| + | Sat. R. 104: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 380w. |
“The authors’ knowledge of the history of their own trade enables them to set out facts that must be new to most of us, but we are not convinced by the economic reasoning which they very modestly and temperately seek to base thereon.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 1009. Je. 29, ’07. 780w. |
As the Hague ordains: journal of a Russian prisoner’s wife in Japan. il. **$1.50. Holt.
7–16757.
The diary of the half English wife of a Russian officer. When word comes that her husband has been wounded and taken prisoner by the Japanese she goes to him from St. Petersburg, and from the viewpoint of a nurse in a military hospital learns how, “human, Christian and civilized” is the Japanese treatment of the Russian prisoners. The contrast between the courage and cleanliness of the Japanese and the filth and boorishness of the Russians breaks down the barriers of her prejudices.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 157. O. ’07. S. |
“Perhaps gratitude has somewhat overdrawn the picture, but even so, one prefers this theory to the only possible alternative one, which would suggest that this wholly delightful book is altogether a work of the imagination.” A. Schade van Westrum.
| + | Bookm. 25: 614. Ag. ’07. 990w. |