[*] “It is not so mischievous as its predecessors, because it is not nearly so well done.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 871. N. 25, ‘05. 90w. |
Horsley, Walter C., tr. See La Colonie, Jean Martin de.
Hort, Fenton John Anthony. Village sermons. [*] $1.75. Macmillan.
Dr. Hort, a noted scholar and Christian gentleman, writes with simplicity for the country folk with whom he had to deal as the parson of a Hertfordshire village. The sermons “are generally founded on some incident of the day’s service, some sentences in a psalm, or more often some petition in a collect.” (Lond. Times.)
| * | + + | Lond. Times. 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 470w. |
| * | + — | Outlook. 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “We must confess that the sermons strike us as being highly conscientious but a trifle dull. Yet here and there, genius shows itself in the easy power of expressing a great deal in a few words.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 190. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w. |
Horton, George. Monk’s treasure. $1.50. Bobbs.
Ta Castra, an island of the Cyclades, in the Ægean sea, is the scene of a series of adventures in which a young American, buying up Greek argols for his uncle’s firm, and his interpreter, a sturdy Scotchman, figure conspicuously. The American straightway becomes involved in breaking up an alliance between a beautiful Greek bond-girl and her belligerent betrothed, Spiro. Thru treasure, hidden in a monastery, he proves the girl to be a duchess, and outwitting the monks and Spiro alike, escapes with Polyxene and her bags of gold.