“The author has endeavored ‘to produce a book that will prove useful both in the lecture room and in the laboratory,’ and the reviewer thinks that he has succeeded.” Edgar F. Smith.
+ + Science, n.s. 23: 812. My. 25, ’06. 460w.
Hopkins, William John. [The clammer.] †$1.25. Houghton.
“Only an uneventful love story, with a man of solitary habits, who digs clams because it amuses him and makes a garden, and keeps clear of his neighbors, a charmingly drawn girl, a rich father who is not spoiled, and a proud mother who is humanized by the birth of a grandchild. There is a good deal of landscape and sky and sea in the narrative, which depends for its charm largely on atmosphere and sentiment.”—Outlook.
“His is a diction which, one is tempted to believe, is born of William John Hopkins, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the various authors of the Bible. It is correct without being prim, well-bred but not distant, and injected with the whimsical humor which never laughs, but has eyes that twinkle.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 350w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – North American. 182: 928. Je. ’06. 60w.
“Much might be said in praise of its quiet rather old-fashioned style—leisurely, meditative, and well-bred. There is no plot.”