Keon, Grace. “Not a judgment—.” $1.25. Benziger.
Mollie, a mad-cap girl of the slums, whose brother is a murderer and whose mother is a broken-down old woman, resolves that she will be thru her own efforts “not a judgment, but a blessing.” The story of her struggles, her true nobility which conquers against heavy odds, and her final happiness is the story of the book; while contrasted with her life is that of the pampered daughter of wealth and society who finds her happiness in loving service as a Roman Catholic religious.
Ker, William Paton. Essays on mediaeval literature. *$1.60. Macmillan.
Seven studies which treat the following subjects: “The earlier history of English prose,” “Historical notes on the similes of Dante,” “Boccaccio,” “Chaucer,” “Gower,” “Froissart,” and “Gaston Paris.”
“The seven studies ... have a cumulative value not often to be found in a short volume of essays. The comparative study of mediaeval literature has too few devotees in this country. We are fortunate in having one so learned and sympathetic as Mr. Ker.”
+ + Lond. Times. 4: 465. D. 29, ’05. 1520w.
“The author has, in addition to an unusually thorough acquaintance with the themes discussed, a knack of viewing old subjects from a new angle and looking through petty details at the great principles behind them, which, coupled with a graceful style, makes the ‘Essays’ not only attractive and valuable to the layman, but instructive even to the specialist.”
+ + Nation. 81: 362. N. 2, ’05. 390w. N. Y. Times. 10: 680. O. 14, ’05. 160w.
“Six essays which better deserve reproduction and a common title-page than many such collectanea.”