Brown, Anna Robeson (Mrs. C. H. Burr, jr.). Wine-press. [†]$1.50. Appleton.
The daughter of a New England mother and an Italian poet who deserted his wife for an actress who could interpret his dramas, meets her irresponsible half sister, the child of her father and this actress, at a woman’s college, and after graduation takes charge of her and witnesses her tragic end. Disillusioned, disgusted with both men and women, she is brought back to a normal attitude thru the influence of a nice young doctor.
“It is a study in feminine psychology carried out with uncommon insight, and deserves to be read with attentive interest.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 22: 38. S. ‘05. 230w. |
“The book is unconventional in its interest, and above the average of contemporary fiction.”
| + | Dial. 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w. | |
| Ind. 59: 208. Jl. 27, ‘05. 200w. |
“It is due to Miss Brown to say that she has been most conspicuously successful where her task has been hardest; namely, where the homely and the tragic confront one another. Where weakness chiefly lies is in the limp into commonplace situation which all her ability has not averted.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 750w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 362. Je. 3, ‘05. 440w. |
“The author has developed an idea, not novel in itself, in a striking and unusual way.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 346. Je. 3. ‘05. 100w. |