“Dr. Gardner’s book, though brief, covers a wide range, and is rich in illustration; but we could wish that the beauty of the originals had been better rendered, even at a sacrifice of number.”
“In all his treatment is suggestive, not exhaustive. Information he supplies, but his aim is rather to teach how to understand. The English style leaves something to be desired.”
“A valuable volume whose only fault is that it fails as an attempt to provide an elementary study of the subject, and presupposes considerable classical training on the part of the reader.”
“Dr. Gardner’s book is one which should be helpful and attractive to all who are familiar with its general subject, and who go to it for illumination and suggestion, with the proper equipment of familiarity with forms not to be had in a mere perusal or study of books.”
*“A handbook that will probably be found very useful by teachers in schools.”
“Simplicity is one of the most marked characteristics of the style of the whole book. The principle underlying the treatment is sound.”
“It offers an intelligent and practically unerring method for the judgment of the art of Hellas.”
*Gardner, William.Life of Stephen A. Douglas.$1.50. Eastern pub.
A brief biography compiled mainly from original sources and intended by the author as a dispassionate study. It is a history of the career of Douglas rather than an intimate life story. A detailed account of his work presents him as lawyer, judge, and politician, but while what the man has done is faithfully given there is little of the man himself. The author announces in his preface that he has “not attempted to pronounce judgment on Douglas and his contemporaries but to submit the evidence,” this and this only has he done. The volume has no index.
*“Mr. Gardner has done something toward solving the Douglas riddle.”
Garis, Howard R.Isle of black fire. $1.50. Lippincott.
This is a boy’s book of adventure. A New York merchant sends out an expedition to an uncharted island where a great lump of radium supposedly worth fifty-five million dollars, is guarded by priests in asbestos robes, who worship it and offer up passing strangers in sacrifice to the “black fire.” There are stirring scenes in which two thousand savages are mowed down by the ship’s guns, and barbaric games and combats, which celebrate the coming of an office boy, George the Fat, as king of the savage kingdom. A comic Irishman relieves the tense situations.
Garland, Hamlin.Tyranny of the dark.†$1.50. Harper.
A western girl, beautiful and endowed with uncanny psychic powers, struggles between love and hypnotism; the first, represented by a young chemist and biologist, the second, by a clergyman. The story passes thru death and excitement to a happy ending.
“Pleasing and interesting as is the romance considered merely as a novel, its supreme excellence lies in its detailed presentation of certain psychical phenomena.”
“It is a good and interesting tale.”
“It is very delicate and exacting material that Mr. Garland has chosen for his latest novel, and very crudely has he handled it.”
“With all his exposition, Mr. Garland does not make clear his own view of spiritualism, and, by closing the story where he does, he evades the most difficult of the problems which he raises.” Herbert W. Horwill.
“The scientific portions of the book are the finest and the most absorbing.”
“Regarded as fiction simply ‘The tyranny of the dark’ is too much encumbered with laborious arguments and citations. Has told his story well.”
“Four characters outlined with vigor. A book of more than ordinary power to hold the reader.”
“The story is an interesting one; in places it grips you. But, compared to some of Mr. Garland’s earlier writings, it must be said regretfully that the book is a disappointing piece of work.”
“It is based on a theme of absorbing interest and it is exceedingly well written.”
“That the story ... lacks genuine literary attractiveness or convincingness on its supernatural side, it would be absurd to deny.”
Garnett, Richard.William Shakespeare, pedagogue and poacher: a drama. $1.25. Lane.
This play, written apparently for study and not dramatic presentation, deals with Shakespeare’s traditional roles of school teacher and poacher. It is necessarily unsatisfactory to Shakespeare lovers and students, who find that his character as here portrayed falls short of the man as shown to us in his works, and the words which Mr. Garnett puts into his mouth, while perhaps Shakespearean, are obviously not Shakespeare.
“Among the most ingenious and successful experiments upon this baffling theme [attempt to portray Shakespeare as he lived and moved among his fellows] must surely be reckoned the little two-act drama of Dr. Garnett.”
“While Dr. Garnett’s play is equally open to the charge of being a subject dressed in poetry, rather than poetry incarnate in a fit subject, it is a remarkably readable and pleasant little book.”
“Dr. Garnett’s respect for the great Elizabethan is not to be doubted, but his drama lends to it no emphasis. It contains agreeable lines, but it is not interesting in development, nor is there any reality in the general effect. Moreover, the figure of Shakespeare is trivial and his speech frequently is elaborate and dull. In no respect is he realized with the distinction and art demanded by a subject so far from the ordinary.”
