“Can be heartily recommended to layman and architect alike. Its literary flavour is delicate; its architectural criticisms are sound, to the point, and keen.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 71. Mr. 2, ’06. 820w. + + Nation. 82: 307. Ap. 12, ’06. 840w. + + Spec. 96: 151. Ja. 27, ’06. 160w.
Blundell, Mary E. Sweetman (Mrs. Francis Blundell). Simple annals. †$1.50. Longmans.
Natural simple stories of humble village life. “Mrs. Blundell says in her Foreword that a golden thread runs through the homespun of even the most commonplace life. In each of these stories she has followed the golden thread. The village girls are innocent and charming, the men are chivalrous—their purpose is invariably marriage, and courtships end, as they should, with wedding-bells.” (Acad.)
“Our only quarrel is with her claim in the Foreword to call these charming fables ‘studies.’ For that, they are surely too slight and too determinedly optimistic.”
+ – Acad. 70: 405. Ap. 28, ’06. 280w.
“None of them reaches the high level which the best of ‘Dorset dear’ attained.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 667. Je. 2. 160w.
“It is as charming a book of the kind as we have come across in many a long day.”