“Quiller-Couch has a deft hand at character sketching, and in this latest story of his, one finds many character sketches and little story. Mr. Quiller-Couch has a goodly humor which saves his story from a certain melancholy gloominess which it might otherwise possess too abundantly.”
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“There is not a forced or a strained note anywhere. The sense of proportion is everywhere evident in the book, so that when one closes it one is in possession of a little corner of the tapestry of life where not a stitch has been dropped.”
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“One of those novels made to be enjoyed rather than criticised.”
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Coudert, Frederick René. Addresses, historical—political—sociological. [**]$2.50. Putnam.
The twenty-one addresses of this eminent international lawyer, which his editor has selected for this volume include: International arbitration; The Anglo-American arbitration treaty; The rights of ships; Christopher Columbus; Louis Kossuth; Andrew Jackson; Charles O’Conor, Montesquieu; Chief Justice Waite; France, Morals and manners; Reply to Dumas’s advocacy of divorce; Lying as a fine art; The bar of New York from 1792 to 1892; Young men in politics; and Columbia college.
[*] “In selecting from among his subject’s addresses those for use in this book ‘P. F.’ has been wholly successful, and has made a volume of much interest.”
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