Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland). [Incomplete amorist.] †$1.50. Doubleday.
“A study of an accomplished and refined male flirt who plays the game of love with counters only to find that at last he must play with gold. Contrasted with this superfine trifler is a straightforward, even impulsive English girl whose common sense and simple ignorance of the early Empire. These last three studies her girl artist life in Paris. The story has movement, variety, and originality.”—Outlook.
“It is essentially bright, witty, superficial work, and we are sorry to be, more than once, confronted with problems and situations which demand a stronger treatment and a deeper insight into human nature.”
+ – Acad. 71: 375. O. 13, ’06. 140w. Ath. 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 210w.
“There are several reasons why ‘The incomplete amorist’ is deserving of attention. To begin with, it treats old and well-worn material in a new and whimsical way.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Bookm. 24: 119. O. ’06. 480w.
“To judge by the experiment her true vein would promise to lie not in the picturesque region of Bohemian romance, but on the quiet levels of rustic comedy.”
– Nation. 83: 263. S. 27, ’06. 340w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“‘E. Nesbit’ has shown that she understands grown-ups as well as she does children, and in ‘The incomplete amorist’ has written a novel original, clever, and full of interest.”