“Mrs. Candee is somewhat flamboyant and rhapsodic in her style, and her taste is more generous than chaste. Mrs. Candee does not seem to understand the importance and influence of the English eighteenth-century schools of design.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 2: 450. O. 12. 240w. |
“In spite of such fine writing, this book is a valuable one and full of information.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 698. S. 19, ’07. 220w. |
“The text is oddly composed, with unusual turns of language, but it is intelligible, and the distinction between styles has evidently been clear to the writer. There is a little too free a treatment of the periods.”
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| + + | Outlook. 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 150w. |
Canfield, Chauncey L., ed. Diary of a forty-niner. *$1.25. Shepard, Morgan.
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Questionable as to its authenticity, this volume is a record of life in a mining-camp on one of the forks of the Yuba river from May 18, 1850, to June 17, 1852.