“Stanley J. Weyman has come to that place as a novelist where he can afford to amuse himself when he writes whether he entertains the reader or not.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07 70w. |
Weyman, Stanley John. [Laid up in lavender.] †$1.50. Longmans.
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“A venerable arch-deacon is entreated by a lady whom he knew in his youth to visit her in her illness. She is an actress, and has a daughter who is a well-known and beautiful actress; and he finds it rather embarrassing when he is asked to undertake the charge of the latter in the event of her mother’s death. When he does find his ward on his hands, he takes counsel of his son, a barrister, who gives him advice in the hypothetical case put to him. Of course the father, hoping to marry off the awkward ward to the man he has heard she loves, discovers this to be his own son under his writing name.”—Ath.
“They are all good stories, and each of them causes something of that feeling of excitement which Mr. Weyman knows so well how to produce.”
| + | Acad. 73: sup. 115. N. 9, ’07. 420w. |
“[The stories] are uninspired and take the author’s reputation no further. Indeed, they ‘drop’ it.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 250w. |