+ Boston Transcript p4 N 27 ’20 560w + N Y Times p26 Ja 2 ’21 330w + Outlook 126:558 N 24 ’20 50w
FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES-ANATOLE THIBAULT).[[2]] Seven wives of Bluebeard, and other marvellous tales; a tr. by D. B. Stewart. *$2.50 (5c) Lane
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Four fairy tales, not written for children. In the first Bluebeard is pictured as a shy, modest man, the victim of the extravagance and unfaithfulness of his seven successive wives. The other stories are: The miracle of the great St Nicholas, a satiric treatment of an old legend; The story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin, a version of The sleeping Beauty; and The shirt, the story of the king who was told to find the shirt of a happy man.
“This pleasant and apparently accurate rendering gives us one of the most delightful works of an author who loses relatively little through the process of translation, partly because of the Doric simplicity of his style and partly because of the importance which he attaches to the plot and the intellectual gist.”
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FRANCK, HARRY ALVERSON. Roaming through the West Indies. il *$5 (2c) Century 917.29
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The author says: “The following pages do not pretend to ‘cover’ the West Indies. They are made up of the random pickings of an eight-months’ tour of the Antilles, during which every island of importance was visited, but they are put together rather for the entertainment of the armchair traveler than for the information of the traveler in the flesh.” He also states that he wishes it distinctly understood that this is not the record of a walking trip. As a protest to those friends who ever since his vagabond journey around the world have expected him to travel always on foot he planned a trip on which walking would be difficult if not impossible. The book is in three parts: The American West Indies; The British West Indies; and The French West Indies and others. There are many illustrations and a map.