“In fact, you may see in Dekker now touches of Fielding, now of Heine, (he has been called the Holland Heine), now the contemporary iconoclast. Bernard Shaw, whose hatred of ‘respectability’ he shares. Adherents of the new school of novelists, Ibsenites, &c., who are not already familiar with Dekker’s work will not regret a perusal of Mr. Evans’s rendering, nor will the more catholic seekers after real life in fiction—real, yet divorced from sentiment.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 39, Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w. | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 248. Ja. 28. ‘05. 50w. |
De la Pasture, Mrs. Henry. [Peter’s mother.] [†]$1.50. Dutton.
“The realm of the wholesome commonplace” is chosen for this story. There is Peter’s widowed mother, Lady Mary, whose gentleness is contrasted with the tyrannical selfishness of her son; there is the brilliant Sarah who adores the mother, and to spare her the suffering inflicted by the caddish son, sets to work to wind the youth about her finger. How she succeeds forms one side of a story whose other phase deals with a middle-aged romance involving Lady Mary and two men—“one strong, serene, patient, understanding, the other with a passion so lofty as to sacrifice itself upon its own altar.”
“It is a delightful story, told with a certain distinction and much charm. The whole thing is in harmony.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 149. F. 18, ‘05. 210w. | |
| — | Critic. 47: 477. N. ‘05. 30w. | |
| Ind. 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 120w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 510. Ag. 5, ‘05. 430w. |
“This book is a good illustration of the fact that normal characters can be made interesting.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 984. Ag. 19, ‘05. 100w. |
“An excellent entertainment in which sentiment and humour are most agreeably blended.”
| + | Spec. 94: 258. F. 18, ‘05. 720w. |