Pryce, Richard. The successor: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–25083.
Here is a story with a mystery surrounding the birth of an heir to a vast English estate. The moral law is sacrificed to the interests of ambition, and like many a modern story, no retribution follows for the offenders. The art of the story teller protects the mystery almost too well. The best character of the story is that of a faithful servant who served the house rather than individuals.
“However venturesome the foundation of its plot, this book cannot be charged with grossness. The seasoned reader will get from if no great harm, but much delightful entertainment. The immature reader will do just as well not to make its acquaintance.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 43: 251. O. 16, ’07. 310w. |
“The style is evidently an earnest attempt to follow in the crooked footsteps of Henry James, and the matter, too, is not so very different from the sort of exposition upon which that master expends his genius. One might even say at the risk of great contumely, that, being at least lucid, it is really a little better worth while.”
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Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice (Mrs. Roger Atkinson Pryor). [Birth of the nation, Jamestown, 1607.] **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–14669.