“While he sees temple and landscape with something of a painter’s vision, his style is too self-conscious and aesthetic to be a source of pleasure.”
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Edwards, Tryon. Our country; historic and picturesque. $4. Perrien-Keydel co., Detroit, Mich.
A complete story of our country’s development and progress from the first discovery by the Northmen to the present time, embellished by many hundreds of engravings illustrative of war and historic incidents and the grandeur of American scenery.
Egan, Maurice Francis. Ghost in Hamlet, and other essays in comparative literature. **$1. McClurg.
There are ten essays in this volume. The ghost in Hamlet, Some phases of Shakespearian Interpretation, Some pedagogical uses of Shakespeare, Lyrism in Shakespeare’s comedies, The puzzle of Hamlet, The greatest of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Imitators of Shakespeare, The comparative method in literature, A definition of literature, and The ebb and flow of romance.
“He has a felicitous knack of presenting in an original manner, established judgments of first-class criticism. And he has the gift of the born teacher, which is to know how to present his ideas luminously to his readers and his audience. This excellent little volume is replete with suggestion and information for those who, without some commentator, are not always equipped to extract a full share of profit and pleasure from the mines of literature.”
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“Is a book of real vitality. Dr. Egan’s style ... is not quite worthy of his theme.”