“The characters are alive and the atmosphere is fresh.”
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“There has not been much attempt by the author—or if there was an attempt it was without success—to make either the story or its separate incidents seem credible or its characters lifelike.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 380w. |
“A successful story of its kind, with no underlying philosophy or special motive, but good in plot and style.”
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Kennedy, Charles William, and Wilson, James Southall. Pausanias: a dramatic poem. $1.25. Neale.
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Pausanias, beloved of Sparta, is tempted by his thirst for power and his sudden passion for the Byzantine maid, Cleonice, to ally himself with Xerxes and turn traitor to his faithful wife and to Greece. How he yields but is held to his honor by the death of the maid he cannot win is told in the three acts of this well wrought poem, which closes with his own tragic death.
Kennelly, Arthur Edwin. Wireless telegraphy: an elementary treatise. **$1. Moffat.