A selection from Minnesong sufficiently varied and extensive to illustrate roughly the nature and range of the art, indicating the main lines of its development.
“On the whole, we have real admiration for the manner in which Mr. Nicholson has carried out his difficult task, and are confident that his book will prove a stimulus to the study of the subject.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 158. F. 9. 1170w. | |
| Dial. 43: 314. N. 16, ’07. 60w. |
“Mr. Nicholson’s book is the first attempt to deal with the Minnesang as a whole, and to give to English readers specimens of the poetry of all its more conspicuous masters. For this task he is in many ways exceedingly well equipped; his work is evidently a labour of love, and he has prepared for it by a very close and intelligent study of his subject.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 237. Ag. 2, ’07. 2100w. |
Nicholson, Meredith. [Port of missing men.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
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A stirring drama which involves the throne of Austria is here enacted among the Virginia hills just outside of Washington. The love story of the truly American heroine who, in spite of herself, follows her heart against her reason, and of the hero, heir to much Austrian greatness, who does his country service and then renounces all for the democratic life of an American, in itself holds the reader enthralled. But there are added to it many other interesting characters and some scenes of war and strategy, which will endear the book to lovers of adventure. The plot is well devised, the romance pretty, the encounters of both sword and word are clever; in all the story is a worthy successor to “House of a thousand candles.”