“If the reader is not more than entertained, is not touched and softened, then he, or she, is adamant.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 298. F. 25, ‘05. 190w. |
“All of them are human and searching and tender, full of a changeful, charmful quality that fascinates, brightened by brief triumphs, darkened by long poverty and disappointment, warmed by self-forgetful helping of others.”
| + | Reader. 5: 257. Ja. ‘05. 220w. |
“The pathos of her stories rings true and sound, and her all-embracing charity engages the fullest sympathy. These tattered waifs and strays of life, these, ‘players and vagabonds,’ have found one to plead for them whose pleading it would hardly be possible to resist.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 121. Ja. ‘05. 100w. |
[*] Rosegger, Petri Kettenfeier. [I. N. R. I.: a prisoner’s story of the cross], tr. by Elizabeth Lee. [†]$1.50. McClure.
“A poor German carpenter under sentence of death for an anarchistic crime is supposed to write in his cell and from memory the story of that other carpenter of long ago—who was condemned as a subverter of the established order. Naturally the German carpenter’s own hard experience and his own dreams color his story of the other—naturally his memory plays him false, naturally (he is of a Catholic country) he writes in ideas and incidents from lives of the saints and the like. But it is his merging of his own bitter life into that of the Christ which makes the book real as other stories dealing with this subject are not.” (N. Y. Times.) There are six illustrations in color by Cowin Knapp Simson in the Holy Land.
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “The narrative is a strange and powerful one.”