“It is scarcely a spontaneous work of genius; but it is at least a brilliant piece of workmanship, of unusual range and power. The comfortably ample canvas abounds in masculine characters, and it is not too much to say that there is not a failure, not even a commonplace achievement, among them. In dealing with her small group of women the author’s penetration becomes blunter, her power weakens. Supremely interesting. Admirably constructed. A positive hardness, almost a lack of fineness, somewhat disqualify her as a ‘mouthpiece of humanity.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
“Drawn with a firmness of hand that excites one’s admiration. It rises, moreover, to real distinction of style, besides being of absorbing interest from cover to cover. It is the sort of book that one begins by skimming, and ends by giving the closest attention to paragraph and phrase.” W. M. Payne.
*“Aside from the literary shop talk in this novel the author has touched the heights and depths of inspiration. This is why parts of the book seem to sag so woefully.”
“The aim is high, the treatment is eminently appropriate, the interest absorbing.”
Reviewed by H. I. Brock.
“Pervaded by ... seriousness of invention and stamped with the distinction of high-class workmanship. This story has great nobility of spirit; although somewhat too elaborate, it is a novel to be reckoned as one of the real things of the time.”
“It is to be regretted that the story, as a whole, does not reach the height achieved by the characterization. The impression one receives from the whole production is that of a tremendous and generous power; a power that includes humor, wit, analytical and philosophical power, scholarship, vivid and trenchant strength in characterization. Something that critics call ‘fusion’ ... is absent from the book, or is not there in full.”
*“Though a mediocre piece of construction, marred by diffuseness and irrelevancies, this novel should be read for its splendidly successful character studies.”
“She writes remarkably well, though with a tendency to exaggeration and exuberance, and she has the usual feminine weakness for adjectives.”
Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.Manassas. $1.50. Macmillan.
This novel without a heroine is really a romantic history of the years preceding the Civil war. The story ends with the first battle of Manassas. The southern hero attends college in Boston, and there becomes an abolitionist; on returning home his eyes are more fully opened to the horrors of slavery and he eventually joins the Union army. “Manassas” is the first of an epic trilogy, the volumes to come being “Gettysburg,” and “Appomattox.”
“It is one of the most thrillingly interesting books of its kind that we have ever read. The real drama of the book is the historical clash of the two civilizations, and individuals seem to be made use of only by way of incidental illustration. It is history written with warmth and an eye for dramatic effect, ... but it is neverthelessessentially history. It is a work deserving of very high praise.” W. M. Payne.
“His power is well sustained through the long narrative.”
Sinclair, William A.Aftermath of slavery: a study of the condition and environment of the American negro; with an introd. by T: Wentworth Higginson.**$1.50. Small.
“This book gives the educated negro’s own view regarding the fitness of his race for full citizenship. It contains a complete record of the civil history of the American negro, showing what the race has done for the country in peace and in war, and what the negro has accomplished for his own uplifting.”—R. of Rs.
*“The style is clean and forceful. Of its kind it is the best any negro has written. It is the thesis of a special pleader making strong his case by ignoring the other side.”
“He is an able advocate if not altogether a wise one, and his book is very readable. He bases his case upon evidence which the other side refuses to admit and makes assumptions which they deny.”
“He is not intelligent in interpreting Southern conditions or southern sentiment.”
“His partiality is not envenomed, his plea is glowing, and his historical facts have more than common value.”
Singer, Hans.Albrecht Dürer.*$2.50. imp. Scribner.
A critical essay upon Dürer’s work forms a preface to 48 exquisite plates printed in tints and mounted on paper to harmonize.
“In spite of the closeness with which Professor Hans Singer has studied the drawings of Albrecht Dürer, it can scarcely be claimed that he has succeeded in fully grasping the characteristics that render them unique. Moreover, in his efforts to be strictly faithful to his own convictions he commits himself to several assertions that will hardly passunchallenged.”
“Compact for the use of students, and almost a necessity for any art library.”
*Singleton, Esther.Great portraits as seen and described by great writers.**$1.60. Dodd.
This volume “contains fifty-two ‘process’ reproductions of famous portraits ... with words written about them (or inspired by them) by writers who are not all great.... The selections are well chosen and will be useful to the discriminating student. These is also a list of the abiding places of these pictures. Knackfuss, Moreau, Vauthier, Julia Cartwright, J. A. Crowe, J. B. Cavalcaselle, Humphry Ward, ... Larroumet and Lefroy are among the most authoritative critics of the fine arts quoted.”—N. Y. Times.
