Sharts, Joseph William. Hills of freedom. $1.50. Doubleday.
The first novel of a young Ohio barrister and Harvard graduate. The action takes place in the author’s native state during the period preceding the Civil war, and the chief characters are a veteran general of the Mexican war, bent upon match-making, and his ward and her nephew, a red haired heroine and a bow-legged hero. There are many interesting characters, and John Brown and the underground railway figure conspicuously.
“It is cast in the form of a comedy, in which the author caricatures irascible old age, love and youth with much clever wit.”
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“It lacks the awkwardness of a maiden effort, and the seams and patches of a labored attempt. It is easy, spontaneous, and all of a piece. For succeed he does, in spite of predecessors and conventions. The author has a delicate touch, as well as a sprightly manner; not all of his effects are broad. The author has a pretty turn for epigram, which he uses with becoming discretion.”
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| + | R. of Rs. 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 90w. |
Shattuck, George Burbank, ed. Bahama islands. [**]$10. Macmillan.
“This volume is the outcome of an expedition for which Dr. Shattuck served as director. His staff contained about twenty scientists, each a specialist in some direction; and the volume is accordingly largely made up of papers by these specialists on the geology, botany, animal and fish life, and soils of the island, together with a historical sketch and papers on the sanitary and medical conditions. The book ... is beautifully illustrated with photographs.”—Outlook.
“The work is done throughout in the most scholarly manner.”
| + + + | Critic. 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 120w. |