[*] “While not up to her best work, it is still Rhoda Broughton—and that is a guarantee of interest and of quality unusual and piquant.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 370w. |
[*] “A good many of the details introduced to complete the picture are frankly repellant. It is rather melancholy to see Miss Broughton’s fine talent wasted on the conscientious delineation of ineffectual or uncomely types of goodness and decadence.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 531. O. 7, ‘05. 1000w. |
Brouner, Walter Brooks, and Fung Yuet Mow. Chinese made easy; with an introd. by Herbert A. Giles. [*]$6. Macmillan.
“This is a handsomely got-up book, with a red cloth cover and a gilt dragon impressed on it. The title-page is on the right hand and the pages of the book follow from right to left as in a Chinese book.... What ‘Chinese made easy’ teaches is one of the dialects spoken in the Canton province.... To be pronounced useful the book should have for title ‘Cantonese made easy,’ and the spelling should be made to correspond with that adopted in all other works on the subject, local deviations and solecisms being changed into their proper equivalents in standard Cantonese.”—Nation.
“Only those who are to work among the Cantonese natives, including many of the Chinese residents in the United States, may find it of some use.” F. Hirth.
| + — | Bookm. 20: 457. Ja. ‘05. 1160w. | |
| + — | Nation. 80: 179. Mr. 2, ‘05. 510w. |
[*] Brown, Abbie Farwell. Star jewels, and other wonders. [†]$1. Houghton.
“A collection of original, modern fairy stories, with the starfish as the theme—five stories, five little poems, and five pictures, like the points of the starfish.”—Critic.