| + | Bookm. 25: 603. Ag. ’07. 360w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 458. Ag. 22, ’07. 140w. |
“Trim, carefully upholstered, and perfectly imaginable tales. Very good of their extravagant kind.”
| + | Nation. 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 110w. |
“Some of the separate stories are excellent in their mechanism and in the way of their telling. Nearly all of them suffer from opulent adjectivitis. Mr. Chambers too often marches along with his head in rainbowlike clouds, which he scatters like fragments all over his pages until the reader fairly longs for a nice gloomy page or two in which nothing will sparkle or flash or flame or dazzle or scintillate.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 630w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 90w. |
Chambers, Robert W. [Younger set.] †$1.50. Appleton.
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“In the ‘younger set’ from which he gets his title Mr. Chambers finds much that is buoyant, much that augurs well for the future of the social development of New York. His hero is a gentleman and a soldier; his heroine a clear-eyed pure-minded young girl, the embodiment of faithfulness, good breeding, and true-heartedness; while there is a really charming family picture of father, mother, children, and dogs—Mr. Chambers’s dogs are always capital, by the way. The more serious purpose of the book is to discuss certain aspects of the divorce problem.”—Outlook.
“It is this vicious, sordid element which, we think, spoils the genuine love story that runs through the book. But Mr. Chambers is a clever writer and a close student of character.”