“There is about some of the people an air of verisimilitude and actuality; but one looks in vain for that fineness of perception, nicety of phrase, and sense of true contrast which would have added greatly to the whole.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 650. N. 23. 220w. |
“Gives us in ‘The halo’ much the same wide range of life and variety of type that contributed to the popularity of ‘Pam’ and its sequel.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 26: 407. D. ’07. 690w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
“Is disappointing, owing to the improbability of the main situation. The situation is intense enough, and novel enough; but it lacks, somehow, that touch of reality, of sympathetic interest, which is ever needed to bring the reader completely en rapport with the joys or tribulations of the dwellers in romance.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 850w. |
“The portrait of the violinist is an admirable sketch in the florid style, and it is a pity that the extreme depravity of mind which taints the atmosphere of the story like an unpleasant odour should prevent readers from enjoying the pictures of Anglo-French life in London, which are both amusingly and picturesquely drawn.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 672. N. 2, ’07. 190w. |
Hutten, Baroness Bettina von. One way out. **$2.50. Dodd.