“It is not at all likely that any manager here would dream of producing anything at once so undramatic and contentious. But as a study of one of the problems in European politics it is both illuminating and interesting.”
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Norris, Mary Harriott. Story of Christina. $1.50. Neale.
7–21537.
A western girl as unconscious of her beauty as of her great wealth practices rigid economy during her four years at an Illinois college. The serenity of her wholly satisfactory life is interrupted by the co-executors of her estate, one a Chicago lawyer who wishes to marry her, the other a New York cousin who plans to take her east to be properly trained by wealthy relatives. She accepts the latter proposition, becomes plastic to the touch of a skilled social artist, is led into an engagement with an English duke, breaks it and weds the man of her old college days who had devoted his life to becoming worthy of her.
Norton, Charles Eliot. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: a sketch of his life, together with Longfellow’s chief autobiographical poems. **75c. Houghton.
7–1293.
Written for the Longfellow centenary. The book “can be read through in less than two hours, and can be bought for less than a dollar; but neither of these facts should be of use in measuring the amount and duration of the impression it ought to make upon a receptive reader. The poems chosen number thirty, and include ‘A psalm of life,’ ‘The wreck of the Hesperus,’ ‘The bridge,’ ‘The cross of snow,’ and other favorites, concluding with ‘Morituri salutamus.’... Perhaps the most valuable point made by Mr. Norton is to be found in the paragraphs in which he shows how completely Longfellow was the product of a simple and refined New England, which had gently broken with the Puritan régime and was filled with an optimistic belief in the orderly evolution of men to individual and national felicity in a new and favored world. Purity, naturalness and kindness were the fundamental characteristics of Longfellow, and these were in the main, the fundamental characteristics of the people who first welcomed his self-revealing poems.” (Forum.)
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