“No complaint may be made of it for lack of interest or excitement.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 150w. + Lit. D. 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 300w. N. Y. Times. 11: 44. Ja. 20, ’06. 290w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.
Ellis, John Breckenridge. Stork’s nest. †$1.50. Moffat.
“A tale of rough life in northern Missouri.... The process of molding Emmy, the woodland beauty, into a ‘Person’ suitable to be presented to her relatives in St. Louis, is confided to a youth who seeks health in the woods. He becomes one of a strange company, in which figure a ghost, a weak-minded boy, a brutal counterfeiter, and several tools of the last character. Floods and dangers of all sorts interfere with the progress of the romance, but love is triumphant over evil in the end—the bad people die, and the good live happy ever after.”—Outlook.
“We cannot help reading to a finish, but we have no desire to reread any part of it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Bookm. 23: 30. Mr. ’06. 240w.
“The plot is mysterious enough to arouse curiosity, yet not sufficiently well managed to prevent annoyance to the reader.”
+ – Outlook. 81: 892. D. 9, ’05. 110w.
Ellison, Mrs. Edith Nicholl. Childs recollections of Tennyson. *$1. Dutton.