Moore, Frank Frankfort. Love alone is lord. [†]$1.50. Putnam.
Another novel of which Lord Byron is the hero. It concerns his early love for his cousin, Mary Chaworth and, altho many chapters are devoted to his affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, the book gives him a semblance of constancy by making him return to his first love and their tragic parting the climax, and end of the book. Madame de Stäel, Sheridan, Moore, and other well known people of Byron’s time enter into the story.
[*] “Mr. Moore has increased our dislike to positive hatred; all the worst qualities of this pernicious breed of book are accentuated in his present novel.”
| — | Acad. 68: 1032. O. 7, ‘05. 310w. |
[*] “Mr. Moore’s is one of the books worth reading.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 754. N. 18, ‘05. 380w. | |
| * | + — | Lond. Times. 4: 315. S. 29, ‘05. 540w. |
“Somehow the book leaves us cold.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 290w. |
“As a novel the book has vigor and interest; as a presentation of Byron the poet it is a failure.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 120w. |