+ – Critic. 48: 190. F. ’06. 160w.
“Mr. Mott is to be congratulated at once on the way in which he has sketched the scenes of the old trapper’s labours and also upon his peculiar success in the management of the French-Canadian dialect.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 83. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.
Mottram, William. True story of George Eliot in relation to “Adam Bede,” giving the real life history of the more prominent characters; with 86 il. mainly from photographs by Allan P. Mottram and Vernon H. Mottram. **$1.75. McClurg.
Adam Bede, Dinah Morris, Mrs. Poyser and Seth Bede are set in the walks of life from which they emerged to the plane of book people. The author is “grand nephew of Adam and Seth Bede” holding that relation to the Evans family from which the Bedes are drawn. The sketches are intimate ones, biographical in nature, and include a wealth of incident.
“As a whole, the book is written in a tone of alternate religious devotion and personal panegyric that becomes tiresome to the less piously enthusiastic.” Percy F. Bicknell.
– Dial. 41: 385. D. 1, ’06. 170w. + Lond. Times. 4: 463. D. 29, ’05. 610w.
“The subject and love of the subject make the whole story clear and its prose good.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 777. N. 24, ’06. 520w. + Sat. R. 100: 820. D. 23, ’05. 160w.