| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 261. Ap. 22, ‘05. 690w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w. |
“A book of undoubted intellectual force, and one well written in point of style and manner.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 120w. |
“He has treated his subject in a bold, firm, unhesitating fashion that lifts it above pruriency and the mire. The literary workmanship is of first quality.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 240. Ag. ‘05. 280w. |
Thurston, Katherine Cecil. [Gambler.] [†]$1.50. Harper.
“The ‘gambler’ is an Irish girl whose father lives fast, gambles frightfully, and dies from an accident in a horse-race. Married to a noble-hearted but tiresome old archaeologist, Clodagh is introduced to some fashionable people in Venice; takes her first plunge into bridge whist and roulette; is solemnly warned by a young man called by his enemies ‘Sir Galahad’ ... withdraws for a time from the giddy whirl; but after her husband’s death plunges into fashionable gambling, compromises herself, though with no evil intentions with a scheming old roué, and is saved from ruin and restored to her eminently respectable lover.”—Outlook.
[*] “If in no other way, Mrs. Thurston shows plainly that she belongs to the lesser ranks of novelists by the fact that she has not the courage to work out the theme of her newest story to a consistent end.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + — | Critic. 47: 510. D. ‘05. 300w. |
[*] “The interest of this book is rather theatrical than real, and we could imagine it turned into a highly effective play.” Wm. M. Payne.