“Good workmanship and entertaining qualities are happily combined.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 290w.
Mother Goose: her book, with pictures by Harry L. Smith. [+]75c. Duffield.
All the old rhymes which delight the nursery of today just as they delighted the nurseries of long ago are to be found unchanged in this comfortable volume in the new, tho not too modern, dress which Harry L. Smith has designed for them.
Mott, Lawrence. [Jules of the great heart], “free” trapper and outlaw in the Hudson bay region in the early days. †$1.50. Century.
“We could readily spare much of the tiresome patois.”
+ – Acad. 69: 1335. D. 23, ’05. 220w. + Ath. 1905, 2: 889. D. 30. 360w.
“Stands out prominently among the books of the month.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
+ + Bookm. 22: 634. F. ’06. 230w.
“It is strong, imaginative, and picturesque, and as the first work of a very young writer deserves to be specially noted. The dialect ... is about the thorniest we have ever had to cope withal, and is likely to discourage many readers.”