[*] “Will be read by advanced as well as by juvenile readers.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “In fact, nothing can be said against it except that it is not as good as Grimm or Spenser, while challenging comparison with both.”
| + | Nation. 81: 489. D. 14, ‘05. 60w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 120w. |
St. Luz, Berthe. Black butterflies. $1.50. Fenno.
The occult is here blended with the ultra frivolous, and the arts of Emoclew-Houssein Rao, a worshipper of Doorka, seem all the more miraculous because he exercises them upon a group of modern and rather vulgar society folk. He wipes the hateful letters, with which a jealous husband has branded her, from Rosamond Arbuthnot’s forehead, and he frees the deformed master of Castlewalls from his all-consuming love for the beautiful Mrs. Demaris in such a manner that neither he nor the reader can separate the hallucination from the real.
“It is not exactly clear what the author is driving at.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 499. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w. |
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin. Portraits of the 17th century, historic and literary; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley. 2 pts. ea. [**]$2.50. Putnam.
Sainte-Beuve’s historical and literary portraits of the 17th century have been collected and translated by Katharine P. Wormeley, who says of her work—“In the following volumes—taken from the Causeries du Lundi, the Portraits de femme and the Portraits littéraires—some passages have been omitted; these relate chiefly to editions that have long since passed away, or to discussions on style that cannot be made clear in English. Also, where two or more essays on the same person have appeared in the different series, they are here put together, omitting repetitions.” The volumes are handsomely bound and illustrated.