+ Lit. D. 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 160w.
“There is no fault to find with the real ‘atmosphere’ that Mrs. Seawell succeeds in diffusing through her story or in the pictures which she draws, one after another ... but the love story of the book strikes us as of a very inferior and unattractive quality.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 650w.
“The book is full of humorous touches.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“Makes a strong appeal to the lover of a good tale.”
+ Outlook. 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 160w.
[Secret life: being the book of a heretic.] **$1.50. Lane.
“In every life, says the author of this volume, there is some secret garden where one ‘unbinds the girdle of conventions and breathes to a sympathetic listener opinions one would repudiate on the house tops.’ Lacking a proper sympathetic soul a diary might serve. Upon this theory the book is constructed. It is in the form of a diary, and actually consists of a number of short essays on a number of subjects such as The modern woman and marriage, The ideal husband, Amateur saints, The fourth dimension, The beauty of cruelty, Are American parents selfish? The pleasures of pessimism, The value of a soul etc.”—N. Y. Times.