“Has our taste changed and our discrimination grown keener through the intervening years, or has the pen of Mr. Haggard lost its magic?” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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“If the reader will lay aside doubt and scepticism for the old ready belief, he cannot fail to feel again the old pleasure, the old interests, and the old thrills.”
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“‘Ayesha’ is not ‘She,’ and the lovers of ‘She’ are a little stiffer in the mental joints.”
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“No doubt, allowing for the disillusionment of years, this sequel is as well-wrought as its original. Probably it is even superior geographically, ethnologically, theologically, and pyro-technically.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 649. O. 7, ‘05. 310w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 39:572. O. 28, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “‘Ayesha,’ continuing ‘She,’ betokens no weariness and no decay.”
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