Williams, Rebecca R. (“Riddell,” pseud.). Fireside fancies. *75c. Jenkins.
A poem in which the author’s fancy recalls a sequence of brave deeds long past and weaves them into verse at his own fireside.
Williams, Sarah Stone (Hester E. Shipley). Man from London town. $1.50. Neale.
There was a man from London town, and in this modern version of the old rhyme, having scratched out both his eyes as the result of an unfortunate love affair he becomes a cynic, is bored with life and loving. But at last he realizes that his eyes are out thru the influence of a young widow of high ideals and a charming personality, and she is the cause of his jumping once more into the bramble bush and scratching them in again. Unfortunately the man has become so embittered and, is so lacking in fine feeling that he handles too roughly the thing which gave him light. He is the type of a man whose vision is permanently distorted and even love could not make him see.
Williams, Theodore C. [Elegies of Tibullus.] $1.25. Badger, R. G.
“Of this work the judgment must be that it is a paraphrase rather than a translation, and the frequent felicities in the rendering add to one’s regret at its defects.”
+ – Bookm. 23: 338. My. ’06. 760w.
Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel (Livingston). [Lady Betty across the water.] †$1.50. McClure.
Lady Betty, the naive young sister of an impoverished duke, comes over from England to visit a Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox at Newport. The plans of her hostess for securing the sister of a duke as her brother’s wife are frustrated, and the plans of Betty’s mother of securing an American fortune seem, for a time, endangered by a young man who crosses in the steerage of Betty’s ship and who wins her young affection by heroic deeds before she discovers him to be a millionaire in disguise. The story is light and breezy and is full of social satire.