Haggard, Andrew Charles Parker. Silver Bells, [†]$1.50. Page.
Stories of hunting and fishing abound in this tale of a man who leaves home and friends for the care free life of the Canadian Indians. Silver Bells, an Indian girl, is the heroine.
“Col. Haggard has gone back to Fenimore Cooper for his model in this story. The story may amuse boys, perhaps.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 347. My. 27, ‘05. 370w. |
Haggard, (Henry) Rider. [Ayesha: the return of “She.”] [†]$1.50. Doubleday.
In this sequel to “She.” the book which thrilled and fascinated twenty years ago, “Holly and Leo search full sixteen years for Ayesha and find her at last, the priestess of a strange religion, half Isis-worship, half fire-worship, on a lonely mountain in no man’s land at the back of beyond, there are hair-breadth escapes from avalanches and from mad Khans who hunt people to death with bloodhounds, mysterious doings in great temples and on the roof of the world, fierce battles, in which nature fights for Ayesha against her old foe Amenartas.... And Leo Vincey having won, after many an ordeal, his bride, dies on the eve of bliss and Ayesha herself, now half goddess, half weak and wilful woman, passes away from the earth forever.” (Lond. Times.)
“Not all the wishes that we could form of submitting our imagination to that of the author result in a moment of illusion.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 1026. O. 7, ‘05. 260w. |
“‘Ayesha’ fails to exercise the fascination of ‘She’; and the reason must, perhaps, be sought, not in Mr. Haggard, but in ourselves. ‘Ayesha’ deserves indeed a vogue only second to that of her previous incarnation.”
| + + | Ath. 1905. 2: 538. O. 21. 230w. |