“The novel is exceedingly modern in flavor and probably will be found satisfactory by those readers who were in expectation of iconoclastic touches such as recently have distinguished Miss Corelli’s utterances.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 260w. Lit. D. 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 450w.
“Miss Corelli’s latest story is by no means lacking in power. Lacking in distinction, it of course is; but it has more dignity of substance and less indignity of style than anything of hers we have hitherto seen.”
– – + Nation. 83: 227. S. 13, ’06. 500w.
“As a literary production does not measure up to its ethical intention.”
– – + N. Y. Times. 11: 549. S. 8, ’06. 640w. Putnam’s. 1: 319. D. ’06. 80w.
Cornell, Hughes. Kenelm’s Desire. †$1.50. Little.
Desire, a musician by instinct, by training, and by heredity, spends a summer in British Columbia among the Indians, canoeing, sailing, mountain-climbing and fishing. Here she discovers in a young Alaska Indian, adopted and educated by white people, a soul fired by ambition and pride, one that reflects the sad poetry of vanishing traditions. The love idyll is interwoven with flagrant race prejudice, political scenes, and true-to-life sketches of Indian character.