| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 510. Ag. 5, ‘05. 390w. |
“The story is told with the real poet’s rapture in rhythm and in delicately tinted phrase. Its cadences are true and songful, its imagery fresh in conception and vista-opening.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 474. S. ‘05. 200w. |
Trow, Charles Edward. Old shipmasters of Salem, [**]$2.50. Putnam.
“A plain story, well told, of the old merchant-captains who used to sail square-rigged vessels out of the Massachusetts port to the East Indies, a hundred years or so ago; and of later voyages, down to the decline and extinction of that once-flourishing industry.... The text is freely illustrated. The portraits of some of these marine worthies are of more than passing interest. That of Capt. Joseph Peabody (1757-1844), for instance.... There are several pictures of ships.”—Nation.
“Seems to know little of its connexion with English or American history.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 750. Je. 17. 240w. |
“A book containing much curious and interesting matter ... served up with a generous pictorial accompaniment.”
| + | Dial. 38: 241. Ap. 1, ‘05. 190w. |
“As a whole this rambling volume has little to attract and nothing to hold the general reader.”