Gordon, Armistead C. Ivory gate. $1.25. Neale.
7–31168.
Twenty-five slender poems written long ago and still singing sweetly of love as a young man dreams of it, but to several is added a final verse dispelling the illusion by the light of an old bachelor’s experience.
Gordon, Mrs. Elizabeth Oke. Saint George, champion of Christendom and patron saint of England. *$5. Dutton.
7–29061.
The book consists of four parts. Besides a biographical sketch of the martyr, there are chapters on the Commemoration of St. George in church liturgies and national institutions, on Celebrated knights of St. George, and on St. George in art.
“As a whole the book has little historical worth. The author does not appear to discriminate in the least between legend, poetry, chronicle, and sealed documents for their value as sources. This quality or indifference to modern historical criticism seems to us a far more serious fault in the book than the occasional actual misstatements of the author.” D. S. Muzzey.
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“Her book, on the whole, is a disappointment, owing to its omissions and its general lack of thoroughness.”