From: briggs at tweedledee.sr.unh.edu <briggs>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:50:12 -0500 (EST)

This is a wonderful book filled with wonderful illustrations, but there are two errors which are troubling to me.

1. On the page where Marian is outlined in white after dazzling audiences in Europe, the author writes:

        It seemed like she was already there.

It is grammatically wrong to use "like" as a conjunction followed by a clause. I know "like" is brutally misused in common parlance, but I hate to see it done in good books.


2. On the page where the scene is the Lincoln Memorial, the flag waves overhead, but it is a 50-star flag (with offset rows) rather than the 48-star flag which was current at the time of the event.


Can these flaws in an otherwise excellent book be corrected in subsequent editions?




Barbara Briggs
Received on Sat 15 Feb 2003 01:50:12 PM CST