Orczy, Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara, baroness. [I will repay.] †$1.50. Lippincott.
The scenes of Baroness Orczy’s dramatic tale are enacted in the terrible days of the French revolution. Ten years before its reign of terror, Juliette Marny is compelled by her father to take a vow to bring about the ruin and death of Paul Déroulède, the man who, tho against his will, had killed her brother in a duel. So much for the prologue. When the story opens, the revolution is well under way. Déroulède is a popular leader. Juliette, housed with his mother for safety, loves him, yet is obedient to relentless Fate which is dragging her to the fulfillment of her vow. She denounces him to the terrorists, and in attempting to undo her treachery brings both herself and Déroulède under the Merlin suspect law. Their escape from France closes a chapter of thrilling incidents.
“There are not so many characters to stage in this book as in a former success of the same author’s, dealing, like this with revolutionary Paris, and we find less variety of scene, less incident: but the same dramatic power is abundantly demonstrated.”
+ Ath. 1906. 2: 579. N. 10. 150w.
“It is, in truth, a very fair story of its semihistoric wholly respectable sort.”
+ Nation. 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 390w.
“The story is full of exciting situations and thrilling moments.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 100w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 869. D. 15, ’06. 630w. – + Sat. R. 102: 648. N. 24, ’06. 90w.
Orczy, Baroness. [Scarlet pimpernel.] †$1.50. Putnam.