Mighels, Philip Verrill. Chatwit, the man-talk bird; il. by the author. †$1.50. Harper.
“The book purports to tell the tale of a talking magpie, ‘whose loosened tongue and human inclinations gat wrath in the breasts of the West-land animals,’ and of course that wrath engendered ten thousand woes, and sent many souls of brave birds and animals across the Styx before their natural time.”—Nation.
“Rather different from the ordinary animal story.”
+ Critic. 48: 573. Je. ’06. 40w.
“We should hardly be willing to put the present volume in the hands of a child without impressing upon his mind emphatically the fact that real birds and animals never, never act as here represented.”
+ – Nation. 82: 300. Ap. 12, ’06. 170w.
“Children will find it captivating.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 270. Ap. 28, ’06. 720w.
Mighels, Philip Verrill. Crystal sceptre. †$1.50. Harper.