“It must be confessed, however, that the incidents in ‘The railway children’ are quite as conventionally melodramatic as in many of the American stories.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 34: 763. D. ’06. 270w. |
Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland). Story of the amulet; with 48 il. by H. R. Millar. $1.50. Dutton.
7–32330.
“Here we have what we may call ‘Alice in Wonderland in excelsis.’ A family of children, whose father has gone as a war correspondent, while their mother is on a health voyage, discover a wonderful creature called a Psammead. By his help, together with the amulet which figures in the title, they are transported to various scenes in the past, after the fashion of the king who lived a life while he was dipping his head in a pail of water. They go to pre-dynastic Egypt, when palaeolithic man was in the Nile valley; they see Babylon, whose queen has an opportunity of expressing her views about social conditions in London; they see the vanished Atlantis, and Julius Caesar when he was in Britain, and then, by a backward leap, a Pharaoh, one of the special devotees of the Amen-Ra.”—Spec.
“A delightful book, destined to be read and re-read by (or to) her small admirers.”
| + | Acad. 71: 608. D. 15, ’06. 70w. |
“Children who like fairy tales will enjoy the book and unconsciously acquire a certain amount of knowledge.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 206. N. ’07. |