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“Mr. Everett’s sketches of their lives and works seem adequate and the translations, some of which are original, are vigorous. The author would have improved his work if he had pruned the rhetoric, more suitable for lectures than essays.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 99: 746. Je. 3, ‘05. 310w. |
“He is generally just. We do not much like the fun that he makes of the romances. It is somewhat cheap.”
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[*] Eytinge, Rose. Memories of Rose Eytinge. [**]80c; [**]$1.20. Stokes.
Into her own autobiography Rose Eytinge has introduced a wealth of sidelight information on the American drama of the past fifty years. She was an associate and personal friend of Edwin Booth, J. W. and Lester Wallack, E. L. Davenport and Augustin Daly, and her observations are all from the vantage point of first hand knowledge.
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Fairless, Michael, pseud. [Grey Brethren, and other fragments in prose and verse.] $1.25. Dutton.
Four fairy tales, five papers and five poems make up this posthumous volume. “‘The grey brethren,’ which gives its title to the volume, is a tenderly and reticently touched reminiscence of two maidenly ladies.... A German Christmas eve is a descriptive sketch of characteristic domestic charm. A Christmas idyll is an imaginative fantasy full of fine feeling and thoughtful religion.... Luvly Miss ... is the simple record of a poor child, dying from an accident, and her devout worship of an altogether ridiculous doll.” (Acad.)