“Slight as they are, these early sketches leave the impression that Mr. Weyman understood contemporary life so well that a very promising disciple of Trollope was lost when he turned aside to don the sword and buskin.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 26: 410. D. ’07. 350w. |
“The variety of the provender supplied in the group makes a wholesome and digestible banquet from nourishing soup through seasoned entrée to contenting coffee.”
| + | Nation. 85: 447. N. 14, ’07. 150w. |
“None of the twelve tales has anything to raise it above the level of ordinary magazine fiction, and two or three of them are positively dull.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 100w. |
“Most of the other tales bear internal evidence of having been written some time ago, and the author would have been best advised to have kept them still laid up in lavender.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 641. N. 23, ’07. 520w. |
Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth. [Italian days and ways.] **$1.50. Lippincott.
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