“On the whole the work is not extremely radical: it seeks to be constructive, is written in good spirit.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1571. D. 27, ’06. 390w. |
Bowen, Marjorie. [Master of Stair.] †$1.50. McClure.
7–15924.
“A story of Scotland at the close of the seventeenth century, dealing in the main with a plot to overthrow William of Orange, but more specifically with the hereditary feud between the clans of Campbell and Glencoe, and the treachery by which the latter clan was finally exterminated.”—Bookm.
“The author has a sense of style and a fertile imagination. Against [several] slips may be set the vivid portraiture of many characters (those of William of Orange and Lady Dalrymple would redeem a far worse book) and the general truth of the local colour.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 260w. |
“While quite distinctly not in the same class with Maurice Hewlett, she nevertheless shares with him the rather uncommon gift of infusing the thrill of life into vanished centuries, and making men and women, long since a handful of dust, seem to us, for the time being living breathing realities.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 393. Je. ’07. 520w. |