“A finished, well-unified and arranged work.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 574. O. 28, ‘05. 350w. |
[*] “The work is broad in range, and provides an immense accumulation of data.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 640. N. ‘05. 120w. |
Monroe, Paul. Thomas Platter and the educational renaissance of the 16th century. [**]$1.20. Appleton.
This sketch which gives the life of an educator just at the turning point in educational history between the mediæval and the modern, is important because “The autobiography furnishes such concrete information in regard to two phases of the education of the sixteenth century: first, the life of the wandering scholar; and, second, the spread of the humanistic ideas until they dominate the educational activities of the times.”
“Is a valuable volume which throws a great deal of light on a critical and seldom dealt with period of the history of education.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 136. Ja. 12, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] Montague, Margaret Prescott. Poet, Miss Kate and I. [**]$1.50. Baker.
Miss Kate is a small chestnut mare, I am Miss Dorothy, and the poet is David Selwyn, successful and thirty-two, whom his doctor has given but twelve months more of life. He determines to spend that twelve months bravely, and rents a house in the Alleghanies so that he may “write, write, write until the finale,” unhampered by his old New York surroundings. Here he meets Dorothy and enjoys his last summer until he finds that his growing love for her makes the thought of death more bitter; then he runs away. But of course the author does not let him die, and the reader feels thruout the pretty, cheery little story that all is to be well with him.