| + | Nation. 84: 252. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w. |
Buxton, E. M. Wilmot-. Stories of early England. (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c. Crowell.
7–22918.
Tales retold for children which reflect the English and Celtic social life and manners up to the fifteenth century. Such old favorites are included as the story of Beowulf, of Cynewulf and Cyneherd, of Alfred and Guthrum, and of Caedmon; stories of “Old English charms,” of Richard Lion-Heart, of Olger the Dane and many another. The author has preserved the glamour of knighthood and chivalry sure to delight the young reader.
* Bynner, Witter. Ode to Harvard. **$1. Small.
7–22080.
This ode limns the impression of a graduate revisiting his Alma mater in after years. “The poem rises by thoughtful and natural stages from the discursive and anecdotal early passages to the heightened concentration of the close, where, with a fine idealism, he evolves the precise nature of the debt which every man owes to his Alma mater.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is a lengthy composition of jocose patter, lacking in both dignity and restraint. The miscellaneous poems ... make a somewhat better impression, although their artistic quality remains inconsiderable.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − + | Dial. 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 230w. |