| + + | Nation. 81: 189. Ag. 31, ‘05. 490w. |
“If the publishers had provided an index, or even a table of contents, its value, already considerable, would have been enhanced greatly.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 675. O. 14, ‘05. 630w. | |
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 160w. | |
| + + | Spec. 95: 432. S. 23, ‘05. 1470w. |
Brown, John. See MacBean, L., jt. auth. Marjorie Fleming.
Brown, Katharine Holland. Diane. [†]$1.50. Doubleday.
“‘A romance of the Icarian settlement on the Mississippi river’: a small body of French colonists with communistic views who had been brought to America by Pére Cabet; the story opens in 1856, when most of them were thoroughly tired of him.... But the schisms of the commune pale in interest beside the affairs of the American abolitionists who come into the story.... In one chapter Robert Channing is carrying runaway slaves to safety; in the next Pére Cabet is preaching his flock into rebellion. The petty affairs of the Icarians and the quarrel that shall shake the states run side by side. Their separate currents meet in the loves of Robert and Diane.”—Acad.
“The value of the story depends on its description of the commune, and to English readers on its sympathy with the intimate, tremendous issues forced on American men and women by the abolition of slavery. The novel is worth reading for the sake of its pictures of people so near us in point of time, so immeasurably removed from us in sentiment and surroundings. They have charm.”
| + | Acad. 68: 128. F. 11, ‘05. 240w. |
“But the tale, though full of faults, is a creation, and not a mere echo.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 237. F. 25. 330w. |