+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 78. F. 10, ’06. 450w.
“It is tumultuous, turgid and sometimes prolix, while the rhapsodical final chapter is all but unintelligible.”
– Outlook. 82: 325. F. 10, ’06. 380w.
“Both shocks through its horror, and grips through its power; it is an eloquent book by a sterling artist.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 757. Je. ’06. 50w.
Merington, Marguerite. Captain Lettarblair: a comedy in three acts written for E. H. Sothern; arranged from the prompt book used in the original Lyceum production. $1.50. Bobbs.
An old estate which has brought grief to the hero’s father and which has been inherited by the heroine without his knowledge, complicates their love affairs for three acts, and while the heroine is, unknown to her, pressing the hero for money on an old debt in order that she may secretly enrich him, the hero in despair and bankruptcy goes off to India and a rival forges his name and receives the heroine’s gift. In the course of the clever dialogue all this is gracefully untangled, and all ends happily for them and for the four minor characters whose love affairs furnish much humor thruout the play.
“Already a little old-fashioned in the ingenuousness of some of its devices, ‘Captain Letterblair’ yet retains much of the freshness and buoyancy that made it the success of a season nearly fifteen years ago.”
+ – Putnam’s. 1: 378. D. ’06. 100w.