Young, Alexander Bell Filson. Sands of pleasure. †$1.50. Estes.
A young engineer is the hero of this tale, busy in the first part with constructing a light house on the Cornish coast. The scene shifts to Paris when the reaction after work is of the pleasure seeking sort and deadly. The third part of the book presents the hero back from the scene of infatuations hard at work, effacing stains and memories.
“He is a photographer, not a painter, and his photographs will be merely unpleasant to some of his readers and frankly disappointing to others.”
– Acad. 69: 1263. D. 2, ’05. 430w.
“Mr. Filson Young has a better sense of style than sense of life. His work bears the hallmark of youth and inexperience.”
– Ath. 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 330w.
“A book that from first to last is stamped by a rare sanity and subtle wisdom. The scene of their dramatic parting and its petty, sordid cause is ... one of those little miracles of intuition which are the hallmarks of genius.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + – Bookm. 34: 385. D. ’06. 710w.
“It is not a book for the young to read, but it is one that will work no harm to mature and balanced minds.” Wm. M. Payne.