+ N. Y. Times. 11: 206. Ap. 7, ’06. 680w.
“No matter how impersonal the reader tries to be, he will probably close this book with a sense of depression.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 250w.
“The work of a literary artist with an extraordinarily engaging and subtly morbid personality, they sometimes fascinate and sometimes disgust but always awaken interest and rivet attention.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 365. Mr. 24. ’06. 1310w.
Syrett, Netta. Day’s journey. †$1.25. McClurg.
The “day’s journey” of a novelist and his wife from a state of infatuation to one of quiet affection carries them thru many stages. The young writer tires of a quiet country life and seeks emotional inspiration and sympathy from a frowsy artist of Greek robes and sandals who poses as a true Bohemian. He neglects his wife and to cover his latest “friendship” thrusts upon her the society of an old lover. This old lover inspires her to self assertion and she develops into a woman of character and talent who wins literary honors for herself, and turns from an admiring social world to find her husband once more at her feet.
+ – Acad. 68: 639. Je. 17, ’05. 360w.
“Miss Syrett has a charming style and a dramatic faculty for keeping what Besant called the ‘flat times’ of her characters out of the reader’s knowledge. Her limitations, so far at least as the present novel is concerned, are chiefly those of environment.”