“The book is valuable as a summary of governmental labor policies during the war, as a record of the achievements of labor and the effect of autocratic control on the wage earner and the consumer.” J. D. Hackett
+ Survey 45:287 N 20 ’20 280w
WARREN, ARTHUR. London days. *$2.50 (3c) Little
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This book of reminiscences begins in 1878, when the author, fresh from Boston, arrived in London at the age of eighteen. He made the choice because “history already made and rounded and woven into legend, the scenes among which men have lived and wrought through centuries, shaping the rich past on which we build the present” fascinated him more than the prospect of pioneering in the West. The period covers nineteen years of Journalism, nine of them as correspondent for the Boston Herald, and combines with memories and impressions of London those of celebrated personages. Contents: First glimpses of London; London in the late seventies; A Norman interlude; I take the plunge; Browning and Moscheles; Patti; John Stuart Blackie; Lord Kelvin; Tennyson; Gladstone; Whistler; Henry Drummond; Sir Henry Irving; Henry M. Stanley; George Meredith; Parnell; “Le brav’ général” (Boulanger); Index.
+ Booklist 17:154 Ja ’21
Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun
Bookm 52:346 D ’20 20w
“As journalism the writing is good; it does not assume to be more. Gossipy, wholesome, harmless, never profound, but lighted up here and there by almost poetic touches of admiration and of reverence, these reminiscences should well suit those who desire an easy introduction to the charm of biography.”