The setting of Miss Sanborn’s story is chiefly out-of-door Washington, where on long tramps and in a certain Madame de Chatres’ rose garden, the friendship between a charmingly naïve Southern girl and a Michigan congressman grows apace. There is somewhat of politics, there are slight peeps into social Washington, but the main story interest is restricted to the natural, spontaneous comradeship between two direct and unassuming people.
[*] “Things come to pass in a slow, mildly interesting, elaborate sort of way which interferes in nowise with the gentle reader’s nap between chapters.”
| — | Ind. 59: 1229. N. 23, ‘05. 110w. |
Sandars, Mary F. [Life of Honore de Balzac.] [**]$3 Dodd.
The author has given the romantic career of a man of genius, whose loves and debts occupied much of his time, but who in his passion for labor, wrote his seventy-nine novels, accomplished a colossal amount of journalism and wrote several plays. Having achieved all this, he died in debt, unappreciated, and broken in hope, and afterwards came fame.
“An account of the events of Balzac’s career accurate in matters of fact, and written in a light, agreeable manner. It is not really worthy of the occasion.”
| — | Ath. 1905, 1: 493. Ap. 15. 760w. |
“So far this is the best and most complete life of the great French romancer.”
| + + + | Critic. 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 180w. |
“Its form is attractive, its illustrations are good, and its sympathetic tone is alluring and generally well-balanced.” Annie Russell Marble.