Whitney, Helen Hay. [Sonnets and songs.] [**]$1.20. Harper.
“All the sonnets and most of the songs give evidence both of temperament and of the study of the older poets, and frequently attain a richness of tone that neither could have accomplished without the other.” (Nation.) “Their mood is chiefly that of quiet wistfulness, touched by the fears and sorrows of uncertain human fate, but open also to the influences of wholesome joy and unaffected sentiment.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Every one of which is a finished bit of art. The work is of so even an excellence that it offers little room for choice.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 275. N. 1, ‘05. 480w. |
“Love poems, of a passion and sincere subtlety that are none too common.”
| + | Nation. 81: 303. O. 12, ‘05. 300w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 656. O. 7, ‘05. 660w. |
Whitney, Mrs. Helen Hay. Verses for Jock and Joan. [†]$1.50. Fox.
The marginal drawings and the many full page pictures in color by Charlotte Harding, with which this volume of little-folk’s verses is illustrated make it an unusually attractive giftbook.
[*] “A pretty book with graceful verses and dainty illustrations.”
| + | Critic. 47: 584. D. ‘05. 10w. |