+ World To-Day. 11: 1220. N. ’06. 160w.
Moss, Mary. Poet and the parish. †$1.50. Holt.
An unconventional poet weds a woman of rigidly Puritanical notions. His intolerance of her straight-laced ideas passes the ill-bred limit and reaches brutality. In the background are the members of the parish who with united voice cry out against his indiscretions. The rupture which the divergence in the temperament of husband and wife is bound to create is nevertheless averted and a reconciliation is effected.
“It is only in the latter chapters of the book that Miss Moss seems to fall away from the higher standard that she set herself at the outset. None the less, she has failed to spoil a book which contains much that is strong and fine and eminently true.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 24: 387. D. ’06. 530w.
“The story, we think, would have been more powerful, if not more immediately effective, if its tone had been less light and satirical. It should, perhaps, be enough that there are no dull or meaningless persons or events, and that a deeper note seems to sound beneath the trebles and tenors of the social-comedy strain.”
+ – Nation. 83: 417. N. 15, ’06. 330w.
“She has written a novel of much originality, and has written it with such cleverness and spirit that whoever begins it will be unwilling to lay it down until the last word is read.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 699. O. 27, ’06. 720w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 160w.