“A highly creditable piece of work, a book for an hour’s light reading, with a day’s extent of deeper meanings and shades for those who care to seek for them.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 300w.
“These winter’s tales ... make a very comfortable sort of book for a meditative hour.”
+ + Reader. 7: 567. Ap. ’06. 420w.
Smith, Frank Berkeley. In London town. **$1.50. Funk.
“A passing glance in the crowd—the impressions which might have been gained by any traveller who crossed the Channel, hired a hansom at Charing Cross, and lost himself in the throng.” Mr. Smith’s observations are of the impressionistic order, and they flash from his pen and brush in gay procession; a peep into the hotels, theatres and music halls, Piccadilly by night and day—in truth all phases of life in the great British maelstrom make up the rapidly flitting panoramic view.
“Just as breathless, sparkling, superficial, and amusing as his Parisian sketches.”
+ Dial. 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 200w. + Lit. D. 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 130w.
“A book notable for sprightliness.”