“A just and sympathetic appreciation. The author’s limitation would appear to be lack of grasp of the importance of the service which Paul rendered to early Christianity.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 250w. |
Hall, Eliza Calvert. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky]; il. by Beulah Strong. †$1.50. Little.
7–12978.
As Aunt Jane cuts squares for patchwork out of “caliker that won’t fade in the first washin’ and wear out in the second,” and fashions them into her wild-goose pattern quilt she grows reminiscent and with pristine verve and histrionism recounts delicious tales of long ago: how Sally Ann delivered her message of denunciation to the men of Goshen church for demanding that their wives be the submittin’ kind, and how the women of the Mite society bought a new organ for the church in spite of the husbands who thought it a frivolous proceeding. Unruly human nature, bits of scandal and gossip are all softened by time, and as Aunt Jane recalls them she touches them up with her quaint philosophy and delightful sentiment.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 177. O. ’07. ✠ |
“The musings of Aunt Jane’s anonymous listener are somewhat startlingly in contrast to the prevailing rusticity and simplicity of the anecdotes. Even a note of great beauty may produce discord; and discord, as the portrayers of New England life have so well realized, is even less desirable than monotony. With this possible exception, the book is one of the most creditable of its kind, and Aunt Jane’s sympathetic optimism should win her many friends.”
| + + − | Cath. World. 85: 688. Ag. ’07. 290w. |
“The author who listens to Aunt Jane, and who records the stories, has added much to their beauty by her sympathy of expression.”