Davis, Richard Harding. [Miss Civilization.] [**]50c. Scribner.
“A comedy in one act, founded on a story by the late James Harvey Smith. By means of strategy, the daughter of a wealthy man succeeds in holding three thieves in her home until the arrival of the police, whom she had summoned by telephone when she first heard the burglars trying to file their way into the house.”—Bookm.
“This playlet is admirably suited for parlor and amateur theatricals, where it will furnish both to actors and audiences unalloyed delight.”
| + | Ind. 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 80w. |
“This is a lively and amusing play. It is not badly suited for amateur rendering.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 30w. |
Davison, Charles. [Study of recent earthquakes.] $1.50. imp. Scribner.
“This copiously illustrated volume ... gives a popular account of the results which have been arrived at by modern seismology.... Rather than grouping seismic phenomena, as we should expect to find them in a text-book, the author has given a concise history of eight disturbances, each of which has a special interest.... A subject attractive to the general reader which is referred to in several chapters as an account of signs which have given warning of a coming earthquake.”—Nature.
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 404. Ap. 1. 710w. |
“Mr. Davidson’s book is well worth reading, whilst the manner in which its contents have been arranged should obtain for it a circulation amongst those who seek for general information.”