“There is a touch of quaint stiffness in the style of the book that harmonizes with the childlike temper of the Danish romancer.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 120w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 767. D. ’07. 50w. |
Harcourt, Mrs. Charles. Good form for women: a guide to conduct and dress on all occasions. $1. Winston.
7–12681.
Believing that all commendable conventionalities are more or less directly traceable to some altruistic or utilitarian principle, the author presents the fundamental features of good form by combining ethics with etiquette. She aims particularly to help girls who have not had the benefit of proper home training.
Harcourt, L. W. Vernon. His grace the steward, and the trial of peers: a novel inquiry into a special branch of constitutional government. *$5. Longmans.
A two part work. “The first describes the evolution of the Lord High Steward of England up to the reign of Henry VIII., and the second treats of the gradual working out of the principle that peers shall be judged only by their peers. In both sections it is Mr. Harcourt’s delight to show the fraudulent basis of what have been honored as historic English institutions.” (Nation.)
“The interest of Mr. Vernon Harcourt’s book lies less in the main theme than in his often original and always acute interpretations of men and motives, and the side-lights he throws on many disputed points of constitutional history.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 66. Jl. 20. 790w. |