[*] “It is, perhaps, unfortunate, that material of such unusual possibilities should have been squandered in a ‘first book,’ for as yet the writer’s equipment is lacking in dramatic force.”
| + — | Critic. 47:477. N. ‘05. 80w. |
“Mr. Fox tells his story well, in a way to touch both the heart and the imagination, but in addition to the story there is the interest of the vivid picture of a quaint, old village and a mode of life long past.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10:584. S. 2, ‘05. 550w. |
Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi). Words of St. Francis; sel. and tr. by Anne MacDonell. [*]60c. Dutton.
“Friends of St. Francis have left records of what in other men might be called ‘Table talk.’ Others of his sayings have come down to us at one further remove, from friends of the Saint’s friends. Some of these things Miss MacDonell has put together in this volume, trying, as she tells us, ‘to reflect his spirit, his temperament, and his attitude to life rather than his doctrine.’”—Spec.
“An admirable little book.”
| + | Spec. 94:23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 160w. |
Francis, M. E., pseud. See Blundell, Mary. E. (Sweetman).
Frankau, Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.). Eighteenth century artists and engravers. 2v. [*]$1.50. Macmillan.