“The collaboration is quite perfect, and it is always impossible to consider the story apart from the pictures. Possibly the drawings are a bit cleverer than the text, although there is much amusing matter in the dog biography.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w. |
Emerald and Ermine: a tale of the Argoät by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.” *$1.50 Harper.
7–33591.
About the slim figure of a young widowed duchess of an old estate in Brittany, the author has woven a strong and dramatic plot using as a background the sturdy peasant life of the Argoät. The estate, in the event of the remarriage of the duchess, reverts to her husband’s degenerate cousin, and he to gain it, conspires to trap her into matrimony. His villainy succeeds, but she finds true love and happiness and he receives the coveted revenues only to find them poor comfort and devoid of joy.
“A tale steeped in the color and fragrance of woodland Brittany, characterized by a mysterious plot and rare charm of atmosphere.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Emerson, Edward Waldo. Life and letters of Charles Russell Lowell, captain Sixth United States cavalry, colonel Second Massachusetts cavalry, brigadier-general, United States volunteers. **$2. Houghton.
7–15315.