“Informational but not lacking in story interest.”
+ Booklist 17:79 N ’20
“An entertaining, informative volume.”
+ Lit D p99 D 4 ’20 40w
TREMAYNE, SYDNEY, pseud. (MRS ROGER COOKSON). Echo. *$1.75 (1c) Lane
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All thru her girlhood Echo Stapylton is subjected to morbid and unwholesome influences. Her mother runs away with an artist and Echo grows up in the home of straight-laced unsympathetic relatives. When she is seventeen a quarrel is precipitated over her friendship with Max Borrow, an artist, and she goes to Paris to live with her father. Max follows her, and to prevent their meetings her father places her in a girls’ school. By practicing various deceits she arranges to see him on various occasions but they have a disagreement and he goes to America. Thereafter Echo meets her mother and it is arranged that she is to live with her part of the time. She learns however that her mother’s pretense of reform is a farce and leaves her to be greeted with the news of her father’s death. Alone and dependent she accepts an offer of marriage from a successful solicitor, some years her senior. The marriage is unhappy and when her husband leaves her for another woman she is free to marry her old lover Max.
“The tale is clever and readable.”
+ Ath p63 Ja 9 ’20 100w