Wells, Carolyn. Dorrance doings; il. †$1.50. Wilde.
Another chapter in the lives of the wide-awake Dorrances which is really a sequel to the “Dorrance domain.” The inventive ability of the quartette and their energy in executing have suffered no diminution since they first made their bow to young readers.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 120w.
“Written in a rather perfunctory manner—lacking in charm and freshness.”
– + Outlook. 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
Wells, Carolyn. Whimsey anthology. **$1.25. Scribner.
“A whimsey, Miss Wells explains, is ‘a whim, a freak, a capricious notion, an odd device.’ Her new book contains nearly 300 selections from the poets old and new.... Here we have famous wheezes touching the eccentricities of the English language, typographical frenzies in which the compositor shapes the poem as nearly as possible like the object it treats of.... Alphabetical nonsense ... acrostics and lipograms, alliterative efforts, enigmas and charades, macaronic poetry, travesties, certomes, (which are made up of assorted lines from divers poems,) and palindromes are here in rich profusion.”—N. Y. Times.
+ Ind. 61: 756. S. 27, ’06. 410w. + + N. Y. Times. 11: 580. S. 22, ’06. 740w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 810. D. 1, 06. 140w. + Outlook. 84: 338. O. 6. ’06. 50w. World To-Day. 11: 1221. N. ’06. 50w.