“In her five chapters the author of these studies treats of the genesis of Hebbel’s ‘Nibelungen.’ Hebbel’s conception of his dramatic problem, the sources of the work and his use of them, his relation to predecessor’s and critics, particularly Raupach, Fouqué, Geibel, Wagner, and Vischer, and some special aspects of Hebbel’s work—inventions, treatment of women, of religion, and the mythical and mystical.”—N. Y. Times.
| Nation. 83: 186. Ag. 30, ’06. 90w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 11: 456. Jl. 14, ’06. 310w. |
* Perkins, Lucy Fitch. Book of joys: the story of a New England summer. il. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–34806.
A Chicagoan tells how she takes a new lease of life during a spring and summer spent in two New England villages. From the confusion of the city she turns to the joys of rural loneliness, and revels in turf-paved walks “spangled with buttercups and broidered with violets, with the shadow of apple boughs dancing over it, and living silence all about, the stillness of singing birds and humming bees.”
“Mrs. Perkins is keenly alive to both the delights and the limitations of the old-school New England life, seeing it with the clear eye of an alien who is sympathetic to its charm but fully conscious of its whimsicalities and oddities.”
| + | Dial. 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 320w. |
“A book of special interest to feminine readers.”