“The book is chiefly deficient in failing to show the powerful influence of the bay on the social and economic development of the state. The volume contains many egregious lapses from fact.”
| — + | Nation. 80: 299. Ap. 13, ‘05. 540w. |
Bacon, Gertrude. Balloons, airships and flying machines. [*]50c. Dodd.
“The plainest narrative of a balloon trip told strictly from the airman’s point of view, in perfect equanimity, never mounting into any purple clouds, never soaring above any reader’s head, but sticking to the terra firma of plain fact, makes a far stronger impression upon the imagination than in any other style it ever could.” (Nation.) Such a narrative is Miss Bacon’s.
“Is a little triumph, due to a bright fresh mind drawing from the headwaters of information ideas that sparkle with genuine interest in the subject, which is allowed to run on in its own natural babble.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 330w. |
“Her story is well told, and, as technicalities are avoided, is interesting as well.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 441. Jl. 1, ‘05. 320w. |
Baddeley, St. Clair. Recent discoveries in the Forum. $1.25. Macmillan.
Books and pamphlets have appeared in great numbers furnishing technical details, measurements, etc., of the “revelations of pick and spade” about this historic site. “But the average English or American traveler has very much needed a smaller work, of equal accuracy but more popular and practicable, as a guide among these new-old stones and pillars and pavements. Such a book is now to be had in Mr. Baddeley’s ‘Recent discoveries.’ The author has been in close touch with all the work as it went on, and fortunately has seen fit to give us many incidents of the eventful days, and illustrations showing the scenes of transition.” (Dial).