| + + | Am. J. Soc. 12: 125. Jl. ’06. 450w. |
“Students of social theory will find this monograph of interest and value.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 154. Jl. ’07. 140w. |
Davis, Norah. World’s warrant; with a frontispiece by F. C. Yohn. †$1.50. Houghton.
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“Briefly, it is the endeavor to get a wife by advertisement, and the resulting tangle in the lives of a number of persons whose characters, cultivation, and position in the world would ordinarily remove them far from any such complications.”—N. Y. Times.
“Miss Davis merits notice chiefly from her treating the South as a live country, inhabited by contemporary human beings, and not by a set of conventional lay figures left over from the tragedy of the last generation.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 501. My 30, ’07. 250w. |
“Miss Davis has evolved a plot of unusual ingenuity and dotted it with situations that are striking and unexpected. A good many of them must be taken at a gulp if they are taken at all. The author has developed the plot very cleverly.”