“It is all very lightweight of course, and distressingly false from the point of view of moderns cursed with the quality of moral earnestness. But it is quite pretty and entertaining, its saccharine and mystic tendencies relieved by a certain mild and harmless humor.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 343. My. 25, ’07. 660w. |
“One [story] ... certainly holds a picture almost worthy of comparison with that ideal of a priest, Monseigneur Bienvenu, whose candlesticks and saintliness saved the soul of Hugo’s Jean Valjean. The other tales, morally and otherwise rather less strenuous, are variously stimulating and as admirably written, every one.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 110w. |
Andrews, Mary R. S. [Perfect tribute.] **50c. Scribner.
6–32361.
An incident connected with Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech furnishes the motif of this little fictional sketch. “‘The perfect tribute’ on the Gettysburg speech is rendered directly to Lincoln, in a Washington hospital, by a wounded soldier who had read the address in a morning newspaper,—the President having been accidentally called in to draw up a will for the dying man.” (Dial.)
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 16. Ja. ’07. ✠ |
“Leaving veracity out of consideration, it must be confessed that the little story is written with a tenderness of touch and a delicacy of diction which make it delightful reading.” Edwin Erle Sparks.