+ Atlan. 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 160w.
“Frenssen tells his story with unique power. He tells it from his own soul. He is a vivisector of his subject’s soul. He probes to the primitive spring of action and of feeling. The style is just the vesture which such truth would seem to demand. It is direct, primitive, and as a rule, bald. It is also live, searching and moving.”
+ + Lit. D. 31: 318. S. 2, ’05. 1070w.
Friedenwald, Herbert. Declaration of independence. **$2. Macmillan.
“Dr. Friedenwald would do well to simplify his style, which is curiously involved.”
+ – Am. Hist. R. 11: 422. Ja. ’06. 1000w.
Friedrich-Friedrich, Emmy von (Emmy von Rhoden, pseud.). Young violinist; tr. from the 12th ed. of the German of Emma von Rhoden, by Mary E. Ireland. $1. Saalfield.
A pathetic story with a happy ending following the hardships and final happiness of Mignon Marconi, who, when her father died had as an only inheritance her beloved violin. She runs away from cruel treatment, is cared for by a band of traveling musicians and finally becomes the adopted daughter of a lady bountiful.
Friswell, Laura Hain. In the sixties and seventies. **$3.50. Turner, H. B.
“A pleasing volume of personal impressions of literary and social people of note.... The author is the daughter of an English essayist and novelist who had agreeable and friendly relations with Thackeray, Cruikshank, Thomas Cooper the Chartist, Kingsley, and other noted men of his generation, while Miss Friswell has many anecdotes of her own acquaintance, Sir Walter Besant, his collaborator, Mr. J. S. Rice, Sir Henry Stanley, William Black, and many writers of our own day.”—Outlook.