+ + + Sat. R. 101: 209. F. 17, ’06. 400w.
Wharton, Henry Marvin. White blood; a story of the South. $1.50. Neale.
The natural ingratitude and inability of the negro to rise to the level of the white man forms the motif of this story written for the purpose of proving that “white blood must rule.” A love story with a southern setting imparts an interest to the much mooted question.
What would one have?: a woman’s confession. *$1. West, J. H.
“An essentially New England temperament is revealed in this ‘confession.’ ... The supposed author is a plain woman of the middle class, brought up on a farm with few opportunities. She has so many sorrows and by them she learns what seems to her the meaning of life.”—Critic.
“The tone of the book is strongly religious; it is at least free from the morbid taint usually to be found in revelations of a similar character, and doubtless it will make a strong appeal to persons of a type of mind similar to that of the ‘woman’ supposed to make the ‘confession.’”
+ Critic. 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 130w.
“There are doubtless countless readers who will find some sort of spiritual consolation in the book, and mental edification, too, in its appreciation of easily accessible literature.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 340. My. 26, ’06. 180w.