As the Crow Flies: From Corsica to Charing Cross

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
THREE GREEK TALES.
16mo, pp. 173. Price, $1. The Geo. M. Allen Company.
PRESS COMMENTS.
REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
The three tales which compose this little volume have been previously published in the Hartford Post . “The author frankly acknowledges himself a disciple of the romantic school,” and his stories have the dreamy, remote atmosphere which he has aimed to produce. There is much beauty in these pale, pathetic creations and they have doubtless a certain affinity with the scenery of Greece, as Mr. Dodge suggests. It is the present day Greece of a modern man’s imagination, however, and we must not take the title “Greek Tale,” as at all applicable to the stories in the classical sense. They might in some truth be compared in style with Mr. Winter’s poems.
NEW YORK COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.
They are, all three, quiet, unpretentious, gracefully told stories that almost all classes of readers will enjoy.
NEW YORK RECORDER.
In method and scene alike the book is a pleasing variation from the conventional.
TOWN TOPICS.
There is a charm in Walter Phelps Dodge’s “Three Greek Tales” wholly in keeping with the classic scenery in which they are laid and the classical associations it suggests. Of those fair isles, dear alike to the artist and the littérateur , story and picture each take on qualities borrowed from its rival, and these tales of modern Greek life are enjoyable largely for their picturesque setting.

Walter Phelps Dodge
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Язык

Английский

Год издания

2014-10-28

Темы

Italy -- Description and travel; France -- Description and travel; England -- Description and travel

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