| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 407. D. 7, ’06. 1150w. |
“A more delightful volume than Mr. Layard’s it would be hard to find.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 560w. |
“We do not relish Mr. Layard’s literary style. It is vehement and familiar. Nor are the letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence pleasing, as letters. They are dry and formal and generally ungrammatical and obscure. The facts of the great artist’s life as exhibited in the letters are however interesting enough.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 177. F. 9. ’07. 1510w. |
“With the material at his command, Mr. Layard might have produced a satisfactory biography. He has been content to give us this material (or a part of it) instead of the finished work.”
| + | Spec. 98: 458. Mr. 23, ’07. 1360w. |
Lawson, Thomas W. Friday the 13th. †$1.50. Doubleday.
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The spirit of frenzied finance hovers over this tale in which figure a proud ex-governor of Virginia, who loses in a speculation game carried on with trust funds, a loyal daughter, and a hero who plays the stock market to retrieve the Virginian’s fortune. “It may be characterized as a nightmare of love and stock gambling, wherein the ‘System’ shakes its gory locks and brandishes a handful of bloodstained razors, stalking the while prodigious over the necks of its prostrate victims.” (N. Y. Times.) “What Mr. Lawson attempts to do is to show the degrading effect of speculation upon character.” (Nation.)