Root, Jean Christie (Mrs. J. H. Root). Does God comfort? by one who has greatly needed to know. **30c. Crowell.
6–18575.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Arena. 37: 333. Mr. ’07. 60w. |
Root, Robert Kilburn. Poetry of Chaucer: a guide to its study and appreciation. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–34823.
The author’s purpose has been “to put his readers in possession of the most recent results of Chaucerian research, which are at present widely scattered in learned periodicals. The scanty facts that have been unearthed about Chaucer’s biography, the chronology of his works, the sources to which he was indebted for his material—for, like Shakespeare and Molière, Chaucer took his own wherever he found it—and the social conditions and surroundings amid which and for which the poet wrote are amply set forth.” (N. Y. Times.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 104. Ap. ’07. |
“This interesting study avoids both the iridescent foam of clever but shallow appreciation and the dead calm of unanimated learning.”