“Likely to stand rather as a slightly dubious ‘human document’ than as an addition to the true poetry of passion. Nevertheless, there are in it many pieces of unalloyed poetry.”
+ Nation. 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 440w.
“All are done with a depth of passion and a haunting music which in their kind it would be hard to match. The work has nothing of the depth and calm of the great masters, but it has none the less the living force of poetry.”
+ Spec. 95: 391. S. 16, ’05. 480w.
Hopekirk, Helen, ed. Seventy Scottish songs. $2.50. Ditson.
+ Ind. 59: 1348. D. 7, ’05. 60w.
“The editor has had a difficult task and has performed it well. The introduction she has written to this volume is a sympathetic interpretation of Scottish music.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 110w. + R. of Rs. 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 100w.
Hopkins, Herbert Müller. [Mayor of Warwick.] †$1.50. Houghton.
The college town of Warwick with its campus atmosphere forms the setting of this story of a young college professor, of the bishop’s daughter and of the Mayor of Warwick, an ex-base ball player and street car conductor, who strives to live up to the ideal set for him by the wife who has stooped to a secret marriage with him but refuses to acknowledge it until he rises to her level. His partial success and partial failure form the burden of this story in which his strength and weakness are contrasted, and when in the end he gives the young professor and the bishop’s daughter their happiness one cannot but be sorry for him and for the girl he lost—the bishop’s pretty house-maid.