“It is a popular work of a most excellent sort—the sort that is calculated to instruct rather than merely to interest or amuse, and in which the instruction is given in such plain and simple terms that it can be understood by the non-technical reader. On the whole the book is one which we can heartily recommend to American purchasers.”
+ + Engin. N. 56: 52. Jl. 12, ’06. 480w.
“A book which will do much, it is probable, to make the layman take a more intelligent interest in this the latest and most striking development of the skill of the mechanical engineer.”
+ + Nature. 75: 53. N. 15, ’06. 380w. N. Y. Times. 11: 443. Jl. 7, ’06. 270w.
Garrett, John Henry. Idyllic Avon: being a simple description of the Avon from Tewkesbury to above Stratford-on-Avon; with songs and pictures of the river and its neighborhood. **$3. Putnam.
A fifty mile pilgrimage which the author and some companions made up Shakespeare’s Avon. “With songs and anecdotes and riverside pictures, John Henry Garrett has written a half-personal, half-historical volume to show that the Avon has other personalities than that of Shakespeare, other towns of interest than Stratford.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is pathetic that a man who can make such good pictures and write pretty good prose should be tempted into making such very bad verse.” Anna Benneson McMahan.
+ + – Dial. 41: 201. O. 1, ’06. 180w.
“Will be a valuable guide for anyone who wishes to follow his steps.”