| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 160w. |
“Very entertaining is a good deal of the information the author has piled together about all the principal squares in London.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 390w. |
Chandler, Frank Wadleigh. Literature of roguery. (Types of English literature ser.) 2v. **$3. Houghton.
7–31996.
The second work of a series whose plan is to deal with all the important literary forms in English by a division according to types rather than a division into chronological periods. A concise description is given of the earlier appearances of the rogue as a typical figure in the literatures of Spain, France, Germany and Holland; then follows the rogue of the mediaeval time as he appears in drama, legend, and jest book, and the rogue of the picaresque novel of Elizabethan time. Criminal biographies, prison chronicles, drama, opera, sociological studies, and lyric verse are shown to yield their rascals, and the authors who have portrayed them are discussed.
“Its greatest charm lies in its peculiar combination of authority with human interest, of scholarly methods and an imposing bibliography with a fine sense of proportion,—a large grasp of the matter as a whole and in its relation to other lines of literary research.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
| + + | Dial. 43: 315. N. 16, ’07. 1920w. |
“His work is unique in its scope.”