Calkins, Franklin Wells. Wooing of Tokala: an intimate tale of the wild life of the American Indian drawn from camp and trail. †$1.50. Revell.
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“With only a thread of a story in the conventional sense, this is a thoroughly competent study of a group of Dakotah and Sioux Indians. Their habits, traditions, and point of view are given with a detail which though painstaking is never tiresome.” (Nation.) His Tokala is a creature of her native environment. “He tells you here picturesquely how this maid was loved and won in the face of at least the usual allowance of difficulties.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“He makes his Indians quite plain, as creatures in the toils of tradition and beliefs which they must obey. His style is clear and simple, attaining excellent effects by dint of completely avoiding self-conscious and labored efforts. In fact, the whole book contains matter of real interest, which is conveyed without parade of knowledge and with a total absence of trick or mannerism.”
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| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 160w. |
“The story is well told, with not a little ingenuity and cleverness in the construction of the plot and throughout with a simplicity that adds to its charm.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w. |
Calkins, Mary Whiton. Persistent problems of philosophy: an introduction to metaphysics through the study of modern systems. *$2.50. Macmillan.
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