+ – Outlook. 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 160w.
“The book is certainly above the average in readability as well as in ideals; and though the workmanship does not always reach the level of the conception, the main part of the story amply repays the reader for wading through what must be acknowledged to be the extreme dullness of the first two or three chapters.”
+ – Spec. 96: 426. Mr. 17, ’06. 350w.
Gray mist, a novel; by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.” **$1.50. Harper.
The fleecy grayness of a Breton mist permeates this story of Pierrek, the child who is sent by the sea to the empty arms of a woman whose wits are wandering because of the loss of her own baby boy. With true Breton faith in the miraculous he is considered hers, grows to manhood on the Breton cliffs, marries the girl of his choice, becomes a loving husband, and a happy father, only to learn thru a woman’s jealousy that his mother of mothers is not his own and that his wife is his own sister. Then indeed the grey mist envelops him and he goes back to the gray sea leaving those he loves in sorrow and facing a hopeless future which the impenetrable mists of life and death envelope like a shroud.
“It cannot be called satisfactory as a whole, and the conclusion is too annoying to be tragic.”
– Ath. 1906, 2: 614. N. 17. 300w.
“The whole tone of the present volume is as false as possible—little short of maudlin.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 771. N. 24. ’06. 240w.