“A delightful book, destined to be read and re-read by (or to) her small admirers.”
“Children who like fairy tales will enjoy the book and unconsciously acquire a certain amount of knowledge.”
“Characteristic of E. Nesbit are skillful delineation of childish individuality and facility in charging the most impossible situation with a current of sweet reasonableness, and these features distinguish ‘The story of the amulet.’”
“Very delightful book which is interesting for old as well as young.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 130w.
“A fascinating narrative, and one which has beneath the surface a gentle satire and also a kindly human sympathy.”
“The general result is a very clever extravaganza, which an intelligent young person will hardly be able to read without acquiring, unconsciously, or even against his or her will, a certain amount of knowledge.”
=Bland, Hubert.= Letters to a daughter. *$1.25. Kennerley.
“A staid book of imaginary letters” in which the writer “instructs a young woman in that mysterious art, in which all that is subtle, all that is beautiful, all that is morbid, all that is delicate, all the all of all, can be expressed—the art of being a woman.” (Acad.)
“He drags Epicuranism over the ultimate precipice of cynicism, and it is only because he does it with humor and an eyeglass that we forgive him. Our admiration in any case must follow him.”
“One thing Alexa’s father did not have, and that was keen sense of humor, a thing hardly to be forgiven in a letter writer.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 400w.
“They are eminently readable. How far the instruction they contain is suited to the age of their supposed recipient—a girl of nineteen—is another matter.”
=Blunt, Reginald.= Paradise row; or, A broken piece of old Chelsea. *$3.50. Macmillan.
Being the curious and diverting annals of a famous village street newly destroyed, together with particulars of sundry notable persons who in former times dwelt there, to which are added likenesses of the principal of them and their several houses; the whole collected and presented by Reginald Blunt.
“Our author’s style does not always please us, and is sometimes complicated.”
=Boardman, Rosina Cox.= Lilies and orchids. *$2.50. Cooke.