Fitzgerald, Sybil. In the track of the Moors. *$6. Dutton.
“Ranging over wide fields of knowledge, it betrays ignorance which should have deterred the writer ... from venturing anywhere near them. Solecisms are sown so thickly that the charitable supposition of printer’s errors cannot cover half the sins. Nevertheless, the writer has observed many things truly, and said some things well.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 46. F. 9, ’06. 590w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 170w.
Fitzmaurice, Edmond George Petty. Life of Granville. 2v. $10. Longmans.
“In every way very competent for it, the biographer has done his work sympathetically.”
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 666. Ap. ’06. 2350w. Blackwood’s M. 178: 792. D. ’05. 6660w.
“This is not only an interesting and readable book, but, as indeed was to be expected, a permanently valuable contribution to our political history.” Augustine Birrell.
+ + + Contemporary R. 88: 769. D. ’05. 6100w.
“It is not, I may add, too political for the reading of any American who loves to read of the history of his own time in England written so absolutely from the inside as is this.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ Critic. 48: 354. Ap. ’06. 1210w.