| + + | Nation. 80: 77. Ja. 26, ‘05. 920w. |
“She leaves us with an impression not to be gained by other readings of the exaltation of the Verrocchio ideal. The biographer and critic renders an equally important service in discriminating between Verrocchio’s own work and those far feebler achievements of his followers sometimes attributed to him.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 240w. |
Culbertson, Anne Virginia. Banjo talks. $1. Bobbs.
A group of about fifty negro dialect poems, some of which sing, others dream, and many talk sound common sense.
“Here are many songs, poems and lullabies phrased in the homely terms and picturing the life and character of the Southern negro more accurately than labored essays. And more than this, these simple folk-lore songs, ditties and lullabies are composed with due regard to the laws of versification.”
| + | Arena. 34: 554. N. ‘05. 990w. |
[*] “Showing very little of the philosophical temper that makes Mr. Dunbar’s work unique, and being considerably less perfect in dialect, they have to their credit a decided imaginative quality, much picturesqueness of diction, and a charming spontaneity of conception and treatment.”
| + | Dial. 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 200w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] “The volume as a whole, with its humor, its pathos, its jumbled ratiocinations, gives a fairly complete portrait of the southern negro.”