− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p769 D 18 ’19 280w
HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von. Helping Hersey. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–26758
A book of collected short stories from the pen of this author of many popular novels. The title story is a study of two women, mother and daughter, in their relation to one man, an American, who at first misjudges both and is later led to reverse his opinions. First place in the collection is given to Peterl in the Black forest, a sketch written in 1913 with all the marks of a study from life. The other titles are: In loving memory; Ker Kel; Mrs Hornbeam’s headdress; The common man’s story; The iron shutter; Two Apaches; The principino; Three times; A Berlin adventure.
“Slight but entertaining.”
+ Booklist 17:33 O ’20
“It is decidedly agreeable to find such a variety of stories bound in one volume by one author.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 7 ’20 360w + Outlook 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“The Baroness von Hutten’s latest collection of tales displays, as it were, her familiar super-mediocre versatility. And yet to me the most distinguished pieces of writing in the volume are the plotless sketches, ‘Ker Kel,’ a little picture of Brittany, and ‘Peterl in the Black Forest.’” H. W. Boynton