| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 181. Mr. 25, ‘05. 290w. |
Skinner, Harriet Pearl. Boys who became famous men. [†]$1.25. Little.
These “Stories of the childhood of poets, artists, and musicians” are founded upon fact but are colored to suit the taste of boy and girl readers, who cannot but feel a kinship for the young heroes of Beni’s keeper: Giotto; The victor: Bach; The little boy at Aberdeen: Byron; Tom Pear-tree’s portrait: Gainsborough; Georg’s champion: Handel; Six hundred plus one: Coleridge; The lion that helped: Canova; and Frederic of Warsaw: Chopin.
[*] “The stories are told simply, are readable, and the pictures are pleasing.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 60w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 20w. |
Slater, John Herbert. How to collect books. $2. Macmillan.
“Mr. J. H. Slater has been writing on the subject for twenty-five years, and is regarded as one of the leading authorities in England.... The book ... might better be called a ‘Primer of book-collecting.’ Much information interspersed with illustrations, is crowded into less than two hundred pages.”—Outlook.
“The text is generally accurate.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 468. O. 7, 990w. |
“For a beginner the knowledge contained in the volume may be of great assistance.”