| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 214. Ap. 8, ‘05. 250w. |
“A novel of unusual setting and some extraordinary power.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 100w. |
“Book that can be enjoyed for its style alone. ‘The way of the North’ is, beyond doubt, the best written American book of the season.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 150w. |
Chesebrough, Robert A. Christmas guests and other poems. $1.50. Little, J. J.
The author has dedicated these eighteen poems to his granddaughter, but they are verses which appeal to his age rather than to hers, the ghosts of the past flit thru them, regrets, happy memories, thoughts of death and the hereafter, while they all breathe forth the mellow philosophy which comes with years.
Chesnut, Mary Boykin. Diary from Dixie: being her diary from November 1861 to 1865; ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary. [**]$2.50. Appleton.
The author was the wife of James Chesnut, jr., United States senator 1859-1861, and afterwards aide to Jefferson Davis, and a brigadier general in the confederate army. The diary gives a clear picture of the social life during the war, and of the events which took place in Charlestown, Montgomery and Richmond.
“It is for the picture of social life in the South under the stress of an unsuccessful struggle that this lively and fascinating book will be chiefly read.”