“They have treated it both from the art and literary point of view with a certain amount of freshness.”
| + | Int. Studio. 32: 167. Ag. ’07. 310w. |
“There are many admirable descriptive touches; and if nothing is set in a new light, that is probably because a city which has been studied and re-studied by so many lovers is familiar now to all the world. Mr. Barratt’s illustrations are exceedingly successful, and add materially to the attractiveness of the book.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 820. Je. 29, ’07. 260w. |
De Selincourt, Hugh. Boy’s marriage. †$1.50. Lane.
“Beverley Teruel, nicknamed Girlie because of his lack of sophistication, shortly after leaving Oxford marries the girl of his father’s choice.” (N. Y. Times.) “Beverley flies into a morbid suspicion of the purity of his perfectly healthy passion. He seeks solace in a platonic affection for a literary woman, finds it difficult to exist without her, disobeys her by rushing to London to see her, and, when severely snubbed, falls an easy victim to the wiles of a woman of the town. During his absence Eva has been making discoveries which impel her towards a whole-hearted bid for her husband’s vanished affection. But it is too late. Innocence has given place to morbidity, and everything ends as, granting the premisses, it must end, miserably.” (Acad.)
“The workmanship of the book, though sensitive, is sometimes feeble. There is a good deal of superfluous detail, and the lines are not always clear. But the choice and development of the theme show courage, humour, and a severe logic which promise well.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 611. D. 15, ’06. 440w. |