[*] Paine, Albert Bigelow. [Little garden calendar for boys and girls.] $1. Altemus.
“A chatty and truthful account of many of the most interesting phases of plant-life. The subject of dispersal and its advantages, of movements, and of pollination and the like, are briefly and well-treated. The account of the servants which work for the flower is admirably presented.” (Nation.) “The book is arranged according to the calendar, and the illustrations are from photographs especially made for each chapter.” (Critic.)
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| * | + | Nation. 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 190w. |
Paine, Albert Bigelow. Thomas Nast. $5. Macmillan.
This account of the life and times of “The father of the American cartoon,” illustrated with hundreds of his drawings, is virtually a political history of our country during the Civil war, and for twenty years after.
“It is a story full of striking incident and human interest, skilfully unrolling the picturesque career of a genius who had within him the potentialities of an American Hogarth.” Chas. H. Levermore.
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“In this life of Nast, Mr. Paine has evinced excellent judgment and wise discrimination; yet the work is characterized by that genuine sympathy that is one of the requisites of a good biography. It is a valuable work.”
| + + | Arena. 33: 335. Mr. ‘05. 850w. |
“Mr. Paine’s book is an exceptionally good piece of work. He has not attempted a minute personal biography; he has given a series of striking pictures, which enable one to look over Nast’s shoulder, so to speak, and to study at close range some of the most stirring periods in the history of the nation and of New York city.” A. B. Maurice.