“The contrasts that she depicts by bringing in now and then an outsider from the city, or a son who has gone into the outside world and won success and culture, are almost too vivid to be artistic.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 676. O. 26, ’07. 130w. |
“The tales are charmingly written and disclose a phase of unusually interesting life.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 120w. |
Martin, Helen R. (Mrs. Frederic C. Martin). His courtship; il. by Alice Barber Stephens. †$1.50. McClure.
7–15920.
A professor of psychology rusticating among the Pennsylvania Dutch during his vacation, becomes interested in a much persecuted slave of the kitchen. That the girl proves to be the daughter of cultured parents and had been kidnapped in infancy, that during her bondage she had found solace and books in a haunted room suggest the lines along which the professor may make some impersonal observations for the cause of psychology but more especially for his own personal cause of happiness.
“The author is certainly more successful when she confines herself to Dutch characters, and has in this case spoiled an excellent short story by expanding it into the more ambitious novel.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 203. N. ’07. |