| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 862. D. 2, ‘05. 450w. |
[*] “The defects in these volumes arise principally from the narrow outlook with which they are written. Upon the whole, it is perhaps surprising that the attempt to condense so vast an accumulation of material into the form of a handbook has been so nearly crowned with success; especially as it has been made at a moment when the questions of the early history of the art are yet in solution and cannot be summarised without danger.”
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Waltz, Elizabeth Cherry. Ancient landmark. [†]$1.50. McClure.
A romance of Kentucky which deals with the question of divorce. There is a much-abused heroine, the object of a husband’s violence when the drug habit is upon him, into whose head never entered the idea of divorce. “But Lucien Beardsley arose upon the horizon. A Virginian by birth, a cosmopolitan by education, a man of modern ideas.... Lucien found in the unhappy Dulcie a cousin many times removed, and undertook to champion her cause, to upset the ancient landmark, to establish the new custom of divorce, and to launch the grief-stricken Dulcinea upon a new and glittering sea of happiness.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Mrs. Waltz is a born writer of sensational fiction, and carries her reader triumphantly through scenes that would be intolerable from a less vigorous hand.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 368. N. 2, ‘05. 340w. |
“Many of the personages are drawn with vitality.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 300w. |