“By reason of its literary merit, its vitalising power over the past, its successful relation of ancient springs of action to living and universal movements, and its strictly scientific use of difficult and often obscure material, will remain the standard work on the spiritual significance of the sixth century in the West.”
+ + Spec. 96: 753. My. 12, ’06. 2110w.
Dudeney, Mrs. Henry E. Battle of the weak: or, Gossips Green; il. by Paul Hardy. †$1.50. Dillingham.
A story of love of nearly a hundred years ago is set in a scene furnished by a little town of southern England near the sea. “Quaker Jay was always a Southerner, passionate and voluble, delighting in colour, music, and sunshine. Lucy Vernon, in love with love and with Quaker, and as much a child of the summer and sunshine as he, was married by arrangement to a husband whose gods were decency, self-restraint, and domestic order.” (Lond. Times.) From this romantic chaos unanticipated order finally emerges.
“Lovers of ‘Susan’ will turn eagerly to ‘Gossips Green’, and they will not be disappointed.”
+ Acad. 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 180w.
“Its author, in true modern fashion, is concerned less with the theme of the story ... than with the manner of telling it; and this manner, is in the main, admirable—sympathetic, humorous, artistic, yet conveying withal a slight suggestion of insincerity.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 230w.
“There are many poignant pages in Mrs. Dudeney’s new book, and for their sake she may be pardoned the palpable effort she had to make at last to secure a happy ending.” Frederic Taber Cooper.