“To journey through this romantic region with such accomplished guides is indeed a privilege.”
+ Dial. 41: 244. O. 16, ’06. 360w. + Ind. 61: 754. S. 27, ’06. 120w.
“The text is agreeably written, and the pictures ... are sober, truthful, and sufficiently able, and are without any of those extravagances of color that have grown, of late, somewhat too familiar.”
+ + Nation. 83: 241. S. 20, ’06. 80w. N. Y. Times. 11: 425. Je. 30, ’06. 280w. N. Y. Times. 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 420w. + R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 110w.
Bell, Ralcy Husted. Words of the woods. **$1. Small.
Verse, “ranging from patriotic addresses to our country, through appreciation of nature in many moods, and eulogiums of friends, to impassioned love-songs.” (Outlook.)
“Conventional verse of a rather commonplace kind, devoid of anything like originality and not noticeably felicitous in diction.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + Dial. 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 240w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 290w.
“An impression is left upon the mind that prudent pruning would have made the volume smaller and saved the reader from occasional commonplaces both in thought and phrase.”