*“Is likely to prove of great value to persons not very well-grounded in the knowledge of art, and of use, in its way, to many others, who are.”
*“On the whole, the compilation has little to recommend it, and some of its faults are inexcusable.”
Singleton, Esther, ed. and tr. Venice as seen and described by famous writers.**$1.60. Dodd.
Fifteen chapters which include extracts from Gautier on “The gondola” and “The grand canal”; from Yriarte on “The Rialto”; from J. R. Green on “Venice and Rome”; from Ruskin on “St. Marks”; from Taine on “The tombs of the Doges”; and from Symonds on “A night in Venice.” The volume is profusely illustrated with half-tone plates.
“A skillful collecting of the best things that have been written by the best authorities.”
“A book that is charming to read anywhere, and will be useful for travellers in Venice to consult.”
“The book will be especially useful to those who have never seen and do not expect to see Venice.”
“If an anthology of Venice was wanted, Esther Singleton has supplied it.”
“Its editing has been done with judgment.”
Skene, Norman Locke.Elements of yacht design. $2. Rudder pub.
The author aims to give “‘a concise and practical presentation of the processes involved in designing a modern yacht’ ... so that the operations may be readily grasped by men without technical education.... There are chapters on displacement, the lateral plane, design, stability, ballast, the sail plan, and construction. A thirty-foot cruiser is made the basis of the calculations, and a number of tables is appended to abridge the figuring of important details. The book is illustrated with numerous outline drawings and plates.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The book will undoubtedly be serviceable to every one interested in the subject and possessed of enough technical knowledge to understand it.”
Skinner, Harriet Pearl.Boys who became famous men.†$1.25. Little.
These “Stories of the childhood of poets, artists, and musicians” are founded upon fact but are colored to suit the taste of boy and girl readers, who cannot but feel a kinship for the young heroes of Beni’s keeper: Giotto; The victor: Bach; The little boy at Aberdeen: Byron; Tom Pear-tree’s portrait: Gainsborough; Georg’s champion: Handel; Six hundred plus one: Coleridge; The lion that helped: Canova; and Frederic of Warsaw: Chopin.
*“The stories are told simply, are readable, and the pictures are pleasing.”
Slater, John Herbert.How to collect books. $2. Macmillan.
“Mr. J. H. Slater has been writing on the subject for twenty-five years, and is regarded as one of the leading authorities in England.... The book ... might better be called a ‘Primer of book-collecting.’ Much information interspersed with illustrations, is crowded into less than two hundred pages.”—Outlook.
“The text is generally accurate.”
“For a beginner the knowledge contained in the volume may be of great assistance.”
*“No one but a real collector could have set forth what Mr. Slater has put into his volume.”
“With these slight exceptions, which will prove almost immaterial to the beginner in book collecting, the manual may be taken as a most reliable, though somewhat dull, guide in this fascinating pursuit.”
Sloan, Anna L.Carolinians, an old-fashioned love story of stirring times in the early colony of Carolina. $1.50. Neale.
Mistress Damaris Johnson, the governor’s daughter, whose heart is as true to her lover as her father’s is to his king, in coquetry with her true feelings offends the man she cares for. He starts for England, is captured by pirates, a message from her miscarries, they become estranged on his return, and she is piqued into promising her hand to an unloved suitor, who in the end nobly releases her.
“It is a picturesque tale, prettily told.”
Small, Albion Woodbury.General sociology.*$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
An exposition of the main development in sociological theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer. The purpose of the work is to furnish a working syllabus for a year’s course of lectures and a three years’ program of seminar work given in Chicago university. “The main objects of this syllabus are, first, to make visible different elements that must necessarily find their place in ultimate sociological theory; and second, to serve as an index to relations between the parts and the whole of sociological science.”
Smart, George Thomas.Studies in conduct.*75c. Pilgrim press.
“In this survey of wisely conducted life the subjective interest of disciplined and rationalized feeling comes to its full rights, and carries the authority of experience.”—Outlook.
“A book that cannot be exhausted in one reading, or in two.”
“Altogether these studies in conduct offer a rational and agreeable program for making the most of ourselves and our brief span of life.”
Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant.Story of Edinburgh. $2. Macmillan.
