“They are all vitiated in the same fashion. Some good lines occur, and we would not deny Miss Tobin the poetic gift; but she should not wrestle with Petrarch except in secret.”
| — | Nation. 81: 103. Ag. 3, ‘05. 730w. |
[*] “Nothing since Christina Rossetti has risen so high in the pure beauty of the sonnet form as these renderings of Petrarch’s impassioned lament.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 210w. |
Todd, Mary Ives. American Abelard and Heloise. $1.50. Grafton.
A young clergyman of orthodox faith, adored by the women of his congregation and respected by the men, falls in love with the daughter of a member of his church, who puts his wife from him because she could not believe in the fall of man. This daughter is like her mother and in his love for her, the young clergyman resigns his charge and starts forth to build up a new religion founded upon the equality of the sexes. The book closes with the sacrifice of love until this creed shall have become a reality.
“After carefully reading the 337 pages of arguments and rather dreary love story, one is inclined to ask of the author, ‘What’s the use?’”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 311. My. 13, ‘05. 260w. |
“Mushy contents.”
| — | Reader. 6: 362. Ag. ‘05. 120w. |