+ Pub W 97:607 F 21 ’20 480w + R of Rs 61:448 Ap ’20 260w
“Sir Ernest Shackleton’s book is written in a vigorous style.”
+ Spec 123:862 D 20 ’19 1100w
“The story of the voyage that six men made in an open boat across eight hundred miles of the roughest water in the world, to bring relief to the twenty-two companions who remained on the island, rivals the best sea tale ever written. It is good for any one to read such a narrative as ‘South!’ We see what men may be.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 7 ’20 2500w
“The story is told simply, for the most part without much passion; but there is no need for that to hold our interest. This book, and many another like it, are written for the general reader; and the general reader (who would not read a scientific treatise if it were set before him) is rather prone to forget the scientific aspects of polar exploration. Sir Ernest Shackleton yields, perhaps too far, to this consideration.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p683 N 27 ’19 1250w
SHACKLETON, ROBERT. Book of Chicago. il *$3.50 Penn 917.7
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“To Chicago goes Mr Shackleton, after having exhausted New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. The Art institute, the clubs, the theatres, the elevated, the freight subway and the river all come in for his inspection, and Mr Shackleton has apparently gone over, under, around and through Chicago with a thoroughness that not many of its citizens would care to duplicate. Anon, he varies a charming style by telling stories, and by gallant attempts to rake up some worth-while poetry that has been written concerning the city.”—Boston Transcript