“An interesting and valuable contribution to poetic interpretation. It is a beautifully written piece of prose woven with subtle analysis and keen perceptions, the kind of spoken meditation which takes one back to the days of Pater and Symonds.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Mr 31 ’20 650w + Cleveland p73 Ag ’20 80w
“Mr de la Mare does him a service by silencing the hysterical plaudits, and presenting with cool and exquisite certainty the more enduring aspects of Brooke’s spirit. Of this little book both Mr de la Mare and Brooke may well be proud.”
+ Sat R 129:62 Ja 17 ’20 260w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p739 D 11 ’19 1350w
DELAND, MARGARET WADE (CAMPBELL) (MRS LORIN FULLER DELAND). Old Chester secret. il *$1.50 (6c) Harper
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When Miss Lydia Sampson promises to take Mary Smith’s child and keep the truth about his birth secret, she means to keep her word and does so in the face of Old Chester gossip. Later the proud grandfather, whose heart has been won by the boy, wants to adopt him but meek little Miss Lydia agrees only on the ground that he acknowledge the relationship. Still later when the weak parents also wish to go thru the formality of adoption she makes the same condition. When the mother is finally moved to make her confession the son casts her off as once she had cast him, but Dr Lavendar intervenes in her behalf, telling the boy that her soul has just been born.
“An exquisite bit of character work.”
+ Booklist 17:115 D ’20