“This volume, which belongs to the ‘Mediæval towns series,’ is to a considerable extent a reproduction of a book which the author published last year. Additions, however, have been made, and ‘it has been almost entirely re-written.’” (Spec.) “The scheme of the volume is sensible. The first portion, dealing with the history of Edinburgh, traces the general fortunes of the city without special regard to topography; it is briskly enough written, and suitably seasoned with classical anecdotes. The second, and in this instance more important, division presents a detailed description of the city itself, and discusses the places and objects of historic interest.” (Ath.) There are many illustrations.
“The instructions are clear and practical, the comments are generally to the point, and the illustrations are decidedly good.”
*“The book is compact, comprehensive, and portable, and conveniently arranged in walks to points of historic, literary and ecclesiastical interest in the city and its environs.”
“Has put together a charming volume, full of matter but with little in it either of the guidebook or the town history.”
“This volume packs an amazing amount of information in small compass, and serves it up, moreover, with commendable freedom from dryness and encyclopaedic method.”
“A book about Edinburgh can scarcely fail to be interesting, and as written by Mr. Smeaton, who knows his subject thoroughly and writes about it con amore, this may be ranked with any volume in the series.”
Smedley, A. C., and Talbot, L. A.Wizards of Ryetown.†$1.50. Holt.
A clever fairy tale interspersed with nonsense rhymes in which a fairy princess goes out into the world with her hero prince to help him conquer his kingdom. After wars waged against castles, witches and wizards they share their realm in proverbial fairy-tale peace and prosperity.
Smet, Pierre-Jean de.Life, letters and travels of Father Pierre-Jean de Smet, S. J.; ed. by Hiram Martin Chittenden and Alfred Talbot Richardson. $15. Harper, F. P.
An account of the life and work of the missionary priest in the unopened West, recorded chiefly in his own simple words, as found in manuscript journals, and his printed works. There are copious notes and a life of De Smet by the editor.
“We strongly recommend this valuable work to all who are interested in the history of the North American West and in its aborigines. Also, and particularly, to those interested in missions.”
“The most valuable part of this book is that which deals entirely with Indian life, and the editors are to be congratulated upon their success in keeping this essential and vital part continually the most prominent. As no other man has so fully and so deeply understood the Indian, so no other has contributed so much information about his life and customs or served the cause of justice so well in uprooting the prejudice against the aborigines of this country. [The Indian] has received his meed of praise, and the final judgment upon his character.” Stanhope Sams.
Smith, Adam.Wealth of nations; ed. by Professor Edwin Cannan.*$6. Putnam.
This new edition of the famous work of the father of political economy follows the text of the fifth edition in all details. The editor has added elaborate notes and a comprehensive introduction.
“Will henceforth be the standard. It is hard to see how the editor’s work could be improved save by the discovery of new sources of knowledge.”
“What promises to be its definitive form for many years to come. Along with his demonstrated insight into the heart of this classic, Mr. Cannan brought other gifts of a rare order to his task,—tireless scholarship in ferreting out the ipsissima verba of the text, and withal an invigorating freshness of vision into the realities of industrial life, a doughty logic, and a dash of cynical humor.”
“Marks of extreme care as well as of full and critical knowledge are visible on every page. The editor’s notes are of great value even to students who are not greatly interested in the niceties of textual criticism. In a great measure they serve as cross-references, and serve also to keep in mind and define Adam Smith’s characteristic inconsistencies and limitations.”
*Smith, Albert William, and Marx, Guido H.Machine design. $3. Wiley.
A volume which “treats in logical sequence the elements of mechanism and machine design, followed by construction in detail of machinery, and an excellent chapter on ‘Riveted joints.’ It is well written and illustrated, and the effort to lead elementary conception into actual construction is consistently followed out, giving the reader, or the student, the satisfaction of learning the means and the reason for the result obtained.”—Engin. N.
*“Briefly characterized this is a college treatise, broad and elementary in its introduction, thorough in detail, elaborate in formulas, limited in references to modern devices and inaccurate in some of its practical data.”
Smith, Bertha H.Yosemite legends.**$2. Elder.
Six short legends each representing some folk song of the tribe of Ah-wah-nee-chee or Yosemite dwellers. The charm of the text is enhanced by the artistic work of Florence Lundborg, who has conceived a barbaric pattern, an Indian design for the margin, and has contributed thirteen wash drawings reproduced in half-tone. The whole make-up of the book suggests the “eerie and the unseen in air, crag, and water.”
“The stories are told with an attractive simplicity that retains a flavor of the primitive Indian poetry.”
*Smith, Rev. David.Days of His flesh: the earthly life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.**$2.50. Armstrong.
