“The novel is a study of manners, and is extremely clever, very subtile, and slightly disagreeable.”
+ – Spec. 96: 718. My. 5, ’06. 310w.
Glyn, Elinor (Mrs. Clayton Glyn). [Beyond the rocks.] †$1.50. Harper.
Danger ground is trodden from the first page to the last in Mrs. Glyn’s story of hearts. Theodosia Fitzgerald, young and beautiful, marries Josiah Brown, rich but fifty and stupid. In spite of her attempt to be faithful she falls in love with an English lord and the ardent love of the two runs a riotous course in the face of conventionality and duty.
“Mrs. Glyn’s picture of the unscrupulous, sensual, bridge-playing set would give a ludicrously false impression, both of that set and of English society in general, to any reader who was unable to correct it by his own observation. Nor is Mrs. Glyn much happier with more reputable people.”
– Acad. 70: 503. My. 26, ’06. 380w.
“Lack of good taste and deficiency in technique are serious handicaps, and in fact this novel is drawn back by them from the domain of good art into the republic of the second-rate.”
– Ath. 1906, 1: 634. My. 26. 230w.
“All the parents who were in doubt about letting their debutante daughters browse upon ‘The visits of Elizabeth’ may turn them loose upon ‘Beyond the rocks’ without a twinge of misgiving.”