“The best that can be said for it is that no doubt it will yield a number of amiable persons a certain harmless enjoyment; the worst, that there is no reason why it should have been written at all.”

Acad. 73: 194. N. 30, ’07. 230w.

“Mrs. Shorter’s characters are skillfully and sympathetically drawn.”

+Ath. 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 180w.

“[Only one] small blot on a story that within its little limits has the qualities of a work of art.”

+ + −Lond. Times. 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 330w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

Shurter, Edwin DuBois, ed. Masterpieces of modern oratory. *$l. Ginn.

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A group of oratorical masterpieces which have been collected with a view of offering them to students as models for study.