| + + | Nature. 71: 436. Mr. 9, ‘05. 160w. | |
| + | Spec. 94: 186. F. 4, ‘05. 160w. |
Bell, Archie. Scarlet repentance. 50c. Broadway pub.
A beautiful Italian woman plays upon the weakness of a young American whom she meets in a sleeping car in the Rockies, “where the mountains cover their sins.” They spend one day at Banff together, a day in which the young man learns much, and, having eaten of this tree of good and evil, he returns to the East where, at the written command of the woman he has left, he confesses all to his innocent young fiancee, and receives her forgiveness and, incidentally, an Italian estate.
Bell, John Joy. Mr. Pennycook’s boy, and other stories, [†]$1.25. Harper.
A dozen short stories of Scottish child life. Wee Macgreegor himself reappears in this volume, and there are others as wee and canny as he.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 575. D. ‘05. 80w. |
“They are very good stories of their kind—informed by the appropriate sentiment and not too much obscured by dialect—humorous also in the sad Scottish fashion of humor.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 291. My. 6, ‘05. 220w. |
“The undercurrent of tenderness serves to bring out in higher relief the sometimes unconscious humor of the sketches.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 141. My. 13, ‘05. 60w. |