| + | Ind. 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 50w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 471. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w. |
“A very convenient form of the greatest of Icelandic stories.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “We have no criticism to make on Mr. French’s execution of his task.”
| + + | Spec. 95: sup. 904. D. 2, ‘05. 280w. |
Dasent, Sir George Webbe. [Popular tales from the Norse.] [*]$2.50. Putnam.
The third edition of an 1859 English classic. “The book contains besides the ‘Tales,’ the introduction of the original edition, which considers broadly the origin and diffusion of folk tales in general, and of the Norse popular tales in particular.... A new part of the book is a memoir of the author by his son, Arthur Irwin Dasent, who gives an account of his father’s career from the time of his birth, on the island of St. Vincent, in 1817, to his death in England, in 1896. It is the story of an extraordinarily full and busy life, and a typically English record, at the same time, of recognition and merited reward.” (Nation).
“These, because of their manner and matter, are as fresh as on the day when they were first given in English garb. Scarcely a writer of recent time has been the possessor of such an English vocabulary or the master of such an English style. Dasent’s ‘Tales’ are in this way not only a singularly remarkable instance of felicitous translation from a foreign language into our own, but are at the same time a well of English, pure and undefiled, and a model of what English prose happily may be.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 114. F. 9, ‘05. 530w. |
Daumier, Honore. International Studio. Daumier and Gavarni. [*]$2; [*]$3. Lane.