“The book as a whole is an extremely interesting social study, written with quiet charm but decidedly radical in its suggestion, although the closing action has none of the quality of a solution in that it falls back upon individual relationships and special instances.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 682. N. 17, ’06. 290w.
Mitchell, S. Weir. Constance Trescot. $1.50. Century.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
– Atlan. 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 150w.
Mitchell, Silas Weir. [Diplomatic adventure.] †$1. Century.
Paris is the scene of this story, the time is that of the Civil war in America, and the incidents are recorded by a secretary to our legation in France. The plot is based upon an assumed incident of a stolen dispatch which fell into the hands of the American minister to France during the time when the emperor was trying to induce England to acknowledge the Confederate states as a nation. Besides the narrator and the American officer are a woman who seeks the protection of a stranger’s cab and three Frenchmen, nicknamed Athos, Porthos and Aramis. There are diplomatic mysteries, impulse with prospective duels to atone for it, and finally a merry issue from all complications.
“It is as an agreeable a book for an idle hour as one could wish.”
+ Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 70w.