A work which has less of the text-book aim than that of creating for the student a viewpoint. It is put forth with the hope that the discussion “will give the student such comprehension of the subject that he will come to the lecture room in a proper attitude and that he will approach his laboratory work with the desire for investigation.”
Curtis, Natalie, ed. Indians’ book: an offering by the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the songs and legends of their race. il. **$7.50. Harper.
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A most handsomely made book, “undertaken primarily for the Indians, in the hope that this, their own volume, when placed in the hands of their children, might help to revive for the younger generation that sense of the dignity and worth of their race which is the Indian’s birth-right.” “The book reflects the soul of one of the types of primitive man.... It is the direct utterance of the Indians themselves. The red man dictated and the white friend recorded.” The songs, stories and drawings have been contributed by Indians themselves.
“To most of its white readers the book will be a revelation of the vaguely stirring genius and the art, mystic in its intent, spontaneous in its symbolism, of a child race.”
| + | Dial. 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 640w. |
“It must be said in general that the poems, stories, and tunes collected by Miss Curtis have the true aboriginal flavor.”
| + | Nation. 85: 428. N. 7, ’07. 750w. |
“For herself makes claim only to the work of the recorder. But even the cursory reader will see that she deserves, in addition, much credit for the noble purpose by which she has been animated, the tact and patience with which she has carried the work through successfully, and the painstaking labor which has been involved.” F. F. Kelly.