This romantic story of a young Frenchman, who, lost and alone in the new world, is befriended by an Indian girl who leads him back to his people and in whom he awakens such intellect and religious fervor, that he comes to love her and takes her back to France and makes her his wife, is based upon the attempts of the French Huguenots to settle America in the sixteenth century. The historical element, however, is subordinated to the forest love story.

*+Critic. 47: 580. D. ‘05. 10w.
*+ —N. Y. Times. 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 300w.
*+Outlook. 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.

Johnson, Wolcott. An old man’s idyl. [*]$1. McClurg.

A homey story, an autobiography in scattered diary form, in which a husband and father tells of his late love, his happy marriage, his honeymoon in Europe, and the birth of his two little girls who grow up, are educated, and finally marry, leaving him to look back over a long life which they and their mother rounded out into a perfect idyl, and a prayer.

“This old man’s little ‘idyl’ has a peculiarly reminiscent, speculative flavor which now and then recalls Ik Marvel and George William Curtis and others of that school of amiable and dearly beloved dreamers.”

+N. Y. Times. 10: 372. Je. 10. ‘05. 220w.

“The story is not an intellectual one. It is not an intense one. Tenderness and sanity, good will and unaffected English make the progress of the recital agreeable and almost imperceptible. Mr. Johnson is to be congratulated upon the sincerity and simplicity of this unpretentious little volume.”

+Reader. 6: 106. Je. ‘05. 230w.

Johnston, Charles, and Spencer, Carita. Ireland’s story; a short history of Ireland for schools, reading circles, and general readers. [**]$1.40; school ed. [*]$1.10. Houghton.

Beginning with the legendary past, this volume follows the history of Ireland down to modern times. In the discussions the authors touch upon the Irish church, home rule, land purchase, the Irish in America, on the continent, and in the British empire. The Irish literary revival is fully treated and there is a closing section on the derivation of Irish names. The book is illustrated with views, portraits and maps.