+ + Spec. 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 420w.
Lee, Jennette Barbour (Perry) (Mrs. Gerald Stanley Lee). [Uncle William.] †$1. Century.
“Shif’less” Uncle William, sailor and lover of the sea, desired only that he might possess his stretch of shore and his cliff cottage undisturbed. One day to his island off Nova Scotia came an artist to paint his clouds, his sea and even his rude abode. Uncle William houses him, steams his clams, fathers him; and a half year later when word comes from New York that fever has stricken the young painter, Uncle William goes to him and nurses him back to health. There is a sweet Russian girl in the tale, and there is Andy, Uncle William’s crony who maintained that a “a thing o’t to cost more’n the picter of it.” Uncle William sums up his philosophy of faith in mortals in this sentiment; “I’d a heap rather trust ’em and get fooled, than not to trust ’em and hev ’em all right.”
“To my mind, as an antidote for nervous prostration and a general bracer, Uncle William throws the popular Mrs. Wiggs completely in the shade.”
+ + Critic. 48: 465. My. ’06. 390w.
“It is good to know Uncle William, especially as he, like the book he is in, is short, sweet, and to the point.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 310w.
“There is a grace in the making of the story that owes its effect to an unstudied simplicity of style.”
+ Outlook. 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 90w.