+ + – Spec. 96: sup. 116. Ja. 27, ’06. 1610w.
Troubetzkoy, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess. Augustine the man. **$1.50. Lane.
The scenes of this dramatic poem are laid in Carthage, Milan, Lago Maggiore, and Tagaste. “The struggles of the saint after conversion between his devotion to Christ and his love for his former mistress and his son is displayed with insight and sympathy.” (Spec.)
“Her blank verse is often delightful and always melodious, and she reaches heights of passion which affect the reader with the sense of yet greater powers restrained.”
+ Acad. 71: 189. Ag. 25, ’06. 290w.
“While as a whole, it does not rise to the dramatic height it was meant to keep, is full of passages of equal intensity and beauty.”
+ Critic. 49: 51. Jl. ’06. 180w.
“The four scenes make a moving story, very gracefully told in sensitive, sympathetic verse, and rising at times ... into dramatic intensity. It is a pity perhaps, that in the first scene the author did not keep more strictly to her subject, Augustine the man.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 248. Jl. 13, ’06. 200w.