Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree). [Storm center.] [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
A Civil war story whose scene is laid in the mountains of Tennessee. “The Federal officers who court Southern women in Charles Egbert Craddock’s new story ... are more credible types, and it is the first time in its history that the Civil war has been reduced to a neighborhood affair, but the story of their wooings is the best this author has written in years.” (Ind.)
“This sincere feeling for style, though occasionally it is overdone, is certainly the best thing about a story which barely misses being exceedingly dull. Suffers from a general vagueness and faulty construction.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 234. Ag. 19. 210w. |
“The outline of the story has scarcely a single point of novelty, and yet the narrative does maintain its interest.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 284. S. ‘05. 140w. |
“Slight in substance, and of moderate interest only.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + — | Dial. 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 150w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 210. Jl. 27, ‘05. 50w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w. |
“The machinery of the story seems to creak at times. But there are elements of power in the novel; ‘it goes.’”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 440w. |