Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn M. Price of silence; with il. by Griswold Tyng. †$1.50. Houghton.
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New Orleans furnishes the setting for this romance whose prologue deals with civil war times. “Then the tale passes over the intervening years to the present time and concerns itself with the love and complications of a grandniece of the mansions’s chatelaine, a son of the Union officer who commanded the looting provost guard, and young relatives and friends of the heroine.” (N. Y. Times.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠ |
“Its interest is cleverly maintained, and its colouring is vivid and pleasing.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 140w. |
“The story is told with unfailing animation, and pictures with great fidelity the traits of the old French society now rapidly passing from view as a distinctive element in the life of the ancient city of Bienville.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 280w. |
“We suspect that the story is of a sort to be widely read, and to be generally taken, at least in the North, for a true and pleasing picture of southern types and southern life. We protest against such acceptance of it, and decline to believe that this colonel-myth is anything but a travesty of the truth.”