“Exhaustive and scholarly introductory essays.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 967. Ag. 31, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
Kingsley, Florence Morse. Princess and the ploughman. †$1.25. Harper.
7–18593.
A pretty pastoral this, altho it is set in the present time. Mary, the princess in distress, is to inherit a large fortune from a spinster aunt if she marries before her twenty-third birthday. The ploughman, a recluse and a farmer, offers her his name in order that she may secure her fortune and promises to ask nothing in return. Of course they are madly in love with each other, else he would not have made the offer, nor she accepted it, but each is proud so they marry but to part and it is long before they come to know each other’s hearts.
“An idyllic little novel, infused with grace and sly humor. Men and women both ought to like it; and for the suspiring college girl, it can not but prove a tonic.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 570w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 438. Jl. 13, ’07. 190w. |
“Their story is a bit of romantic absurdity, or a sweet and refreshing love idyl, as the individual reader’s view-point will determine.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 180w. |