The modern Brunhilde of the story is the daughter and only surviving member of an impoverished southern household. Two charming cousins share her duties of hostess when she admits a few “paying guests” to her home. Among them is a young northerner who wars with the spirited valkyr, falls in love with her, and continues to quarrel. It is a pathetic picture of southern aristocracy doing battle with poverty, it is a romance of young strength, of maids and their lovers, set in a delightful southern garden.
“While her conversations are occasionally ‘bright,’ they invariably sound rather like the badinage overheard in trolley cars.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 260. S. 19, ’07. 500w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
“A bright, entertaining story for an idle hour, and one that leaves no unpleasant impression.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 90w. |
Fuller, Hubert Bruce. Purchase of Florida; its history and diplomacy. *$2.50. Burrows.
6–32122.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Fuller has failed to give us a clear account of the unusually intricate transactions with which his book must deal, and this failure is chiefly owing to his sins of omission.”