“We may say at once that excellent as were her first series of drawings, those now published show a distinct improvement.”
| + | Int. Studio. 30: 277. Ja. ’07. 380w. |
“The volume can be heartily commended to designers as a safe reference-book, and probably students, likewise, can get good out of it; but just how flower-artists themselves are to be helped by it is another matter. No book ought to stand between an artist and the plants he sees.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 252. Mr. 14, ’07. 490w. |
Forbush, William Byron. Boy’s life of Christ. Teachers’ ed. $1.25. Funk.
To the original edition of this life of Christ have been added notes, an index, and a section devoted to a series of suggestions and questions bearing on the text. It makes a complete text book for the teacher’s use.
Forbush, William Byron. Ecclesiastes in the metre of Omar, with an introductory essay on Ecclesiastes and the Rubaiyat. **$1.25. Houghton.
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“It is not so much a consecutive rendering of the words of Koheleth as an imaginative construction of the Rubáiyat he might have written, made by a very eclectic assembling of words, phrases, and images from the Scripture, woven to a single texture and skillfully colored and cadenced to resemble the manner of FitzGerald.”—Nation.