“The present story seems to us deplorable, if not reprehensible, because it is cynical and too realistic in its presentation of viciousness and decadence in fashionable London society.”
– Outlook. 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 120w.
Robertson, Florence H. Shadow land: stories of the South. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
Two of these three tales of the South reveal the “Old mammy” of slavery days, showing her unfailing loyalty and devotion to her “mistis.” Two “Knobite” waifs of the Southwest Virginia mountains “who had paired off with the birds,” ignorant of everything save humanity’s heart-throbbings give the title to the third, “Children of the woods.”
Robertson, John Mackinnon. [Short history of free thought, ancient and modern.] 2v. *$6. Putnam.
“This outspoken and admirable work first published in 1899, has now been re-written, and enlarged to such an extent that it fills two stout volumes instead of one.”—Dial.
“Mr. Robertson is always stimulating and often amusing: and these two volumes are no exception.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 268. S. 8. 160w. + Dial. 41: 62. Ag. 1, ’06. 40w.
“He writes fluently with a pen that never falters, always with a felicity of phrase that make his writing agreeable reading.”