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This is a book of something over 400 pages, of octavo size, not too thick, or too, heavy or too expensive for every wise traveller who is interested in casties to take with him to Scotland. The information given is just about what one wants-a brief architectural and historical account of a hundred of the most significant Scotch castles. The interest and value of the book are, moreover, greatly enhanced by the fifty-one illustrations, mostly pleasant, brown halftones, but comprising also four colored plates and seventeen plans. There is a short introduction, which outlines none too convincingly...
...very rare edition of the "Heldenbuch," a collection of the oldest German poetry, published at the Frankfurt in 1590 is also in the collection as well as Eusebius's "Chronicon, continued by Matthews Palmeirus," dated 1483, a very important and interesting book, because of its references to the discovery of printing under the year 1457 and "Libride Architectura," by Vitruvius, a beautiful edition containing many curious plans and wood-cuts by the famous engraver, Glunta of Florence, dated...
...hands of Miss Kalisch would have been ludicrous if Miss Marlowe had acted it-and would probably have drawn a little better. But if we are brave enough and perhaps optimistic enough to admit that an American can write good verse, "Sappho and Phaon" will stand on many a book shelf and will be read as one reads Stephen Phillips. Indeed, there is more reason why it should be read. The verse has often more strength and is often equally lyrical. Many of the passages which would be merely tiresome on the stage are exquisite as poetry. There is admirable...
Frank Roy Fraprie, the author of the following book reviewed by Dr. Webster, received the degree of B. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School in 1898 and S. M. from the Graduate School in 1902. He was a student at the University of Munich in 1902-03, and later taught in various high schools and the University of Illinois. From 1901 to 1905 he was an associate editor of the Photo Era, Boston; and since 1905 has been editor of the "American Photography," New York, and "The Electrician and Mechanic," Boston. He is the author of several books on chemical...
...four large volumes; Billing's Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland is in three volumes and very rear; and the numerous monographs, and the articles in society publications, about single castles are not easy to know or to find. Not a few of the more earnest readers of the book, would, I think, appreciate a small and unobtrusive bibliography, such as would help them to prosecute the subject further...