| + + | Acad. 68: 1098. O. 21, ‘05. 1000w. |
“Should be welcomed by all admirers of Dr. Brown’s earlier story of her.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 50w. | |
| + | Dial. 38:52. Ja. 16, ‘05. 120w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 3. Ja. 7, ‘05. 390w. |
McCall, Sidney. [Breath of the gods.] [†]$1.50. Little.
Little Yuki, a samurai’s daughter, the last of her honorable race, has been educated in Washington and returns to Japan with the American minister to Tokio, his wife and daughter. Her story is the story of the heart of Japan, the nobility, the love of country, the cruelty; and when she tramples on her own love and the love of the young Frenchman, Pierre, and marries Prince Haganè at the command of her father and the call of her country, she typifies the cheerful sacrifice of the individual to the system, which is, perhaps, the keynote of Japan. The time is that of the present war with Russia, the tragedy is horrid and occidental.
“‘The breath of the gods’ is one of the most artistic novels of the year. We doubt if any American writer has given us a truer or more intimate insight into the life and the spiritual and intellectual concepts of the Japanese than has the author of the ‘Breath of the gods.’”
| + + | Arena. 34: 331. S. ‘05. 1190w. |
“The genre painting, although too crowded with details, is good; but the end is disappointing.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 575. O. 28. 310w. |
“In her work one sees an unbounded admiration of traits not fully comprehended, rather than a keen and sympathetic understanding of the Japanese ideals and their visible exponents.”