“A pretty romance.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 30w. |
“But great names of themselves do not make a story, and in ‘The flower of destiny’ we have little else to look to.”
| — | Reader. 6: 478. S. ‘05. 110w. |
Orczy, Baroness. [Scarlet pimpernel.] [†]$1.50. Putnam.
“The Scarlet pimpernel is the leader of a little band of titled young Englishmen who make it their business—and pleasure—during the reign of terror to assist condemned or suspected emigrés to escape to England. An interesting complication arises when the young Frenchwoman married to the lazy, careless English lord finds that in putting the French agent on the trail of the scarlet pimpernel to save her brother’s life she has in reality condemned her husband to death. Of course, he doesn’t die, and of course they all, or most of all, lived happily ever after.”—Pub. Opin.
“A thrilling story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 671. O. 14, ‘05. 300w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 506. O. 14, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “A melodramatic but picturesque and well told tale.”
| + | Sat. R. 100: 315. S. 2, ‘05. 80w. |