McMahon, Anna Benneson, ed. See Shelley, Percy Bysshe.
McManus, Thomas J. Luke. Boy and the outlaw. $1.50. Grafton press.
The author, whose boyhood was spent in Harper’s Ferry, where he witnessed the famous raid of John Brown, has woven his recollections of that time into a story in which a Virginia boy discovers a wounded mulatto, one of Brown’s men, the day after the raid, and attempts to conceal the outlaw from the authorities. The resulting adventures comprise the story, in which a Virginia squire, a doctor, a young lawyer and others figure.
“A story that moves swiftly and directly and contains a good deal of pleasant humor and excellent character-drawing.”
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Macphail, Andrew. Essays in Puritanism. [**]$1.50. Houghton.
Taking Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman and John Wesley as the subjects of his essays, the author has written a series of sketches which give a better picture of the individual types than of Puritanism.
“An uncommonly readable and instructive book.”
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“He mingles with his sharp and sometimes acrid treatment of Puritanism a good deal of sound and discriminating comment on its more attractive side, but on both sides of his view of Puritanism he leaves an impression that he has not very thoroughly worked the matter out.”