Martin, M. C. Other Miss Lisle. $1.25. Benziger.
A story which sketches the patience and its reward of a girl who gives her freshest energy to a selfish invalid sister.
Martin, Sir Theodore. Monographs: Garrick, Macready, Rachel and Baron Stockmar. *$3.50. Dutton.
“Sir Theodore Martin is a nonagenarian, who throughout his long and industrious life has been intimately and actively associated with the leaders in political, literary, artistic, and social affairs.... Of course he has nothing new to tell about Garrick, Macready, or Rachel.... What he has done is to select from the mass of evidence such salient facts as furnish a vivid intellectual image of the individual. His essays are, as it were, the essence of all that the most competent witnesses have told.... To the study of Garrick, Sir Theodore brought a mind free from all bias, complete information and a ripe judgment.... Sir Theodore’s sketch of Rachel is illuminative, attractive, vital, and convincing. In her case, as in Macready’s, he does not have to depend upon the verdict of others. He saw her act in her prime and in her decay.... The monograph on Stockmar is a fine bit of friendly appreciation.”—Nation.
“To those who know the special sources of Martin these monographs come as something of a disappointment.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 111. Jl. 28. 900w.
“The four monographs gathered together in information at the disposal of Sir Theodore this new volume are full of interest, yet none may be said to have sounded any original note, nor to have resulted in any very distinct portraiture.”
+ Ind. 61: 519. Ag. 30, ’06. 310w.
“His facts are wisely selected and carefully substantiated, his opinions—never rhapsodical eulogies—are fortified by simple quotations from various and weighty sources, and his criticism whether favorable or unfavorable, is acute, clear and unexaggerated.”