“This book is intended to do for this generation what Farrar’s ‘Life of Christ’ did for the generation preceding.”
+ Bib. World. 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“It is clear, well-written, and not too much burdened by learned digression.”
+ Spec. 95: 1086. D. 23, ’05. 320w.
Smith, Francis Hopkinson. [Tides of Barnegat.] †$1.50. Harper.
A strange commingling of irresponsibility and duty operates in Mr. Smith’s new story with its artistic and dramatic touches. The loyal, fine-spirited Jane Cobden gives up her doctor and with him her hope of happiness to guard her will o’ the wisp sister’s sin and to mother the child born out of wedlock. The sacrifice becomes a thing of splendid heroism, and furnishes the motif of a story which reflects in its characters the sturdy traits of shore folk, and in its out-of-door atmosphere the freshness and varying moods of the sea.
“A painstaking study of feminine character.”
Ath. 1906, 2: 578. N. 10. 130w.
“The story is very readable, the descriptions of the life of fifty years ago in the little New Jersey town being full of charm.” Mary K. Ford.