| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 690w. |
“The personal tone is so strenuously evident throughout that it becomes wearisome. The book is ingenuously written.”
| − | Outlook. 85: 95. Ja. 12, ’07. 290w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 80w. |
Bates, Arlo. [Talks on teaching literature] **$1.30. Houghton.
6–37886.
“Talks founded on lectures delivered before the Summer school of the University of Illinois in 1905. Concerns the problems, conditions, and some difficulties of the subject, the inspirational use of literature, the study of prose and of the novel, criticism, literary workmanship, literary biography, and voluntary reading.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 6. Ja. ’07. |
“It is a very interesting and suggestive book, and we particularly recommend to the teachers into whose hands it falls the chapter which tells how Blake’s ‘Tiger’ was brought by the author within the comprehension of a boy of eight. We have rarely seen as sensible a book upon the subject with which it deals.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 90w. |