Washington, George. Letters and recollections of George Washington; being letters to Tobias Lear and others between 1790 and 1799, showing the first American in the management of his estate and domestic affairs with a diary of Washington’s last days, kept by Mr. Lear; il. from rare old portraits, photographs and engravings. **$2.50. Doubleday.
6–25624.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“With more skilful editing and arrangement, and with a boldly applied pruning hook, they would supply material for a vivid and sympathetic sketch of Washington in the rôle of Cincinnatus.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 360w. |
Watanna, Onoto, pseud. (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand Babcock). [Diary of Delia: being a veracious chronicle of the kitchen with some side-lights on the parlour.] †$1.25. Doubleday.
7–18102.
“Delia is the maid-of-all-work for a ‘family of six,’ and so well is she rendered that one gets an unaccustomed serious glimpse at many things perhaps before unseen, through reading her diary, the humor of which also exists independently of its simplified spelling à la Irlandais. From that phrase it follows that Delia’s heart is in the right place, so we know at once where her sympathies will be in her young mistress’s love affair, and divine with equal certainty and pleasure her ultimate possession of a sweetheart of her own.”—Outlook.
“It is a pity that the author did not elect to tell the history of her heroine in some other language intelligible to human beings. To say that the book is lacking in any vestige of humor is not derogatory, for no one expects humor in Yahoo or Tibetan.”