+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 140w.
“This book should be in every public library. It is filled with inspiring, beautiful, pathetic, and humorous stories of the man who gave his life, daily, for his country. The pictures, by Jay Hambridge and others, are usually adequate and artistic.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 580. N. 3, ’06. 250w.
Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.). Key of the blue closet, a volume of clever essays on life and conduct, men, books and affairs. **$1.40. Dodd.
Thirty essays stimulated largely by personal recollections include such themes as “Never chew your pills,” “Swelled heads,” “In the world of Jane Austen,” “The art of packing,” “The tragedy of first numbers,” and “The key of the blue closet.”
“His literary gift can clothe the commonplace with attractiveness and invest familiar things with a new interest.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
“It is this talent for noting immediately, and remembering the little interesting bits of information about persons and things ... that has enabled him to place before us this collection of observations against which at least the fault of dullness can never be brought.” Elizabeth Banks.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 285. My. 5, ’06. 1170w.