| Ath. 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20, 170w. | ||
| + | Ind. 62: 1267. My. 30, ’07. 40w. |
[Southern stories retold from St. Nicholas.] (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.
7–29580.
A group of sunny south stories including How we bought Louisiana, The earthquake at Charleston, St. Augustine, Hiding places in war times, The ’gator, Catching terrapin and Queer American rivers.
Souttar, Robinson. Short history of mediæval peoples, from the dawn of the Christian era to the fall of Constantinople. *$3 Scribner.
7–25500.
“Mr. Souttar begins with a review of the Augustan age and devotes three chapters to Roman literature before taking up the serious narrative of the reign of Tiberius. The progress of the Roman empire from that time until the death of Justinian occupies more than half of the large volume. Comfortable space is found in seventy-two pages for a sketch of Mohammedanism and an equal measure is allotted to the crusades. The remainder of the book is devoted to the Byzantine empire from Justinian to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Possibly the greatest praise we can give the book is that, notwithstanding the compression, it is not only not dull, but in fact very readable, not like the author’s own description of early Roman literature, ‘Historic annals so bald and imperfect that they are of little use even to the historian.’”