“In this curiously heaped up and involved lot of fiction are a vast number of tags and ends of stories and undigested ideas, the winnowing of which would be hopeless here. It’s a very long, queer book.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 470w. (Outline of plot). |
Mackaye, Harold Steele. Winged helmet. [†]$1.50. Page.
France in the sixteenth century when Charles of Bourbon was rebelling against Francis I. is the setting. The story is one of fighting and adventure, of a nobleman who ill-uses his lady, and of my lady’s maid who saves her mistress from Saracen slavery by luring a villain into quicksand, and does other daring things. In the end the lord and lady are reconciled and the maid reaps as her reward the title of Lady of Ravelle.
“An improbable tale, convincing as we read.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 158. Jl. 20, ‘05. 100w. |
“A light romance—rather under average weight in fact. Nor in spite of the wings on the helmet and the out-of-the-common incidents mentioned, does it make up in spirit what it lacks in baser qualities. It cannot carry even its own feathery self as a gallant should.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 149. Mr. 11, ‘05. 370w. |
“A spirited romance of the Weymanesque school. Characters and scenes are well imagined and the story ingeniously contrived; but the flow is unpleasantly interrupted by repeated transitions from the usual narrative form to diary extracts and the like.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 943. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w. |