| + — | Outlook. 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] Hichens, Robert Smythe. Black spaniel and other stories. (†)$1.50. Stokes.
The story of the black spaniel is an uncanny tale of a man who lost a dog-friend at the hands of a vivisectionist, of a doctor who met his death thru the bite of another spaniel on which he was cruelly experimenting, and of the awful revenge which the dog lover took upon this dead doctor reincarnated in a third black spaniel. The creepy atmosphere is well sustained thruout. The volume also contains eleven shorter stories, most of which have the Arabian desert for a background, and all of which are most original in theme.
[*] “Mr. Hichens, thorough decadent as he is, can make his decadence big; and it is wrong of him to make it as petty as this.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 1079. O. 14, ‘05. 640w. |
[*] “To our thinking, ‘Mr. Greyne’ is the pick of the book.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 608. N. 4. 220w. |
[*] “‘The black spaniel’ occupies only the first third of the book, but nothing that follows has the least power to blur the effect of the spaniel’s whine. The following eight stories ... are slight things, episodes rather artfully and artistically told. They will be read with pleasure and forgotten without difficulty, while ‘The black spaniel’ will be read with terror and forgotten never!”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 340. O. 13, ‘05. 550w. |
[*] “Not worthy of the genius of the author of ‘The garden of Allah.’”