“If these two portly volumes cannot lay claim to full equality of style and political insight to John Morley’s monumental work on Gladstone, among the lives of the statesmen of the Victorian era, they may be ranked second, with Charles Stuart Parker’s ‘Sir Robert Peel’ forming a close third.”
+ + Ind. 60: 741. Mr. 24, ’06. 1090w.
“A work of immense importance in its bearing upon the history of England from 1850 to 1890.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 120w.
“The biographer has done his work well. American readers will find amusement as well as instruction in this excellent biography.”
+ + Nation. 82: 224. Mr. 15, ’06. 2090w.
Flammarion, Nicolas Camille. Thunder and lightning; tr. by Walter Mostyn. **$1.25. Little.
An abridged form of the French work discussing the victim of lightning, atmospheric electricity, the flash and the sound; giving the effect of lightning on mankind, animals, trees and plants, metals, objects, houses, etc.; showing the curious freaks of fireballs, and concluding with a chapter on pictures made by lightning.
“The translation is exceedingly well done, and we have noticed but one mistake.”