“A noteworthy piece of special pleading.”
| + + − | Outlook. 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 190w. |
“A complete and exhaustive discussion—for the general reader, at least—of the whole subject.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 100w. |
“This book can well be declared the most complete and most authentic work extant on this important subject.” J. H. Gore.
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Halsham, John. Lonewood Corner: a countryman’s horizon. *$1.50. Dutton.
Leisure, an unknown luxury to commercial America, fills this volume. “The author has ample time in which to read Theocritus—not in translation—in the beech tree shade on summer mornings, to sit on a log for long June afternoons and look at the landscape ... to perch on the meadow gate by the hour and watch the mowers and the mowing machine ... to wander far and aimlessly across fields and through woods—and afterward to write exquisite water-colors in words describing all he has seen and thought and felt, and delicate little bas-reliefs of the people with whom he has met and talked.” (N. Y. Times.)
“We heartily commend it to all lovers of the contemplative life. The style is admirable—rich without being ornate.”