“It is all work at a high level, and the way in which the characters are made to speak in lines which are echoes of the later Shakespeare is extremely skilful. There is a humour, too, in many of the scenes, and much accomplished verse. But it is rather a chapter of Mr. Sidney Lee’s Life turned into dialogue than a substantive drama.”
Garrison, William Lloyd.Words of Garrison.**$1.25. Houghton.
The hundredth anniversary of the birth of William Lloyd Garrison occurs in December, and to commemorate it there appears a small volume of characteristic sentiments from his writings dedicated “to all who hate cruelty, oppression, and war, and believe in the equal rights and perfectibility of mankind.”
*“Interesting and really valuable little volume.”
Gaspe, Philippe Aubert de.Cameron of Lochiel; tr. by Charles G. D. Roberts.†$1.50. Page.
What Gaspé did in his Canadian narrative of the early sixties was “to gather up,” says Mr. Roberts, “and preserve in lasting form the songs and legends, the characteristic customs, the phases of thought and feeling, the very local and personal aroma of the rapidly changing civilization.” The story turns to the days of the last struggle of the English and the French, and tells the life history of two young men, a Scot and a Frenchman, both of whom were educated at the Jesuits’ college in Quebec, and later fought against each other on the plains of Abraham.
“He makes on the whole a very satisfactory translator.”
Gasquet, Rt. Rev. Francis A.Henry the third and the church.*$4. Macmillan.
“A careful study of the relations between England and Rome, from the submission of John to the Papal see on Ascension day, 1213, to the close of his son’s reign. It is written with no desire to defend the Papacy from the charges which were made even by the faithful at the time, and it may fairly claim to represent an unbiased survey of the evidence. The author’s principle has been to let the original documents speak for themselves.” Lond. Times.
“A trustworthy contribution to the story of this long reign on the very points upon which most historians are either silent or provokingly brief.”
“It is somewhat dull and colorless. His conclusions, as it seems to us, are sound, if not novel. His book will be indispensable to the student of the reign of Henry III.”
*“The high literary merit and abundant learning of this investigation into the relationship between Rome and England in the thirteenth century are all that we might expect.”
Gass, Patrick.Gass’s journal of the Lewis and Clark expedition, ed. by Jas. K. Hosmer.*$3.50. McClurg.
Dr. Hosmer, who contributed to the centennial interest in the Lewis and Clark expedition thru his “Story of the Louisiana purchase,” has added further to the commemoration in the present work. The original jottings of Patrick Gass being no longer extant, nothing of them could be included in Thwaites’ recent “Original journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition,” but the chronicles trimmed and shaped by David McKeehan, under the supervision of Gass, are of so great importance that the re-issue after sixty years is well warranted. A full introduction leads up to the records, and a time-saving analytical key follows the text. The volume is uniform in style with other volumes of McClurg’s “Americana,” with reproductions of the original illustrations.
“Dr. Hosmer has confined his editorial work to supplying an introduction. The volume contains no new contribution, nor does it make the journal of Gass much more valuable as a source. The introduction, in an easy though sometimes rather personal style, always with a view to the picturesque, is a convenient summary of the results of recent research.”
“This excellent reprint.”
*Gates, Errett.Disciples of Christ,**$1. Baker.
As one of “The story of the churches” series, this volume takes up the origin, development, and history of the denomination called The disciples of Christ, beginning with the withdrawal of Thomas Campbell from the Seceder Presbyterian church in Western Pennsylvania 1809, thru the time of union with the Baptists, the later separation of the Reformers from the Baptists, the union of the Reformers as Disciples of Christ, their growth and organization down to the present time. There are chapters upon Evangelism, journalism, education and church growth, and Recent tendencies and problems; there is also a bibliography and an index.
*Gates, Josephine Scribner.Story of the three dolls. $1.25. Bobbs.
A group of stories for little people including the story of the gold beads which were lost and found on the dog’s neck, the story of the candy heart, which was devoured “lick by lick” by two little girls, and various anecdotes of dogs, birds, horses and fish, “which are absolutely true,” says the author.
Gautier, Theophile.Russia, by Theophile Gautier, and by other distinguished French travelers and writers of note; tr. from the French, with an additional chapter upon the struggle for supremacy in the Far East, by Florence MacIntyre Tyson. 2v.**$5. Winston.
