“A very curious mingling of pieces.”

+ −Acad. 70: 374. Ap. 21, ’06. 1340w.
Cath. World. 84: 558. Ja. ’07. 230w.

Maeterlinck, Maurice. Measure of the hours; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.40. Dodd.

7–15583.

Some new essays and others lately appearing in magazines are included among the twelve of this group. The collection “is somewhat heterogeneous, and ranges over questions of morality, social duty, literary appreciation, scenery and popular science.” (Nation.)


“A book of fragments, not all of equal value.”

+ −Ath. 1907, 1: 466. Ap. 20. 1150w.

“All of them are admirably translated, so far as one may judge without comparing the French, by Mr. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, and many of them offer something novel and worthy of more than a moment’s pondering.”

+ −Dial. 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 250w.