“We cannot leave it without a word of recognition for the extraordinarily lucid style which this veteran professor ... has achieved. It might well be the envy if not the despair of professional writers.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10:649. O. 7, ‘05. 680w. |
Flint, George Elliot. Power and health through progressive exercise. [*]$1.50. Baker.
In a plea for heavy work in the gymnasium, the author lays aside light weight systems, and outlines a course in heroic strength-development. He maintains that “it is not much work requiring many slight efforts, but much less work requiring great efforts that make the best quality of brain and brawn.”
| + | Dial. 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 300w. |
[*] Flood, William H. Grattan. Story of the harp. [*]$1.25. Scribner.
The history of the harp is given in this volume, from its earliest form in Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia, also its use in the Jewish temples and Christian churches, its appearance in Ireland, with a full description of Irish harps and harpists, and a discussion of the increasing use of the harp in the orchestra. There are appendices upon the Æolian harp, and Epochs in the history of harp-making. The volume is illustrated.
| * | + | Nation. 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 190w. |
[*] “A more definite plan, a more skillful presentation, a more detailed and critical discussion and description would have made a book more valuable to the student and not less agreeable to the general reader.” Richard Aldrich.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 360w. |