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Hewitt, Emma Churchman. Ease in conversation; or, Hints to the ungrammatical. 5th ed. 50c. Jacobs.
7–29161.
A practical little volume for the ungrammatical and for the timid talker devoted to a study of the correct forms of English used in conversation. The errors are of the “genteel” rather than the “vulgar” sort and are discussed in a series of letters written to a group of girls bent upon improving their conversation.
Hewlett, Maurice H. Stooping lady; front. by Harrison Fisher. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–30839.
“‘The stooping lady’ carries us back something less than a hundred years, to the days just preceding the regency in England.... Here the historical background is largely a matter of externals of dress and manner; the spirit is modern enough to require no great backward leap of the imagination.” (Forum.) The story has a London setting and deals with a proud Irish girl who “stoops” to one beneath her in station, but to one whose, “clean fine manhood has taught her to respect and honor him.” (Bookm.)
“We know of no book of Mr. Hewlett’s that is more vivid, more graphic or more engrossing. We delight in his style, his similes, his brilliant flashes of humour, and occasionally in the glimpse we have of the Satyric horns, with which we have become so intimate in, say, ‘The forest lovers,’ or ‘Pan and the young shepherd.’”
| + | Acad. 73: sup. 115. N. 9, ’07. 800w. |