[*] Bolton, Sarah Knowles (Mrs. Charles E. Bolton). Famous American authors. $2. Crowell.
These essays were first published in 1887, and they are now re-issued “in a handsomely bound volume with two dozen illustrations portraying in fine half-tone reproductions the persons and the homes of six representatives of the old New England school, ... Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes.” (Dial.)
[*] “Aside from its literary interest, it ought to be popular as a holiday gift-book.”
| + | Critic. 47: 573. D. ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “She manages to tell the familiar facts in a genial, lively way, interlarding them with anecdotes or personal impressions, and making her main theme in every case the essential quality of the author discussed.”
| + | Dial. 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] Bombaugh, Charles Carroll. Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature. [**]$3 Lippincott.
“Forty-five years ago Dr. Bombaugh published the first edition of his famous book, ‘Gleanings for the curious.’ ... An entertaining collection of curious things in letters. His book lasted for nearly fifty years; it would have lasted longer had not its plates been destroyed by fire. Instead of merely resetting the book, Dr. Bombaugh has made a second volume along the same lines only with more recent matter.... The new volume contains the results of the most recent discoveries in many branches of literature ... and presents various jokes that have a very recent ring.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “The total amount of curious information is so vastly greater than the amount compressible within a single volume that a book of this type is more useful for random reading than for reference purposes.”
| + | Dial. 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 140w. | |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 845. D. 2, ‘05. 220w. |
| * | + + | Outlook. 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 150w. |