“The proportions ... that she has given to the various elements of her narrative, sometimes suggests the historical novel as much as they do strict history.”
+ Cath. World. 82: 564. Ja. ’06. 220w.
“It is an entirely amateurish and unworkmanlike performance, wholly destitute of importance of any and every description. The author’s sentiments are womanly; we have no quarrel with her ideals; her judgments are usually just. To begin with this important work has not yet a shred of an index. The style—the English—is maddening when it is not amusing. There are numberless passages in inverted commas without any references to the authorities. When authorities are indicated volume and page are never given. Not once throughout the whole of this ‘important historical work’ is a single Italian authority referred to. Nearly every Italian word is misspelled.”
– – + Sat. R. 100: 248. Ag. 19, ’05. 1040w.
“The book is strongly partisan. Not only Countess Matilda, but Gregory VII. and the other Popes, her contemporaries, can do no wrong. We must say that the more she deals with historical scenes and facts, and the less with personalities, the pleasanter reading her book becomes.”
+ – Spec. 95: 122. Jl. 22, ’05. 1720w.
Hudson, William Henry. [Purple land.] **$1.50. Dutton.
A new edition of a story written twenty years ago. “The adventures and reflections are ostensibly those of Richard Lamb, a person of English birth but oriental temperament. Richard had begun his career by stealing from a proud man of Argentina his beloved only daughter. With this lovely flower for his bride he fled to Montevideo, and leaving the lady in the charge of a grim aunt person, sought his fortune upon the plains.” (N. Y. Times.) “Young Richard Lamb rides forth an errant knight, and many adventures and desperadoes and fair ladies fall to his share. The country, the people, the customs, the moral and political ideals, all pass in vivid array before us.” (Outlook.)
“Charming narrative of life in South America.”