“He has experiences to recount which we do not expect to find outside the boy’s adventure book. He writes admirably and picturesquely, notwithstanding his reminder that he knows more of the rifle than the pen.”
| + | Sat. R. 100: sup. 10. O. 14, ’05. 320w. |
“No book of the kind we have come across for long so decidedly merits reading.”
| + + | Spec. 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 180w. |
MacDonald, Frederick W. In a nook with a book. *$1. Scribner.
7–24202.
“Mr. Macdonald’s eighteen short chapters touch on all sorts of themes dear to bibliophiles.... While he writes understandingly of the church fathers and historians, and of the Anglican divines, from Latimer and Jewell to Mozley and Liddon, this ministerial book-lover can also gossip about Pepys and Mrs. Piozzi and Charles Lamb, and is even caught quoting, with admirable effect, from Eugene Field’s ‘Bibliomaniac’s prayer.’”—Dial.
“It is clear that, like some divines of an older period, he belongs both to literature and religion.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 45. Ja. 12. 340w. |