| + | Outlook. 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 80w. |
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st baron. Essays; ed. by Lady Trevelyan. $6. Putnam.
These six compact little volumes contain nothing but the text of the essays and preface as edited by Lady Trevelyan, the author’s sister. There are several illustrations in each volume—mainly engravings and portraits.
“Edition is as satisfactory for the purposes of the reader of Macaulay as a modest man can desire, handy enough to permit you on occasion to put a volume in your coat pocket and take it with you upon a journey, yet entirely fit for the library shelves. For it sacrifices to compactness not size of type (and the eyes of the reader) but an easily dispensable surplus of margin.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10:92. F. 11, ‘05. 250w. |
“Admirably planned for thoroughly comfortable reading, and to take up small space in a library. For a good edition which meets all the requirements of the average reader, and of a size which makes it possible to carry the volumes about when one travels, we do not recall a better edition than this.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 120w. |
Macbean, L., and Brown, John. Marjorie Fleming. [**]$1.40. Putnam.
The famous account of “Pet Marjorie” by Dr. John Brown is here reprinted, with much later information and her journals and letters hitherto unpublished. There are fourteen illustrations, including pictures of the little girl taken alone and with Scott.
[*] “We commend this book, sure that it will become a precious possession.”