+ + Spec. 95: sup. 900. D. 2, ’05. 2010w.
Runkle, Bertha. Truth about Tolna. †$1.50. Century.
Tolna, the golden-throated tenor, who is not what he seems to be, gives to this novel of modern New York society a real individuality. The whole action occupies but seven days. There are many people more or less rich and more or less socially ambitious involved in the plot, but they are merely vivacious adjuncts to the story of Tolna and his love for Honor, the cold beauty who was his boyhood’s playmate, and or Denys Alden, the man who, having lost his own voice, rejoices in the triumphs of his protégé, living in his success until he even renounces to him Marjorie, the girl he loves, only to find that her heart is his, but not his to renounce.
“There is a degree of clever originality about Bertha Runkle’s new book. ‘The truth about Tolna,’ of which her previous venture in fiction, ‘The helmet of Navarre,’ gave scant promise.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Bookm. 23: 285. My. ’06. 380w.
“This frothy story is moderately entertaining, but is not to be taken seriously from any point of view.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 40: 367. Je. 1, ’06. 200w. – Ind. 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 200w.
“Miss Runkle has conceived a very original plot, and shows much skill both in tangling and untangling its threads.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 158. Mr. 17, ’06. 410w. N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.