“A volume exceedingly attractive to students of our colonial history, and not unattractive to the general reader.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 273. Ap. 16, ‘05. 270w. |
“The diary is not only a charming and perfectly un-self-conscious record of a courtship of those days; it is worth much as a picture of the manners and daily life of the Quakers of ‘the Province’.”
| + | Nation. 80: 271. Ap. 6, ‘05. 640w. |
“As the medium of presenting an excellent picture of colonial home life the book also has value.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 397. Je. 17, ‘05. 580w. |
“The plan of the book is original and it will interest many readers.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 604. Mr. 4, ‘05. 70w. |
Myers, Frederick William Henry. Fragments of prose and poetry. [*]$2.50. Longmans.
A volume edited by the wife of this high minded scholar, poet and leader in the work of “Psychical research” three years after his death. There is an autobiographical sketch which sets forth his struggle with doubt and faith, followed by tributes to Ruskin, Gladstone, Watts, Stevenson and other friends who passed before him into the unknown. The last section of the volume contains sixty of his poems. The whole is well illustrated.