+ Nation. 82: 534. Je. 28, ’06. 1130w.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Friendship and character. $1. Century.
The value of this “Thumbnail” offering is increased by Emma Lazarus’s essay on Emerson’s personality which forms the introduction.
Emerson, Willis George. Builders. $1.50. Forbes.
A young New York newspaper man is sent out west by his managing editor to write a series of sane minded articles on the futility of western investments which will keep eastern money at home. He, however, catches the western fever, invests in lots in an unbuilt city, loses his position by his enthusiastic reports, and finally stakes his all upon a gold mine which to the surprise of everyone “strikes pay dirt.” There is of course, a western girl in the story and there are other characters chiefly prospectors, western in type and of mingled good and evil. The plot of the story is superior to its workmanship.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
“Yet for all the crudeness of the story and the people there’s a sort of romantic quality about Mr. Emerson’s book which tempts the reader on from page to page.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 472. Jl. 28, ’06. 650w.
Empire and the century: a series of essays on imperial problems and possibilities, by various writers. **$6. Dutton.