“Should be warmly welcomed as [an] adjunct to the work of teaching English literature in both colleges and secondary schools.”
| + | Dial. 43: 214. O. 1, ’07. 100w. |
“The excellence of the selection of individual poems is beyond dispute.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 200w. |
Brooke, Emma Frances. Sir Elyot of the woods. †$1.50. Duffield.
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Sir Elyot Ingall of Ingalton, young, handsome, and on the eve of a literary career, finds his estates hopelessly encumbered and is obliged to let his manor house and strive by personal effort to keep a mortgage off his Dower woods, the woods he loves, the trees of which offer the only source of revenue for him. He struggles against the woodman’s axe and finds inspiration for his writings in his forest. When thru a legal tangle it is all but lost to him he recovers it, and in recovering learns that the girl he loved and trusted had played the trees false and planned to sacrifice them for the gold she craved. In his agony his heart returns to his first love thru whom he and his estate come once more to their own.
“If the whole book did but carry out the promise to be seen in the opening pages it would be a remarkable and interesting production.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 682. Jl. 13, ’07. 150w. |