Jackson, Wilfrid Scarborough. Helen of Troy, N. Y. $1.50. Lane.
“The story concerns two young men of London, who have been engaged in a duel with a German, arising from a quarrel caused by their mutual love for a young American heiress. The plot turns on the efforts which the Englishmen and the hero of the tale, a chance passerby, who has been induced to be a second, make to flee from the consequences of a supposedly serious wound sustained by the German. The disordered state of affairs existing during the recovery of the wounded man furnish amusement to the story.”—Bookm.
“It is a rollicking farce. He has style, observation and a pretty gift of dialogue, so that his characters talk with a naturalness which immensely heightens for the moment the plausibility of his widely impossible plot. Mr. Jackson appears to have entrusted the reading of his proofs to unskilled hands.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 150. F. 18, ‘05. 260w. |
“It is a pity that Mr. Jackson, whose style is otherwise good and virile, should help to mar the English language by certain small mannerisms.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 237. F. 25, ‘05. 310w. |
“Mr. Jackson has deft wit and an unforced originality.”
| + | Critic. 46: 478. My. ‘05 80w. |
“This very lively and entertaining book. The thing has a sort of tang of ‘The new Arabian nights’ of Mr. Stevenson, a prankish irresponsible air, combined with a style decidedly precious and deliberate.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 23. Ja. 14, ‘05. 490w. (Outline of plot). | |
| + — | Spec. 94: 557. Ap. 15, ‘05. 260w. |