| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 877. D. 9, ‘05. 420w. |
[*] “The artist’s work is often amateurish and the arrangement of the pictures awkward.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 692. N. 25, ‘05. 180w. |
Dudley, Albertus True. In the line. [†]$1.25. Lee.
The third volume in the “Phillips Exeter” series tells the story of a sturdy Boston boy who having worked up to the position of guard on the football team is forbidden by his father to play in one of the crucial games of the season. Opportunity is thus given for arguments on both sides of the much-discussed football question.
“Except in so far as it lends encouragement to football ... the book is bent to encourage all sorts of good things—honesty, democracy, morality, courage, a harmless gayety.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 572. S. 2, ‘05. 230w. |
Duff, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant. Notes from a diary, 1896-1901. 2v. [*]$4. Dutton.
These volumes close the notes from a diary which contains the record of half-a century ending as the reign of Edward VII. begins. Sir Mountstuart has avoided the chief interests of his life, politics and administration but has preserved “some interesting and amusing things that would otherwise have soon disappeared,” anecdotes, bits of verse, stories of travels, of dinners, and of visits among the most brilliant men of his time.
“Very entertaining volumes. They paint the manners of the time more graphically than any novelist has been able to do.”