The entire first volume and one-fourth of the second, treating of the empire of the czars from the beginning to the most recent times, are by Gautier, while separate papers by other well known French writers complete the work. These include: The mir, by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu; The press and censorship, by Gustave Lejeal; The Russian army and navy, by Désiré Lacroix; Religion and sects, by Gustave Lejeal; Literature, by L. Lejar; Russian art, by Marius Vachon; Siberia, by Jules Legras; and others. Fifty photogravures illustrate the volumes.
*“As literature, and as a mine of information, these volumes call for special notice.”
*“There is much interesting information and picturesque writing in these volumes.”
*“The translation ... is mechanical, but on the whole fairly satisfactory.”
Gavit, Helen E.Etiquette of correspondence.*50c. Wessels.
A thoroly modern compendium, being, as the sub-title states, illustrations and suggestions as to the proper forms in present usage of social, club, diplomatic, military, and business letters, with information on heraldic devices, monograms, and engraved addresses.
“Is the best of its kind.”
“An excellent compendium, covering everything that pertains to the subject.”
Gaye, R. K.Platonic conception of immortality and its connection with the theory of ideas.*$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Gaye’s object in this book is to investigate the connection between the theory of ideas and the theory of the immortality of the soul as held by Plato, and in this way to make clear the nature of Plato’s conception of immortality and to determine in what sense he believed in the continued existence of the individual soul: this subject has involved the consideration of the Platonic conception of the soul and of the relation of soul and body.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“Yet, whatever we may think of his assumptions, Mr. Gaye’s essay shows decided ability, and is written in a good, clear style.”
“The main criticism of the book, however, is that though it makes its points clearly and is for that reason of considerable value for all students of Plato, it has failed to establish satisfactorily that the interpretation of Plato which it adopts is the only possible interpretation or that Plato was really influenced by the difficulties and arguments by which Mr. Gaye assumes him to have been influenced.” A. R. Ainsworth.
“It is lucidly written and scholarly, but not remarkable for novelty and originality.”
Reviewed by Paul Shorey.
“Deals in a clear and diligent manner with points in Plato’s doctrine of immortality, and reflects ... with somewhat over-exclusiveness the views of the great gods of Trinity.”
Gayley, Charles Mills, and Young, Clement C.Principles and progress of English poetry. $1.10. Macmillan.
“Profs. Charles Mills Gayley and Clement C. Young, in their volume on ‘The principles and progress of English poetry, with representative masterpieces and notes,’ have attempted to show through extracts and by a scientific study of rhythm, melody and movement as well as by historical analysis, how English poetry has developed, and how it has been touched by external and internal influences since the days of Chaucer down to those of Tennyson. Each chapter has a separate introduction descriptive of the school to which the poems included in it are supposed to belong.”—N. Y. Times.
“Merits the attention both of the studious reader of poetry, and of the mechanician in verse—particularly of the youthful apprentice in the art of poesy.”
“With Professor Gayley’s artistic theory we cannot always agree. It has the great advantage of putting a large amount of poetic phenomena into shape for the student’s use.”
“There is a preface ... devoted to the principles of poetry—a valuable book in itself.”
Geddie, John.Romantic Edinburgh. $2.50. Dutton.
A reissue, without revisions, of a suggestive guide to the study of the landmarks of Old Edinburgh.
“A map is needed—a map or plan, such as Baedeker prints in his guide books. That, and either no photographs or better ones, would make Mr. Geddie’s a well-nigh perfect hand book to Auld Reekie.”
Geere, H. Valentine.By Nile and Euphrates. $3.50. Scribner.
A book of both discovery and adventure. The author, at Professor Flinders Petrie’s request, was given an appointment on the staff of the expedition which was sent out to Mesapotamia by the University of Pennsylvania in 1895 to continue the excavation of the ruins of Nippur. He writes of “unsettled, poverty-stricken and neglected Mesapotamia, and well-ordered, flourishing Egypt,” and gives detailed accounts of the work of investigation carried on at Behnesch, Nippur and Babylon.
“So far as we know, there is no other book which paints so vividly the camp of the excavator, or sketches the scenery and life of the Nile and Euphrates valleys, as the one before us.” George L. Robinson.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
“Mr. Geere writes in a pleasant, lucid style, which rises almost into eloquence when he describes the evening at Mohammerah when the charms of the East first stole upon him.”
Geffroy, Gustave.National gallery (London); with an introd. by Sir Walter Armstrong. ¼ vel.*$10. Warne.
