“Mr. Scott has taken imaginative possession of the cool, pinegrown, history-haunted Canadian country, and has sung of it in spare athletic verse. His poetic background is not of the broadest, his ‘criticism of life’ not perhaps of the deepest, but he rarely fails to give his reader that delicious shock of surprise of strange and vivid beauty that is the final test of Poetry as distinguished from poetry.”—Nation.
“Includes several pieces in somewhat ruder measures than are acceptable to a sensitive ear, but contains also a few poems as good as any that the author has previously published.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 370w.
“Are pieces of a keen poetic tang.”
+ Nation. 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 80w. N. Y. Times. 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 100w.
Scott, Eva. King in exile: the wanderings of Charles II. from June, 1646 to July, 1654. *$3.50. Dutton.
“A thoroughly workmanlike piece of writing.” V.
+ + + Eng. Hist. R. 21: 828. O. ’06. 150w.
Scott, John Reed. [Colonel of the Red huzzars.] †$1.50. Lippincott.