“In their English dress, certainly, they are not overwhelming. One can with a fairly good conscience own to the impression that, with all their marvel of detail, several of them are oppressively squalid and even tedious; squalor and tedium having, of course, their part, a relative part, in the spectacle of living.” H. W. Boynton
− Review 2:435 Ap 24 ’20 520w
“These tales neither convince nor move the reader. There is a quickness of action in these sketches, foreign to D’Annunzio’s novels; his writing has lost a great deal of that sensuality and voluptuousness so cloying to the American mind. But it has also lost in beauty and harmonious detail.”
− + Springf’d Republican p6 Ap 26 ’20 420w
ANSTRUTHER, EILEEN H. A. (MRS JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE). Husband. *$1.75 Lane
20–8450
“The story of a very modern young lady, Penelope Brooke, befriended in the early chapters by a cousin. Later on the heroine embarks on the adventure of earning her bread in London, during which time her relations with her cousin’s husband become involved. In the end the inconvenient Mrs Dennithorne dies, and the reader is led to anticipate a happy sequel.”—Spec
“The author has good powers of description and characterization.”
+ Ath p1411 D 26 ’19 60w