A new life of Christ, simple in style. “It throws some light on incidents in the life of Christ from portrayal of Jewish habits of life and thought. It accompanies the words of Jesus with some interpretation, but not with exhortation. It is free from scholasticism on the one hand and from ecclesiastical pietism on the other.”—Outlook.
*“Theoretically, the spirit of the writer might be defined as that of a broad-minded and free-minded evangelical.”
*Smith, Elmer Boyd.Story of Noah’s ark; told and pictured by E. Boyd Smith.**$2. Houghton.
“The building of the ark, the assembling of the animals, and the adventures of the voyage, are all made to yield their full measure of entertainment. The dinosaurs that had to be left behind because they were too big for the door, the host of other strange beasts ... that refused to go in and were therefore ‘doomed to be lost and become fossils,’ the other host that went in and, being tossed by the waves, regretted it ... all these episodes are pictured with remarkable expressiveness and a clever but never too extravagant caricature.... The plates are artistically reproduced in color.”—Dial.
*“An amusing book with illustrations gay enough and text simple enough to attract any well-regulated child.”
*“The pictures are the feature of the book, but they would not be half so amusing without the sly and subtle humor of the brief descriptions which accompany them.”
*“Mr. Smith is too good a draughtsman to be side-splittingly comical, but he has a humorous imagination. His text is far less droll, and he should procure a literary running-mate for his next venture.”
*“A capital piece of story-telling by colored pictures—humorous but perfectly respectful to Noah and all his family.”
Smith, F. Berkeley.Parisians out of doors.*$1.50. Funk.
Parisians of all classes at play, sipping coffee in their petcafés, pelting each other in thefete des fleurs, or enjoying the more serious joys of baccarat, fill these pages. But whether at home or jaunting by rail or motor car to Trouville, Normandy, St. Cloud or Monte Carlo, they are kept innately Parisian and carry with them their own distinctive atmosphere.
“It is never better than picturesque journalism, but, light and frothy as his writing is, it conveys a good and vivid idea of certain aspects of life in Paris, at Trouville, and other watering-places, at Nice and Monte Carlo, and so forth.”
“He shows an absence of dictatorialness, a humor, and a modesty that make his volume most entertaining reading.”
“The style of the author matches its subject. Mr. Smith is not only an enthusiastic lover of Paris but he can express this taste for the perfection of worldly joys in a voice of exquisite timbre.”
“Is as bright and entertaining as either of its predecessors, ‘The real Latin quarter’ and ‘How Paris amuses itself.’”
“Sprightly, not always very dignified, cheerfully observant of the gay and the picturesque.”
“‘Paris out of doors’ has gathered in the spirit of the French festivity, has caught much of the nature worship that infects that festivity, and in every respect is a delightful and refreshing book.”
“Mr. Smith knows perfectly well how to write good, interesting description, and what more interesting people can you find than the modern Parisian?”
“This is a very pleasant and readable book. Some of the illustrations are good, but the photographs are not invariably successes.”
Smith, Francis Hopkinson.At close range.†$1.50. Scribner.
“This is a collection of nine short stories.... The object of the volume seems to be to bring together some little tales of plain things in life in which Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith discovers a grain of gold ‘at the bottom of every heart-crucible choked with cinders.’ ... He does not confine his stories to any particular stage setting, but wanders, as the digger should do, wherever the gold of life is to be found.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Hopkinson Smith has the right knack, although exception must be taken to his literary style.”
“The chief characteristic of these nine short stories, tales of ‘the road,’ is a realism described with a poetic touch.”
“He has set down with humor, compassion and wit the real life that we live every day on the outside of story-books and made it refreshing with faith and virtue.”
“He has the snag-less style of long literary training, yet he shuns prolixity.”
“The stories deserve reading, and the circulation of such a volume will not bring benefit to the author alone.”
“This latest collection of short stories renews the impression which the earlier volumes from the same hand made of great clearness of sight, fresh and vital interest in all forms of life which express either beauty or character, a keen sense of humor, and admirable power of characterization.”
“Always Mr. Smith is the artist—not a photographer.”
“The author, who writes tersely and well, shows that he has keen powers of observation, he is also endowed with a sense of humour and a capacity for sympathy, and he can in a measure touch, as it has been said, both the springs of laughter and the source of tears.”
“The problems contained in the book are not very subtle, but almost all the stories are pleasant reading.”
