“The plot is conventional, the love affair ordinary, and the whole story commonplace. Its atoning feature is its easy wording.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 90w. |
... “The amateurish plot construction, the lack of connection between parts, the absence of a well-defined story motive.”
| — + | Reader. 6: 596. O. ‘05. 220w. |
Brace, Benjamin. Sunrise acres. [†]$1.50. Dodd.
A young athlete and football player is made heir to half a million dollars by his uncle on condition that he seek out and thrash a man who had once beaten this uncle in fair fight for a lady. The nephew finds his man and also finds him to be the father of a pretty daughter, but the fight takes place nevertheless with amusing complications.
“The author has an excellent idea for a farce comedy. He has unfortunately lacked some skill in execution.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 651. O. 7, ‘05. 190w. | |
| + — | Outlook. 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 50w. |
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. John Maxwell). Rose of life. [†]$1.50. Brentano’s.
“Miss Braddon must be congratulated on having described a real human being in her new novel. Daniel Lester, the poet, to whom the reader is introduced in the very first line, is a remarkable creation, and a creation which would only have been possible in the present day.... Indeed, readers of the book will almost be persuaded that they are familiar with his personal appearance, so intimately will they seem acquainted with the huge man whose delicate tact, colossal selfishness, unfailing amiability, and atrocious greed make him such an amusing companion.... The book, beyond the figure of the poet, is a little commonplace, and the beautiful but unscrupulous Lady Beauminster is entirely conventional and melodramatic. But the novel as a whole is a not uninteresting background to its principal figure, and is worth reading solely for the one admirable piece of character-drawing which it contains.”—Spec.