“Mr. Doyle has made the most of his material. He never lets us forget that if his picture is crowded with a mass of insignificant detail, its outlines are large.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 494. Ap. 20, ’07. 1690w. |
[Draught of the blue], together with An essence of the dusk; tr. from the original manuscript by Francis William Bain. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–6406.
A volume of love stories translated from the original Hindoo manuscripts by the author of “A digit of the moon.” “The title, as he tells us in his charming introduction, signifies in some occult way the new moon, the lotus, and the blue eyes of a girl.... The book is pure sublimated fancy, where Western ideals appear in the delicate garb of Eastern mysticism.” (Spec.)
“There is a very genuine pleasure in reading the two curious tales that make up this new volume, because they are not only fascinating in themselves, as specimens of delicate and involved mysticism, but because they are so abundantly and unmistakably saturated with the spirit of the Orient.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 260w. |
“The English of the version is singularly fluent, simple, and graceful.”
| + | Nation. 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 140w. |