Thebes with its tombs and temples, and Karnak with its wonderful wall-inscriptions and reliefs, furnish most of the material for the sixty beautiful colored plates and the chapters of description and personal reminiscence of travel in Egypt which make up his recently published volume ‘Below the cataracts.’”—Dial.
*Tyrrell, Rev. George.Much-abused letter. *90c. Longmans.
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In this volume Father Tyrrell explains and defends his letter to a perplexed scientist which resulted in the Pope’s recent encyclical and caused Tyrrell’s excommunication from the church.
“Its essence is certainly radical, and is intended to meet the esoteric needs. And it is an illustration—very important and interesting—of a movement of thought in the Catholic as well as the Protestant church.”
Tyrrell, Rev. George.Through Scylla and Charybdis; or, The old theology and the new. *$1.50. Longmans.
An exposition by a broad and spiritually minded Catholic upon both the dogmatic and the political position of priests. “It deals with the difference between revelation and theology, and leaves the reader with the impression that in Father Tyrrell’s mind dogma can now only be accepted metaphorically, as the changing expression of the truth,—as if one were to say, for instance, that remorse is a revelation and hell a metaphor, forgiveness a revelation and absolution a metaphor.” (Spec.)
“The book makes its appeal to every one at all modern in sympathy who is at the same time not disposed to cut the Gordian knot and let religion altogether go by the board.”
“His book, though addressed to Catholics, is profitable reading for Protestants also, many of whom need some of its lessons.”