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Harrison, Edith Ogden (Mrs. Carter Henry). Moon princess. [**]$1.25. McClurg.
The youngest and most beautiful of the princesses of the moon asks as a boon of her moon-queen mother that she and her brother, the sun prince Dorian, may spend their honeymoon upon the earth. They and their retinue pass down a silver ladder made for them by the moon sprites, and visit all parts of the earth and the caves of the ocean. They are told about the little dwellers of the marsh, and the rainbow sisters, and hear stories of the jewelled beach, the lost ocean, the princess Sunset and many others. The book is full of fanciful conceits and is charmingly illustrated in color by Lucy Fitch Perkins.
[*] “A nice new fairy story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 190w. |
[*] “A simply told and prettily fanciful tale.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 20w. |
Harrison, Frederic. Chatham, [**]$1.25. Macmillan.
“Fundamentally out of sympathy with the work which is Chatham’s chief glory—the creation of the British empire” (Spec.), Mr. Harrison follows Pitt’s career “through the long years in opposition, through the days of savage attacks upon Walpole, upon ‘the brilliant Carteret, the vacillating Pulteney, the tricky Newcastle,’ the king’s ‘Hanoverian policy,’ the rivalries in the Commons with Henry Fox and Murray, who was later Lord Mansfield; the tenure of the Pay office and the marvel of Pitt’s perfect honesty, the support of the Pelham ministry (and certain inconsistencies thereto appertaining), till at last, in 1756, ‘the terrible cornet of horse,’ the bugbear of governments, became ‘First minister,’ though under the nominal leadership of the Duke of Devonshire.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A life of William Pitt, the elder, without sympathy and without conviction.”