“Taken for no more than it professes to be, the book is a good one.”
+ Dial. 41: 245. O. 16, ’06. 490w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 665. O. 13, ’06. 1320w. Putnam’s. 1: 383. D. ’06. 130w. + Sat. R. 101: 699. Je. 2, ’06. 140w.
“They are hardly worth binding up into a book. They add very little to our knowledge, and they are not a work of a writer alive to the picturesqueness of the past or sensitive to the harmonies of the English language.”
– Spec. 96: 906. Je. 9, ’06. 1170w.
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Gale, Zona. [Romance island.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
The charm of this story does not lie in the plot, indeed one does the book an injustice in sketching the course of St. George’s love affair with the New York heiress whose father has been made king of Yaque, a mysterious island in the eastern seas, which has been ruled by hereditary monarchs since 1050 B. C. and whose civilization is what the world will be a thousand years from now. St. George, an ex-newspaper man now a millionaire, meets the heiress thru an attempt to murder her, and follows her in behalf of his old paper, to Yaque where she is offered her father’s throne and a royal husband. All this, however, is merely a framework about which Miss Gale winds a series of charming fancies. It is a dainty and illusive romance from cover to cover in which pure sentiment, vivid imagination, practical newspaper routine, humor, satire and good character drawing are marvelously blended.
“The story is thrillingly exciting from cover to cover. Those readers who do not demand the element of probability, or even of possibility, in their novels, will enjoy ‘Romance island.’” Amy C. Rich.
+ – Arena. 36: 688. D. ’06. 170w.