[*] “It is hardly too much to say that an hundred pages may be selected from Professor Dunbar’s writings which are as well worth preservation and careful study as a similar number of pages in the works of any of the great masters of the science since Adam Smith. Certainly there is no American economist whose writings deserve a higher rank.” G. S. C.
| + + + | Yale. R. 14: 328. N. ‘05. 1000w. |
[*] Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Howdy, honey, howdy. [**]$1.50. Dodd.
“In this collection of verse the ... many-gifted lyrist of his race strikes again almost exclusively those chords of pathos and humor, in purely dialect verse, which have won for the author a quite unique position among America’s ‘minor poets’ of to-day. The publishers have rendered the volume very attractive by adding to the racy metrical text characteristic photographs and tasteful decorations; the former by Leigh Richmond Miner; the latter by Will Jenkins.”—Critic.
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[*] “Mr. Dunbar’s part in the volume needs no description, save to say that it is in his characteristic vein and well up to his usual standard in quality.”
| + | Dial. 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 130w. | |
| * | + | Nation. 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 60w. |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 290w. |
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of sunshine and shadow. [**]$1. Dodd.
About eighty poems are grouped here which range from the grave to the gay. The author keeps well to his special field of folk lore. A number of the poems are in negro dialect, “portraying the pranks and plottings of a rollicking pickaninny world.”
“His present volume is in no wise disappointing: as in its predecessors we find in ‘Lyrics of sunshine and shadow’ a rich sympathy with the homely characteristic themes treated and a happy deftness in the management of rhyme and rhythm.”