“The book will be acceptable to those who wish entertainment without mental effort.”
| + | Reader. 6: 472. S. ‘05. 180w. |
Rowlands, Samuel. [Bride.] [**]$3.50. Goodspeed.
“An interesting reprint.... Save for an entry in the Stationers’ register under date of 1617, this work has hitherto been unknown to bibliography. Last spring a unique copy was purchased from a German bookseller for the library of Harvard university, and this is now reprinted in partial facsimile, with a brief introductory note. The poem ... a conversation between a bride and her attendant maidens concerning the respective advantages of the single and married estates ... is written in Rowlands’ habitual cleanly-turned six-line, stanza.”—Nation.
“Will add little to Rowlands’ fame.”
| + | Acad. 68: 329. Mr. 25. ‘05. 1030w. | |
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 110. Jl. 22. 720w. | |
| Critic. 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 90w. |
“There is nothing in the poem either to add to the poetic treasures of our literature or to furnish any new footnotes to literary history.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 229. Mr. 23, ‘05. 220w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 160w. |
Rowntree, B. Seebohm. Betting and gambling: a national evil. [*]$1.60. Macmillan.
“The preliminary chapter is devoted to the Ethics of betting and gambling, and is by John A. Hobson, M. A. It is followed by The extent of gambling, by John Hawke; Stock exchange gambling, by A. J. Wilson; Gambling among women, by J. M. Hogge; Crime and gambling, by Canon Horsley; The deluded sportsman, by a bookmaker; Gambling and citizenship, by J. Ramsey MacDonald; Existing legislation, by John Hawke; and The repression of gambling, by R. Seebohm Rowntree. In the appendix are given some government bills on the subject, opinions of prominent men on betting, a note on pedestrianism, tipping, betting statistics, and a bibliography.”—N. Y. Times.