If it were not for the prologue the reader might be mystified over certain psychic revelations which the hero as palmist and clairvoyant makes to the heroine concerning her past life and her future. As it is, the trick of the clear seeing is bared, and one is prepared to enjoy the human side of this tale of the Golden Gate which deals as much with the froth of a San Francisco smart set as with the longings of a so-called charlatan bent upon learning his origin and winning the girl he loves.
“Is a good love story and something more—a really clever exposition of the methods of charlatanry among clairvoyants, spiritualistic mediums, ‘healers,’ and other deceivers of the credulous.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 100w. |
Burgess, Gelett. [White cat.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–10048.
A tale which suggests “Double trouble.” The possessor of the dual personality is a young girl, charming and womanly one day, and hoidenish and cruel the next. She is under the spell of a hypnotist who makes use of his power over her to the end of extorting money from her. A prince in the form of a broad-shouldered young architect is thrust upon the mercies of the “white cat” as the result of a motor car accident. His mission, as in the fairy tale of old, is that of destroying the fatal work of the fairies and annihilating the lower personality.
“An exciting and rather well written story.” Amy C. Rich.
| + | Arena. 37: 559. My. ’07. 250w. |