“The author has treated his subject by subdivision into schools corresponding to the arrangement of the pictures on the walls (an arrangement quite unsurpassed in excellence in any public gallery). The English, Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, and French schools are all covered both in the charmingly written text, and the profuse illustrations.”—Int. Studio.
*“One of the most elaborate, as well as one of the most authoritative, art books of the season. His style is often brilliant, and always clear and definite.”
“M. Gustave Geffroy’s essays are one and all marked by the keen insight into peculiarities of the style that distinguish him; and they have about them a freshness and originality that is, alas, daily becoming more rare.”
“The work is a magnificent one—one which makes us feel grateful to author and publisher.”
*“Great pains have been taken with the mechanical perfection of the reproductions, and the work ranks well.”
*“Unfortunately, many of the photogravures are but mediocre, and most of the process cuts are wretched, so that what should have been a feast of art is little more than an aid to memory.”
*“The text is discriminating as well as informative.”
Geikie, Sir Archibald.Landscape in history, and other essays.*$2.75. Macmillan.
“Ten essays and addresses.... Half of them deal with scenery in its geological relations and in its influence on human progress.... They are entitled ‘Landscape in history,’ ‘Landscape and the imagination,’ ‘Landscape and literature,’ ‘The origin of the scenery of the British islands,’ and ‘The centenary of Hutton’s Theory of the earth.’ The others discuss the problem of the age of the earth, ‘Geological time’; two are biographical, ‘The life and letters of Charles Darwin’ and ‘Hugh Miller: his work and influence’; one deals with the place of science in modern education, and the book closeswith a paper on the Romancampagna.”—N. Y. Times.
“Sir Archibald Geikie in those thoughtful essays has done something toward elucidating the dependence of man’s intellectual achievement on his physical environment.”
“A charming contribution to the literature of his favorite science.”
“These essays are very charming, written with great clearness and distinction.”
*“The essays are popular, rather than technical; and there is very little in them beyond the reach of the average educated man.”
“A most readable book, the several parts of which hang well together.”
“Charming style in which this volume of varied essays is written. Altogether this volume is stimulating and enlightening, a distinct contribution to the literature of science.”
“It is the interweaving of history, mythology, and imagination with the dry light of scientific fact that constitutes the particular fascination of this book.”
“This is a very entertaining and useful field of research, in which we could desire no better guide than Sir Archibald Geikie.”
Geikie, James.Structural and field geology for students of pure and applied science.*$4. Van Nostrand.
Addressed primarily to beginners in field geology, this handbook is intended also for students preparing to be mining or civil engineers, architects, agriculturists, or public health officers, to whom some knowledge of structural geology is important. It covers the course gone over in the summer course of geology in the University of Edinburgh, a course instituted to give students a further knowledge of practical geology than could be presented in the winter courses. There are numerous illustrations and full-page plates.
“Written with the knowledge and authority of a professor of wide experience, the work is likely to be of much use far beyond the range of University classes. Perhaps the most valuable part of Prof. Geikie’s work is that devoted to geological surveying.”
*“The work is excellent in plan, in presentation. It will be very helpful, not only to beginners, but to those who have been well trained in the science of geology.” N. S. Shaler.
“A very useful handbook, admirable in the freshness and terseness of its descriptions, and the clearness and abundance of its illustrations.”
*“A full and well-considered hand-book for use in the sober work of geological surveying or economic investigation, in a country like Scotland, where there are no active volcanoes, earthquakes or glaciers.” B. K. Emerson.
Genealogical records, $1. W. G. DeWitt, 201 E. 12th St., N. Y.
A book of blanks for those who wish to record their family history in systematic form. The spaces for names, notes, dates, and index are indicated, and when filled out will constitute a neat and handy volume for genealogical reference.
Genung, John Franklin.Ecclesiastes.**$1.25. Houghton.
A philosophical rather than a critical study. “The author, together with most modern students of the book, rightly discards the word ‘Ecclesiastes,’ the Greek translation of ‘Koheleth,’ in the first place because it is almost certainly an incorrect translation, and, in the second place, as the author appropriately observes, because it ‘entitles what is of all Scripture books the least ecclesiastical.’” (Bib. World.) “He dwells but slightly on the historical background, and then introduces us to the theory that Koheleth was a reaction against the immortality doctrine, recently adopted from the Greeks and pushed into prominence by the Pharisees. The preacher contends against living for a vague futurity, and insists upon living this present life to its utmost.” (Cath. World).
“Genung’s thesis is admirably set forth and strongly buttressed by references to modern literature. But the impression remains that he has rather read into Koheleth a view which one would like to discover there, than revealed the actual nature of the book itself.”
