| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 868. Je. 3, ‘05. 180w. |
“Among current books of adventure, ‘Curly’ is especially good.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 361. Ag. ‘05. 170w. |
[*] [Poems every child should know; a selection of all times for young people]; ed. by Mary E. Burt. [*]$1.25. Doubleday.
The poems contained in this volume are those which children actually love and with but a few exceptions they are brief enough to be committed to memory. They have been divided into five groups each of which appeals to a different stage of childhood. The division headings: The budding moment; The little child; The day’s at the morn; Lad and lassie; On and on; and Grow old along with me, strike the key notes of their contents. Nearly all the old favorites and some new ones are to be found here. The volume is bound in soft green suede and is decorated with drawings by Blanche Ostertag.
Pollard, Albert Frederick. Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation, 1489-1556. [**]$1.35. Putnam.
An addition to the “Heroes of the Reformation series.” An attempt to clear up some of the mysteries surrounding Cranmer, which, the author says, are mysteries of the atmosphere he breathed, rather than of character. His great work in the compilation of the Book of common prayer, and his translations of the Collects is set over against his weakness in failing to stand by his convictions against Tudor tyranny.
“The author has a competent knowledge of what was then going on throughout Europe and is safe-guarded against the insularity or provincialism which marks the authors of the volumes in Stephens and Hunt’s ‘History of the Church of England.’ Its impartiality and lack of partisan writing is also to be commended.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 440. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1210w. |
“No one could be better qualified for the task. The book can rightly claim to be the first considerable biography of Cranmer which has been written according to the canons of modern scientific historical work. It is clear, and for the most part consistent and convincing; and though it contains nothing that is startlingly new, it arranges in useful and readable form a vast amount of hitherto scattered and not always trustworthy information. Mr. Pollard’s treatment of the archbishop’s career under Henry VIII seems to us ... much less satisfactory.” R. B. Merriman.