“It seems to us a pity that she has introduced into her latest story so very tragic and unpleasant a subject as imprisonment, whether wrongful or otherwise; to say nothing of implanting a premature distrust of British justice in the youthful reader’s mind.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: sup. 10. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“We can thoroughly recommend ‘The railway children’ as an excellent story.”
+ Spec. 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland). [Rainbow and the rose.] *$1.50. Longmans.
This volume of poems shows the author to be “Skilled in her craft.... We like her best in her village monologues, which are full of insight and humour and sound philosophy. But when she pleases she can write also graceful songs.” (Spec.)
“Full of clever things in the conventional condescending mood which ought not to succeed, but unquestionably does. For the rest, E. Nesbit is not a poet, not a minor poet, not even an exquisite maker of verse; but all that an able woman who is not these can do by means of verse, she can do.”
+ – Acad. 69: 902. S. 2, ’05. 170w.
“Many of the occasional pieces here tremble on the verge of success, and it seems as if a little more trouble and thought would have made them excellent.”