| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 233. Ap. 13, ’07. 2340w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“On the whole, in spite of the mediævalism of certain portions, and in spite of occasional lapses from the general level of excellence—lapses inevitable in any work of the kind—the first volume must be pronounced fair and sane, and if succeeding volumes maintain the same standard the work cannot fail to prove exceedingly useful.”
| + + − | Outlook. 86: 787. Ag. 10, ’07. 2040w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The contributors represent Catholic scholarship in its broadest sense throughout the world.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 757. Je. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.) |
* Cattelle, Wallis Richard. The pearl: its story, its charm and its value. il. **$2. Lippincott.
7–30808.
The story of the pearl is told “from its birth and growth under tropic seas, through the search for it by dark skinned divers of the Orient and its journeyings by the hands of men who traffic in precious things, until it becomes finally the cherished familiar of the great. Historical and traditional allusions, the sentiment and superstitions, the romance of ancient and noble associations drawn to it through the ages, are garnered here and to them added the more prosaic facts which a merchant’s experience suggests, to enable lovers of the dainty sea-gem to discriminate.”
Cautley, C. Holmes. Millmaster. $1.50. Longmans.
With a setting furnished by a Yorkshire manufacturing village the reader’s interest is centered in “the upright and self-contained millmaster and his son, Mark, a character gentler than his father but as estimable.” (Lond. Times.) A book in which the human element is strong, the description informing, and which is “stamped with the hallmark of sincerity.”