| + + | Ind. 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 30w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 160w. |
| * | Outlook. 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 20w. |
Forman, Justus Miles. [Island of enchantment.] [†]$1.75. Harper.
A romance of Italy in the fourteenth century. The hero is a young captain sent by the Doge of Venice to rescue the island of Arbe from the forces of the Ban of Bosnia. “The story is full of passionate doings and conflicts of love and honor.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Told with gentle and straightforward English that must surely charm. The very simplicity and directness of the plot and prose give the volume its chief character.”
| + | Critic. 47: 477. N. ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “Mr. Forman knows how to mingle love, war and intrigue in a way to compel his reader’s interest, and he has never succeeded better than in this novelette.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 90w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 50w. |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 150w. |
| + | Outlook. 81: 382. O. 14. ‘05. 50w. |
Forman, Justus Miles. Tommy Carteret. [†]$1.50. Doubleday.
“The story, which has its beginning in a New York ballroom, goes far. It takes Tommy from his first lovemaking, and assigns him to the nobler role of volunteer scapegoat for the amatory sins of a handsome and heedless father. It exiles the young man ... to ... the back country. It exposes him to weird temptations, comes within an ace of marrying him to a dark-eyed, black-haired hill beauty, threatens him with tar and feathers, puts a bullet into his head, and when hospitals and the doctors....”—N. Y. Times.
“‘Tommy Carteret’ is poor stuff. It is a réchauffé.”