“To a full two hundred pages of discussion the author has added a new translation and a running commentary. Both are excellent, but the latter especially ripples along in clear, crisp sentences that show how much a deft literary touch may do even for a commentary. In fact, the book as a whole exhibits in language and treatment the author’s nice literary taste. In the opinion of the present writer, Professor Genung is not at his best when he discusses, or rather makes fun of, Siegfried’s analysis of Koheleth. Satire is not convincing. The reviewer also feels impelled to enter anon liquetagainst Professor Genung’s contention that Koheleth represents a reaction against contemporary views of immortality. The solid merit of the serious and painstaking work that has gone into the book will win for it an honored place on many shelves.” William Frederic Badé.
“Mr. Genung would have done far better to have examined the book without a philosophical theory as to its nature, but with a critical openness of mind for straightforward evidence. Still, in the introductory portion of the volume, and in the exegetical notes accompanying the translation, there are useful suggestions.”
“His discussion reveals a well-balanced sense of the literary and spiritual values that are to be found in Koheleth.” Ira M. Price.
George, Hereford B., ed. SeeThiers, Adolphe.
Gerard, Dorothea (Mme. Longard de Longarde).Sawdust: a Polish romance of the Carpathian timberlands. $1. Winston.
Self made, a lover of work for work’s sake, Josef Mayer, has at last achieved success and erected a saw-mill in the Polish Carpathians, having beggared Count Rutkowski and secured his timber lands in a shrewd business deal. Then comes a pretty romance between the count’s daughter and Meyer’s son, which is opposed more strenuously by the peasant than by the nobleman, but which ends satisfactorily in the loss of the Meyer fortune. Royalty, the village folk and the disaffected Jews figure in the story.
“There is also a certain delicacy in the treatment of the love scenes and fidelity to truth in the descriptions of natural scenery that givethe story a charm not present in most present-day novels.”
“There is, moreover, much skill displayed in the delineation of character and situations alike, and the writer is thoroughly familiar with her material.” Wm. M. Payne.
“The story is told naturally and carefully.”
“It is full of freshness and originality.”
“A charming combination of capital and labor, with an absorbing love-plot, is ‘Sawdust’.”
Gerson, Virginia.More adventures of the happy Heart family. $1. Fox.
Another book for the very young in which little mother Heart, papa Goodheart, and the little Hearties all appear, also the Jolly-jumpers and the Valentines, who were “a very elegant family because their grandfather was a saint, so Mrs. Fancy Valentine always wore white lace.” Quaint drawings illustrate the volume.
*“Another one of those delightful children’s books which the grown-ups like as much as the little people.”
Gettemy, Charles Ferris.True story of Paul Revere.**$1.50. Little.
A short biography of the American patriot whom Longfellow’s poem saved from historical oblivion. His midnight ride is told in his own words, and he appears as a patriotic engraver and dentist as well as public messenger, soldier, and juror. Both Revere and the historical events in which he played a part lose in romance but gain much in reality by this accurate account. Original documents are quoted and Revere’s copper-plate engravings are fully described.
“The book shows scholarly work, and is of value historically apart from its narrative of Paul Revere.”
*“The real value of the book lies in the light which it throws on local Revolutionary history, and especially on the alliance with France and the adoption of the Constitution.”
Ghent, W. J.Mass and class. $1.25. Macmillan.
“Mr. W. J. Ghent, author of ‘Our benevolent feudalism,’ has written ‘Mass and class: a survey of social divisions.’ In his present work, Mr. Ghent seeks to analyze the social mass into its component classes; to describe these classes, not as they may be imagined in some projected benevolent feudalism, but as they are to be found here and now in the industrial life of the nation; and to indicate the current of social progress which, in spite of the blindness of the workers, the rapacity of the masters, and the subservience of the retainers, makes ever for an ultimate of social justice.”—R. of Rs.
“Brilliant arraignment of modern society.”
Reviewed by Owen R. Lovejoy.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
“The one criticism offered concerns a fundamental point—Mr. Ghent’s failure to grasp the full meaning of the doctrine of economic interpretation on which he professes to base his whole discussion.” Wesley C. Mitchell.
*“Probably most psychologists would attach more importance to the part played by ideals than the author does, but in tracing back our present conditions of war between labor and capital to a play of motives that were the direct result of the rapid economic development of our country, he is fundamentally correct. The book is to be criticised in this respect as being too schematic, as not going sufficiently into detail to be at all satisfactory to one’s historical sense.” Amy E. Tanner.
