| + + | Nature. 73: 409. Mr. 1, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| + + | Nature. 75: 123. D. 6, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.) |
“It is, indeed, difficult to overstate the interest of the whole volume—at least, to those occupied in the subjects treated of.” R. A. S.
| + + | Nature. 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 4.) |
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| + + | Science, n.s. 25: 933. Je. 14, ’07. 1840w. (Review of v. 1–4.) |
Hill, Headon, pseud. (Francis Edward Grainger). The avengers. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
To free her lover from an insane asylum, a young heiress searches out his double, offers him ample remuneration to assume insanity, become an inmate of the asylum, exchange places with the lover and help the latter to escape. The one feigning insanity finds the other too hopelessly mad to execute the commission; so after a few weeks goes forth himself, weds the girl, who supposes him to be her rescued lover, and then the complications begin which involve a vendetta meant for the man shut away in the “refractory cell” but which in reality menaces the life and happiness of the innocent double. The tangle is straightened by the death of the real maniac.
“Immaturity marks the treatment of an idea which promises well.”
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| N. Y. Times. 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 280w. |