| + | R. of Rs. 36: 758. D. ’07. 40w. |
“We question whether the child himself will be interested in Clifton Johnson’s one hundred photographs of child-life in New England, which strung together with voluminous text, is published as the ‘Farmer’s boy.’ But grown-up readers will find these photographs, even if just a bit posed faithful pictures of ‘Childhood’s simple life.’”
| − + | R. of Rs. 36: 767. D. ’07. 60w. |
Johnson, Clifton. Highways and byways of the Mississippi valley. **$2. Macmillan.
6–40988.
An addition to the “Highways and byways” series. The journey from the mouth of the Mississippi to its headwaters carefully avoids the usual highways of travel. The author-traveler “haunts the country roads, lodges with the farmers, studies life in the negro cabins, wins the confidence of the common people, and gets them to talk of their lives and toil and their aspirations, if they have any, and out of the humdrum he garners what is quaint, characteristic, and little known.” (N. Y. Times.) His illustrations are made from snap shots taken along the way.
“The treatment is popular, does not furnish a great deal of information, but presents a vivid and faithful picture.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 10. Ja. ’07. S. |
“Is a book of social studies rather than a technical work.”