“Contains many lovely lines and a few successful technical experiments.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 300w. |
[*] Henry, Arthur. Lodgings in town. [†]$1.50. Barnes.
“To interest yourself in others, to go with the tide of the great city and observe closely every possible condition, is Mr. Henry’s recipe for happiness. Add to this an especial care for one person in particular—like Nancy—and the picture is complete. The faith that kept firm hold of the youth who began his New York life possessed of one clean collar and a poem must be the kind that moves mountains. Particularly good are the descriptions of the office where Nancy worked and the Baxter street lodgings where she and her poet lived.”—Outlook.
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 120w. |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 663. N. 18, ‘05. 350w. |
Henry, Arthur. Unwritten law. [†]$1.50. Barnes.
The purpose of this book is to show how, in our modern social system, ignorance of the laws themselves and of the crime done in breaking them often leads to tragedy. A German engraver, who loses his savings thru the speculations of his banker, sets innocently to work to support his family by engraving bank notes for himself, the result is Sing Sing. One daughter, simple and unlearned, comes to grief, while her sophisticated and selfish sister marries well. The book treats of both the upper and the lower classes, and of the many problems of modern life. The setting is New York.
“Handful of tragedies in the guise of a novel.”
| — | Acad. 68: 759. Jl. 22, ‘05. 420w. |
“The book is animated by a fine seriousness, a single-minded sincerity, which pertain to the best and highest in American art and thought. It exhibits a certain crudeness, a certain toughness of fiber, which may militate against its right appreciation by the fastidious.”