| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 210w. |
“His criticism is sympathetic and illuminating.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 883. Ag. 5, ‘05. 160w. |
Senior lieutenant’s wager, and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
“Thirty short stories by the foremost Catholic writers.” Some of them touch upon church matters from a Roman Catholic view point, in several a benign priest appears as good angel, but many are merely little love stories containing no question of faith.
Sergeant, Philip W. Courtship of Catherine the Great. [*]$2.50. Lippincott.
“Catherine’s love affairs, of course, went beyond all ordinary bounds of ‘indiscretion.’ ... It is useful to have in English a statement on this subject which covers the ground already traversed of Waliszewski and his followers on the continent.... By far the most important of the ten or twelve suitors whose affairs with the empress come into the present volume were Gregory Orloff, the chief actor in the plot of 1762, and the Prince Patiomkin.”—Nation.
“It is unfair to criticise too rigorously a book which is written ostensibly for amusement, and is, with all its shortcomings, amusing enough.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 207. Ag. 12, 170w. |
“Of new information in his book there is virtually none.”