Sandys, John Edwin. Harvard lectures on the revival of learning. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“As a book they are pleasing but slight, though there is enough that is new and interesting to give the reader confidence in the future.” P. S. A.
+ Eng. Hist. R. 21: 200. Ja. ’06. 340w.
Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson). Fairest girlhood. **$1.50. Revell.
With a heart full of affection for them, Mrs. Sangster has written once more a book for girls, for all sorts and conditions of girls, and it contains helpful little talks upon; The new Penelope, The old-fashioned schoolgirl, A liberal education, Health and beauty, The dreamy girl, Our restless girls, Love’s dawn, Home-keeping hearts, Heroines, Days of illness, The motherless girl, Friends and comrades, Christian service, and kindred subjects.
“Mrs. Sangster is a modern woman, and therefore has a strong sympathy for the modern girl and a real understanding of her needs and aspirations as well as of her possible limitations.”
+ Dial. 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“While it is throughout sane and practical, every one of its two dozen short essays is full of the spirit of that aspiration toward ideal femininity which was always the dominating characteristic of Mrs. Sangster’s literary work.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 90w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 80w.