+ Booklist 16:348 Jl ’20
HUBBARD, GILBERT ERNEST.[[2]] Day of the crescent; glimpses of old Turkey. il *$6 Macmillan 949.6
“In the library of the British Foreign office the author of this book stumbled upon a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century books of Turkish travel, which had been bequeathed to the library by some noble diplomat of the last century who had been attached to the Constantinople embassy. ‘The authors were a cosmopolitan and heterogeneous lot, including among others such diverse characters as a Flemish diplomat, a French artist, a Polish soldier, a Venetian dragoman, and an English man of science. Their stories of how they travelled, painted, plotted, or fought according to their several capacities are full of color and romance, and worthy products of the age of adventure in which the actors lived.’ All these books pictured the ‘golden age’ of Turkey—an age that is almost unknown to us today—and Mr Hubbard decided that it would be a pleasant and profitable task to arrange and compress in one volume the most interesting portions from this collection of old narratives.”—N Y Evening Post
“He has certainly made no wide search for material, nor approached his subject in any critical way, nor attempted to give close unity to his scheme. Under these conditions Mr Hubbard has succeeded in presenting a vivacious, interesting, and thoroughly readable book.” A. H. Lybyer
+ − Am Hist R 26:129 O ’20 560w
“This is certainly the most picturesque of the scores of volumes of which the great war and its surroundings have been the occasion.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p4 O 27 ’20 900w + N Y Evening Post p13 O 30 ’20 180w Spec 124:768 Je 5 ’20 150w
HUDSON, HENRY, 2d., pseud. Spendthrift town. *$2.25 (1c) Houghton
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