Ambler, Sara Ellmaker. Dear old home. †$1.50. Little.
A happy wholesome story for young boys and girls. Two city children spend the summer with their grandmother in an Amish settlement of Pennsylvania. The story records the pranks and sports of these youngsters aided by two Pennsylvania Dutch children.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 735. N. 10. ’06. 80w.
Amelung, Walter, and Holtzinger, Heinrich. Museums and ruins of Rome; ed. by Mrs. S. Arthur Strong. 2v. *$3. Dutton.
Each of these volumes gives a “synthetic and comprehensive view” of the subject with which it deals. “The plan of the work is very simple. Beginning with the Vatican, the student is taken through the papal collections, the municipal collections, and the national collections, the text describing and characterizing the masterpieces, with sufficient biographical data relating to the sculptors, with succinct but clear accounts of the character of the work, and descriptions which enable the reader to fasten his attention on special characteristics with the enforcement of a profusion of illustrations.” (Outlook.) A short bibliography prefaces each volume.
“Altogether, these little books are without their match, and no one should go to Rome without them.”
+ + Acad. 70: 294. Mr. 24, ’06. 290w.
“This manual, however, is not calculated to please the ordinary visitor to Rome, nor the student of Roman antiquities in general, on account of its bias in favour of one class of specialists.”