“The words sting, the people live, and the story is a story.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.
“A unique story, marked by much strength, but somewhat marred by the unrelieved wickedness of one man.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 1006. Ap. 28, ’06. 80w.
“A story of intense action.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 661. My. 26, ’06. 120w.
Lane, Anna Eichberg Ring (Mrs. John Lane). Champagne standard. **$1.50. Lane.
“‘The champagne standard’ is the title of the first seventeen essays in which Mrs. John Lane describes, satirises, and, perhaps it should be added, counsels what we may call the ‘upper middle class.’... Mrs. Lane, who describes herself as ‘an exiled American sister,’ fills her pages with wisdom and wit. She writes from an American—or, rather from a transplanted American—standpoint, and this gives a fresh force and meaning to her words.... A cook who disdains to be spoken to through a tube, and a housemaid who will not take notice after noon, but promptly gives it herself next morning.... The conductor who bids you hurry up, the host, the ‘saleslady’ who makes you wait while she discusses things in general with a colleague, the verger in a fashionable church—this last is peculiarly American—are specimens.”—Spec.
“Mrs. Lane may congratulate herself on having that blessed sense of humour which is one of the most valuable possessions in life. In any case English-women should be grateful to her for writing them this delightful, candid book, which is full of original and bright ideas.”