| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 220w. |
Swift, John N., and Birge, William S. No surrender. $1.50. Broadway pub.
The story of a “strange voyage in a strange country,” which narrates the stirring adventures of the purloined “Dona Inez,” under her piratical crew. These unlawfully minded seamen undergo almost every experience in the gamut of marine catastrophe while one of its former officers is speeding overland to head off disagreeable contingencies with the Chilean naval department.
Swift, Jonathan. [Journal to Stella], together with other writings relating to Stella and Vanessa; with the notes of Sir Walter Scott. [*]$1.25. Scribner.
Swift’s well-known classic is the latest issue in the “Caxton series.” “The compact size, limp lambskin binding, light paper, large clear type, and photogravure frontispiece give an excellent example of modern progress in bookmaking.” (Critic.)
| + | Critic. 46: 284. Mr. ‘05. 60w. |
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Love’s crosscurrents. $1.50. Harper.
A revived and rechristened work which some years ago appeared in the “Tatler.” “The situation which Mr. Swinburne presents to us is that of four cousins, brought up more or less together, two of whom are women and are married. With each is in love the brother of the other, and behind them all is the old Lady Midhurst, aunt of one pair and grandmother of the other, who plays the part of a shrewd and ill-natured Greek chorus.... The book is a study in calf-love, yet with something noble behind it; and the background is one of dreary country life, worldliness, and cynical old age.” (Spec.)
“A book so studded with quips and witticisms will always repay reading. There is no cleverness shown in bringing the dramatic episodes to a clear and sharp point, and the discrimination between one character and another is so slight as to be almost imperceptible.”
| — + — | Acad. 68: 726. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1490w. |