| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 880w. |
“Mrs. Dargan is a poet, not a great one, because not original, though she is decidedly individual.” James Huneker.
| + | No. Am. 184: 190. Ja. 18, ’07. 1410w. |
“If one were asked to say wherein the chief weakness lay, one would feel that one had acquired no new or individual point of view from the reading, and that there was no serious comment upon life.” Louise Collier Willcox.
| + − | No. Am. 186: 95. S. ’07. 280w. |
“There are abundant signs of immaturity in the first book of plays, and only a very young writer would have attempted the dramatization of such a character and experience as Poe’s; but there are also indisputable marks of original force of mind and imagination; the quality of promise which comes from strength and vitality rather than from facility and sensibility.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 328. F. 9, ’07. 1320w. |
“[The reader] cannot be unconscious of certain defects of plot. Mrs. Dargan’s great strength lies in the personality with which she invests her characters and in her remarkable command of blank verse.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + + − | Putnam’s. 2: 349. Je. ’07. 300w. |
Davenport, Charles Benedict. Inheritance in poultry. pa. $1. Carnegie inst.