| + | Dial. 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 170w. |
“We find nothing, or nothing of interest in Mr. Fyfe’s book, with which we have not always been familiar. Mr. Fyfe has not written the history of Scott nor has he contributed original matter from documents to his superfluous restatement of Lockhart’s biography of Sir Walter.”
| − − | Lond. Times. 6: 6. Ja. 4, ’07. 1000w. |
“A useful supplement to Lockhart and the ‘Letters’ and ‘Journals’.”
| + | Nation. 85: 141. Ag. 15, ’07. 250w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 36. Ja. 19, ’07. 340w. |
“Mr. Fyfe has a gift of presenting vividly what he writes by virtue of being simple and direct. To read his book is like going back a hundred years and spending a day in old-time Edinburgh.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 480w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 130w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 103: 57. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w. |
“No fuller or better picture of that brilliant half-century of life in Edinburgh which approximately lasted from the death of Samuel Johnson in 1784 to that of Walter Scott in 1832 has ever been given to the public than that presented in this volume. Singularly, if not even paradoxically too, the value of the picture is due quite as much to the faults as to the excellences of the artist.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 483. O. 5, ’07. 1550w. |
Fynn, Arthur John. American Indian as a product of environment; with special reference to the Pueblos. **$1.50. Little.