Smith, Francis Hopkinson.Wood fire in no. 3.†$1.50. Scribner.
F. Hopkinson Smith invites his readers to join a circle in Bohemia about a log fire “that can sparkle with merriment, or glow with humor, or roar with laughter, dependent on your mood.” The “High priest of the Temple of jollity” is Sandy MacWhirter whose “wide personal experience, his many adventures by land and sea make him the most delightful of conversationalists ... talking as a painter talks, one who sees, and therefore can make you see.” He and his group of friends draw up around the fire and swap stories, impressions and terse convictions. “Mac” on studio teas is especially convincing; “Art is a religion not a Punch and Judy show. Whole thing is vulgar. Imagine Rembrandt showing his ‘Night watch’ for the first time to the rag-tag and bob-tail of Amsterdam.... Sacrilege, I tell you, this mixing up of ice-cream and paint; makes a farce of a high calling and a mountebank of the artist.”
*“MacWhirter and his friends are thoroughly individual. They all know stories well worth the telling, and they tell them extremely well.”
*“Has the charm with which Mr. Smith invests all that he writes, a charm which is one of projected personality, and must therefore miss some uncongenial readers, though these will usually be few.”
*“Mr. Smith never fails to infuse a certain invigorating good fellowship into his stories. The book as a whole does not reach the high level of Mr. Smith’s more serious fiction.”
*Smith, Frederick Edwin, and Sibley, N. W.International law as interpreted during the Russo-Japanese war.*$5. Boston bk.
“We welcome this attempt to estimate the present state of the science [of war] in the light of the new precedents created.... [The authors] have reviewed the whole history of the operations, and dealt with every point raised, from the volunteer cruisers to the use of wireless telegraphy, in a lucid and scholarly manner.... A large number of useful documents are reprinted in the appendices, and the authors have written a short but admirably clear introduction on the meaning of international law.”—Spec.
*“By far the most interesting part of the volume consists of the chapters, full of detail, and well considered, relating to neutrality; chapters so full and complete that they might with small change form parts of a treatise on international law. It is a piece of well-knit, solid work. It embodies research and care. A spirit of moderation, a sense of responsibility, is present.”
*“The work may be warmly recommended to all lawyers and students of public policy.”
Smith, Rev. George Adam.Forgiveness of sins, and other sermons,**$1.25. Armstrong.
“Sermons preached by Dr. George Adam Smith, in the pulpit of Queen’s Cross Free church, Aberdeen.... They are spiritual expositions of theology.... Biblical in substance but not textual.”—Outlook.
“His new volume of sermons offers an example of the art of expository preaching, the more persuasive in that it is not professedly expository.” A. K. P.
“His discourses are direct, practical and earnest, excellent examples of the expository preaching for which Scotch ministers are famous.”
“They constitute good models for the minister and good reading for the thoughtful and the devout layman.”
“The volume of his sermons just published may do something to dispel false notions of Professor Smith’s theological system.”
Smith, Goldwin.My memory of Gladstone.*75c. Wessels.
This volume is written by one who knew Gladstone, both socially and in a business way and who knew even better the men who were his associates in public life. He says that it is thru their eyes that he saw Gladstone and he gives his memory of the man and his colossal work in a concise and sympathetic manner. The little book will give a glimpse of Gladstone and his career to those who have not the leisure to read Morley’s Life, to which Prof. Smith pays handsome tribute.
Smith, J. Russell.Organization of ocean commerce. $1.75. Ginn.
This is one of the Univ. of Penn. publications and belongs to the series in political economy and public law. “The author confines himself exclusively to the presentation of facts and the description of processes.... The result is a careful, accurate and minute analysis of over sea commerce, which cannot fail to be of the greatest interest, not merely to the student of commerce, but to those who are actually engaged in the business of ocean transportation. The book is divided into three parts, viz.; Traffic, Routes and shipping and Harbors and port facilities.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“Dr Smith has produced one of the most satisfactory pieces of economic investigation which has appeared in recent years.” E. S. Meade.
Smith, Rev. John.Magnetism of Christ: a study of our Lord’s missionary methods. $1.75. Armstrong.
“This book is composed of the Duff lectures on evangelistic theology, which were delivered in 1903-4 by the author, who is a minister of the United Free Church of Scotland.... Hediscourses on such subjects as ‘The distinctive method of Jesus,’ ‘Christ dealing with individual inquirers,’ and ‘Prayer as bringing in the kingdom of God.’”—Spec.
