| + | Outlook. 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 180w. |
* Marble, Annie Russell. Heralds of American literature: a group of patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
The aim of this book is to recount in detailed study, and largely from original sources, the lives and services of a group of typical writers during the pioneer days of national growth, who revealed the standards and aspirations of their time, and who announced the dawn of a national literature, although their own products were often immature and crude. The group includes Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Philip Freneau, John Trumbull, a group of Hartford wits, Joseph Dennie, William Dunlap and Charles Brockden Brown.
Marchmont, Arthur Williams. [By wit of woman.] †$1.50. Stokes.
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“Given the ingredients of the girl, the prince, the kingdom-in-the-mountains, garnished with palaces, gold-laced officials, and highly spiced with an unprincipled lady spy, one can stir together a romantic pudding that is sure to appeal to the average appetite.... The author ... has sought to do nothing more than to turn out precisely such a readable yarn.”—N. Y. Times.
“A novel devoid of evidence of artistic ambition.”
| − | Ath. 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 150w. |
“Obviously one need claim nothing strikingly new for the book.”