| + — | Ind. 59: 213. Jl. 27, ‘05. 360w. |
“As monographs the parts are incomplete, and the whole is neither sufficiently unified for the ordinary reader, nor clearly cut for the student. Nor is the style attractive.”
| — + | Nation. 81: 63. Jl. 20, ‘05. 680w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 600w. |
“This is really a study of the vice and crime problem from a medical standpoint.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 255. F. ‘05. 170w. |
Lyle, Eugene P. [Missourian.] [†]$1.50. Doubleday.
Mr. Lyle finds material for his first story within the tottering Empire of Maximilian. The hero is one of Jo. Shelby’s band who, refusing to surrender after the fall of the Confederacy, offered their services to Maximilian in Mexico. Din Driscoll, Missourian, Confederate officer, the “storm center” in every fight, and the exquisite, capricious Jacquelin d’Aumerle, secret emissary of Napoleon on business of state, figure almost grotesquely in a series of thrilling adventures which result from defending each other from intrigue and death. In the end this airy coquette of two imperial courts chooses to find her happiness within the confines of a shut-away Missouri farm.
[*] “The fact is Mr. Lyle has been absorbed by his material, instead of absorbing it.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 200w. |
“Here, for instance, is an example of literary over-seasoning, which, far from being exceptional, is fairly characteristic of the book’s style.” Frederic Taber Cooper.