+ R. of Rs. 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 60w.
“His book is a very agreeable excursion into a forgotten but curious field of enquiry.”
+ Spec. 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 470w.
Phythian, J. Ernest. Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood; a short biographical sketch by the author, and 56 full-page reproductions in hf.-tone and a photogravure front. *$1.25. Warne.
The latest issue in the “Newnes’ art library” “deals in a large way with the group of men among whom Dante Gabriel Rossetti made so distinct a name. The author covers his ground by chronicling the history of the movement with little or no personal comment.” (Critic.)
“Writes with a sober accuracy.” Ford Madox Hueffer.
+ Acad. 69: 1296. D. 9, ’05. 110w. Critic. 48: 377. Ap. ’06. 60w. Dial. 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 90w. N. Y. Times. 11: 245. Ap. 14, ’06. 330w.
Pickthall, Marmaduke. House of Islam. †$1.50. Appleton.
“An imaginative picture of the curious Mohammedan world on the fringe of the Sultan’s domain.... The benighted, barbaric, yet intensely human, house of Islam.... Mr. Pickthall’s plan has been to set a saintly, almost Biblical Sheykh in the midst of ambitious men, relying upon the vividness of this presentation and the conflict of character for the interest of his work. Plot there is, but it is unsymmetrical, unimportant. The important thing is that all the machinery of the East is set in motion and for a while the reader is transported to the desert and the mosque, to the wineshop and the bazar.”—Lond. Times.