“They breathe a delicacy and fragrance of sentiment that are as entrancing as they are foreign to the literature to which the author modestly claims to be indebted, and they are rendered in English that charms with its pure music.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 480w. |
“It is superfluous to praise the charm of Mr. Bain’s style. He writes the English of a scholar and an artist.”
| + + | Spec. 96: 465. Mr. 24, ’06. 380w. |
Dreiser, Theodore. [Sister Carrie.] $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
A reissue of a realistic novel which first appeared in 1900. “It is the direct, unflinching, pitiless history of the physical and moral ruin of one more fool, for the sake of a woman who did not care—a pretty, self-centred, passionless thing, who indifferently suffers his presence while he is useful to her—and then climbs over the wreck of his life in her hasty escape from the mire into which she has helped to sink him.” (Bookm.)
“Mr. Dreiser is no stylist. He merely writes with great simplicity and quiet force of life as he sees and understands it. The only adverse criticism which it seems worth while to make ... is in regard to its rather colourless and misleading title.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 287. My. ’07. 430w. |
“It is a book very much worth reading. But as about a lady one might be excused for noticing that a costume dating seven years back was a trifle out of fashion, so in the case of Mr. Theodore Dreiser’s story, one may perhaps be pardoned for feeling strongly, as one begins to read, that the stock tricks of the realistic method, even in 1900 somewhat discredited, now almost fatally fail to impress or to move. He moves both the intellect and the heart—a considerable achievement.” Harrison Rhodes.