“Is a collection of extravagant tales and character sketches. But the book is no better than an exhibition of the journalistic talent for writing up exhaustively from the slightest foundation of facts or fancy.”
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“It is clever—only too clever, witty, lively, cynical, even sentimental. Yet, after its fashion, human also. Above all, it is Mr. Zangwill’s own.”
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“Whimsicality too elaborate and often forced is made to take the place of humor, with the result that the reader is often puzzled and sometimes wearied.”
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“All the stories abound in wit and humor in detail, and ... some of the verses are brilliant.”
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Ziémssen, Ludwig. Johann Sebastian Bach; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. [**]60c. McClurg.
The life of Bach, contrary to most artists’ careers, manifests no repression of spontaneous, all-around development. “He was an affectionate father, laboring manfully and incessantly to support a large family; a good citizen ... a musician without an equal in the profundity of his knowledge and the richness of his productions; the founder of modern music, the master of the organ, a composer of the highest forms of sacred music; a plain humble man.” This view of the man fills the volume which belongs to “Life stories for young people.”