| Ind. 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 17w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 70w. |
“The material is not new and the use of it is not marked by any especial charm.”
| − + | Outlook. 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 40w. | |
| R. of Rs. 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w. |
Belloc, Hilaire. [Hills and the sea.] *$1.50. Scribner.
7–13406.
“Mr. Belloc’s book opens with one marvelous sea voyage and ends with another, while the intervening pages are occupied with observations of places and persons encountered along untraveled paths of England, France, Spain, and countries which are not named and whose identity only the initiated can recognize. There is information, too, strewn through these pages—information that some day may serve as footnotes to more serious and less personal books of travel.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is in tense narration, touched with fantasy, that his strength lies.”
| + | Acad. 71: 659. D. 29, ’06. 390w. |
“None the less, if not wholly a satisfactory book, this is a book that is filled with a fine spirit and has no slovenly writing in it, and has many passages of pellucid and admirable prose often direct and simple as Bunyan’s. At its best ... it has radiance and gusto, both very rare qualities, and a pleasant wayside Borrovian flavour.”