+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 696. Je. 9. 660w. Bib. World. 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“The book is seen to be one of the best from Professor Stevens’s hand.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1167. N. 15, ’06. 70w.
“That volume is not suffused with feeling. It is without sentiment. The problem of suffering culminating in the suffering of Jesus Christ is discussed as a purely intellectual problem. In this, to our thinking, is the chief defect of the volume.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 41. Ja. 6, ’06. 810w.
Stevenson, Burton Egbert. [Affairs of state: being an account of certain surprising adventures which befell an American family in the land of windmills]; il. by F. Vaux Wilson. †$1.50. Holt.
A Wall street capitalist and two daughters are established in a poorly patronized hotel at a Dutch watering place. The inaction of the sojourn palls upon the father and he assumes the proprietorship of the place for one month. His American business methods result in large patronage and among the guests are diplomats who are bent upon settling the question of succession to the duchy of Schloshold-Markheim. Love, intrigue and misunderstanding produce a continuation of dramatic situations.
“The easy indifference of the early style and story may have been part of the author’s plan. Whether it was or not, it contributes in no small measure to the sudden surprise and delight of the big chapter at the end.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 727. N. 3, ’06. 440w.