“Taken all in all the book may be truly said to constitute a real contribution to the literature of the art of practical illumination. It goes without saying that it should find a place in the library of every illuminating engineer. But the illuminating engineer is not the only one to whom the book will appeal. The authors happily have presented the subject in such a way that the architect, the contractor and the central station man will derive much benefit from reading it.” L. B. Marks.
| + + − | Engin. N. 57: 549. My. 16, ’07. 1710w. |
Crawford, Francis Marion. [Arethusa.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33911.
A story of Constantinople in the fourteenth century whose plot is built up about the expulsion of the usurper Andronicus from the throne and the restoration of Johannes. Arethusa, who with her foster parents were objects of Andronicus’ cruelty, sells herself into slavery to save her foster mother from poverty, is bought by Carlo Zeno the principal actor in the Johannine faction, and becomes involved in the plot to re-establish the deposed ruler.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠ |
“The breathless adventures and the hairbreadth escapes, the scenes of torture and luxury are all good reading as isolated episodes; but they hardly go to make a novel worthy of the author.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 613. N. 16. 150w. |
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.