“If this book, considered from a literary point of view, is not so attractive as Mr Street’s well-known ‘Ghosts of Piccadilly,’ it is an excellent piece of that anecdotic antiquarianism which keeps one sitting in an armchair turning over just one more page long after one ought to be in bed.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p664 O 14 ’20 1350w
DAVID, CHARLES WENDELL.[[2]] Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy. *$3 Harvard univ. press
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“The eldest son of William the Conqueror, cheated of a kingdom by his more aggressive brothers, defeated in battle, deprived of his duchy, and condemned to perpetual imprisonment, would hardly be selected as one of the heroic figures of French history. The reason for this monograph is not so much the personality of its subject as the fact that he was associated in his lifetime with great names and great events. Dr David has attempted in this study of Duke Robert’s career to set him in his true relation to the history of Normandy and England and of the First crusade.”—R of Rs
“An admirable index completes a remarkable study of a period of early English history seldom discussed.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ja 5 ’21 780w R of Rs 63:111 Ja ’21 100w
DAVIES, ELLEN CHIVERS. Boy in Serbia. il *$1.50 (5c) Crowell 914.97
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