+ – Outlook. 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 220w. R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 50w.
Carpenter, Edmund Janes. Long ago in Greece: a book of golden hours with the old story tellers. $1.50. Little.
The atmosphere and literary excellence of the old Greek tales are preserved in these twenty and more simplified stories. Among them are Homer’s “Battle of the frogs and mice,” a portion of Aristophanes’ “Birds,” the wooing of Pelops, the tale of Hero and Leander, Ovid’s version of Narcissus and his shadow, Hesiod’s account of Pandora’s curiosity, and Pindar’s sketch of Thetis and many others.
Ind. 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 60w.
“It has the particular merit that it follows the originals very closely and preserves something of the atmosphere as well as the subject matter of the famous old stories that it presents.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 70w.
“They are retold simply and in every way made attractive to the youthful reader.”
+ Outlook. 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 60w.
Carpenter, Edward. Days with Walt Whitman. $1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Carpenter, an English gentleman, made the poet’s acquaintance in the sixties through his writings; but met him only in 1877. Seven years later they met again. The notes made by the disciple were written out carefully, and have been published in an English magazine, but now only in book form.... The book has a chapter on Whitman as a prophet, one on the poetic form of ‘Leaves of grass,’ and another, and by no means the least interesting, on Whitman and Emerson. The new volume should please the ever-widening circle of lovers of the ‘Good gray poet.’”—N. Y. Times.