+ —Outlook. 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 130w.

“Mr. Hichens has taken a great stride forward in this unusual story.”

+ +Outlook. 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w.

“It is useless to attempt to describe Mr. Hichens’s word-pictures of the beauties of the deserts and the emotional paroxysms of Domini and Boris. They must be read to be appreciated.”

+Pub. Opin. 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 430w. (Outlines plot.)

[*] “Beauty and power,—these are nobly conspicuous in Mr. Hichens’ tale, so loftily free from the small or paltry, so fervently reciting a grievous fault, a great love, a grand renunciation.”

+R. of Rs. 32: 759. D. ‘05. 80w.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, ed. Hawthorne centenary celebration at the Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts, July 4-7, 1904. [**]$1.25. Houghton.

The addresses and letters delivered and read at the centenary celebration, including a speech by Charles T. Copeland. Papers by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. Maud Howe Elliot, Julian Hawthorne, and Moncure D. Conway, and contributions from John S. Keyes, Frank Preston Stearns, F. B. Sanborn, Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lothrop, Dr. Richard Garnett, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Miss Beatrix Hawthorne, John D. Long, Henry Cabot Lodge, Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, Robert S. Rantoul, Judge Robert Grant, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, John Hay, and Mrs. James T. Fields.

+Critic. 47: 96. Jl. ‘05. 70w.