Shadows of Yesterday
Stories from an Old Catalogue
An old museum in Naples has suggested to Marjorie Bowen a group of short stories. Crucifix, scimitar, porridge bowl, a pitcher, a ring, a bodice—these varied objects typify the wealth of romantic incident in these tales of different countries and eras. Scottish Jacobite or Spanish Morisco, weak, wicked or loyal, the figures seem to step out in turn from “the shadows” into the light of real life. It might be possible to choose a favorite story among the group of twelve, but not to say which is the best, for the same indescribable glamour is in them all.
God’s Playthings
This series of wonderfully vivid flashes of the romance and characters of past days is a storehouse of stimulating imagination to any reader who has the slightest historical instinct. The author displays the bewildering contrast between the heights of human power and luxury and the depths of squalor and degradation into which Fortune’s favorites have often so suddenly fallen, and the brilliancy of her descriptions render her book a very remarkable piece of work.
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