Crockett, Samuel Rutherford. Loves of Miss Anne. $1.50. Dodd.
“The story is on the old theme of the apprentice’s love for his master’s daughter—in this case a shepherd boy and a very capricious and spirited girl, who treads the narrow path between fun and ill-breeding with rather uncertain steps. The boy becomes a land-agent, helps to rescue the girl from the insults of a drunken brother, and marries her after some pretty love-making on the hills by moonlight. The tale is told by Miss Anne’s faithful companion.”—Spec.
“Her story may be read with a good conscience.” W. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 38: 126. F. 16, ‘05. 140w. |
“There is about the whole book a good humour and good health. It is a pity that Mr. Crockett will not realize that vulgarity is in itself bad art, and in no way contributes to the realism of a narrative.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 145. Ja. 28, ‘05. 340w. |
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford. May Margaret. [†]$1.50. Dodd.
The heroine of Mr. Crockett’s story is the Scottish May Margaret of the famous house of Douglas. The tale reveals how this high-spirited, quick witted maiden presides in turn over the destinies of three wooers. “It is all a fearful matrimonial tangle, but history and not Mr Crockett, is responsible for that, and canonical laws find a way for the legalizing of it—as is with much sly humor set forth in the text.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Is in Mr. Crockett’s best vein. It may be doubted whether the author has made the most of this Æschylean drama; but he has emphasized the actors, and his additions to history tend to fix the picture in our memory.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 714. Je. 10. 170w. |