Stokely, Edith Keeley, and Hurd, Marian Kent. Miss Billy. †$1.50. Lothrop.
“The story is pleasant and cheering, and it contains a lesson that we all need.”
+ Cath. World. 82: 122. Ap. ’06. 150w.
Stoker, Bram (Abraham). Reminiscences of Sir Henry Irving. *$7.50. Macmillan.
Mr. Stoker, for many years Mr. Irving’s business manager, writes from first-hand information. “Of Irving, as a man and manager—a personality potent, intellectual, indomitable, ambitious, honorable, tender, imperious, picturesque, and fascinating—he gives a most at-
“Here, at last, the man lives for us in the pages of his friend; here, at last, we catch the sense of his greatness, which makes all the gossip and chatter seem dustier and dryer than before. Three things in the book are of importance: the account of Sir Henry’s views on his art; the financial history of his management and his attitude towards the contemporary dramatist.”
+ + – Acad. 71: 369. O. 13, ’06. 1090w.
“Mr. Stoker has failed to endow his sketch with life. The outline is conventional where it is not vague, and the filling in shows a decided want of the sense of proportion.”
– Blackwood’s M. 180: 613. N. ’06. 4360w.