[*] “Challenges comparison with Betty Sage’s ‘Rhymes of real children’ of a year ago. The verse is correspondingly humorous, perhaps a trifle more sophisticated.”
| + | Nation. 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “The verses are not without point, but are entirely lacking in that ‘turn of the phrase’ which makes the verses of Stevenson or Lewis Carroll dwell in the memory of a child.”
| + — | R. of Rs. 32: 767. D. ‘05. 110w. |
Whitson, John Harvey. Barbara, a woman of the West. 75c. Little.
A new popular edition of a story which follows the fortunes of a young woman in search of her ne’er-do-well husband. He has some claim to literary attainments, starts off on a tour of fortune hunting, and becomes mentally deranged. The scenes shift from Kansas plains to Cripple Creek, thence to San Diego, and the story ends happily despite the fact that Barbara’s Enoch Arden reappears after her second marriage.
Whitson, John H. Justin Wingate, ranchman. [†]$1.50. Little.
Life in the West, where the interests of the ranchman and the farmer are at war is shown thru the medium of story characters. The hero who enters the fight in the Colorado legislature, the doctor who sacrifices all for the unworthy woman who was once his wife, the rancher, choleric but honest, and the son who disgraces him, stand out clearly in the scenes of love, political strife and danger.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 21: 367. Je. ‘05. 160w. | |
| Dial. 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 120w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 272. Ap. 22, ‘05. 80w. |