| + + — | Nation. 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 90w. | |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] “This edition is illustrated in color with drawings that are as delightful as the text.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 889. D. 9, ‘05. 50w. | |
| * | + + | Spec. 95: 573. O. 14, ‘05. 160w. |
Austin, Alfred (Lamia, pseud.). Poet’s diary. $2. Macmillan.
“Italy and things Italian—a fertile theme—are the principal topics discussed; and well does the diarist know his Rome and Florence.... Changing one word of the poet’s warning to orators, we may say, ‘The gift of diary-writing, like the gift of writing mellifluous poetry, is a sorry and dangerous one unless inspired, sustained and restrained by ‘Reason in her most exalted moods.’’”—Dial.
“Dexterously spinning out sentence after sentence and paragraph after paragraph with a facile grace of composition, a deft interweaving of literary allusion and quotation, a ready succession of pleasing ideas, that cannot but excite our admiration. The diarist’s manner is winsome, and it seems ungracious to damn his book with faint praises; but not even the most gifted of us, not even a poet laureate, can always attain perfection.”
| + | Dial. 38: 129. F. 16, ‘05. 330w. | |
| + | Westminster Review. 163: 115. Ja. ‘05. 400w. |
Austin, Martha Waddill. Tristam and Isoult. $1. Badger, R: G.
“Instead of the German legend which pictures the character of Mark as a mild, noble, benign old man,” Mrs. Austin uses the text of Mallory which views King Mark as a “base, crafty, false-hearted scheming coward,” and “tells how, wearied in the struggle against Mark’s unremitting treachery Sir Tristam after the vile betrayal and battle behind the chapel on the rocks, in which he came so near to losing his life, bore Queen Isoult into her Launcelot’s country, and there lived with her in the castle of Joyous Garde.”
Austin, Mary. Isidro. [†]$1.50. Houghton.