“Mr. Fletcher’s avowed object is to avoid intolerable dulness, even when discoursing of the Norman conquest; and without further delay we may as well state that he has succeeded. The dry-as-dust critic might pick holes in some of his statements. But Mr. Fletcher has a grasp of essentials, and some lapses may well be condoned in the case of one whose light touch really does lend interest to the mediaeval history of England.”
| + + — | Nation. 80:235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 560w. |
“The book he has now given us is eminently characteristic, full of his own energetic, practical activity, his love of health, fresh air, and good exercise. Mr. Fletcher’s story is, in the main, highly intelligible and adequately consecutive. He has certainly given us here a sketch of living men by a living man. Peculiarly interesting is the picture attempted of an imaginary village in pre-Norman, Norman, and post-Norman times. A word must also be said in praise of the capital little chapter of geological history.”
| + + | Nature. 71:385. F. 23, ‘05. 470w. |
Fletcher, Margaret. Light for new times: a book for Catholic girls. 60c. Benziger.
Four essays which aim to help Catholic girls to enter upon the life which succeeds school days with some practical warning as to what the realities of life will be. They are entitled, Without the way there is no going; Liberty; Responsibility; and Professional life.
[*] “Miss Fletcher really meets a serious want. Her work is of a high order; her aim is in the right direction.”
| + | Cath. World. 82:262. N. ‘05. 540w. |
Flint, Austin. Handbook of physiology. [*]$5. Macmillan.
The author states that this book is the outgrowth of “a desire to present to students a work that may serve to connect pure physiology with the physiology especially useful to physicians.... I have endeavored to adapt it to the curricula of medical schools where the subject is taught in the English language.... The subject has been treated from a medical standpoint, not unduly neglecting, it is hoped, pure physiology and biology.”