[*] Way, Thomas R. and Dennis, G. R. Art of James McNeill Whistler: an appreciation. $2. Macmillan.
A third and cheaper edition of a book which “contains chapters on Whistler’s various styles and subjects, with many illustrations, some of them in color, and a single chapter on the artist as a writer. It is not a life of Whistler; it is an appreciation merely.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “The new edition is an excellent compact little book, not differing except in outward details from its predecessors.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 471. Jl. 15, ‘05. 260w. |
[*] “Their method is rather eulogistic than critical.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 690. Jl. 15, ‘05. 30w. | |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 640. N. ‘05. 80w. |
Wayne, Charles Stokes. Prince to order. [†]$1.50. Lane.
A young Wall street broker, Carey Grey, wakes up one morning to find himself in Paris with a new name, new friends, and his black hair and beard bleached yellow. It develops that he has come under the power of an old phrenologist and chemist who is passing him off as the crown prince of the small kingdom of Budaria, whose king is dying. Grey has come to himself because the old scientist’s power is weakened by a fatal illness, but he keeps up the delusion in order to trap the other conspirators. The complications are many; Grey learns that he has been forced to embezzle from his own New York firm while under this strange influence and his friends believe him dead and dishonored; it is only after many adventures that he vindicates his honor, and re-wins his American fiancée.
“Its treatment lacks distinction, but the tale has one or two features of originality. It is not a bad specimen of its class: lively, entertaining and tolerably ingenious.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 778. Je. 24. 290w. |