“Lady Burne-Jones seems especially endowed with the qualities needed for the task; she writes with convincing sincerity and a sense of humor, and has the gift of literary style. Her readers cannot fail to get a vivid impression of Burne-Jones’s fascinating personality.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 115. F. 9, ‘05. 2780w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 383. Mr. ‘05. 140w. |
“Lady Burne-Jones writes from a standpoint of knowledge and sympathy impossible to anyone else, and we can but admire the skill with which she has arranged the material. The narrative is full, but never confused, and the characters of the men and women who pass through the pages are drawn with rare ease and distinctness.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 111. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1920w. |
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townesend). [In the closed room.] [†]$1.50. McClure.
The father and mother of Judith, a strange visionary child of the tenements, are called to be caretakers of the big empty house with the closed room where a little girl has died. Judith mysteriously passes thru the locked door and plays with the child who is dead and her toys until this strange spiritual bond is tightened and little Judith is drawn into the land of spirits.
“She is artistically vague and not dogmatic. The story is accomplished with a fleeting, caressing touch; it has a considerable charm and is very suggestive.”
| + | Reader. 5: 785. My. ‘05. 370w. |
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townesend). [Little princess: being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time.] [†]$2. Scribner.
The story of Sara Crewe and what happened at Miss Minchen’s school, which charmed its young readers years ago, appears once more in holiday garb with a dozen beautiful colored plates by Ethel Franklin Betts. The book has grown and the present volume includes all the new matter which was put into the successful play called the “Little princess,” and also much matter newer still which was inserted when the play came to be transformed once more into a story.