Somerset, Lady Isabella Caroline (Somers-Cocks). Under the arch. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“There is plenty of incident in this story. There are farewells at Waterloo to soldiers bound for South Africa, there is a battle with the Boers, there are passages in fashionable drawing-rooms where titled ladies, lovely as the dawn, prattle of husbands and lovers at the front.... Lady Henry’s personages pass through harrowing experiences, but we read and are not harrowed.... Only in the slums, strange to say do we breathe an air that is not exhausted. Lady Henry’s little ragamuffins speak and act naturally: it is to be regretted that they do not occupy a larger portion of her canvas.”—Sat. R.
+ Critic. 48: 510. Je. ’06. 350w.
“An absorbing narrative, throbbing with the life of to-day.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 219. Ap. 7, ’06. 630w.
“Lady Henry Somerset has a keener eye for situations than for character. It is all desperately artificial and conventional.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 529. Ap. 28, ’06. 200w.
“It is carefully and cleverly written, and the character-drawing is also well done.”
+ Spec. 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 330w.