+ + − =School R.= 15: 236. Mr. ’07. 950w.
=Bates, Carroll Lund.= The Master; a rosary of Christian verse, il. $1. Badger, R. G.
Sixteen poems whose themes are drawn from incidents in the life of Christ.
“Some fairly good and illustrated by well-chosen half-tones.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 147. Mr. 9, ’07. 20w.
=Bates, David Homer.= Lincoln in the telegraph office. **$2. Century.
Mr. Bates was manager of the War department telegraph office from 1861 to 1866. This book is one of reminiscences in which Lincoln plays an important part, being an almost daily visitor to the office where cipher despatches were sent and received during the war.
“His account of happenings in the telegraph-office during the strenuous days of the war is Well ordered in arrangement and simply and naturally written.”
“It cannot be said that Mr. Bates’s book of reminiscence is very important, but it is certainly fresh and original, and contains not a few incidents of Washington life and some stories about Lincoln himself which are decidedly worth preservation.”
“Aside from the revelations that he makes of Lincoln’s relations with the military telegraph corps during war time, Mr. Bates imparts in his books a great deal of information concerning important military movements.”
=Bates, Katharine Lee.= From Gretna Green to Land’s End: a literary journey in England. **$2. Crowell.
In which the author visits the Border, the Lake country and the heart of England and reviews, with many a fresh allusion, the connection which historic places have with tradition, story and song. The work is based upon wide reading and careful observation.
“A book that readers who look forward to a trip abroad will enjoy and that returned travellers will thoroughly appreciate.”
“As she hurls herself through the length and breadth of England, easily making two moves to any other pilgrim’s one, she pours out a lively stream of fact and comment that keeps the reader amused and only too well instructed. The information, literary and historical, is thoroughly got up.”
“She has a keen sense of the picturesque and the worth-while, and she knows well how to find color in what might appear but gray to others.”
=Battersby, Harry F. P.= Avenging hour. †$1.50. Appleton.