“One recognizes an uncommonly successful writing-down of many of its present-day idiosyncrasies. For the rest, the story is quite inoffensive, told in a rambling, artless, unpracticed fashion, that almost makes one question whether it were not intended as a juvenile.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 240w. |
“A pretty story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 681. O. 26, ’07. 110w. |
“One feels that the author has real sympathy with her subject and characters, and that, despite her abrupt and disjointed manner of telling the tale, it is really worth having.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 70w. |
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). [Christian science.] $1.75. Harper.
7–6631.
Mark Twain’s viewpoint is an objective one, humorously critical and one which characterizes the Christian science faith in the light of a reversal of the very things which to its followers are possible. He counts Christian science among the religions of the insane, and considers Mrs. Eddy in the light of a self-deified mental despot, which picture is drawn from the author’s interpretation of her acts and words.