| + + | Outlook. 87: 357. O. 19, ’07. 280w. (Review of 2 v. ed.) |
“It is a book that seems as fresh to-day as when it was written nearly three centuries ago, and, though it may never be popular, it will always be valued by the discriminating few.” Charlotte Harwood.
| + + | Putnam’s. 2: 446. Jl. ’07. 700w. (Review of 4 v. ed.) |
“The wide careless world will pay little attention to these volumes, but they will have their own sure welcome.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Putnam’s. 3: 233. N. ’97. 830w. (Review of 2 v. ed.) |
Howells, William Dean. [Between the dark and the daylight.] †$1.50. Harper.
7–34775.
Of the seven tales told by old friends at the club four are psychological romances, stories of that mental borderland suggested by the book’s title. “A sleep and a forgetting” tells of a strange lapse of memory in a young girl; “The eidolons of Brooks Alford” concerns the visions of a broken down professor and the pretty widow who disperses them; “A memory that worked over time” is a confusion of memory and imagination; and “A case of metaphantasmia” enters into the question of dream-transference. The three stories which conclude the book, “Editha,” “Braybridge’s offer,” and “The chick of the Easter egg” are plain day-light stories, a protest against war, a speculation as to the average proposal, and an amusing Easter comedy.
Reviewed by A. Schade van Westrum.