| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 397. Ap. 1. 530w. |
“The novelist has not shown anything like as much ingenuity in the construction of fresh problems as the detective shows in solving them.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + — | Forum. 37: 106. Jl. ‘05. 1340w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w. |
“Speaking generally, this volume does not average as high as its predecessors; but this is only because its best are not quite equal to the best he has told before.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 360w. |
“The stolen examination paper, the missing foot-ball player, and the professional blackmailer, for all his miserable death, seem rather small game for the redoubtable Holmes after the stirring scenes of his earlier days.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 346. Mr. 4, ‘05. 380w. |
“The new stories are not so fresh as the old, not so ingenious, nor do they offer that full measure of breathless suspense without which the fiction of crime is only weariness and vexation.”
| + — | R. of Rs. 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 170w. |
Doyle, Edward. Haunted temple and other poems. $1. Edward Doyle, 247 W. 125th st., N. Y.