| + + − | Philos. R. 16: 624. N. ’07. 4780w. |
“I am therefore bound to record the opinion that the present volume fails to rise to the level of its author’s reputation. There is something too much of ‘the large loose way’ about it.” R. M. Wenley.
| + − | Science, n.s. 26: 464. O. 11, ’07. 2480w. |
James, Winifred. Bachelor Betty. **$1.25. Dutton.
7–23302.
“Bachelor Betty is a vivacious young Australian girl who comes over to England to seek her fortune as a journalist. She is an independent young person who means to make the best of things, and for this purpose she adopts an aggressively cheerful attitude, extracting fun out of all sorts of unpromising material.... ‘There is not,’ she writes, ‘one woman in a hundred who chooses an independent life because she prefers it’.... We know full well that whimsical Betty with her continual babble and chatter, her delicate philanderings with the ‘youngest man,’ the ‘oldest man’ and other admirers will come at last into the safe haven of matrimony.”—Sat. R.
“All her characters are made living by some touch or phrase which renders the least important of them a personality.”
| + | Acad. 73: 706. Jl. 20, ’07. 230w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 202. N. ’07. |
“Here is an author who takes herself not too seriously, and knows how to entertain us. We find sanity and humanity also in the development of the story.”