Am. Hist. R. 11: 483. Ja. ’06. 60w. + + Nation. 82: 18. Ja. 4, ’06. 1370w. N. Y. Times. 10: 888. D. 9, ’05. 60w.
“Mr. Morse has made an interesting book, much less local than a less skillful writer would have produced. It is disfigured by several mistakes on the part of the compiler, but none of them is of capital importance.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 440w.
Morse, Margaret Fessenden. Spirit of the pines. †$1. Houghton.
“In the solitude of the New Hampshire woods, two lovers of nature find more and more points of affinity until all the world is glorified by “The light that never was on sea or land.” But the great White terror has been present from the first, and the two souls are strong enough to heed its ‘Thou shalt renounce! Thou shalt renounce!’ Although a tragedy, the little romance is, upon the whole, far from tragic. The letters of the young people are as breezy as the mountain top. There are many touches of humor and wholesome wisdom.” (N. Y. Times.)
+ Ind. 60: 1378. Je. 7, ’06. 120w.
“It is, to put it briefly, the story of love and renunciation that Miss Morse tells us, with a beauty of sentiment and language that stamps her work one of the daintiest products born of imagination in many a day.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 130w.
“Is a graceful little idyll.”