Russell, Charles Edward. Twin immortalities, and other poems. [*]$1.50; special ed. [*]$2.50. Hammersmark.
The little ode and several other poems contain an interpretation of music, but in Graubünden and Pigli, which are written according to the classical form of the sonata, music and poetry are most closely allied. The book is dedicated to President Loubet, the foremost democrat of these times, and in such poems as “Adam’s sons” and the “Coronation ode,” the brotherhood of man is set forth.
“That there is much in this volume to interest both the musician and the verse-wright,—perhaps, chiefly, him who stands on the borderland between the two arts, the composer of librettos.”
| + | Critic. 46: 182. F. ‘05. 140w. |
“Rich and varied volume of verse.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 197. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1110w. |
“He has an admirable gift of phrase, which at its best is alive to its finger tips.”
| + | Nation. 80: 293. Ap. 13, ‘05. 850w. |
Russell, Constance, Lady. Three generations of fascinating women, and other sketches from family history. [*]$10.50. Longmans.
“A gallery is presented in the volume of beautiful women of the past, and of those in particular who were the leaders in the society of former times.” (N. Y. Times). There are fourteen sketches dealing with Lady Russell’s family history, including the families of Campbell, Gunning, Lenox, Gordon, and Whitworth, besides side-light information concerning contemporaries. There is the Hon. Mary Bellenden, who was “incontestably the most agreeable, the most insinuating, and the most likable woman of her time;” of the second generation, her daughter Caroline, Countess of Ailesbury, a woman of rare charms, who numbered among her friends the statesmen and men of letters of the day; of the third generation, the Hon. Mrs. Damer, who in both London and Paris was a social leader and the center of a host of literary personages.