[*] “It is surprising to find the amount of information he has got into this narrow space.”
| + | Nation. 81: 408. N. 16, ‘05. 430w. |
Zangwill, Israel. Celibates’ club, being the united stories of the bachelors’ club and the old maids’ club. [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
Genial stories of how the old maids’ and bachelors’ clubs came to be united. A dramatic critic married in order to have some one handy to make use of the second complimentary ticket, and then the theatres began to send but one ticket. An epicure married his bad cook that he might be free “to hire a good one.” Young Dickray married the daughter of his father’s ghost in a spirit of atonement; this is not as weird as it sounds. There are many other stories in the same vein.
Reviewed by G. W. Adams.
| + — | Bookm. 21: 312. My. ‘05. 520w. |
“‘The celibates’ is not to be stolidly masticated—it is tabasco rather than oatmeal porridge, and should be used accordingly.”
| + | Critic. 47: 452. N. ‘05. 780w. |
“The author’s humor is not all British any more than that of George Bernard Shaw.”
| + — | Lit. D. 31: 498. O. 7. ‘05. 340w. |