“Where Mr. Gosse fails in his estimate is in not sufficiently recognizing the essentially poetic quality of Browne’s work, apart from mere form or style. The absence of a bibliography is the grievous fault this book shares with the other volumes of the same series.”
+ – Dial. 40: 237. Ap. 1, ’06. 350w.
“Is not particularly interesting.”
+ – Ind. 60: 1491. Je. 21, ’06. 220w.
“It presents its subject in so attractive a light that one who has never read Sir Thomas Browne’s books will turn to them with eager interest, and one already acquainted with them will reread them with a new zest.” Horatio S. Kranz.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 4. Ja. 6, ’06. 2820w.
Gougar, Mrs. Helen Mar Jackson. Forty thousand miles of world wandering. $3. Helen M. Gougar, Lafayette, Ind.
The author’s recent tour of the world has furnished a wealth of travel material out of which she has constructed with great accuracy an informing, popular work of interest to the traveler who has covered the ground no less than the stay-at-home book tourist. The present-day phases of life and institutions appeal to her rather than the dead and buried aspects. In keeping with the heavy paper, clear type and handsome binding are numerous fine illustrations.
“This volume will not prove disappointing, and we can heartily and conscientiously recommend it to our readers.”