[*] “Mr. Swingle has combined between the covers of one book not only much that has been treated of in the many smaller books, but he has also presented considerable other valuable matter in an original and interesting manner.” Arthur M. Waitt.
| + + | Engin. N. 54: 645. D. 14, ‘05. 1430w. |
Sylvestre, Joshua, ed. See Christmas carols, ancient and modern.
Symonds, E. M. (George Paston, pseud.). [*] B. R. Haydon and his friends. [**]$3. Dutton.
“Haydon was a man much talked of in his day but little mentioned in our own. As a critic, despite his own sharply cut individuality, his egotism and vanity stood in the way of a proper perspective of men and things. As a painter he had undeniable power, and he used it with knowledge; he was a painter who thought.... The present well-printed volume ... helps more clearly to realize Haydon’s excellencies and limitations.”—Outlook.
[*] “Miss Symonds is rather too cold a biographer.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 1099. O. 21, ‘05. 1550w. | |
| * | + | Lond. Times. 4: 347. O. 20, ‘05. 1590w. |
| * | Nation. 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “As a book about art, even about the art of a singularly arid time in an arid country George Paston’s Haydon has little value or interest to-day. For its ‘collections and recollections,’ George Paston’s volume is pleasant reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 850. D. 2, ‘05. 1470w. | |
| * | + + | Outlook. 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “With such a subject, then, Mr. Paston could not write a dull book, and his ‘Life’ of Haydon does not contain a page that is not alive with a grim comedy or poignant with a yet grimmer tragedy.”