| + + | Arena. 33: 339. Mr. ‘05. 540w. |
“But here is less an argument than a ‘document,’ the inner life of a poet and thinker. His poems which fill nearly half the book, ... are so good they should be better; but his congenital sin, perhaps, of rhetoric— ... too often gets the best of them.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 438. F. 23, ‘05. 870w. |
[*] Myrick, Herbert. Cache la Poudre: the romance of a tenderfoot in the days of Custer. $1.50. Judd.
On the slender thread of the story of a young New Yorker who in unmerited disgrace disappears from his home, reappears as a western tenderfoot, serves under Custer, and wins reputation and a bride, are strung pictures of the crude life and thrilling scenes found in northern Colorado, Wyoming and Montana in the early seventies. The book altho both novel and historical, is not a typical historical novel. The numerous illustrations from paintings by Charles Schreyvogel, Edward W. Deming, and Henry Fangel, with many photographs not only supplement the author’s descriptions but overshadow the text. The fact that they represent real people about whom the appendix provides further facts, gives the book an added value. There are portraits of Custer, Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-face and other characters, and pictures of various scenes from cow-boy life.
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Nansen, Fridtjof. Norway and the union with Sweden. 70c. Macmillan.
A resumé given temperately and concisely from the Norwegian point of view of the events leading up to the present crisis. These events cover about a hundred years; the real strife beginning when in 1895 a change in the Swedish constitution practically took the administration of foreign affairs out of the hand of the king and placed them under the power of parliament.
“A sound little book on the Norwegian side of the dispute, by the Norwegian who is most competent to write upon it.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 13. Jl. 1. 160w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 210. Je. 30, ‘05. 320w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 468. Jl. 15, ‘05. 310w. |