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A romance of the days of the “dawn of intellect” with scenes shifting from France to England. It is a tale of a love quest upon which Pipin, the hero, meets a dozen women. Each one affords the author an opportunity to draw an individual type of the dame of yesterday. The dominant qualities of the “eternal feminine” are strikingly portrayed.
“Mr. Calthrop has sacrificed too much to high morality. It will certainly be much liked by those who value originality of idea and vivid, poetical expression, and we think that the insatiable readers of novels, who rather resent these merits, will forgive them in a short book full of attractive incidents related in an unusual form with considerable dramatic effect.”
| + − | Acad. 73: sup. 114. N. 9, ’07. 900w. |
“Picturesque charm and a real feeling for romance mark the story.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 950w. |
“This is a romance to be enjoyed if one happens to be in the right mood, but one that does not command the reader’s satisfaction.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 180w. |
Calthrop, Dion Clayton. [English costume]; painted and described by Dion Clayton Calthrop. 4v. ea. $2.75. Macmillan.