| + + | Nation. 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 660w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 17. Ja. 12, ’07. 270w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 190w. |
“Mr. Wyld has added an excellent bibliography and an equally good index.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 648. Ap. 27, ’07. 540w. |
Wyllarde, Dolf. As ye have sown. †$1.50. Lane.
The author’s thesis “seems to be that the British aristocracy has been bred in idleness and nursed in vice for generations until its men are gamblers and roués by instinct, its women unspeakable things clad in scale-like sequins and triply armed with brazen conceit, lewdness and loudness. In contrast, she draws a flattering portrait of the ‘Great middle class’ of England.... A beautiful young woman, Patricia Mornington, wanders into the story and into the fast society, where she finds herself about as much at home as an angel in Tophet or an ascension lily in a foundry furnace.” (Ind.)
“This is a brilliant and convincing picture of society life among the members of the British aristocracy.”
| + | Arena. 38: 215. Ag. ’07. 160w. |
“She shows a less sure touch, in depicting the routine of English suburban homes than in her former vivid sketches of military and colonial life; and she has not succeeded in the task—a difficult one, admittedly—of endowing virtue in the person of her heroine with fascinations exceeding those proper to vice.”
| − | Ath. 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 180w. |