“Readers will find in the book ample reward for their pains in perusing it, will often reach the point of exasperation at its lengthy analyses, its interminable dragging-out of incident, and its frequent harking back to antecedent conditions. The work is a very strong one, and we can think of no other writer, unless it be Mr. Cunningham-Grahame, who could have done anything like as well with the same material.” W. M. Payne.
| + + — | Dial. 38: 125. F. 16, ‘05. 420w. |
“As a study of South American revolution the book is a monument of realism. There is ever present a psychological question, a moral issue that is as modern as Ibsen.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 557. Mr. 9, ‘05. 700w. |
“The love element is slight and in its development irregular, and the adventurous element is not absorbing. The stream of the story is always slender. It glimmers and shimmers most poetically—what there is of it—but even at its broadest and strongest it gives no hint of bearing the reader along with it, and again and again it sinks wholly out of sight amid the silver sands of picturesque description.”
| + — | Reader. 5: 618. Ap. ‘05. 310w. |
Conrad, Stephen, pseud. (Stephen Conrad Stuntz). Mrs. Jim and Mrs. Jimmie. [†]$1.50. Page.
A recital of the experiences of Mrs. Jim at quilting parties, picnics, sociables, weddings, commencements, and fires, interspersed by comments of Mrs. Jimmie. There is much real village life, much satire, and not a little homely philosophy.
[*] “This story sustains the same relation to love that an old-fashioned ‘experience meeting’ sustains to religion.”
| — | Ind. 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 130w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 513. Ag. 5, ‘05. 370w. |