Trident and the net: a novel, by the author of The martyrdom of an empress. [*]$1.50. Harper.
“The book is simply the life-story of a Breton nobleman, of violent passions and astounding inability to avoid the paths of obvious folly. It begins by depicting his unregulated childhood in Brittany, describes his later career as a deserter from the French navy, a wanderer over many seas and lands, and a victim of a vulgar ‘liaison,’ and ends in a squalid lodging-house in New York, where he lies desperately ill of pneumonia.”—Dial.
“We close it with a sense of exasperation at the recklessness of its composition and its wasteful use of what might have been the material of an admirable work.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + — | Dial. 39: 207. O. 1, ‘05. 380w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 643. S. 30, ‘05. 590w. | |
| Outlook. 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 110w. |
Trollope, Anthony. [Autobiography.] $1.25. Dodd.
“A new edition of a very interesting book by one of the most industrious and in many ways one of the most successful novelists of the past generation, printed and bound in a style uniform with the excellent edition of Trollope’s novels issued by the same publishers.”—Outlook.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 682. O. 14, ‘05. 450w. | |
| Outlook. 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 50w. |
Trollope, Henry M. Life of Molière. Dutton.
Mr. Trollope “has collected his information from unimpeachable sources, he has translated this material into English, combining with it lengthy criticisms upon the plays; and the result is a very bulky volume.... As the book possesses a moderately good index, it forms a useful compendium, a summary of the information at present existing concerning Molière and his immediate entourage.”—Acad.
[*] “It is not a biography to which a reader will turn again and again for the mere pleasure of reading it; it is almost impossible to read it for long because of its weight, the dull, uninteresting appearance of the page, and more fatal objection still, the heavy, horizontal style in which it is written. The volume would have gained vastly had it been ruthlessly cut down to half its present size.”