| + + + | Int. Studio. 24: 368. F. ‘05, 400w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 115. Ja. 28, ‘05. 150w. |
Robins, Edward. William T. Sherman. [*]$1.25. Jacobs.
Altho there is not room for great detail in this brief account of the life of Sherman, many interesting conversations and anecdotes have been included which add both to its historical and biographical value. The volume is one of the “American crisis biographies” and contains chronology, bibliography, and index.
Robins, Elizabeth (Mrs. G. R. Parkes). Dark lantern; a story with a prologue. [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
“London society, within the last ten years, makes the surroundings of the intrigue and passion that are here dealt with ... Katherine Dereham, the heroine, and the ogre doctor, Garth Vincent, however, concentrate most of the reader’s attention. Katherine is a beautiful girl, who falls desperately in love with a prince, who cannot marry her ... and wastes much of her youth in a harmful thralldom to a fancy. After her escape from her passion for the prince, burdened with a serious illness, she becomes the thrall of the ogre doctor, described as ‘the man with the dark-lantern face.’”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a striking, though scarcely a satisfactory book, and widely remote in every respect from the ordinary machine-made novel of commerce.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 651. My. 27. 250w. |
“Besides the vigor with which the main theme is handled, the striking quality of the book is a certain kind of bigness.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 21: 516. Jl. ‘05. 820w. |
“Her characters certainly have vitality, and an extraordinary power to interest us.” Wm. M. Payne.