Jamison, Cecilia Viets (Mrs. Samuel Jamison). Penhallow family; a story. [†]$1.50. Wilde.
A little wanderer, back from India to her father’s old home, is dropped into an uncle’s family where three self-centered, noisy youngsters ruled by a hard task-mistress, “Aunt Gordon,” make life miserable for the new-comer. Her brave helpfulness in bringing happiness out of the confused and warring forces of the household frames a lesson for every young reader to profit by.
Jane, L. Cecil. Coming of Parliament, 1350-1660. (Story of the nations, no. 73.) [**]$1.35. Putnam.
“The general scheme of this volume is indicated by its title. It deals more especially with the development of the Constitution within the three centuries with which it is concerned, and it is an attempt to trace the steps by which Parliament attained to a permanently important share in the government of England. While stress is laid upon this theme, other sides of the national life have not been ignored.” (N. Y. Times.) There are many illustrations, a map of England, and a chronology.
“What Mr. Jane has really written is an English history of a period. But, while its accuracy it notable, it has other merits which are astonishing. The events of the period, particularly towards the close, were many and complex and stirring; yet, although this book is almost as compact as an encyclopaedia, it is so fluent and fascinating that one reads it with the delight which is given by great romance. Mr. Jane, it is true, is not without predilections. His imagination is attracted by the navy. In all other respects, though invariably he arrests attention, he is coldly judicial. Besides being exceptionally well-informed, our historian brought to his task a fresh, independent and penetrating intellect.” W. Earl Hodgson.
| + + + | Acad. 68: 78. Ja. 28, ‘05. 840w. |
“As a book professedly concerned with ‘the coming of parliament’ and the place of parliament in national life, it cannot be said to have any particular merit or value, or to render of less service any of the accepted histories of English constitutional development.” Edward Porritt.
| — — + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 917. Jl. ‘05. 230w. |
“We have failed to find in the latest issue of this well-known series any general connexion with the subject of parliamentary government or the least pretension to originality of thought or vigour of delineation; whilst research is wanting.”
| — — | Ath. 1905, 2: 76. Jl. 15. 200w. |