r. Ballou displays a broad and thorough knowledge of men of
genius in all ages, and the comprehensive index makes the
volume invaluable as a book of reference, while--a rare
thing in reference books--it is thoroughly interesting for
consecutive reading."

=THE WATCHMAN=:

"The book contains, in a condensed form, so large an amount
of interesting information concerning the personality of
authors, artists, and scientists as to cause us to wonder
how one mind could be sufficiently retentive to produce so
comprehensive a collection. The book is so easy and flowing
in style as to seem more like listening to agreeable
conversation than the reading of printed pages."

=BOSTON TRAVELLER=:

"One of the most permanently valuable publications of the
year. It has one very striking and curious element in being
a kind of literary phonograph, so to speak, with which one
can sit down alone in one's room and summon up spirits from
the vasty deep of the past with far better success than
attended Glendower's efforts in that line. One returns to
Mr. Ballou's book again and again to discover the secret of
this peculiar quality; but, open the work where he will, the
same spell of fascination is over it. The wide range of
literature in many lands and languages, the fine and
discriminating insight, and the scholarly culture that were
so conspicuous in Mr. Ballou's 'Edge-Tools of Speech,' are
revealed in the 'Genius in Sunshine and Shadow.' It is a
book to live with,--a statement that can be predicated of
few of the latter-day publications."

=SATURDAY EVENING GAZETTE=:

"A large store of delightful literary entertainment. It is
written in a graceful, fluent, and attractive style, and
with an easy liveliness that makes it peculiarly pleasing in
the perusal. We know of no volume in which is presented so
vast a fund of interesting gossip about the world's great
ones in art, literature, and science as is here set forth.
Every page is abundant in anecdote, of which there is such a
copious shower that it even overflows into foot-notes. It
would be next to impossible to describe the work in detail,
so extensive is the field it covers and so luxuriant is it
in illustration. It is enough to state that it will be found