“The unaffected style, the ease and strength with which she has put together the varying phases of a difficult situation so as to produce a perfect illusion, indicates that she may win high rank among the writers of the new fiction.”
| + | Ind. 62: 559. Mr. 7, ’07. 710w. |
“It is a readable book rather than a conclusive one; interesting rather than valuable; a ramble, by turns painful and pleasant, rather than an arrival.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 267. Mr. 21, ’07. 390w. |
“Unlike most American novels the book has in its fibre something more—indeed, a good deal more—than its bare story. It is evidently the fruit of a mind and heart that have studied and questioned life in its nakedness.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 143. Mr. 9, ’07. 640w. |
* Tennant, Pamela. Children and the pictures. $1.50. Macmillan.
Lady Tennant permits the figures in the pictures of the Tennant collection to come to life, step down from their canvases, and tell her children tales of the life and times which they helped to make. “Thus the real children who have been taught to love them in their frames play with Beppo, Dolores, the Leslie boy, and Charlotte and Harry Spencer, who tell the story of their kidnapping by the gipsies.... Lady Crosbie flits by, looking ‘permanently mischievous;’ and Peg Woffington rustles about the passages, sometimes finding the children a nuisance.” (Ath.)
“It is a charming and original idea, which Lady Tennant has carried out very gracefully.”