+ – Dial. 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 630w.
“If the book is not strongly original, it is interesting, and not without its importance to current literary discussion.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 269. Ap. 28, ’06. 970w.
“He is never dull or commonplace. With his criticism as a whole most readers will be in sympathy, because it is founded on common sense, largely free from vagaries, and based on knowledge of life rather than on theories of life.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 410w.
Eggleston, George Cary. Blind alleys. $1.50. Lothrop.
The characters who find themselves groping in the “blind alleys” of modern New York life as they strive honestly to be helpful to those less fortunate are a young newspaper man who has become separated from the wife he loves, a young doctor who received funds for his education from some mysterious source and knows not his own parentage, a fabulously wealthy spinster and the girl who passes as her ward, and others who are hedged about by circumstances more or less unusual. The story of their various complications and how they are finally straightened out is given in great detail.
“No doubt the book will appeal to those who are interested in settlement work and in civic philanthropy in general.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 270w.