+ – Lit. D. 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 500w.
“The novel is not strongly constructed; our interest is asked for one character and suddenly shifted elsewhere, and the several stories touch each other but slightly. That defect—if defect it be—is inherent in a novel of this kind. For the truth is that, in spite of Mr. Maartens’s care, his humour and his power of expressing character, this is not a novel of persons but of opinions. The fortunes of persons may be settled, happily or unhappily; thought goes on.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 630w.
“The characters in ‘The healers’ are real people battling with real forces, no two agreeing. Maarten Maartens is not a serious singer, but he sings of serious things.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 1000w.
“The men and women described are alive and interesting in an unusual degree.”
+ Outlook. 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 130w.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright. Great word. **$1. Dodd.
In a group of twenty-one essays, “Mr. Mabie has written broadly and wisely and deeply of love, not as Michelet did, mixing grossness and delicacy of thought together, but with all daintiness and fineness of touch, so that the issue is fine.” (N. Y. Times.) “For,” says the author, “there is no word infinity and immortality in any language, divine or human, save the word love; for nothing save love has compass enough to hold and to express the life of the gods.”