| + | Ind. 58: 207. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1030w. |
“He does not attack the Catholic church, but arraigns its priests and prelates who have become corrupted.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 165. Mr. 18, ‘05. 350w. |
Crowley, Mary Catherine. Heroine of the strait. 75c. Little.
A popular edition of this romance of Detroit in the time of the Ottawa chief, Pontiac. An account of the thrilling events connected with the pitiless siege of Detroit, through which runs the love story of the young Scotchman, Sterling, and Angelique Cuillerier, a brave daughter of the frontier.
Crowley, Mary Catherine. Love thrives in war: a romance of the frontier in 1812; with front, by Clyde O. De Land. 75c. Little.
A new popular edition of a lively romance in which Perry, Tippecanoe, and Tecumseh figure. The heroine, a Scotch girl, who has a trio of suitors, promises to marry the man she loathes in order to save the life of her lover. The author has made a thoro study of the scenes and times which she depicts.
Cruttwell, Maud. Verrocchio. [*]$2. Scribner.
“To her biographies of Mantegna and the Robbias our author now presents one of Verrocchio, perhaps the least known and appreciated of fifteenth century masters.” (Outlook). The biographer has aimed to show “upon what dubious evidence the attribution to Verrocchio of such work as the Tornabuoni relief and other inferior sculpture and painting is based, to trace his steady development from the immature work of the Baptism to the full burst of his powers in the statue of the Colleoni, and to arrive at a truer estimate of his artistic capabilities by the rejection of all inferior work, the attribution of which is merely hypothetical, taking as the standard of judgment only such works as are proved beyond possibility of doubt to be authentic.” The book is fully illustrated.
“It is in her purely aesthetic judgments that we find Miss Cruttwell least satisfactory. Taken as a whole, Miss Cruttwell’s study is the most accurate, impartial, and complete that has yet been made on the subject; but it leaves room for some writer touched more deeply by the imaginative aspect of Verrocchio’s work to give him his exact place in the temple of fame.”