Holmes, Daniel Henry. Pedlar’s pack. $5. E. D. North, 4 E. 39th st., N. Y.
6–26458.
Ninety clever short poems which the author declares are intended to help a “tired man to kill a Sunday,” but they are really better than their mission implies.
| Lit. D. 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 40w. |
“It is, indeed, the temperament of the painter blessed with humor, the temperament of the ‘limb of the spectrum,’ that gives effectiveness to Mr. Holmes’s work.”
| + | Nation. 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 300w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 254. F. ’07. 20w. |
Holmes, Gordon. [Late tenant.] $1.50. Clode, E. J.
6–34806.
“A bronze young man who has spent his youth on a Wyoming ranch and has gone to London to grow rich and famous ‘in the city,’ rents a furnished apartment in Eddystone Mansions, and there you are. You smell violets, you hear the swish of trailing garments, you get tangled up in the most extraordinary ‘affair.’... There are missing papers to be plotted for, there are serving women to be bribed, there are mad drives in hansom cabs, with the hero on the driver’s perch and the speed regulations of the greatest city in the world set at naught. There are love scenes, hand-to-hand struggles in the dark, dramatic tableau of marriage settlements interrupted, and a dropping of the curtain on the tragic finish of a misguided life.”—N. Y. Times.