Cheney, Warren. His wife. †$1.50. Bobbs.
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A group of Russian peasants among Alaskan snows enact here a drama impossible in its primitive passions to a more conventional setting. The wife of Luka dies in the first chapter, and he, crazed by her loss, wanders away to search for her. He fancies he has found her in his brother’s promised bride, wins her love, is wounded in the quarrel with his brother for her possession, and awakes after an illness to a realization that she is not the much loved wife he has lost. How these two souls so oddly met, so strangely bound together, work out their own happiness is the story of the book.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
Chesson, Nora. Father Felix’s chronicles; with introd. by W. H. Chesson. *$1.50. Wessels.
“If ‘Father Felix’s chronicles’ suggest Maurice Hewlett, it is by no means in the ways of imitation, conscious or involuntary.” (Nation.) “Father Felix is a priest of the order of St. Benedict in the early part of the fifteenth century, and he has knowledge, in one way or another, of the loves and hates and desires and revenges of the men and women who surround the throne of King Henry IV. The author makes him tell the story of these vanished people so vividly that the dust of their passions seems touched with the fire of actual life.” (N. Y. Times.)
“She had in fact, assimilated the period as few novelists of to-day have done. Her tale is somewhat disjointed and episodic, but its vitality keeps interest for it. It is very learned in the times, but its learning is never an obsession.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 796. D. 22. 210w. |