| + | Critic. 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 70w. |
“Neither as a study of personality nor as an historical monograph can this volume be praised with much heartiness.”
| + | Nation. 81: 166. Ag. 24, ‘05. 480w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 329. My. 20, ‘05. 270w. |
“Here related in an agreeable, sympathetic, unpretentious way.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w. |
“With merits as an entertainment this book is marred as an authoritative portrayal of local colour by certain inaccuracies.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 309. S. 2, ‘05. 1130w. | |
| + | Spec. 94: 719. My. 13. ‘05. 250w. |
Grant, Robert. Orchid. [†]$1.25. Scribner.
The orchid is a society belle in a set where money counts for everything. She marries a wealthy man whom she does not love, then comes to care for a poor man, secures a divorce and the custody of her child, which she later relinquishes to the father in return for two million dollars, and is thereby established once more upon a secure social foundation.
“Clever as it is in its scenes, its dialogues, its enjoyable diversity of types, the real merit of the little volume lies not so much in what it actually gives as in what it suggests. ‘The orchid’ is an interesting example of a psychological problem, worked out along lines almost purely realistic.” Frederic Taber Cooper.