Patten, Helen Philbrook. Music lovers’ treasury. **$1.20. Estes.
An anthology of poetry, ancient and modern, referring to music and musicians.
“A volume that certainly merits its title.”
+ + Dial. 39: 446. D. 16, ’05. 70w. Ind. 59: 1544. D. 28, ’05. 40w. N. Y. Times. 10: 645. S. 30, ’05. 80w.
“The compiler has generally succeeded in avoiding the merely commonplace or distinctly bad, and the anthology is pleasing.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 275. Ap. 28, ’06. 300w.
Paul, Herbert Woodfield. History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“The value of Mr. Paul’s history lies in its being a convenient record of events or, as we have said, above, an enlarged Annual register. It will be excellent material for the historian of the future, when he comes to deal with the time of which he treats.”
+ + Acad. 69: 1309. D. 16, ’05. 1550w. (Review of v. 4.)