“There are some bits of very fine description in this volume.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 140w. |
“The book is written in an amusing high-coloured style, and as a record of nothing at all is, in its way, an achievement.”
| — | Spec. 95:51. Ag. 8, ‘05. 130w. |
Fox, Middleton. Child of the shore; a romance of Cornwall. (†)$1.50. Lane.
Eery incantations on the Cornish shore bring to a farmer’s wife one of the “merry-maids” of the sea as her longed-for child. The girl’s strange beauty and her sympathy with the sea’s moods cause the villagers to regard her with suspicion, and when she is gone they believe the story that she and her sea-sisters have avenged her life’s tragedy by pulling down to the depths of the sea her aristocratic betrayer. Smugglers, wreckers and fisher-folk enter into the story.
“Mr. Fox’s novel is atmospheric, with the result that in spite of occasional passages of some beauty in the actual writing, and an attractive way of introducing his story ... it is tedious.”
| — | Acad. 68:785. Jl. 29, ‘05. 320w. |
“The book, however, is pleasingly written.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1:651. My. 27. 210w. |