“The only weakness is in a detail of arrangement i. e. the neglect of side references and the consequent lack of coherence. There is much unevenness in the bibliographies.” James C. Egbert.
+ + – Bookm. 23: 454. Je. ’06. 610w.
Comstock, Harriet T. Meg and the others. 75c. Crowell.
Two little girls of to-day, sitting in the firelight just before bed-time hear the stories of Meg, and Mary, and the Boy, which their grandmother calls out of the long ago for them. And when they have heard all about them, their games, their troubles, and their adventures, when they have learned to love them, and are loath to let them go, they find that Mary is a nice old lady who is coming to live with them, and that Meg and the Boy are really their own dear grandmother and grandfather.
Comstock, Mrs. Harriet Theresa. Queen’s hostage. †$1.50. Little.
A story built up about plot, treachery, and treason which constantly threatened Queen Elizabeth’s peace of mind. The hero is a young lord of the house of Rathven who incognito redresses the wrongs of a treacherous father and earns the long questioned right to be counted among the queen’s loyal subjects.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 723. N. 3, ’06. 170w.
Comstock, Seth Cook. Marcelle the mad. †$1.50. Appleton.
“With the romantic Ardennes forest for setting, and for the motif the incident of a medieval feud between the Duke of Burgundy and the citizens of the town of Dinant, Dr. Comstock has written a stirring tale of adventure to which he gives the name of ‘Marcelle the mad’ ... after the female Robin Hood who plays the leading role.”—Lit. D.