7–34805.
A volume for the general reader rather than for the student of anthropology, in which no attempt at “profundity of exhaustiveness” has been made. It is a first-hand study and contains chapters on: Plants, animals and man; Concerning the aborigines of the western continent in general; Pueblo lands and homes; Food and clothing; Government and social life; Education; Industries, arts and sciences; Religion; Games and festivals.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Fyvie, John. Comedy queens of the Georgian era. *$4. Dutton.
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“A light, gossipy account of some of the leading actresses of the eighteenth and the early years of the nineteenth centuries. It is well illustrated by photogravure process. Among Mr. Fyvie’s queens are Lavinia Fenton and Elizabeth Farren. That the habit of peers marrying actresses is not modern is shown by these lively chapters.”—Sat. R.
“Mr. Fyvie is a little too reticent to be a good scandalmonger, and a little too technical to be a good historian of the stage; and his sketches, though written from an independent point of view and clearly the result of much original study of his subjects, offer little that is new on the details of their private lives, and nothing on the subject of their professional careers.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 8. Ja. 5, ’07. 1460w. |