“The author of ‘My Mamie Rose,’ Mr. Owen Kildare, has given us a picture of the Bowery ‘bum’ in this volume of stories and sketches.” (Ind.) He says “Beds, bunks, cots ... can be had on the Bowery for as little as 5 cents a night, and because there are men who have lost the faculty of earning, begging or even borrowing that sum, a nocturnal procession of over 10,000 parade in our streets, winter and summer, from midnight until dawn.” He speaks well of the work of the Young men’s Christian association but finds little that is acceptable in the “spectacular methods of the Salvation army” and the “mission workers.”
“He has intertwined comment and description, so that one not only gets a vivid idea of the ‘bum’ and the reason for his continuing a ‘has-been,’ but also an understanding of the difficulties encountered in endeavoring to raise him out of the mire and the futility of the efforts some agencies are making toward that end.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1360. Je. 6, ’07. 240w. |
“The most impressive idea one gets from his book is, perhaps, that of a vast amount of wasted time, effort, money and good intentions on the part of those who wish to do something for the region of which he writes.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 360w. |
* Kimball, George Selwyn. Lackawannas at Moosehead; or, The young leather stockings. il. *$1.25. Ball pub.
7–37270.
A nature book in the form of an account of the adventure of a party of college boys with two guides who hunt, fish, camp and study the secrets of woodcraft.
King, Cardenio Flournoy, jr. Boy’s vacation abroad: an American boy’s diary of his first trip to Europe. $1.50. Clark.