“The editor seeks to describe Franklin as the complete citizen—of his city, his country, and the world. The task is superficially done, and is marred by the strong prejudices of the writer.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 80w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 180w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 90w. | |
| Sat. R. 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 140w. |
Fraser, Edward. Famous fighters of the fleet. $1.75. Macmillan.
These “Glimpses through the cannon smoke in the days of the old navy,” set forth the gallant fights fought by the insignificant little English crafts which used to rule the sea. The past and present is strikingly contrasted in the opening chapter, and then follow accounts of the capture of the French ship Foudroyant by a little Monmouth whose namesake today makes her seem a mere toy, the famous ships that bore the name Formidable, the Zebra, whose fighting captain, Faulkner, carried, by storm, a French fort in the West Indies, and others. The requiem of the Téméraire. the subject of Turner’s picture and Ruskin’s oration, is fittingly sounded and the book closes with an account of how Lord Charles Beresford successfully took the little Condor into action during the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882.
| + — | Nation. 80: 414. My. 25, ‘05. 350w. |
Fraser, Mary Crawford (Mrs. Hugh Fraser). Maid of Japan. [†]$1.25. Holt.
The tale of a Japanese girl with the music of the sea and the glory of the cliffs in her nature. Sixteen years before, her mother had walked into the sea because the Englishman who had wed her sailed away and left her. The young girl’s simple life as shell gatherer is disturbed one day by the coming of a young Englishman who sings love songs to her over the water, clears up the mystery of her parentage, and takes her back to his England.
“She has a wonderful vocabulary, mastery of language, fine literary finish, and a keen sense of the dramatic. There is no false step or slip of the pen in her word drawing and shadings of Japanese life.” William Elliot Griffis.
| + + | Critic. 47: 265. S. ‘05. 140w. |
“The volume is quite unworthy of the author of the ‘Letters from Japan.’” Adachi Kinnosuké.