“He has given us the kind of story Americans like, incredible, daring, delightful and a little absurd.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1154. N. 16, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “Like most of Mr. McCutcheon’s novels, ‘Nedra’ is not a matter for critical appreciation. One may say it is ‘apart’ from it rather than ‘beneath it.’”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 885. D. 9, ‘05. 420w. |
“It belongs to the novels of recreation pure and simple, and well fulfills its purpose of robbing the reader of the sense of time.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 240w. |
“The story is lively, entertaining, and very improbable.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 50w. |
McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.). [Purple parasol]; with il. by Harrison Fisher, and decorations by C: B. Falls. [†]$1.25. Dodd.
The owner of a purple parasol, a gray dress and a sailor hat is shadowed by a young lawyer who hopes to pile up evidence for a divorce case against the erring wife of an old husband. The story becomes a romance when the owner of the parasol turns out to be a young and beautiful girl.