“She has a keen sense of the picturesque and the worth-while, and she knows well how to find color in what might appear but gray to others.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 130w. |
Battersby, Harry F. P. Avenging hour. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–37929.
A novel which involves an unusual treatment of a man’s seduction of the wife of another. “We follow the progress of this rapid lovemaking not only without disgust but with entire sympathy. The man and woman we feel are not mad or bad but only intensely human—winning personalities of great charm. The author has managed to convey a sense of that intuitive power which in a flash makes people recognise their true affinities.” (Sat. R.)
“The teller of this story disguises its essential repulsiveness by a skillful use of the casuistry of sentiment and the grace of literary composition.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − + | Dial. 42: 143. Mr. 1, ’07. 410w. |
“The book has many good points, but unfortunately they do not counteract its unpleasant features.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 11: 787. N. 24, ’06. 250w. |