7–6782.
The letters of a “typical hard-working American” written during his travels in England, Scotland, Holland, France, Spain and Italy during 1828–29, including a visit to Lafayette at his chateau Lagrange. “His travels are of interest because few Americans in his day indulged in such pleasures.” (Ath.)
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 724. Ap. ’07. 70w. |
“He was an accurate observer, writing in the formal and stately style of the age, though he often condescended to waggishness on such subjects as leapyear and matrimony, and had clearly a liberal spice of the Old Adam in his composition.”
| + | Ath. 1907. 1: 165. F. 9. 440w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 226. Mr. 7, ’07. 580w. |
Torrence, Frederic Ridgely. Abelard and Heloise. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–8253.
In this poetic drama “there are four acts, the first two being separated from the others by a score of years. The first half of the work gives us the Paris school and Fulbert’s villa, the second half of Paraclete and Chalons. The dramatic handling of the story is spirited and rapid.”—Dial.