“The whole book is inaccurate and slipshod. Mr. Fulleylove’s charming illustrations deserved a better surrounding.” C. L. K.
| − + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 206. Ja. ’07. 370w. |
Davidson, Gladys. [Stories from the operas.] 2d ser. *$1.25. Lippincott.
Here “Wagner is represented by only two of his operas—‘Parsifal’ and ‘Die Meistersinger.’ Of the other operas whose stories are told by her, four—Gounod’s ‘Philemon and Baucis,’ Meyerbeer’s ‘Star of the north,’ Halévy’s ‘The Jewess,’ and Bellini’s ‘La sonnambula’—have practically disappeared from the stage, while a fifth, Tchaikovsky’s ‘Eugene Onegin,’ has never become acclimated outside of Russia. The others in the list are popular favorites of today and likely to remain so for some time. Their plots are told by the author in the form of short stories without reference to the stage or the music.”—Nation.
| Nation. 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 100w. |
“The value of the book might have been materially increased had the author boiled down each plot-story and given us all the standard operas instead of merely a selected number.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 180w. |
Davidson, John. Holiday and other poems. *$1. Dutton.
The technical experiments which the form of Mr. Davidson’s poetry abounds in, are fully in keeping with the venturesomeness of his themes and ideas. “He has nothing to do with civilization, except to denounce and defy it; his self-chosen part is that of the upsetter of all equanimities, the denier of all commonly accepted creeds, conventions, and traditions.” (Lond. Times.) “The very title of the book is manifold in its meaning. Life is a holiday, and the holiday of holidays is the final liberty torn by the spirit out of its material servitudes.” (Ath.)