Fifteen English lakes “ranging from the lordly Windermere and Ullswater, ten and a half and nine miles long, respectively, to Loweswater and Rydalmere, which hardly exceed the larger tarns in area” are reproduced here. The seventy-five illustrations in color produce a panorama effect which is heightened by the descriptive matter of the text.
| * | + | Acad. 68: 911. S. 2, ‘05. 170w. |
“Mr. Palmer has written with taste and with commendable reserve in distinguishing between poetic feeling and sentimentalism.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “One finds a good deal of pleasure of a certain kind in turning over his pages, if also some irritation.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 1260w. |
Paret, Jahlal Parmly. Lawn tennis. [**]$2. Macmillan.
This article, by the foremost American authority on the game, contains a history of tennis itself and of the leading players here and abroad. It gives technical instruction, from the first rudiments to the most advanced theories, and treats of the care of courts and management of tournaments. There is a chapter on lacrosse by William H. Madden. The volume is copiously illustrated.
“This is one of the best-written and most scientific treatises on lawn-tennis that we have yet had, and forms a suitable companion to similar works by Mr. Eustace Miles, Mr. H. W. Wilberforce, and Mr. W. Baddeley.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 272. Ag. 26. 1050w. |