“Attractive for its personal or literary quality. Sir Ian evidently became highly popular at the Japanese headquarters, and obtained much technical information not generally accessible. His ‘Scrapbook’ is not only valuable for this reason, but delightful for the personality of the writer.”
+ + Nation. 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 330w.
“The author gives almost no dates. His is a good book by a good observer. Even if one is tired of war, he can read this with interest.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 87. F. 10, ’06. 1100w.
“Sir Ian will often amuse his readers, he will certainly startle them, and he will occasionally instruct them. So we welcome a very readable volume. There is in fact a fatal want of ballast about the book.”
+ + – Sat. R. 100: 752. D. 9, ’05. 1320w.
“We might indeed search the whole army through without finding such a combination of qualities as this distinguished General brings to the making of his book. Not only is he a soldier revelling, as some old pagan hero would revel, in the grand game of war, but he is poet, humorist, sentimentalist, and descriptive writer as well. The result is that his scrapbook, most fitly so called, is a delightful medley of grave and of gay, of pleasing sentiment and excellent good sense.”
+ + Spec. 95: 1124. D. 30, ’05. 2170w.
Hammond, Harold. Further fortunes of Pinkey Perkins. †$1.50. Century.
Recollections of a real live healthy boyhood in a country town must lie behind these stories of boy fun and boy ingenuity; for Pinkey Perkins is as full of wholesome mischief in this story as he was in the earlier volume which bears his name and his experiences as his own Santa Claus, as a philanthropist, a visitor at the County fair, or midnight adventurer, will not hurt the boy of to-day and will bring a reminiscent chuckle to the boy of yesterday.