[*] “We could wish that Mr. Mabie had put his interesting preface before a more consecutive and less heterogeneous collection.”
| * | + — | Nation. 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 230w. |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “They are rather stiffly told and frequently the style is too difficult and elaborate to be easily understood by children.”
| — + | Sat. R. 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ‘05. 110w. |
McAlilly, Alice. Hilda Lane’s adoptions. $1.50. Meth. bk.
Hilda Lane, kept from the man she loves for twenty years by a war time misunderstanding, adopts a sturdy waif named Robert, and a negro girl, Liberty, and educates them. Liberty grows up to offer her life to white fever sufferers, and Robert, on the eve of a successful career and engaged to marry a lovely southern girl, discovers that there is negro blood in his veins and nobly consecrates his life to the uplifting of the black race. The book is chiefly occupied with the negro question.
McAlilly, Alice. Larkins wedding. $1. Moffat.
“An apotheosis of good nature and neighborly kindness. A worthy washerwoman related grammatically to Mrs. Partington arranges the wedding of her daughter. The respect both have won in their town inspires the interested villagers of higher social position to make the pathetic efforts of Mrs. Larkins turn out a happy success. A change in bridegrooms adds to the general jollity, and the two Larkins, mother and daughter, disappear in a haze of prosperity and sentiment.”—Outlook.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10:650. O. 7, ‘05. 340w. |
“The story is told with many touches of humor.”