“A quality of dream-music, of dream-picture, is the most characteristic trait of his muse.”
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“Mr. Scollard’s work sometimes seems labored, but he has imagination and lofty idealism for fairly steadfast companions, and they prompt him to an utterance which is usually worthy of his theme.” Wm. M. Payne.
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“Well endowed with a poet’s ideality, possessed of a good mastery of difficult metre, and a good command, perhaps a too good command, of poetic diction.”
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| N. Y. Times. 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 210w. |
Scott, Eva. King in exile: the wanderings of Charles II. from June, 1646 to July, 1654. [*]$3.50. Dutton.
A preface sets forth the kernel of the volume—“These years were years of hope, when Royalists still stood in arms in the three kingdoms, when the intervention of Europe was confidently expected. But they were also years of hope deferred, years that saw the growth of divisions and dissensions in the Royalist ranks, the steady decay of morals among men capable of a splendid devotion, but not proof against all the misery it involved. And to many came the bitterest pang of all in the knowledge that these years had witnessed also the dishonor of their king.”
“So exhaustive has been her work that no future investigator will need to spend his time in digging where she has digged.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 590. My. 13. 750w. |