“This new book of Jimmy’s adventures ... deals with the travels of James and his friend Mike ... from West Thompsonville, somewhere in New York state, to Paris, by way of the fields and country roads, the railroad, the canal, a steamboat, and finally a freighter from Montreal to Havre. Jimmy is in search of his father and mother, whose address, he knows, is ‘Grand Hotel, Europe.’”—N. Y. Times.
| Critic. 47: 381. O. ‘05. 70w. |
“Jimmy does not age or grow tiresome.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 398. Je. 17, ‘05. 710w. |
“Jimmy Brown’s fortunes and the manner of telling, while quite frothy, are excellent vacation reading.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] Aldrich, Richard. Guide to The ring of the Nibelung. $1.25. Ditson.
A trustworthy guide to Wagner’s trilogy for the student and music lover. Part I. touches upon Wagner, the man and composer, and the circumstances leading to the composition; also gives a resume of the legendary sources from which material was drawn; Part II. is an authoritative essay upon Wagner’s musico-dramatic system; Part III. presents a careful analysis of the three dramas of the trilogy.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. Judith of Bethulia; a tragedy. $1. Houghton.
A drama in four acts, written for Nance O’Neil, whose photograph appears as the frontispiece. Mr. Aldrich builds the drama from his poem, “Judith,” in which the heroine, a strong, just, refined woman, is impelled by her religion and patriotism to a deed of unwonted daring. He introduces here and there new portions which “show no decline of the power to evoke pictorial images and touch deep sources of feeling by which the early work of Mr. Aldrich was distinguished.” (N. Y. Times).