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golden rule for diet is to take in moderation the kind of food which
experience has shown can be easily digested.”—Nature.
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“The book contains much that the ordinary reader will find of value in
the ordering of his daily diet.”
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=Reade, W. H. V.=^{[6]} Moral system of Dante’s Inferno. *$4.15.
Oxford.
9–18619.
“This is the most exhaustive analysis that has ever been made of
Dante’s morals.... Mr. Reade’s task is to discover the rules which
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representative and weighty—those of Witte and of Dr. Edward Moore.
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verdicts as correspond with neither the Aristotelian nor the Thoman
model.”—Nation.
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C: A. Dinsmore.
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“He has evidently a profound knowledge of Aquinas but he has hardly
begun to understand Dante. On one point, however, we are wholly with
him.”
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scarcely be more careful, thorough, or open-minded. He has produced a
work which every exhaustive student of Dante will turn to and which will
not need to be undertaken again on so elaborate a scale.”
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cordially recommend it.”
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=Redmayne, Richard A. S.= Modern practice in mining; for the use of
mining students, prospectors, colliery managers, and others. v. 1.
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=Reed, Helen Leah.= Irma in Italy. †$1.25. Little.
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A new “Irma” book in which the young heroine travels with an aunt and
uncle in Italy. Her experiences in the best known and even in the lesser
known cities, entertaining and informing, are woven into a travel book
that all young readers will profit by.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
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=Reed, Myrtle.=^{[10]} Old rose and silver. **$1.50. Putnam.
9–35850.
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these: a beautiful old lady, an “old Rose” heroine of forty, a musical
genius, ten years her junior, and in contrast to these characters, a
young girl of twenty, beautiful in outline, but without warmth and
color, a silver girl—these are the principal elements of a story told in
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young violinist all but loses his left hand, serves both to introduce a
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woman’s love.
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