+ N Y Times p26 Ja 9 ’21 550w
“Invaluable to us as a standard of comparison, quite apart from its charm as a human document.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p600 O 30 ’19 1050w
GUITERMAN, ARTHUR. Ballads of old New York. il *$1.50 Harper 811
20–3010
In this collection of ballads, the author tells us, he has been “martialing the varied traditions of New York and its neighborhood, piecing together colorful stories of the past for those who are to inherit the future.” And in the prologue he bids us “Hear! for I carol in lilting rhymes rollicking lays of the good old times!” The contents are grouped under the headings: Dutch period; English colonial period; Revolutionary period; and Miscellaneous, and the verses are interspersed by descriptive prose paragraphs by way of interludes. The illustrations are pen and ink sketches by J. Scott Williams.
“A delightfully whimsical book.”
+ Booklist 16:234 Ap ’20
“The book is a happy book, done by a genuine lover and historian of the greatest city in the new world. Washington Irving would have liked it.” W. A. Barrett