“Mr. Deeping is somewhat crass and crude in his methods with these slanderers. You get the idea that Mr. Deeping imagines religion is a mere cloak for hypocrisy, or a grindstone for sharp knives to slay the reputations of indiscreet idealists. Really the trouble with Mr. Deeping is the lack of enough humor to adjust his burning ethical sentiments, his opulent fleshly imaginings, to each other and to the meridian of average sanity. The story is dragged violently by the hair of its head into an ending which satisfies—if it does nothing else—the average reader’s supposed demand for a happy outcome, but it is distinctly disappointing in spite of patches of purple language.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 117. F. 25. ‘05. 610w. | |
| + — | Outlook. 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 120w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 429. Mr. 18, ‘05. 290w. |
“Mr. Deeping’s tapestry has not acquired that soft glory which makes its best beauty. And as for the modern design, it is quite atrocious.”
| — — | Reader. 6: 92. Je. ‘05. 370w. |
“Many of his pages glow with genuine romantic beauty.”
| + | Reader. 6: 477. S. ‘05. 170w. |
Dekker, Eduard Douwes. (Multatuli, pseud.). [Walter Pieterse: a story of Holland.] $1.50. Friderici & Garies.
“Walter is in a way a Dutch ‘Sentimental Tommy,’ and the growth of his vivid imagination and literary aspiration among rather sordid surroundings and stolid people is told with minuteness and perhaps a little over-elaborated humor. ‘Multatuli’ is not exactly a Dutch Dickens, but he has some Dickensy qualities.”—Outlook.
“His story is immensely detailed and told in a bygone style of confidentialness, but a style highly animated and frequently witty. The translator, though a Ph. D., affronts style and even grammar at moments.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 234. Mr. 23, ‘05. 520w. |