“If the work has been performed conscientiously,—that is, if there has been no improper discrimination in the selection from private correspondence, nothing omitted which would tend to develop the real character of the man,—the plan is unobjectionable, even admirable, as it brings the man himself very near to the reader.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 118. S. 1, ‘05. 520w. |
“To Mr. Ashton Ellis’s fashion of translating we cannot altogether reconcile ourselves. The translator, however, deserves the greatest praise for the careful way in which he has annotated the letters and for the interesting dissertations which he has prefixed and appended to them.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 174. Je. 9, ‘05. 2150w. |
“The peculiarities of Wagner’s style are to a considerable extent reflected in the English version.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 126. Ag. 10, ‘05. 790w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 369. Je. 10, ‘05. 240w. |
[Mr. Ellis] “produces English prose that is as gnarled as Wagner’s German. It is not often that the inner workings of genius have been so illumined.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 624. S. 23, ‘05. 670w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 255. Ag. ‘05. 60w. |
Wakefield, Frank H. Marriage—limited. $1.50. Neale.
The setting of this story is in a future time when a seven year marriage contract is in vogue. This contract may be renewed at its expiration, or the parties to it may form new contracts. No one may marry more than five times, and all children are brought up and educated by the state. The plot concerns a murder and a robbery and some clever detective work, but these things seem commonplace, and it is the unique state of society that is exciting.