+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 507. Ap. 28, 2430w.
“Although M. Barbey is a good compiler of evidence, he has no gift for vividness.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 132. Ap. 12, ’06. 1460w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 257. Ap. 21, ’06. 1460w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
“There are more exclamatory passages by the author than authentic quotations from Lady Atkyns’s letters.”
– Outlook. 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 210w.
“It is a pretty romance anyway, and a few words at least of it might be given as a foot note to the history of France.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 730. Je. 9, ’06. 300w. – Spec. 97: 235. Ag. 18, ’06. 1510w.
Barbour, Mrs. Anna Maynard. Breakers ahead. †$1.50. Lippincott.
This story outlines the life of a “sublime egoist.” A young Englishman, Thomas Macavoy Denning, leaves home because he has been expelled from school, and comes to America with the resolve to make in the new world, single-handed, a name which shall equal his father’s in the old. He succeeds in so far as wealth and position are concerned, by sheer will, force, and self confidence he succeeds financially; but on the eve of his political triumph, just as his election as governor of a western state seems assured, the results of a lax past, of a period when he sowed wild oats rises up to defeat him—and his was not a soul which could bear defeat.