[*] “It is ungracious to find fault where there is so much of good. We are glad to get the anthology as it stands.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 905. D. 16, ‘05. 610w. |
[*] “Contains most of the representative and well-known bits of this sort of literature.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 640. N. ‘05. 70w. |
Wells, Carolyn, and Taber, Harry Persons. Matrimonial bureau. [†]$1.50. Houghton.
The story of a girl who, weary of “waiting for the prince,” sees her maid happily married thru the agency of a matrimonial bureau, and decides to start one of her own. She invites a cousin, who invites a friend, who invites another friend, and they all stay all summer. Everybody falls in love at cross purposes, a beautiful stranger arrives to confuse confusion, and it is all very complicated and amusing, but is untangled in the end.
“The efforts of a New England spinster to be a machine god are amusing and some of the conversations hang together well.”
| + | Critic. 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 70w. |
“We have never read a more improbable tale, and not often one that so completely failed to amuse.”
| — — — | Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 220w. |