+ Nation. 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 300w.
“The strength of the book lies not so much in the story—although it is an extremely human one—but in the struggles and bloodshed of religious strife, the superstitions of the various sects, and the author’s delicate brush upon these things and upon picturesque Asia.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 530w.
“The author has excellent command of his subject, but he writes with little consideration for his hearers, never appealing to their experience with that instinctive sympathy which helps to bring home to them the episodes of so foreign a narrative. As a result the characters are peculiarly remote, and the story is difficult to follow; although a series of admirable pictures impresses itself upon the mind.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 80w. + Spec. 97: 891. D. 1, ’06. 730w.
Pidgin, Charles Felton. Corsican lovers; a story of the vendetta. $1.50. Dodge.
A Corsican vendetta forms the basis of this adventurous tale in which the fate of many people and two large estates, one Corsican and one English, are involved. The heroine, Vivienne Batistilli wipes out the vendetta by marrying her family’s enemy, Bertha Renville, the heiress, marries the friend of her guardian’s son, and by this arrangement the good and bad receive their just deserts; but there are many wild adventures before all this is safely brought about, and there are many interesting characters involved, perhaps the most truly Corsican being Cromillian, the moral bandit.
“Is amusing (in its way).”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 199. Mr. 31, ’06. 300w.