“This volume ... contains a surprising amount of fact and information within a very small compass. The translation is vigorous and clear.” Arthur B. Lamb.
| + + − | Science, n. s. 26: 170. Ag. 9, ’07. 260w. (Review of pt. 1.) |
Dante Alighieri. [Divine comedy] and The new life; ed. with introd. and notes by Oscar Kuhns, lea. $1.25. Crowell.
An edition uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” which with its introduction, bibliography and notes will serve to give a new impulse to the study of Dante.
Dargan, Olive Tilford. [Lords and lovers and other dramas.] **$1.50. Scribner.
“‘Lords and lovers’ is a romantic play in two parts of the time of Henry III. of England. It is as readable ... as a good novel, while it has the added charm of workmanlike and impressive blank verse and of dramatic situations, possibly not actable, yet conceived with a fine theatrical unction.... The second play, ‘The Shepherd,’ is in prose. It is a powerful presentation of contemporary Russian life, conceived with real force and imagination, though weakened as a work of art—as is also the concluding play, ‘The Siege,’—by an obvious concession to the desire of the sentimental reader for a measurably happy consummation.”—Nation.
“Such verse as this leaves no room for criticism. It bears the visible mark of the divine gift, and there is no poet of our time who might not be proud to claim it for his own.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 253. Ap. 16, ’07. 540w. | |
| + − | Nation. 83: 439. N. 22, ’06. 570w. |
Reviewed by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.