| + + | Critic. 47: 479. N. ‘05. 130w. |
“Altogether it is an interesting excursion through historical lore for the illustration of a significant feature of mediaeval English life that Chaucer has kept in permanent remembrance.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 620. S. 28, ‘05. 840w. |
Ward, John. Our Sudan: its pyramids and progress. [*]$8.40. Scribner.
The author gives his reader the privilege of skipping the letterpress and looking at his seven hundred illustrations. This picture book of Soudanese snap-shots is accompanied by chapters “which give interesting if not exactly novel, accounts of events and sundry episodes in the story of the African continent during the last fifty centuries, combined with details of explorations and military expeditions to remote spots during the last fifty years.” (Sat. R.)
“There can be no doubt of its interest or its future popularity.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 557. My. 6. 430w. |
“It is pieced together in so haphazard a manner and with such contempt for all sense of proportion that it can hardly be viewed as a serious guide to anybody. Mr. Ward makes many needless mistakes.”
| — — + | Sat. R. 100: 23. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1160w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 210w. |
Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward). Marriage of William Ashe. [†]$1.50. Harper.