“Somehow the author has failed to hit the key; the story is neither fantastic enough nor sober enough to be more or less than a gentle irritant.”
| − | Nation. 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 310w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 80w. |
“The characters and happenings of the story are mere pegs on which to hang the author’s theories, but none the less the pages of the book are illumined with numerous flashes of wit and startling examples of acute observation.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: sup. 7. S. 28, ’07. 1300w. |
Maartens, Maarten. Woman’s victory and other stories. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–35218.
“The book takes its title from the caption of the first story, but it is suitable for the collection as a whole. For most of the stories recount a contest of some sort, of wit or will, or feeling, or intention, between people of opposite sex, in which the woman is usually the victor.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a pity that work so admirable as the stories mentioned and some others should be jostled by work so feeble and inferior as ‘The diamonds’ and several stories better unnamed.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 161. Ag. 18, ’06. 390w. |