[*] “As illustrative of a great and vigorous age which has passed away, these letters possess no inconsiderable value.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 678. N. 18. 1030w. |
[*] “We close the volumes, feeling that it is well to have been admitted, even for a few hours, to the bright and joyous company of a merry-hearted husband and wife and their brilliant circle of high-souled friends.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 39: 370. D. 1, ‘05. 2070w. |
[*] “The letters and anecdotes which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brookfield have here collected are so rich and abundant that the most copious extracts must give an inadequate idea of what they contain.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 382. N. 10, ‘05. 1760w. |
[*] “Whether it be grave or gay, the book is always interesting, and we are peculiarly grateful to it, for it has added to our literary acquaintance one of the best men who ever published a book, and a lady whose charm of manner and quick sensibility are evident in every letter she wrote, in every line of her diary.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 929. D. 2, ‘05. 370w. |
Brooks, Elisabeth Willard. As the world goes by. [†]$1.50. Little.
Bohemia with much of its usual abandon is pictured here, but there is reared in its surroundings a clever, philosophical girl who after eighteen years of loyal devotion to her worldly actress mother none the less finds it natural to fit into the cultured corner of her father’s world. Her romance forms the undercurrent of the story—a romance of the intense subjective order which thru its misunderstandings tries and purifies.