+ Ath. 1905, 2: 644. N. 11. 430w.
“Mrs. Matcham is not a very skilful writer or a very lucid commentator. She might have made this volume much more interesting than it is if she had had a greater gift for telling a story with less circumlocution and enigma.”
– + Lond. Times. 4: 459. D. 22, ’05. 480w. N. Y. Times. 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 330w.
“To give the book its value in a word, it is full of footnotes to history.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 136. Mr. 3, ’06. 710w. Sat. R. 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 80w.
Mathew, Frank. Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank Mathew. *$6. Macmillan.
+ Spec. 95: 1041. D. 16, ’05. 170w.
Mathews, Frances Aymar. Undefiled. †$1.50. Harper.
A heroine with three lovers is sure to possess a many-sided attractiveness. The trio includes a writer who is a self-worshipper, a clergyman who had been a cow-puncher and gambler, but now “deep in schemes for converting the backcountry farming folk into a decent church-going set,” and Bob Travers who was hunting the world over for the wonderful eyes and voice belonging to a girl whom he had twice rescued from danger. And the tide of love only begins when she marries the author Conningsby. It is once again the story of mis-mating, with more of a plot than the average latter-day novel possesses.