+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 410. Ja. ’06. 380w. + Bookm. 22: 532. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“A compact and useful summary.”
+ Dial. 40: 132. F. 16, ’06. 200w.
“A welcome fruitage of the accurate researches into American history so earnestly pursued of late.” Louis Dyer.
+ + Hibbert J. 4: 705. Ap. ’06. 580w. + Nation. 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 1060w. + + Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 168. Mr. ’06. 350w. R. of Rs. 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 70w.
Rickert, (Martha) Edith. Folly; with a front. by Sigismond de Ivanowski. †$1.50. Baker.
Folly, the frivolous, whose wealth of hair tones with the “coppery gold of unfolding peach-buds ... never pretty ... but with the smile that would turn the head of the devil himself” furnishes an unusual study of the alluring feminine type. The ban of human opinion would relegate her to outer darkness for leaving her home and husband and placing her love in the keeping of a man to whom she is irresistibly drawn, one upon whom disease had passed the death sentence. In spite of the inverted moral perspective, Folly works out her own salvation, gathers force and courage in her negative struggle and in the end rights her stand in a manner to free the reader from the story’s depression. Thruout her freakish career she is never deserted by a “complaisant, upright and at times stupid” husband, a tender sympathetic mother-in-law and a staunch and loyal friend of her school days.
+ – Acad. 70: 287. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.
“The book is written with brightness and fluency, but it is repulsive.”