“A fine book because its author has high ideals and has lived with and learned to love the master-minds of literature.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 494. Ap. 21, ’06. 1100w.
“The truth is that Professor Collins’s doctrine turns out, if it is followed to its logical conclusion, to be a fatally narrow one.”
+ – Spec. 97: 93. Jl. 21, ’06. 1870w.
Colson, Elizabeth, and Chittenden, Anna Gansevoort, comps. Children’s letters: a collection of letters written to children by famous men and women. $1. Hinds.
As different in tone and individuality are these letters as the characteristics and moods of the long list of contributors. Among the letter-writers selected are Holmes, Whittier, Lincoln, Phillips Brooks, Martin Luther, Sidney Smith, Longfellow, Stevenson, Scott, Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen and many others.
N. Y. Times. 11: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w.
“The compilers ... have performed their tasks of selection and explanation with good judgment and sympathy.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 41. Ja. 20, ’06. 2030w.