| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 382. S. 16, ‘05. 300w. |
Barnes, James. Blockaders. 60c. Harper.
Thirteen short stories for girls as well as boys. The “Blockaders” is a tale of a Confederate blockade runner which is captured by the Federals and turned into a United States gunboat. Then there are stories of flying machines, cannibal kings, and adventures in Africa, where savages pursue the finders of certain diamonds. There is a story of an ice boat, where two boys carry a bag of money fifty miles to save a bank, and of harrowing experiences in an apparently inaccessible village of the cliff dwellers. There are many others equally varied.
“The stories are well written; the plots are worth writing about; the boys who figure in them are real flesh and blood boys; and the style is crisp, direct, and natural.”
| + + | Cath. World. 81: 408. Je. ‘05. 130w. |
“The sort of thing boys like to read.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 148. Mr. 11, ‘05. 210w. |
“They are of all sorts—adventurous, amusing, and pathetic—and all good.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 30w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 60w. |
Barr, Martin W. Mental defectives; their history, treatment, and training. [*]$4. Blakiston.