“In spite of this attitude of fierce worshiper, Mr. Finck has written a very readable as well as useful book. He has succeeded in the first place in filling it with personality. He has, in the second place, brought together much information about Grieg, some old and some new, which has not before been easily accessible.”
+ + – Outlook. 82: 520. Mr. 3, ’06. 210w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 60w. R. of Rs. 33: 255. F. ’06. 130w.
Findlater, Jane Helen. Ladder to the stars. †$1.50. Appleton.
The author “depicts a young woman whose relatives are housekeepers, commercial travelers, clerks, as sex or circumstances decree; and she invests her with spiritual ambitions with which the local minister cannot cope; with social aspirations unintelligible in a circle where human society means nothing beyond class-strata; and with intellectual ideals that cannot be shared by those in whose eyes ‘two years at Mrs. Clumper’s’ are synonymous with a liberal education.”—Lond. Times.
+ Acad. 71: 375. O. 13, ’06. 160w.
“Her picture of middle-class life in a country town is admirably incisive and humorous, and at the same time free from ill-nature. The character of her heroine is less satisfactory.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 340w.
“The writer leaves us with a feeling that the ideas which she attributes to her heroine are her own; in other words, the illusion is incomplete. If it had been otherwise the book would have been a triumph of art; as it is, we have a comedy of manners, wise, kindly, and incisive.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 338. O. 5, ’06. 380w.