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[*] La Fontaine, Rachel Adelaide. Days and hours of Raphael, with a key to the hours. [**]$1. Grafton press.
“A little manual of art study, substantially bound, copiously illustrated, and intended for the tyro in matters aesthetic. The full page plates in half-tone, including, besides the seven ‘Days’ and the twelve ‘Hours,’ two portraits of Raphael, are of excellent quality. The accompanying notes of explanation are very elementary, presupposing little knowledge of art or mythology on the part of the reader.”—Dial.
[*] “It is a pity, seeing her effort for simplicity, that the author does not couch her ideas in less obscure and tortuously constructed sentences.”
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[*] “The explanations of the illustrations the book contains are comprehensive and interesting. The book will have a place in any collection of Raphaeliana.”
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| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 110w. |
Lahontan, Armand Louis de Delondarce, baron de. New voyages to North America; reprinted from the English ed. of 1703, with a facsimile of original title pages, and 24 maps and il., and the addition of introd., notes, and analytical index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites; (with bibliography by Victor Hugo Paltists). 2v. [*]$7.50. McClurg.
Two books of adventurous travel in the heart of North America. The author came to New France at the age of seventeen in 1683 with a detachment of French marines, and he writes of experiences which cover many years, giving “an account of the customs, commerce, religion and strange opinions of the savages,” with geographical information and personal comment. “There is also a dialogue between the author and a general of the savages,” and “an account of the author’s retreat to Portugal and Denmark and his remarks on their courts.” His book was very popular when first published but the truth of the whole was later doubted because of one chapter, which gave in detail an apparently fictitious story of the discovery of the River Long.
“These volumes display enthusiasm as well as erudition, and render accessible a great quantity of curious information. The labour that has been bestowed both on the letters themselves and on the bibliography is worthy of the highest praise.”