+ Ind. 61: 157. Jl. 19, ’06. 170w.
“It is disappointing to read a Brontë life that, however accurate and complete, is of cyclopediac aloofness and reserve.”
+ – Reader. 7: 564. Ap. ’06. 360w. R. of Rs. 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“Altogether, Mr. Shorter has produced such an excellently concise handbook of “Brontëism” that it is hardly possible to conceive of a better taking its place in popular favour.”
+ + Spec. 97: 443. S. 29, ’06. 310w.
Shorter, Dora Sigerson (Mrs. Clement King Shorter). [Story and song of Black Roderick.] †$1. Harper.
The Black Earl Roderick for policy’s sake weds the Little Bride, and she dies because of her failure to win his love. Such is the burden of the first part of a quaint story told in verse and prose in whose second part the Little Bride’s soul, by self-sacrifice, saves that of Roderick.
“The whole story is mediaeval in tone, very daintily told, and full of tender grace.”
+ + Acad. 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 70w.