“The volume will have its uses, but we should have preferred something more to the purpose.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 324. S. 2, ‘05. 200w. |
Janssen, Johannes. History of the German people at the close of the middle ages; tr. from the Germ, by A. M. Christie. v. 7-8. [*]$6.25. Herder.
“These two volumes cover the period between the years 1550-1580.... Within those thirty years fell such events as: The religious conference at Worms in 1557, the Diet of Augsburg in 1559, the Grumbach-Gotha conspiracy for a Lutheran empire, the effects in Germany of the religious wars in France and the Netherlands, the war against the Turks, the establishment and progress of the Jesuits in Germany, and the concluding sessions and general effect of the Council of Trent. These great events and many others of similar moment are treated with Janssen’s well-known fulness of detail, abundance of scholarship, and sturdy Catholic spirit.”—Cath. World.
| + + + | Cath. World. 81: 117. Ap. ‘05. 610w. (Review of vols. VII. and VIII.) |
Japp, Alexander H. [Robert Louis Stevenson; a record, an estimate, and a memorial.] [*]$1.50. Scribner.
The author who, thru a common interest in Thoreau, came to know Stevenson well in his early Edinburgh days, gives a critical discussion of his life and works, with some new facts and some newly published letters.
“It contains a good deal of valuable matter presented in the most scrappy and disjointed way; as well as some matter which is not valuable at all.” H. W. Boynton.
| + — | Atlan. 96: 280. Ag. ‘05. 200w. | |
| + + | Dial. 38: 358. My. 16, ‘05. 480w. |
“The criticism on Stevenson’s various styles in his varied work is often acute and just. Altogether the book in parts has a strong interest for the Stevenson enthusiast, but will hardly attract the general reading public.”