Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Garden in pink. **$1.75. McClurg.
“Is an exquisite and perfect bit of bookmaking but having said this it is difficult to add anything in praise of the book’s literary substance.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 430w.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Stained glass lady: an idyl; with frontispiece and other drawings by Blanche Ostertag. †$2.50. McClurg.
Imaginative “Little boy” after “counting things” to keep awake during the big people’s sermon spies a beautiful young woman outlined against the stained glass window. In his youthful fancy she is fit to wear the crown suspended in the glass above her head. He calls her the “Stained-glass lady,” and there springs up between the two an idyllic friendship which is characterized by the child’s susceptibility to the poetic graces of the woman, and to the flower and sunlight atmosphere of her surroundings.
“A vivid descriptive touch, a whimsical humor, and a highly imaginative appreciation of nature combine to produce a unique and decided charm, which a slight affectation of style rather increases than diminishes.”
+ Dial. 41: 394. D. ’06. 220w.
“Such children as are blessed with imagination and a love of the beautiful will delight in ‘The stained glass lady.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 100w.