+ + + R. of Rs. 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 220w.
Reagan, John Henninger. Memoirs with special reference to secession and the Civil war. $3. Neale.
By offering his memoirs to the public Judge Reagan is but discharging what he believes to be a duty to brave, self-sacrificing and patriotic people. His growth along the lines of rugged self-dependence has made him an honest, unprejudiced interpreter. He hopes by example to stimulate young readers to honorable aspirations, and further to show by authentic documents, Confederate and Federal, the justice of the cause of the late Confederate states.
R. of Rs. 34: 756. D. ’06. 210w.
Reddall, Henry Frederic (Frederic Reddale, pseud.). Wit and humor of the physician, a collection from various sources classified under appropriate subject headings. **50c. Jacobs.
Anecdotes, jokes and jingles concerning the profession of medicine. Such things as a doctor and his friends would enjoy, after dinner stories which would bear fruit in “that reminds me.” They are classified under such headings as: Some neat replies, The ignorant patient, Peculiar cases, Strange situations and Hospital anecdotes.
Redesdale of Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st baron. Garter mission to Japan. $1.75. Macmillan.
In passing from the Old Japan which filled the author’s “Tales” fifty years ago to the New Japan of the present volume the author says: “As for me, when I see these things I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I have been asleep and centuries have passed over my head.” The record deals principally with the chief object of the expedition which was that of carrying the insignia of a Knight of the garter to the Emperor of Japan. “To live as a youth in feudal Japan and to gather up the lore about tycoons, ronins, etc., and of gods, men and things which have utterly vanished, and then again in life’s afternoon and as a king’s envoy, to enter the same land when panoplied in modern steel and machinery, is a rare privilege.” (Ind.)