[*] “The narrative moves at a speed suitable to the subject, and the pitch of high-spirited comedy is never lowered.”
| + | Spec. 95: 985. D. 9, ‘05. 200w. |
Osbourne, Lloyd. [Motormaniacs.] [†]75c. Bobbs.
This little pocket-book contains four short love stories, in each of which an automobile is chief matchmaker. In the “Motormaniacs,” a break down brings the right man into the story opportunely, and in “The great bubble syndicate,” “Coal oil Johnny” and “Jones,” a Fearless, a Despereaux, and a Porchar-Mufflin car play important roles.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 210w. |
“Lively, ingenious, and amusing.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 4w. |
Osgood, Herbert Levi. American colonies in the 17th century. 2v. [**]$5. Macmillan.
“The first [volume] is given over to the abortive experiments of Gilbert and Raleigh in founding settlements in the New world, to the first proprietary province, Virginia, and to the corporate colonies of New England; the second, to the later proprietary provinces and to a systematic survey of the colonies as a whole, at the close of the period under discussion.”—Outlook.
“In the main, however, the difficulties of the book are of a kind almost inevitable from the nature of the topic chosen, and the serious reader will find it not only instructive, but full of interest. For the student of our institutional beginnings, Professor Osgood has provided one of the few treatises which are really indispensable.” Evarts B. Greene.