+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 657. O. 6, ’06. 560w.
“They pass through pleasant places, they are free from haste, and they are frequented by quaint, simple, original people.”
+ Outlook. 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 70w.
Brown, Alice. Court of love. †$1.25. Houghton.
The Court of love “where everybody has what he likes and likes what he has,” was naturally looked upon by the world as a lunatic asylum, but it was merely the whim of a girl who had not found happiness and who wished to make other people happy. Julia Leigh’s unrestrained hospitality involves her in strange complications not of her planning, but by her fantastic masque she succeeds in re-uniting her best friend to a forgetful husband, in restoring a lost child to its uncle, in giving a burglar his deserts, in providing a real vacation for a houseful of strangers, and finally in securing for herself her heart’s desire. The whole is a pretty farce-comedy.
“No outline of its plot—if there be such a thing about it—could convey the least sense of its bubbling humor and joyously riotous course.” W. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 41: 39. Jl. 16, ’06. 130w.
“It has the piquancy of plot and an ease of expression that are refreshing.”
+ Ind. 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 60w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 308. My. 12, ’06. 240w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.