“Presented in a thoroughly readable and interesting form.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 298. Je. 8, ’07. 330w. |
Genung, John Franklin. The idylls and the ages. **75c. Crowell.
7–26418.
A companion study to “Stevenson’s attitude to life.” It is an inquiry into the permanent value of Tennyson’s epic “The idylls of the king.” The primary aim of this volume “is neither eulogy nor criticism, but what Walter Pater has taught us to call appreciation.”
“Our quarrel with it is chiefly for its literary cant and esoteric eloquence, its lack of the prose point of view.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 180w. |
George, 2d duke of Cambridge. George duke of Cambridge: a memoir of his private life based on the journals and correspondence of His Royal Highness, ed. by Edgar Sheppard. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
7–28494.