| + | Cath. World. 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 190w. |
Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine. Early essays and lectures. *$1.60. Longmans.
7–11584.
A collection of essays “disinterred” from the magazines in which they appeared during the past twenty-five years. In them Father Sheehan discusses such men as Emerson, Arnold and Aubrey De Vere, and such subjects as, The German universities, The German and Gaelic muses, and Irish youth and high ideals.
“In many places, the essays would have been improved by the application of the pruning knife.... Many of the essays would have gained a great deal by compression; in very few instances will one find a passage that deserves a place alongside almost any paragraph that might be taken at random from ‘Under the cedars and the stars.’”
| + − | Cath. World. 84: 414. D. ’06. 220w. | |
| Dial. 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 80w. | ||
| + | Spec. 97: 792. N. 17. ’06. 350w. |
Shelley, Henry C. John Harvard and his times, il. **$2. Little.
7–34809.
The facts concerning the life of John Harvard have been so few and the few so hard to obtain that no volume has been written before on the “young minister whose generosity had such important influence on the beginnings of education in America.” The sketch shows what were the environment and early influence in his Stratford-on-Avon home, and also gives what is known of his parentage. Then follow chapters on The Harvard circle, Cambridge, Last years in England; The new world and The praise of John Harvard.