Ghosh, Sarath Kumar.Verdict of the gods.†$1.50. Dodd.
“With prologue, epilogue, and interludes between the great king, sick unto death, and his faithful chronicler beguiling the painful hours, this Oriental romance details the ordeals—a horrid half-dozen, including burial alive, exposure to wild beasts, and the poison cup—to which Navayan Lal was put for daring to love the Princess Devala. Great bravery and a canny knowledge of hypnotism and other mysteries occult carry him through in safety.”—Outlook.
“Its lucid English style and its fascinating plot. For all these trifling cavils, ‘The verdict of the gods’ must rank as a novel of unusual interest.” Louis H. Gray.
“Can be recommended as an antidote for ennui in several of its forms.”
“Here are more ‘Arabian nights,’ murmurous, beguiling, enchanting in their beauty and strangeness.”
Gibbons, Alfred St. Hill.Africa from south to north through Marotseland.**$7.50. Lane.
The account of a thoro exploration of Marotseland, made in 1898 by an experienced African traveler. The objects of the expedition were to fix a British boundary line; to determine the Congo-Zambesi watershed; to discover the real source of the Zambesi; and to make such surveys and general investigations as should determine the best place for the Rhodesian railway company to push its line across the river. The account is interesting and valuable, the more so because the Cape to Cairo railway, soon to be completed, will make it possible for the tourist to cover this same ground. Native life and conditions, present government and economic possibilities are treated in detail.
“Is written in a charming style, simple, direct and convincing. Quite apart from its interest and special worth to the Englishman, is its value on account of the new and interesting geographical information it contains. Is one of the most important works of travel of recent years.”
“There are at least half a dozen reasons why it should be welcome and why it will take a permanent place among the standard books on African exploration. The best authority in print today concerning the country. There is much detail in the book. Still it is all very readable.”
Gibbons, Hughes Oliphant.History of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. Winston.
“Pine Street church in Philadelphia, the third Presbyterian church founded in that city, is the only one dating from colonial times still on its original site. In the churchyard some three thousand lie interred, including many Revolutionary officers and soldiers. It has been served by a succession of remarkably able ministers....Originally in a fashionable center, now in a slum neighborhood ... it remains there, consecrated by its history and pledged by its endowment to a perpetuity of service in its changed environment. This handsome and finely illustrated volume is a worthy memorial of seven generations to many more to come.”—Outlook.
Gibbs, Philip.Facts and ideas. $1.25. Longmans.
Short studies of life and literature, which have appeared in various weekly newspapers. There is a brief treatment of a great many subjects, including the French revolution, and the Transvaal war.
“The book aspires to be a sort of elementary substitute for liberal education—a university extension course on things one should know.”
“We think that occasionally, in his desire to point a moral, Mr. Gibbs exaggerates. The writer does not go to the heart of his subject.”
*Gibson, Charles.Among French inns: the story of a pilgrimage to characteristic spots of rural France.**$1.60. Page.
“Most daintily attired, all gray and silvery and splendidly pictured, comes ‘Among French inns’ ... with ... an automobile, an indulgent American papa, a managing American mamma, a double love match, and an enviable collection of French, English, and Italian types. Moreover, there is real information about the inns, theirtable d’hotes, their relative expensiveness and inexpensiveness, and a plenty of historical data.”—N. Y. Times.
*“He defaces almost every page of his book by his badly chosen vocabulary, or his disregard for the rules of English syntax.”
*“This new book may well deserve that quaintly descriptive old word ‘fetching.’”
*Gibson, Charles Dana.Our neighbors.**$4.20. Scribner.
The present collection, which it is announced, contains Mr. Gibson’s last work in black and white, “is uniform in size, shape, and binding with the nine volumes which have preceded it. It is entitled ‘Our neighbors,’ a phrase generally interpreted to mean all sorts and conditions of men and women. The Gibson Girl is charmingly portrayed, as well as the Gibson Man, the Gibson Dowager, and the Gibson Old Gentleman. There are also the street types ... and cartoons.” (Dial.)
*“Perhaps Mr. Gibson has done his best in black-and-white; at least he will have to do something very good indeed to surpass the general level of ‘Our neighbors.’”
*“Whatever else may be said of Gibson and his work, certain it is that he makes you see what he sets out to show you, and he does it pleasantly and with a deal of humor.”
*“He leaves us quite at his best, and his humor has never been keener or his technical ability more astonishing than in the present collection.”