“Although Dr. Smith wrote his lectures for students, his style is almost as simple as that of a Welsh evangelist.”
Smith, Mary Prudence Wells.Boy captive in Canada.†$1.25. Little.
This is the second story in the “Old Deerfield series,” and the sequel to, “The boy captive of old Deerfield.” It tells of the experiences of little Stephen Williams, son of the minister of Deerfield, as he lived a captive and a burden bearer among the Indians. It describes his wanderings with them in northern Vermont, the cold hard winter they spent in Canada, and it finally chronicles his liberation and return to Deerfield. At the end the varied and thrilling experiences of other Deerfield captives is given as revealed by the researches of Miss C. Alice Baker.
Smith, Nicholas.Masters of old age.*$1.25. Young ch.
The value of longevity is here illustrated by practical examples. The lives of Mommsen, Holmes, Geo. Bancroft, Victor Hugo, S. Weir Mitchell, Whittier, and numerous other masters of old age serve to show how much of the world’s work is done by its old people. There are some good ideas upon the value of keeping in the harness, and on the care of both mind and body.
“As a record of the victories over old age and bodily infirmity won by men and women of many sorts this book has a tonic quality both of physical and moral efficacy.”
Smith, Orlando Jay.Balance the fundamental verity,**$1.25. Houghton.
“‘A key to the fundamental scientific interpretations of the system of nature, a definition of natural religion, and a consequent agreement between science and religion.’ What Mr. Smith has really tried to do is to show that religion and science stand on the same rock, and that the law of compensation will explain away many philosophical difficulties. There is an appendix containing critical reviews by a number of eminent scientific and religious writers, most of which commend Mr. Smith’s thesis and the way he has worked it out.”—R. of Rs.
“Mr Smith in his book endeavors to deduce human immortality, and other things, from Newton’s postulate that ‘to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ The result is unsatisfactory to the materialists, who do not accept his demonstration as valid, and equally so to those who like the other side of the wall, because it is the other side.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
Smith, Reginald Bosworth.Bird life and bird lore.*$3. Dutton.
A lover of books and of birds writes of his friends the owl, the raven, the wild duck, the magpie, the rook and others, giving his own observations of them and showing the place they hold in history, literature, poetry, and folklore.
“A well-written and attractive book, of which the only material demerit is the rather patchy and uneven effect almost inseparable from volumes made up of papers originally published at divers times and in divers manners.”
“It is pleasantly and allusively classical, for Mr. Bosworth Smith is a ripe scholar, and it is written in a style which is always accurate and often picturesque.”
“A series of capital essays on British birds.”
“The book is one to be on permanently good terms with, for its genuine love of all feathered folk, its hatred of cruelty ... its delicate humor, and its poetical perspective.” May Estelle Cook.
“The particular claim of the book is that it has a local nexus and that the tale of the birds is not separated from the life of the place.”
“Has the happy faculty of combining his personal observations with those of his predecessors and confreres into a series of pleasing and instructive sketches.”
“Besides giving excellent information tells some interesting anecdotes.”
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
“Perhaps the best parts of his book are those in which he has brought together the references to his favorite birds from ancient and modern literature.”
“These essays have a certain charm of style which should appeal to nature-lovers the world over.”
“He is a real observer of the birds he delights in and he has written a very delightful account of the old Rectory and the old Manor house.”
“Very pleasant book. The charm of the book ... lies chiefly in the writer’s great love of his subject.”
Smith, Sara Trainer, trans. SeeDenk, Victor Martin Otto.
Smith, Sydney Armitage-.John of Gaunt, king of Castile and Leon, duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, earl of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester, seneschal of England.*$6. imp. Scribner.
“So far as we are aware, this is the first detailed study of the personality and career of ‘Old John of Gaunt, time-honored Lancaster.’ ... Mr. Armitage-Smith has faithfully explored all manner of sources of information bearing on the exploits and character of this favorite son of Edward III. and favorite brother of the Black Prince, this titular king of Castile and Leon and uncrowned king of England. The search yields to us a fascinating story of chivalry, pageantry, and war, a story of many personages and many scenes.”—Outlook.
“A scholarly but also a highly interesting work.” Laurence M. Larson.
“He must be congratulated on a width of research and a clearness of judgment which more practised hands might envy. He has done much to reconcile apparent inconsistencies in the career of the father of the first Lancastrian king and to unravel the tangled skein of English politics in the last quarter of the fourteenth century.” James Tait.