| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 262. Ap. 22, ‘05. 230w. |
“The author appears frequently quite as much in the dark in trying to fix on one of his puppets the crime involved as is the patient and mystified reader. There is here no real flesh and blood.”
| — | Outlook. 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 70w. |
Hume, Fergus W. [Secret passage.] [†]$1.25. Dillingham.
The secret passage contains all the strange things which are the natural accompaniments of secret passages. An eccentric old lady is found stabbed to death in her room and there is no clue to the murderer. A clever young detective takes up the case and a number of people become involved in it; several love stories past and present serve to make matters more complicated, and in the end it is discovered that the murdered old lady was really somebody else in disguise, and that the only person not suspected of the crime is the guilty one.
“Another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o’-lantern murder mysteries.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 589. S. 9, ‘05. 230w. |
Hume, Martin Andrew S. Spanish influence of English literature. $2. Lippincott.
Ten public lectures re-written fill this portly volume. Its aim is “to provide for English readers a comparative study of Spanish literature in special relation to its points of contact with the literature of our own country.”
“Major Hume does not succeed in persuading us that he has attained to any clear conception of what is meant by literary influence.”