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...from a college point of view is "The Surprises of Sanders" by H. P. Huntress '99. The plot is rather improbable but there is just enough surprise in it to give it justification. Strange to say the real heroine of the tale plays a very small part, and the reader is left wondering why she was introduced at all. She is certainly interesting when she does appear...
...object of this book is to supply the need for a well illustrated descriptive work on Alaska which shall be as useful for the general reader who wishes to follow with some care the newspaper accounts of the country as for the traveller in the land itself. The book differs from ordinary guide-books in that it is distinctly readable. The geography of the country is thoroughly described and well illustrated by specially prepared maps. The gold mines are located and the conditions of life in all parts of Alaska discussed. The author, who is an authority on all subjects...
...history is most interesting reading for the general reader and should be of the greatest value to the historical student...
...novels of Walter Scott that Augustin Thierry felt himself develop into an historian. His object was to establish peace between science and art, with scientific and artistic arrangement of material. He is endowed with an imagination which raises images, landscapes and people before the eyes of the reader. His histories where he describes events, paints scenes and outlines characters,- for instance, the "Conquete de l'Angleterre par les Normands" and "Recits Merovingiens,"- are very close in style to novels or epic poems...
...whole the book is entertaining, the interest of the reader increasing to the very last adventure, which furnishes an admirable climax to the story...