“Both widows are, in their different ways, triumphs of characterisation, but the preeminence must certainly be assigned to Mrs Barnes. The devastating influence which genuine unselfishness, not qualified by intelligence, can exercise on the happiness of others is illustrated by her example with unsurpassable delicacy and sureness of touch.”
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“Told with an unaffected simplicity which is apparently artless, its charm and sweetness steal upon the mind as with the spell of a delicate September day that suddenly surprises by its summery heat and power.”
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“Dolly, the younger of the two (she is forty), is something delightfully new in heroines and the study of Mrs Barnes, as an example of the tyranny of unselfishness, is a skillful piece of analysis.”
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INCHBOLD, A. CUNNICK (MRS STANLEY INCHBOLD). Love and the crescent; a tale of the Near East. *$1.25 (1c) Stokes
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The scene of the story is laid in an Armenian village during the war. It relates the trials of a beautiful girl, daughter of a distinguished Armenian physician, and her family and tells of horrors, flights, deportations, miraculous rescues, heroic defences and Veronica’s final reunion with her French lover and their safe arrival in France. The deep-dyed villainy of a German consul is dressed up in suitable romantic garb in contrast to which the Turk appears as a humanitarian.