| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 404. Je. 17, ‘05. 330w. |
“But for the local colour, in fact, the novel would be entirely commonplace.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 251. Ag. 19, ‘05. 230w. |
Becke, Louis. Under tropic skies. [†]$1.50. Lippincott.
“Mr. Becke, like Mr. Kipling, Mr. Lafcadio Hearn, Mr. Norman Duncan, and some few other fortunate ones in this generation, discovered a new corner of the earth with which he had a special talent for making the rest of mankind acquainted.... His element is, without doubt, the throwing of just such flashlights upon the far Paumotos, the Carolines, Fiji, and other fascinating dots in the Pacific solitudes as fill the pages of the volume which is called ‘Under tropic skies.’”—N. Y. Times.
“Has returned to the writing of those delightful sketches of life in the remote islands of the South Pacific that first brought him into favorable notice. But one cannot read through to the end of this volume without coming to the conclusion that Mr. Becke still writes very good stories, that his store of incidents is simply enormous, and that he knows the South Sea Islands—natives, traders, and all their ways, past and present. He makes us know them too.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 27. Ja. 14, ‘05. 500w. |
Beebe, C. William. Two bird-lovers in Mexico. [**]$3. Houghton.
These two bird-lovers, the writer and his wife, spent a winter camping in the Mexican interior and here they found not only birds, but mammals, insects, flowers, and scenery worth observing. This record of the things they saw includes ornithological information, new material upon the food-habits of the Mexican species, and also incidents of travel and camp life and glimpses of the natives whom they met while “roughing it.”
[*] “His observations and his pictures will be of great value to the scientist as well as a pleasure to the untrained reader.” May Estelle Cook.