Children and birds are brought into close sympathy here. The author does not give detailed descriptions and tabulated facts, but a record “of the doings of some children who were eager to know; together with a few hints upon the migrations, winter feeding, and protection of some of our common birds and the stories of their lives, that may lead both teacher and pupil to more detailed study when opportunity offers.”
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Wright, Thomas. Life of Walter Pater. 2v. *$6.50. Putnam.
7–25136.
“In the main, it avoids the proportion of literary exposition, criticism, and general biography already so thoroughly dealt with in the biographies of Pater written by A. C. Benson and Ferris Greenslet and strives to be familiarly subjective rather than personally and intimately objective. Much of the material employed has been derived from school-fellows, pupils, and colleagues, some of whom speak with questionable freedom.”—N. Y. Times.
“What evil angel—what bat—inspired him to choose a man whose mind and character he was totally incapable of understanding, and then to patronise him?”
| − − | Acad. 72: 263. Mr. 16, ’67. 1900w. |
“The book contains a good deal of new material, especially in the account given of the literary relations between Pater and Oscar Wilde. Mr. Benson’s ‘Walter Pater’ ... was more satisfactory to Pater’s friends than is the present venture.”