“Coulson Kernahan, though he may be perfectly sincere, has pitched his song of woe in a false key.”
– N. Y. Times. 10: 730. O. 28, ’05. 90w. Pub. Opin. 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 130w.
Kester, Vaughan. [Fortunes of the Landrays.] †$1.50. McClure.
“The author does not so much give the impression of a trained writer as of a person with a story to tell and some first-hand knowledge of the places and people he describes.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 270. S. 8. 110w.
Kidd, Dudley. Savage childhood: a study of Kafir children; with 32 full-page il. from the photographs by the author. $3.50. Macmillan.
Herbert Spencer’s notion that man’s first duty is to become a good animal finds expression in the untrained, unconditioned state which is best illustrated in the savage child. Mr. Kidd pictures these untrammeled children at their innocent amusements, and as practices conducive to robustness are traditional among the Kafir people, the children are splendid types of physical development. The blighting tendencies of indolence, sensuality and vanity are later manifestations which only education can hope to avert.
“Mr. Dudley Kidd has written a most charming and instructive book about the children whom he found in the Kafir kraals. Every line of it is full of interest.”