“Mr. Oliver’s book seems to us the most brilliant piece of political biography which has appeared in England for many years. A clear and vigorous style, wit, urbanity, a high sense of the picturesque, and a remarkable power of character-drawing raise much of it to the rank of a literary masterpiece.”
+ + – Spec. 97: 58. Jl. 14, ’06. 2040w.
Olmsted, Stanley, Nonchalante. †$1.25. Holt.
Student life, especially the life of two American students in a German university town, is cleverly handled in this story, and the nonchalant heroine, with musical aspirations, is well suited to her surroundings. The book presents a phase, a passing episode, interesting and amusing, but superficial in that it deals with that frivolous side of things which is so typical of student days. The cafés, the theatres, the bleak boarding houses are well drawn, and poor Fraulein Mittelini’s tragic struggle for fame is really worthy of sympathy.
“The author has succeeded ... in giving [the heroine] some genuine fascination. The style is too obviously imitative of that of Mr. James.”
+ – Critic. 48: 476. My. ’06. 50w.
“The grip of the book is the grip of Miss Bilton—but it is entertaining even when she is off the stage.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 287. My. 5, ’06. 540w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 160w. – R. of Rs. 33: 758. Je. ’06. 100w.
Oman, Charles William Chadwick. Inaugural lecture on the study of history delivered on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 1906. *35c. Oxford.