“The work is uneven and weak lines mar otherwise good sonnets. There is, too, no allusiveness or elusiveness. The author forgets that poetry is the language of suggestion and tumbles everything out before us with a forwardness that is occasionally unpleasant.” Christian Gauss.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 220w. |
Shoemaker, Michael Myers. [Winged wheels in France.] **$2.50. Putnam.
6–42912.
The “winged wheels” belong to a “great red touring car” in which the author made a trip through the Rhine valley to Switzerland. The snapshot method has been employed and there are no time exposures. The book is embellished with numerous reproductions of photographs.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 129. My. ’07. |
“He is always interesting and entertaining in his books, but we prefer him when he travels at more leisure than the motor-car permits. The volume is pleasantly written and admirably illustrated.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + | Dial. 42: 373. Je. 16. ’07. 200w. | |
| Nation. 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 110w. |