“The familiar story is well told and gives the lie afresh to the complaint that picturesque America is lacking in historical associations. A few minor slips occur.” Kate M. Cone.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 693. Ap. ’07. 460w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 38. F. ’07. | ||
| + | Spec. 98: 1039. Je. 29, ’07. 340w. |
Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam. Domestic adventures. †$1. Scribner.
7–29425.
“The present story sets forth both the erotic and culinary experiences of three bachelor girls from New York, who decide that their combined resources justify the setting up of a modest establishment in the suburbs somewhere ‘out Greenwich way.’”—Bookm.
“Here is something to be strongly recommended as a panacea for the peculiarly debilitating effects of the servant problem. Somewhat in the form of a diary presumably jotted down from day to day, but occasional lapses into a reminiscent mood, as of one writing it up several years later, considerably disturb the continuity and befog the chatty atmosphere.” G. W. Adams.
| + − | Bookm. 26: 278. N. ’07. 480w. |
“Mrs. Bacon has scored so often by virtue of sheer hard cleverness that it is not to be wondered at if the note grows yet harder and thinner as time goes on.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 220w. |