+ + —Nation. 80: 382. My. 11, ‘05. 940w.

Kerr, Robert Pollok. Blue flag: or, The Covenanters who contended for Christ’s crown and covenant. 75c. Presbyterian com.

The origin and history of the Covenanters is accurately and stirringly presented in this little book which is intended for class study in Sunday schools and young people’s societies. To this end a series of questions is given at the close of the volume.

[*] Kerst, Friedrich, comp. [Beethoven: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words]: tr. and ed. by H: E: Krehbiel. [*]$1. Huebsch.

Much of the material used for compiling this Beethoven handbook has been drawn from letters, reports of conversations, and diaries heretofore unavailable. The author has classified his cullings under appropriate chapter headings, and they serve to enlighten Beethoven lovers upon the great composer’s spiritual, philosophical and human observations.

[*] Kerst, Friedrich, comp. [Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words]; tr. and ed. by H: E: Krehbiel. [*]$1. Huebsch.

From material gleaned here and there, the author has pieced together “an autobiography of Mozart written without conscious purpose, and for that reason peculiarly winning, illuminating and convincing. The outward things in Mozart’s life are all but ignored in it, but there is a frank and full disclosure of the great musician’s artistic, intellectual and moral character, made in his own words.”

[*] Kester, Vaughan. Fortunes of the Landrays. [†]$1.50. McClure.

This story “begins and ends in an Ohio town, and is essentially a picture of life in that community; but the adventures of certain of its characters take us at times to the far West with the forty-niners—to Salt Lake City in the early days of Brigham Young, to the closing scenes of the Civil war, and to the prairies of Kansas. The story is one of three generations, not only of the Landrays, but of the other families with whose fortunes theirs are associated.”—Dial.

[*] “On the whole, a solid and capable story, with flashes of brilliancy.”