“One does not have to agree with all that is said to appreciate the importance of the subjects discussed.”
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“The essays are really adapted only for oral delivery. They verge upon platitude and will scarcely stimulate thought.”
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“Its spirit and lessons are both needed by the American people.”
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Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson. [Wheel of life.] †$1.50. Doubleday.
Miss Glasgow has taken a plunge with Mrs. Wharton into the very thick of New York’s smart set life. She throws upon her society screen a complexity of types, which with ingenious detachment appear at one time pathetically human, again beggarly moral, and most often impersonally conventional. “The three women represent as many types; Gerty a mondaine of the better sort ... holding her silken skirts above the soil of scandal, and underneath a mocking mask, keeping a pinioned soul; Connie Adams, a silly moth, fluttering in endless gayeties outside the more exclusive circles ... and the cloisteral Laura, not only a genius, but a consummate flower of womanhood. Of the men, Perry Bridewell and Arnold Kemper are not unlike—pleasure-seeking men of the clubs.... Bridewell is not much more than a well-groomed, handsome body; Kemper is Bridewell with intellect added. Adams, on the contrary, is the absorbed man of letters ... caring for no pleasure outside his work.” (N. Y. Times.)